How to quickly scrape contacts from the web page and transfer them to Excel?

The web remains the major source of business leads that are available for free. Unlike old databases, online web directories like Yellow Pages, White Pages, Super Pages; association websites; membership directories; MLS listings, etc. provide fresh leads that can be immediately leveraged upon by sales/marketing professionals.

The question now is, how to quickly and accurately transfer those leads into the database? As a busy sales/marketing professional, you cannot afford to spend most of your productive hours in manually entering the contact details. This is where a web scraping software like ListGrabber can be handy.

With ListGrabber, you can automate lead capture process and save more than 50% of your time. You can quickly and easily scrape contacts from the web page and transfer them to Excel, Outlook, ACT, CRM applications, etc. in just a single click. You can transfer multiple contacts from multiple pages without any manual intervention. More importantly, you can maintain an error-free database as ListGrabber eliminates typos.

Let us see how we can quickly transfer contacts from the web to Excel spreadsheet.

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Please follow the steps given below:

For example, let us take a web directory.

Step 1: Launch any Yellow Pages directory, enter the search criteria and click

Search. For example, “Real Estate Agents” in “CA”

Step 2: The results are displayed. Select the results page and click the Microsoft Excel icon on ListGrabber toolbar.

Step 3: The ListGrabber – Capture Settings dialog box is displayed. Click the Proceed button.

The eGrabber - Confirmation Window is displayed. You can verify the address and other contact details in this window.

Step 4: Click Transfer All to transfer the contact information to Microsoft Excel.

Note: By default, the eGrabber - Confirmation Window is displayed when you transfer the contacts directly to your database. If you do not want the confirmation window to be displayed every time you transfer the contacts, select the option Always transfer – do not display this results window and click Transfer All. The next time, when you transfer the contacts, the eGrabber – Confirmation Window will not be displayed.

The selected contacts are transferred to the Microsoft Excel sheet as shown below.





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Apart from websites like Yellow Pages, Super Pages ListGrabber also supports:

www.192.com, www.askalix.com, www.bt.com, www.lawyers.com, www.hoovers.com, www.realtor.com, www.switchboard.com, www.upmystreet.com, www.whitepages.com, www.whitepages.co.au, www.whitepages.com.nz, www.yell.com, www.infospace.com.

Note: You can also get customized drivers for the website of your choice. Contact eGrabber's Sales Specialists for more details.

How to quickly scrape free business listings from web directories?

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Web directories are one of the major sources of free business contact list that is available on the internet. Web directories such as yell.com, yellowpages.com, whitepages.com, superpages.com offers free business listings and it helps you to find the contact details with maps, websites, email addresses and other contact information of the businesses.

Now, you have the free lead lists. What next? To capture those contact information to your database without errors or omission? Manual data entry? It is a tiresome process and it is prone for typos. Also, as a busy sales/marketing professional, you cannot afford to spend most of your time on manual data entry. This is where an automated sales lead capture tool like ListGrabber comes in handy.

With ListGrabber, you can automate lead capture. You can capture multiple contacts from multiple pages and transfer them to your database(such as Excel, ACT, GoldMine etc.) in a single click. ListGrabber helps you build your own custom prospect lists .