Hello All!
It has been a few months since I last posted, I have been steadily working away on my new website in the "Desert of Desertion". There have been new ideas come and gone, but I have seen this business through and I now have a fully developed product.
This website essentially lets you buy the addresses in a specific geographic region to build a mailing list for sites like www.click2mail.com, or I use it for Vistaprint mailing services.
As stated in previous posts, I needed this tool to help my marketing efforts in the family businesses(Internet Service Providers). Most often we can only cover a small area of 10-15 square miles spread out through the Phoenix area. Our companies needed geographic based mailing lists, and EDDM often wasted hundreds if not thousands of flyers.
We were paying for an overseas assistant to drop pins and collect addresses by hand. I built a program to do this much faster and cheaper. Mail-Sprout is mostly a "Scratch Your Own Itch" product, and other than a few months of coding and work it didn't cost anything to build.
If you have some time, take a look at my new website: www.mail-sprout.com
Notes: The server I use to count the addresses can count an area up to about 600,000 homes. Above that it might error out. The maximum number of addresses that can be bought in a single go is 20,000-27,000; I don't see this being a problem, but for more addresses than this I would definitely have to run this script by hand.
Also, be patient when clicking through the site; this is a fairly computationally heavy set of tasks and it might need a second to catch up. This is a bare bones proof of concept still.
Please let me know what you think!
It has been a few months since I last posted, I have been steadily working away on my new website in the "Desert of Desertion". There have been new ideas come and gone, but I have seen this business through and I now have a fully developed product.
This website essentially lets you buy the addresses in a specific geographic region to build a mailing list for sites like www.click2mail.com, or I use it for Vistaprint mailing services.
As stated in previous posts, I needed this tool to help my marketing efforts in the family businesses(Internet Service Providers). Most often we can only cover a small area of 10-15 square miles spread out through the Phoenix area. Our companies needed geographic based mailing lists, and EDDM often wasted hundreds if not thousands of flyers.
We were paying for an overseas assistant to drop pins and collect addresses by hand. I built a program to do this much faster and cheaper. Mail-Sprout is mostly a "Scratch Your Own Itch" product, and other than a few months of coding and work it didn't cost anything to build.
If you have some time, take a look at my new website: www.mail-sprout.com
Notes: The server I use to count the addresses can count an area up to about 600,000 homes. Above that it might error out. The maximum number of addresses that can be bought in a single go is 20,000-27,000; I don't see this being a problem, but for more addresses than this I would definitely have to run this script by hand.
Also, be patient when clicking through the site; this is a fairly computationally heavy set of tasks and it might need a second to catch up. This is a bare bones proof of concept still.
Please let me know what you think!
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