Broker List Development / Clean Up

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March 14, 2023

by a searcher from Harvard University - Harvard Business School in Colorado Springs, CO, USA

Hi all,

My team has built a large list of brokers from web-scraping, but some of the sources did not have email addresses so I am offshoring the task of adding missing contact info and cleaning up the list. Given the size of the list, it is more expensive than I was expecting so I wanted to reach out to this community to ask:

(a) is anyone aware of a tool where I could do a bulk upload of names / company name and get contact info? Doesn't seem like this is possible from standard accounts at the likes of appolo.io or seamless.ai

(b) are there any other searchers who would like to share a portion of the cost of this work in exchange for the final product? Could be for specific geographies or nationwide.

Thank you,
Justin

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from Ludwig in München, Deutschland
In Germany i used an adress broker like Schober. You upload your proprietary company data and pay then for each email added by them (if they don't have an adress you don't pay) - in unit economics it is cheaper than researching it by hand, but the price is still relatively high (probably 50-70% of manual research). However, i am not sure that you will get the owner Email adress (even if you know his/her name) or a specific contact, it is more like info@ or random adresses like the sales manager. If you use this service, at least in Germany there are some laws regarding data protection and use of this data, which you should discuss with them before buying.
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from University of Minnesota in Marysville, WA, USA
Hey Justin! I'm brand new to M&A/searchfunds, so I'm happy to put in some free manual research labor to learn about the process and get some experience. I've hunted down email addresses for hundreds of media contacts and potential organizational clients in my current business, so I'm pretty creative in finding emails if need be! ;) Feel free to shoot me an email at redacted if this would be of use to you.
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