Is the economy getting better? part 2

uh...maybe not.

We sent out an announcement yesterday about the release of NetScanTools Pro 10.95 and got back 13 bounced emails. I resent the announcement from an different domain just to be sure it was a real bounce and sure enough, 13 people are no longer employed since the last announcement at the beginning of November 2009.

Is the economy getting better?

Maybe. We send out a newsletter once a month and for the end of 2008 and all of 2009, we've had between 10-20 or more email bounce backs each month. While some of those could be bounced back for other reasons, our assumption is that the person is no longer at their job. Keep in mind that most of the email addresses in our list are business addresses and not personal home email addresses.

So a few days ago I sent out the January 2010 newsletter and I only had 3 'user unknown' email bounces. December 2009 was under 10, but only a little. A definite improvement.

Here is the January 2010 newsletter if you are interested:
http://www.netscantools.com/pressandnewsletters/NST_Pro_January_2010_News.pdf

I guess I could call this the "Email Bounce Economic Index".

Recession

On Monday December 1, the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) placed the start of the recession at December 2007. I would place it a bit earlier. We noticed a definite drop in business beginning in September 2007.