Need Advice On Direct Marketing

[Smart Extranet]

Hello everyone, I'm Natalie Ganguli from the company Smart Extranet that specialise in our software Smart Extranet that allows professionals to share files with their clients in secure extranet work zones. We have just started to enter the anglo saxon market. We would like to do a direct marketing promotion on targeted jobs: Accountants, Lawyers, Architects, Communication agencies. What do you recommend us? Paying for email lists, or work with aweber, icontact, viralyticsmedia? By the way which is the best one? Do you have any ideas to get to contact people from those targeted jobs?

Thank you so much in advance for the response!

[Logan]

I like icontact and also have used verticalresponse a bit.

Regarding lists by job type, you could use infousa.com and purchase a list based on the various filters you specify. You may want to consider contacting them directly to discuss your campaign with one of their representatives.

[eleavylee]

good luck for you

[Smart Extranet]

Thanks a lot!

[cerir]

I believe InfoUSA can do your mailing as well as provide the list. Another list company that some of our customers like is ZoomInfo.
Good Luck

[vincentm]

hi,

I understand you are looking for direct marketing.

let me ask you have you ever thought of doing Email marketing. It is the best way to reach the excat traget and same time it much more cost effective as compair to Direct mailing.

Thank you

[davcgp]

We have had great results with InfoUSA. All of their data is phone verified and you can choose your Industry by SIC code and segment anyway you like. You need to remember that your are renting the list for a one time use and not going be able to buy the list once and email it over and over again. The same applies for the direct mail lists. Another thing to keep in mind is that InfoUSA or on of their subsidiaries will have to deploy the email because the records have opted into receiving messages from INFO not you.

Originally Posted by davcgp

We have had great results with InfoUSA. All of their data is phone verified and you can choose your Industry by SIC code and segment anyway you like. You need to remember that your are renting the list for a one time use and not going be able to buy the list once and email it over and over again. The same applies for the direct mail lists. Another thing to keep in mind is that InfoUSA or on of their subsidiaries will have to deploy the email because the records have opted into receiving messages from INFO not you.

infoUSA wont actually sell you the email addresses. They(we) do the blast for your. By doing this is how we maintain the quality of our email database.

In regards to a directmail list. Once we sell you the list it is yours to mail to as many times as you would like.