The internet provides an easy way to find global customers and market to them. Of course there is social network marketing options, but what about email, phone and USPS.
Leadnetpro is an on-line application (software) product that allows you to extract email address, phone numbers and mailing addresses from yellowbook, merchantcircle, google, yahoo. craigslist and backpages. We used this program in class to find business leads. Once these leads are found, they are saved as an .csv file for downloading into excel. Once downloaded, they can be cleanup for duplications and errors.
The leads need to be validated before use. There is software that can check email address (http://www.mailvalidator.com/). Also a web site with a service that validates email addresses (http://www.email-checker.com/).
There are web sites that check phone numbers http://www.phonevalidator.com/.
and different sites that check mailing addresses http://www.smartystreets.com/.
If you do not want to do it yourself, you can buy lists (just do a google seach for "mailing lists").
Or you can take it a step further and buy and list and/or have a company send out your information.
Buying the list and/or having them send it out is more expensive but saves you time.
If you do it yourself, you will need a website like:
- http://www.mailchimp.com/ to send out and manage your emails,
- http://www.directmail.com/ to send out USPS mailers and/or
- http://www.call-center-tech.com/ to send out voice messages to a telephone.
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