{"id":164,"date":"2007-03-26T11:49:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-26T11:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/officeondemand.ca\/blog\/?p=153"},"modified":"2009-10-23T08:08:11","modified_gmt":"2009-10-23T13:08:11","slug":"is-att-trying-to-kill-email-and-voip-small-business-marketing-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/marketing-tools\/is-att-trying-to-kill-email-and-voip-small-business-marketing-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Is AT&#038;T trying to kill email and VOIP? &#8211; Small Business Marketing Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past week AT&amp;T started blocking my email, email to my AT&amp;T email service from my own web sites, and then I discovered AT&amp;T along with a number of other phone companies has also started blocking access to free VOIP conference call services.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure what AT&amp;T is up to but it would appear they are trying to make it harder for you to market your business wihout resorting to using their phone services.<\/p>\n<p>Just when small business owners are starting to discover the effectiveness of using email to market their businesses it appears the phone companies are getting greedy and want to squeeze the internet for more profits.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think?<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Charlie Cook<br \/>\nSmall Business Marketing That Gets Results<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/f8afa2b9-e47f-410d-9819-f97b7f919d1f\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_e.png?x-id=f8afa2b9-e47f-410d-9819-f97b7f919d1f\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" \/><\/a><span class=\"zem-script more-related more-info pretty-attribution paragraph-reblog\"><script src=\"http:\/\/static.zemanta.com\/readside\/loader.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past week AT&amp;T started blocking my email, email to my AT&amp;T email service from my own web sites, and then I discovered AT&amp;T along with a number of other phone companies has also started blocking access to free VOIP conference call services. I&#8217;m not sure what AT&amp;T is up to but it would appear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,9],"tags":[192,390],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}