Welcome to The Hosting Journey!
Oh, excellent, you're here! Thank you for joining the Hosting Journey! I have some good stuff brewing for you. Watch your inbox for details soon!
Love from your host,
Evelyn
Ready?
First, I will need to confirm you. No, not in the religious, dunk you under water kind of way, but in a simple email kind of way. The usual stuff. I know, I can't believe I have to do this either, but I do. I need to confirm your email address with MailChimp… Blame the little chimp.
To complete the subscription process, please click the link in the email we just sent to you.
Don’t forget to visit our Facebook Group The Hosting Journey, so we can connect and talk dirty. No, not dirty, dirty…talk dirt, like stains, silly!
Set?
You might need to Whitelist me…and no, that’s NOT a new stain removal laundry product. Hmmm, I wonder if that name is trademarked?
Anyway, a whitelist is essentially a list of people, including companies, you want to hear from. Sometimes your email accounts will block or spam my messages, and you don’t me delegated to the spam list, do you? You might miss out on all of the groovy (yes, I still use the word groovy) information I send your way.
Being spammed or junked is no fun, especially in this case, but the good news is that YOU have the power to fix this. Let me show you how to unspam-junk me.
LET ME BE IN YOUR SAFE LIST (AKA, WHITELIST).
Go!
If you haven’t been able to GO! due to spam issues, etc., there are instructions below on how to make my email spam proof for some of the more popular email services. (yes, I did a lot of research).
If your email provider isn’t here, you can either:
A) Go to this link, and see if your email provider is there More Email Providers Whitelist Information:
OR
B) Search “How to whitelist” and “name of email provider,” and you will get instructions.
There’s a really good chance our emails won’t make it to your inbox UNLESS you do this in Gmail.
Add me to your contacts:
Add evelyn@thehostingjourney.com to your Gmail Contacts. Google will usually deliver email from addresses that are in your contacts.
- Open an email from Evelyn.
- Click the drop down arrow next to “Reply” on the upper right side the email from the header.
- Click the “Add Evelyn to Contacts List” from the list that appears.
- You will now see Evelyn appear under the link “Contacts” on the left side of the page.
- Click the “Gmail” icon on the top left Gmail.
- Click the link “Contacts” and then in the “Search Contacts” form field type: Evelyn.
- Now you can select to move Evelyn to a contact list of choice and edit any details.
Mark messages as ‘Not Spam’
If Gmail has marked emails you wish to whitelist as spam, tell Gmail that the emails are not spam.
- In Gmail, navigate to the spam folder.
- Search for emails containing Evelyn
- Select all the emails shown.
- Click More and then Not spam.
Add evelyn@thehostingjourney.com to your Apple Contacts.
Apple Mail (desktop)
- Open an email from Evelyn.
- Right-click my email address, and choose to add to contacts.
Mail (Apple iOS mobile devices)
- Open an email from Evelyn.
- Tap the from email address.
- Then tap Create New Contact to input the address in the contacts list.
If Message is in the Junk folder – the horror!
- Open the junk folder and find the message.
- Move the message to the inbox.
- Add my email to your contacts
Add me to your contacts:
Add evelyn@thehostingjourney.com to your Yahoo Contacts.
- Open an email from Evelyn.
- Click the Add to Contacts button next to the From email address.
If Message is in the Junk/Spam folder – the horror!
- Open the spam folder and find the message.
- Click the message
- Click Not Spam
Add me to your contacts:
Add evelyn@thehostingjourney.com to your AOL Contacts.
- Click Contacts in the navigation panel,
- And click the New Contact icon.
- Input the email address and
- Click the Add Contact button.
If Message is in the Junk/Spam folder – the horror!
- Open the spam folder and find the message.
- Click the message
- Click Not Spam