[markpowell]

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

[lands]

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

[Mike Osbourne]

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.

[Mark Roberts]

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.

[Mike Osbourne]

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.

[lands]

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.

[Mike Osbourne]

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.

[heritagecleaning]

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

[Ian Gourlay]

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