I am planning to fax one page of important info to all schools
(elementary, middle, high schools, private and public schools, any
other schools existing).
If any one can do research and find out the whole list of fax numbers
of all the schools in USA and give the info, I really appreciate. I
also want to know the easy way to mass fax to all of them, if I get
the numbers.

I strongly suggest against sending ANY faxes to schools or ANY
unsolicited parties, no matter what your message is. Unsolicited
faxing is in violation of the 1992 Telephone Consumer Protection Act
punishable by a fine of $500. The quoted text from federal law follows
below (link below):

"The federal law authorizes the award of $500 per unsolicited fax,
treble damages for willful or knowing violations, as well as
injunctive relief. 47 U.S.C Section 227(b)(3)."

Please realize this is PER FAX therefore if you were to fax every
school in the United States, you could face small claims court summons
from hundreds if not thousands of schools, all demanding a $500 award
which they will probably win in court. Just a heads up though. Hope
this answer although not answering the question helps decide what to
do.

Small Claims Court Enforcement of Federal Unsolicited Fax Law:
http://www.imc.org/imc-spam/smallclaims.html

If you have any other questions, please clarify this one, thank you.
skermit-ga

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Request for Answer Clarification by ezmathtrix-ga on 25 May 2002 07:40 PDT

Dear Skermit:

Although you did not answer to the point of my question, your advise
is well taken. I am planning to cancel the question. Should I still
pay the money to you???

Let me know!!!
Whether you ask me to pay or not: your advise is well taken!!! You
will get incredible rating!!!

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Request for Answer Clarification by ezmathtrix-ga on 25 May 2002 07:49 PDT

Hi Skermit:

I do not have any problem in Paying your fee as promised, if you
answer and advise the same question in detail.

Let me tell you the bottom of this question. I produced an Educational
video which is Unique and increidle on math tricks by name EzMathTrix
and available at EzMathTrix.com. I have one page flyer which I would
like the schools to know about this product since they will buy this.
If faxing or emailing is scamming, Is there any other way to let the
schools know about this video. One way I tried is: I sent a letter
with the flyer to county head quarters requesting them to send the
copy of this flyer to it's schools, if they do not have any objection.
It worked out only few times and it took lot of time to convince them
to send to it's all schools. Are there any other ways other than video
publishing in magazines which goes to schools and libraries!!!(since
they take all the money for putting the product in their list)

Thanks in advance for clarification!!!

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Request for Answer Clarification by ezmathtrix-ga on 25 May 2002 07:59 PDT

Hi Skermit:

The unique and Incredible video on math tricks which was co-produced
by 11 yr old girl Siri Grandhe (was on Tonight Show, Nickelodeon, and
Natiional Geographic magazine for her talents) is seen at

www.ezmathtrix.com

She also invented a new math constant: Siri Time Constant which is
very useful for students and adults as well. Hope this info gives you
some idea for my clarification.

Thanks in advance.

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Clarification of Answer by skermit-ga on 25 May 2002 12:30 PDT

Thank you for the question, yes by all means rate the answer as high
as you feel is good, but please do not cancel the question. Your
answer to the clarification would be to contact educational magazines
and to buy adspace in the back or mid-magazine. That would be the
cheapest way to reach educators looking for new teaching aids. Here
are a list of some magazines that you can get in contact with their
advertising department.


Additional Links:

The Journal (one of the largest education magazines):
http://www.thejournal.com/business/media/advertiser.cfm

Education Week (another trade magazine):
http://www.edweek.org/ads/media/intro.htm

Home Education Magazine (advertising contact info halfway down page):
http://www.home-ed-magazine.com/ORD/cntcHEP.html


Search Strategy:

://www.google.com/search?q=education+magazine


Hopefully this helps, and sorry about the fax info, I just wanted to
make sure you weren't going to do anything damaging to your company.
Heh.

skermit-ga

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Request for Answer Clarification by ezmathtrix-ga on 26 May 2002 10:43 PDT

I appreciate if you can clarify me the follwoing questions:

1.Is it legal to send regular mail (mass mailing) to schools
2.if it is legal: is there any way to reduce the cost still: by
sending 100s of flyers to county education dept and requesting them to
send to districts and schools under the county or district???
3.Please think about it and let me know
4.I tried giving ads in magazines like you mentioned: did not work
effectively, I mean it is not cost effective!!!!!
I appreciate your input. Thanks in advance.

Ez Math Trix.com

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Clarification of Answer by skermit-ga on 26 May 2002 12:16 PDT

1.Is it legal to send regular mail (mass mailing) to schools
Yes, and

http://bulkmail.info/presort.html

has all the info you need concerning how to go about procuring a bulk
rate permit (you must send at least 500 at a time) in order to cut
down the costs.

2.if it is legal: is there any way to reduce the cost still: by
sending 100s of flyers to county education dept and requesting them to
send to districts and schools under the county or district???
The problem with this is that most school districts will not take the
time to disperse the mail to the individual schools. I called up my
local school board (the regional highschool) and they were more than
happy to give me a list of addresses of the various elementary and
high schools in the district. Finding out addresses of schools will be
the hardest part of doing your mass mailing which is why I suggested
trade magazines in the education field. You can always contact the
magazines that I suggested to see if you can BUY their subscriber list
from them (they might charge anywhere from a couple hundred to a
couple thousand dollars), and unfortunately there exists no simple
list of schools in the USA. Online, there exist some state webpages
which list e-mail contact info for a state's school system and links
to individual homepages and subsequent addresses, but not every state
has this. If you could write up a small e-mail flyer you can contact
the schools of South Dakota here:

http://www.state.sd.us/deca/SCHOOL/ADDRESS.HTM

Please clarify if you have more questions, I'm more than happy to
help. Or if I've sufficiently answered your question, please rate and
close this question. Thanks!

skermit-ga

Even though there is no direct answer to my question, skermit saved
and protected me from law suits which I was planning to do
unknowingly. I appreciate his incredible research and patience to
answer all my questions related to the topic. I will recommend him in
future to any one if google gives me the choice. I have recently found
this service and found incrdible in finding the right answers from
right people in right times. I recommend to every surfer to use this
service. The price we pay is also astonishingly low compared to
finding out the answers by doing research ourselves or taking
apointments with the professionals. Thanks skermit!!! Keep up this
job!!!

www.EzMathTrix.com

In fact what you are intending to do is to send SPAM to every school
in America and charge them for the privilege of receiving your message
(because they have to pay for the paper, ink etc.)- and their budgets
are low enough without stuff like this clogging up their faxes.

I don't care how important you believe your information to be; or how
valuable the schools would find this information once they got it - it
would be Spam if they don't want to receive such unsolicited messages.
And that still applies whether your message is commercial or
non-commercial, that makes no difference.

If your information is really important to them, then you should give
them the information in a way that doesn't instantly antagonize them.
Instead send your information to the educational authorities at State
level and ask them to pass it on if they think they should do so. Do
not spam schools.