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Our extensive public sector list with accurate decision maker email addresses
Our database contains over 130,000 public sector decision maker email addresses (plus an additional 43,000 organisation email addresses) across 88,000 organisations at over 118,000 sites across the UK.
We have email addresses for budget-holding decision makers in:
- Care Homes
- Central Government
- Dentists
- Further and Higher Education
- Housing Associations
- Local Government
- MP’s and Lords
- NHS
- Parish Councils
We licence data to you for 12 months’ usage giving you time to educate the public sector decision makers and influencers you target about:
- your company,
- its products and services, and
- its unique selling points.
During the year, you have full and free access to support from your account manager as well as our in-house technical and advertising teams.
1. Choosing the right public sector email addresses
Who do you need to connect with to increase your chances of creating new leads and winning new orders from the public sector?
Email marketing to public sector contacts works well for both:
- complex tender-led procedures involving multiple decision-makers and influencers, and
- smaller, ad-hoc orders (sub-£100,000) not requiring the level of scrutiny or involvement of higher-value deals put out to tender.
Your More Than Words’ account manager will help you to identify the right decision-makers and influencers within the organisations most likely to need your product or service contained on our public sector datalists.
2. Accuracy guarantees and More Than Words’ support
For the 12 months you use the data, please direct your concerns, comments, and questions to your account manager.
Their role is to ensure that you have best possible experience working with us – they make sure that what you want us to do is done correctly and quickly.
In addition to the support of your account manager, we offer two further layers of support:
- technical and usage support – our in-house team of data managers provide any assistance you need to use the database in the way you want, and
- marketing support – send us the email you want to use on your public sector marketing campaigns and we’ll get back to you (normally within a day) with our feedback and any suggestions for improvement
Our public sector email addresses are also covered by an accuracy guarantee.
Failure by us to hit those guarantees triggers either a pro-rata refund or we’ll supply you with replacement records.
3. Using the data
When you purchase public sector emails from us, your licence allows to use them 12 times during the year following your order date.
You may only email the recipients 12 times during the year – additional sends will incur additional licensing charges.
Following the 12 month period, you must relicence the data if you wish to continue using it.
An exception to this rule is that you can continue to contact decision makers on the database we’ve supplied who have initiated contact with you as a result of responding to one of your campaigns.
Find out more
Please get in touch with us to let us know about your business and the products and services you sell to the public sector.
You can contact our email databases team on 0330 010 3495 or by email.
When you speak with us, please ask us about our managed email marketing to the public sector service – this is more suitable for your company if you have no experience in sending out email campaigns.
You may also want to ask us about our bespoke telemarketing to the public sector campaigns.
Public sector email addresses database – key facts
Choose from over 130,000 verified emails
Your company has full access to the complete range of decision makers, influencers, and elected officials who you need to contact to generate leads whose email addresses we have on file
- Choose by organisation type
- Choose by job function
- Choose by management level
- Choose by geographical area
Over 80,000 public sector organisations
Target your email marketing by selecting decision makers working at over 80,000 public sector organisations. The major classifications on our organisation database are:
- Local government including education
- Central government
- NHS and health sector
- Housing associations
Communicate with elected representatives
We hold extensive postal, phone, and email contact information for the local government officers and councillors (including parish, town, and community councillors) you want to reach
- Single-tier and two-tier authorities
- Parish/town councillors in England & Wales
- Community/town councillors in England & Wales
Guaranteed high level of quality & accuracy
All of the public sector data we offer is guaranteed and pro-rata refunds are available on data we provide which does not meet the following accuracy and quality benchmarks:
- 85% email deliverability (excludes soft bounces)
- 92% telephone number accuracy
- 98% postal address accuracy
Generating the greatest return from marketing to public sector email addresses
More Than Words’ public sector email address list offers your company a proven and direct way of selling your products and services into a complex market.
Content Marketing Institute’s 2019 B2B Content Marketing Research reveals that almost 90% of marketers use email addresses as an inexpensive and effective way to target potential customers.
Research also shows that this number is consistently on the rise.
Pitching a product or service to organisations within the public sector is, understandably, daunting.
However, with the government’s recent commitment to spending £1 in every £3 on SMEs by 2022, there has never been a better time to put public sector email addresses to good use.
Public sector buying cycles are longer and more complex but the rewards for successfully marketing to this market are:
- financially significant, high-profile long-term contracts and
- added credibility and prestige for your company at large.
The following tips will help you to get started:
- Understand the sector
- Who are your contacts?
- Example: selling to the NHS
- The marketing service standard
- The long game: employing multiple marketing touches
Understand the sector
As a private company dealing with the public sector, you must carry out specific research in advance to better understand the specific issues affecting the organisations you’re marketing to.
In addition, procurement practices vary depending on the types of public sector organisation you’re marketing to, including:
- central government: departments and their agencies,
- NHS: hospital trusts, ambulance trusts, GP surgeries,
- local government: councils and local authority services including police and fire services,
- further and higher education: colleges and universities,
- schools: state, independent and academy primary and secondary schools, and,
- private- and charity-run public services: Housing Associations, care homes, health and social Care.
Boundaries can also be blurred with some organisations (like Housing Associations) which provide public services but which are partly privately funded.
Get to know how the sector that you are interested in works so that you can approach the contacts on your email list with a full understanding of how their area finds, accepts and pays for private services.
Who are your contacts?
Once you understand the sector and have obtained your specific list of public sector email addresses, you should research the contacts on your list and get to know the individuals.
More Than Words provides email addresses for high-level personnel and decision-makers on our databases, making it easier for you to research your contacts.
Nevertheless, you will likely need extensive knowledge of their specific area to be considered credible.
Look at the structure of the sector and organisation that they belong to and find out who the budget holders and influencers are.
Most public sector organisations have a pre-approved list of suppliers that they usually buy from.
Decisions outside of this procurement list will be made by those in senior positions under very specific circumstances such as an immediate requirement or in response to a very recent situation.
As a supplier, you will want to use your list of contacts to find out which is the best course of action for approaching them.
Try to be as clear as possible about whether your products and services are tendered for or whether decision makers can procure them outside the tendering process.
For example, let’s consider selling to the NHS
The NHS is an immense organisation with innumerable separate departments and organisations within it.
For this reason, marketing teams often find it challenging to generate leads from the correct decision makers for their sales teams to follow up.
The best way to draw attention from the right purchasers within the NHS is to work out which of the various departments have a need for your product or service and then use email marketing to target the people who would use your products and services on a regular basis.
As an example, a business which designs and manufactures mobile hoists for use with disabled patients might directly contact primary care workers and managers with the benefits of their product instead of the procurement department.
Doing so would places the advantages of their product in front of those who actually understand why those details are important.
These contacts then act as ‘sponsors’ for the product, bringing it in front of the buyers and decision makers and bestowing your products and services with their own, more trusted, seal of approval.
Once you have succeeded in selling a product or service to one department of the NHS, the same process will need to be repeated for the next as each department exists often as its own self-functioning entity.
Other than the profit you make from each sale, the major benefit of having the NHS as a customer is the prestige this connection gives you with other businesses.
It can be as hard selling to other businesses as it is to the public sector.
To be able to demonstrate that you’re an approved NHS supplier to B2B decision makers gives these decision makers extra reason to have confidence in your company and its produces and services.
Email marketing best practice
GDPR guidelines came into force in 2018 changing the ways in which we are able to use and share data.
More Than Words only provides public sector email lists which fully conform to GDPR standards.
There are certain best practices we recommend that you follow when email marketing to the public sector including:
- engage in meaningful and necessary conversation. No hard sales pitches!
- only send the same marketing email once
- do not use diary invitations as a way to begin unsolicited marketing,
- understand that your contact receives hundreds of marketing emails each week and it may take time for them to get to yours, and,
- do not contact the assistants of senior managers claiming a business relationship with them that you do not have.
The key to remember when approaching any public body is that you are attempting to break into what can appear as a somewhat ‘exclusive’ sector.
Building an honest and authentic relationship with the individuals on your public sector email address list is the most productive marketing strategy you can employ.
High-level professionals in this area will not respond well to standard marketing tactics designed to grab attention and using them means that your company is more likely to add you to block lists.
The long game: employing multiple marketing touches
More than any other market, the public sector requires patience in lead nurturing in order to close a deal.
The buying cycle for public sector organisation is very long with early consultations starting up to 24 months before procurement.
This means that the classic and legitimate mass-email tactics of most marketers simply do not work here.
You need to choose your target companies carefully.
You also need to put a lot of time and energy into nurturing those leads and building those relationships.
Procurement managers look for companies which display a high level of insight and professionalism into the sector and how it works as well as how their product or service could benefit their organisations.
A campaign of carefully planned marketing touches is key in using your public sector email addresses database to its full potential.
Marketing touches refer to the various ways in which a business interacts with a potential customer before a sale.
Marketing touches include exposure to your cmopany and its products and services through email marketing, social media, direct mail and even in-person meetings.
Often, your very first email contact with a public sector organisation is the start of that relationship.
With each marketing touch, you should:
- ask questions – this has the dual benefit of engaging the recipient and gathering information for you to use later down the line.
- connect with multiple contacts – use your prospecting communications to connect with not only buyers but also those who sign off on decisions. Every opportunity is attached to a person.
- avoid the ‘hard sell’ – we can not reiterate enough that this is the easiest way to lose the interest of anyone working in the public sector.
Public sector email addresses - FAQ
The UK’s most accurate, detailed, and comprehensive public sector database
Looking to get into the public sector for the first time and need help?
Alternatively, are you looking for an new public sector data supplier?
More Than Words’ service is suitable for all companies, particularly SMEs.
Our public sector email marketing databases contains over 130,000 budget-holding decision makers and our service enables much easier access to these traditionally hard-to-reach buyers in ways they’ll respond positively to.
You select just the targets you want from our best-researched list of public sector buyers with back-up advertising and marketing support from us.
We even supply many public sector organisations ourselves and the knowledge we hold within our company about public sector procurement could make the difference to your success.
Contact our public sector email marketing team
We’re open during office hours between Monday and Friday.
Please call us, email us, or fill out the contact form and let us know which products or services you wish to sell into the public sector and we then help you identify the right contacts.
We’re available on 0330 010 3495 or you can contact our UK public sector database team by clicking here to email us.
We’re based in North Shields town centre if you want to come and visit us. There’s lots of free parking outside and we’re only three minutes’ walk away from North Shields Metro station.
Find out more about our public sector email addresses service
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