SEPCON Email List Building Software – Review

Andre Klein

SEPCON, the Email List Building Software is capable of discovering upto 20,000,000 Optin Email leads, is now OFFICIALLY AVAILABLE FOR FREE DOWNLOAD. Anyone can download the free trial edition here…. It is fully functional, but does not allow saving or exprting the results.

The SEPCON Email List Building System sells for between $499.99 and $1,499.99 USD, and the prices for the top Corporat and Apocalyse editions are still to be revealed. I tested the Premium Edition that gets you up to 10,000 email in one go. Follwing a video that shows the SEPCON eMail List Buliding Software in Action, and my “early adopter” SEPCON eMail List Buliding Review.

The SEPCON eMail List Buliding Software in Action

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The main difference between the SEPCON versions is the number of emails and web sites it collects:

SEPCON’s FREE Trial builds lists of up to 10,000 Opt-in eMails (NO save or export features)
SEPCON Premium builds lists of up to 10,000 Opt-in eMails
SEPCON Platinum builds lists of up to 100,000 Opt-in eMails
SEPCON Titanum builds lists of up to 500,000 Opt-in eMails
SEPCON Ultimate builds lists of up to 2,000,000 Opt-in eMails
SEPCON Corporate builds lists of up to 10,000,000 Opt-in eMails
(Note: Currently SEPCON Corporate can be only purchased here…)
SEPCON Apocalypse builds lists of up to 20,000,000 Opt-in eMails

All versions have the follwing in common:

Get URLs of Websites Where Your Email Leads Opted In. (This is important to understand, as it differentiates SEPCON from most of the other eamail robots and justifies it’s higher price range. The emails you get are not scraped from some websites but are users that had already opted in! )
Save / Export Email Addresses In CSV & TEXT File Formats (not for the free trial version)
Get URLs of Contact Pages To Reach Site Owners Directly
Export Sites & Contact Page Links to MS EXCEL Workbooks
Get Keyword Suggestions To Build The Largest Possible List

My first impressions

I am ITM Platinum member and got the Premium version of the SEPCON Email List Building System. I installed one of the early versions (1.1.0RC1), which still has a minor bug; it is not saving the Web Report Excel format on my MS Vista PC, but text and CSV work perfectly and SEPCON s really fast.

Within les than 5 minutes it harvested 4989 emails related to my test niche (keyword), “barber”. It could have been many more, up to 10.000 with the premium version, as you can specify how many websites (Data Sources) SEPCON should fetch initially, to then start spidering those and reaching out to related sites. But for my test this result was ok.

SEPCON is very easy to use. Select the country, enter your key phrase, #of Data Sources and press the Search button. It then starts crawling the web, returns additional keyword suggestions, web pages with their Google PR incoming/outgoing links, and naturally, a list of emails.

What is quite nice, you can do en incremental search; meaning that it does not start over again for each search, but increments the lists of keywords, web pages and emails. What’s not so nice is that there is no reset button. If you want to start over you have to restart the application

Speed is important, but not really an issue if you don’t need so many emails. And if this was the case, I would just let it run in the background or during the night,

What really would make a difference would be the quality of the sites searched and consequently the quality of the emails harvested by SEPCON. First of all it is your responsibility to do a little keyword research first. I.e. “barber” is too broad; “barber shop” may be better qualified if wanted to offer barber supplies.

So how can we judge if the emails are relevant? Given you have selected carefully your keywords; initially you will have to rely on the SEPCON search algorithm to crawl RELEVANT sites only. For what I have seen I can’t judge the quality of the harvested emails, but lots of the sites looked quite related.

On the other hand there was one pattern that made my alarm bell go off; out of 4989 results there was no one single email that had the company’s domain extension. Almost all were from hotmail.com or aol.com and no gmail or yahoo email was in my collection either! Don’t they care about having a good shave? I decided to search again for something more professional; “enterprise routers”, but again only hotmail and aol users seem to be interested in routers.

I think the SEPCON List Builder System still need to do a little more tweaking. To me it looks like that the results are more targeted towards end-users and not companies. Be aware that the SEPCON creator claim that the emails are not gathered from web pages like other email robots do, but are targeted users that opted in on one of the pages they get the emails from. The source of the emails could be explained better, so you know what you can expect. In my case I won’t use the list to offer barber supplies, but maybe I could promote shaving creams or router related products and ebooks.

BTW, I “like” the statement the SEPCON creators make; “You will get your account banned if you use this tool for SPAMMING!”. How will they know? And what the hack am I going to use the emails for if not for sending at least ONE email to each to see if I can get them to opt in MY list too! I won’t print them out and pin them on the wall as decoration. Although, who knows, this may be considered modern art? In any case, you should be on the safe side if you send only one email and offer them a bribe to stay (double optin) on your list.

I have also come up with some suggestions to improve and enhance the tool:

There are no “options” settings. SEPCON “insists” on storing the exported files in the installation directory, and even if I choose another one, the next time it has already forgotten my choice.
As I did not get the Web Report to export, I suppose that this information may already be available, but just in case… It would be wonderful to know from what website and webpage the email has been collected, and for each page get the Google PR, and number of incoming/outgoing links.
As SEPCON already provides some additional keyword suggestions, why not export those too or have a button to copy them to the clipboard?
Talking about Keywords, It would be VERY useful to be able to add negative keywords to the search criteria. This would allow filtering out unrelated web sites.
As we have seen, the emails come more from the social world, hence an option to harvest other types of emails, like company related ones, or the possibility to exclude domains like hotmail and aol would make the results more targeted.

Conclusions on SEPCON’s Email List Building “Potential”

I have chosen the word “potential” on purpose. Well, this is the very first version, and we can expect improvements to be coming very soon. I so not care too much about it’s speeb, but more about how I can best take advantage of ist capabilities in my IM business. If I used the emails to target specifically the social, and not the business world, I think the SEPCON’s algorithm seems to work quite well. Knowing this helps you target better. As the SEPCON Email List Building software will be getting more sophisticated, the price will go up too. So, given you have lifetime upgrade rights, it may be now the right time to lock in the current price.

I had a similiar experiencee with Marktet Samurai, which was initially only a keyword research tool and has now grown a complete suite of IM research tools and is one of the most recommended keyword, market, competition and content research applications. I had purchased Market Samurai in the very early days for less than half of today’s price , and I love it more every day.

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SEPCON Email List Building System Installation considerations

BEFORE YOU INSTALL IT, please make sure you visit the Java Sun website and download the latest Java Runtime Environment (JRE), available from http://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp and INSTALL it, Restarting your system after doing so.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:

Windows 2000, XP, Vista, or Windows 7. (If you are running MacOS, please wait another 48 Hours for the MacOS Version to become available)
Intel Pentium (Any Processor Chipset) 1.66GHz+.
1 GB RAM or more. SEPCON Requires 600MB of RAM to be free, otherwise it may work very slowly, and possibly crash due to lack of available memory on your system.
An INTERNET CONNECTION (naturally)

EXTREMELY IMPORTANT MUST-NOT’s !

Do not delete ANYTHING from the SEPCON Installation Directory, after the software has installed. If you delete any of the files in that directory, SEPCON WILL NOT WORK if you delete anything.
Make sure your Internet Connection is working and live before you execute the SEPCON Application. SEPCON WLL NOT WORK WITHOUT AN INTERNET CONNECTION.

Please email us any feedback, requests for more features, or anything at all about the SEPCON System that you would like to see improved or added/removed in future.

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SEPCON Email List Building Software – Review

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SEPCON Email List Building System Installation considerations

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