Bulk email

In addition to having an opt-out link, is it also necessary to put a mailing address of the company on email blasts/newsletters?

Do you just pay them to send out emails to an opt in list and design if needed or are there other fees too, like fees for links and fees for every time that link is clicked?

I need to offer the opt-out option before I send the bulk emails.

I have a customer list from my online business that is 20,000 strong with duplicates deleted. Unfortunatly my site has never offered a “join our mailing list” and now I have a list of 20,000 customers. I’d like to start sending out regular customer specials but I dont’ know if I can do this. I’d like to use iContact.com to do it.

I receive regular emails from companies that I buy from all the time. I’ll buy something from company a and within a week i’m getting a newsletter or a deal of the day type of thing. Always with an “unsubscribe” option. I received one today from a very reputable company saying “you are receiving this because we have had a business relationship in the past”….

Here’s my 2 questions:

1. Can I market to my 20,000 customers simply because I’ve sold to them in the past?

2. If no to question 1, can I send an email to all 20,000 asking them if they’d like to receive emails from my company. If yes, click here if no, you’ll not hear from me again.

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Aaron

I know that the best answer is to include an opt in check box on the form.

I’m not willing to do that, though.

My form is extremely simple. Take a look at it here:

http://www.heritage-education.com.

You can see the entire form and it’s obvious that it will only take a minute to fill it out.

I don’t want to add a check box because I feel that that would make people less likely to submit the form.

But, since they are requesting more info, it seems to me like it would be fair game to add them to my email list. I would, of course, give them an easy-to-use opt out option.

Thoughts?

How do people advertise through email? Is there anyway to get bulk email for advertising for free? I have a small business and would like to advertise by email.

Can anyone recommend an online tool/service to manage email campaigns AND help manage contacts with no email address? I have been looking and can only find email campaign services that will force me to split my list.

i have a few sites, which are normal sites, selling good products.

how can i make people opt in to the site, so that i can send them emails on various updates to the site.

I need a professional company that uses only opt-in email addresses and can geotarget campaigns.

I recently had an Opt-in Email company (Email Marketing Innovation. com) send out an html email promo for my company to 350000 people. It was supposed to be targeted and to the US only. I only paid $49 for it so I figured what the heck. I have seen my visits skyrocket but no sales. I have a tracker on my site and it tells me where the visitor came from and what pages he clicked on. So far, it seems like every single visitor that the company has sent my way only lands on the index page of my site and goes nowhere from there. Also, I have noticed that they have sent me an large number of visitors from around the world. Are these companies for real, or are they just able to drive fake traffic to my site??? Please help me on this one. My site is SprinklerAnchor. com