Prospect List and Custom Lead Generation information: You'll have to talk to the service bureau be-fore you order your lists to find out which format they prefer. SRDS and data cards usually specify available data formats. To eliminate certain names from the final list, your data processing service will perform a suppression. You could suppress bad credit risks stored in your house files. In addition, outside services provide suppression files of people with bad credit. Suppression is also used to eliminate names and addresses to which you have already mailed.

 

Ask for the specific percentage of direct mail-generated names in a direct response list. You should also find out the sources of other names, such as direct response television or contest entry-blank drop boxes at fairs and conventions. Ask for a net name arrangement. When you mail to segments of more than one list, you will want to cross-reference or compare each list to eliminate duplicates. This is done by a computer merge/purge operation. Since people who respond to direct mail often order from more than one company, duplications are common, often amounting to 10 to 15 percent.

 

When a merge/purge process reduces a given list, you should not have to pay for those names you will not use because they already appear on another list, possibly your house list. List managers usually will agree ahead of time to cut costs by 15 percent off the top to compensate for duplicates identified in a merge/purge, but they are often reluctant to grant further reductions, regardless of how many names are actually used. Unfortunately, if you are renting a small quantity of names you don't have a strong bargaining position.

 

About Prospect List

 

Theoretically every compiled list in the United States, including every business and residence could be available on CD-ROM at a price most small business people can afford.

 

In practice, privacy concerns have hampered CD-ROM list development and only recently have market forces and technological changes brought CD-ROM lists within reach. If you do business-to-business marketing or can benefit from residents lists with some demographic selects, CD-ROM technology now allows you to do your own list creation at a price comparable to buying labels.

 

Then you could download the information to print custom letters and envelopes or labels.

 

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