That way the service is totally seamless for your contacts. And when you sign up for a new list, or start corresponding with a new contact, simply add them to your ‘verified’ list and you’ve got no problems.

I lose ZERO legit business contact. In fact, 99% of my business associates have NO CLUE that I use the service…and 100% of their email gets to me (versus using a service like gmail or a ‘learning’ spam filter which sometimes flags legit email).

You don’t have to use SpamArrest — but not having some type of effective spam filtering system in place is a massive waste of time and costs your business money because of wasted effort and and reduced energy.

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Lynn - I agree with you. SpamArrest is for one-on-one email (personal/business private email). You should never use it for a ‘public’ support email address, especially if it involves providing help for your customers.

That’s plain stupid because it not only aggravates your PAYING customers, but it will increase refunds because some customers will be confused by the SpamArrest link, and will never end up getting help for their purchase. Yikes!

For a support solution, I recommend companies use a help desk like Kayako (what we use) which is a ‘ticket’ based system that allows you to truly serve customers/prospects.

And you can always filter your email through a spam filter (like gmail) before it hits the help desk, to ward off junk mail — BUT if you do that, you *must* check the “spam” folder at your service. You don’t want to run the risk of a legit customer email getting lost!

Thanks for your feedback guys - keep it coming on our posts!

Have a great weekend…I’m off to NYC for a little bit of Broadway this weekend!

Chris

Bill & Jessica — yup, I can’t complain. It’s a good life. As for taking care of myself, I work out regularly with a trainer, and do my best to watch what I eat. And yep, I do use some supplements each day to keep my wheels turning.

Chris

I think this is an inappropriate tool for support issues.

Lynn

Ben

I’m take your advice and start using the Google Calendar. I have never heard of it before.

Thanks Chris

Corrisa

Many people don’t even realize how much time they are wasting in their lives to begin with. One technique that I use is once a quarter, I write down exactly what I did every day for one week. By using this technique, I am able to identify areas where I am wasting time and not being as efficient as I would like to be. Then, over the next quarter, I work to reduce the time wasting activities in any way that I can.

Another tool that is a great time saver is Google Analytics, also a free tool by Google. What this does is allows you to track visitors to your web sites, lets you know where they came from and you can set it up so that it even lets you know where your opt ins are coming from and where your sales are coming from.

Many times we waste time with marketing activities that aren’t producing any results, yet we don’t have the tracking mechanisms in place to identify that these activities aren’t producing results to begin with. Google Analytics is a great tool to help you do just that. I’ve had it for a little under 2 months now and it has completely change the way I do business.

Roosevelt Cooper
http://www.web204mlm.com

Another way to reduce clutter is by cutting down on the amount of paper we use. I’ve been using a program called Fineprint for years, to save paper and ink when printing…. and I love it! That’s a direct link, by the way.

Keep up the great posts!