Show Notes From Today's ABC Radio Show
Show Notes From Today's ABC Radio ShowHello. Today on the ABC show we talked about emails, email programs and how to send SMS messages from email.
Firstly, there are about 60 billion emails sent per day worldwide (hate to be the guy counting each one!).
60% of people use Outlook as their email client (what sends and receives their email).
Yahoo! Mail and Hotmail are what we call anonymous email providers. Anybody can sign up without identifying themselves.
Add to the fact they are free, and its really easy to make a new one.If you're a spammer, or you're trying to send a virus, or doing anything dodgy where you would rather not be traced - hotmail and yahoo are excellent options.
It's for these reasons that some systems don't accept their emails - sure, they'll miss out on some legitimate emails. But they suddenly cut a large amount of spam etc out!
Google Free Email Service
Gmail is the Google email client. gmail started with 1 Gig of space to store emails (that's 1,000 MB), but they're giving us all the space they can. If you visit www.gmail.com there is a little counter saying how much space is available - and its going up all the time.
At the moment the amount of space is at 2.5 Gigabytes.
Hackers/Virus Writers Do tend To Target Outlook
Outlook Express actually features the preview pane - what this means, is that the email is opened before you tell it to open.
In some set-ups, the email is opened as soon as its recieved, without any input from you, the user. So, if there is a virus attached to an email - the preview pane can actually run it.
Advice often given to people on the net is "Delete any suspicious emails". With the preview pane, in some situations that's not a choice - the email is already opened once its been previewed.
Always use anti-virus software to keep your emails safe.
Send SMS Messages From Email
This is as easy as pie (and something I'd recommend very strongly for businesses to use). Keep in touch very simply and easily with your current customers via sending an SMS via email. The cost is pretty good - about 18c per message (which is cheaper than the average I get charged when sending an SMS via the mobile).
There are numerous providers around. We use Distribute IT who we have found to be excellent.
Do a search. Find one you are happy with a give it a go!
As always, if you have any questions from today's show don't hesitate to give me a call on 07 5598 4898 or via email to brendon@tailored.com.au.
Regards
Brendon
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