Sales Navigator

by a searcher from City University of New York, Brooklyn College

3 years ago

Hello,
We're considering the use of Sales Navigator to assist with deal flow.
Please only respond if you have experience with Sales Navigator. 
What are your thoughts?
What filters do you find most helpful?
Thank you

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professional from Harvard University - Harvard Business School

There is a free trial, so there is really no reason not to give it a shot!

3 years ago | like reply | 0 likes

searcher from The University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business

I used it and at the time you could get a month for free. If they're still doing that you should try it out and decide for yourself. I agree with Chris above that most smaller companies owners are not active on LI. I used a script to scrape data with SN and ran into 2 significant problems. First, they purposely change the structure of the pages every few days so your script breaks so you constantly have to fix it. Second, there is a lot of bad data on there since anyone can create a LI page and the information will still be up there even if the company shuts down or is acquired. Having said that, I do think it can offer a lot of value depending on how you are using it and what you are trying to get out of it.

3 years ago | like reply | 1 like

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