Establishing the initial list

by a searcher from University of California, Berkeley

2 years ago

Hello,

I'm sorry if this was posted before, but I'm a new searcher. I'd like to start building a list of companies. What is the best tool to do that? Just Google? or does IBIS world help with that?

Also, what is your favourite CRM? Salesforce?

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searcher from University of Calgary - Haskayne School of Business

We tried both Hubspot and pipedrive and settled with pipedrive, more a personal preference on set up though.

2 years ago | like reply | 0 likes

searcher from Dartmouth College

I've had success with Airtable.Requires some upfront setup work to get info to flow through but fairly intuitive.Only downside is limited record storage with the free plan, but paid plans are not too pricy...

2 years ago | like reply | 0 likes

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