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    Bulk Email Service

    He would still have the challenge of finding a SMTP server to send through with a decent reputation. Sending emails are really less about the programming/script, than it's about having access to good SMTP-servers with at least a decent reputation. Most web hosts don't provide this in a...
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    Bulk Email Service

    I'm a bit biased since i'm the cofounder of such an e-mail service (called ubivox). However I shall try to be as objective as possible. :-) Depending on the mail server your magento system is relaying it's e-mail through the answer is both yes and no. If you're not sharing your outgoing...
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    Which one is the best?

    For the ease of use and quick starting i would recommend Wordpress with Woocommerce any day. Wordpress is field tested quite a lot as a general purpose CMS or website publishing platform, has a huge community and easy to get programmers to help with. Woocommerce is an open source and free...
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    Wordpress - Contact Form Spam

    One trick we used in the old days was to include an empty hidden field in the contact form. Then if the hidden field included some content it was probably spam and we discarded that entry. Most spambots tries to fill out every form field and they cannot know that the specific hidden field...
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    business name ideas

    Being an internet company we decided early on to get a name which would never "brand" us something specific. It shouldn't say anything about what we do and that was for one specific reason.... we prefered not to be limited to doing a specific business if it turned out our idea wasn't good...
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    free images?

    Stock.XCHNG, has loads of free images. Most can be used commercially, with few limits Due to me being new on the forum i can post the url directly but it is: www dot sxc dot hu You can also find it by searching google for "free stock photos". It's usually one of the first results. If you...
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    Hang on in there

    "When the world says, ‘Give up,’ Hope whispers, ‘Try it one more time.’" :-)
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    Strange Question - What are you business challenges

    Mainly time as StaceyPreedy states. With a kid in the house you suddenly need to change your focus in a completely different direction than business and be able to switch between the two modes (business and family). There probably isn't any technological solution for this unfortunately, is...
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    Hi there from Denmark

    Hi there UKBF, I'm a danish head of product of Ubivox.com, a newsletter turnkey solution (basically we try to make it easy and simple to design, write, send & evaluate effective business newsletters). You know.. like campaign monitor, mailchimp, aweber etc, just based in Denmark (servers are...