Where to buy email addresses

[Impressive Creations]

I want to try email advertising to promote my product, where would I purchase email addresses for builders, specifiers, architects and and other wet trades.

I would also appreciate any other advice or idea's

Thanks in advance

 

[evocart]

I wouldn't waste your time or money, sending spam through email is not a good Idea, It can even get you in deep trouble - just because others do it, doesn't make it right.

Also if your like me, you'll probably get 100's or 1000's of spam (unwanted and untargeted) email each year and have you ever bought anything from such a company or sent it to your trash can as fast as you mouse will let you.

Spend the money on adverting to your target market rather than people who have no interest in what you are offering.

 

[benjamin_c]

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[Impressive Creations]

I suppose that the end of that idea, but thanks for the advice anyway.

I have considered tryng to find a partner who could handle the marketing and I can carry on with installations, training etc but where to find the right person?

 

[Mike W]

Hi. I find personal feelings shouldn't get in the way of sound business sense. That's the nice way of saying that whilst Interlogy might have that opinion, it doesn't apply to all people. We all hate postal junk mail ...but it keeps on coming - ergo it must achieve something

You'll find data sources via marketingfile.com

If I can help you with anything to do with your Email or Social Media Marketing, let me know.

Regards

Mike

 

[evocart]

Hi. I find personal feelings shouldn't get in the way of sound business sense. That's the nice way of saying that whilst Interlogy might have that opinion, it doesn't apply to all people. We all hate postal junk mail ...but it keeps on coming - ergo it must achieve something

You'll find data sources via marketingfile.com

If I can help you with anything to do with your Email or Social Media Marketing, let me know.

Regards

Mike

It's not just my views, see here why you shouldn't be doing it... http://www.ispa.org.uk/complaints/page_158.html

 

[Mike W]

I don't disagree with you on sending 'spam'. I just disagree with your definition and particularly your initial response to the poster.

Sending legitimate emails to legitimate opt-in emails, which can be legitimately acquired, is quite legitimate.

The fact that you personally don't like them, I'd just refer you back to my reference to junk mail.

In the OP's case, if he sends builder related info to legitimately acquired builder email addresses, he not only should not have any major issues* but he may well do some business.

*You can get complaints from people who've forgotten they've subscribed to your own opt-in list

 

[MagnifyB]

Sending email is still a very cost effective way of marketing. However, you have to obtain a list in the correct way and not simple "purchase a list".

You can rent a list legitimately as the data controller will have the permissions to send the marketing material but if you buy a list of names as technically you don't have the persons permission to market to them as they have not asked to recieve communications from you.

 

[Impressive Creations]

I have very limited marketing knowledge and having read the other posts I think I shall buy legitimate lists of builders,architects, specifiers etc.

I have tried to find specific lists but have had no luck to date, do I require specific software to send these emails? and how much does it cost to have a company send them fo me.

I spent several thousand £s at Interbuild last year, although we had a lot of enquiry's we had no business, so I am hoping email marketing would prove cost effective

 

[JayChambers]

I have very limited marketing knowledge and having read the other posts I think I shall buy legitimate lists of builders,architects, specifiers etc.

I have tried to find specific lists but have had no luck to date, do I require specific software to send these emails? and how much does it cost to have a company send them fo me.

I spent several thousand £s at Interbuild last year, although we had a lot of enquiry's we had no business, so I am hoping email marketing would prove cost effective

I have sent you an email about this via your websites contact form.

Best Regards,
Jay

 

[Gillie]

I have very limited marketing knowledge and having read the other posts I think I shall buy legitimate lists of builders,architects, specifiers etc.

I have tried to find specific lists but have had no luck to date, do I require specific software to send these emails? and how much does it cost to have a company send them fo me.

I spent several thousand £s at Interbuild last year, although we had a lot of enquiry's we had no business, so I am hoping email marketing would prove cost effective

More often than not, its not that various are not opening your emails, merely the emails are not getting their attention.

If you want to have a cost effective campaign, you need firstly an opted in list ie where various aint going to get shirty with you, and secondly a well written attention grabbing subject. How much you spend on this of course is dependent on the amount you get back from each email, well worth trying though, and if you can also start your own list from your site, emailing them on a regular basis also converts.

 

[Impressive Creations]

I've had a few offers and done a few searches and have found what I think is a really profesional company B2Bdatalists who have offered upto 10000 records at 7p each,

I was going to use my press release but it would be to long, is there anybody on here that could write me a good catchy email at a reasonable price, been told that one or two paragraphs with a couple pictures is ample.

Also they can send upto 12000 emails for £195 or should I buy the software and do it gradually.

Appreciate any tips

 

[Kernowman]

It looks an interesting product from what I have seen on your website. Very stylish and innovative.

However, I think that is the smallest print I have ever seen on a website and so much packed into it, crammed into two thirds of the viewing area on my screen with an empty grey border doing nothing at all. I use a Google Chrome browser, but I would imagine it's the same on other browsers too.

Make it full page, strip out the unnecessary text, make the font size bigger and I think it would be a lot more informative than it currently is.

 

[fusingcreativity]

I have very limited marketing knowledge and having read the other posts I think I shall buy legitimate lists of builders,architects, specifiers etc.

I have tried to find specific lists but have had no luck to date, do I require specific software to send these emails? and how much does it cost to have a company send them fo me.

I spent several thousand £s at Interbuild last year, although we had a lot of enquiry's we had no business, so I am hoping email marketing would prove cost effective

Hiya,

Sorry to butt in here, but I spotted something that could be more important in your statement.

Can you expand on this a little? What kind of enquiries were they? How did you follow up the enquiries? What were the main barriers and rejections for? Why do you feel it was unsuccessful for you?

It sound like the problem could be more one of conversion rather than acquisition... which needs a completely different tack of marketing.

 

[Impressive Creations]

We had 253 enquiry's from all types of people, including house builders, self builds, building and plastering companies, even students etc.

Followed them all up with brochures, phonecalls etc and nothing

 

[ecenica]

I want to try email advertising to promote my product, where would I purchase email addresses for builders, specifiers, architects and and other wet trades.

Coming from a web host and email host perspective we do not recommend our customers buying paid email lists. It's a very quick way of getting your account suspended due to innocently sending spam.

Instead we recommend building your own opt-in email list using your website. It may take longer but generally has a much higher conversion.

^RM.

 

[Sarah Harvey]

While some people have valid ideas, there are tons of reasons why email marketing works.

According to good practicing standards all you need is people who have opted-in to receive your information.

You can achieve this by offering free advice or a quote, set-up a landing page and then gain the necessary data like a name and email address in return for what you offer. It has to be a double-opt in, meaning that the person will receive an email saying they requested the information and to confirm that they want to receive the information, they have to click on the link contained within the email.

A nice message to say 'thank you' and then the second email will be the first step to establishing relations with the potential customer.

I agree just buying email addresses and spamming won't work, but it does make all the difference in the world if they opt-in to receive your newsletter, information or to get further details. Then you are within your right to send email to those contacts, unless they opt-out of your newsletter or the information they receive.

Also, sending advertisement-type of email won't work. Establish yourself within the industry you are in as an expert and help people make informed choices and you will start a great business.

 

[Impressive Creations]

The list I've been offered are all opted-in addresses. We are probably the most experienced stone effect renderers in the UK, but vertical texturing has only been here for about 3 yrs. So the quickest way of getting established is by email, I think. We have also sent out 1000's of brochures with not much response.

We are not in a position to employ a full time salesperson, and I have tried telesales but the people just couldn't grasp the product.

We are very busy with local installations and training, but as the distributor and training provider for the UK there are millions of people out there that have never heard of us or the product, so there is a massive potential out there.

 

[Mike W]

Hi. Just wondering if you got my email?

Regards

Mike

 

[Whittie]

I have a list of 250,000 email addresses, data is from March this year, make me an offer, and i'll send it over.

Alex

 

[Kernowman]

The list I've been offered are all opted-in addresses. We are probably the most experienced stone effect renderers in the UK, but vertical texturing has only been here for about 3 yrs. So the quickest way of getting established is by email, I think. We have also sent out 1000's of brochures with not much response.

We are not in a position to employ a full time salesperson, and I have tried telesales but the people just couldn't grasp the product.

We are very busy with local installations and training, but as the distributor and training provider for the UK there are millions of people out there that have never heard of us or the product, so there is a massive potential out there.

The message here is quite clear, there is grass roots Marketing to be done first instead using what I call the "Z Plan Sales" of jumping ahead straight for the sales process which has failed, going back to the beginning, trying another sales tack that fails and so on, because it is an innovative and technical product which requires a specific Marketing strategy to succeed.

"We have also sent out 1,000s of brochures with not much response" but did you send out the right kind of brochures? If you still have some brochures to hand you could send me one for my appraisal if you like. If it is anything like your website then I pretty much know the answer already why you got a poor response. Brochures and websites are in effect your "portable showrooms" and you must always treat them as such.

"I have tried telesales but the people just couldn't grasp the product" that's because with each passing second of phone contact explaining the technical aspects, means that the sales value of that phone call is diminishing, so within 60 seconds it has gone down to almost zero. You should not have tried to glean sales from those calls, but stimulated the interest, get them to visit your (fantastic) website or send them your (fantastic) brochure and a well written letter to knock their socks off, with action calls embedded so that they are almost compelled to find out more about your product.

If you require any help, then feel free to PM me.

 

[Aspens Marketing and PR]

There are lots of lists which can be bought and you will end up paying for them and the software to send out to them. You will be accessing a list which loads of others are also buying and sending their sales messages to, so yours may be one of hundreds.

We help clients build professional lists legally and generate interest in the product and service before the email is sent, so you end up with a list which is packed with people you hold buying information on rather than the marketing equivalent of standing in a forest with a loud hailer.

Happy to chat to you about some other ways of reaching your target market. Just PM me for your free appointment.

 

[DeadlineData]

All of our email addresses have been acquired through extensive telemarketing based researched.

We do offer our email databases to clients should we see up front the material which is going to be sent out. If we are happy with the marketing message, we will support the delivery.

Many companies are offering email databases and often it can simply be 1000's of generic email addresses which is not really going to give you a great ROI.

Send me a pm if you would like to talk about the segmented lists which we currently offer.

 

[dagaul101]

Buying email addresses is a waste of time, many companies offering these services, more than often, have a redundant list of email addresses, or one they created themselves, herego if no response, they can claim maybe it was your product, have to put yourself in the mind of your potential customer, would you be happy to receive unsolicited email from a company wanting to sell you something on a list you don't even remember signing up for?

 

[emailblaster]

Many of our clients use http://marketingfile.com/ the lists seem to be really good quality and the bounce rate seems to be pretty low (indicated good data).

 

[robertt]

Ensure you triple check that its opt in data and get it verified in writing from the supplier.

I have several ongoing complaints - legal and otherwise - with spammers who bought data in good faith.

You dont want to be the ones getting sued for damages

 

[blueskythinker]

I've been buying b2b email lists for a number of years and providing you can find a credible list broker, you can get a really high ROI. Email can be a very addictive form of marketing and 80 percent of the FT100 use it as part of their company's ad spend.
I test with small lists, analyse the results and then go back and buy a decent amount. My most successful supplier happens to provide the most expensive lists (22p per contact) and the results are excellent. Ignore the comments about spam, the same kind of criticisms can be made of loose left magazine inserts and direct mail as people have built hugely successful businesses off the back of them.

 

[DeadlineData]

I echo blueskythinker's comments.

Test samples from list owners/brokers. 25p per record will ensure a 90%+ accuracy rate.

Our 28 day telephone validated data is 27p per record.



Regards

James