question about running a legitimate business on the web

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

We are formulating a business website, and we want to send emails to other companies as well as customers. Is there a trick or any advice at all as to how to avoid being booted into a spam folder. We don't intend to spam them and hope it catches on, we want to send out real emails.

Thanks!

 

[tharpdevenport]

Well, one thing you should know is that some e-mail providers limit the amount of bulk mail you can send out in a certain time period.

And there is no cathc-all trick to avoid hte spam filter. There may some tricks, but you should stick with a known e-mail provider, interlligable subjects lines that don't use spam words like "won", "viagra", "Uk lottery", "please contact immediately", and you can record data from people to seee which providers filter your e-mai las spam, then see if those providers offering safe word filtering, where certain e-mail providers or words can be makred as "Safe" and sent to the Inbox, then mention that on your site.


What is hte business, by the by?

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

Thanks for the advise

We developed an home kit for the detection of mold. It runs about 50 bucks for the standard kit. You set up films in each room to see where your mold problem is. We want to create a new site for targeting this product directly to pet owners, so we want to have links to vets, pet supply stores, all of that.

 

[tharpdevenport]

Not to rain on your parade, but unless that can be used mroe than once, there is a device you can use that kills the mold in the room. You plug it in and leave because it will make the air unbreathable (but not harm anything aside from that), then the mold and smells are gone.

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

can you show me?

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

Anyone have any additional advice on how to send emails from our company to other companies/ customers without being filtered.

Thanks!

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Generally, if you don't want to end up in a specific domain's spam filter, you need to email their admin directly (usually webmaster@domain.com) and request to be put on their whitelist.

Also investigate SPF and Sender ID. Domains that use those technologies to filter mail are less likely to filter you if you adhere to a spam-prevention standard like those.