The Bottom Line
Advanced Email Locator is a powerful and easy to use tool that allows you to target or track email marketing campaigns by geographic location without direct user input. Naturally, Advanced Email Locator cannot be perfectly precise and accurate.
Pros
- Advanced Email Locator uses domain owners for geographic list segmentation
- Free email services are recognized and localized by Advanced Email Locator, too
- Advanced Email Locator lets you target your mailings geographically
Cons
- Advanced Email Locator naturally suffers from somewhat limited accuracy
Description
- Advanced Email Locator retrieves the geographic location of email addresses from whois database.
- Includes country, state (US only), plus domain owner's name and address.
- Advanced Email Locator includes an up-to-date database of free email services.
- You can target or track email marketing by geographic location with Advanced Email Locator.
- Email addresses can be imported from any .csv file to Advanced Email Locator.
- Results are exported flexibly by Advanced Email Locator to .csv files or Excel.
- Advanced Email Locator offers a COM/ActiveX interface to be integrated with other software.
- Advanced Email Locator supports Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/3/XP.
Guide Review - Advanced Email Locator 1.62
The more demographic information your mailing list contains, the more valuable it is. Unfortunately, there's only so much people will tell you when they sign up (typically an email address, barely a name).
Fortunately, there is the whois database of domain owners with precise geographic data. Advanced Email Locator queries this database. This works much better than assuming .com is in the U.S., for example, because there are legions of .com domains owned by people around the world.
What about free email services? Advanced Email Locator knows about these and wisely does not assume any country.
All in all a valuable marketing tool, although, of course, the data obtained with Advanced Email Locator should be taken with a grain of salt.
