Tuesday, 21 October 2008

Trials and Tribulations of a New Internet Business

Much Loved People is a social networking website for people to send online communications to their family, friends and colleagues. Its a simple idea - I believe they are best - but who would have thought we could encounter so many problems.

Our biggest problem is the ISP's deciding they dont know us and therefore they will treat us as SPAM. Aaaaaggghhhh.

We are all about getting our emails delivered - in fact we dont have a business unless we combat this - I have spent weeks on the problem and have now subscribed to a company that allegedly authenticates outbound email and for this priviledge so far I have parted with $700 and will continue to part with $200 a month. the result of this investment? A decrease in getting my email into the in boxes of Yahoo!!!

Its a nightmare. We have followed all the email protocols we can find, invested this money and yet our emails do not arrive with AOL at all and have now been thrown into the Junk box of Yahoo. However, we are now being delivered to the Hotmail in boxes - so thats a result.

We will be properly live at the end of November - in time for Christmas - and now I need to look at SEO and establishing links with like minded websites. The work is never ending but its fun to learn new things. If anyone has any info they would like to share - please do! www.muchlovedpeople.com our contact info is there.

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