Buying email lists

it isn't "illegal" but the use you're making of it can be. They are easier and cheaper ways to gather email adresses. Just don't buy those lists from sellers who already sold them to x1000 hoping customers with for sure, 0 return.

I've been buying / sending purchased data for almost 19 years.

Assuming you are in the US, you just need to follow can-spam law.

I mainly just send B2C data. What you are wanting to do is send B2B data. While I never advocate using a scraper for B2C data, you could use a scraper for B2B and validate it with a service like hunter.io.

If your buying data, you could always just purchase a portion that is available and test it. I have no idea what exists for gift stores.

For cleaning data you could use emailoversight.com or impressionwise.com

Wow, that's awesome! Could you tell us here where to get the best email list service, and the price involve. Tnx.

It's not completely "Wrong" to buy a database of emails. Many tools like Hubspot even provide 100 email Ids for campaigns in their free plan. In my opinion, it's just the site you get it from.

Unless you send to subscribers, most emails go to spam box.
I do not understand markers still use email-marketing

don't buy email list's, you will get $0 in returns. Try Quora Ads, you will get good result.
good luck.

I get more success from ppc ads especially from Facebook ads. You can get many data about your audiences from fb ads. At the start you may lose some money, but once you gather enough data and know how to make use of the data the rest is about doing split test.

By the way, back to your question. Don't buy solo ads leads, the conversation rate is really low. The better way is to find your niche influencer and pay them to send to their leads. This will convert better

This is a very grey area of legislation. I would stay totally clear of purchased lists, they are poor quality and can get you in a lot of hot water.

buying an email list is not entirely wrong thing to do, if you want to quickly promote your site its ok thing to do, however no export of email marketing will advice you to by email list because in long run it won't benefit you, it will be great if you build your data on your on so you can achieve high deliverability, and great ROI

Hello

Like ProducerK I get peed off with all the misinformation posted in the WF. It's often like the blind leading the blind, most knowing nothing and teaching each other the same.

We own an Agency with a turnover of more than US$21 Million a year, so I think we know a little bit about IM.

We mainly generate lists for our own mailings but we also purchase some email lists to use for our clients. We buy them from professional email list brokers who specialize in B2B email lists.

Email campaigns are just as effective today as they ever where, if you know what you are doing. We encourage all of our clients to build email lists of their clients/customers, so they can maintain regular contact with newsletters and offers. We run many of these campaigns for our Agency clients.

Cheers
Lindy

As a lot of the people have already mentioned, buying is illegal. But since you know this, I won't waste time emphasizing that.

If you are going to buy a list, here are the major considerations:
1) It is likely that a spam trap exists
2) The list has likely been sold multiple times, making the engagement rates of the recipients very very low.

It doesn't matter what you ask the sellers. You have no way of corroborating any claims that they make.

LightSpeed,
It will depend on the type of business or product you are selling. For instance if you have Internet Marketing Software to sell, you would want email list of looking or interested in Internet Marketing. Hope that helps
Wil

Email deliverability is pretty complicated, here's a good link that gives you an idea of what's involved. From looking at your numbers though, it doesn't seem like you have a great list.

https://mxtoolbox.com/c/products/deliverycenter

One way to get a really good list is to find the tradeshow that your target market attends and then buy the email list from the company who organizes the entire event. That list will include the email and contact information for the owners who rented booths and it might include attendees. It's obviously not your entire industry but it'll at least be current and will be owners who are actively investing in their business.

With your current approach, your email service might not like you, even if all your email addresses are valid, because if those recipients don't remember signing up for your list, the bottom line is that they are going to behave like they don't remember signing up for your list. Meaning, a percentage of people will not even open your email because they don't recognize you. This percentage will for sure be a different percentage than if you were to send an email to a list of people who did signup to be in your email list. The email company, in addition to the technology companies that are responsible for getting your emails to the recipients, these people see a lot of emails being sent so they probably have a good idea of what's going on, just by looking at the numbers and the way people respond to your email.

This isn't the entire email process, I'm just trying to illustrate how easy it is to determine if you're list was purchased or built by you. Even if you write the best subject line and a lot of people open the email, there are still other ways to determine what's going on.

It depends on the price. If it's cheap enough, it's worth a shot. If you are buying lists, you should start small to check bounce rates and see if their lists are junk. That said, there are so many services that let you export thousands of qualified leads which have a much higher deliverable % so I stay away from this.

The laws mostly concern how you message, not how you get email addresses.

It really depends how the list was obtained. If it was just scraped from somewhere, then it is illegal to email to it, and a very bad idea anyway because it will decrease the deliverability score of your domain because most of the emails will go into the spam folder or be deleted automatically.

BUT, it IS possible to buy lists of real opt-in leads.

The problem is, you have to know which is which . . . a lot of people selling "leads" are really selling prospects that they have scraped. But they won't tell you that.

So you need to find someone experienced, professional, and recommended by others, to buy a list from. Then you need to test it at small volume, then gradually increase volume and make sure the open rate and click-rate stay the same (at some point, even the best list brokers might start adding false emails into the list if they don't actually have the volume you want, so always test, don't assume).

Chris

If you're sending emails cold, you never want to send from your main domain or hosting. Even if you don't get any complaints on the first send, odds are you're going to get your IP or domain blacklisted if you continue sending.

As far as I am aware it is not illegal.
Many Companies do this all the time.

The trick is finding a good reputable source, as many are crap or over used.

Don't buy unsanitized email list from public. Make sure the vendor has a report run on major email cleaning service such as MailboxValidator, ZeroBounce or Bounceless.

1M undeliverable email is worst than 100 good email.

Im unsing my own contact form lists, they are even better than normal emails adress.

In my opinion buying an email list is high risk and low reward. I've seen that it's much better to try and do a joint venture with someone who already has a targeted email list. Yes I know this can be tough, but think about it and try to find marketers at your level (list size) or a little above who may be willing to work with you. This way you can leverage their list size to build your own and they can do the same. You can use forums like this one in order to get started or find other IM forums to search out people with lists where you can network with them.

It is a 50/50 thing. My advice you purchase an email that is good, use cleaner to remove the bad ones. Ensure you rise it over and over till you get the juicy and active ones with you. Then, you can promote to the list using cool emailing technics.

I tried it over and over. It works like magic when you understand how to crush it.