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. :)
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)
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:
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: