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What's lurking in your spam folder? Maybe you never look, but maybe you should. Last week, Gmail added labels to messages sent to users' spam folders that identify potentially dangerous mail. Gmail users will now be able to see why messages were marked as spam.

It's a good lesson for all of us, and that's Google's intention. "Use this information to protect yourself from potentially dangerous or fraudulent messages and to better understand why a message was or wasn't marked as spam," Gmail advised its users.

This is the new media policy announced by the North Ogden City Council this week.

Let me ask you something. How many people do you think have purchased something from your business in the past year alone? Now let me ask you this: Have you made some kind of effort to stay in touch with these customers? If not, why?

It's important to get your customers' contact information, because it's far easier and much cheaper to sell to current customers than it is to acquire new ones. Thanks to the Internet, it's possible to do this in a very cost-effective manner. Let's see how this can be done: