Jai Ryuzakie from MIVA is updating his records... and in the process giving all of his (or her, I'm not sure by the spelling of the name) contacts access to over 1200 email addresses s/he has in his/her Rolodex! Early this morning I received an email from Jai and there it was, right in front of me, over 1,217 email addresses staring at me in the TO box.

Last year I posted a story of Incisive doing the same thing, giving up over 500 addresses. Last month we had a snafu of our own, sending out a mass email to about 100 subscribers only to find we left the addresses public. That was followed by an immediate and public mea culpa.

What I can't understand is why I'm on the MIVA list to begin with. I don't think I've ever done business with them, though I think I had a FindWhat account about 7 or 8 years ago. So much for privacy.

So what would you do with 1200 email addresses?




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Stoney deGeyter founded Pole Position Marketing in 1998 working from a home office and has since turned it into a leading search engine marketing business with a small team of seasoned Reno SEO and marketing experts. Stoney pioneered the concept of Destination Search Engine Marketing which is the driving philosophy on how Pole Position marketing helps their clients expand their online presence and improve online conversion rates.

Stoney is a moderator at the Small Business Ideas Forum, a regular contributor to the Search Engine Guide blog and has a monthly column on Search Engine Land. He posts his SEO and business insights at the E-Marketing Performance blog where you can also find his e-books: E-Marketing Performance: Effective Strategies for Building, Optimizing and Marketing your Website Online and Keyword Research and Selection: The Definitive Guide to Gathering, Sorting and Organizing your Keywords into a High-Performance SEO Campaign.

Stoney is married with five wonderful children and, if away from the computer long enough, enjoys riding his dirt bike, watching DVDs, reading books and spending quality and quantity time with the family.