Comments on: JigSaw-Business Contact Marketplace http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/jigsaw-business-contact-marketplace/ Cool Websites, Software and Internet Tips Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:02:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Jake http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/jigsaw-business-contact-marketplace/#comment-307586 Jake Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:38:13 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/jigsaw-business-contact-marketplace/#comment-307586 I received an email from Sales Dog, a sales newsletter I receive. It was from one of their "partners" Jigsaw. It looked like it would be a great service especially since it kept saying FREE FREE FREE. I signed up for it and kept noticing mentions of "points" and couldn't figure out why I needed to gain points since it was FREE FREE FREE! I decided to download a company profile just to see what info it had and how the download process worked. Immediately on trying to download my FREE company profile up popped a screen telling me I needed to pay one of three membership levels. The top level allowed a whopping 150 or so downloads a month. I don't know how you are suppose to download the 50,000 records at a time mentioned in their "overview" on their web site (copy below). To me this is a dishonest, unethical company out to rip people off! Overview Here at Jigsaw, we believe that free access to company data is a basic business right. That's why Jigsaw declared "Data Independence Day" on June 4, 2008 and set all of its company data free - literally. With the Open Data Initiative Jigsaw is making it easy to search, select, and download company information from our large directory of over 1 million businesses - for free! In essence, Jigsaw's company data is now "open source". No more renting or buying costly company directory lists. Download up to 50,000 complete company records at a time. Utilize Jigsaw's optional data maintenance and cleaning services. Import or integrate complete company data records into your CRM or Contact Management application. I received an email from Sales Dog, a sales newsletter I receive. It was from one of their “partners” Jigsaw. It looked like it would be a great service especially since it kept saying FREE FREE FREE. I signed up for it and kept noticing mentions of “points” and couldn’t figure out why I needed to gain points since it was FREE FREE FREE! I decided to download a company profile just to see what info it had and how the download process worked. Immediately on trying to download my FREE company profile up popped a screen telling me I needed to pay one of three membership levels. The top level allowed a whopping 150 or so downloads a month. I don’t know how you are suppose to download the 50,000 records at a time mentioned in their “overview” on their web site (copy below). To me this is a dishonest, unethical company out to rip people off!

Overview
Here at Jigsaw, we believe that free access to company data is a basic business right. That’s why Jigsaw declared “Data Independence Day” on June 4, 2008 and set all of its company data free - literally.

With the Open Data Initiative Jigsaw is making it easy to search, select, and download company information from our large directory of over 1 million businesses - for free! In essence, Jigsaw’s company data is now “open source”.

No more renting or buying costly company directory lists.
Download up to 50,000 complete company records at a time.
Utilize Jigsaw’s optional data maintenance and cleaning services.
Import or integrate complete company data records into your CRM or Contact Management application.

]]> By: makeuseof extra #10 » MakeUseOf.com http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/jigsaw-business-contact-marketplace/#comment-3262 makeuseof extra #10 » MakeUseOf.com Tue, 16 Jan 2007 20:30:42 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/jigsaw-business-contact-marketplace/#comment-3262 [...] Cogmap - here you can find organizational structure for almost any big company and many smaller ones(ex; Microsoft, Google Inc, etc…), see who are the people in top-level management and people below them. Website works like wikipedia where anyone can add new and edit existing charts. Cogmap makes a good combination with jigsaw, a database listing over 300.000 business contacts [...] [...] Cogmap - here you can find organizational structure for almost any big company and many smaller ones(ex; Microsoft, Google Inc, etc…), see who are the people in top-level management and people below them. Website works like wikipedia where anyone can add new and edit existing charts. Cogmap makes a good combination with jigsaw, a database listing over 300.000 business contacts [...]

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