On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 3:33 AM, Michael Madigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > -------------------------------------------
A snail mail consultant said that email wouldn't work? Get out of here! Ok how do you defeat the lack of email addy if you have their name? Find any faculty chair's page and they will give you the university's rule on email names. [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just because you can't find something. Now can you find a list of University Leadership? Where you can pull the name and U off ? Then you just make 3 passes at the person's name. Now what is the quality that you are sending them? Is your subject going to pass through spam filters? Will their secretary pass int on because it has value to them? No matter letter on wonderful paper or an email, you have to get through the human filter that owns the desk in front of your target audience. Expect 1/2 of one percent. Your begging for money in very tight budget times. If your looking for research $ this is not at all how to go about it. Or so says my friend a professor in civil engineering. -- Stephen Russell Sr. Production Systems Programmer Mimeo.com Memphis TN 901.246-0159 _______________________________________________ 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.
