Internet Users Know a Powerful Tool Can Have Many Different Functions

LifeName Inc. (www.lifename.com) following its fast rise in popularity and interest among Internet users wanted to understand just why users were buying the service. In doing a random sampling of customers, LifeName has found some interesting applications.

LifeName Inc. (www.lifename.com) following its fast rise in popularity and interest among Internet users wanted to understand just why users were buying the service. In doing a random sampling of customers, LifeName has found some interesting applications.

LifeName is an email forwarding system that takes all messages for a given "LifeName" mailbox and consistently and quickly forwards them to the user's personal (non-LifeName) email account. Wherever one lives, wherever one works, however one does his or her computing, and however any of those things might change through the course of one's life, the LifeName virtual email hosting system gives the convenience and security of having one single email address throughout one's entire life.

If only the post office and telephone company had thought of this service! We would be given a unique address and phone number at birth, where all of our communications were directed. Those communications would be automatically forwarded to the mailbox or phone where we happen to be at any given time, for our entire life. Understand the impact that system would have on your life and you have a precise understanding of the function of LifeName! The LifeName email address costs $5.00 or less per year.

"The vast majority of users sign up with LifeName for the address, so they can receive correspondence and keep in touch through moves, job changes, technology changes, and life changes," states Richard Strauss, LifeName CEO. "We did find some more interesting applications, and wanted to share them with you."

One of the more popular applications and one that is promoted on the site is as a baby gift for someone in the office. The baby is given a LifeName address for their life, and while their email traffic is a bit slow in their infant years, the ability to be able to be corresponded for their entire life consistently becomes a very treasured gift.

A lot of families that share the same computer and/or account like the convenience of each family member having their own unique address. All of the family's email gets loaded into the same mailbox, but it is clearly identified whom any given message is for. Actually guarding the privacy of the teenagers then becomes a real test of the parent's restraint.

Some fairly large institutions that share common computers like the concept of LifeName as well. For example, LifeName recently heard from a senior living community that has a few computers that are shared among the tenants. They all have one account, that they share for Internet access. Receiving email, before LifeName, was difficult, because there was no good way to "sort the mail". Now, each tenant has his or her own LifeName address, and the mail is clear for whom it is directed. Now, one person in the apartment has said, "I recently received a message, but I was not on the computer that day. Seven other people in the apartment went out of their way to let me know that I had some mail. This works great!"

Many college students are signing up for LifeName. It turns out, just about every University in the world cancels a students account soon after graduation, leaving no way for the student to receive correspondence, job offers (hopefully!), or most importantly to be able to order new DVDs and receive confirmation of the order. Most Universities will not even forward or allow access to the email following the graduation. Many of these students are now signing up for LifeName, and using their LifeName address in college, then on graduation they continue to receive all of their valuable email.

"We even have a lot of people who sign up for LifeName because they do not like the email address they were forced to use from their Internet Service Provider," According to Strauss. "It is hard to be known as john41326 and LifeName strictly resists having to go to this type of address structure. A friend signed up with one of the larger services and was assigned the email address stevexxx rather than a number. Not thinking, he accepted it and now gets more "adult content" than anyone could handle. As my friend says, whatever you do stay away from email addresses with three X's."

"The one I like the best," Says Strauss, "Is the person who signed up for a LifeName email address and they have no computer, no Internet Service Provider and no way to receive email. When asked why, the customer said they were tired of people asking what their email address was, and looking stupid that they did not have one, they got one from LifeName so now they can be 'up-to-date'. This reminds me of the person who drives around with their car windows up so everyone thinks that they have air conditioning."

COMPANY CONTACT:
Richard Strauss
Chief Executive Officer
LifeName Inc.
(508) 788-0448
richard@lifename.com