Effective Internet Business

March 30, 2007

The Missing Email of the 300

Filed under: Email — Tetsou @ 3:52 pm

If the Greeks and Persians had Email!


From: King Xerxes		From: Themosticles
To: All Greek States		To: King Xerxes
Cc:		Cc:
bcc		Bcc: King Leonidas
Subject Earth and Water		Subject: Earth and Water
Dear All, Time to get with the program and submit before your living God. You don’t want to end up like the Egyptians – the big mummies? I’ll be sending my messenger for a bit of a chat.		Xerxes, It’s the holidays here in Greece (Carneia) and we’re having a bit of a bash. You know the sort of thing: naked, dancing nymphomaniacs doing their thing. You might try Leonidas of Sparta who’s not much of a party animal.
Xerxes of Persia Your Living God Let’s Rock!		Themosticles of the Greeks We know all the angles!
Disclaimer: if you received this email in error – then your turn will come!		Disclaimer: if you received this email in error – it couldn’t have come from us!

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March 21, 2007

How to Create A Business Email Address

Filed under: Email — Tetsou @ 11:39 pm

I was working with a young entrepreneur from Toronto, called Robert, on developing his web presence and we started to exchange a few emails on the ‘how and why’ of setting up a website. Robert had the good sense to register a domain name in preparation for developing his site. But when I received his first few emails I noticed he was still using his ISP email address instead of an address based on his business domain name. The email address looked something like this: rob1234@some-isp.ca.

This is a very common mistake.

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June 27, 2006

7 Deadly Sins of Email

Filed under: Email — Tetsou @ 7:07 pm

Most of us are probably using email in our day to day business lives; but are we using email as well as we could? All of us, at one time or another, have probably been guilty of committing one or more deadly email ’sin’. They are deadly sins because for our customers or clients they are annoying and a barrier to good communication.