Item: Data.com
Rating: 9.2
Author: Jonathan Kerns

Data.com Review 2020

Sales can be a very fruitful business to go into but it can also be very frust. Meeting your sales quota is not always the easiest thing and so is finding leads that translate to more sales. Hard-calling and door-to-door selling used to be the main ways sales representatives conducted business and this was sometime met with negative responses from people.

Along with the changing times, sales approaches have also changed. The age of the internet has opened many opportunities for businesses to find sales leads and approach them in a more convenient way for both the representative and the client. Internet allows us to communicate to anyone around the world through email, video calls and instant messaging. The key is just to find the right contact information to find the right person in the right company to contact as the right lead can be the difference between making a sale or not.

Luckily the internet can also be used as a tool to help companies do this, with the help of lead gene programs. Data.com is one of those programs, and if you are in the sales business this review is something you have to take a look at. We will go under the hood of Data.com to see if they are something you should use for your business or not.

Data.com and Their Products

Data.com offers 2 products in 2 versions the Data.com Clean and Data.com Prospector that both come in corporate and premium versions. Each comes with features designed to help your business at its own price.

Their lowest product is the Data.com Clean that costs $25 per user/month and allows you to access social accounts and contacts, compare records, sync and match jobs get update notifications. They also offer this in a premium version that costs $35 per user/month and adds D&B company object on leads and accounts and additional SIC/NAICS identifiers. While most users prefer this product as it has sufficient features, Data.com also offers the Prospector.

Data.com Prospector costs $125 per user/month, making it significantly more expensive than Data.com Clean. The Prospector however, gives you the ability to search for companies or contacts, view their account card, phone and email and import records up to 300 per user/month as well as most of the features of Data.com Clean. The Premium version costs $165 per user/month which is quite costly considering the only additional features are Market pre-screen indicators, Additional SIC/NAICS identifiers and importing corporate family linkages via DUNS numbers.

What's the Verdict on Data.com?

Worth It, Some Issues