Find out if/when your email has been read by the recipient!
Now this is very interesting,
I've had an interview lately and sent a "Thank You" note after it. Got no reply, and of course, its a weekend and I shouldnt expect it.
However, I stumbled upon few free programmes, some of which could do wonders for you...
They allow users of an almost every major email program in use today -
Outlook, Gmail, Outlook Express, Netscape Mail, Eudora, Thunderbird, Pegasus,
even Hotmail and Yahoo - to create email that gives the sender an
enormous amount of information about the recipient, as they describe
on their site:* Tracking: find out when email you send gets read, where the
reader is located, how long they read it for, if they printed it out,
whether they forwarded it to someone else, and much more.
* Certify your email: get proof-of-sending and proof-of-
opening digitally signed and time-stamped court-admissible receipts.
* Self Destructing Email which blocks printing, copy, save,
forward, print-screen, can be retracted after sending and deletes
itself after being read.
* Ensured Receipts guarantee you get a receipt when your email
gets opened, and lets you retract your emails after sending.
* Detailed Notifications arrive via email and optionally by
SMS, Pager, ICQ, IRC, MSN/AOL/AIM/Yahoo Messenger and on your own
"Personal Tracking Page" on our web site.By the way, that "much more" in the first bullet point is in fact much
more. You get maps of the reader's location, her IP address, her email
address, referrer details - and everything is also available for
anyone who reads the forwarded email as well. Yikes!Now, you may be thinking, "why not just block this email's Web bugs
like we do all the others?" Well, that would be great, if ReadNotify
just used Web bugs. Unfortunately, these clever, clever people use
another technology in addition to Web bugs: IFRAMEs. If you're a Web
developer and you need a brush-up on the IFRAME element, HTMLHelp has
a nice piece; if you're not a Web developer, don't worry about it.
Just understand that it's far more complicated - and far more
effective - than simple transparent GIF images.
Some of the programs mentioned are:
readnotify
spypig
and other (google em up yourself)
Anyone used any of those? Any thoughts on their effectiveness..
Does anyone know if such thing is even legal (not that I care)?
Could the banks/firms find out about their use?
I see this a an ultimate tool for cold emailing, contacting people etc...
were you expecting a thank you for your thank you note?
anyway, comments: 1) yes, this works if they're allowing html elements and connections to external sites; if not, this will not work 2) yes, they obviously can find out; all you'd have to do is look @ the plaintext content of the e-mail. would they do this? probably not on their own initiative, but some clients ask for permission to connect to external sites, and this would show up on your e-mail if configured in such a way 3) i don't see how knowing if your e-mail was received can help you much; what you want is the response; seeing that they've read and not responded is much the same as their neither reading nor responding to you; the only benefit might be that you can choose not to re-email them again if you don't get a response, for courtesy reasons; though at the point where you're cold-calling multiple times after non-response the courtesy issue is kind of moot anyway, and spying on them isn't very courteous 4) legality: this is legal, but IANYL
well, I personally can see lots of benefits, also, there are curiosity and "why not" factors extra information is always a plus for me, and I see this type of programs as an advantage
to answer your question, I've always received some kind of response on the "Thank You" emails
Seems like a waste of time. Just send the stupid thank you email and forget about it. You knowing whether they read it, printed it, or just deleted it does not really matter.
dude, the text is not about my Thank You letter, its about that program
also, the email was sent already
read what i wrote or gtfo db
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