Saturday, March 27, 2010

Catching a Flight From Chandigarh Airport


It is always good to do your homework before you take a flight from Chandigarh Airport. Fortunately you can now review the schedules of the flights online before you decide which one works out best for you. After you have chosen the flight that is matching with your schedule, the next step is to find out the prices for the airline tickets. The best place to start doing your research is to explore the websites that offer tickets online, like Travelocity. You can also visit the airlines' websites too.
Within about fifteen minutes of doing your research, you should have a good idea about the prices. The next step is to either purchase your ticket directly from a website or from a local travel agent. I don't really think that you will find a big difference in the prices. Purchasing a ticket from a local travel agent can be time-consuming. You will also have to pick up the ticket from their office.
If you want to save your time and energy, it is best to purchase your ticket online, print it off and make sure you show up about an hour earlier at the airport to catch your flight. If you are being driven to the airport, you don't really have to enter the parking area. Just get the driver to drop you off just before the parking entrance. That way you can save the parking charges. It is a reasonable long walk to get inside the airport, so make sure that you are prepared. Putting your luggage in a trolley would be a good idea in case it is heavy.
Here is a more definite step-by-step process that you can follow:
1. Review the schedules of flights operating at Chandigarh Airport.
2. Make a list of the airlines that best suit your schedule.
3. Visit Travelocity.co.in or Yatra.com and compare the prices offered by the airlines on your list.
4. Select the one that offers the best price.
5. Call a couple of local travel agents to find out what price they offer for the same flight. If you don't have their phone numbers, you can call Just Dial at 0172-6999-999 and they will send you a list of the local travel agents and their contact numbers via SMS or Email.
6. Decide whether you want to purchase your ticket online or through the local travel agent. If you don't have a credit card, then you won't be able to purchase a ticket online.
Good luck with your trip!

Monday, March 15, 2010

Why Your Business Should Have A Toll-Free Number

Why should your business have a toll free number, when they already have a regular phone number. Here are some reasons:

1. When customers call a toll free number, they don't have to pay. This means, to the consumer, that you are trying to save them money.

2. Having a toll free number builds your company's reputation. This shows that you are serious about your business because you have gone the extra mile and want to extend your service to the whole country or at least the people who live around your city in the long distance calling areas.

3. Moving is much easier when you have a toll free number. You may have to get a new local phone number if you move, but you don't lose your toll free number.


Big or small, there is no reason for any business not to have a toll free number. There are many advantages to having a toll free number, especially as a business owner. It not only increases customer relations, but your bottom line too.

Friday, July 17, 2009

Review Autoresponders

Understanding UBE/UCE

• Stands for Unsolicited Bulk Email/Unsolicited Commercial Email. In other words defines what spam means. This is the general definition for spam that is accepted and used by companies like Spamhaus.

• Sending Bulk email by itself is not considered as spam. This means that it may be possible for somebody to send a hundred thousand emails to email addresses and there may not be a problem.

• However, the problem will start when these emails are unsolicited i.e. people who are getting them didn't ask for them.

• The action will cause a reaction i.e. people who hate spam will start hitting "This is spam" or equivalent button in their email/webmail accounts.

• The ISPs/ESPs will soon find out and if they get more than one such instances, then they will try to get the IP address/addresses that are sending those emails blacklisted.

• Also the contents will be noted by the spam filters and possibly the URLs in the email may also get blacklisted.

• The next time if the same sender tries to send emails to same recipients or even new recipients, the chances are that they will be bounced back/end up in spam folders/deleted without any warnings.

Re-iterating the Consequences of Using a Purchased List:

• A purchased list contains a list of email addresses whose owners have not provided explicit permission to the buyer of the list to send them any emails.

• In order for you to prove that these email addresses were acquired legitimately, legally, you will need to provide information like,
o The date/time they signed up
o The IP address they used to sign up etc.

• Sending emails to such subscribers will most likely result in getting the sender’s IP addresses and the URLs used in the contents blacklisted.

• The result of which will be – the least possible – your email will go straight into the spam folder of the addressee. The worst possible – any emails sent with your URL will bounce back.

• It can take a while to get your IPs used/URLs white-listed and even that is not guaranteed.

• Countries having stringent anti-spam laws like U.S., Canada etc. can get you in trouble if you are not able to prove that the email addresses on your list provided a direct permission to your company to receive emails from you.

• In summary, sending emails to people who never gave you permission to receive emails is not a good idea. It is much better to advertise and build your own list. This way you start from building a sold database of your prospects who may eventually convert.

P.S: If it still didn't make any sense to you, simply follow this advice:

DON'T SEND ANY EMAIL TO SUBSCRIBERS ON A PURCHASED LIST. DOING SO WILL JEOPARDIZE YOUR ONLINE BUSINESS


A List of Remotely Hosted Autoresponders Companies:


& Approx Price for 200k Subscribers

1. www.getresponse.com

$208 a month for 200k;
$18/mo for 10k
$5 for each 5k afterwards

This company offers the best value for your money and also has a good reputation in the industry.

2. www.aweber.com
Roughly $1000 based on the table below:

Subscriber Monthly
0 - 500 $19
501 - 2,500 $29
2,501 - 5,000 $49
5,001 - 10,000 $69
10,001 - 25,000 $149
25,000 + Contact Us

3. www.constantcontact.com

Same as above

4. www.verticalresponse.com
Same as above

5. www.mailchimp.com
$240/month for 50k subscribers

6. www.Icontact.com
Not given. Contact them

7. www.Jvlistpro.com
$20/month for 10k, $400/month for 200k

8. www.emailbrain.com

$420/month for 200k
9. http://www.omnistarmailer.com/
n/a

10. www.Inwise.com (Contact them)

11. 1shoppingcart.com (Contact them)

12. 1automationwiz.com
$174/month for 200k

13. Firebirdpro.com
$25 for 2k

Monday, March 23, 2009

Paypal's Security is Vulnerable!

Do you think Paypal is secure? Some of you will bet on how secure their website is and it's almost impossible for anyone to hack into your account. Not...

 

There really isn't a need to "hack" into a paypal account. They have made it quite easy for anyone to sign into anyone's account. All you need to know is somebody's email address and their phone number. Now tell me how easy that is! And just in case you don't know if you have the right number, no need to worry. Paypal will actually help you figure out the right number. Don't believe me? Just pretend you forgot your password and then go to paypal's website and after putting in your email address, click on "forgot my password" link... Paypal gives you an option to select "phone number" and after you click on that, it displays the list of your phone numbers with only the last 2 digits displayed. Choose one of them (just in case you were wondering if you should enter the home or the business number), and then enter the full number and that's it! You can now change the password and access the account.

 

So don't wait any longer. Cancel your paypal account immediately - before somebody plays around with your account. By the way, did you ever read Paypal's terms and conditions. If you didn't, please do that. I lost thousands of dollars a few years ago, because I didn't do that. Paypal has done everything possible to ensure that they don't get into any trouble.

 

Why has Paypal made it so easy for someone to hack into your account - you may ask? That's because they don't want to be bothered with people calling them or emailing them about any sign-on problems. This way, they can save even more money because then they have to hire less people to answer your calls or emails. So they have made it really easy for you to sign into your account and also for others. I'm sure they know what they are doing. And I'm also sure that they must have done everything to protect themselves in their "fine print".

 

The contents of the above article are true as of March 23, 2009 and I have tested the above method. So what are you waiting for? Go ahead and cancel your Paypal account. And by the way, make sure you tell them why. And don't be fooled into trusting them anymore. They may change their policies anytime.

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Why I thought CTWT or Changing the World Together was a SCAM!

Have you heard about www.changingtheworld2gether.com? They use something call attraction marketing and help you succeed in any MLM business. What they really do is this: They promise you that if you join their website, they will build a downline for you i.e. you won't have to go looking for people. The reason they are able to do it is because they all work together as a team and whenever a new member joins, regardless of who brings the new members, it is placed based on their pre-defined structure.
I used to think that MLM sucks in general and so is this program, because you purchase the product for $125 minimum per month and you only get about $5 from each person in your downline. They said that I would be able to make over $1000 per month as soon they decided to "officially launch". It all sounded like a scam when I was first introduced to the idea by somebody who sent me a junk email.
But then I thought, what if it really works out. It's much better to have someone work for you than do it all by yourself. And if you want to be rich fast, then MLM is the best way to do it, next to stock or currency trading. At least the risk is less

.They already have about 300 members. So I decided to join. Let's see where it's going to take me, but there are some quite talented team members that are working as volunteers to bring traffic to the website. They also have a "donation fund" to which people can donate and the money can go towards paying for a new person's expenses of joining the MLM they promote (which is Xango - the juice making company) or for advertising.
Neat idea - but is it really going to work? The best thing about it is that if Xango goes down, then the team can literally drop Xango and choose another company that does MLM (Multi Level Marketing) within 24 hours because they are using Xango as a vehicle. So the success of the actual MLM business doesn't even matter. The success is based on the team efforts. I wish I could come up with this kind of idea first than the guy who started all this - Rick Meywes or something like that - who is now sitting at the top of it all. More updates to follow later.

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

A Review of Forexautopilot.com

Let me show you something very interesting. There is a website - forexautopilot.com that sells a customized software that automatically trades forex and apparently makes  you tons of money automatically.

Many of you are going to say right away: "That's not possible", however there are many who still fall for the gimmick and buy this software. This software in fact is one of the top selling products in clickbank and this company probably has made hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Now here is the interesting part:

Go to this website: www.forexautopilot.com

Within a few seconds, you will see the face of a man at the bottom right, who will start a speech: "Hi, I'm Marcus and I make a great living letting my robots make money for me while I sleep..."

 

Now, go to this website:

https://www.livefaceonweb.com/order.aspx and then click on "Male models" and you will find a photo of a guy by the name of "Doug" in their list.

What do you think? Yes, it is the same person who was paid by the owner of forexautopilot.com to act as Marcus.

Do I need to tell you more?

Sunday, June 1, 2008

Interac in Canada - A direct attack on Paypal

This is a little off-subject, however I decided to post this topic here because it is quite interesting.

Interac has started a service in Canada whereby you can now send a payment to anyone by just sending an email to the recipient. This is easier than using paypal for making payments and also more convenient. The payment is considered as a cash payment and that means once made it can't be reversed. Here are some details:

Interac Email Money Transfers are a simple, convenient, and secure way to send and receive money directly from one bank account to another. All you need is access to online banking through a participating financial institution, and you can send money to anyone with an email address and a bank account in Canada — without sharing any personal or financial information. It's a great alternative to cheques and cash.

How your Interac Email Money Transfer is protected

With Interac Email Money Transfers, your money never actually travels by email. Email is only used to notify the recipient and to provide them with instructions on how to deposit money. Your financial institution and your recipient’s financial institution transfer funds using established and secure banking procedures.

Interac Email Money Transfers rely on several security measures

  • Encryption technology
  • Confidential user IDs and passwords issued by financial institutions
  • A secure login process
  • A security question and answer to ensure only the intended recipient receives the money
  • 128-bit browser encryption

Always be careful when sending money

An Interac Email Money Transfer transaction cannot be reversed, since it’s just like sending cash. If the recipient of the funds has already deposited the transfer, you must obtain a refund directly from the recipient.

The benefits of Interac Email Money Transfer

  • Send and receive money directly from and to your existing bank account
  • The money can be accessed immediately after the transfer is accepted
  • There's no need to share personal or financial information, allowing you to keep your address, phone number and account information private
  • The security question protects your transfer from being deposited by unintended recipients
  • No need to set up new accounts, user ID or passwords — you're already in online banking
  • Email carries the notification, so no need to get stamps or to find a mailbox

Tracking your transfer

As a sender - Interac Email Money Transfer confirmation numbers are saved in your online banking history. In addition, you will receive an email notification once the intended recipient has accepted the transfer.

As a recipient - You will receive an email notification when the transfer is sent, indicating the amount as well as instructions for depositing it.

Visit our Interac Email Money Transfer Frequently Asked Questions