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Best Websites For Business Profiles and Sales Leads

June 21, 2010 - Written By: Katie Williams in Marketing Industry News

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If you are a business owner, sales person, or entrepreneur you know the pain of finding updated and trusted information about businesses online. You know the challenge of finding the decision maker when trying to drum up sales leads or to learn about the CEO or marketing person you are trying to get an appointment with to sell your product. We have put together 5 websites that we feed are pretty good at getting you the information you need to succeed in your search and with generating quality sales leads.

Hoovers

5800 Airport Blvd.
Austin, TX 78752
United States
Phone: 512-374-4500
Fax: 512-374-4501
Website: Website

Review of Hoovers
Hoover’s offers proprietary business information and company profiles through the Internet, data feeds, wireless devices, and co-branding agreements with other online websites. The Hoover’s website features a full database of information on more than 65 million companies and organizations, and background and current information on more than 85 million people. Offering both free and premium content, Hoovers focuses on selling subscriptions to marketing, sales, and business development professionals. If you would like a hard copy of the information contained on this site, Hoover’s also publishes its information in reference books for sale.

OneSource

Corporate Headquarters
300 Baker Ave.
Concord, MA 01742
Tel: 978-318-4300
Fax: 978-318-4690
sales@onesource.com
Website: Website

Review of OneSource
For more than 20 years OneSource has been a recognized leader in business and company information; delivering unparalleled company, executive, and industry intelligence that make business professionals more effective and productive in completing their critical daily tasks for their small, medium, or large businesses. Their products and services support a company’s vital business processes (sales, marketing, or management team), including serving its customers, finding and leveraging new opportunities, and working with suppliers and partners to bring their data to millions of people.

Manta

Website: Website

Review of Manta
Manta is the largest free source of information on small companies, with profiles of more than 64 million businesses and organizations. Business owners and sales professionals can use Manta’s vast database and custom search capabilities to quickly find small, medium, and large companies, easily connect with prospective customers, and promote their own services by submitting their business or marketing material. Manta.com was founded in 2005 and is based in Columbus, Ohio.

Business.com

Corporate Office
Business.com, Inc.
2120 Colorado Ave.
Santa Monica, CA 90404
Tel: 888.441.4466
Website: Website

Review of Business.com
Business.com, a Dex One company, is one of the leading online resources for business buyers looking for B2B solutions in an easy to navigate and search format. Business.com guides more than 40 million business buyers a month through the B2B buying cycle with a host of B2B resources designed to help buyers research, find, and buy the products and services they need to help make their business decisions successful and profitable. Business.com has a wide range of educational features to train and teach everyone from the novice business owner to the most experienced entrepreneur. Business.com also helps advertisers increase sales and improve online marketing ROI by connecting them with this qualified and targeted audience of B2B decision makers.

Highbeam Business

Corporate Office
65 East Wacker Place
Suite 400
Chicago, IL 60601

Review of Highbeam Business
HighBeam Business is a business directory built for the information generation that is looking for a quick and easy searchable database of business information, industry reports and company profiles. The site organizes company information so you can find what you are looking for by keyword, date, or relevance. Their relationship with HighBeam Research means the business profiles are supported by millions of articles from more than 6,500 publications for you to use in your research or business needs. HighBeam Business is owned and operated by HighBeam Research, a part of The Gale Group, Inc. Gale is one of the world’s largest publishers of reference information, serving corporate and public libraries for more than 50 years.

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