Given Contact List

[Blue Cat]

I am looking for ideas, I have been given the most fantastic contact list by a friend which has the email and telephone numbers of exactly the right people I need to speak to in a company. Which is great..................

BUT these people don't know me (and I cant use the name of the person who gave me the list) so effectively I am cold-calling.

I don't want to waste this opportunity so looking for ideas/suggestions of the best way forward.

Would you email, call, send a marketing and follow up.

Without a personal introduction, how would you get them to take notice

[technodup]

Phone them. You have something in common- you both know the person who gave you the list. That's an advantage you have to use. But find a way to have them bring that person into the conversation, rather than you. That way they don't know that the person passed the info (so not compromising your friend), but you get the benefit of the connection.

[TurricanII]

Sounds like a stolen client list on the face of it to me.

One of my clients got a couple of complaints from their customers about cold calls using certain phone numbers and email addresses that had been closely guarded.

If legit then try and find them on linked in or Google before using details to make sure it is in the public domain.