E-Mail Solicitation

I feel a bit like the party crasher here and I'm really sorry about that. However, to answer the original question : ''Is it an acceptable business practice to E-mail prospective corporate clients regarding our business services in the hope of obtaining new clients?'' If this email is unsollicited, it is not really acceptable.

There is an interesting article here:

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/itmanagement/0,1000000308,39151082,00.htm

"Unsolicited bulk commercial email is not a workable marketing tool whether directed at personal or business email addresses because of the ease with which the mechanism can be abused. Legitimate businesses in the UK cannot anyway send unsolicited bulk email as it is banned by all the major ISPs in this country under their terms of use," said Allan. "We should now extend the ban on spam to include business email addresses and explain to businesses that the effective way to conduct marketing over the Internet is to develop targeted permission-based strategies."

Cheers.