{"id":9727,"date":"2015-04-04T03:30:59","date_gmt":"2015-04-04T10:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=9727"},"modified":"2015-04-04T03:30:59","modified_gmt":"2015-04-04T10:30:59","slug":"how-to-protect-your-email-list-from-malicious-cyber-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/how-to-protect-your-email-list-from-malicious-cyber-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Protect Your Email List From Malicious Cyber Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Behold ye a cautionary tale:<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s an Internet marketer I know who once had a huge, thriving\u00a0email list. He made a decent income from that list (probably more\u00a0than 95% of other online marketers). And, all was well in his\u00a0business &#8212; with the birds chirping, the pigeons crowing, and the\u00a0sun smiling like a mo&#8217;fo&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Then, one day, his biggest nightmare happened:<\/p>\n<p>His auto-responder company shut him down!<\/p>\n<p>They didn&#8217;t even give a reason.<\/p>\n<p>It was simply there one day, and the next they dropped his account (which he&#8217;d had for several years, and hardly any spam complaints &#8212; he prided himself on running a &#8220;safe&#8221; business in every respect) like a bad habit.<\/p>\n<p>Worst part?<\/p>\n<p><strong>He never backed up his lists.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He knew he COULD (and SHOULD) back up his lists.<\/p>\n<p>It was just kind of a pain in the gluteus assimus manually logging\u00a0in and doing it. (I am the same way &#8212; it just is not one of those\u00a0things I was ever motivated to do &#8212; too tedious).<\/p>\n<p>Thus, his entire business was wiped out in a single day.<\/p>\n<p>All because of some nervous nellie he&#8217;d never meet.<\/p>\n<p>It was a huge wake up call for me.<\/p>\n<p>Enter Jack Born&#8217;s &#8220;AwProTools&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It lets you auto back up your Aweber list daily.<\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t have to &#8220;do&#8221; anything to back it up.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s done in the background.<\/p>\n<p>That way, if something goes wrong and you lose your account (which\u00a0can happen with ANY auto-responder service, and for any reason &#8212;\u00a0especially with today&#8217;s cyber attacks, etc, nobody is immune to\u00a0this) you can go to another service that will let you import your\u00a0list and everything is status quo.<\/p>\n<p>This is one of AwProTools&#8217; most basic functions.<\/p>\n<p>But, in some ways, its most important, too.<\/p>\n<p>Your list IS your business in direct marketing.<\/p>\n<p>Hellz&#8230; it&#8217;s your legacy.<\/p>\n<p>And Jack Born&#8217;s AwProTools lets you protect that legacy.<\/p>\n<p>(The &#8220;Born legacy&#8221;?)<\/p>\n<p>So treat it like gold.<\/p>\n<p>Because, frankly, it is.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to try AwProTools for 14-days free, and then, if you\u00a0decide to stick with it (and I can&#8217;t imagine why you wouldn&#8217;t if\u00a0you use Aweber), use the link below and get it for a unique\u00a0discount available only to my subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the link:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.EmailPlayers.com\/emailcandyland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>www.EmailPlayers.com\/emailcandyland<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This discount expires tomorrow\u00a0at midnight.<\/p>\n<p>Cheerio.<\/p>\n<p>Ben Settle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Behold ye a cautionary tale: There&#8217;s an Internet marketer I know who once had a huge, thriving\u00a0email list. 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