Cute Emailers
Are You One of Those People that Sends Cute Emails?
Of course you have work to do or things that you wanted to accomplish and you may not have a lot of time to spare. Many of these well intentioned e-mailer's will actually get upset if you do not respond right away. Some of them want you to include them in the forwarding process just to make sure you completed your assigned task.
Who needs it?
Yes, there are emails of this nature that we all enjoy and there are even some of those that we need to read, warnings about scams or online viral threats. But honestly there has to be a better way to utilize my time and yours.
There is!
Free Website space and blogs.
That's right. All you need to do is create an account at one of the several free Website hosting companies or free blog sites and you have all you need to send those cutesy emails and still remain friends with those that you care about. The list of details below will provide you with all you need to know to do this with style and spend less time than you normally would forward or creating those (ahem) irritating emails that fill our inboxes.
1. Create your account with a free Website Hosting company like Bravenet.com or Tripod.com. It is free and you just might enjoy the way you can design your new Website to meet your own style and ideas. Unlike free email accounts, you can make your pages look like stationary or add pictures that will play an integral part of the message you convey.
2. Open an account at a free blog site. I personally love wordpress.com and soulcast.com.
3. You will need an account; again it is free, with flickster.com to post pictures and videos for most free blog sites.
* Post your pictures or videos on the flickster.com site.
* Once the image is posted, right click on it, click copy image location, and then paste onto your blog page where you want it.
4. When you get those cute, informative emails that you just have to share, post them on one or both of these sites.
5. Add the names and contact addresses to those that you normally send your bulk emails to as subscribers, or send one last bulk email with a link to your new account and ask the contact to subscribe to it. Every time you update or add to your site or blog, they will receive a notice with a link that they can use at their convenience.
6. An additional advantage to this is that all your friends can comment on your blog and you may find some very interesting conversations result from those comments and conversations that everyone will enjoy.
Happy blogging!
Published by Janet Atwell
Writer, Painter, Editor, Minister, Good Listener, Good Friend, Generous, Creative, A slow but volatile Temper. I am a compulsive volunteer. View profile
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4 Comments
Post a CommentIndefinitely! I recently sent out a 'spam' newsletter. I began it with the line....
"This Is Not Spam!" You are receiving this newsletter from Janet at InspiredWordArt because you or one of your close friends/family member, sent me an email that had your email address BOLDLY present in the FWD, FWD part of the message. If you would rather not hear from me again you need to do two things, 1. Reply to this message with NO MORE in the subject line and 2. Tell your family and friends that you don't appreciate it.
You would not believe the response I got! Interestingly enough, one of the people that sent me a message to complain today sent me another message that had, (YOU guessed it) over 30 email addresses in the FWD's that were listed.
The another reason not to fwd; fwd; fwd; those cute emails is that I am on everyone on your lists, list of everyone. You forward me something that X sent you from Y and X sent me the same thing from Y and Y already sent it to me. And even tho' W & I were on the same forward from you; W sent me the exact thing we received at the same time. (Thanks for listening, Janet!)
...with code; called web beacons; they transmit info about you back to the machine that set the message on it's rounds. Much of it is harmless; simply more spam; but sometimes that spam is someone trying to defraud you. Old saying: sucker born every minute and yes the Nicagrican bankers and Pay Pal look-alikes are still stealing idenities and money. The emails are also annoying; when you send to "everybody" (on contact list) and do not use BBC, you hand out everybody's email address to everybody the email gets forwarded to.
Great advice; wish they would use it. I often wondered about the, um, intelligence level of people who write a chain email and say "if you love me you will send it back to me". So then, I think, when I send it back to you, I just instructed you to send it back to me; how long do we email it back and forth? Actually they were probably started by "phisers" looking for active email accounts. Those cutesy, pretty, funny pics with the beautiful sayings are often...