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Title: buisness address's
Post by: craigp on January 31, 2007, 09:14:49 pm: wheres the best place to get buisness address's for sending out letters?

i dont fancy going through Y/P typing out every single one, i have avoided that since starting c/c ing, so dont want to start now, lol ;D
Title: Re: buisness address's
Post by: rioclean on January 31, 2007, 09:53:52 pm: Try Chamber of commerce cost about £30.00 for a long list if you join its free.
Title: Re: buisness address's
Post by: the red carpet on February 01, 2007, 08:03:43 am: I just search the web, that way you usually find links to there sites and you can usually tell from the pictures what size company it is and if they actually have carpets or not. (not much point sending out letters if they aint got carpet)

Also you can often get a contact name aswell.
Title: Re: buisness address's
Post by: DanielWelford on February 01, 2007, 05:06:13 pm: Thomson Local do something where you can buy data lists including addresses, point of contacts, tel no's etc, from specific sectors/industries.

Dan
Title: Re: buisness address's
Post by: Kinver_Clean on February 01, 2007, 05:22:06 pm: Yellow Pages have dummy entries that go straight to YP to catch people who copy entries without permission and come on them like a ton of bricks. Theres a bit in YP saying about their copyright.
You can however pay a fee and get lists from them. There are also mailing list brokers who charge by the hundred addresses sorted by area.
Trevor
Title: Re: buisness address's
Post by: Ian Gourlay on February 01, 2007, 11:33:51 pm: I always cross reference directory entries.
Title: Re: buisness address's
Post by: conallon on February 02, 2007, 02:25:14 am: Trouble with yellow pages, No postcodes!
Title: Re: buisness address's
Post by: Ian Rochester on February 02, 2007, 04:09:40 am: Yell.com

Or if you go to your local library they will have a local business directory.

Whichever way you do it you're going to need to find some way to transpose the addresses onto your database and the easiest way is typing
Title: Re: buisness address's
Post by: Ian Gourlay on February 02, 2007, 07:16:12 am: Quote from: BriteClean on February 02, 2007, 02:25:14 am
Trouble with yellow pages, No postcodes!
You can get a postcode directory useful as part of your Cross Check as you compile your own mailing list.

Kellys directories were popular with Star Salesmen when I did my training in the dark ages, before the Internet, mobile phones computers, typewriters photocopiers, telephone answering machines Colour TVs spell check was a dictionary or a bash around the head
Title: Re: buisness address's
Post by: craigp on February 02, 2007, 08:55:09 am: Quote from: Kinver_Clean on February 01, 2007, 05:22:06 pm
Yellow Pages have dummy entries that go straight to YP to catch people who copy entries without permission and come on them like a ton of bricks. Theres a bit in YP saying about their copyright.
You can however pay a fee and get lists from them. There are also mailing list brokers who charge by the hundred addresses sorted by area.
Trevor

thats rich then because i've had Y/P call me off my leaflets & from local paper ad, on my number thats tps registered.

i told them that what there doing is illegal and why have they called me without checking the number, thats happened twice this week. so they apolisgised lots and got off the phone.

Trevor, it was'nt someone who sells lists told you that was it?