What to do with 700 email addresses?

I would put them into your autoresponder and send out a thank you with a free gift.

Try to figure out if you sold a number of things in a particular niche. If you can't then stick with something that will help their computer operate faster, eliminate spyware etc.

Then I would get them to your website that has a free gift for a number of niches. Once they click on the gift they want they fill in their info into your specific autoresponder that puts them on that niche list.

If you don't want do that just send the list to me!

By law, at least in most states, you have every right to contact customers/clients who have purchased from you in the past-- I believe up to 6-12 months after their most recent purchase date. This includes emailing as well as what could be considered telemarketing without it being considered spam or illegal phone soliciting (even if they reside on the "do not call list").

Now, I'm certainly not an attorney and you should verify all of the laws and regulations to be sure of this, but here's a foolproof way of dealing with your situation without getting into all of that (although you still may want to check canspam just to be safe).

Send an email to your list, explaining that you are following up with them as clients of your business. Build a VIDEO opt-in page with a great free "thank you gift" for them, obviously keeping it along the lines of the sort of products that they have purchased in the past. Explain the gift in your email and provide a 3 links to it at different places throughout the email message --One perhaps a paragraph into the message, the second about 2/3 the way through, and the last link placed at the end of the email.

I would send a different message with the same free offer link everyday for a full 7 days, making sure to condense the email list as the prospects get transferred to your new list or decide to unsubscribe from your mailing.

The only problem here is that you may be in for a bit of work. Another warrior suggested importing your list into your auto-responder, but because of abuse, many services will not allow you to import a raw email list of contacts, you can only transfer prospects from one "working" list to another. There still are, however, a few services that will let you do this, but you just may have to put in some time trying to search them out. Michael Rasmussen's autoresponder service may support this feature, but don't quote me on that. I think NitroListBuilder may have an option as well.

Anyhow, at the end of this campaign, you should have two lists. The fist of which is a newly condensed version of the original, but devoid of the uninterested, and uninvolved prospects who decided to unsubscribe. And the second, a new list of freshly responsive customers who have been warmed up and are ready to receive new offers. The great news is, both of these lists are full of previous buyers of your products, and both of these lists can absolutely be marketed to with new offers. The only difference is, the second will most certainly be much more responsive and that is going to be the list that you want to market your bigger ticket items to.

However you look at it, it would be a shame simply throw away a list of 700 pre-sold buyers without at least attemting to monotize it.

Hope this was helpful my friend.

Cheers