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Keep current contacts with an email change of address service

If your company is switching Internet or email providers and changing email addresses, you will be getting a new email address. You shouldn't run the risk of not being able to have clients or vendors contact you via email. Similarly, you don't want to be left without contact information if  clients or vendors do their own email address changes. To keep on top of everything, look for some email change of address services pricing and costs.

Changing your company's email and alerting the contacts in your address book can be as simple as using the Internet to find a service that will do all of the work for you. The same goes for updating your address book with the current business email address of your contacts. When it comes to ecoa services, you have the following options:

1. Find a no-cost email change of address program to notify clients and vendors.

2. Use a paid service to keep tabs on customer or vendor email address changes.

3. Notify your contacts yourself for free.

 

Use a free email change of address service

If you'd like to save some money from the budget and put it to better use, like a year-end celebration, use an email change of address service that is free. Free services typically require the person who receives a notice that your email address has changed to go to a specific site and run a search. It's a little extra work, but again, it's free.
Try: For a no-cost solution to an email address change, visit Contact Clean. They have a service that will alert people who search for your address on their site that you have an e-mail change of address. Prior to giving out the new address, you are contacted for permission. This step can help when dealing with spam or vendors you no longer wish to use. Another option is to go to Find mE-Mail. It offers the same type of service but lacks the permission step. Both of these companies offer free service.

Pay for an email change of address program to keep client lists updated

You can take all the proper steps to keep your email address current with clients, but what can you do if clients don't do the same? If you see your inbox filling up with undeliverable emails day after day, you should consider hiring a company to verify that the email addresses you have are valid.
Try: Fresh Address will take your client list, verify the addresses on it, and return to you a list of client emails that contains a 15% increase in validity. They charge a minimum of $2,500 for this service, and the price changes based on the size of the list. At StrikeIron, you can choose a monthly, annual, or one-time purchase pricing plan for email validation. Monthly plans start at 5,000 verifications for $100, annual plans start at 60,000 for $1,200, and a one-time purchase of 5,000 verifications is $200.

Purchase email change of address software

If farming out your email change of address services is not ideal, you can purchase software that will scan your customer lists and validate them. If your customer base is small to medium sized, this might be a very good option for you at a mid-range cost.
Try: If you prefer to do it in house, Live Software offers a program that will clean up your mailing lists for $75 and verify 50,000 addresses an hour. The email address change program from Apex Pacific offers both a freeware version and a registered version for $99. The freeware version will  verify only  500 email addresses, but the registered version will verify unlimited amounts.

 

• Save yourself some time and effort by making sure that you have current email addresses for everyone in your address book before you send out your change of email address notification.

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