Marketing Question, Sorry if this is the wrong place

[jessewaynejames]

Ok, So here is the question. I am currently working part time at a church and have been told when the new budget goes into affect in March I am going to be eliminated. So for the last two months I have been frantically looking for a job with no luck and being unable to collect unemployment due to working for a "nonprofit". So I have decided to go back into the lawncare business. I have already bought most equiptment. I picked up a 48" Ferris Hydro Walk Behind and a 52 inch BobCat ZTR. Also in the process of getting a custom trailer built and in search of a new truck. I am curious as to if anyone has ever used e-mail marketing. I have access to email address out of the ying yang. I currently work for a church with over 4000 members 90 percent of which have e-mail addresses in our data base. I also work with an online food delivery service that has 1054 customers within 30 miles of my home (residentual and commercial) with e-mail addresses that he is willing to share. How effective would this be and would it be worth the many many hours of work that it would take to build the potential customer database that would be required.