Tuesday, August 28, 2012

How to extract data from websites or directories to excel?


Websites are one of the major sources of business prospect information. Sales & marketing professionals often access various websites to extract data from websites and build business contact list, business mailing address lists, prospect lists, lead lists, email lists, etc. However, the biggest challenge here is to extract names, phone numbers, email addresses from websites into an Excel spreadsheet.

Manually extracting data from websites or directories is a time-consuming and tiresome task. You got to visit each website, manually copy the data such as name, address, phone, fax, email etc. from a web page; paste them into your Excel sheet and then click on the next page to again extract data.

In the case of online directories, it is even worse. You got to flip through 100s of web pages to extract data, which is a daunting task for busy sales folks. This is where a web data extraction software such as ListGrabber can be handy.

ListGrabber helps you to extract data from websites or directories to Excel in a single click. You need to just select the search results and click on the Excel icon in the ListGrabber toolbar.             

ListGrabber instantly extracts the name, address, email ID, phone number, Fax and other contact details of the prospects (multiple contacts) from websites and transfers the contacts to your Excel sheet in no time.

ListGrabber helps you to easily and effortlessly extract data from websites, online directories, association websites, MLS listings, etc. It can also extract data from email signatures, documents, spreadsheets, etc.

Click here to download the fully functionaltrial version of ListGrabber.

Sunday, July 29, 2012

5 tools to monitor your brand online


Monitoring your brand online helps you to check for positive and negative comments/statements about your company/brand/products. Here are 5 tools that will help you to monitor your brand online.

  1. Google Alerts – Enter keywords related to your brand. You will get an email alert when those words are found on the web.
  2. Social Mention – Aggregates user-generated content from more than 80 social networking sites. Displays social posts related to your brand along with sentiment (positive, negative, neutral). 
  3. Hootsuite – Enables you to connect to multiple social networks and helps you manage your brand reputation on social media.
  4. Klout – Monitors your influence on social networks.
  5. Twitter Search – Helps you track tweets about your brand.
Source: eGrabber Newsletter

Thursday, March 29, 2012

Scrape free sales leads from yellow pages directories in a click

Yellow pages directories is one major source of sales leads that are available for FREE on the Internet. It offers contact names, business names, business mailing addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, Fax numbers, etc. of contacts and companies along with maps & directions. It also provides various search options for the sales & marketing folks to get the contact information of their target audience.

Though it sounds pretty cool, sales and marketing pros are unable to leverage the benefits offered by yellow pages directories. The reason is that they had to manually scrape contacts from yellow pages directories. It consumes a lot of time and effort, and slows down their core business activities & eventually it shows up in the results. This is where a yellow pages directories scraper can offer you a winning edge.

Yellow pages directories scraper enables you to easily and effortlessly scrape contacts from yellow pages directories. It is a screen scraper software that enables you to scrape yellow pages directories to your database in a click.

All you have to do is just search yellow pages directories, select the search results and click Grab. The yellow pages directories scraper instantly scrapes contact information such as name, address, email, phone and fax number of likely prospects or business contacts, and transfers them to a grid.

The yellow pages directories screen scraper helps you to verify the details and check for duplicates as well. You can then transfer the selected contacts to your database such as Microsoft Excel, Outlook, ACT!, GoldMine, etc. in a single click. The yellow pages scraper software helps you to build contact lists, prospect lists, business mailing lists, email lists, etc. in no time.

ListGrabber is one such yellow pages directories scraper that helps you to scrape free sales leads from yellow pages directories in a click.

Download your 10-day free trial and try it yourself!

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Capture email addresses instantly and build your email lists in no time

Source: http://datacapturetools.posterous.com/capture-email-addresses-instantly-and-build-y

One of the most essential things you need to do when you build an email marketing list is to capture email addresses. A lot of people, especially those who are new to email marketing, buy those expensive email lists. Only after buying the lists, they realize that most of those email addresses are inaccurate and irrelevant.

A few marketers build their own email marketing lists by manually capturing email addresses. Though it is always advisable to build your own email lists, manually capturing email addresses from websites, online directories, trade show lists and various other sources requires a lot of your time and effort.

You got to allocate some of your productive hours or you need to have a dedicated resource to just capture email addresses. You either lose your productivity or increase your expenses to just capture email addresses. This is where a smart tool such as ListGrabber can be handy. It helps you capture email addresses instantly and build your email lists in no time.

ListGrabber helps you to instantly capture email addresses from websites, online directories, association websites, MLS listings, Outlook emails, PDF/Excel/text documents, tradeshow lists, event lists, etc. and build your email marketing lists in no time.

All you need to do is just select the source and click the Grab button.

For example, if you want to capture email addresses from online directories such as yellow pages directories or white pages directories,

   1. Launch the online directory.
   2. Perform a people/business search.
   3. Select the search results and click Grab.

ListGrabber instantly captures the email addresses along with other contact details and displays the captured email addresses in the Grid. Then you can select the records in the grid and transfer the email addresses to Excel, Outlook, ACT!, GoldMine, etc. in a single click.

ListGrabber helps you to save a lot of your time and improve your productivity. You don’t need to waste your money on expensive email lists anymore.

Just try ListGrabber and increase your productivity and sales revenues.

Download the fully functional trial version of ListGrabber & try it yourself.

Thursday, December 29, 2011

Import Prospect Lists from the Internet into an Excel sheet

Source:eGrabber Newsletter

Lists are everywhere on the Internet for the taking - yellow pages directories, white pages directories, Association and membership sites, etc. But creating mailing lists and cold-call lists by having to copy-paste them one by one to an Excel spreadsheet takes a lot a time. Is there a way to automate it?

Copy-pasting contact information is a tedious and time-consuming task to sales professionals. It leaves you with little time for more important activities, such as selling. ListGrabber automates this process by capturing the contacts on Web pages, online directories, etc and transferring them into an Excel sheet.

"ListGrabber is fantastic! I can pull in the data - companies, contacts, physical addresses, email addresses, phone numbers from anywhere I want to, and import it directly into my database. The program is fast, automated and user-friendly." - Mark Daley, Sales, Printing Resources.
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Download your your 10-day trial version of ListGrabber today. Our sales specialists can help you identify prospects for your business. ListGrabber can directly affect the way you do your business and help you sell more.

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

How to extract data (contact information) from web pages to excel?

If you are looking to extract data (contact information) such as name, address, email IDs and phone numbers of your prospects from web pages, try ListGrabber - a simple but powerful sales lead capture tool.

ListGrabber helps you to extract name, address, email IDs, phone numbers, etc. from any web page in 3 simple steps.

1. Select the data (contact information) on the web page.
2. Click Grab on the ListGrabber toolbar – ListGrabber intelligently captures the name, address, email IDs, and phone numbers of your prospects and transfers them to the ListGrabber grid.
3. Select the contacts in the grid and click Transfer to transfer them to your Excel spreadsheet.

ListGrabber enables you to extract data from Online Directories such as yellow pages directories & white pages directories, association websites, membership directories, MLS Listings, etc. It also helps you to extract data from documents, spreadsheets, email signatures, etc.


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Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Get business addresses from white pages directories in 3 simple steps

white pages directories are one of the most powerful people search engines that help you to find specific information on people. However, it is also one of the fastest and best sources to find businesses online for free. It helps you to find businesses by category or name based on City, State or ZIP. It helps you to find business addresses, business phone numbers, website URL and email IDs of your targeted prospects.

For example, to get the business addresses of restaurants in California, enter restaurants, CA in the search. Nearly 100,000 results are displayed. Now, how will you get these business addresses from white pages directories to Excel spreadsheet or any other database?

Manually copy-pasting all the 100,000 business addresses into Excel spreadsheet is a time-consuming and tiresome task. In addition, it is also prone for errors. This is where ListGrabber, a list building tool, can help you get business addresses from white pages directories in 3 simple steps.

   1. Launch the white pages directory and perform the search.
   2. Select the search results.
   3. Click Grab on the ListGrabber toolbar.

All the business addresses are captured from the search results and transferred to your Excel spreadsheet in a few minutes. Your business mailing list is ready. You can jumpstart your marketing & sales campaigns in no time and spend more time in reaching your prospects and selling.

ListGrabber helps you capture business addresses from almost any source - web pages, spreadsheets, documents and email signatures, etc.

Click here to watch how ListGrabber helps you to get business addresses from various sources in 3 simple steps.