I noticed that you have had several articles about spam. Spam blogs, spam comments, and spam emails are so annoying! But, since the main purpose of my blog was to connect with other expatriates in Central America, I wanted to make it as easy as possible for them to contact me. And it has worked.

Of course, I’ve started getting several spam emails as well. I decided to make lemonade out of the lemons. I thought you might get a kick out of this blog article:

http://lagringasblogicito.blogspot.com/2006/09/la-gringas-lucky-week.html

I hope you do!

La Gringa

In the earlier days of the internet when the contact forms started popping up, some companies would use them with autoresponders so they wouldn’t have to take the time to actually talk to people (saving the company money). As a result, over the years, people in general don’t trust the contact form because it has that stigma of “oh they will never get back to me”. Regular email links are more “trusty”, but they have all the spam problems.

I am currently trying to improve the communication on my blog, and I am glad I happened across your article.

I solved this problem for a small business starting a blog by returning to the venerable Response-o-Matic, which was one of the first free form-to-email services on the WWW in the mid-90’s. As only the email recipient receives a small gratuitous ad in the email, its a small price for opening communication lines and starting the sales process.