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Renting email lists (12 posts)

Tina Grove said
4 months, 2 weeks ago:
Hi, I run a newsletter marketing service for chiropractors and audiologists. The doctors can send the newsletters out to their past and present patients and use them to find new patients.
These are PLR newsletters and the doctors own all rights. I’m trying to build my subscriber base as quickly as reasonably possible.
Has anyone rented bulk email lists and had some success with them and if so, what company did you go through.
Thanks
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Russell Allert said
4 months, 2 weeks ago:
@tina-grove Hi Tina
Like social media, newsletters need to be grown over time and organically. I wouldn’t recommend buying lists.
Russ
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Jules Webb said
4 months, 2 weeks ago:
@russellallert are you sure you didn’t mean to say “I wouldn’t recommend buying lists”?
@tina-grove Another name for buying lists and cold emailing people is “SPAM” Not a good way to start a relationship with potential clients.
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Russell Allert said
4 months, 2 weeks ago:
@juleswebb Yes I did, Jules. Thanks for that!
Corrected.
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Mitch Rezman said
4 months, 2 weeks ago:
@Tina Grove Have you asked any of your clients if they have data they have not accessed? We’re now running Facebook sweepstakes. Entry requires an email and first name – first month we collected about 800 fresh email addresses. Factoring the cost of the sweeps and prize fulfillment it’s costing us about .25 per
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Rich Brooks said
4 months, 2 weeks ago:
@tina-grove
I never recommend buying or renting lists. You never really know what the company did to get these names, and you can damage the credibility of you and your clients this way.
I like @mitch-rezman‘s suggestion, and I’m on board with @russellallert and @juleswebb.
Use advertising, guest blog opportunities, landing pages, etc., to build the list, but the most valuable list is the one you build yourself.
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Amy Hall, Virtual Assistant for WordPress and MailChimp Help said
4 months, 2 weeks ago:
@tina-grove have you thought about reaching out to others that serve your niche? I’m sure there are all sorts of services & companies that serve only Dr offices that could help you reach your audience. You may offer them free advertising in your own publication as an incentive to support you in your venture.
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Mitch Rezman said
4 months, 2 weeks ago:
as a follow up to have data they have not accessed? We use mailchimp because they recently embraced our site’s (3dcart) api – once I registered the api with mailchimp our list grew by 6,000 as mailchimp drew from our data base – then about 2 weeks ago the list grew by another 6000 a couple of days after 3dcart revamped their api which allowed for some very old data to pass. All of these emails were from customers who bought something from us at one time thus had opted in – we lost about 20% through unsubscribes but we’re way ahead of the game. If you’re technically savvy you could ask for access to any of your clients websites and either hook up your ESP or do an email export. Lastly it would be a chore but you could create a common signup form asking for an email and zipcode (for segmented marketing) and place the common form across all your clients sites.
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Tina Grove said
4 months, 2 weeks ago:
Hi everyone, thanks for the input.
@amyhallbiz, yes I’ve been reaching out for many months and I’ve gotten a lot of people to agree to a joint venture proposal yet nothing has happened yet.
I’m not expecting to add 100′s of subscribers overnight but after 3 months of these j’v. deals I would have hoped for at least one!
I know these others are busy with their own business and that this j.v. deal will only be a small portion of their business, but it is frustrating to have so little control over this aspect of my business.
It just seems that marketing is not my forte.
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Tina Grove said
4 months, 2 weeks ago:
@juleswebb no, I would not spam. I’m only interested in lists that are double optin and that the people agreed to receive emails from marketers on various subjects.
That’s what I’m really interested in… if it exists. A legitimate company that sells double optin email lists.
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Ann at greenoak said
4 months, 2 weeks ago:
i google for the rilght people in my niche that i would like to send something to…many ways..
..also if i tried reaching out with hundreds of mailings and no response i would wonder about the popularity of what i was offering as well as the quality of the marketing…i would think i was not interesting to the people and try something else…. we face this with every new project….. i use speed and income in my judging of my projects ..
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Pepita Bos said
4 months, 1 week ago:
I guest the law is different in every country and in The Netherlands where I am from, it is completely legal and good business use to rent lists from legitimate specialist businesses who have the permission of each and every person on that list to email them. Of course they send out the emails. You cannot do it yourself, because you do not have permission.
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