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Go-To-Market Strategy: Key Elements & Steps [Full Guide]

Developing a thorough Go-to-market (GTM) strategy is essential for launching a product into a market, it can be a new product in an existing market, an existing product in a new market, or testing a new product’s market. Though unique solutions/products are made, bringing them to the market

B2B Databases & 10 Best B2B Data Providers [Full Guide]

As businesses look for accurate and up-to-date information to fuel their growth, B2B data providers are becoming increasingly important. These providers provide access to information about companies, people, products, and more. Having access to the right B2B data can help businesses reach their desired customers, increase their sales, find new

How To Hire The Best Candidates - Free (But Menial) Ways

Dear hiring managers, one of the important roles you might have is hiring, to identify and recruit top talent for your organization. However, we all know that this can be an extremely challenging task, as it requires you to be proactive in seeking out qualified candidates and convincing them to

Top 10 Best B2B Databases Providers & Softwares

B2B contact databases are essential resources for any business. They provide comprehensive, up-to-date information on customers, allowing businesses to effectively target their marketing and sales efforts. But with so many B2B data providers, it can be hard to choose the right one for your needs. To help you out, we

We are updating our pricing

✏️In early 2024, we've implemented further updates to our pricing plans, notably the introduction of Annual Plans - which have cheaper and more credits. Check it out here. We have been around since 2014, and we are here to stay. And staying around means investing in compliance and

7 Major Types of Market Segmentation to Tailor Your Business

Businesses on a regular basis generate and work with customers' or companies' profiles to achieve their end goals. For any business, the customer base becomes a major influential factor that determines growth potential. With businesses having to deal with an extensive range of audiences pre and post-sales, it

Big Tech FAANG Stocks & Companies, What is it? How to Invest?

If you tend to keep up with the tech or finance ecosystem, you've probably come across the term, FAANG. But have you ever wondered what it stands for? Or why was it coined in the first place? We'll dive into what exactly they constitute and what

Professional Social Network Recruiter Pricing 2023- Lite, Corporate, Entreprise

Professional Social Network Recruiter is a great tool that helps companies and recruitment agencies find and hire the best candidates for their job openings. It's part of the Professional Social Network platform, so it can be used to search through a huge database of Professional Social Network profiles

50 Types of Professional Social Network Data You Can Get (You’ll Be Surprised)

As you would already know, Professional Social Network is a popular social media platform for professionals and businesses. It has tons and tons of valuable data that can be useful for so many use cases. In fact, many people and businesses use Professional Social Network regularly to connect with others

What Is Identity Resolution? Definition with Real World Uses

Identifying your customers' needs and providing an experience personalized for each customer is one of the most effective ways to achieve customer success and stay ahead of competition. Identity Resolution (IR) is one of the many data management strategies used by businesses to manage and provide consistent product experience

Using cURL In 5 Actual Scenarios (+ Extensive Codes Samples)

Every application you have ever interacted with goes through the client-server or request-response connection cycle. This connection is made possible by protocols HTTP, SMTP, Telnet, LDAP, and many others and their methods. HTTP protocols provide popular methods like GET, POST, PUT/PATCH, and DELETE to send requests to a server

How to fetch `geo_id` parameter for the Job API?

The geo_id parameter in the Job Listing API and Job Listing Count API represents the ID that Professional Social Network prescribes to a region. This article will explain how you get get a matching geo_id for a given region you want to target. Follow these steps to get

Stealth Startups - The Good, The Bad, & Where To Find Them

When you hear the word "Startups," what comes to mind? Most likely, new companies with shiny new ideas for products or services and making the front pages of tech news. Actively and publicly seeking capital from different sources - loans, crowdfunding, and venture capitalists (VCs). But did you

Top 20 Best Lead Generation Companies

Every business will always have a need for lead generation. Lead generation is one primary strategy to hit your revenue target regularly. Apart from marketing your brand, your lead generation efforts also help you engage your customers with the right goods and services. In this article, we’re going to

35 Must-Use ZoomInfo Alternatives & Competitors [2025 List]

Zoominfo is great, but it's not for everyone. Find 35 best alternatives to Zoominfo in 2025. 1) Proxycurl 2) Clearbit 3) Professional Social Network Sales Navigator 4) Crunchbase Pro

Filter job listings by keywords and more!

Hi! I am happy to share that we just went live with a huge update to the Jobs API. In this update, you can now filter jobs by: * Job flexibility (remote or on-site) * Region * Job title * Company posting it * When it was posted Check out the Job Listings API Endpoint

Data Sourcing With 6 Conclusive Steps

Today, data and information have become crucial to the success of modern businesses. To retrieve information, companies must turn to many different data sources. A data source could be a computer file, a database, or a web service. However, businesses need good data sources to get insightful and actionable data.

10 Hiring Tools For Fast & Effortless Recruitment

Hiring new talents for your team or organization can be tedious and overwhelming. It requires going through hundreds of applications for weeks to find the right fit for your company and then narrowing down the list to pick a handful of candidates to interview hoping one of them meets your

Data Marketplace: An Endless Source of Data - Complete Guide

The importance of data in today’s world cannot be over-emphasized, every piece of information or transaction is data. It is a valuable asset because of how it determines and influences every process, from the world’s economy to decision-making in businesses. Every business entity strives for data. Companies or

Introducing Students Listing API. Fetch a list of university students.

We have a new API endpoint released today. I am happy to introduce the new Student Listing API Endpoint. The Student Listing API endpoint: * takes a "Professional Social Network Profile URL of any school or university." * returns a "list of current and past students". You can

Trend Analysis - Definition, Use Cases, Tools

Often today's companies rely on accurate business analytics to reduce the cost of operations and maximize profits. One of the drivers behind this is the availability of vast amounts of historical and current data, and trend analysis - the ability to make predictions (forecasts) using statistical and business

3 Simple Methods To Do Reverse Email Lookup

In this article, we'll talk about how you can obtain more data from an email address. Examples of data from an email include contact information about a person or company to verify their authenticity, or collating emails to generate leads for marketing purposes and so on. In the

New Employee Search Endpoint and more!

This week, we're happy to come to you with updates on a new API endpoint and further refinements to the Proxycurl API. Introducing Employee Search API Endpoint You can now search for Employees of any target company with the Employee Search Endpoint. This new API endpoint is a

The Ultimate Guide to Alternative Data - What Is It Really?

In recent years, there has been a considerable amount of buzz on alternative data in the investment & finance industries, and there is a good reason for that. This form of data is positively shaping the financial sector by providing alternative viewpoints via real-time signals and unforeseen insights into investment

We are restructuring Proxycurl, the product, under Proxycurl LLC.

We will be restructuring Proxycurl, the product, under Proxycurl LLC, a US-based holding company, in the coming weeks. The restructuring exercise is an administrative restructuring, and the ownership and management will remain the same. Our invoices will come under Proxycurl LLC's letterhead moving forward. In addition, all contracts

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