Hi everyone!
Interested in building an instant mailing list? Here's an idea for you eBay sellers who use PayPal as your preferred method of payment.
1. Log into your PayPal account, and click on "History".
2. Under Reporting Tools, click on "Download my History".
3. Choose the dates you want (I'd go back one year), and leave the selection on "Comma delimited file" so you can use it in a spreadsheet application such as Excel, and click on "Download History".
4. Choose to either open the file, or save it to your hard drive.
5. In the spreadsheet, look at column "M", which shows the e-mail addresses of your customers. Voila!
6. Copy and paste the e-mail addresses in whatever program you use, and you have an instant mailing list!
You can send your customer list a special offer or invitation. Be sure to write in your e-mail that they are a prior customer, and that you will only be sending follow up e-mails if they "opt in" to do so (give them a way to do that, such as simply replying to you with a note that says "sign me up"). You don't want to be accused of spamming!
Hope you find this useful!
Mindy Prian