What to do with a purchased list?

Define: purchased list please.


Thanks..

Suthan M


p/s- If you "bought" this list off someone, trash that and go ask for a refund.

Not another one suckered into buying a list.

You have my sympathy but if you payed someone thinking you were getting an actual list you aren't.

If you email them its spam. If you sell their information on your probably braking the law. Scrap the list, its better than getting into trouble later on.

If I've misunderstood the OP my apologies.

The actual rules about sending unsolicited emails are quite clear though, and if they haven't asked you for information you can't send it.
This could even get your website closed, so really isn't worth playing with.

Are these people that have already purchased products from YOU personally.. or someone else?

Usually it's not a very good idea to 'purchase' any type of list. If I were you,
I'd try to get my money back ASAP.

If you can't, however, you've got to find a way to run with it. There's no sense
in completely wasting your investment... you need to find a way to make a
decent return. Here are a few ideas off the top of my head...

The first thing you need to find out is what they want to learn about. Ask them
what they're interested in. To do this, simply create a survey with a few answers
then email them the link. Try Quizilla. Give them an ethical bribe, such as:

"Answer this short poll question to receive my brand new report on blah, blah,
blah. Inside, you'll learn the best ways to do this, this, and this in record time."

Of course, you then need a report to give away. But I'm sure you can handle
that, right? If not... farm it out.

Once you've gotten the results back from your short survey (email it twice),
find a product (or, heaven forbid... create one) that teaches them exactly what
they want to learn. Think ClickBank...

...And that's it. Don't just 'give up' on your investment. Try to make it work
somehow, some way.

...But definitely try to get your money back if you can! :-)

Not technically "purchased."

Just wondering if there is a way to import them into, say, Aweber or some other
and "re-opt" them in.

Wowsers.

OK I think your feeling a little defensive and so you say not technically purchased. I don't believe that but that doesn't mean I am right.

doing anything at all with a list of people who don't know you is going to
1) piss them right off and could land you in lawsuits from them at the very least spam complaints by 70 grand plus members you would be in some very serious trouble FTC kind of trouble.

2)you will ruin your name and people talk and that my friend is a ton of people. best solution
good bye to list would have been nice but obviously I am in not a good position
try and go against this advice friend go ahead try and swap it over to aweber or any other AR and then you have them to deal with as well.

makes 0 sense
-WD

This is becoming a more common request where people "somehow" get these lists and want to do something with them. They see that "everyone else does it" because of all the unstoppable spam they get in their inbox and figure why not me too? It's understandable to want to go that route but you must restrain yourself. If you track and research the viagra image ads and discount pills emails and "i have $1,000,000 to give you from nigeria" spam you get, you will find very complex email system networks behind them to hide the IP address where those emails are coming from. That's why the feds can't shut them down.

But, rest assured, that if you send out that many unwanted emails and you do NOT have that kind of black-hat setup in the background, you could certainly be the one the Federal Trade Commission will go after. Are you willing to take that chance?

awwww man, and I thought this nigerian guy was serious about giving me $20 million in profit just for holding his $30 million in my account. Guess I better delete that E-mail... damn back to the drawing board, girlfriends not going to be happy!

My advice: Quick use of your DELETE key.

No reputable autoresponder company is going to allow that list to be imported in to their system.

Any autoresponder company that does is soon going to be out of business.