Accessibility – This is the main advantage of an internet email program. You can access your email inbox from any computer at anytime. All you need is your login and password.
Access other email accounts – Yahoo has an option that most other email providers don’t offer. You can check all your POP email accounts from Yahoo, by adding them there. Check your work and personal email all in the same place.
Multiple yahoo addresses – You can have more than one Yahoo email address assigned to your inbox. You can also setup filters to send the emails to different folders or mark them with different colors so that you can keep them organized.
Choose your ‘from’ address – Since you can have email coming in from more than one email account, Yahoo allows you to choose which email address you want to use in the ‘from’ field, when you reply. You can always use the same one, or you can vary it depending on which account the email was sent to.
Folders – You can setup folders to help keep your email organized. You can have mail filtered to go directly to certain folders, or you can move them there yourself.

Attach large files – Some email providers have limits on the size of files that you can send or receive through your account. Yahoo provides a means to shrink large files for sending them out. You can send files up to 2 GB with this feature.
Unlimited storage – Most online email accounts give you a designated amount of storage. These storage caps are plenty for most users, but not all. Yahoo gives you unlimited storage for files and emails in your account.
All your favorite apps – Your calendar, Flickr photos, evite and several other popular online apps are listed right alongside your Yahoo inbox. They’re just a click away.
Email tabs – When you open emails from you inbox, they become tabs at the top of your inbox. This makes it very easy to go back to emails you’ve recently opened. Just click on the appropriate tab.
Yahoo Mail Plus – You can use all the features listed above (any many more) with Yahoo’s free email account, but you can get even more by upgrading to Yahoo Mail Plus, which has a small annual fee.With the upgrade you can access your Yahoo email with POP email clients like Outlook and you can forward your Yahoo mail to another email address. You also will be ad free on your account, providing a much cleaner look. Disposable addresses is another great feature provided. It allows you to set up temporary email addresses to use when signing into sites that might be spam generators.

Yahoo has been providing great email services for many years now. This list of ten just scratches the surface of the options available to you with a Yahoo account.
Article re-published by eMarketing 21 with permission from Cheap Internet Deals.

Speed – Gmail loads quickly, and sends and receives at a good rate, a definite plus if rapid back-and-forth communications are necessary. In addition, threaded conversations are boiled down to a single line on the Inbox page, and a single click will take the user to the entire thread.
Capacity – Seven gigabytes of storage are available for free, which can help if a user needs to hold on to e-mails for a long time before deleting them.
Cost – This is a “free” service, though there are add-ons available for a price, and most people will only need the free components.
Spam – Some people like Spam, the tinned meat product, but nobody likes the spam a computer can cook-up, and gmail has effective filters to stop most spam.
Availability – Devised to work with all browsers and operating systems, gmail is a Post Office Protocol 3 (POP3), which means it is a completely online system, and can be accessed anywhere that has Internet service.

HTTPS – Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure, or HTTPS, is a security measure whereby the user is provided with encrypted and authenticated communications, particularly valuable if you need to access your account from a public location.
Chat – Instant chat is available, as well as voice and video chat features, and everything can be added to your iGoogle.
Search – Need to find a message? The search function on gmail enables users to track that message down instantly.
Have gmail Will Travel – Travelers will like the ability to access their e-mail anywhere from a phone, which allows for more complete communications than a service like Twitter.
Multi-task – Another nice feature of gmail is that the user cannot only have multiple accounts but can also manage them simultaneously on a single page. This is great for any household where members want their own account, and also works well when users may need to separate business mail from personal mail.

Just as Hotmail seemed to be a leader of the innovative pack a few years ago, today gmail is forging to the front with its performance and multiplicity of applications.

This article was published by eMarketing21 with permission from Internet Service Providers.

Email Marketing is a very effective method when it comes to low cost Internet Marketing. It is the most widely used method to stay in touch with your customers or prospective customers, send out invitations, or make special offers. Email marketing has the best reputation in bringing targeted traffic to websites.

An email may be in the form of a newsletter or a plain announcement, and it is easy to send it to as many targeted recipients as possible. Here are some simple tips for using email marketing the best way possible:

Join the Can Spam campaign. Email marketing is not about spamming. You are not supposed to send information that your email list will not have any valuable use for.

Get your email list to open your message. Your email might get lost within the hundreds of emails that people are receiving everyday. Improve your subject line by adding text symbols, starting each word with a capital letter, asking compelling questions, not making any unbelievable claims, and not using the word FREE.

Keep it real. Do not include any “too good to be true” statement in the subject line. Do not make a promise you can’t keep. Make your offer genuinely of value to your recipients.

Don’t discount too low. Minimal discounts are not that effective compared with substantial discounts. But never offer discounts that are lower than your profit. It will defeat the purpose of your email marketing campaign.

Make it eventful. Include seminars, conferences and other events in your email. Businesses that require training benefit from this method. In this case, repetition is important. Just make sure that an ample interval is considered before sending out a reminder email.

Post news. Sending newsletters and postcards provides useful information for your subscribers. These are the best forms of reaching out to your customers or prospects. You should keep the information short, simple and direct to the point in order to be effective.

Using these simple tips in your email marketing campaigns, your business will prosper in no time. If you need help with HTML email or Newsletter design, contact eMarketing21.

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In general, when you send marketing emails, you have to provide an ‘unsuscribe’ link that must work for at least 30 days after sending your email.

You must include your physical mailing address in the email (no PO Box). Remove recipients from your list within 10 business days.

Never use deceptive headers like ‘from…name’, reply…to, or deceptive subject lines.

Describe the subject of your email, but don’t write your subject line like advertisement.

Use email newsletters and opt-in lists for email marketing. Tell your newsletter subscribers during the opt-in process what kinds of emails they’ll be receiving. Don’t confuse newsletters with promotions. If your email is a newsletter, put the name and issue of the newsletter in your subject line. If your email is a special promotion, tell them what’s inside.

Double opt-in is fast replacing the single opt-in method, where someone submits a form and is added right away to the list. One could get signed up to a list without his/her permission or by error or maliciously. The old opt-out method is getting phased out due to all the spam complaints from people who never saw the opt-out check. Double opt-in ensures that every single recipient really wants to hear from you. Here are the 3 steps of the double opt-in process:
1. A customer signs up for your email newsletter through a form at your website.
2. He/she receives an email with a confirmation link.
3. If the customer clicks the link, he/she is added to your list, and you store the IP address, date, and time of registration as a proof of opt-in if you need it in the future.

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