Databases for geographic search list building
June 30, 2020
by a searcher from The University of Chicago - Booth School of Business in Milwaukee, WI, USA
I'm a self funded geographic searcher that is doing broker and direct outreach. What databases have people found helpful for sourcing geographic lists? So far I've spent most time with Reference USA and Mergent Intellect. Both have plenty of noise, although it seems like Mergent Intellect has like 3X+ the noise. Basically it returns a huge amount of companies for a similar search, with more bad ones. Curious other people's thoughts on which databases they felt were best, or better yet, least bad.
Thanks!
from New York Chiropractic College in Baltimore, MD, USA
Hey William,
I posted a similar question and got some great suggestion. Hopefully the link above works but if not, let me know and I would be happy to share all the suggestions I received.
As for creating geographic lists of brokers, I had success with hiring out gigs for "data scraping/data mining/web scraping" on fiverr. The first one I did was a list of 10 business brokers from each mid atlantic state with all available contact info. It was pretty cheap and I got a spreadsheet with brokers, websites, email addresses, phone numbers etc...
Just a thought.
from University of Southern California in North Palm Beach, FL, USA