Need Help With My Email Subject Line!

Marye - I guess I'm like you in that 99% of my mail gets deleted unread, because it's obviously not connected with me, my web business or my web interests; which does mean that occasionally I miss something which might have been useful to me. But you know, when researching topics of interest, surfing through web sites, there are a few gems which are worth contacting with a genuine invitation to joint venture. Using a contact form on a web site and sending a email using that, I don't want to waste time sending something which might be construed as spam when it is a real offer to do ethical business.

I don't build mailing lists of any old address; I don't send out multitudes of offers to the same address; if I have taken the time to write to someone with an invitation, I say on it that it will only be one contact unless they reply they want to deal with me.

I have a contact form on most of my web sites and if someone uses it to contact me, I try to reply. I'm not saying that I catch them all, because sometimes I have a mass delete of mails and I guess some good mail goes with the bad stuff. But that's why I have a contact form; to let people who are interested in my web site/business/ethics get in touch and introduce themselves.

Cheers
Maggie

It will automatically mark some messages as spam, probably spam, or as having a virus attached.

I recommend it because you can set it to flag messages, but give you the final option as to whether to delete it or let it through.

With what you must be receiving with your business email addresses, this might help keep you from deleting legitimate messages to you, while allowing wholesale spam to be bounced back and deleted.

Shame that what was a fine method of personally communicating has been usurped by unscrupulous sorts so that legitimate business people can't use it effectively.

Good luck.

Marye

Marye,

Thanks for the recommendation - I'll check it out.

I'm with you in wishing that emails weren't being used as a blanket marketing exercise to millions of potential clients. It makes genuine contact extremely difficult.

Cheers!
Margaret