There are lots of website that are not spam willing to give free useful information just by providing your Name and Email. What I would like to know is why do these people waste their time? Unless they are making money??? How?

Also most website do not have sponsors.
HOW do the Legitimate website make their money WITHOUT sending emails to spammers?

I work for a company that provides information for just a name and email for several valuable services. Using a follow up email system, if the user agrees to the terms of service, we can send regular email that is not spam.

We can send newsletters that inform users of new products or services and lots of them eventually buy.

Also, lots of free services have higher level accounts you can upgrade to. If the service is great, the company gives it away free without the bells and whistles.

If you have a good service or information to offer, you can use follow up marketing through a company called A Weber. Once the user signs up, it will manage the emails from customer sign ups and allow for follow up or broadcast messages that are not spam.

Companies that do then spam you, or sell their email address list to spammers should disclose this in their privacy policy. When you sign up for a legitimate free service where you provide only your name and email, there SHOULD be a posted privacy policy.

The privacy policy dictates exactly what can be done with your email. If it says in there they can’t sell it to spammers, they can’t or you can collect healthy damages under anti-spamming laws.

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I’m looking for websites that can do most, if not all, of the things listed below and do them well. I want sites that are simple and easy to use.

White pages - people searches
Yellow pages - business searches
Email lookup
Reverse phone # lookup
Reverse address lookup
Reverse email lookup
Lookup using incomplete names
Additional features

http://skiptools.com/
http://anywho.com/
http://www.whocalled.us/
http://fonecart.com/
http://www.reverserecords.org/
http://people.yahoo.com/
http://searchenginez.com/reverse_messenger.html
http://www.411.com/
http://www.privateeye.com/Search/People/Phone.htm (looking some one up only by the phone number)
http://www.reverselookup.addresses.com/reverse_lookup.php
http://zabbasearch.com/
http://www.whitepages.com/10778/reverse_phone
http://www.searchbug.com/peoplefinder/
http://members.yahoo.com/
http://skipease.whitepages.com/1067/person
http://www.theultimates.com/
http://www.infospace.com/
http://www.bigbook.com
http://www.find-persons.info
http://www.switchboard.com
http://skipease.com
http://www.yellowbook.com/
http://www.usa-people-search.com
http://www.canada411.com/
http://address.com/
http://www.readnotify.com/
http://www.whowhere.com/
http://www.click-411.com/
http://www.infobel.com/teldir/
http://www.searchengineshowdown.com/phone/
http://www.reversephonedirectory.com/
http://www.peoplefinders.com/
http://www.freeality.com/find.htm
http://www.dexonline.com/
http://www.yellow.com/
http://www.192.com/ (directory assistance for the UK)
http://www.yell.com/ucs/HomePageAction.do (looking up phone numbers for the UK)
http://websearch.about.com/od/dailywebsearchtips/qt/dnt0505.htm
http://www22.verizon.com/utilities/reverselookup/(cell phone look up will show what state they are in)

-How to find people by email look ups-
http://www.theultimates.com/email/
http://email.about.com/od/addresssearcht
http://my.email.address.is/
http://www.email-lookup.com/
http://www.infospace.com/_1_2WT3UMV027DW9FJ__kapitl.usa/wp/email/index.htm

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