So what are the options? Some of you might think about delegating this routine task to a freelancer.
Automation of the scraping process However, every person who did this process of manual scraping at least for 25 companies will agree that this "monkey job" isn't the job that sharps his professional skills and it's pretty boring. We recommend using something like Sendpulse to do mailing as it has a lot of email marketing tools. In case your email proposal well-build and brings real value, there is a big chance that your email will be reviewed by those owners. Once you have emails you are able to contact the business owners.
Usually emails are placed on the main page or pages like `/about`, `/contacts`, `/contact-us`, `/about-us`, etc. By our research, we see that about 40% of the sites placed on Google have emails, and as you can see on the screen - sometimes it's super easy to find them.
Business owners willingly leave them on the business pages. Okay, but how about emails on Google Maps? What is more, those who need emails and links to Facebook, Instagram, or other social media, usually go to the companies' sites. What you can do with the data? Many marketers along with sales teams export data from Google Maps to do cold calls, investigate customer reviews, research business industries in specific locations, etc. It has phone, site, and other valuable information about the business. Check this swiss restaurant for example (on the picture). Actually, all this data is publicly available for anyone who uses the internet. Nowadays, it's becoming the perfect source of leads that you and your marketing team should use in order to boost sales.
Why Google Maps is the place for marketers? More and more local, and even online businesses attract customers via Google Maps by putting their data into it.