Precisely for this reason, however, online service subscribers are often bombarded with a much higher than average quantity of unsolicited mail. Not to mention that creating Email Mailing Lists in this manner is unethical. Generally, depending on what you are marketing, a very efficient way to build up large Email Mailing Lists is to harvest addresses from relevant web sites. Online enterprises doing business in fields that are related to yours often comprise the most perfectly targeted market for your product or service. Copywriters need to make Email Mailing Lists with web site developers, advertising agencies, public relations consultants and indeed all companies involved in marketing.
Businesses are unlikely to object to unsolicited mail relevant to their operations.
Several programs on the market, like Web Weasel, Web Bandit and others, do the job of harvesting Email Mailing Lists with varying degrees of efficiency. The user enters one or more keywords or phrases pertaining to the type of web site he wants, selects one or more search engines, and logs online. The software then spiders every site that the search engines retrieve, and locates its e-mail address for the Email Mailing Lists. The best of these programs will collect thousands of addresses for Email Mailing Lists in a matter of minutes. Other rich sources of Email Mailing List addresses are newsletters and ezines, online forums, and email discussion lists.