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#16 (permalink)   09-16-2009 AdvantageAdministrativeSltns Junior Member Company name: Advantage Administrative Solutions   Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Princeton, MN Posts: 302 Re: Post Card mailing Good to know, talk about someone that always has good ideas! __________________ Erika Glem www.advadminsol.com Let my administrative solutions be to your advantage.

#17 (permalink)   09-17-2009 Essential New Member   Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Atlanta, Georgia Posts: 29 Re: Post Card mailing Originally Posted by King Business Management Hi, Did you purchase a list or create your own? I'm thinking of doing a small mailing with my own list and specifically targeting certain businesses in my area. I used the Referencwe USA-Business database. If you have an account with a librabry you should be able to access. It is a great database! __________________ Pam

#18 (permalink)   09-17-2009 AdvantageAdministrativeSltns Junior Member Company name: Advantage Administrative Solutions   Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Princeton, MN Posts: 302 Re: Post Card mailing Only certain libraries have access to the Reference USA database, but it is a really good source with lots of information and it is FREE. __________________ Erika Glem www.advadminsol.com Let my administrative solutions be to your advantage.

#19 (permalink)   09-27-2009 thompsonassistants Contributing Member Company name: Thompson Assistants My latest Twitter: What happened to the little boy in the balloon!??!   Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 49 Re: Post Card mailing follow-up is key. many individuals will see the postcard and might be somewhat interested, but wont make a move until they are contacted by you directly.

#20 (permalink)   09-28-2009 AdvantageAdministrativeSltns Junior Member Company name: Advantage Administrative Solutions   Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Princeton, MN Posts: 302 Re: Post Card mailing I just recently found another free source for getting company information and creating your database. I have not fully checked this out, but it looks similar to Reference USA. This is from the Sales Gravy website http://salesgravy.salesfuel.com/coin....aspx?City=xxx __________________ Erika Glem www.advadminsol.com Let my administrative solutions be to your advantage.

#21 (permalink)   09-28-2009 LMM1025 New Member   Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Quakertown PA Posts: 37 Re: Post Card mailing good for you and good luck! postcards for what though?

#22 (permalink)   09-28-2009 Norma Contributing Member Company name: DSA Virtual Assistant Services   Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Rainier, Oregon Posts: 83 Re: Post Card mailing I did an introductory letter to my chamber of commerce members. I got the mailing list from the chamber of commerce. I have their names, addresses, phone numbers, emails and website addresses from this mailing list. __________________ ~ Norma Guerin DSA Virtual Assistant Services

#23 (permalink)   09-28-2009 AdvantageAdministrativeSltns Junior Member Company name: Advantage Administrative Solutions   Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Princeton, MN Posts: 302 Re: Post Card mailing The local chamber sites are great places to find information. If you go to their offices you can get their directory book as well. __________________ Erika Glem www.advadminsol.com Let my administrative solutions be to your advantage.

#24 (permalink)   09-28-2009 micarter Contributing Member Company name: MyPointAssist   Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Lafayette, LA Posts: 144 Re: Post Card mailing You do have to be a member don't you? I know membership is a bit heavy at this point, for me anyways.

#25 (permalink)   09-28-2009 AdvantageAdministrativeSltns Junior Member Company name: Advantage Administrative Solutions   Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Princeton, MN Posts: 302 Re: Post Card mailing Originally Posted by micarter You do have to be a member don't you? I know membership is a bit heavy at this point, for me anyways. Yes, you do need to become a member; however, they do give away their directories to anyone and as far as their website information, a lot of them just post it open to the public. __________________ Erika Glem www.advadminsol.com Let my administrative solutions be to your advantage.

#26 (permalink)   09-28-2009 Secretary Assistance New Member Company name: Secretary Assistance, Inc.   Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: South Florida Posts: 26 Re: Post Card mailing Congrats!! I will be in marketing stage here in about a few days too. Am a little nervous but excited at the same time. Let us know how it goes and again CONGRATS!! __________________ Leslie Marshall www.SecretaryAssistance.com

#27 (permalink)   10-15-2009 Donovanassist Contributing Member Company name: Donovan & Associates   Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Chicago, IL Posts: 67 Re: Post Card mailing Any postcard mailing updates? I just did my first mailing and was wondering how long it took for most people to get responses.

#28 (permalink)   10-16-2009 Lia-VSS Active Member Company name: Julia Neal Latest blog post: Irish phone problem now fixed! My latest Twitter: @likealindsey aww so fun!! Eat yummy stuff for me!...   Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Dublin [IE] [Former UK] Posts: 671 Re: Post Card mailing i'm thinking the same. I'm hoping to do my first mail blast today/tomorrow and I just hope that I get some leads from 20 contacts that I found on the local chamber of commerce sites [as well as the local BNI sites] __________________ Julia Neal ...because we ♥ admin! http://julianeal.wordpress.com

#29 (permalink)   10-21-2009 Kim Dixon New Member   Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 24 Re: Post Card mailing I'm working on my first mailing this week. I am thinking of doing postcards or a sinlge sell sheet/flyer type mailing?? My main hurdle is getting a mailing list I really would like to target new businesses first. I don't really have the funds to join a chamber though.

#30 (permalink)   10-21-2009 Office Goddess Senior Member Company name: The Virtual Office Goddess, LLC   Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Boulder, CO Posts: 2,885 Re: Post Card mailing Originally Posted by Kim Dixon I'm working on my first mailing this week. I am thinking of doing postcards or a single sell sheet/flyer type mailing?? My main hurdle is getting a mailing list I really would like to target new businesses first. There are lots of ways to target new businesses only. We have a local business paper that publishes a listing of Secretary of State filings monthly and our main newspaper has them daily in the legal classifieds section. You can manually cull this information from these types of sources with just a little patience and time. Try searching this forum for 'mailing list' and you will find lots of threads on ways to get/create mailing lists for free. __________________ Lily Chambers, The Virtual Office Goddess, LLC Author "How to Do Your Own Small Business Bookkeeping"