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Spam Filter Triggers Update

A recent report on what the major spam filter’s flag as possible spam states that by a long shot any emails that have a higher ratio of images to text will be flagged as spam. Also in the report there are some interesting findings of other text or phases that can greatly penalized your email…

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Easy-to-Use Anti Spam Flow Chart

See link below – this is a fantastic flow chart for understanding the Anti SPAM Act. Click here Thank you to Rick Shera who is a Partner of Lowndes Jordan for allowing me to link to his awesome creation!

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NZ Anti SPAM Act – Do you know why we have it?

“Junk war rages on despite spam act” “NZ Anti-Spam Law Seen as Ineffective” and on and on…. One thing that still bugs me to this day is most people (who should know better) in  the email marketing/ISP sector believing that the NZ Anti-SPAM Act will somehow magically reduce the amount of SPAM Kiwi’s will receive….

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Printed Media and the Anti-SPAM Act

I almost fell off my chair with laughter after reading this press release on scoop today. Below is an extract of the press release. “New Zealand’s largest printing services company, PMP NZ Limited, predicts the introduction of the Unsolicited Electronic Messages Act will boost an already buoyant unaddressed media market, and provide great opportunities for…

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DIA received 155 complaints from the public

“The Government’s anti-spam team received 155 complaints from the public about spam e-mails during the first week that the Unsolicited Electronic Messages Act was in force.” That’s quite a good effort when you think that most consumers would not even be aware of the NZ Anti-SPAM Act. The real effort for the DIA is determining…

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“What information should I keep about consent and for how long? ” Below is the data our Mobilize Mail system captures for each subscriber. The subscriber data is kept in our system for as long as the client is with us. I recommend you keep the same amount of information as well – it might…

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This is NOT How you Get Consent!

Sending Opt-out Reconfirmation Emails No… No… No…!! You cannot send an email to your subscribers saying: If you do not wish to receive emails from “AMCE”, please reply and type UNSUBSCRIBE in the Subject Line. That is not getting consent!! That is called Opt-out and it is not permitted as stated in the Unsolicited Electronic…

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Prohibiting Spam and Promoting Good Business Practice

On Friday we attended the Department of Internal Affair’s (DIA) workshop on the Unsolicited Electronic Messages Act 2007(Act). Running for a little over an hour the workshop covered the basics of what Spam is and how you may know you have come into contact with it (emails like: Nigerian Scams, Russian Brides, Degrees etc). The…

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NZ Anti Spam Act: Sales People Will Hate It

I had an irate sales manager ring me up today wanting to confirm with me something she had heard on the sales grapevine. They had just won a great opportunity with a large organisation in New Zealand. A department within the organisation had signed up for a deal to be supplied with Product X from…

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NZ Anti-SPAM: When an Email is Not Commercial

Here is a very interesting question from a blog reader. “So do I need an unsubscribe facility in an email that I send an established customer who I have been doing business with for over days/months/years?” If I have interpreted the Act correctly my understanding is that YES they would need to add an unsubscribe…

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