Fortune Mailer(Emmatek) Vs. Direct Mail Software ( Scott Rister)

Comments(9)

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  active_re_investor6th October, 2004

  I know nothing about the two packages suggested.
  
  How large will the mailings be? You could use something simple (spreadsheet).
  
  There is also www.salesforce.com as an alternative. Not specific to RE but a hosted service with a real database underneath. Designed for marketing campaigns and other such things.
  
  John
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  InActive_Account6th October, 2004

  Why do you need software to send direct mail?

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  saniche6th October, 2004

  Try ACT! I have started using this and it's much more robust than one of the products you've mentioned. Not sure of the other. But hands down it is a kick ya in the rear program! I've only been using this for about 4 months and every week I am figuring out more and more ways to stream line my direct mail, phone calls, document management... you name it!

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  ncboater13th October, 2004

  From talking with Scott at my last REI meeting. You can set this up anyway you want to. I will be purchasing his direct mail product in a couple of weeks. The thing I like about it is that you can almost become fully automated for your mailings. You can set-up your own time frames when they need to get mailed and also which letter or post card neesd to go where. He offers free help to get you set-up. I plan on setting up letters to out-of state owners, divorcee, attorney's, mortgage brokers, foreclosures etc. It seem's like the sky's the limit in which way you want to set it up.

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  Hlevin21st December, 2004

  RE: Fortune Mailer(Emmatek)
  
  I purchased their software at a price of $1000. It was to have included a data base of the county of my choice. When the cd w/ the data base arrived, I noticed many zipcodes were not complete. ( My test was to put my name in and several of my properties were not included) I have been trying for months to solve this problem, phone calls, emails, letters. I have spoken with several different people who assure me the problem wil be fixed "next week" and so and so will call me. I have not yet ever recieved a response to any my of my communications nad of course, the data base has not been corrected. BEWARE!!!!

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  Red_October21st December, 2004

  Thanks Hlevin,
  I did end it up purchasing Emmatek software as well and have notice exact the same problem.
  
  Alexander.

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  NeeChee27th December, 2004

  Hey Red,
  Do you use Retran or CountyRecordsResearch? I am interested in splitting the costs of a large scale mailing campaign with someone else, I do the South Central, Mid City area. Would you be interested? **Please See My Profile**
  :-o

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  JeffAdams27th December, 2004

  [ Edited by JeffreyAdam on Date 08/07/2005 ]

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  helpfulinvestor15th January, 2005

  I found the Emmatek software to be so unreliable as to be worthless. A connection to their server is required for the software to work, and if their server is down or your internet access is unavailable, the software doesn't even run. I have the Scott Rister software, but haven't tried to use it. For my purposes, pumping Retran data into Act! 6 and using Word to generate letters seems to work fine. Yes, I still need to get the Retran data over the internet, but once it's on my computer, the rest of the process works without needing an internet connection.