This isn't spam by any means; it manually collates the email addresses of thought leaders in your niche, and provides them to you. It's up to you to start a conversation.
I'm not a lawyer and don't know the intricacies of the CAN-SPAM Act, but I think one provision is that you can't contact people via harvested emails gathered by bots/scripts.
That's correct, we're not bulk harvesting emails by any means. We use google news api to find blogs, and articles written about your niche based on search terms provided. We then research those blogs manually with real people using amazon mturk for crowd sourcing. We then provide you with the blogs, articles, and information about the author so you can begin interacting with them.. Reading their blogs, following them on social media, and maybe pitching them.
Hmmm, like I said I don't know the legal specifics, but if you scrape a site constantly, that puts a load on a server and has consequences. If you manually go to a site and find an email address that is publicly given for a reason, it's there because someone is willing to start a conversation about something.
I am not sure how this tool is any better than buzzstream or followerwonk or ontolo ... Lots of cheap, free, or more robust tools that do the same thing...
I don't recall the company but if you look at the data providers on removeem.com they use a company with 80 million webmaster emails, etc...
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I don't recall the company but if you look at the data providers on removeem.com they use a company with 80 million webmaster emails, etc...
Having this very narrow niche lets them really keep the quality level high as they can tweak and QA across multiple jobs doing the same thing.
You should take it one step further and automatize email sending to the authors collected.