i'm not doing internet marketing..... I am targeting specific people who are owed money. If they don't like the service I am offering they never hear from me again. :) :-)~MIKE~(-: On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Lisa Kachold wrote: > Email pharming and phishing is a "well" developed part of internet > marketing. > > On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 3:21 PM, Derek Trotter wrote: > >> Good luck finding a database that will be useful. It's very easy to >> change email addresses. Also it's easy to get an email address without >> giving your real name or any other real information. I've had one for >> several years. When I signed up for it, Yahoo asked me where I lived. I >> told them I live in Beverly Hills. I know snail mail is more expensive, >> but you have a better chance of reaching customers who live in the area >> you're targeting. You might look online and find an email address for John >> Smith, but is that the John Smith in Cottonwood, or is it the John smith in >> Barrow, or one in Melbourne? >> >> To get accurate email addresses, you would be better off putting up a >> request on your business website. If you have a form on the site, >> customers can use that. Just be sure to code the form so that someone >> can't see the email address the submissions will be going to. Also you can >> give an email address, but write out everything instead of using . and @. >> For example: greg dot house at vicodin dot com >> >> >> On 05/30/2013 08:59 PM, Michael Havens wrote: >> >> I'm in a new business venture and I need to find peoples email addresses >> to make the process easier. Otherwise I will have to go the snail-mail >> route. Does anyone know of a database tht matches names to email addresses? >> My web search gave me two (http://usenet-addresses.mit.edu/ >> http://www.netlib.org/na-net/search_mail_forw.html) but I didn't find >> any searched for addresses. (no I am not getting into spamming people) >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> > You pretty much need to have your customers opt in to really use email > marketing successfully. Therefore, companies generally have contests or > require a registration that creates a list for mass mailings that can be > exported to something like OpenEMM or a MailMonkey list plugin to a CMS > (like drupal, Concrete5 or Wordpress). > > There are many tools that will walk large numbers of websites scraping off > email addresses and you can but marketing lists that are guaranteed to be > successful for various types of products. > > If you are planning to do email marketing you will need a completely > functional unsubscribe link (like that provided from OpenEMM) for the > bottom of your emails. > > You will also require a static IP address (that has a perfectly unique > reverse DNS that is not designated in the SWIP database as "dynamic" like > those from cox to get around spamassassin scoring issues, and SPF records. > > But if you are serious about getting email addresses (and other > information) simply by the use of name/city search, you might get or write > an API that will do a quick search/scrape of sites like spokeo.com that > generally contain a great deal of public information. > > Spokeo's paid service WILL most often provide what you need. Writing the > php, perl or python script that does the lookup for you automatically and > scrapes the email address(es) into your database is also very trivial: > > http://www.mozenda.com/email-extractor > > There are other free search services (which I posted some years ago to > discuss) that have an incredible amount of private information. Here's the > full list: > > https://www.privacyrights.org/online-information-brokers-list > >> >> >> >> -- >> "I get my copy of the daily paper, look at the obituaries page, and if I’m not there, I carry on as usual." >> >> Patrick Moore >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > > -- > > (503) 754-4452 Android > (623) 239-3392 Skype > (623) 688-3392 Google Voice > ** > it-clowns.com > Chief Clown > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >