Steve,

I do think that a utility to get at the emails on the page can help take some of the manual copy & paste process out. Just remember that every email you send out that is unsolicited puts you at the mercy of the recipient. There are some people out there that will most certainly try to make your life miserable and the more you send out, the more likely you will hit one. You will have lawyers calling you and you will have people making outrageous claims that you have sent them a virus or a worm.

Also you've got to watch for sites that use keywords from Google or Yahoo that are off topic or coincidently match your intended result. One that got me was for a site animalsites.com that I got most of the links through using a google search combined with an email spider. I would search for 'Golden Retriever', 'German Shepard' or 'Black Labs'... Well that was fine until I went on to 'Bull Dogs'. The problem was that there are lots of sports teams named Bull Dogs and a few pulled up high in Google's result list. My animalsites.com pitch to add their 'Bull Dog' site went over really bad with a webmaster at a University who then proceeded to blacklist the server in every database he could get his hands on.

I found a similar problem with doing a 'trumpet' search as there are lots of products with trumpet in the name that have nothing to do with playing the trumpet.

The bottom line is you have got to be careful on both the result sets from Google or Yahoo and then in making sure you are picking emails from those pages that are appropriate. Also remember that even if you are not doing bulk it sounds like you are intending to do un-solicited emails. Just be very careful and go for quality leads and opportunities.


Greg

>Thanks Greg,
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>I will check out the ASP subscription method. I have some ASP books I can reference.
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>On the e-mail farming, that was good info. Thanks for that. I just wanted to farm some e-mail addresses and not use them for bulk, mass e-mailings because I hate spam too. I wanted to figure out a way to grab the names of people associated with the e-mails so I could send individualized, personalized e-mails, to key targeted people as you pointed out. I think that will keep me out of the spamming mode.
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>I just seem to waste so much time manually hunting down e-mails, I figured there had to be a better way to track people down and sell them my products and services without buying lists from list companies.