We’ve been delighted by the response so far to the changes and enhancements to our Partner Programme and are aware that a number of online referrals have already occurred via the Partner Directory.

From feedback we’ve received we are refining the Partner Listing to define those Partners that are able to sell individual Very Good Email Company services, and those that will only bundle along with other services.

We will be contacting all listed resellers over the next week, or so, to confirm how they wish to be listed.

We are currently putting together a couple of Partner Training dates for the second half of April – more details to follow shortly.

Don’t forget – MessageBunker, Gateway and Mailcore services are now only available through our Partners.

Following on from the success of our MessageBunker in-the-cloud email archiving service within our Partner network we can announce that from today – 12th February 2010 – this service is only available through accredited Partners.

This removes any potential conflict with direct sales and enables Partners to provide this innovative service alongside their existing email solutions.

Take a look here for a list of MessageBunker Partners.

If you’d like to become an accredited Partner please contact us at partner@verygoodemail.com and start generating new revenues today!

Iain

Just reading an interesting piece over on ISP Review entitled Marketers Complain Legitimate Email Blocked as SPAM by UK ISPs

It’s not the argument of what constitutes Spam – we’re all different – but I did find myself agreeing strongly with one of their conclusions: “we do encourage any ISP that deploys anti-spam filtering to give its customers some degree of control over which addresses it applies to; even if that is merely in the form of a basic “on” and “off” switch.”

We’d strongly agree with that sentiment – and being able to select the level of filtering (from ‘Low’ to ‘Extreme’) has always been a core feature of our filtering platform here at The Very Good Email Company, along with the ability to view and restore any removed mail from the customers’ Spam folder.

Iain

As stated by the Chancellor in his Pre-Budget Report  on 9th December, the standard rate of VAT will return to 17.5% on January 1st 2010. We are therefore updating our invoicing and payment platforms to reflect this.

If you currently pay for services from The Very Good Email Company, such as Faxtastic, or any of our other email services, through Worldpay you will receive an update directly from them advising you of the amount to be paid. You will need to do nothing and changes in charges we make will take effect from midnight on December 31st.

On a happier note we hope you have a wonderful Christmas and New Year!

Like many businesses we’re having a few problems getting into the office today and some staff are working remotely. If you call us and don’t get an answer – please drop us an email and we will respond as quickly and efficiently as possible: support@verygoodemail.com or sales@verygoodemail.com

It’s funny – sat here at home with snow falling and having pretty well full office functionality (apart from the good company and blistering wit of course) and all I can see and hear is people griping about the weather and the road system that happens to have ground to a halt.

According to some it’s all the government’s fault. How dare we not have the infrastructure in place to make sure everything runs normally. We’re supposed to be a first world economy and so many other countries get far worse weather and yet still carry on. Well – perhaps that’s the point – would the same people welcome increased taxes to pay for a lot of extra gritting hardware that gets used once or twice a year?

Surely the answer is better use of technology to enable those that work in office environments to work remotely when the need arises – and, of course, a quality email platform is key!

Now – I wonder where I can find one of those?

Iain