Bill McCloskey from Email Data Source has released a video demoing their new Search feature. It lets you search over their large database of email marketing from top brands, online retailers, and online marketers. The focus of the tool is on seeing what your competitors are sending and who they are working with. It looks like a very useful tool at a reasonable price of $3,500 year.
(click here for the full screen version)
A few suggestions Bill… how about giving us some CHARTS? Every screen of the demo looks the same – big lists of email messages. Also, I wouldn’t necessarily agree with your comment that you can identify effective, best practices just by watching what everyone else does a lot of – lots of big brands do stupid things in their emails! Finally, let me sign up to get a weekly report by email so that I don’t have to log in and run searches.
Still, it’s a great product that fills an important need. Don’t send email with your head in the sand. Open your eyes and pay attention to what your competitors, your partners and your industry is up to.
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Hi Josh,
Funny you should ask: we do provide charts. Tons of them that let you directly compare side by side email drops and web traffic for over 25,000 brands, senders, redirects, and even 250 market sectors. That is just in our Prospect and Compare module. Search, featured in your the video, is our entry level product.
And since you asked: An alerting feature will be introduced next month, to do exactly what you asked for: set your criteria and be alerted by email every time an email is monitored that fits your needs.
Needless to say, people can get a full demo of our suite of products by contacting me at bill@emaildatasource.com
Oh, and by the way, I'll be making demos of our other two modules shortly and will be happy to pass them your way. I'll make sure they contain lots of charts.