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Lame spam of the day: Fictitious Business Name Renewal Center

Robert Weiner

It's novel to get the snail mail equivalent of spam. mail from the Fictitious Business Name Renewal Center in Sacramento, CA. And every 5 years I get an official-looking form from this organization telling me that "California Law Requires You To Renew Your Fictitious Business Name.". This one came via U.S.

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Lame spam of the day: Raw spam merge text

Robert Weiner

Some newbie spammer posted a message on my site that shows the contents of their spam merge database. I recognize so many snippets that have appeared in my spam folder over the years. { {I have|I’ve} been {surfing|browsing} online more than {three|3|2|4} hours today, yet I never found any interesting article like yours.

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Digital Privacy Compliance for Nonprofits: The Big 3 Laws

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Regulation #1: The CAN-SPAM Act The CAN-SPAM Act was passed into US law in 2003, and it protects consumers from receiving emails that they never agreed to receive. It’s primarily intended to prevent spam email ads from commercial entities, but nonprofits are not exempt.

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Lame scam of the day: Fictitious Business Name Renewal Center

Robert Weiner

It's novel to get the snail mail equivalent of spam. mail from the Fictitious Business Name Renewal Center in Sacramento, CA. And every 5 years I get an official-looking form from this organization telling me that "California Law Requires You To Renew Your Fictitious Business Name.". This one came via U.S.

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Do You Need to Register to Fundraise Online? A Crash Course

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In general, offline fundraising activities refer to phone calls, mailing solicitations, events, and other similar donation generating practices. Labyrinth’s guide to fundraising legal requirements discusses three cornerstone pieces of digital privacy legislation that nonprofits should be aware of: The CAN-SPAM Act.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Why you need social media marketing.

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Here’s today’s headline for you: NEARLY 95% OF EMAIL IS JUNK Nearly 95 percent of the e-mail sent in 2007 has been “spam,&# junk advertising loathed by its recipients, according to a report released Wednesday by a US Web security firm.

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Membership Retention Strategies for Your Nonprofit

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And roughly 45% of that volume is unsolicited spam messages. While the emails you send to your members aren’t spam, that doesn’t necessarily keep your messages out of the junk folder. Almost half of the consumers who marked an opt-in message as spam reported doing so because they were emailed too frequently by the organization.