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Some businesses & organisations get confused when they
fill out our business register and are told they have to be
on MSC Coast News
to have an "Email Now" facility.
There are 2 reasons for doing this and they are both
important.
In each category, the businesses are listed in order of
Most information available to the Visitor to 
least
information available:
1.Category
Sponsor: Shows as a banner on the top of
each page in that category
2.Premium Listing: the ones with
the thumbnail picture where you can click through to a
full
page display on the business complete with web links
and photo gallery.
3.Advanced
Listing: Business card style advertising,
very rare to be seen onsite as they are only available to a
business that has maxed out the allowed 'email nows' yet
wish to maintain their email on their listing.
4.Free Business
Listings with contact
facility: These are the listings
with an "Email Now" and a tagline description of the
business.
5.Free Business
Listings, no
contact: At the very end of the
category come the businesses that have no "Email Now" and
no "Tag line Description", just a phone number.
Information on listings being accurate is important to us, you as a business, and also to the visitor looking at these pages. People are happy to tell us they have a new business, not so quick to tell us they have gone out of business, hence the need to be on MSC Coast News. All email that bounces on MSC Coast News is checked. If an email bounces 3 times, we then phone the company, or double check if they still have a website. If we find that we cannot contact that business then we remove it from display. If the business is still active, but changing email etc then we just remove the email address (so that a visitor is not inconvenienced by wasting their time trying to use the "Email Now" and not getting a response).
Basically, having your business email address on your free listing on MSC Coast News means that we can validate that the address is correct every few weeks. We don't mind if you receive "Coast News" and then delete it straight away, or don't bother reading but enter the 'giveaways', fine, no skin off our noses, but it means that our system knows your email is still valid, we can then keep your "Email Now" active, a visitor to the site can still easily contact you (without having your email on display for spammers), you stay higher up the list in your particular category, and we are all happy.
Obviously with the amount of traffic onsite and the
prolific use of the "Email Now" system, it costs us a
fortune on the servers, which is why we only allow a
certain amount to go through before we ask that you upgrade
your business, or we remove your email and you go further
down the list, giving other businesses the opportunity to
move up the list. We do not like doing this, though
unfortunately economics dictate that we cannot allow
unlimited free "email nows" on every business forever or we
would soon be out of business and there would be no display
at all for both businesses on the coast and our visitors to
use.
Another aspect of the "Email Now" connection with
"MSC Coast News"
is that the Spam Act
2003 can be interpreted a number of ways when
it com
es to email that goes to a business "via" a 3rd
party (the 3rd party being our "email now" system). For a
person to send an email to a business "unsolicited" which
is requesting information that is legitimate (a sales
request, quote request etc) is perfectly legal and not
spam, hence even if that person is using our "email now"
system and not their own email programme is fine and legal,
though of course we prefer to always be extremely ethical
in all our dealings, therefore, when you agree to receive
"MSC Coast News"
you are agreeing to receive email from us and more
importantly VIA us.
We hope the above has explained the Free Business Listings to you and their relationship to the "Email Now" system. If you still have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us and we are always happy to chat to with you :)
