USE CASE:

UK companies and the cost of target lists

Here is how target lists for UK companies actually gets done, what it costs each way, and where each way stops working. The tools we name are Mamba Labs Apify actors, priced per row, and Company Discovery List Builder is the one pointed at UK companies.

What is actually going wrong

UK companies and target lists: the answer is public, scattered, and nobody has time to collect it. Start from this: UK companies file, publish and advertise under local rules that no global dataset models properly, and target lists follows. Worth knowing about UK companies, since target lists inherits it: coverage from any vendor drops off a cliff outside the English speaking market. Company Discovery List Builder carries 1 ready made setup for target lists on UK companies.

Traditional Search Tools

  • The national company register, for UK companies. Free, authoritative, and in its own language.
  • Apollo, Cognism or a database export. Ten thousand rows in an afternoon. The filters are firmographic, so what you get is a category rather than a market, and every competitor can pull the same export.
  • LinkedIn Sales Navigator saved searches. The filters are better than most databases and the export path is deliberately awkward. Good for named accounts, painful for volume.
  • Public registers and filings. Free, unfashionable, and full of companies nobody else is prospecting because they are annoying to get at.
  • Conference and association directories. A membership list is a qualified list somebody else already built.
  • Start from your customers. Take your twenty best accounts, work out what they share that is observable from outside, and go looking for that. Half a day, and it is the highest quality list you will ever build.

The method

  1. Start with one of UK companies you already know, so a wrong target lists answer is obvious rather than plausible.
  2. Run Company Discovery List Builder across your list of UK companies, which carries 1 ready made setup for target lists.
  3. Read ten rows of target lists on UK companies by hand before you trust the rest of the list.

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