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It seems that every week I receive at least a couple of frantic emails asking me if there’s any way to retrieve the files from a computer’s hard drive after the machine has gone belly-up.
Luckily, many times the answer is YES!
I have covered each of the following methods before, but I thought it might be helpful if I simply list them all in a single post. [Read more…]
I’ve been using a service called Constant Contact to write and deliver my daily Tech Tips Newsletter emails for about two years now, and for the most part it has worked out fine.
But recently I’ve been receiving reports from subscribers that they’ve stopped receiving my emails.
I did some investigating and found out that this seems to be a new, but quickly growing problem with emails sent via Constant Contact.
Question from Brian: I started writing a blog offering wood-working tips a while back, and I really enjoy it.
I also recently started using Constant Contact to send out an email newsletter for the blog.
My goal is to eventually start earning a living from the blog and newsletter combo.
Overall I’m pretty happy with Constant Contact but I have a question about something in the reports.
Question from Miranda: I absolutely love your emails, Rick.
Thanks so much for sending them!
I learn something from them almost every day and they’ve answered several questions that had been nagging me for a really long time.
The problem I’m having is finding your emails in the sea of other emails in my Inbox.
Because of my work I receive dozens of important emails every day and your one daily email always seems to get “lost” in the stack.
It’s there, but really hard to find when I need to refer to something you had written about before.
What I need is an easy way to “file” your emails in one place so I won’t have to go scrolling through a list of thousands of other unrelated emails to find the one I’m looking for.
What do you recommend? [Read more…]
If you’ve recently started writing a blog you’ll soon begin to see spammers leaving comments on your blog posts.
Sadly, dealing with spammers is just a fact of life for those of us in the blogging world.
SPAM comments are usually very easy to recognize because they typically have nothing whatsoever to do with the actual content of the post and they typically contain links to sites selling everything from designer sunglasses to, well…”adult” products.
If you allow SPAMMY comments to be left on your blog they’ll quickly have a negative effect on your traffic numbers.
Even worse, the visitors who do manage to find their way onto your blog will likely leave rather quickly, never to return.
Luckily, there are some things you can do to virtually block all SPAM comments from your blog: [Read more…]