Spam has been responsible for delivery rates down to 40%, open rates are 15% and reponses down.
How can this model survive?
We still do not have adopted an effective replacement.
It's a push model that some see as becoming very intrusive.
In fact it may have been abused and overused.
Does your list still love you?

Returning after exactly two years to the Warrior Forum, I see, I have a Blog here too! Just a month ago I opened about three Blogs with similar questions about my blog-addiction Blog Addiction - Mind your Business while really - I should be building my own website, as I just am telling on that site to newbies, in German, and on a blog, of course.

My next subject there will be the question: Is a blog better than a homepage?
After learning CSS, and not being able to tell dreamweaver...

Rejection is like the gas in your car, you'll get nowhere without it. Freelancers are generally overdosed in rejection. So much so, many become so discouraged they give up all together.

In many ways, those that give up are supposed to give up. I'm not hinting at some type of business Darwinism, but those who continue to press do so for a reason.

When I first started freelancing rejection used to ruin my day and my sleep at night. I absolutely hated seeing my bids declined...

So I'm having a rather intense conversation at dinner with a journalist. She was detailing the tenets of classical journalism and how important it is to the fabric of America. The conversation then took an interesting turn.

We spoke about how journalists and the companies they work for have to mix the news with tabloid marketing. I maintain true journalists report facts, while marketers create facts...this is when she almost choked on her pepper steak.

If you peel back...

Have you ever wondered what is the real reason some people are so much more successful than others? Let's first eliminate the trust fund babies, the temporarily rich lottery winners and inherited wealth. You are still left with thousands if not millions of people on the planet who through their hard thinking have created financial security for their families. So what's wrong with you?

Heady Stuff
For one, intelligence is so overrated as to be a marketing scheme. When I say intelligence,...