Will your message get through my email filter?

Don't trash me for this because it appears to have nothing to do with online promotion. BUT, it does. Why? If the email address you use is generic and is usually associated with spam, it won't get through to my mailbox and may end up in my delete folder or simply removed from my server. Let me tell you why...

A couple of days ago I reviewed the contents of my trash bin because I thought an email message may have gone through that I wanted or should have known about. Low and behold I was lucky enough to find a person asking for a service I offer. He was actually referred by my associate Dr Kevin Nunley who resides in Utah.

"I had a guy who kept asking when I was sending his completed press release. Each time I re-sent it to him. After about the fourth time, when he was quite angry, we found his email program was filtering out all attachments."

Dr Kevin Nunley http://www.drnunley.com

The reason for this oversight was the email filter system I used for sending messages from free email services to my trash bin. At some point in time I started to receive numerous amounts of spam from a certain domain name so I set up an email filter to send any email I receive from that domain to my trash bin. For some reason that day I felt compelled to check my trash thus defeating the purpose of setting up an email filter.

This is definitely a catch 22. Number one you don't want to wade through a bunch of unsolicited email on a daily basis since in my view most legit offers originate from real email address. Well I could not be more wrong. You never know who is legitimate until you've had correspondence with them. Coming from a once new internet user with limited funds, I know how important free email can be. It's unfortunate that a few bad folks have given it a bad name. However, as you can see I put myself in a position to possibly lose business by filtering out free email services. The bottom line was that wading through email I didn't ask for can be a waste of time and resources. Or is it?

Some people believe that if you use a free email address, it is not worth doing business with you because it shows a lack of dedication by not paying for an email address. In other words if your business is important to you, purchasing your own domain name should be as important as hiring a competent salesperson.

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