Clean It Up
UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: markpowell on February 06, 2008, 05:30:46 pm
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Has anyone ever tried contacting companies, libraries etc using e-mail to explain who you are and what you do?
Have you had any success, i send letters at present but was looking to cut costs.
Mark
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Tried it a couple of times Mark with no joy. It's effectively spam that gets deleted asap. That said, so many co's do it it must work sometime
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Funny you should mension that. I was reading an old thread entitled DESPERATE. not sure why LOL
Anyway someone was saying they email companies. emails are generally available and I think if you are local and it's worded well it won't appear like you are spamming.
As it costs nothing but time. I thought it's got to be worth a go.
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Its illegal unless you have there consent or they have opted in to receive it.
There are exemptions if their address was collected in the course of a sale but you must include an opt out address.
Hope that helps.
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Oh bvggered that idea then
I thought that only applied to joe pulbic, but you can send to a name in a company till the cows come home or they tell you to s0d off.
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Same applies when you get sales calls. If someone ever says I found your co name on yell.com they are breaking the law and can be fined up to 10% of their annual turnover.
ie you cannot canvass sales material unless you have purchased the info.
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I'm not up with the times and I think things have changed since I was Headhunting. God knows how they manage it now then.
I thought it was more to do with YP getting shirty and checking that the company are not TPS registered.
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It is NOT ILLEGAL on a business to business basis, only where companies are mailing consumers.
I can't say how it would work for carpet cleaning, but with my office cleaning business I have a 10k a year contract that came from an email.
Cheers
Owen
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MY marketing ciompany has a turnover of nil as I am their only customer and do not pay them.
So 10% of Nil is Nil