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Last edited: 20/03/2004 12:18 AM

Coolest idea of the year - email tracking!
I recently found out that by adding a .mailtracking.com at the end of your email recipient's email address, you can actually track your email. You can track if its read, when, for how long, from which part of the world,the IP address and a lot of other stuff. You can even monitor if the email has been printed or forwarded to anyone else. So for example if I want to send to abc@hotmail.com, I would just send to abc@hotmail.com.mailtracking.com and thats it ! A really cool feature is that you can send a self destructing mail where it will display on the recipient's screen for 60 seconds and then .... its gone !!

I know of someone who used it on a few of his clients to see if they were forwarding the quotes to anyone. Interestingly he had a prospect who actually turned out to be a competitor. And as you know how accounts departments always claim they did not get that mail chasing them for payment? Well now they don't have much excuse because via the site, I can tell when, how many times, for how long they read the mail.

Check them out. It may be worth your while. They have some sort of free trial. They can be found at http://www.mailtracking.com/default.asp/from/go

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