Showing posts with label Email. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Email. Show all posts
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Email Confirms Bank Of America’s ‘Social Media Trolling’ Spy Team
Saturday, November 2, 2013
Professor Fires Off Email In Defense Of Student Forbidden From Handing Out Copies Of Constitution
techdirt.com
November 2, 2013
On Constitution Day (Sept. 17th), a student of Modesto Junior College, Robert Van Tuinen, was prevented by Modesto Junior College administration from handing out copies of the Constitution. The college apparently believes free speech is limited to a single small concrete slab on campus, generously named the “Free Speech Zone.” Contrary to the First Amendment (and the state’s laws governing public university policies), MJC restricts free speech to no more than two people per day, subject to approval of the administration.
Van Tuinen set out to challenge the stupidity of this policy and MJC administration obligingly played its part, resulting in a story that spread across blogs and news sites. As a result of its actions, the staff at MJC was “subjected” to insults, death threats, and even worse, an “unfair and negative portrayal” by the media. While no one condones death threats, one would be hard pressed to agree with Jill Stearns, the president of MJC, that the portrayal was “unfair” or that the school’s willingness to place policy above all else, including the Constitution and common sense, wasn’t deserving of a few disparaging remarks.
Shortly after MJC went into damage control, Van Tuinen sued the school for violating his First Amendment rights. Van Tuinen is seeking a permanent injunction against the school’s unconstitutional policies, as well as damages and court costs.
Now the organization that originally brought the Van Tuinen’s experience to national attention (FIRE) brings news that a Modesto Junior College professor has written a lengthy email to all Modest Junior College faculty members to call attention to the college’s actions which the administration seemingly wants to let recede into the background.
Professor William J. Holly was kind enough to forward his entire email to me, as well as provide some additional info on California laws governing schools and students’ First Amendment rights, as well as this bizarre and tense interaction with school security over the supposed rule changes President Jill Stearns said were underway.
I do not know what rules are now in effect. Last week I stopped by campus security and asked what the rules now were, and he referred me to ASMJC office on the other campus. I said he must know what the rules are since he was responsible for enforcing the rules. He kept pushing the paper with the name of the office on it, saying he was referring me to that office. It got a little tense because I kept saying he must know the rules and should be able to let us know what the rules are. Finally, he said he was not allowed to discuss this with anyone because they are under litigation. Stearns says the rules are being reviewed. Does that mean there are no rules?
Stearns’ statement says the college is “evaluating its policies and procedures.” It also says this:
There is absolutely no requirement that a student register weeks in advance and hand out his literature only in a small marked area.
There may not be one now, but that requirement was certainly in place back in September.
It also says this.
To those who were offended by the appearance of censorship, we again affirm the commitment of the college and district to civil discourse.
Hilarious. Pity the poor people who took offense at Van Tuinen being accosted by a campus cop and repeatedly told he’d need to get on the waiting list for the Freedom Slab and mistakenly believed it violated his First Amendment rights.
Holly does a wonderful job in his email dismantling Stearns’ non-apology.
[I]t is unclear what she means when she addresses “those who were offended by the appearance of censorship.” Van Tuinen was not subjected to the mere “appearance of censorship.” He was silenced and he was prevented from distributing his literature. That is outright censorship, pure and simple, whether it resulted from a misunderstanding or not.
But Holly’s letter is more than just a deconstruction of Stearns’ statements and MJC’s dubious policies. It’s also a wakeup call directed at his colleagues, many of whom were either unaware of this event or simply stood by and let incident pass by not remarked on.
Dear Colleagues:
The paper attached above (Destructing Causal Deconstruction) exposes some of the absurdities that are committed in the name of “Deconstruction.” I think it is a good read — clear, amusing, imaginative, and instructive. If you ever wondered what “deconstruction” is really about, you would be hard pressed to find a better introduction. One question that I cannot answer, however, is whether or not I would be arrested by a security officer if I insisted on wandering about the quad on our campus, handing out copies of this paper and discussing it with those who might be interested in the topic. This is not a silly question…
Nearly a month ago (Sept. 17th) one of our MJC students, Robert Van Tuinen (also a veteran), was trying to pass out copies of our federal Constitution on Constitution Day. He was prevented in this exercise of free speech by an MJC security officer, and then by an official at the office of Student Services who told him he was allowed freedom of speech and the right to pass out literature only in certain tiny restricted areas on our campus, and then only after booking a reservation — which would not be available until the following month!
I am puzzled why there has been no faculty outcry over this ugly incident. Why are we not standing up for our student who only wanted to exercise his constitutional right to free speech? Do we really want to be known nationwide as the college that wouldn’t let a veteran pass out copies of our Constitution on Constitution Day?
Holly’s not being facetious about “nationwide.” The story was picked up by the Huffington Post, the Washington Times, FOX News, the L.A. Times, along with numerous other well-read sites like Reason, the Daily Caller and National Review Online. But Modesto Junior College itself? Apparently it isn’t interested in providing current or prospective students (or faculty, for that matter) with anything more than the president’s statement.
The First Amendment in pertinent part says, ” Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press …” Some have taken this to be a right you have against the Federal Government, but not (say) against the State of California (as though the rights you thought you had simply in virtue of being a citizen of the United States could be nullified by the particular state in which you live). Happily, the point is largely moot because the constitution of California has its own guarantees of rights that largely parallel the U.S. Constitution Bill of Rights — including separation of church and state, etc. Guarantees of freedom of expression even exist in parts of the California Code of Education, and even the University of California has a constitution that holds out these rights, and even individual campuses have their own codes regarding such things as Academic Freedom. At CSUS and at PLU, the rules that claim Academic Freedom for faculty make clear that such freedom should extend equally to students!
The most pertinent part of the California Education Code is this section.
66301. (a) Neither the Regents of the University of California, the Trustees of the California State University, the governing board of a community college district, nor an administrator of any campus of those institutions, shall make or enforce a rule subjecting a student to disciplinary sanction solely on the basis of conduct that is speech or other communication that, when engaged in outside a campus of those institutions, is protected from governmental restriction by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution or Section 2 of Article I of the California Constitution.
Considering Van Tuinen’s lawsuit, the directly-following subsection is also relevant.
(b) A student enrolled in an institution, as specified in subdivision (a), at the time that the institution has made or enforced a rule in violation of subdivision (a) may commence a civil action to obtain appropriate injunctive and declaratory relief as determined by the court. Upon a motion, a court may award attorney’s fees to a prevailing plaintiff in a civil action pursuant to this section.
Given the state law governing the public college, it would appear that MJC’s free speech policies are in violation of state law, not to mention the state’s constitution, even granting a very generous reading of “time, place and manner” wording.
Holly also questions the “formal apology” extended by the school to Van Tuinen. Whatever it was (and no one has seen it but Van Tuinen and administrators), it’s clearly not sufficient.
[W[e are told that a formal apology has been provided the student. It seems to me, however, that apologies in such cases are best made in public. I think Van Tuinen would want a published apology, a public admission that MJC had no right to deny him the exercise of his liberties that they did, and a promise that no other students would have their rights similarly violated. And, since the violation of the rights of one of our fellow citizens violates us all, I believe that we all are entitled to see a copy of that apology, to see the particulars of the concessions made, and to see in what manner those liberties now are affirmed that then were denied.
As Holly points out, the fact that Van Tuinen is proceeding with his lawsuit is a good indicator that the apology offered wasn"t satisfactory.
Holly then goes further, suggesting what should be done, not only to satisfy Van Tuinen, but to make sure other students know their rights are protected and ensure this sort of restriction doesn"t make its way back into the school policies in the future.
In one interview, [Van Tuinen] has said that he is not doing this for the money. I think what he wants is a civil rights victory. That should be easy to give him, especially if President Stearns is right this all has just been a misunderstanding…
If he doesn’t really care about money, if he just wants public acknowledgement that he was wronged, perhaps we should offer this: Buy him a couple thousand copies of the Constitution or of the Bill of Rights, and offer to make the individuals he has sued do community service that is relevant. Make them each do twenty hours of community service that consist of passing out copies of the Constitution and explaining to people the importance of everyone’s right to free speech. That ought to make him whole. And, to show my sincerity, I hereby offer to do 20 hours of such community service myself. Perhaps I too bear part of the responsibility here, because this one flew under my radar too. I did not check to see if my students’ rights to free speech were properly protected. Sometimes the implications of rules just do not strike us until we see them enforced.
Summing things up, Holly asks what some famous free speakers would run into if attempting to speak on MJC’s campus.
Now, if you do not like my suggestion that we should have a policy of completely free, unfettered and unqualified freedom of thought and expression on this campus, just ask yourself this one question: Suppose that Thomas Paine, the great pamphleteer (“These are the times that try men’s souls…”) were to come to MJC. Would you make him show his ID or make an advance appointment? Would you sic campus security and Student Services on him before allowing him to distribute his literature? Hell, what would you do if Jesus came? Would you have Student services tell Him he needs an appointment in advance, that the free speech zone is booked up until next month, and that He needs to confine his speech to the designated free speech zone areas? I say, Let Freedom Reign!
Holly’s effort to light a fire under his colleagues is admirable. Many people are too willing to defer to existing policy, especially if it doesn’t apply directly to them. Van Tuinen pushed back against an unconstitutional policy and has brought the idiocy of campus “Free Speech Zones” back into the national limelight. Holly doesn’t suggest throwing away all restraints on speech (exempting classrooms and faculty offices in order to prevent disruption of educating), but his view of what a “Free Speech Zone” should actually include covers far more area than MJC’s infamous concrete slab.
The entire email is worth a read, as is his Deconstructing Casual Deconstruction. Holly’s defense of students’ rights is a rarity in institutes of higher learning, many of which seem to believe the restraint of speech somehow creates better students.
This article was posted: Saturday, November 2, 2013 at 10:55 am
Tags: constitution, domestic news
Professor Fires Off Email In Defense Of Student Forbidden From Handing Out Copies Of Constitution
Thursday, October 3, 2013
Meet Ladar Levison, the SMU Grad Whose Snowden-Approved Email Service Made a Libertarian Hero
Eric Nicholson
Dallas Observer
Oct. 3, 2013
Four months ago, Ladar Levison was just another dude running a small business business and really enjoying beach volleyball. Then, in May, the FBI left a business card on his doorstep. He, and eventually the rest of the world, would soon find out why.
Levison, an SMU grad, runs Lavabit LLC, a small email services provider based in Dallas whose vigilant protection of user privacy make it the platform of choice for NSA leaker Edward Snowden.
This revelation, coming after it was noticed that Snowden used a lavabit.com email address to invite lawyers and activists to a press conference during his captivity in the Moscow airport, attracted a good deal of attention from tech press and sent new customers flocking to the service by the thousands.
Below is Levison’s latest press release posted on his Facebook page:
This article was posted: Thursday, October 3, 2013 at 10:31 am
Tags: activism, domestic spying, internet, technology
Meet Ladar Levison, the SMU Grad Whose Snowden-Approved Email Service Made a Libertarian Hero
Meet Ladar Levison, the SMU Grad Whose Snowden-Approved Email Service Made a Libertarian Hero
Eric Nicholson
Dallas Observer
Oct. 3, 2013
Four months ago, Ladar Levison was just another dude running a small business business and really enjoying beach volleyball. Then, in May, the FBI left a business card on his doorstep. He, and eventually the rest of the world, would soon find out why.
Levison, an SMU grad, runs Lavabit LLC, a small email services provider based in Dallas whose vigilant protection of user privacy make it the platform of choice for NSA leaker Edward Snowden.
This revelation, coming after it was noticed that Snowden used a lavabit.com email address to invite lawyers and activists to a press conference during his captivity in the Moscow airport, attracted a good deal of attention from tech press and sent new customers flocking to the service by the thousands.
Below is Levison’s latest press release posted on his Facebook page:
This article was posted: Thursday, October 3, 2013 at 10:31 am
Tags: activism, domestic spying, internet, technology
Meet Ladar Levison, the SMU Grad Whose Snowden-Approved Email Service Made a Libertarian Hero
Friday, September 27, 2013
U.S. judge allows lawsuit against Google over email ads
Dan Levine
Reuters
Sept. 27, 2013
A federal judge on Thursday refused to dismiss most of a lawsuit against Google Inc over allegations the company improperly scanned the content of customers’ emails in order to place ads.
U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California ruled that the proposed class action lawsuit against Google can proceed. She rejected Google’s argument that its users had consented to having their email read for the purposes of targeted advertising.
“We’re disappointed in this decision and are considering our options,” Google spokesman Matt Kallman said in an email.
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This article was posted: Friday, September 27, 2013 at 9:31 am
Tags: big brother, business, domestic spying, internet
U.S. judge allows lawsuit against Google over email ads
Monday, September 2, 2013
Indian bureaucrats may be asked not to use private email services for official work
IDG News Service – The Indian government is expected to require that Indian bureaucrats use email service provided by the National Informatics
Center for their official work, as it tries to secure its communications infrastructure.
The requirement will be part of a proposed new email policy, said sources in government who declined to be named.
India’s Minister for Communications and IT, Kapil Sibal, told Parliament about a week ago that the government had decided
that all its embassies would use mail servers from the government’s National Informatics Centre, which will be installed in
the embassies and directly linked to a server in India.
The minister was responding to concerns from the opposition about reports of large scale surveillance of telephone calls and
emails by the National Security Agency in the U.S. Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden disclosed through newspapers certain
documents that suggested that the NSA had real-time access to content on the servers of Internet companies. The companies
have denied their participation in the program.
The Indian government appears to have been very lax on security, despite having an email service from the NIC, with some ministers
listing their Gmail addresses on their websites. It is not known whether they use these addresses for official communications
as well.
Google did not comment on the move by the government to require bureaucrats not to use private services for official email
communications. “We don’t comment on speculation,” a Google spokeswoman said.
According to Indian parliamentary records, Sibal last month told Parliament: “We are stating in that [email] policy that it
is mandatory for the Government of India officials stationed at Embassies or working in Missions abroad, deputationists to
only use static IP Addresses, Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), One-time Password for accessing Government of India e-mail
services.” He assured the members of the upper house, called the Rajya Sabha, that the email will be encrypted so that nobody
else will be able to access it besides the Indian government.
Some officials are recommending that the email servers for the government employees be managed by the individual government
departments on their own rather than giving all the responsibility to NIC, the sources said.
John Ribeiro covers outsourcing and general technology breaking news from India for The IDG News Service. Follow John on Twitter at @Johnribeiro. John’s e-mail address is john_ribeiro@idg.com
Indian bureaucrats may be asked not to use private email services for official work
Saturday, August 10, 2013
Guys That Invented Encrypted Email Say Email Can Never Be Safe From NSA Snooping
Silent Circle, a company founded by Internet Hall of famer Phil Zimmermann, famous privacy expert Jon Callas, and a couple of Navy Seals, has shut down its secure email service.
They shuttered it because email can’t be secured in a way that would prevent a government agency like the NSA from snooping, the founders said.
All email messages “leak metadata” they say. That information includes data about who you are talking to and where you are. That info is visible even if the message itself is encrypted.
“E-mail as we know it today is fundamentally broken from a privacy perspective,” Callas says. That’s a pretty strong statement coming from this particular guy.
Zimmermann and Callas were the creators and cofounders of Pretty Good Privacy in the 1990s. PGP was one of first technologies to encrypt email to prevent spying.
Last year, they launched a new service, Silent Circle, that encrypts mobile phone calls, video calls and texts. Since smartphones also handle email, Silent Circle was encrypting email.
But now it’s pulling the plug on the email portion of their service. The company says that it has not been asked to add a back door or to turn over emails. It is closing the service preemptively.
If you want to see what someone can learn about you by looking at your email metadata, here’s a tool called Immersion that will show you. It was created by a team at the MIT Media Lab.
Guys That Invented Encrypted Email Say Email Can Never Be Safe From NSA Snooping
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Redesigned Gmail Wants To Show You The Email You Actually Give A Crap About
Rolling out today, a redesigned Gmail organizes your messages, and learns what you want on your screen.
Posted 05.29.2013 at 2:30 pm
If you’re a Gmail fan, you probably like the clean interface, or maybe the priority inbox feature, which lets you choose the kind of mail you want to see up-front. Now, with a new Gmail redesign rolling out today, Google is trying to impose even more order on a crowded inbox.
Instead of sending you the usual stream of mail and giving you options to filter it (what Gmail does right now) the service can automatically sort your mail into five different categories.
Those are:
- Primary: Your usual, run-of-the-mill mail, with everything together in one spot.
- Promotions: Groupons! And other assorted stuff Gmail terms deals.
- Social: “Hi! Someone posted something on your Facebook wall.” That sort of thing, and other social-networking updates.
- Updates: Apparently these are like life updates. Get a receipt or a bill or some other statement, and it goes here. (It’s the indoors-y, adult type to social’s fun, outgoing friend, if you will.)
- Forums: If you get an update from an online forum or subscribe to some newsletter-type thing, you can get updates on it here.
There are five tabs at the top, one for each of these categories. Just click on the tabs to switch between the different mail streams.
New Gmail Tabs: Google
The obvious question here is: How smart is it at sorting? Am I going to get Nigerian princes in all of my forum updates? We can’t say for sure yet, but Google says the new inbox will learn through algorithms, and get better at sorting (and adapting to your preferences) over time. So, although Twitter updates are probably easily categorized as social, if your Blade Runner fan forum pings (JUST FOR EXAMPLE) get caught in the promotions tab, you can drag those emails to the correct category, and Gmail will start putting all of them there. If you want to do something a little counterintuitive–like put those Twitter messages in “forums”–you can teach it that, too.
As with other Gmail roll-outs, it’s designed to be there if you want it there. Users can select to use all five of the category tabs, or none of them. (New users signing up for Gmail after the switch will start automatically with social and promotions tabs. The folks who’ve already minutely customized their priority inboxes will have to opt in to the new design.) It’s also possible to switch back to Gmail Classic if you’re not feeling the new digs.
Along with that, a new mobile Gmail redesign based around the tabs system is coming to Android and iOS “within the next few weeks,” according to Google’s Gmail blog.
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Redesigned Gmail Wants To Show You The Email You Actually Give A Crap About
Monday, April 22, 2013
Top Email Marketing Tips for Affiliate Marketers
The establishment of the internet is definitely one of the best things that ever happened in the history. Its arrival has paved way for different business ventures that people could do practically anywhere. One of which is affiliate marketing, a performance-based venture on which business owners pay the affiliates for every customer he/she brings through his/her own marketing efforts.
In order to bring in more clients, affiliate marketers are employing different methods of internet marketing. One of the popular internet marketing strategies used by affiliate marketers is email marketing. This technique simply entails the use of email as the medium through which the marketer communicates with the client or prospect. It has become huge these past few years because aside from being effective, this is also budget-friendly and delivers fast results.
Email marketing is one of the most common internet marketing strategies used by these affiliates. If you\’re an affiliate marketer yourself, the following tips could help you out in order to maximize your email marketing efforts:
1. Choose a reputable email marketing service provider
A good affiliate marketer makes sure that everything is in accordance with his marketing goals. In order to succeed in one\’s email marketing campaigns, the affiliate marketer must learn to choose an appropriate software that would help him carry out the process of email marketing easier. There are so many to choose from but by opting for those from reputable vendors, affiliate marketers will be assured of quality service. These providers often come in monthly or one-time fee options. If you\’d like to save on email marketing expense, opt for the one-time fee package of the email marketing service provider.
2. Increase your opt-in rate using your creative strategies
Without increasing your opt-in rate, you\’re stuck with the same number of subscribers that may anytime leave your email list. Don\’t let this to happen by making sure that you have sufficient number of subscribers in your list that can sustain you in case a few of them decides to opt-out. Come up with strategies that would attract more web users to opt-in your mailing list. You can send them newsletters, eBooks or even articles that you think have relevance in your affiliate products and at the same time are of value to them.
3. Have a good relationship with your subscribers
Avoid being one of those marketers who start neglecting their clients once they opt to be included in their email list. Follow their lead and you\’re sure to increase your opt-out rate. Be different and start building good relationship with your subscribers. Personalize your messages and invest time in selecting relevant and valuable content to them. Do this and you\’ll see significant changes with your subscribers.
If you want quality email marketing software for less, check out media autoresponder today. Installation instructions can be found here: media autoresponder software installation page.
Top Email Marketing Tips for Affiliate Marketers
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Discover Why Video Email is Taking Small Businesses By Storm
If you aren"t acquainted with video email, it"s time you learn how it works and how it can gain advantage your business. This type of email includes an e-mail message that encompasses a video file that can be viewed thru hypertext links or the video file could be inserted right into the message body, depending on your email customer. Today, many different approaches to video email exist, making it simple for businesses to make the leap into online video marketing without a problem. Since these e-mails are to be utilized for direct e-mail promoting fairly constantly, it\’s a smart idea to find out more about how this form of email marketing is taking smaller companies by storm.
A Few Statistical data
A glance at a couple of the statistical data surrounding video email will definitely help you to understand why so many smaller businesses are beginning to use it as part of their email marketing programs. According to one study done by Studio360, video messages regularly see clickthrough rates that are 33% higher than emails sent in HTML. In other studies, the pc.s have been much higher. Other actual examples have discovered that video marketing with video brings in response rates that may be as high as 11 times higher than using direct mail. Not only do statistics indicate that using online video marketing inside emails improves response numbers, and it costs less money in numerous cases as well.
Benefits That Help You Beat the Competitors
While video email incorporates many major advantages for smaller businesses, some of the top benefits are those that help your company beat off the competition. Online video marketing within your emails will help you stand out from the competition. While other business may still be using simple text in their mails, your mpgs can make you stand proud of your potential shoppers. These e-mails can also help you to make readers remember your company while building you as a leader in your field. This option can even improve your business \’ credibility, since they can see you talking about the topic, making them more certain to trust the proven fact that you are well informed in what you"re saying.
Connecting with Your Audience
Many e-mail campaigns fail because they are unable to effectively hook up with the spectators. But with video email, you have got the advantage of connecting with your audience on an emotional level. Emotions are sometimes the root of purchasing decisions, which is why you have to connect with your audience emotionally. As you begin using videos in your mails, you can better nurture client relationships and easily establish connection with new prospects. Videos allow you to add an individual touch, make viewers feel special and increase trust as well. Connecting with your audience emotionally is sure to offer some amazing results for your small business.
Saving Money and Time
Last, using video email permits you to save both time and cash, which is a key benefit for smaller companies today. Online video marketing is really quite cheap, particularly when you consider the price and benefits offered. When you record videos, you can continue to use them over time , which offers more savings. You"ll even save time with this form of email marketing since it takes far less time to record a video than to write an article.
Video email marketing is here to stay and it has so many benefits to give your small enterprise. Do not let your competitors fasten onto this hot trend before doing. Start learning more about how it"s possible for you to use videos as part of your e-mail promotional program for great results.
Kevin Gelzer is a 1 writer with a fervent interest in online video marketing. If you are looking for a video email serviceto help boost your company"s online video presence, contact OptiVid Promoting today.
Discover Why Video Email is Taking Small Businesses By Storm
Friday, April 12, 2013
For Small-Medium Businesses, Voice Over IP Providers Are An Awesome Choice Right Now
Small-Medium Businesses are getting the best voice services from VoIP plans today. This service doesn\’t send calls across the public switched telephone network (land-lines), but over the internet instead. Sound quality and reliability are former challenges that are being quickly overcome by providers. The list of pro\’s and con\’s for these two kinds of systems are changing every day.
Cloud based, or hosted top VoIP providers seem to offer the lowest upfront capital expense, the lowest cost over time, and the most flexibility out of the many kinds. You merely subscribe, your service provider takes care of all maintenance and updates. There isn\’t the necessity to purchase expensive equipment, such as a PBX (private branch exchange) to route and cope with incoming calls. All that\’s required is a high-speed internet connection, and a VoIP compatible business phone. Top providers even offer a free telephone with certain plans, or long term contracts. Anything else that needs to be done to manage their many convenient features is done on a web page.
Your system is held in a server and you manage it with a simple interface. The system is updated regularly by the provider. Managing the phone system won\’t require the customer to pay for expensive IT hours. Compatibility of your system\’s components also will not be a problem as time passes. This gives a growing company the advantage of the communication tools of a larger business, while having flexibility to expand and change dynamically.
These voice over IP providers can relieve lots of expense and disruption in adaption and change with their simplicity. From the tech savvy to those who can merely answer a phone, these plans would be equally as appropriate. Learning to use them is simple with the highly intuitive web pages. Update setting any time you need to by visiting the web site. This can be convenient for a business that hasn\’t used a sophisticated phone system before, and isn\’t sure how they\’d like to arrange it.
Nearly uninhibited expansion, adaptability, and persistently updated telecom are as priceless in business applications right now as they are essential. This is exactly what you will get from these top VoIP providers. Calculating how much they save in cost is relatively easy. Considering the easy-to-use interface, the savings in stress and frustration is surely an adequate one.
Communication systems actually perform as your businesses backbone. Knowing what is best for the business isn\’t easy, which is why this process can be confusing, check out; Crexendo voice over IP providers. More details on this matter can be discussed by going to this site.
For Small-Medium Businesses, Voice Over IP Providers Are An Awesome Choice Right Now
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Enhancing Personalized Selling Through Small Business Email Marketing
Whenever an enterprise is looking to attaining the threshold in its sales there are a number of steps that need to be considered. In this era of the internet the possibilities are many. In fact small business email marketing is just one of the ways by which this will be accomplished.
Generally the prerequisite to achieving such an activity is the availability of a connection to the internet. This can be through a company website as the interface. The internet here provides many ways in which communication can be attained. The electronic mail option is one of the ways considered as suitable to sustain communication on the internet.
It may generally be needful to build a sizable contacts database for storing the client contacts especially their electronic mail address. It is imperative that a client has a working electronic mail address prior to implementing such a sales strategy. Generally websites are made in such a way as to capture such details automatically when a client communicates.
Once the details have been captured into the database an analysis may be carried out using such tools like the web analytics. This is meant to determine the client preferences when they go online. In this way certain clients may be identified to whom the mail shots will be sent based on the preferences surveyed. Normally websites achieve this through a feed back option or an uncomplicated online survey.
In this particular way purchase trends by particular groups of clients can be analyzed. Based on the results from such a process the mail shots can be sent to them. Most websites have a simple registration process that will be used to capture the basic data to actuate correspondence between the client and the company. During such a process the client has the option to choose from among the items whatever they want to receive through correspondence that is always automated.
Most importantly the correspondence process must be initiated by the client. As such there must be an option to unconditionally unsubscribe from the mailing list. This is to ensure that the process is legitimate and mutual without any preconditions. In this way the customer is more confident of the process and the company in general. At the moment when the client unsubscribe then they will not receive any more communication from the company.
The content of the mail to the client can be a catalog or brochure. It may even be a link to the mother website from where the customer can choose from among the products or services offered. On the other hand it may include such general information as far as the services or products are concerned.
Ultimately one of the advantages of such an approach is the limitless number of clients who may be reached. As such the quality of content or information being disseminated must be high to achieve the desired results. It is also important to ensure that the information is verifiable and as such can be trusted by the customer. Trustworthy content will work for the company and probably increase the sales. Therefore employing small business email marketing has many advantages with an increase in sales and profits as one of such benefits.
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Enhancing Personalized Selling Through Small Business Email Marketing
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
VIDEO: New Service Digitizes Snail Mail
The new app Outbox is on a mission to turn your snail-mail digital. The $5-a-month service collects your mail, scans it and lets you organize it online, eliminating all that cluttery junk mail. Gillian Pensavalle has the details.
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Sunday, February 17, 2013
You Can Use 800 numbers To Keep Your Real Number Private At Your Place Of Business Or Even At Home
Not only can you use 800 numbers for business use, but you can use them for personal reasons as well out of your home. If anyone needs to get in touch with you they now can for free because you have a toll free number for them to call. These numbers are seen for many things \”as seen on TV\”. You are saving the customer money for the call when you have it routed to you; you see many of them being used in late night infomercials. This is a great way to keep your private number secure so that no one has it; so when you take orders for what it is they are buying you won\’t have to worry about calls flooding your home.
You don\’t necessarily want people to have your private number, so this is the best way to run a business from your home. Some people run home based businesses and have toll free numbers set up so that they will ring into their home but it will be from the 1 800 line that has been set up. You have full control over these numbers regarding when they will ring into your home and when not; you set the controls and the system takes care of the rest.
You can use 800 numbers for any kind of business, small or large, at home, and many other reasons. You will be able to increase your customers because they are free numbers for your customers. You can have one for your home and no matter where the other party lives, they will be able to reach you for free. Your customers won\’t have to worry about paying for the cost of the call because the owner of the toll free number is the one who for the service.
It doesn\’t matter what type 800 numbers for business that you use, messages can always be left; this is ideal for if you are real busy and you can want to still be able to have some sort of contact with your customers, this way they know they are being treated well. Business can get busy, especially at the height of the daily business hours and you really cannot afford to lose any calls. Your clients will appreciate the fact that you return their calls as soon as possible; no one likes to just be ignored.
You can get your very own 800 number to run your business, without your clients having access to your private number. You can turn it on and off at any time that you need to; it will keep records of who called you and when so that when you are back on you can know who called and you can get back to them quickly. This is a great way to build a trusting relationship with a a new customer; as soon as you can you can get in touch with them.
Your communication service should provide more than local and long distance phone coverage. Whether you\’re starting a new business, Crexendo available 800 numbers is a great way to go. Think about increasing your scrapings by clicking here.
You Can Use 800 numbers To Keep Your Real Number Private At Your Place Of Business Or Even At Home
Saturday, January 19, 2013
How To Come Up With Targeted Email Marketing Lists
It is normally quite a challenge for most business owners to build Email marketing lists. This is because creating a list requires that you have traffic to your website and are able to convince potential clients to join your subscriber list. To do this effectively, you need to have a strategy that will not only help you to get new subscribers but to retain them in the long run.
Offer individuals a good incentive to sign up to your list. This can be by offering a free product or service in return to anyone who signs up. This can be an information product about your business such as an eBook, white paper or newsletter. Promote your offer and make it clear to subscribers about what they stand to gain by joining your list.
Have an automatic sign up system where anyone who is interested in receiving messages from you can voluntarily subscribe. This involves having a sign up form prominently displayed on your website, blog posts and social media accounts. Also, include a sign up link in your messages to make it easier for people to follow your company\’s activities.
Make it easy for people to sign up to the list through a simple system. This includes not demanding for too much information upfront. A name and email address should suffice as adequate information to allow one to sign up. It should also be easy for people to unsubscribe if they decide that they no longer want to receive messages from you. Assure prospective clients that you will safeguard their privacy and not send them Spam messages or sell their contact information to someone else.
To increase traffic to your site and to get more people to subscribe to your emails, make it easy for your recipients to share your emails. You can do this by pro-actively asking them to share the information with other people that they think will benefit from it. Also, you can include social media buttons in your messages to make it easy to pass on the information through social forums.
Try to make your list as relevant as possible. This will assure you of high chances of success as the people you are targeting will be interested in what you have to sell. This includes making it easy for anyone who no longer wants to receive messages from you to opt out of the list. Also, remove any addresses that seem dormant or bounce back messages.
To prevent embarrassing situations, always test the message before you send it out. You can test it by sending the messages to yourself to check that everything has been properly laid out and explained. This will make your messages look professional and get a positive review from the recipients.
Email marketing lists are quite profitable for any business regardless of whatever product or service you are selling. It provides for cheap advertising and can be used in the long term. The more targeted your list is, the higher the chances of making a conversion. You can opt to buy a list or develop your own list.
Read more about How To Go About Creating Email Marketing Lists visiting our website.
How To Come Up With Targeted Email Marketing Lists
How To Come Up With Targeted Email Marketing Lists
It is normally quite a challenge for most business owners to build Email marketing lists. This is because creating a list requires that you have traffic to your website and are able to convince potential clients to join your subscriber list. To do this effectively, you need to have a strategy that will not only help you to get new subscribers but to retain them in the long run.
Offer individuals a good incentive to sign up to your list. This can be by offering a free product or service in return to anyone who signs up. This can be an information product about your business such as an eBook, white paper or newsletter. Promote your offer and make it clear to subscribers about what they stand to gain by joining your list.
Have an automatic sign up system where anyone who is interested in receiving messages from you can voluntarily subscribe. This involves having a sign up form prominently displayed on your website, blog posts and social media accounts. Also, include a sign up link in your messages to make it easier for people to follow your company\’s activities.
Make it easy for people to sign up to the list through a simple system. This includes not demanding for too much information upfront. A name and email address should suffice as adequate information to allow one to sign up. It should also be easy for people to unsubscribe if they decide that they no longer want to receive messages from you. Assure prospective clients that you will safeguard their privacy and not send them Spam messages or sell their contact information to someone else.
To increase traffic to your site and to get more people to subscribe to your emails, make it easy for your recipients to share your emails. You can do this by pro-actively asking them to share the information with other people that they think will benefit from it. Also, you can include social media buttons in your messages to make it easy to pass on the information through social forums.
Try to make your list as relevant as possible. This will assure you of high chances of success as the people you are targeting will be interested in what you have to sell. This includes making it easy for anyone who no longer wants to receive messages from you to opt out of the list. Also, remove any addresses that seem dormant or bounce back messages.
To prevent embarrassing situations, always test the message before you send it out. You can test it by sending the messages to yourself to check that everything has been properly laid out and explained. This will make your messages look professional and get a positive review from the recipients.
Email marketing lists are quite profitable for any business regardless of whatever product or service you are selling. It provides for cheap advertising and can be used in the long term. The more targeted your list is, the higher the chances of making a conversion. You can opt to buy a list or develop your own list.
Read more about How To Go About Creating Email Marketing Lists visiting our website.
How To Come Up With Targeted Email Marketing Lists
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