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I've since launched another company called ReleMail, which certifies ethical, professional email practices for some of the best-known companies in the world. I know what it takes to run a company, I know what type of time demands are involved and I see how this works with employees and managers in my own company. Everybody's busy, everybody has a million things to do and everybody has a list that's longer than the number of hours in the day. By the time I was 30 years old, I had met my childhood goal of being a millionaire, but I was in terrible health.

Email privacy now a top concern for 19 out of 20 internet users Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Email sender certification is gaining importance The picture we're starting to see is the enormous value of obtaining independent certification of your email practices. Most companies are spending several dollars per visitor to bring them to their website and put them in front of an email newsletter signup offer. But then, because the company's email newsletter is not certified, the end user isn't sure that they can trust it. The user leaves the page without subscribing, and the money the company spent getting that person there is simply wasted.

Another statistic revealed in the Relemail study is that a full 91 percent of end users are more likely to give their business to an organization that follows ethical email practices and respects their privacy. Not only are you going to see fewer people leaving your site and avoiding subscribing, not only are you going to see an increase in the number of people who subscribe right on the spot, but you're also going to see more business from those people.

It means you need to take a serious look at getting your email practices certified by an email sender certification company (Relemail or otherwise). At Relemail, certification is a flat annual fee of $395 and it means Relemail will come in and audit your email newsletter. The service will monitor your newsletter for 15 compliance items, including how you handle subscribe requests, how you handle unsubscribe requests and the nature and content of your outbound emails. You will be issued certification if you meet all 15 points.

Once you have been certified, you can display the Relemail logo on your website right underneath your email subscription form, so that end users can click a link and independently verify that your email practices have been certified and meet the highest ethical standards that have ever been proposed for email marketing. Speaking of best practices, I'm obligated to mention that I am the founder of Relemail. I created it out of frustration in seeing the email community fail to come up with realistic anti-spam solutions even after years of negotiation and bickering among the top ISPs.

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What's needed is either a technical solution (the Puzzle Solution) or widespread certification of email practices. That's why I created Relemail, an email sender certification service that eliminates the possibility of spam before the emails are ever sent. It also keeps mailers honest through independent auditing of their behaviors, not just their privacy policies. Learn more at Relemail.com. Relemail can play an important role in restoring credibility to the medium of email. Can-Spam, in contrast, has really only legalized spamming.

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They generally don't believe companies' own privacy statements, but they do pay attention to independent certification of email practices." The survey was taken in conjunction with this week's launch of Relemail, the first email privacy monitoring service available to ecommerce directors, email marketing directors, small businesses and any online organization looking to build trust with customers and potential subscribers. The Relemail service monitors the actual email behaviors of clients, then issues public ratings (1-5 stars) that may be viewed by anyone.

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Rather than relying on anti-spam technologies like DomainKeys or SPF, Relemail uses a team of email investigators to secretly subscribe to clients' email newsletters and monitor resulting inbound emails for adherence to ethical email practices. The results of those investigations are publicly posted at Relemail.com, where internet users can check the current email privacy ratings for more than 800 prominent organizations.

Organizations that meet all fifteen requirements can display the Relemail seal on their website, reassuring website visitors that their email practices are being constantly monitored and rated. Relemail was created by email industry veteran Mike Adams, the inventor of the first permission-based email marketing software for the PC, and founder of Arial Software (www.ArialSoftware.com). The service was launched in response to strong customer demand for authentic, trusted certification for email senders.

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