Posterous Is Blogging For Everybody Else
Running a real blog is a lot of work. Posts take time. Of course, anybody can start a blog and that is the beauty of the platform. Wordpress is the absolute easiest web application to install - EVER - and you can even use one of the many free hosted options if you won’t want [...]
Spammers = Assholes
For the last several days, I have been getting bounce emails containing gibberish. This morning, I get this in my email:
That’s right. Some asshole is out there mailing penis spam with MY email as the return address. I wouldn’t be surprised if MY email is being added to blacklists.
Chances are, one of my PCMech readers [...]
Importing List to Aweber - Very Drawn Out
I talked earlier about how I decided to move my email lists over to Aweber. As many who have done this know, it is the importing process that is the most grueling.
Today, I am on the 5th group of 2000 imports into the Aweber system. Tomorrow, they are supposed to review my email list and [...]
Stop Drinking from the Outlook Food Bowl
With the recent popularity of the book 4 Hour Work Week, by Tim Ferris, there has been some talk about various entreprenuers re-thinking the way they structure their business lives. One of the overriding points of the book is outsourcing and the power of hiring virtual assistants. But, another point of [...]
Starting an Online Business Despite Information Overload
In yesterday’s newsletter, I asked for feedback from subscribers on what they wanted to see as topics covered on WebbyOnline. One reader mentioned how he wanted to start an online business but was overwhelmed by all the information out there and really didn’t know where to start. Well, that’s actually very common. The market of [...]
Synch vBulletin Mailing List with 1-2-All
OK, every now and then I post something technical on this site, and this is one of those posts. The problem? You have a mailing list of forum members which reside in the vBulletin database. You use 1-2-All, from ActiveCampaign, to manage your email lists. vBulletin’s email system sucks in comparison because it is dirt [...]
Dreamweaver CS3 Showing up in SPAM
I guess now that Dreamweaver CS3 is getting some press, the spammers think they can make a buck on it. I have been getting a LOT of spam lately advertising CS3 at ridiculously low prices. The last one? “Our price $59.95. You save $339.05″. I say - bullshit. And in the ad, they didn’t [...]
RSS to Email Services - Followup
Well, my little project for the daily tips from PCMech is being a little delayed by my frustrating search for a good RSS to email service. When I last posted about this whole email thing I’ve been up to, I mentioned that I was going with FeedBlitz. However, I am having second thoughts about that [...]
Mailing List Solution - Follow Up
OK, I have decided to purchase 1-2-All, from Active Campaign. After comparing to oemPro, I decided against it. oemPro is pretty good, but in the end, price made the difference for me. Today, I sent my first email with the new software. It’s very slick and the more I play around with it the more [...]
