Re: Email and other promotions?

Try Netcreations PostmasterDirect at 
http://www.postmasterdirect.com/ 

They are better than most in terms of verifying subscribers by using opt-in
methods. And they have list of people who are specifically interested in
receiving email about Christian-specific resources. I had a few sucessful
experiences with Postmasterdirect years ago, but I'm no longer doing email
marketing anymore.

See also http://List-Universe.com/ for all kinds of info about email and
mailing list marketing. And try http://www.junkbusters.com/ for more
resources as well.

If the client doesn't take your word for it that spamming is bad, try to
find some mainstream articles to back your arguments up - Here's a recent
case from CNN:
http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/computing/01/05/spam.scam.idg/index.html
(Even if your client has a different offer than these 2, do they really
risk being associated with people like that?)

Saving the world from spam is a good deed!

Regards,

Ted 

At 11:01 PM 1/11/01 -0500, Joseph Poplawski wrote:
>Hi.
>
>I need some advice.
>
>I have a client that runs a fairly large Christian book publishing company.
>They are desperately trying to find more ways of promoting their ecommerce
>site.
>
>They would like to purchase mailing lists of email addresses.  However the
>only ones they find seem "sketchy" at best.
>
>So I would like some collective advice on the best way to to do a low cost
>blitz to pass the word about a web site.
>
>I would also like pointers to any *legitimate* companies that sell opt-in
>email address lists or the like.
>
>It was suggested to my client that he just "harvest" email addresses off of
>web sites that he is interested in, and just do it that way. Of course, I
>said "NOOOOO..." but unless I come up with a better alternative I can see
>him doing it...
>
>Thanks for any help anyone can give!
>
>Jo Poplawski
>
>
>

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