that you don't even know you're losing.......
Did you know that you can create Email address aliases
on the fly at
any time with your domain name, and have them all point
to one of your
main POP accounts? It's called: a "Catch-All"
BTW,
An Email alias is an address that forwards to another
Email account.
A POP account, is an Email address which can be checked
with a password.
Now, back to this "Catch-All" thing. Every website hosting
provider
IS or should be able to provide you with what I call,
a "Catch-All"
so that all Email sent to your domain, mis-directed by
accident or on
purpose, is sent to your main POP account. It's very
basic, but most
folks don't know this power exists, and usually fail
to ask for it.
For example, with this list, List-Tips, I have my POP
account setup as
listtips@sparknet.net. ANYTHING sent to my domain: list-tips.com
or
listtips.com, ALL forwards to listtips@sparknet.net.
Can you see the power this can give you, not to mention
the peace of
mind knowing that you will never lose another piece of
Email, because
someone didn't know how to spell your email address right,
assuming they
got your domain name right.
Just last night, I went looking for cross sponsorship
opportunities to
help build this list, and I sent an Email to the Sift
Ad-Exchange list.
In it, I made up an address on the fly, called: swap@list-tips.com
which I know will forward to me here at listtips@sparknet.net
(which is
an address I've shared with no one, nor did I intend
to share it,
except in this example to illustrate the point.)
It is not the responsibility of the outside world to figure
out or
remember your Email address, so make it easy on them,
and setup a
'catch-all' for your domain name.
One last example:
Let's suppose my Email address is: chris@list-tips.com
With a 'catch-all' setup, as long as you got my domain
right, I've
seen folks over the past two years, mis-interpret my
simple chris@
address with the following:
christopher@
cknight@
chrisk@
knight@
knightc@
kris@
night@
cris@
chris.knight@
c.knight@
christopher.k@
christopher.kngith@
How many folks are messing up your Email address right
now?
(for those who already have catch-alls setup,
you're ahead of the game, congratulations. :)
To Your Lists Success! -Sparky :-)
This issue was submitted by Christopher M. Knight (Sparky), CEO
of SparkNET Interactive. To reach chris: mailto:chris@sparklist.com
List-Tips Is Produced As A Courtesy To List-Owners everywhere. :-)