Have 20Million email addresses, Need some advice on how to bulk email at once

[wizofoz]

Hi There,

 You read right, I have 20million email addresses but am looking for a way to bulk email them all. Because Gmail only lets you send 500 at a time, Yahoo just plainly didn't let me send any. Just had a question as to what email service I could use or ways around sending 20million emails. I have other email lists ranging from 750 right upto 20mil, some have 20thous etc etc... so any input is greatly appreciated!!!

Many Thanks in advance

[emily vance]

 I would suggest an email marketing company for that amount.

emily

[wizofoz]

Thanks... Yeah I think I'm going to have to do that... I wanted a quick easy and cheap way to do it myself though!

[lina]

You could buy Atomic Mailer and mail from your desktop.

[tonyklaus]

The best thing for you to do to make quick bank with that list is, download a SMTP based email sender, there are many available do a google search for them. Then in the settings put the smtp settings from your high speed internet provider you use and load the list with a well written email message with a good ol affiliate link from commision junction and then sit back and see the wild results.

[dijon]

Just to let you know spam email doesn't convert. Researchers used storm bonet to send out around 300 Million emails and only 28 converted. 

[gavin tann]

OK 1st question is where did you get the data from? Did you collect it your self? Did u buy a cd from ebay or some other fool selling a list of shit data? How ever u got the data(unless from a list broker/cleaner) The 1st thing u have to do is de-dupe the list, then you need to run what is left again a data base of known anti's and all well known spam cops and spamhous emails then run it against known anti’ URL’s. once this is done you may have a list of emails that are 90% cleaned. Then the next step is to mail that data to find out how many are dead.

Don’t listen to any one that tells you that you can’t make money doing bulk email marketing. What you have is a list that I’ll guess all the spammers have. Things u have to have is tools to manage/clean your data, and good software to send with(None are listed in this thread yet). And you need a admin that can do the right setups so you can mail legal.(if you in the USA) Note only a few list brokers are for real and you wont find them searching google.. I mean you wont find good clean data that can make you great money.

[lina]

if i had a list that big, i would first try to clean it somehow. remove non-existent domains, spamtraps, etc.

then, send out through proxies, remove the non-existent accounts, and then start working on the emails you have there.

most likely, out of 20 million, you'll have about 3-5 million usable... even those will probably be pretty dirty...

[spearman]

Dude, don't mail anything from your home computer. Invest in a dedicated server (priced anywhere from $40 to $125) get some proxies and sendsafe or DM3. Then get your money man!

[wizofoz]

if i had a list that big, i would first try to clean it somehow. remove non-existent domains, spamtraps, etc.

then, send out through proxies, remove the non-existent accounts, and then start working on the emails you have there.

most likely, out of 20 million, you'll have about 3-5 million usable... even those will probably be pretty dirty...

thanx all...really appreciate your comments....

Lina, do you have a suggestion for cleaning a list? Is it possible to clean an email list without sending to all of the bad email addresses on the list?

[lina]

sure... there are services that will do it. i believe they charge by how many records.
there are also email address verifying software that will look up the domain first and if it exists, check if there is a dns record for a mail server, then connect to the mail server and check for the existence of the user. if you plan on doing this yourself, you'll probably need a lot of ip addresses to do this.

[mark]

You have mainly three options to send the emails.

1st - Which of the most of the people think is to send email via Gmail smtp, but it will not work at all. Forget about gmail to send emails. Why? The asnwer is simple. Suppose you send email XYZ to 100 people using one gmail account smtp, then the same email to another 100 people and after you have sent say few hundred emails, gmail will think that it is spam and will not send the email and will bounce back the email to your spam folder of gmail.

Q. What software can you use to send thousands of emails using multiple gmail accounts?
Ans. I guess you are thinking that if you use gmail SMTP then other mail serviced like hotmail will think that it is coming from Gmail and will let the email go into inbox. Well, that isnt the case, when you send emails using SMTp your IP ADDRESS IS EXPOSED VIA HEADERS, so anyone who received it will be able to TRACE BACK TO YOU. So, gmail isnt the good option at all.

2nd - Send via running our own SMTP Servers on your own PC.

Q. How to create a smtp server on vista?
Ans. Get OK Smtp Software, or QK Smtp server.

But when you send emails via SMTP server running on your own PC or send email via Gmail SMTP from your own PC, your IP Address will get exposed in the email header and anyone will be able to trace back to you.

3rd - Sending emails via Hosting

This is inst very easy at all. Because hosting site doesn't allow you to send more than 300 emails per hr normally and normally when you cross 1000s emails, they will delete your hosting account.

So, now you have to decide which option to use, try to use the combination.

[lina]

good post! mark as usual... 

[Kelly]

yeah nice post... informative.. and very useful for newbies

[wizofoz]

thanks everyone for their helpful information. You've gave me some good insight on why not to Spam or more importantly how to spam correctly. Good stuff.