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Receive your invoice in the method most convenient for you. Let us know what works best – regular mail, fax or email.

Pay with Cash, Check or Credit

We accept cash, check or credit card payments. We can schedule auto-payments on your credit card. Pay online at OnYourMark.com/payment.php.

Make Payment Arrangements

If you need to make special payment arrangements, please contact us as soon as possible. We will work with you to create a payment plan.

We’ve seen several crafty spam emails this week posing as “Tech Support” or “Systems Administrator” that ask the recipient to download files. One email claims that a server upgrade has taken place and the user needs to download a patch. Another states that email security settings were changed and provides a link to “upgrade settings.”

Emails asking you to download patches for server upgrades or new email settings are spam! These emails are not from OnYourMark, LLC. If you receive an email with a link asking you to download patches, do not click on the link! The file you are being asked to download is a virus!

How can you tell if these emails are spam?

• OnYourMark, LLC will never email links to download a patch when we upgrade our servers, or email links to download new settings if we update your emails.
• Any messages OnYourMark, LLC sends regarding servers or email accounts will include full contact information and staff names, not generic signatures like “Regards, Technical Support.”
• Check the URL of the link. It may contain “onyourmark.com” but link to a malicious website (i.e. http://patch.onyourmark.com.somethingelse.com).
• The “From” address may contain “onyourmark.com” but is not from OnYourMark, LLC at all. This is called spoofing – changing the header of an email so it appears to be from another sender, not the message originator.
• Your email program may tell you that the email is a scam. Spammers are trying to get around this by putting text in the email claiming it has been virus tested (i.e. No viruses detected. Zillya! Antivirus). Don’t rely on the text of a message to tell you if it is spam or not.

Similar messages with malicious links are being sent with Facebook or FDIC logos and emails.  These are also scams.

If you are still unsure about a message you have received, please call us at 262-820-8202 (or toll free, 800-747-3399). We are happy to help!

OnYourMark is proud to be a long-time sponsor of Wisconsin Business Owners.

Over two hundred local Wisconsin Business Owners are members.  Two or three dozen or more of us meet for a “Lunch and Learn” held on the last Friday of the month from January thru October and the 1st Friday in December.  Occasionally we enjoy other special sessions.

You do not have to be a business owner to attend, though most attendees own their own firm.  Any and all of our friends from theBubbler.com and our clients’ staffs are welcome.

Our typical Lunch & Learn schedule:

11:15 NETWORKING – Come early to enjoy great conversation and early networking
12 noon – Fish Fry – OR – All-you-can-eat buffet lunch with salad bar, many entrees and sides…excellent!
12:15 – 30-second commercials during lunch
12:30 – dessert
12:35 – Speaker introductions
***SPEECHES ARE VIDEOTAPED courtesy of Videocracy – Your attendance means your approval that you may be shown on tape.
12:40 Speaker with 18 to 24 minute presentation followed by 6 to 12 minutes of questions.
1:15 End – or continue to network. The host and several members generally take the last Friday afternoon of the month off to talk for hours at the Cali’s Lounge bar.

Cost is $30 (cash) at the event , or $20 (credit card) with advance reservations.

Fee covers all-you-can-eat buffet lunch with many entrees, salad bar, desert, soft beverage and gratuity as well as speaker.

Salad bar only, $20 (cash) at the event or $15 (credit card) with advance reservations (we can only charge $20 on the registration site so we refund $5 at the event).

Most meetings held in one of the banquet rooms at the Best Western Midway on Moorland Road in Brookfield, Wisconsin.

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Free drawings for 2 pieces of artwork at each Lunch and Learn, courtesy of Summer Snow.

SummerSnowArt.com – Framed Art
SummerSnowPrints.com – Art Prints

SummerSnowGallery.com – Arts and Crafts Shows, Sales, Artist Info

Free drawing for a custom 24 x 36-inch printed and mounted color poster courtesy of Great Impressions!
http://www.GreatImpress.com

Register online at http://www.Meetup.com/wisconsin-business-owners/ Registration with the group is free and registering online will get you about two emails per month with information about that month’s program.

Host: Keith Klein, Owner, OnYourMark, LLC

Author of WebForging, A Practical Guide to the Art of Forging Your Web Presence

Publisher of Wisconsin’s # 1 Online Guide & Directory, http://www.theBubbler.com

Please call for info: 262-820-8201 or 800-747-3399

Business Owners and individuals seeking to start their own business and friends only, please.

The newly-redesigned website for Wisconsin Business Owners is located at http://WisOwners.com

See the message boards at http://www.meetup.com/wisconsin-business-owners/messages/boards/ for more resources for Wisconsin Business Owners.

Dear Clients,

We apologize for the delay in receiving email this morning.

It was reported to us this morning that incoming email was not being received.  In doing investigation we found that our spam filtering service provider Postini apparently was having trouble with email delivery.  We checked the server connection rate and it was well within reasonable levels, but when we checked the connection rate reported to us by Postini, it was much higher. We have been working with Postini and the problem should now be resolved.

There is a backlog of mail on their end that needs to be delivered and it should arrive over the next hour.

The Forums at theBubbler.com passed 50,000 posts this Spring!

OnYourMark’s clients each enjoy a minimum of 50,000 banner ad views on theBubbler every year.  We’ve been able to raise that number regularly with increased activity and viewership at theBubbler.

If you’d like to do more with theBubbler, please contact Keith at 262-820-8201.

Regards,
Keith

This month as part of our hour a month for our clients we are using webmaster tools to update our clients sites.  We are using the tools to see who is linked to your site and if they have invalid links we are emailing the source of the link and asking them to update.

Quality inbound links are one of the ways to keep your site high in the search engine rankings.

With the influx of new social media we decided there should be a way for your customers to link to your site any way they want to, not just using a browser menu.  We added a small bit of coding provided by AddMarx to everyone’s sitemap that allows the visitor to quickly add your site to a variety of media, including but not limited to:

Favorites, Del.icio.us, Yahoo My Web, MSN Live Bookmarks, Google Bookmarks, and Yahoo Bookmarks.  They can also use this tool to tell a friend about your website, or add it to Digg, Reddit, Myspace, Facebook, Twitter and a number of other Social Websites.

Link popularity is a great way to improve the rank of your site in search engines.  The more people that link to you, the better.

If you want to add it to all the pages of your site, please let us know!

For the clients that use OnYourMark SMTP servers, beginning on August 15, 2009 the outgoing email server address will change from mail.samplenamehere.com to smtp.samplenamehere.com (replacing samplenamehere.com with your domain name). Many clients have already made the change but for those that haven’t now’s the time! The reason for this change is growth; we want to prevent a situation where are email servers are overloaded! This also gives us further separation of services to mitigate any potential problems that could arise and make further growth easier.

When you change the settings, there should be no lapse in service. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us.

Yesterday, at approximately 3:00pm CST it appears that our database cluster experienced a very heavy load from a Denial of Service (DoS) attack. This caused some services to become slow or unresponsive for a short period of time. We had the problem diagnosed and amended by 4:00pm CST.

Although we don’t know the exact cause yet, we believe it may have been a failed attempt to breech the  security of that server cluster.

We are going to be taking steps in the upcoming days and weeks to further tighten website security, as well as database resiliency to ensure this does not happen again. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us.  We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

From time to time you may receive tests of your website’s forms from OnYourMark staff.  If your site is updated, forms are tested to make sure the updates did not effect the forms’ functionality.  Form tests may also be sent if we are doing behind-the-scenes technical updates as part of your site’s hour per month of promotion and maintenance.

If you receive a test submission from your website’s forms, it is extremely important that you forward the emails you receive to OnYourMark as soon as possible! This confirmation lets us know that the form is working properly.

If you have questions on your website’s forms, please Contact Us.