USE CASE:
Getting contact details right for Dutch companies
Read this if you need contact details for Dutch companies and you would rather see the real options than a pitch. We are Mamba Labs, we build Apify actors, and Company Contact Details Extractor is the one that does this for Dutch companies.
The problem
Dutch companies frustrate contact details, for a reason specific to them. Start from this: Dutch companies file, publish and advertise under local rules that no global dataset models properly, and contact details follows. Know this about Dutch companies before any contact details: coverage from any vendor drops off a cliff outside the English speaking market. There is 1 runnable example of contact details for Dutch companies below.
How we would run it
- Start with one of Dutch companies you already know, so a wrong contact details answer is obvious rather than plausible.
- Run Company Contact Details Extractor across your list of Dutch companies, which carries 1 ready made setup for contact details.
- Read ten rows of contact details on Dutch companies by hand before you trust the rest of the list.
Traditional Search Tools
- The national company register, for Dutch companies. Free, authoritative, and in its own language.
- Google Business Profiles. Free, verified by the company, and strongest for businesses with a physical location. Sparse for software companies.
- The statutory register. Companies House and its equivalents publish the registered office. Authoritative, and the registered office is often an accountant's address rather than anywhere anyone works.
- A local directory. Chambers of commerce and trade directories still carry details nothing else does, particularly outside the English speaking market.
- Read the contact page and the footer. Almost every company publishes this somewhere, and in most of Europe it is a legal requirement. Two minutes per company and you can see whether the address is real.
Preconfigured tasks
A task is one of these actors with the inputs already filled in for a specific version of this job. Open one, swap in your own list, and run it without setting anything up from scratch.