SPAM-Free Email

Spam Protection Systems

  • MailWasher Pro is an outstanding package with a low one-time cost. It processes your mail before it reaches your inbox, and protects you from SPAM and WORM attacks as well. I use it, I recommend it.

  • Spam Arrest is a web-based system that completely eliminates all SPAM from phoney email addresses. Try the 30-Day Free Trial and see for yourself.

    Bulk Mailing Systems

  • Blast4Traffic claims that its clients can email 70 million targeted opt-in prospects on a monthly basis, using their server-side one click mailer. I haven't tried this system yet, and would appreciate hearing from anyone who has.

    They offer a 30-day money-back guarantee.

  • EzineBroadcast claims that it will send your ad to 188,000 ezine subscribers daily, spam-free, and to 800,000 PayPal users, all for a one-time fee of $29.95. After using the system for 30 days, with unique ad tracking URLs, I think I can confidently say that both claims are absolute rubbish. Don't waste your money.

  • Web Traffic Marketing claims that you can email 81 million targeted prospects every month - 2.7 million a day. I thought that claim was absolute rubbish, and decided to find out for myself. Experience with a long string of $29.95 "blasters" (they're always $29.95, for some reason) has shown that none of them have produced useful results.

    • I purchased access to Web Traffic Marketing's safelist on October 19th. To test it, I posted an advertisement four times, using a unique tracking URL. I posted the same ad through my iPostAd account, but used a different tracking URL. In all mailings, the Subject of the ads was identical - the only difference was the tracking URL.

    The Web Traffic Marketing ads generated no clickthroughs (CTs) at all, while the iPostAd mailings generated 14 during the same period. During that time, I did receive email from the WTM safelist, showing that there were indeed subscribers. The results, however, suggest that rather than the 2.7 million subscribers claimed by the website, the more likely number is a few hundred at best.

    The site offers a 100% money back guarantee within the first 14 days if you aren't completely satisfied with the system, and I requested my refund on the 24th.

    Visit Web Traffic Marketing and study the page. There are clues all over the site which identify it as rubbish, not the least of which is the outrageous claim that you can "Increase sales by 1500%!" When you see numbers like that bandied about, you know you're reading unadulterated claptrap.

    Another tipoff is the dog and pony show employed with respect to the number of "targeted prospects" you can email. The site makes this claim: "Email 81 Million Targeted Prospects Every Month, 2.7 Million Targeted Prospects a Day (100% Opt-in)." If, in fact, the site actually DID have 2.7 million subscribers, then that would be the number of "targeted prospects" you could email in a month, and the fact that you could do so every day does not 81 million make. That's intentionally misleading advertising no matter how you slice it. The reality is that WTM runs an old safelist script serving a handful of subscribers, all of whom actually think their ads are reaching 2.7 million mailboxes a day, and you can get better results by joining Herculist for absolutely nothing.

    Whether or not your advertising works, of course, depends entirely upon your skill as a copywriter, but even good ads will produce poor results using poor systems, simply because very few people will ever see them. Don't waste your money on systems that offer hype instead of results.

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