Hello all -

I've been lurking the forums for a few days now and I'm dead set on making a nice living on the internet. I loathe working for other people and know there's plenty of money to be made and to go around for all. I'll spare you my life story beyond that....unless you REALLY want to know...

Anyways, I'm the President/Owner of an up and up Marketing/Consulting firm that I'm still planning and working out details. That's my main business.

However, in the interim, and to raise some capital for that company (and pay my mortage, etc.)...I've been looking into other means.

I have an idear and I need advice on the safest (inherent risks aside) and most discreet way to go about it.

I use a blend of affiliates (click*bank, commision*Juncti0n, etc.), a popular keyword search s/w, email spiders. Basically, I can search and return hot m_ail, g*mai_l, y_@ho0, exc(te, bascially all the free email accounts, so I can export that list, scrub/skim it manually to weed you guys out (no offense ;-) and I get a pretty tight list of targeted buyers based on keywords (the opportunities are endless here as far as products and targeted lists). I then send personal emails to these folks because I have a product and I know they've recently searched on it.

So, to make a long story short (too late) I need to know the best route to email these folks. I've read all about the proxy servers, tor, should I go offshore?

I reckon starting off, it'll be a few thousand emails, growing exponentially I'm sure (and rapidly). So how do I go about really staying under the radar? I'm not above paying for an offshore ded server or an offshore web host. I have enough technical knowledge to be dangerous. I can create websites, know some HTML, I did upgrade my 36O to, play and read burnt discs, so I"m familiar with winrar, .iso, etc.


There's a ton of great information here, but I'm a little overwhelmed and inundated with all this info that I can't decide the best way to go. I'm sure there are varying opinions. I can dump a few hundred dollars into this right now, so I do'nt mind paying for legit offshore services if needed.

I'll also sell anybody targeted lists if you want via paypal, can get you exce.l or csv.

I'm fruggin excited about all the ways you guys make money. I'd love to start small, making about 1500/week and grow from there and this is just one part (or rev stream) for myself...so I have more reading to do...

Sorry for the long post, just think it's best to give as much info up front as possible...

Thanks for any advice/info/links et. al...

Cheers!

S.T.t

oh p.s. - this is just the beginning, I have no interest in becoming one of those guys who send 200M bulk emails a day to a general blast, if that's your thing, cool, but I plan on doing it more targeted and more low key until I can find other ways, get more famliar with the more technical side of things, etc.

Great site...keep it up!