Email marketing, in particular Bikinilists.

Hi Guys,

I'm looking for you to share any experience/advices regarding using companies such as Filefx.co.uk or Bikinilists.com. In particular I'm interested in finding out if Bikinilists.com have to offer something more than Filefx. I must say that I've been client of Filefx for two years, and although I understand some of the aspects, related to this sort of approach of targeting specific clients, I'm still not very well informed on any strategy or specifics when comes down to building contacts through emailing.
The thing with Filefx was that they do not share any blogs with some info or examples of other peoples campaign, while Bikinilist's website is backed up with much more information, also I had a lady contacting me and when I asked her how many contacts are in the UK package for photographers, she told me something like 10.000 while from Filefx I was getting around 3500.

I know there are many blog posts explaining how Creative directors or Art buyers are so fed up of receiving such emails, and the usual practice is they go in recycle bin. But as I mentioned I've been using such service for sometime and I have seeing that there are people who opens or forward the emails.
I want to try once again, but this time was thinking of using Bikinilists.com - and here is where I need your observation or expertise if they, or if you know of some other good provider of this service, are good and worth investing.

Thanks,
Nikolay.

Bikinilists have been contacting me these past few days, the guy is kind of awkward on the phone and very pushy.

@DonJuanMair - yes same experience here, regarding their pushy approach over the phone.
Recently start thinking to go back with FileFX - just to try once more.
By the way, I was with productionparadise for one year, I found it such a waste of money. For the whole year I had only 4-5 visits to my website from their directory.

TETRAGRAMATON wrote in post #18327271
@DonJuanMair - yes same experience here, regarding their pushy approach over the phone.
Recently start thinking to go back with FileFX - just to try once more.
By the way, I was with productionparadise for one year, I found it such a waste of money. For the whole year I had only 4-5 visits to my website from their directory.

Wow, so how is Filefx?

I think, overall, it's not bad - but keep in mind to pay for such service you need to have really good body of work.
The first year I was with Filefx I had one client, funny enough I wasn't doing photography but more of design sort of work. Then also I had few contacts, but not work coming through.
The thing is that you can follow how your email campaign performs and also, as they also provide telephone numbers, you can contact the people who are opening your email - which is a sign that they are interested in what they see.

Cheers
Nikolay.