For the last several years, email became the fastest solution to send mail to around the world. Email became so popular because it’s very cheap, easy to use, fast and delivered to the right recipient (as long you didn’t type the wrong email address, and didn’t send violated content such as: files that contain virus, etc). I believe that most of the internet user already had email as their online identity. Most of them, usually using email providers to create an account, such as: Gmail that powered by Google, Yahoo Mail that powered by Yahoo, Hotmail (Live Mail is the newer version of Hotmail) that powered by Microsoft.

On this article, we will learn how to create an email account based on Gmail, Yahoo Mail, and Live Mail. Before we start to create an email account, we will describe some important reason why we choose that email providers for our email account. Here’s the reason behind it :

• Better quality and performance. Gmail, Yahoo Mail, and Live Mail are well known as the best email providers ever, they concern about quality and performance of their email services.
  • Quality: all of them provide rich internet application that show up more cool and awesome on user interface, interactive email management, and many more.
  • Performance: they provide good services to all of their user (I bet that each of that email provider already had more than a billion users) that used their email services, you could imagine how it could be if they didn’t have good performance to serve all of the request.
• Better services. Gmail, Yahoo Mail, and Live Mail are compete to provides more interactive services that more than just email.
  • As a Gmail user, you could also have all of google services, such as: Google Docs (manage your document via web application), Google Reader (read your favorite website via RSS technology), Google Entertainment (iGoogle), Google Talk (chat, talk to other friends), and many more.
  • As a Yahoo Mail user, you will get more services, such as: Entertainment (music, movies, news, etc), Yahoo Messenger (chat, talk to other friends), Yahoo Finance, Life Style, and many more.
  • As a Live Mail user, you will get more services, such as: Spaces (share more about your favourite to others like: photos, files, event, etc), Live Messenger (chat, talk to other friends), OneCare safety scanner (free Web-based service for PC health and security scans) and many more.
• Really easy and useful. Yes, it’s really easy for create an account and use all the services (especially for email services) and you’ll enjoy all the application for your online activity.

Well, that’s enough some information about Gmail, Yahoo Mail, and Live Mail. You’ll get more experience since you already had an account on them. Let’s start it…

Gmail Account

1. Let’s point your browser to : Create Gmail Account
2. Fill the form that appear on your browser. Please provide some information depends on the form requirement, that it could be:
   • your real identity, including: first name, last name, and country (typically it’s already choosen by google depend on your IP Address).
   • your desired gmail account, including: gmail account (you should make sure that your desired account is available, using “check availability” function) and password.
   • authentication, including: security question and your answer (in case you’re forget your password in the future), secondary email (you could leave it blank), and captcha verification. And also don’t forget to read “Google Term of Services” before you create gmail account.
3. Whoola.. You’re already have an email account @gmail.com. Take some new experience by clicking “I’m ready - show me my account“.
4. Goes to : Google Mail for next time you sign in using your gmail account.

Yahoo Mail Account

1. Let’s point your browser to : Create Yahoo Mail Account
2. Fill the form that appear on your browser. Please provide some information depends on the form requirement, that it could be:
   • your real identity, including: first name, last name, gender, birth day, postal code, and country (typically it’s already choosen by yahoo depend on your IP Address).
   • your desired yahoo account, including: yahoo account (you should make sure that your desired account is available, yahoo will check and suggested some account depends on your name, but you could also change it using your desired account name) and password.
   • authentication, including: security question and your answer (in case you’re forget your password in the future), secondary email (you could leave it blank), and captcha verification. And also don’t forget to read “Yahoo Mail Term of Services” before you create yahoo mail account.
3. Whoola.. You’re already have an email account @yahoo.com. Take some new experience by clicking “Continue” button.
4. Goes to : Yahoo Mail for next time you sign in using your yahoo mail account (type “@yahoo.com” after your yahoo mail account when you sign in, because yahoo provide another email services using rocketmail and ymail).

Live Mail Account

1. Let’s point your browser to : Create Live Mail Account
2. Fill the form that appear on your browser. Please provide some information depends on the form requirement, that it could be:
   • your real identity, including: first name, last name, gender, birth year, and country (you should select your country and state area).
   • your desired live mail account, including: live mail account (you should make sure that your desired account is available, using “check availability” function) and password.
   • authentication, including: security question and your answer (in case you’re forget your password in the future), secondary email (you could leave it blank), and captcha verification. And also don’t forget to read “Windows Live Services Agreement” before you create live mail account.
3. Whoola.. You’re already have an email account @live.com. Take some new experience by choosing your favorite option “Classic” or “Full” (you could switch it anytime do you want then).
4. Goes to : Live Mail for next time you sign in using your live mail account (type “@live.com” after your live mail account when you sign in, because live mail provide another email services using hotmail and msn mail).

So? What’s your favorite email provider? Let me know your experience using email services. Have a nice try.

Marketing Effectively With Email

Like any type of marketing, email marketing company involves a great deal of time and effort to ensure the marketing campaign is effective. This is important because an ineffective marketing campaign of any type is a waste of money and resources. Spending a great deal of time, energy and money into an email marketing campaign which is not reaching the members of the target audience and is not convincing recipients of the email to make a purchase or visit your website is not worthwhile. This article will discuss how to implement an effective email marketing strategy to ensure your business, financial and personal goals are being met.

One of the most important aspects of marketing effectively with email is to ensure your marketing efforts are reaching the members of your target audience. One way to do this is to ask former customers as well as potential customers to join your email distribution list. This will help to ensure the majority of members on your email distribution list have an actual interest in your products or services. This is important because you are much more likely to generate sales when you are marketing to this type of an audience than you would if you were marketing to a much larger audience without an interest in your products.

Another aspect of marketing effectively is to hire an experienced professional writer to draft the content for your emails, e-newsletters, email courses or any other methods you are using to email your message to potential customers. Having your content written can give you a significant edge over the competition if they are drafting their content themselves. The quality of your content is a reflection on your business and poorly written content with no substance will reflect poorly on your business.

Effective email marketing should also be written in a manner which will appeal to the target audience. If necessary you should conduct market research to determine demographical information for your target audience. This research may also determine preferences the target audience may have for receiving marketing information. This may include the type of language used, the format of the emails, the layout of the emails and even aesthetic appearance of the emails. Paying attention to these details can make the integrated marketing significantly more effective.

Finally, effective email marketing should not be viewed as spam. This is a difficult situation. In many cases an email marketing list will involve distributing mass emails but care should be taken in these endeavors to avoid having these emails construed as spam. This is important because many Internet service providers include spam filters which apply algorithms to each email account to determine which messages are spam and which ones are legitimate.

Emails which are deemed to be spam may never reach the intended recipients. Emails which may it through the spam filters may also be automatically deleted if the Internet user believes it looks like spam. For this reason care should be taken to ensure all marketing emails provide quality content, advertise only subtly and ideally are only sent to email recipients who have specifically requested information about your products or services. This will give you the best opportunity possible to reach your target audience and have a positive impression on them and hopefully entice them to make a purchase or visit your website.

Sometimes when we take a look for our email box (inbox), there are so many emails came although we don’t know why we got those emails. Usually the emails are talked about “You Won the Special Prices”, “Get Your Money”, “Special Offering for New Product”, “Date Show”, “Get Free Some New Product”, and many more. We call it as an email spam (sounds so familiar, right?), but how the spammers get our email address? Let’s we discuss about it, here’s the list of Spammers Action.

1. Mailing List

Spammers regularily attempt to get the lists of subscribers to mailing lists [some mail servers will give those upon request], knowing that the email addresses are unmunged and that only a few of the addresses are invalid.

When mail servers are configured to refuse such requests, another trick might be used - spammers might send an email to the mailing list with the headers Return-Receipt-To: or X-Confirm-Reading-To: . Those headers would cause some mail transfer agents and reading programs to send email back to the saying that the email was delivered to / read at a given email address, divulging it to spammers.

A different technique used by spammers is to request a mailing lists server to give him the list of all mailing lists it carries (an option implemented by some mailing list servers for the convenience of legitimate users), and then send the spam to the mailing list’s address, leaving the server to do the hard work of forwarding a copy to each subscribed email address.

A different technique used by spammers is to request a mailing lists server to give him the list of all mailing lists it carries (an option implemented by some mailing list servers for the convenience of legitimate users), and then send the spam to the mailing list’s address, leaving the server to do the hard work of forwarding a copy to each subscribed email address.

2. Web Pages / Web Form

Spammers have programs which spider through web pages, looking for email addresses, e.g. email addresses contained in mailto: HTML tags [those you can click on and get a mail window opened]. That’s why You should probably know about some email address are type as follow : your_id[at]your_domain.com.

A widely used technique to fight this technique is the ‘poison’ CGI script. The script creates a page with several bogus email addresses and a link to itself. Spammers’ software visiting the page would harvest the bogus email addresses and follow up the link, entering an infinite loop polluting their lists with bogus email addresses.

For more information about the poision script, see http://www.monkeys.com/wpoison/

Some sites request various details via forms, e.g. guest books & registrations forms. Spammers can get email addresses from those either because the form becomes available on the world wide web, or because the site sells / gives the emails list to others.

Some companies would sell / give email lists filled in on paper forms, e.g. organizers of conventions would make a list of participants’ email addresses, and sell it when it’s no longer needed.

Some spammers would actually type E-mail addresses from printed material, e.g. professional directories & conference proceedings.

Domain name registration forms are a favourite as well - addresses are most usually correct and updated, and people read the emails sent to them expecting important messages.

3. IRC - Chat Rooms

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