Stop the Spam - A Great Way to Keep Your Inbox Clean

We all hate spam, but it's a fact of doing business online. Below you will find a great way to stop the spam, and keep an eye out for the types of companies that sell your email address to spammers.

The key is to keep a separate email address for every source to which you subscribe. I know this sounds impossible, but I do it myself, and it's very simple.

First, you want to own your own domain. You can buy a domain from any registrar such as Network Solutions or whoever. Usually, you would make the domain your-business.com or your-name.com or something like that. Be sure it's something you wont' mind typing a hundred times and won't come back to embarrass you later when you're giving the cashier at Borders your account email address.

Next, get an email service that will support catch-all. I recommend Google Apps. It's free, and if you're tech savvy, it's easy. If you're not tech savvy, there are tutorials online to get you started -- or you can buy one from an email provider such as Network Solutions.

Set up your email so that whenever someone emails anything @your-new-domain, you'll get that email. Let's say you purchased the domain duanesdomain.com and you have a great name like Duane. You would set up your email so that you would get emails to duane @duanesdomain.com, but you would also get emails such as ezinearticles @duanesdomain.com and borders @duanesdomain.com

Now, when you sign up for something, just use the company's domain as your email. For borders.com, you would use borders @duanesdomain.com, and for EzineArticles.com, you would use ezinearticles @duanesdomain.com. Simple, right?

Now, if I start getting emails to buy Viagra to my borders @duanesdomain.com email address, I just block all emails addressed to borders @duanesdomain.com, and no more spam.

I use this trick now, and it's saved me from spam countless times. Now only will you be protected from companies that sell your email, but you'll be protected from companies that get hacked and lose your email address. You'll also know the company that sold your email, and you can factor that into your mind when considering to do business with that company again.

Duane Hutchins works closely with the movements of some network marketing companies and is now promoting Blastoff Network as a great source of online residual income.