USE CASE:
US companies and the hard part of contact details
Read this if you need contact details for US companies and you would rather see the real options than a pitch. The tools we name are Mamba Labs Apify actors, priced per row, and Company Contact Details Extractor is the one pointed at US companies.
The problem
US companies frustrate contact details, for a reason specific to them. US companies file, publish and advertise under local rules that no global dataset models properly, and contact details inherits that. Know this about US 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 US companies below.
The method
- Start with one of US companies you already know, so a wrong contact details answer is obvious rather than plausible.
- Run Company Contact Details Extractor across your list of US companies, which carries 1 ready made setup for contact details.
- Read ten rows of contact details on US companies by hand before you trust the rest of the list.
Traditional Search Tools
- The national company register, for US 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.