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searcher University of Southern California

OBTAIN OWNER CONTACT FROM BUSINESS NAME, ADDRESS?

I have a list of business (legal entity) names and addresses, and trying to figure out the best way to use this information to generate lists of contact information. Can anyone recommend a method that has worked for them (e.g. opencorporates, etc.)?

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searcher INSEAD University of British Columbia - 09/29/2020

ZoomInfo offers a decent product that could help you out, though it isn't cheap.

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searcher Harvard University - Harvard Business School United States Military Academy - 09/29/2020

Jump on Upwork and outsource it. There are hundreds of people on there in Asia that can do lead generation for you based on that information, scraping from LinkedIn, company websites, etc. I'd recommend providing the exact Excel format you want them to fill in and ensure they know you'll only pay for contacts that are the right title (CEO, Owner, Founder, etc.) with a verified email address

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searcher University of Southern California - 09/29/2020

Thanks Vik - any specific upwork professionals that you've worked with in the past for this type of engagement who you'd be able to recommend?

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searcher Georgetown University The George Washington University - School of Business - 10/06/2020

I've used Upwork for tonnes of contact sourcing. I provide industry trade lists I find (through conference attendees, general trade lists, etc), and they give back all info - Address, CEO name, CEO email, CEO phone, Revenue estimate, etc. I recommend Riyaz Ali K, from having worked with him on multiple projects.

https://www.upwork.com/ab/profiles/search/hires/~012e4839da65d00d31/profile?sqp=q%3Driyaz%2520ali%2520khan

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searcher Yale University Boston University Tel Aviv University - 09/29/2020

Agreed on Upwork

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searcher University of Southern California - 09/29/2020

Thanks Haim - as above, any specific upwork professionals that you've worked with in the past for this type of engagement who you'd be able to recommend?

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searcher Yale University Boston University Tel Aviv University - 10/02/2020

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searcher Georgetown University The George Washington University - School of Business - 10/06/2020

See my post above using: Riyaz Ali K.

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searcher Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth Columbia University University of Mumbai - 09/29/2020

Yes Upwork is a good way to go about it. If it's just a few that you need to look up and don't want the multi-day back and forth with someone in a different time zone, type company name into LinkedIn, see "People' at the company. Post the LinkedIn (link) of the 1-2 people you're trying to reach into RocketReach ($550-ish per year or $75-ish per mo.) to look up email / phone.

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searcher University of Houston St. Mary's University - 09/30/2020

Property county appraisal websites was surprisingly effective for me among some of the others listed.

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searcher ICFAI University University of Toronto - 09/30/2020

Thanks these are great

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searcher Stanford University - Graduate School of Business Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile - 10/02/2020

Free alternative here: https://hunter.io/

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Columbia University - Columbia Business School University of Michigan - Ann Arbor - 10/02/2020

I've found that Hunter is only about 60-70% reliable when an address is returned; usually they are guessing the email format, e.g. Jake Johnson is "guessed" [redacted] They do have an email validator function for which you can upload your list of email addresses and they will tell you if each mailbox can receive email.

I recommend ZoomInfo, which seems to be much more reliable. Yet, as mentioned it is expensive

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searcher University of California, Irvine The University of Chicago - Booth School of Business - 10/05/2020

Apollo.io is also very convenient

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searcher University of California, Irvine The University of Chicago - Booth School of Business - 10/05/2020

APOLLO.IO is also very useful and free

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professional University of Colorado at Denver University of Colorado at Boulder - Leeds School of Business - 10/06/2020

I've used https://hunter.io to track down email addresses in the past

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searcher Vanderbilt University - 10/09/2020

If you have the owner name and some basic idea of where he is located, you can use https://www.truthfinder.com/ but you have to pay for access. This may be obvious, but if all you have his corporate name and it isn't on company website, google the business name and the word "owner" - usually some local news articles that name the owner. Last method I have used is going to state websites and looking up legal entity - usually a key person will sign one of the documents in there.

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searcher University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School United States Naval Academy - 10/09/2020

https://www.voilanorbert.com/

https://snov.io/

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searcher Providence College - 10/09/2020

You can also hire a freelancer to do the checks for you from fiverr.com

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searcher Coastal Carolina University State University of New York at Stony Brook - 10/09/2020

Hire someone off of Upwork

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