[craigp]

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

[rioclean]

Try Chamber of commerce cost about £30.00 for a long list if you join its free.

[the red carpet]

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.

[DanielWelford]

Thomson Local do something where you can buy data lists including addresses, point of contacts, tel no's etc, from specific sectors/industries.

Dan

[Kinver_Clean]

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

[Ian Gourlay]

I always cross reference directory entries.

[conallon]

Trouble with yellow pages, No postcodes!

[Ian Rochester]

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

[Ian Gourlay]

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

[craigp]

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?