Have you ever wondered how you can extract names and telephone numbers of potential customers from the online Yellow Pages ? Wouldn’t it be great to have a simple list of customers you’d like to target ?
We’ve found this great tool at www.pageraptor.com which allows you to extract data from any webpage/s and download the information to an Excel spreadsheet or database on your pc. Known as a data mining too, “Page Raptor” is so useful, and will save you hours of time that you’d otherwise spent manually keying in details. It’s perfect for marketing or sales people wanting to find new potential prospects. The software is free but you pay 4c per line when you want to copy data from a webpage. Still far cheaper than paying someone to manually enter in customer details!
Steps for downloading Page Raptor:-
- On the www.pageraptor.com website, click on the “Free Download” button.
- Click on ‘Save File’ to download the software.
- Once the file has downloaded, click on the “PageRaptorSetup.exe” file.
- Click ok to use English during the installation.
- The PageRaptor Setup Wizard will start. Click on ‘Next’ as you move through the wizard.
- You may want to click on the ‘Create a desktop icon’ when you get to the third setup screen entitled “What Additional Tasks should be performed?”
Using Page Raptor
1. Click on the Page Raptor icon on your desktop:-
Main Screen of Page Raptor which can extract the results of Yellow Page searches to a spreadsheet or a database
2. Scroll down to find the “Australia” section and click on the Yellow or White Pages link, depending on what businesses or names you want to find.
3. Enter the business type or name of the company you wish to find as well as the location. Click on Search.
4. Sort or refine your search by specific location. Once all the businesses are listed, click on the Scrape Page/Capture button in the left hand column.
5. If you want to save the data collected, you’ll need to log in and pay for credits (around 4c per line).
6. Once you have purchased credits, click on the Save Current Lines button.
Ask us if you need help downloading, installing or using Page Raptor for your marketing campaign.
