Goliath

Goliath is a great tool for finding businesses for free.

















You can enter the company name or, part of it (first letter for example), to get a larger list.

You may filter the results by -


City:

State:

Country

Email:

SIC Code:

NAICS Code:

Product:

Keyword:


Goliath gives quite a bit of information for free, and can be used to find business addresses, phone numbers, etc.

One could even use it to create sales prospecting lists, and generate leads from that.

Biz Journals

Biz Journals is a very thorough and accurate free business and people lookup website.












When you search for a business, the results include employees at the business, their titles, a summary of the company, business phone, website address, business address, and normally the company's annual revenue as well .

Cortera

Cortera is a great website for finding businesses.

















Cortera has developed into a great tool for finding business and people for free. There are some features that require a subscription, but you get these great features without it:

Company Description (a brief summary)

Contact Information:
Phone
Contact Name
Title

Key Facts:
Location Type
Industry
Year Founded
Sales Range
Employees

Payment Risk

Spoke

Spoke has developed into an excellent people finding website.















Spoke allows you to search by a person's name, company name, or the person's title.

If you search by a person's name, you get results with the company name, as well as other employees at the company. You also get the business address, the business phone number, even the company revenue.

You may join and get even more information.

There are not many websites that give you this type of information for free, you could literally create your own business leads from what is provided.

Zoom Info

Zoom Info is a great website fo finding people and businesses for free.















Zoom Info gives you a combination of the personal and professional information on the Internet as well as some social networks' information.


You can even create a profile yourself, and use it as a social network.


It is an excellent tool for finding people, businesses, their address, phone number etc, for free.

Jigsaw

Jigsaw is not the best people finding website out there, as they really don't have a lot of information in their database.












The website is however an excellent place to start if you are going to be building a list of sales leads for your company.

The reason I say this is the fact that Jigsaw literally will allow you to download most of their general information for free.

You can download lists to find a business, find a person, find an address, find a phone number, etc.

This gives you an excel spreadsheet with most of the work done....I can't tell you exactly how to fill in the blanks, as it would probably drive them to change this practice, but it can be done with some creativity.

Manta

Manta is my preferred tool for finding business owners.











Normally, when you search for a company or a business owner on a free people finding website, the information is outdated, or very limited.

Manta gives very up-to-date information on the owner of a business, their business address, their business phone, and even their website in many cases.

You can search for a company by location, or by category, or use the search bar to search by just about any field (owner, address, phone, state, city, zip, type of business etc).

Zaba Search

Zaba Search allows you to search for people by name or by phone number.

I wasn't really impressed with this tool. Most of the searches were paid, and the information is all out dated.

This site gets about 85 thousand unqiue visits...makes me wonder why.

123 People

123 People:















123 People has come a long way. I have never seen a more thorough and accurate free people finding website. The results give you information from the web, social networks, photo sites, video sites, etc.

The results include e-mail addresses, mailing addresses, phone numbers, etc. for people.

I use all ofthe websites I have listed on a daily basis, and normally had to do multiple searches on multiple websites to get the information before now.

I am very impressed!!!

Wink

Wink:

















Wink is a good website for finding people for free. You can search by name, e-mail, or phone. Wink even searches the social networks, which is great.

Pipl

Pipl:
















Pipl is one of the most comprehensive people finding websites I have ever seen, and most amazingly, it is free.

I did a search on myself, and most of the information was outdated, but it is still a good tool:












You can search for someone on a personal or professional level, through public records, general information, as well as many of the social networks and business sites.

You have the option of searching by name, email, username or phone. The options other than name search tend to present the same information brought up by the name search, with many sponsored options.

I will present ways to find people effectively (for free) with the other options in later posts.