How to make money with an email scraper?

[Nana Dada]

Hi guys,

First of all, I am sorry if I am posting this thread to a wrong forum section, I just can't find anything related to email marketing on this forum.

Last year I wrote a very fast multithreaded email scraper for one of my projects. It is capable of scraping emails either from a list of sites, or based on a list of keywords (i.e. it can query Google, grab first several hundreds of search results per each keyword, and then scrape emails from those sites). Thanks to that I can easily scrape thousands of targeted emails of companies from any industry and geographical location of my choice (for example, I can get a large list of emails of pet food shops in Texas or coffee shops in Toronto, etc. well you get the idea).

I feel that my tool is a goldmine if used correctly, but I cannot come up with any decent ideas on how to actually put it to work to make me some spare cash. Can you guys give me some advice on that? Is there any room left for good old email marketing in 2018?

 

[Larry Igna]

Sell this as a service.
You have no use for "pet food shops in Texas" emails list, but "pet food supplier" would probably be interested to have it.

 

[Nana Dada]

Sell this as a service.
You have no use for "pet food shops in Texas" emails list, but "pet food supplier" would probably be interested to have it.

I am 99% sure that it will not work because there are so many well established email scraping web tools out there (email hunter, grabby.io, etc.). I just do not quite see what my Unique Selling Proposition will be. I can easily use it myself but I do not think someone will be interested in yet another email scraper.

 

[youveggie]

scrape niche targeted list->send niche targeted offers to the list, i'm not sure what are you missing here.

 

[Nana Dada]

scrape niche targeted list->send niche targeted offers to the list, i'm not sure what are you missing here.

Can you please be more specific? I mean of course I can send them some Amazon affiliate offers, but it will get me into a trouble quickly (for sending spam + promoting Amazon products using spam), so I need some less spammy tactics. I actually thought of some B2B affiliate programs, but cannot find anything. Maybe you could refer me to some place to begin with?

 

[Larry Igna]

This will be another short message, hope you will get the point. Send to pet food suppliers a message saying something like this "Interested in targeted emails list of pet food shops in Texas? Buy Now Here!". Not necessarily sending emails to them, maybe a LLA audience for ads on Facebook.

 

[beastkay]

Sell it... Make it a SERVICE then it will be a Goldmine for sure.

 

[davids355]

Thread moved.

 

[EternalFun]

Yeah sure, money making from this possible but not for you. The money will actually go from your pocket instead of coming in. That is called a Penalty.

All the best in your venture!

 

[Larry Igna]

...That is called a Penalty.

Define "That".

 

[EternalFun]

Define "That".

Google "That".

 

[wkop2013]

i will try your service , if you provide it

 

[matthewplp]

What kind of emails are they? Consumer or business?

 

[leann kelly]

If you are not trying to sell your scrapper and really need a method. Then affiliate marketing is the best method.