I remember the days of my very first personal email address. It was the only one I used, and I gave it out to all my friends and family. Then I started surfing the net… and giving out my email to any site promising a free special report that would make me lots and lots of money without any effort. It wasn’t long before I got twenty emails every day - enough to make me excited!

But the excitement wore off real fast, considering 90% of the emails were spam. As the years went by and the amount of spam increased to thousands of messages daily, I realized the importance of having a few yahoo and hotmail addresses. Those were for giving out to any websites, leaving my personal email for my personal business.

That method worked pretty well, but it was still a pain to register a bunch of @yahoo.com addresses, only to have them ruined by one spammer. But there weren’t any other options, especially when seemingly credible websites started selling out to spammers. (Add in human errors like pasting a bunch of emails into the “To” field instead of “BCC” and even good-intentioned business people could screw you over!)

But those days are slowly dissipating thanks to a new service called 10 Minute Mail. They let you sign-up for a new email address at the click of a button, and you get access to that email for 10 minutes before it self-destructs!

Why do something like that? Well, if you have been dabbling in internet marketing for a while, you know there are lots of shady characters lurking out there. If you’re still new, then just read this advice from 10 Minute Mail:

Maybe you want to sign up for a site which requires that you provide an e-mail address to send a validation e-mail to. And maybe you don’t want to give up your real e-mail address and end up on a bunch of spam lists. This is nice and disposable. And it’s free.

That sounds ideal. I’ve been using their service and so far it has performed flawlessly. Check it out at 10minutemail.com.

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One thing that sucks about blogging is that all your feed subscribers can just read your secrets and insights without actually visiting your blog. It’s great to have the feed subscribers (I even put a Feedburner chicklet up in the right-hand corner on here) but they are avoiding all your carefully placed advertisements!

Granted, they probably want to avoid your advertisements. I would too. But the point is that we need to make some money to support our blogging habits, right? Luckily for us, there are a few new advertising networks just for placing ads in our feeds.

And since I feel like being lazy, I’m not going to tell you about them. But I will link you to another blog post about monetizing your blog feeds. It’s actually pretty good and reviews a few of the top “feedvertising” options.

Just keep in mind, some of your subscribers may unsubscribe from your feed if the ads piss them off!

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