How do companies justify value ($) of having/buying contact lists?  Is it cost per contact?
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The value is based on how targeted the contact list is. A list of blue eyed, left handed red sox fans is harder to compile than a list of people between the ages of 18 and 32 who live in the northeast. For that reason the value of the sox fans would be worth a hell of a lot more.\n\nThe more focused and targeted the list, the more it is worth.\n\nGeneric lists like age, region, salary, gender, income level are easy to compile and should cost no more that $100 for every 1,000 names.\n\nMore detailed lists like horse owners who compete in jumping competitions may be worth as much as $500 per 1,000 names.\n\nAnd super detailed lists like doctors who have three or more childern between the ages of 2 and 18 and live in large cities can command as much as $5,000 per thousand names. If you were selling trips to Disney how much do you think that list would be worth?\n\nLists are almost always priced at cost per thousamd names also called CPM. (C=cost, P=per, M=roman numeral for thousand)
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This idea has absolutely zero unique value proposition.  Why would all these stores provide you with discounts?  The only social marketplace that could ever occur is on ebay, Yahoo, Google, or MSN where people would indicate their friends on the site (using something like Orkut) and then at the point of sale (via an auction or advertising clickthrough), the merchent's credibility is validated via the credibility of the network between you and them.  All this rebate/rewards stuff will never work - there is no company in the work short of airlines and hotels who often administer these programs directly that has ever made this work.
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Let me ask you a question. If I could show you something that made absolute total sense, where you didn't have to stock, sell or deliver products to your friends, there was a fully refundable membership fee that you couldn't loose; yet; you could add an additional $20-30,000 to your income this year with many people reaching a six to seven figure income, if it wasn't Amway or any multi-level scheme... would you spend 30-40 minutes with me and have a look? Contact me through my 360 page and I will show you. Here is the tax info I use.
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There are plenty of list sellers out there. Enter 'New Business Registrations' in Google and you'll come up with a few.\n\nThe 'freshness' of data is the big issue, so check it. What do you mean by 'new business', one that's 3 months old, or 6 months or 1 year.\n\nTry www.infousa.com
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FI, CO, SD, PP, MM, Basis, BW, APO, SEM, CRM are in demand in the US. Basically depends on where you are and how the local market is doing.
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As a rough rule of thumb, if a company wants to charge you for the privilege of registering / working for them, they are not legitimate!\n\nIf I was you I would avoid them, and save yourself the $29.98!
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You can store and maintain your list either as Text document (one line per email address) or through Excel especially if you have more information (email, name, etc). You can also use more advanced techniques such as databases - Access or SQL.\n\nThere are software and applications available out there that allows you to automatically add subcription requests to your list, automatically remove unsubscribes and send out email newsletters for you.\n\nExamples of this include Constant Contact (they have a free trial version that you can use) http://www.constantcontact.com or Topica.com (more expensive than Constant Contact and support is harder to get) http://www.topica.com . Both these services allow you to create newsletter email templates, including HTML email newsletters. You can upload your list to their systems, and when you create your campaign, it will be sent to your list.\n\nYou can also do it manually. Have a form on your website that captures email addresses. Then manually add it to your list, whether in excel or text. You can use software such as eCampaign http://www.powerhomebiz.com/052006/web.htm where you import into it your list, and put your newletter and the software will send the newsletter to those in your list.
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I feel your pain-but no card higher price. The good news is you can use a fictional name and number if you wish when you sign up that way they have a spending record but no matching party. Most stores will let you just use the phone number and not carry the card. Stores use them to make purchasing decisions as well as set pricing. If you think 2/$7 is a value and purchase they will use that matrix again if not and instead you purchase the name brand at closer to 2 of $6.25 they adjust their pricing accordingly. It also helps them stock for holidays and create those convenient "most needed" displays for shopping ease. Yes I agree they are annoying but they do save you an average of 8% and with coupons I have saved as much as 32%. Most non-chain stores will not take coupons because they are too much work chains are incented to take them which is why they will even have double and sometimes triple coupon days. Believe it or not those cards reduce food waste as well because they are a more accurate gage of purchase than end of day weights and inventory counts.  Some of the larger restaurants are considering them and food service here in California that are located inside of grocery stores often have secret sales if you use your card at the point of purchase.
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for people like myself (limited mobility) they can be very useful, but as *gingertod* mentioned you have to be aware of P&P, plus the call to bid is around £1.50 so think of that as well, today i bid on 2 mens aftershaves and got a massive bargain (also taking into account the P&P) just try to not get caught up in the moment and try to judge if "you" think you are getting value, i for one have certainly had some rather good buys. good luck to you!
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It is actually a formality, but it is not issued to everyone. It's always good to have a list with name/address/phone/email information on as many people as you can. These people serve as your network. You never know when you may need to contact them, or they you, but it can be a lifeline. I mail Christmas cards out to everyone on my list. Some people I email regularly. There are no blanket regulations. You will instinctively know, and you will make notations on your list. Good luck !
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Let me ask you a question. If I could show you something that made absolute total sense, where you didn't have to stock, sell or deliver products to your friends, there was a fully refundable membership fee that you couldn't loose; yet; you could add an additional $20-30,000 to your income this year with many people reaching a six to seven figure income, if it wasn't Amway or any multi-level scheme... would you spend 30-40 minutes with me and have a look? Contact me through my 360 page and I will show you
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Wow well I can see a couple I have done/do business with on that list and that is going to end PRONTO..no more $$ to them from me.\n\nThanks for the info I will pass it on to others.
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Am not sure there is one answer, probably a combination of time on site (day, week, month) and click thru's needed, your click rate may be high for some advertisers and low for others - rather depends on their business model. Also whether there is any conversion on top of the click thru (ie sales advert etc).\n\nSo id have range of charging models, also many of your clients may well be ad agencies rather than the end client and so may tell you what youre going to get rather than negotiate your rates.
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Two people have suggested this now, but it's really a great company.  www.vistaprint.com .  They always have great deals.  First 250 are free so you can try them out.  Any using one of their deals I just got 1,500 cards for $14.00 including shipping and handling.  I would also recommend you pick up the book endless referrals by Bob Burg.  It talks a lot about how to network to make new contacts, I'm only on chapter 4 but so far its a great book.  Hope this helps.
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If you think your website has value, then $5 is such a ridiculous amount. \n\nDetermining the value of a website has always been a tricky business; it's hard to put a value on something that is intangible. Some use a 10x valuation formula or 10 times its net profit. Others look at the cost of replicating the website. Other factors that can also come into play include perceived value of domain name, applications developed and running on the website, size of customer database, income and traffic diversification, even branding of the website.
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