Home Business - Junk Mail Survival Tactics 1/2

If your home based business relies on email like mine does, the onslaught of junk mail and spam is a real problem. It's eating up your time so it needs to be fixed. The sooner the better.

Here are several simple ways we home business owners can protect ourselves against spam and junk mail.

CONCEAL YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS

This will stop the email harvesting robots from finding you in the first place.
Simply remove the @ sign anytime that you display your email address in an email or on a website.

For example...

name AT domain.com

name [at] domain.com

name {at} domain.com

Another solution is to filter your incoming emails - either before or after they arrive on your computer.

CHALLENGE AND RESPONSE

These commercial challenge and response systems require a human response from the sender before it ever reaches you. Senders of junk mail won't bother, so you get protected.

SPAM FILTERS "OUT THERE"

You can use the spam filters at gmail.com

I used to think it was somewhat unprofessional when businesses used a gmail.com address but now I see it differently. Why? Because Google offers a handy set of automatic built-in spam filters - and they work a treat. Gmail stops thousands of junk emails and spam that would otherwise arrive on my machine.
In the first few weeks after you set it up, you might want to look at what has been diverted into the spam/junk folder at Gmail. Emails that you value can be moved to the inbox. To train the filters, select the mail item you've just moved and click the Not Spam button.

In Part 2 of this 2-part series, I will share my best tip. Doing this simple little thing helps me save a great deal of time, no matter how much junk email arrives in Outlook Express.

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Article by Gary Harvey. Gary is an Internet Marketing enthusiast who has been earning a full time online income since 2003. Visit his website at http://HomeBusinessWinners.com and get a FREE copy of "HOME BUSINESS PROFITS START HERE".

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