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My crazy idea to p**s off spammers

The Next Web

The problem with spam is that it is so easy to send a lot of it, and you only need a few fools to buy your stuff to make a buck. For less than $10 you can spam 40 million email addresses. But the fact of the matter is that as we get smarter about filtering spam, spammers get better at reaching more of us, for less money.

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Data hoarding: Does the term apply to your donor data?

3rd Sector Labs

You keep mailing out newsletters and fundraising appeals. You keep adding new donors, new prospects and your mailing lists get larger. Have you done the math on returned mail? Have you been blocked for sending out spam because too many of your emails go to bad addresses? Donors lapse. Some move away. Others pass away.

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You're an Accidental Spammer: What Do You Do When You've Been Hacked? (Digital Dispatches from the desk of Gavin Clabaugh)

NTEN

Scenario: Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, bacon and spam. Perhaps it's something else, but regardless the cause, some ingenious script-kiddy has turned the tables and suddenly you're responsible for thousands upon thousands of spam messages. The names have been changed to protect the paranoid.

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10 Best Practices for Email Security

Tech Soup

Stop Spam & Phishing Emails. Spam is not only a nuisance; it can also pose security risks. For instance, by converting a Word file to PDF, any potentially harmful scripts can be removed. In addition to using backup tapes, check if your email security solution also provides mail backup functionality. Add Legal Footer.

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Nonprofit Email Basics: Master Effective Fundraising Communications

sgEngage

To make sure yours don’t get lumped in with the spam, here’s how to use your email communication to forge (or maintain) relationships with your constituents. Automate your thank-you sequences so that, if someone gives you two gifts in one month, they don’t receive the same generic script each time. Thank you’s. Peer to peer.

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Nonprofit Email Basics: Master Effective Fundraising Communications

sgEngage

To make sure yours don’t get lumped in with the spam, here’s how to use your email communication to forge (or maintain) relationships with your constituents. Automate your thank-you sequences so that, if someone gives you two gifts in one month, they don’t receive the same generic script each time. Thank you’s. Peer to peer.

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[VIDEO] The Early Bird Guide to Epic End of Year Fundraising

Bloomerang

They do the mailing. Maybe you send one email, and you don’t do any direct mail. Maybe you do like, you know, five emails and like four direct mail pieces. Just choose in the poll how many appeals mail and email you sent. You’re going to be scheduling your emails and your social and your mail drop.