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A World Leader

Saturday, September 4, 2010 by D&B Email List Expert

At Dun & Bradstreet, we are the world's leading providers of reliable business information, whether that be business email lists, credit reports, or any number of services. Those are excellent things, but what does being a world leader actually mean? Well, it means that through time and trials, we've proved our commitment to the customer.

D&B has existed in one form or another for over a century. Despite economic down times, like the Great Depression, and times of world unrest, like the two World Wars, we've never stopped gathering and distributing vital and precise business information. Our long history of success despite extreme difficulties proves our dedication and quality--and that makes us world leaders.

Now, let a world leader work for you. With millions of contacts on our email address list, and nearly the same number of direct dial phone numbers and mailing addresses, D&B Professional Contacts can give you the tools your company needs to run successful multi-level campaigns.

A Busy Audience

Friday, September 3, 2010 by D&B Email List Expert

Busy. That's sums up the business world. Millions of projects run by millions of professionals who need the products and services you can supply. One problem though--everyone is so busy that reaching them is difficult. Old-fashion networking is largely just that, old fashion, and new forms of social media aren't very helpful when trying to reach professionals.

Here at Dun & Bradstreet, we have a solution to that problem: Email campaign marketing with D&B Professional Contacts. We give you access to a business email directory with over nine million contacts and, for most of those, direct dial phone numbers and mailing addresses. Using this data, you can make email advertisements that will grab the busy audience's attention and let them know how you can help.

To find out how you can reach others through email, download a free whitepaper or complete the web form for a free quote.

Quality and Quantity

Friday, September 3, 2010 by D&B Email List Expert

Information is a valuable asset, one of the most valuable. Having good business information allows for the right decisions to be made at the right time. What's more, a company with accurate target audience email addresses has a distinct sales advantage. The key is to purchase email addresses from a provider with accurate information.

Unfortunately, many companies rent email lists from B2B providers whose contact lists usually have less than 15% email address coverage. The amount of usable information they provide is minimal compared to Dun & Bradstreet's D&B Professional Contacts, where nearly 100% for our nine million contacts are covered.

What's more, since contact information changes regularly, the data at D&B is frequently updated so that it's two to three times more accurate than data provided by other B2B groups. You see, we don't just provide a lot of information, we make sure its the best you can get.

If you want Quality and Quantity for your email campaign marketing, download a free whitepaper or complete the web form for a free quote.

Increasing Response Time

Thursday, September 2, 2010 by D&B Email List Expert

It's easy to get sidetracked, we all know that. Even if we're trying to complete an important task, something pops up--a task, a colleague, a problem--and steals our attention. Soon, we can't even remember what we were trying to do before we were interrupted. That tendency to get distracted is the enemy of all marketers. Once you grab a customer's attention, you want to hold it until they can respond--a challenging task. This is even more difficult in types of marketing that take a while to respond to, like direct mail.

There is something to help with that problem--email based marketing. It can greatly cut down that time between receiving and responding through links embedded in the emails. Since the person can instantly reply to your advertising, it helps eliminate the chance for distraction. To make this process even more effective, we've created D&B Professional Contacts, a business email directory that will allow you to quickly reach you desired audience.

With over nine million professional contacts, a system to create target audience lists, and data that is two to three times more accurate than our competitors, you'll be sure that your emails reach the right people, and that when they reach them, they'll be able to respond quickly to your great offers. If you want to increase your sales and decrease the chance of having distracted customers, download our free whitepaper or get an online quote.

Unacceptable Truths

Wednesday, September 1, 2010 by D&B Email List Expert

Things change rapidly and with little notice in the business world. This is especially true in contact information, where between 30 and 40% of email addresses change yearly. Maybe this shouldn't come as a surprise, though, given the relative ease of changing addresses, but what is shocking is that many bulk email companies don't update their business email lists often.

This failure can leave them with up to 40% incorrect addresses, making purchasing information from them unappealing to say the least. How can you have effective email advertising, you wonder, when the available information is so out of date? Is there even a point to email list rental? Well, don't give up yet.

D&B Professional Contacts has data that is two to three times more accurate than its competitors. How is that possible, you ask? By working with Jigsaw, a leading provider of business information, and its enormous user community, we are able to keep our information updated frequently and accurately. This leaves you with highly accurate and frequently updated contact lists, allowing your campaigns to be truly effective.

If you'd like to know more about D&B Professional Contacts, download a free whitepaper or get an online quote.

Well, There's Your Problem

Tuesday, August 31, 2010 by D&B Email List Expert

As the owner of a small business, you're faced with a problem: reaching potential customers. There are many ways you can try to connect with them: old fashion legwork, letters, conferences, etc. All have merit, but they can be time consuming and costly, which can make more problems you don't need.

The problem for you may actually not be finding the solution, but recognizing it: marketing campaigns done through rented email lists. A lot of us think of email advertising as something worthless--everyone instantly deletes the email, we think. Email campaign marketing, however, has actually shown to have good ROI when performed with accurate, up to date information.

With D&B Professional Contacts, you can reach over nine million professionals whose information is updated in real time. And if only a fraction of those millions respond to your email marketing, you can still end up with thousands of leads and hundreds of customers. Now that you can see the solution, start email marketing for your small business to help solve it.

If you'd like to learn more, download our free whitepaper or get a free quote online.

The Bigger They Are . . The More Useful

Tuesday, August 31, 2010 by D&B Email List Expert

When your looking for an email bulk marketing list, you need a source of information that is both trustworthy and enormous. After all, your email advertising campaign needs to reach a lot of contacts if it's to have a high ROI. Dun & Bradstreet is here to meet both those needs.

We have a database of over nine million contacts. Let that sink in. Nine million contacts with nearly 100% have email addresses, and most have direct dial phone numbers and mailing addresses as well (most providers have contact lists where only 15 to 25% of listed contacts have email addresses).

So, we provide a large list of email addresses, but we also know its among the best in terms of accuracy. Our information is updated in what's practically real time by a large community of users. This results in our contact lists being 30 to 40% more accurate than our competitor's business email address lists.

If you want to know more about our enormous email address list, download our free whitepaper or get a free quote.

A Built-In Assistant with D&B Professional Contacts

Monday, August 30, 2010 by D&B Email List Expert

If you work with a bulk email company in order to by email lists, you'll be given a good number of contacts--but are they necessarily the contacts you want? Can be you sure that the addresses you have are to the right kinds of people and companies? If only you could have an assistant check them all.

Well, we can't send you an actual assistant to help out, so instead we built into our system a way for you select the defining criteria of your audience. Based on that information, our system will automatically create an ideal targeted email list out of our nine million professional contacts

This automated assistant not only helps build your mass email list, but also insures that the information is two to three times as accurate as our competitors. D&B Professional Contacts is updated through a group of over one million users in real time, so your email list is accurate as possible. That's not bad for just one assistant, no?

To find out more about how Dun & Bradstreet can help your business, download our free whitepaper or get a free online quote.

Boiling Down to ROI

Sunday, August 29, 2010 by D&B Email List Expert

When it comes to marketing and advertising, what you're looking for, in the end, is a high return on investment. The subject material of the ad, the medium its presented in, the length--all of those things are tailored for one purpose: to increase product awareness and sales. If a television commercial can do that, excellent. If a pop-up ad does it, just as good.

An excellent way to have high ROI is through targeted email campaigns. This alternative to traditional advertisement allows you to reach an enormous audience for an excellent price. Of course, if you buy email leads, you want to make sure they are the best available. And the best is what Dun & Bradstreet provides.

D&B Professional Contacts contains over nine million contacts, with nearly 100% email address coverage and information that is more accurate than our competitors. What's more, we give you this material for a full year, unlike many companies which rent email lists for one use only. All of this helps to insure you get the best possible information so you can have a higher ROI--because that's what it boils down to.

To find out more about how Dun & Bradstreet can help your business, download our free whitepaper or get a free online quote.

Increasing Name Recognition Through Permission E mail Marketing

Saturday, August 28, 2010 by D&B Email List Expert

Name recognition is extremely important. When someone thinks of a service or a product they need for their business, you want your name to come up first. An excellent way to get your name out there is through bulk email marketing. By sending out a series of emails to a large audience, your name will sink into their memories.

Of course, most companies only rent their list to you for one use. That means that if you want to increase your name recognition, you'll have to rent email lists multiple times. This continued expense means a lower ROI in the long run, something no one likes. But Dun & Bradstreet can help you avoid that problem.

We rent our business email address list to you for an entire year; that means you can send out as many campaigns as you need in order to increase name-recognition. To help that process along, we also have built in systems that allow you to select target email addresses that fit your ideal audience. Soon, with D&B Professional Contacts, your company's name will be popping up in the minds of your future customers.

Download our free whitepaper to find out more, or get an online quote.

Jack-of-all-Trades

Friday, August 27, 2010 by D&B Email List Expert

What is D&B Professional Contacts? Just an email list for sale? No. We're more than providers of bulk email lists. Dun & Bradstreet provides not only opt in email marketing addresses, but a means to sort them, a standard of quality unlike any of our competitors, and information that allows you to run multi-level marketing campaigns.

Our email leads list contains over nine million professional contacts with nearly 100% email address coverage--where most merely have 15 to 25% coverage. Plus, the vast majority of our contacts include direct dial phone numbers and mailing addresses. That way you can run multi-level marketing campaigns. In order to help with that, we've also included a system that will pick out the ideal target email list based on your selected criteria.

Also, since our information is two to three times more accurate than our competitors, you can even use our lists to append the data in your files. In essence, D&B Professional Contacts has multiple uses, which all function excellently, besides being a mere bulk email list provider.

If you want to see what Dun & Bradstreet can do for you, download our free whitepaper, or get a free online quote.

Maintain Your Base, Build Your Forces

Friday, August 27, 2010 by D&B Email List Expert

Sorry for the militaristic title, but what I'm really talking about is how to keep your old customers and add new ones. Naturally, we all know there are multiple ways to do this, but an excellent way is also a relatively new one--targeted email advertising. By using an opt in email campaign, you can reach large audiences effectively and, since its relatively inexpensive, look forward to an improved ROI.

And the best company to help you do this is Dun & Bradstreet. By using D&B Professional Contacts, you receive one of the best business email address lists available. We have over nine million contacts, with nearly 100% email coverage, and mailing addresses and direct dial phone numbers. Compare this to competitors who only offer 15-25% coverage on a bulk email list and are two to three times less accurate than us, and you know who you should use.

By reaching such a large number of people, you'll gather more leads who will turn into more customers. What's more, you can send out special offers to current customers who are in our database to help solidify your standing with them. Don't worry, we don't charge extra for using our contact email list multiple times. In fact, it's your's for an entire year and as many campaigns as you want. That's just one way Dun & Bradstreet can help you.

To learn more, download our free whitepaper or get a free online quote.

Unlimited Deployment or One-Time Rental: You Decide

Thursday, August 26, 2010 by D&B Email List Expert

Most providers of B2B information will rent email lists to customers for one use. You get to send off one email campaign. That's it. If you want to run a second campaign, or create a new one for a different target audience, tough. You pay again for the bulk email list. This process becomes irritating very quickly.

If you sign up for D&B Professional Contacts, though, you receive our business email list from nine million plus contacts for a year. No, not a year unless you use it three times. No, not a year and an extra charge for every email. You get our business email address list for a year and as many campaigns as you want.

Not only that, but D&B also helps with email list building via a system that allows you to select the defining characteristics of your audience. So when you do different campaigns, you can be sure they are going to the right audience--another thing you don't get with most bulk email lists.

If you'd like to know more about D&B Professional Contacts, check out our free whitepaper or get a free quote.

Helping You Meet Your Goals

Thursday, August 26, 2010 by D&B Email List Expert

Every business needs a set of long term goals, but it also needs short term goals. With only long term goals, you'll find you lack the means to get to where you want to be. The capital and personnel that short term goals can develop won't be there. By using Dun & Bradstreet's business email address list, however, you are on your way to achieving both goals.

D&B Professional Contacts provides the information you need for an email list campaign. This more modern way of advertising allows you to reach a large a large audience of professional contacts quickly. When the prospects and sales start coming in from these campaigns, you'll find your ROI much higher than on other forms of advertising. This fast and powerful means of gaining new customers allows you to reach your short term goals of higher sales.

Of course, with those short term goals met by marketing though our email business directory, that leaves you open to work on your long term goals. Whether that be expanding your product line or services offered, the capital you gain through small business email marketing is the foundation for that future growth. Let Dun & Bradstreet help you meet your goals.

To find out more about D&B Professional Contacts, download our free whitepaper or get an online quote for free.

Choose Your Special Wisely

Wednesday, August 25, 2010 by D&B Email List Expert

It's always tricky to know how a special offer will go over. How will people respond, you ask, to this special versus our normal prices? Is it a steep enough cut to attract the right number of customers? Or is it the difference too small? Will customers simply ignore it? The best way to find these answers would be to run a test campaign, and D&B can give you an excellent way to just that.

With D&B Professional Contacts, we can provide you with an business email list with over nine million contacts and a system to select a specific target audience. Using this information and system, you can create a test group to send information about your special to see how effective it is. Plus, when you buy email lists from us, you receive them for a year. If one test wasn't conclusive, you can run another one with having to pay more.

When running these tests, you might also find that email based marketing provides excellent ROI for your business. With lower costs than many forms of marketing and the ability to reach millions of people, email advertising is an ideal way to contact new customers and increase sales.

FInd out more by downloading our free whitepaper or getting an online quote

Going Green With Optin Email Marketing

Tuesday, August 24, 2010 by D&B Email List Expert

Yes, Saint Patrick's Day is over, but it can never hurt to be a bit more green--plus it can make you look good. No, I'm not talking about wearing green clothes or face paint. Instead, I'm talking about using mass email lists to help with your marketing and advertising.

How does that help you and how does it make you green? Let's answer the second question first. Bulk email advertising eliminates a lot of wasted paper that comes with a traditional campaign. Doing this is not only good for the environment, but can be good for your business. You can use your effort to be more green as a selling point among customers and it always makes for good PR.

This is all well and good, but do email bulk marketing lists actually help your business directly? Yes. Their low cost and ability to reach millions of professionals quickly makes them an excellent way to easily boost your ROI. Plus, with D&B Professional Contacts, you can run as many permission email marketing campaigns as you want for an entire year!
If you want to go green, download our free whitepaper or get a free online quote.

Never the Same List Twice

Monday, August 23, 2010 by D&B Email List Expert

When looking to buy email addresses, you want to be sure that the bulk email leads you're getting has been updated recently and, preferably, regularly. Many B2B information providers don't update their email address lists often, a problem when you remember that about 40% of business addresses change yearly.

D&B Professional Contacts, however, is two to three times as accurate as its competitors. By working without the Jigsaw user group, a million strong, we make sure we give you the best information for your targeted email campaign. Of course, this isn't enough. If we offer a list that is simply recycled from the past year, would it really serve any purpose?

That's why we add twenty thousand contacts daily. That's right. We add that many contacts to our list and we don't charge extra for them. It's all included in the year long email list rental you would purchase. So, we not only provide excellent, accurate information--we keep adding to it so you can reach more and more future customers.

If you want to learn more, download our free whitepaper or get an online quote.When looking to purchase email addresses, you want to be sure that the bulk email leads your getting has been updated recently and, preferably, regularly. Many B2B information providers don't update their email address lists often, a problem when you remember that about 40% of business addresses change yearly.

D&B Professional Contacts, however, is two to three times as accurate as its competitors. By working without the Jigsaw user group, a million strong, we make sure we give you the best information for your targeted email campaign. Of course, this isn't enough. If we offer a list that is simply recycled from the past year, would it really serve any purpose?

That's why we add twenty thousand contacts daily. That's right. We add that many contacts to our list and we don't charge extra for them. It's all included in the year long email list rental you would purchase. So, we not only provide excellent, accurate information--we keep adding to it so you can reach more and more future customers.

If you want to learn more, download our free whitepaper or get an online quote.

Why Choose Dun & Bradstreet

Sunday, August 22, 2010 by D&B Email List Expert

You've decided to go with an opt email advertising campaign, so now you have to choose your provider for the business email address list. Admittedly, there are a lot of email brokers, so how do you choose the correct one? Well, there are three things you should consider when choosing email opt in lists.

The first thing to consider is the level of email address coverage that the contact lists have. Many B2B business information providers only have about 15-25% coverage as it turns out, so you must be careful in who you choose. Secondly, since 40% of business email addresses change yearly, a provider who regularly updates their information is preferred. After all, you want these emails to get to their intended recipients. Finally, you want to consider how many campaigns you'll be running. Many providers only rent their email database list for one use.

D&B Professional Contacts, however, lets you use their list for an entire year and as many campaigns as you want to run. Plus, we have nearly 100% email address coverage and our data is two to three times more accurate than our competitors. In essence, we're the best when it comes to providing business email lists.

If you want to find out more about us, download our free whitepaper or get an online quote.

Testing, Testing, 1-2-3

Saturday, August 21, 2010 by D&B Email List Expert

Who enjoys going back and reviewing and then re-reviewing their work? Not many people. When we finish something, we want to be done with it, not to go back and start the process again. Yet no one can deny the value of reevaluating work for errors, especially when it comes to writing. So, if you're about to send out a targeted email campaign with D&B Professional Contacts, you have to be sure everything is perfect.

The first thing to check isn't the grammar or spelling, but instead the sentence flow. Of course, don't ignore the grammar, just first make sure what's being said for your opt email advertising makes sense. The best way to do this is to read it aloud to yourself. This often will reveal any strange wording you may have not have noticed if you just read it silently. Also, have someone else read it aloud, to see if they notice anything strange.

Once you're sure that the content flows well and isn't confusing, then proofread it for grammar errors. There are many tips we could give you--look out for "your" vs. "you're" or "there" vs. "their" vs. "they're"--but your best bet is to check the document sentence by sentence. Once that's done, also run it through a spell checker or paperrater.com. After all, when using a business email directory, your writing must be as professional as possible.

If you want more email marketing tips, download our free whitepaper, or get an online quote.

Unlimited - What Does That Mean?

Friday, August 20, 2010 by D&B Email List Expert

If you've decided to go with D&B Professional Contacts, you probably know that we offer data that is two to three times more accurate than our competitors, that we have nearly 100% email address coverage for our business contact list, and that we have nine million contacts--with twenty thousand added daily. Clearly, you've made a wise choice.

But you've also subscribed to our business email address list for an entire year. That means you get our entire email address directory for a quite a while. As a business person, you know that mean you can run as many targeted email campaigns as you like. Much better than having to pay email brokers for each and every campaign. That opens you up to run test campaigns with select audiences, follow-up emails to those who seem interested, or entirely new campaigns for different products. Having a full year's worth of campaigns is a huge benefit to your company. It's just one of the ways Dun & Bradstreet is helping you.

If you want to find out more, download our free whitepaper or get an online quote.

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