Marketing Tidbit: SPAM Prevention
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Robert Starkey closeAuthor: Robert Starkey
Name: Robert Starkey
Email: robert@outsidethebox.biz
Site: http://www.OutsideTheBox.biz
About:
Robert Starkey started his career in 1998. Serving his clients under his company named Beat To Beat Entertainment, he decided that his love for Weddings was his calling so he renamed his company Robert Starkey’s Wedding Entertainment - believing so strongly in his company as to include his own name.
In 2003 Robert started Outside The Box DJ Tools, a service which offers enhanced planning forms which plug directly into the web-based software DJ Intelligence. His offer has since grown to include products and services such as Audible Memories, Dollar Dance Plus, and Weekly Wedding/Mitzvah Tips. Towards the 4th quarter of 2005, Robert was
invited to work directly for Intelligence, Inc. – the authors of the award winning software, DJ Intelligence and Event Intelligence.
Other advances in the DJ Industry include being a founding board member for the San Diego Chapter of the American Disc Jockey Association where he served faithfully as Chapter Secretary until relocating with his family to Lake Havasu City, Ariz. Where he now resides and serves. Robert also mentors other DJs worldwide, and even
operates as group called ‘Outside The Box Inner Circle’ which consists of approximately 35 members on average and focuses as a support group for like-minded operators.
Robert became regular contributor to Mobile Beat Magazine and heads the ‘Marketing Tidbits’ column in the online edition. Robert has been invited to speaker at association chapters, and even a featured expert for Jay Conrad Levinson’s “Guerrilla Marketing Association” in 2008.
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With email serving as a large method for communicating with your customers, preventing SPAM from arriving becomes an overgrowing challenge. The following Marketing Tidbits can help you alleviate the problem:
1) Remove any direct links to your email address from your website. 98% of the time, this method of making your email address available usually revolves around the ever so popular MAILTO: tag which is largely recognized by the spam bots searching websites on a daily basis.
2) Use of a contact form with CAPTCHA. A large percentage of contact forms on websites these days, process the information submitted behind the scenes, ensuring that your email address is never exposed. An example would be the Contact and Message Form as available through DJ Intelligence. CAPTCHA is the method of asking the submitter to verify they are a human by copying the letters and numbers randomly displayed on screen.
3) Use of Image to display Email Address. If you feel that you MUST have your email address visible, typing it out on a graphic file such as 
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Written by Robert Starkey closeAuthor: Robert Starkey
Name: Robert Starkey
Email: robert@outsidethebox.biz
Site: http://www.OutsideTheBox.biz
About:
Robert Starkey started his career in 1998. Serving his clients under his company named Beat To Beat Entertainment, he decided that his love for Weddings was his calling so he renamed his company Robert Starkey’s Wedding Entertainment - believing so strongly in his company as to include his own name.
In 2003 Robert started Outside The Box DJ Tools, a service which offers enhanced planning forms which plug directly into the web-based software DJ Intelligence. His offer has since grown to include products and services such as Audible Memories, Dollar Dance Plus, and Weekly Wedding/Mitzvah Tips. Towards the 4th quarter of 2005, Robert was
invited to work directly for Intelligence, Inc. – the authors of the award winning software, DJ Intelligence and Event Intelligence.
Other advances in the DJ Industry include being a founding board member for the San Diego Chapter of the American Disc Jockey Association where he served faithfully as Chapter Secretary until relocating with his family to Lake Havasu City, Ariz. Where he now resides and serves. Robert also mentors other DJs worldwide, and even
operates as group called ‘Outside The Box Inner Circle’ which consists of approximately 35 members on average and focuses as a support group for like-minded operators.
Robert became regular contributor to Mobile Beat Magazine and heads the ‘Marketing Tidbits’ column in the online edition. Robert has been invited to speaker at association chapters, and even a featured expert for Jay Conrad Levinson’s “Guerrilla Marketing Association” in 2008.
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