I've spent the past year developing a database that profiles companies and their IT, Marketing, Finance, and HR managerial level contacts. Explicity, The data I have available contains: Name Title Position Phone Fax Email (emails in database are over 90% accurate) Reporting Structure Sales Intel (Responsibilities) LinkedIn URLS (Private/Public) Company Name Company Location(s) Also, the data profiling IT contacts contains additional information about the company that each respective employee works for, such as: Company description Annual revenue Number of Employees Number of IT employees So, I'm looking for the best way to get a foot in the door with prospective clients. I've tried emailing directly, and messaging on LinkedIn without a great success rate. Opinions? Thanks!
Well I guess the first thing I might ask is what do all of these people share in common? For example maybe they are all employees of the computer industry. If you can not find anything that they all have in common, the first thing I would do would be to organize your data in to groups. Like perhaps all of the PR people, geographic locations, or whatever other metrics you can think of. The next step would be to figure what group of people might be willing to pay you for your access to these people. That is just the first step, I would not mind helping your further once you have figured out these things. Good luck!
Try and have yourself a product and sell to them. I don't see how else you can reach to them. Or try and sell the data base.
First, the employees are organized by company. I've covered companies from various industries as well as universities, hospitals, government entities, etc. Second, the group I think I could offer most value to would be small technology companies, startups, and individuals looking to market their own technical service.