Business planning can be nerve racking, especially during the beginning stages when seeking advice on a product or ideas. Trademarks, copyrights, and patents are all great ways to protect a concept but before those steps can be taken, inevitably ideas will be shared along the way.

A great tool that can used to help put your mind at ease are the many “self destructing” email systems available online. www.self-destructing-email.com/ is one site in particular that allows the following to be tracked:

• Date and time opened
• Location of recipient (per their ISP city /town)
• Map of location (available on paid subscriptions)
• Recipients IP address
• Apparent email address of opening (if available)
• Referrer details (ie; if accessed via web mail etc)
• URL clicks
• How long the email was read for
• How many times your email was opened
• If your email was forwarded, or opened on a different computer
• Retract sent mail
• Set time limitations on readers access

Besides used as a tracking tool, this site allows legal proof-of-opening receipts, delivery service notifications, MS Word, Excel, and PDF tracking, and a block printing feature.

Since industry feedback is so important when working to expand ideas and projects, utilizing tools such as these during the planning stages will ease the worry of sharing ideas and help seek the advice you need.