Direct-to-Vendor, Data and the Law

GDPR, PECR, cold outreach and doing it compliantly

Contacting property owners directly by letter, phone or message can reach sellers before the portals do, and this book keeps you on the right side of the law while you do it. It explains, in plain English, the two bodies of law that govern direct-to-vendor marketing, data protection and the rules on electronic marketing, and how they fit together. You will see the registrations and memberships to put in place before your first letter goes out, the paperwork each kind of relationship needs, and the duties and insurance involved in running an outreach business. The tax chapter explains how the income is taxed depending on your structure. A compliance chapter turns it all into habits you can run week in and week out without a lawyer beside you, and the final chapter shows why treating compliance as box-ticking turns out to be expensive. Next in this series: “A Deal Machine That Never Stops”.

What’s inside

• The legal framework in plain English
• Permissions, licensing and planning
• The contracts, and what must be inside them
• Insurance, safety and your legal duties
• Tax treatment and choosing a structure
• Your compliance checklist
• Getting this wrong: what it actually costs

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