on this subject
I want to market a website to interested people
Do you know where I can buy list of people to e-mail
The niche is cats and or pets

Thanks

Don't people have to sign up before you can e-mail them? Or does that just mean it's unsolicited? If I signed up for a newsletter somewhere and I ended getting an e-mail about cats or pets I'd consider it spam (as I dont have any pets; would love a dog though).

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I read about this somewhere
Basically the people in question have singed up to receive information about a certain subject

Like asked "would you like to receive details on cat and dog websites please tick the box"

The issue arises if you repurpose the email list

Say you get people to signup to your newsletter for a site about topic X and you then reuse the list to promote topic Y

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Blacknight. I will hopefully soon be promoting a website. A service for retailers. I really dont want to mess it up. Is sending an actual letter with website details regareded as spam. You were saying earlier in this better ways without spamming other than competitions any other ideas? thanks in advance

The legality technically states you can send unsolicited communications to a business, however if they ask you to cease you must and they must have somehow selected to be contacted by their actions. To be honest, I doubt all 1,500 want to hear about your website despite the fact they put their address online. For any people in that list that are sole traders or individuals, you are taking the Data Protection Act(s) head on, which is bound to end in legal action.

Overall, unless they sign up or say "CONTACT ME REGARDING ANYTHING, INCLUDING YOUR OWN WEBSITE", don't email them.

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I read it somewhere, there are ways to avoid being flagged as spam by following some ground rules:

1. Always have unsubscribe option in the footer of email.
2. Include your company details, not only a link to website.

I dont knw how true it is, but if you are still worried - perhaps you can use US based smtp servers or open relays. SPAM is EVIL - DONOT DO IT!

That is under US Federal law. In other words, feel free to send to any US based accounts, excluding Irish GMAIL accounts. It is fairly risky, certainly dont use that method on any domains other than .com

LOL found this website while surfing the web - OECD - Task force on Spam - Country laws

Now, go to IRELAND Section and you will find :- see for yourself!

Worried about sending spam to Irish Servers yet!!!

Law and reality are two very different things ...

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