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Find new prospects

How to find new prospects and customers?

Might be your major question, after years of hard work and planning to start your business. Maybe you just started your business, but now it's time to grow your business. Whether you are working short term or long term, you want to increase your revenue and do more deals. You need to get the basics right and work effeciently, so you can spend your time where your personal skills are needed.

Next step for you to work smarter is to automate tasks and the process of finding new quality prospects.

Follow the 4 steps below to create valuable leads and close new deals:

Step 1

Create a SmartList.

Step 2

Receive notifications on any changes.

Step 3

Check the company and contact information to get the name and specific job title or role.

Step 4

Use the contact information like phone number, e-mail or social media links. Use the LinkedIn profile link to connect directly.

How can we help you?

Identify and engage prospects

D&B Hoovers Essentials is a tool that helps you automate finding new prospects and make you look for the profitable companies, that are the right ones for you matching your criteria like geography, revenue, website content listing certain brands, industries or topics. Ensuring that the companies are matching your strenghts and abilities to focus on high quality leads instead of wasting time on volume that is not converting.

Cut through the noise

Prospects getting bombarded from all directions. It is crucial for you to engage with them at the right time and meet where they are. Focus your time to find, build and connect with the right people that are most likely to convert. You can search based on:

  • Location
  • Number of employees
  • Risk classes
  • Online sources like website of the companies and news articles
  • Or latest changes and activities of a company (moving, lay off, etc.)

Discover D&B Hoovers Essentials

Website content available in D&B Hoovers Essentials

Global coverage

Get company data and online data from 190 countries and almost 300 million companies with D&B Hoovers Essentials.

Full picture

D&B regularly crawls more than 36 million company websites worldwide with more than 400 million subpages in more than 100 languages and catalogues their content.

Extensive reach

The website content is available for more than 66% of companies with more than 10 employees.

Frequently Asked Questions

Check out the following resources for more information.

Every business has a credit score. Whether you are a small business, start-up, or a micro business owner, we want to help you to understand credit on yourself – what information is held about you that others can access when qualifying your business as a potential partner.

A SmartList is a dynamic list that is automatically updated to provide you with the most current and relevant list. Set your list criteria and D&B Hoovers will constantly monitor the market to recognize new prospects and changes. When new properties match your criteria, they will be added to your list, and properties will be automatically removed from the list when they no longer match your criteria.

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