WEBNERD » email hosting — WEBNERD http://www.webnerd.com.au Online Business for your Small Business Thu, 03 Jun 2010 03:10:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Wasting time sorting through spam? http://www.webnerd.com.au/2008/09/wasting-time-sorting-through-spam/ http://www.webnerd.com.au/2008/09/wasting-time-sorting-through-spam/#comments Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:26:55 +0000 James Quinn-Hawtin http://www.webnerd.com.au/blog/?p=28 SpamHow much time are you and your staff wasting on spam every month? What is that costing you? If you’re like me you receive over 100 emails per day – and well over half will be junk from people you’ve never before met trying to sell you something pretty dodgy. It’s frustrating, isn’t it? “Nearly 80 percent of e-mails sent worldwide are spam, and research has shown that junk communications can cost billions – and not just because companies have to buy extra computer capacity to cope with the influx of e-mails. The time employees spend deleting junk e-mail costs companies nearly $22 billion a year…” [Source] According to a survey commissioned by McAfee, 49% of Americans spend more than 40 minutes per week deleting spam. 14% report that they spend as much as 3.5 hours per week. [Source] I was recently contacted by the daughter of a gentleman on this mailing list because, probably like you, she’d had enough of spam.  Of well over 100 emails per day, the vast majority would be the aforementioned… annoyance. She wanted a solution whereby the spam would be wiped out before it even reached her computer.  That way there was no need for her to use any spam filtering software on her computer. We moved her website and email accounts to Webnerd and enabled our complimentary spam-filtering service for her.  Apart from some slight changes to her staff’s email settings, the move was uneventful and seamless.  The website experienced no downtime at all. Yesterday, a total of around 140 emails arrived at our mail server for Andra’s email account.  Our spam filter identified 95 (70%) as being spam and deleted them.  She was left with a much more managable 45 emails for the day. You are far too busy doing business to be worrying about spam.  But I also appreciate that you’re too busy to be thinking about moving your website and email accounts to a new provider – even if it is Webnerd. To make it worth your while I will move your website and email accounts to our server for free.  We’ll do all the work.  Then we will: filter all the spam that we can detect; check your incoming email for viruses; do all the work and shoulder the worry to ensure that your website is online at least 99.9% of the time; and we can even set up clever stuff like automatically copying your incoming email to your Blackberry. Our new hosting plans start at only $27/month (inc GST). Outsource your website and email hosting worries to us. Email or call now for a no obligation consultation so that we can tailor a solution to you. Testimonial from Andra:
“Spam was driving me crazy.  My previous web host was unable to offer any explanation or solution to the copious amounts of spam I was receiving.  Meanwhile, my busy consulting business was suffering as it was taking anywhere up to half an hour at times to download hundreds of spam email every day.  Not to mention, I was sick of how obscene most of the spam was.  I contacted James at WebNerd and he was able to offer an analysis of how much spam I was receiving and an immediate solution, whereby spam was stopped at the server, rather than being downloaded into my Outlook inbox.  It was simple and straightforward and has been an enormous relief.” — Andra Bite, Andra Bite Consulting
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