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An Introduction To Electronic Recruiting

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ToolKit: Email Address Extractor

Build yourself a database-of names and email addresses. Consider it your potential contact group.

Find a newsgroup populated by people who share an interest in whatever it is you're looking for-be it dog walkers or COBOL pros. (To find appropriate newsgroups, read our piece on Usenet.

Then, gather all their email addresses in a few seconds. This is what spammers do. They troll the newsgroups, grab the addresses, and create mailing lists with thousands of people.

Spam is bad and if you use it loads of people hate you. Targeted mailings, though, can be advantageous.

Let's say you want a bunch of people to know about your services. Or you want to let them know about the new chat area you've integrated into your site (see discussion areas). Or you want to invite their responses on a burning issue. If you target your audience carefully, a bulk mailing could be profitable.

Use A1 Soft Email Address Extractor to get all the email address from a selected newsgroup. You can download it for free. Registration is $15.00.

It's easy to use in Netscape:

  • Open the newsgroup you want
  • Click on "Edit" in the toolbar.
  • Click "Select All".
  • Click on "File" in the toolbar.
  • Click on "Save Message(s) As" to save into a single html file, say C:\temp\address.html.

Then go into the address extractor. Type in (or browse to highlight) the file you want the addresses extracted from. In this case, type in "C:\temp\address\html". Click on "Extract from file(s)".

You'll be presented very quickly with a list of all the email addresses of the people who posted to that newsgroup. Some addresses will be duplicated if the person has posted more than once, so be careful. When you get the address list, click on edit and then sort by name. This way you can easily see (and delete) the duplicates.

You can also extract email addresses from Web pages.

Then when you're ready to make an announcement, invite comments, or insinuate your way into people's mailboxes, create a bulk mail list and send out your message. Be careful. If what you send is perceived as spam, you will likely have a flood of returns and angry mail.

Search Tips


Search: SearchEngineWatch.Com

If you're a serious Web searcher, Search Engine Watch is worth watching. Danny Sullivan, an internet consultant, provides viewers with helpful tips on searching as well as updates on the search engines.

You already know that a key to finding people on the Internet is knowing how and where to search for them. Accomplishing this is sometimes more frustrating than it needs to be. Sullivan's search tips page offers insight into advanced search techniques for several of the major search engines. Although we cover this topic in detail in our two-day seminar, Sullivan offers a summary that you can use as a refresher course.

There's also a page of tutorials that are extraordinarily useful for both novice and advanced searchers. As you've discovered with the Web, finding what you want can be exceedingly difficult until you master a few dozen techniques-ranging from appropriate choice of keywords, to use of Boolean operators. Take a look at Sullivan's tutorials. You'll find helpful pointers, articles, and general information that will grow to be indispensable.

And, once you've exhausted his site, you can sign up for his monthly newsletter, Search Engine Report. Subscribing to the list keeps you up-to-date on changes within the search engines and means you don't have to add the site to any of the tools you use to keep apprised of changes in Web sites. (See our articles on the Informant List and URL Minder.)

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Table Of Contents SEARCH TOOLS
  1. Search Basics
  2. Search Strategy
  3. Company Info
  4. Finding People
  5. Resumes
  6. Web Pages
  7. Usenet
  8. Mailing Lists
  9. Competitors
10. Discussion Areas
11. Cheat Sheet
POSTING JOBS
  1. Master Sites
  2. Free Sites
  3. Usenet
  4. Niches
  5. Writing Postings
ROBOTS & AGENTS
  1. Newbot
  2. Informant
  3. URL Minder
  4. Other Robots
BASIC SOFTWARE
  1. Starter Tools
  2. Browser Tips
OTHER RESOURCES
  1. Salary Surveys
MORE TIPS -TRICKS
 

 
 

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