I hate not being able to do a good job. This guy was given 3 weeks to do it and I was given 12 man-hours to do it.
I know I can't even get a data entry clerk to enter more than 20 collection records an hour and that data is right in front of them and they don't have to search for it. So I spent 2 hours tonight building the list by hand. I got 26 records in 2 hours. Some were missing email addresses, some were missing phone numbers, almost all were missing fax numbers. In other words, the data is almost useless. Not every college publishes email addresses. Additionally some of these colleges have no technical curriculum, so we could be sending a survey on technical research to seminary colleges, since there's no time to research the curriculum of each school. So to collect 400 records, it's going to take approximately another 28 hours and I'm only authorized to work 20 hours a week. Additionally, I talked to my direct mail guy and he said the whole email campaign is going to be useless anyway. He said the response rate is tiny, and many of the emails will either get caught by a spam filter or will be tossed out by the user. He recommended a nice letter with nice letterhead and a second and third letter followup for those who don't respond. I can buy a list of all 18,000 colleges and universities in the country for $2900 from InfoUSA. I can get my direct mail guy to send them for about $0.50 a piece for plain white paper in a window envelope, more for fancier paper. So for $11,900 I can hit every college president in the country. If we get a 3% response, we'll have 540 good responses. --- On Sat, 6/28/08, Kristyne McDaniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Kristyne McDaniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: [NF] need a targeted email list with universities, dean's name, > dean's email > To: "'ProFox Email List'" <[email protected]> > Date: Saturday, June 28, 2008, 1:01 AM > Madigan, > > You can try an email spider. Another option is to see if > InfoUSA does that > sort of a list. Another option is to look for some kind of > an organization > that college deans would belong to and purchase that list. > > It is too bad you got that assignment with so little time. > Some of the folks > I used to work with would have simply said there wasn't > enough time to do it > and that the deadline was going to need to be changed. > > Kristyne > > > > _______________________________________________ > Post Messages to: [email protected] > Subscription Maintenance: > http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox > OT-free version of this list: > http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech > Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox > This message: > http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are > the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or > medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for > those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious. _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
