There are many business people who need information on potential customers just to perform their basic duties. Along with their names and the names of the companies that they work for, they need to know how to contact them via phone and email, and their job title. They are usually willing to pay as much as needed to access so much information to help them benefit in their business. In fact, there are some companies selling related information at a rate of about $2500 a year, just for access to their website!

The best way of gathering information for your website would be by attending conventions and workshops where there will be many participants distributing their business cards. You have to collect all these cards and place the information you find with these cards on your website. You then charge subscribers a fee for the access of this information. However, it is important that you sign a spam agreement with the customer so that they will not use the information you provide for unnecessary spam usage. If this information is used for spam, the people who had first obliged to having their names entered in your database are sure to ask for their names to be removed from the database!

The best people to approach to include their information on your website will be those who do not have their resumes online, or anywhere else, for that matter. However, it is always better to use business cards as they have real titles and right contact information. People who will approach you for your services will be those related in sales training companies, consultants, media companies, marketing and PR agencies and other people needing a large database of contacts.

You do not necessarily need to eliminate any old contacts; just keep on adding the number of contacts you have to the database. Of course, you could date the entry of a person's information in the database. This way, the person seeking contact information will know how up to date the information is. This will let them know how likely it will be that the information is still valid. Depending on the age of the information that you are providing, you can charge more or less than your normal fee.

Once you establish yourself as a website providing true and correct information of your customers, you are sure to find more people seeking your services. Of course, placing advertisements on the Internet through keyword-generated articles will be of much benefit to you. This way, when a person types the phrase 'contact information' on one of the many search engines, they are brought to a page with websites offering contact information like yours, with many others. The larger the database you have, with a larger variety of people, the better will be the demand for your services. Having information of people in various occupations proves to be beneficial to you as this way, anyone needing information about people in different positions will all find your service useful to them!

Resources:

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