Slide about my personal experience about search about business information in internet since 14 years.
and you will discover how i tought to make www.easy2data.net website throught my different experiences on consulting
2. Hello,
I decided to tackle me writing this small article about known and
unknown to both the subject:
Looking for information or contacts on the internet.
Well you tell me what is currently easy Kompass, Yellow Pages, DnB ...!
This is true and you are right! ...
But you have happened to need to contact 50, 100 companies of the
same sector?
Or worse, find a list of businesses abroad?
Well I have had to do ...... and often, and believe me or not, this is not
apple pie!
Let me tell you a little story ...
3. There ten years, I came up with friends a small export import company / England and we
found a customer in North Africa, not speaking a word of English, instructs us to find, buy and
routing of electrical appliances spare parts at the best prices.
Ok! Everybody knows that this sort of thing, everything in Asia. Yes, but where?
And then begins the tedious, and the word is low (Three weeks 5 hours per day), research
suppliers, contacts, product agents, carriers, Alibaba, Made in China, specialized sites to the
end compile a list of appointments on site in China ...
We escaped! Whew ...
Another customer called me to find him helicopter parts, as if I was not with the lexicon of
aeronautical suppliers! ...
So to return to Kompass, etc ... DnB useless or so big behemoths who never take person on
the phone or at best you are turned away with a "send us an email, contact@ublublu.com".
Finally, two other cases that happened to me and convinced me that it might be time to do
something in mind all these commercial, these entrepreneurs .... who spend hours and hours
like me seek, seek ..... or are forced to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars to buy bases
4000000 Address 2 million emails so they do not need in any 50 or 100 names to make their
case ...
4. But our income has two cases:
The first, Tunis 2006.
I am looking for a Marketing START UP of the olive oil. Challenge, find customers
abroad or sell stocks through a local wholesale exporter.
If you ask the big factories like Forbes,Kompass,Dun & Bradstreet etc ... it will cost you
between $ 220 business card or a subscription is about 2000 euros to have access to
their entire base ($ 11,000 subscription world I think)
Me I need 50 specialized names, what to do?
A research strength etc. I finally found and compiled. But two days of lost work. Sniff ..
And finally, one last case, Vodaphone!
Yes I do. The Telecom operator who I work freelance with the call center from a friend
who takes her business appointments.
Thunderbolt one day, Didier! Vodaphone wants to penetrate all the CAC 40 companies
to make proposals.
5. When you are Microsoft, General Motors, Apple etc. ...., you call your IT department and
tell them, well, we find it!
But when you're starting a small business, 2000 $ will be locked for 40 contacts (see above)
it is a lot, it's not the same thing!
CAC 40 companies to seek with the real contact, real addresses and real phone ... and it
takes 5 hours on the internet .
You tell me, pff ,anything, we look on Wikipedia or Yahoo finance ...
Yes indeed, and as just now you're right!
But on Wikipedia and Yahoo Finance you find the company name and look for information
undertaken by business, so .... I need regular. Well, I timed, 4h 50! And I know where to look
.... !
6. And this is how to force me to look tired, I made an observation:
We need information on anything like a business? Name, phone number, address, website, contact
email?
The remaining balance sheet, number of employees, Siret code, etc.., It remains piecemeal.
So why rowing (there another word?) For hours or pay big bucks to sum all information useless in most
cases?
This is how what does the first version of the site www.easy2data.net
Site lists in Excel or PDF format, simple, direct and basic information about each firm by sector or country.
And as I did not want to be awake at night as it has often happened to me because of jet lag, we have
integrated an automatic module via Paypal secure download like that, not wait for a response, while is
automated.
Several categories and lists are available which I will detail in a future article with a monthly update as we
continually add lists.
It certainly lacks .... besides I count on you to send us an email at: easy2data@gmail.com to report a list
you would need ...