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Leave A Message, Please.
© 2001 Terri Seymour

Networking is a great way to build your online business and
message boards are some of the best places for networking.
Not only can you advertise your business (if allowed), you can
learn more about marketing, promotion or whatever subject
pertains to your business. Message boards are also a great
way to establish yourself as an expert and to build yourself a
good reputation. Relationships, business and personal can
also start from contacts made on message boards. When
posting to message boards, there are a few things you should
remember.

1. Do not spam! A lot of message boards do not allow blatant
advertising, but do allow sigtags. Make sure you read all rules
carefully before posting. There are message boards that allow
advertising of any kind, however these are not very useful as
far as networking or learning anything of value.

2. Do not flame! Message boards are a means for people to
express different opinions and ideas. You should never insult
anybody because they do not agree with your point of view.
This is one way for you to lose all credibility for your
business and your reputation.

3. Do participate in the discussions! You definitely want to get
involved in the discussions and make yourself known. Answer
questions whenever possible and give advice. People will come
to respect you as an expert in your field and trust what you say.

4. Do treat others with respect! Always give others on the
boards the same treatment and respect you would want them
to give you. No matter how much or how little someone knows,
they still deserve the same respect as others. Always remember,
you started out not knowing much either.

5. Do build relationships! I have "met" so many wonderful
people since starting on the internet! It is a great way to
build personal and business relationships. So go to the
boards, start a conversation and just have some fun, while
building your business!!

Boards for WAHMs:
http://www.hbwm.com/cgi-bin/Ultimate.cgi
http://www.bizymoms.com/discus/
http://www.moms-home-work.com/disc3_frm.htm

Internet Marketing Boards:
http://www.williecrawford.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi
http://www.free-publicity.com/cgi-bin/talk.cgi
http://www.bizweb2000.com/wwwboard/
http://rimdigest.intranets.com/login.asp

Home Business Boards:
http://powerhomebiz.com/discussion/subscription.htm
http://attractionmarketing.com/discussion/index.html
http://www.ablake.net/forum/

You can find more boards at:
http://www.forumone.com
http://www.delphi.com

Visit some of these boards, find your favorites and get to
work building relationships, your business and your
reputation!!

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4. Web Tools

Recipe - Spam Rehash

© 2001 by Dale Sexton

What do you do with your spam? Call the authorities? Send it back to the sender with expletive text appended? Set it to simmer with white wine sauce? When I have leftover spam, I make spam rehash. You'll need:

1 pop3 mailbox
1 multiple message autoresponder
1 email extractor
1 email verifier
as much spam from the market as you can get


Mailbox must be large enough to handle leftover spam. Preferably a pop3 account so you can manage it on your desktop. Don't use a mailbox you don't want spammed, it's hard to get out. Free pop3's can be found at:

http://www.newmail.net/
http://www.pmail.net/
http://www.switchboard.com/

Stuff mailbox with leftover spam. You don't know where to get spam? (You have lived a good life.) I shop at FFAL sites, guestbooks, classified ad sites, signing up for freebies, etc. Anywhere you put your email address, be assured they want to send you mail back.

Best of all, some sites will sell your email address to spam lists. On other sites, mostly guestbooks and classified ads, spammers will harvest your email addresses and send you spam FREE!

After a week or a month (you want it to age), take spam from mailbox. Add spam to email extractor.

http://www.a1soft.com/emext.htm
http://www.glocksoft.com/amlv/amlv.htm

Your going to have some bad spam. Don't smell it! Just take my word. You'll have to do some carving to get to the good stuff. Run spam through email validator. The bad stuff will slide right off.

http://www.legitima.com/evalidator/
http://www.fairlogic.com/worldcast/

After you've verified your spam, it's ready to go into an autoresponder and served to guests or customers. Your autoresponder must have capabilities to import lists. GetResponse can do this and send out your message in timed intervals with an opt out option.

http://www.getresponse.com/
http://fastfacts.net/
http://www.autorespondersplus.com/

The quick cook recipe works if you want to serve your spam in a hurry, but remember that your autoresponder will not go well with FFAL websites and some classified ads. Your autoresponder host doesn't like it when you submit autoresponder addresses to these pages and will minimum, shut your responder down.

Quick Cook Recipe

Instead of putting your pop3 email address on the guestbooks or classified ads, use the autoresponder address. When spammers harvest your autoresponder address, they immediately get a serving of spam rehash, thus serving your customers and guests faster.

Remember, if they send it to you, send them something in return. Bon appetit!

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Dale Sexton owns and operates 'PageCrafters.net' and
publishes 'Small Business Tools magazine'. Both focus
on tools and tips for small business and startups. He
can be reached at: mailto:pagecrafters@pagecrafters.net
and sign up for 'SBT magazine' at:
http://pagecrafters.net/newsletter.html
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