[OnlyFair]

Originally Posted by fee

Try here kate..........

http://www.out-law.com/page-6780

Thanks Fee!

[gregsta]

Hi Giftgirl, what is your website URL? In the last place I worked for I managed to get our distribution list up to over 150,000 globally over four years through minimal online advertising and a lot of site work.

I'll give you a few pointers....

[Giftgirl]

It's www.boutiko.co.uk; thanks very much, some pointers would be great, thanks Gregsta!

[joshwc]

Hi Giftgirl,

I certainly don't want to add to your stress so I'm going to be very careful here! I'm from Selectabase who you mentioned in your original post. In all honesty I agree with other posters in that renting a large mailing list from someone like us probably isnt not going to help you out, because of the oproduction costs etc, plus it sounds like you've got a lot of other stuff on your plate. So here's 3 ideas (and not all of them to do with our lists) which may be worth looking at:

1. We've got a monthly mailing list service called Birthday Mailings - you choose the postcode area, and we send you a list each month of consumers who are about to have a birthday. Because you are in the gift business, maybe you could mail them a voucher for them to pass on their family members. You can target by age as well. As a monthly service your mailings will be regular, smaller, more easily manageable and more affordable.

2. Your website says you do a lot events - make sure you sign up people at fairs to get more info, offers, join your special club etc. to build up your database. Because of the ethical nature of the products you sell, you should get a warm and positive response.

3. Your website itself is really good, and has a very good Page Rank if its only being going as long as you say it has. But it could do more to sign people up on the home page to join your fan club. And once again, because of your market, you should get more than average numbers of people willing to join.

Hope all this helps. If you want any more info let me know.

Good luck!

[Giftgirl]

Hi Joshwc

I appreciate your honesty, given that you work for Selectabase. I will have a look at the Birthday Mailings service. Regarding fairs etc, I do take along a clipboard with a form for people to sign up to my mailing list. Thanks for the kind words about my site; I'm sure I should know this but how did you work out the page rank, and what is it?!!

Thanks for your points, greatly appreciated.

Tara

[Tigglet]

Hi Tara,

I'm sure I should know this but how did you work out the page rank, and what is it?!!

The PageRank tells you the level of importance that Google attaches to a web page. The higher the PageRank, the more important Google thinks your page is. Your main index page is showing a PageRank of 4 out of 10.

You can see the PageRank for any page on the internet by downloading the Google Toolbar from here:

Hope this helps.