[Jason Painter]

Originally Posted by jessiesc

While I agree with your assessment, in actuality it can be considered spam by an ISP.

Too many emails in a given period of time can get an account flagged at the ISP level. I know this because another company I own had been flagged this way by the ISP. When flagged in this way, several things may occur: The ISP may prohibit all outgoing emails from the account or limit the number of emails per day from an account.

Also, anyone can flag anyone at any time as a spammer. There are many sites, one can submit an email as a spammer. Some people just have too much time on their hands with nothing better to do.

I have first hand experience with this from our board. This forced our board to provide a "do not contact me' option for agent profiles.

Very true. There are companies that will do your bulk mailing for you to avoid these issues. On such a large mailing it would make sense to probably use someone like this to help. I'm not sure of the cost.

[Ryan Ward]

Since we are on the topic of getting the word out, I emailed Greg Swann over at Bloodhound blog to see if he wanted to write about it and if anyone else knows of other places they have or want to bring it up to, speak up!

[Jason Painter]

I don't know about these, but I just Googled "online petitions" and a couple of free sites popped up:
http://www.ipetitions.com/
http://www.petitiononline.com/

Maybe these could be put to use?

[Ryan Ward]

I just downloaded a petition plugin for wordpress. I am just waiting for it to go live. I have the database set up and wp-config configured...

[jessiesc]

If we can't find a blast list, perhaps we can individually blast our local board members?

Also, I think AR may be another good place to get this off the ground.

[MarcinSarasota]

Good idea Ryan. I am on board. Let me know how I can help. I'd be happy to provide a home page link to the new website.

[Calum]

Great idea Ryan. Don't you ever sleep? Count me in, I'll do what I can to help.

Calum

[Benjamin Dona]

Good to see some folks taking your suggestion and running with it Jesse. I'm not surprised at all by Ryan taking the lead. He is a real go getter. Let me know what I can do to assist you guys too. I'll be glad to try and help any way I can.

[Ryan Ward]

Just an update...the site is now live.

I have created my own theme for the site - still a couple of tweeks and need to check the colors on another computer. I'm adding all of the necessary plugins, htaccess, etc..right now.

Tomorrow will be tough to get much done, but, I will have it ready with content asap.

If someone could help me...start thinking about targetted keywords. This will need to be hands on through email as well as search engine placement.

www.freethemls.com

[Morristown]

Looks good Ryan, I assume you are going to have it all dofollowed and all of that.

Jim