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Can SPAM it's No UCE!
by Mike Banks Valentine
Ya Gotta love those scumbags! Those spammers who make a
living encouraging everyone else to spam by selling CD's
full of e-mail addresses they shouldn't have in the first
place. I got an offer this week for a CD with - I kid you
not - 57 million e-mail addresses! For only $149 I can
make millions of people hate me and my business by sending
Unsolicited Commercial E-mail (UCE) to people who don't
want to hear from me!
To encourage me to become a lowlife scumbag, he offers me
some simple math. I quote:
"Imagine selling a product for only $5 and getting only
a 1/10% response. That's $2,850,000 in your pocket !!! "
You bet it is! And it will never happen in this life or
the next. What will happen is that my Internet Service
Provider will shut down my account and ban me from their
service and I'll be tracked down by the law enforcement
agencies in nearly every country I e-mail my information!
The cat is out of the bag by now folks . . . it's no UCE
spamming. That is the recommended course of action for
almost every get-rich-quick scheme on the internet.
IF IT INVOLVES SPAM, CAN IT! Delete and forget those silly
messages! My internet service provider offers a special
address to forward all spam that I receive so that they
can filter out the offending scumbags and I use it quite
regularly. I've even been known to seek out the ISP of the
worst offenders and attempt to have them banned from their
own accounts. In doing this I've found several ISP's that
cater specifically to spammers by protecting their identity
and offering "secret" e-mail addresses which are "cloaked"
and re-routed through other servers to hide the source!
You know that legitimate businesses would never resort to
hiding. So that's enough of my anti-spam tirade! What I'd
like to offer are a couple of high-quality programs with
high integrity to match. If you want to spend some small
change for some big returns, take a look at these two new
programs.
The first is a new e-book for under $30 and worth far more,
"The Ezine Marketing Machine" in which author Rick Beneteau
shares with you his hard-won methods of using "FREE" e-zine
ads to gain new business and market yourself effectively.
Many ezines offer free ad-swaps, (reciprocal ads) to highly
targeted prospects on OPT-IN lists. Others provide free
classified ads in their publications and Beneteau has spent
over two years assembling and using the methods shared in
his book. I'll let Rick outline his book in the Guest Column
below.
The second resource is a valuable EZine Ad Source Directory
run by John Nesbit. His database of ezines that accept paid
advertising is invaluable if you are looking for highly
targeted sources for your ezine advertising. His service is
below $40 a year and will save you countless hours of slow
searching for good ad placement. Listed zines show circulation
data and contact information along with a discount of up to
50% for members granted by various e-zines in his directory!
http://www.interferenza.net/ezineadsource/al/affiliates.cgi?413
With legitimate businesses like those of John Nesbit and Rick
Beneteau providing honest marketing methods that acheive
quality results, there is no need to resort to less savory
approaches of the spamsters.
Can SPAM it's no UCE!
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