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Enterprise Email Hosting featuring Zimbra
  • Outlook compatible
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Enterprise Email Hosting featuring Zimbra
"eApps offers all the features you need for the right price"

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  • IMAP, POP3 and SMTP
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Google Business Email

Google hosted email for businesses Start with a free 30-day trial.

Email Marketing Software

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Advanced Email Marketing

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Managing Small Business Email


The Utopian promise of the paperless office brought along an ironic result: instead of shuffling papers, we now shuffle email messages. Stemming the tide of electronic interruptions can be daunting, especially as wireless "all in one" products emerge that allow 24/7 access to the office.

The benefits of learning to manage email messages include:

  1. Increased productivity – the less "stuff" you have to shift around, the more time you have to concentrate on accomplishing key goals.
  2. More efficiency – the more organized your email system, the faster you can find necessary items.
  3. Stress reduction – never underestimate the relationship between stress management and productivity.
  4. Skill building – learning to efficiently and intelligently manage one facet of your work bleeds over to other areas, such as voice mail and paper filing.

Use a reliable service provider and streamline email accounts

No matter how great a system you develop, it's useless if frequent outages prevent email access. Find a reliable internet service provider (ISP) with consistent tech support and streamline email addresses and monitoring.
Try:  Consult ISP Rank, a directory that lets users find and compare ISPs. MailCOPA by InterVations offers software that locates and centralizes multiple email addresses into a single interface.

Choose the right software or interface for your business

Email can be managed in ways ranging form simple Web-based inboxes to bundled software featuring calendar, time tracking, and messaging capabilities. What you use depends a lot on the nature of your business and your email load.
Try:  Smaller enterprises will appreciate the free Web-based email at Yahoo! Mail (with business email upgrades), Google's Gmail, or Mozilla's Thunderbird. Microsoft offers web-based Office Outlook Live for an annual fee. Larger companies with multiple computers will benefit from bundled software like Microsoft Outlook via the Microsoft Office Small Business Edition or Qualcomm's Eudora.

Develop a system for managing and responding to messages

Get to know your software or Web-based interface and take advantage of its features. Use email filtering and folder systems to file messages by client or project. Make sure you back up email messages regularly in the likely event of a system crash.
Try:  Productivity blog 43folders offers systematic and action-oriented tips on managing email messages. Peruse the message boards at EmailDiscussions.com to see how others address common issues. Computer retailer CompUSA offers training courses, including one for Microsoft Outlook, and online training sites abound, like UniversalClass.com, which offers a course on Eudora software.

Decide if you need to archive email and, if so, develop a system

Recent court cases have made email archiving mandatory for some regulated industries.
Try:  Iron Mountain is one of the best-known companies to offer this service.

Google Business Email

Google hosted email for businesses Start with a free 30-day trial.

Email Marketing Software

9 of 10 Small Businesses Choose the Easiest Email Marketing Software.

E-mail Applications

Do More with Your Email Inbox. Try the New Hotmail® Today.

Advanced Email Marketing

Increase Email Marketing Efficiency Automated Email Marketing Guide.

Email Activity Study

How major retailers treat inactive subscribers

Directory Listings


Aditi Corporation

Developer of electronic customer service solutions including software and custom services. Talisma(tm) is an e-mail and web form management software. Services include consulting and outsourced support. Products and services are sold to multiple industr

http://www.aditi.com/

AGD Studio

Developer of Reply Express(tm), a platform-independent e-mail messaging software as well as a developer of custom software. The company is also a provider of web site hosting, development and graphic development services. Products and services are sold

http://www.agdstudio.com/

Alpha Works

Offers numerous email software packages, including Secure Mail and NotesBuddy. Sendmail is responsible for 70% of all e-mail delivered on the Internet.

http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/

AnyEMail

Software installed on a web server as a cgi program that can communicate with POP3 servers to retrieve email and communicate with SMTP servers to send email.

http://www.netbula.com/anyemail/