How do get a list of businesses that don't have site?

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Hey everyone,

I am outsourcing this work to someone who can scrape any site.

I am wondering whats the best way to make a list of businesses that don't have a site? What should I have him scrape? Yellow pages, google places....?
#businesses #list #site
  • Profile picture of the author Aarron
    You could get a piece of software (I'm sure you may even find that software here on WF) that can scrape both Manta and Yellow pages, then there is Craigslist (not as good for B2B but still worth a shot if they are able "to scrape any website".

    Google places has now moved into the Google+ realm but I imagine that WOULD be a very good place to start too.

    Not a great deal of help I know but there are only so many places you can scrape before you begin to scrape the same businesses. If you are in the UK then you could also try Thompson's Direct.

    Hope that helps a little.
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  • Profile picture of the author JaffeyApple
    Originally Posted by Osman_M View Post

    Hey everyone,

    I am outsourcing this work to someone who can scrape any site.

    I am wondering whats the best way to make a list of businesses that don't have a site? What should I have him scrape? Yellow pages, google places....?
    There is an old saying that goes "Where's there's muck there's brass".

    If you are not familiar with this saying it essentially means if it involves rolling your sleeves up, getting your hands dirty and grafting there is money to be made.

    I did a little analysis on this recently where I took a local paper and jotted down how many adverts were in the newspaper and how many had a physical web address listed within the advert. Around 50% of the adverts did not have a web address listed.

    I am not stating 50% did not have sites but this was a good exercise. I would suggest you might be better of nearer to home with your own local papers and doing it manually. Once you have done these, get the local papers in a few additional regions and scale it up.

    The open rates on an email campaign of this sort would be less than 10%, conversion less than one and you would still need a server with software of some sort to be able to send mail of this type and you could not load it up to aweber or the like as it is scraped.

    Mailing would be expensive especially with the numbers a scrape tool could deliver. A physical location in the proximity of where you are based offering services to local businesses would be a far easier task to convert before potentially chasing down every man and his dog.

    If you have already done the local paper route just ignore all of the above and pretend you did not read this
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  • Profile picture of the author CollegeCEO
    There are services that can provide you with lists. I've never used them personally but I am looking into it.
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  • Profile picture of the author John Durham
    look up rus sells gscraper on the forum here.
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  • Profile picture of the author RD Phoenix
    Lots of scraping tools around that can give you information like that.
    The latest one was the localizer lead tool, you should be able to find it and some more on the WSO threads.
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  • Profile picture of the author befrazier1
    Please let me know what pricing you get on your scraper software prior to purchase and the amount of contact data offered to see if I can get you better pricing for license plus data.
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    • Profile picture of the author MartinBuckley
      An offline option is to go to your local county clerks office and ask them for a list of all the businesses that have been registered in the last 6 months and on that list you will have some sort of contact info, so you can call that buisness owner and ask them if they have a website and in most cases with the fact they have just opened their buisness they won't have a site yet, so you offer to build one for them and work out a deal.

      I hope this helps,

      Martin
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  • Profile picture of the author Niks24
    I have not find out yet but I it will be helpful if some one can come with the idea how to know about the companies not having there websites and there contact information.
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