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Are you looking to supercharge your sales team? Do you want more-qualified leads, better data, and the ability to empower your reps with tools that help them work faster and more efficiently – and most importantly, help them drive more sales?<\/p>\n

The complete list of sales prospecting<\/a> tools below includes everything needed to do just that – from streamlining and enhancing prospecting itself, to making more effective phone calls, sending better emails, and using time-saving AI technology to automate the process<\/a> of engaging with prospects on routine matters around the clock.<\/p>\n

Email Outreach Tools<\/h2>\n

Mailshake<\/h3>\n

Website: kmbrian.com<\/a>
\nPrice: $59 per user, per month (
details<\/a>)
\nFree option: None<\/p>\n

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We\u2019d be remiss if we didn\u2019t include ourselves in this list, so to summarize what we do: Mailshake is a simple solution for streamlining sending cold emails and getting better results based on how your campaigns are performing.<\/p>\n

You can choose to use our proven-to-work templates or write your own, personalize emails<\/a> on the fly, or answer a few simple questions and we\u2019ll generate a custom email for each of your campaigns.<\/p>\n

You can also monitor clicks and replies, and schedule follow-ups to be sent automatically to respondents who don\u2019t reply.<\/p>\n

Enriching Contact Details<\/h2>\n

The more you know about a prospect, the better positioned you\u2019ll be to adopt relationship selling<\/a> methods, and the more successful you\u2019ll be at nurturing and closing sales. Here\u2019s a selection of some of the best tools available right now for automating the process of collecting prospect information and enriching contact details.<\/p>\n

Voila Norbert Enrich<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Website: voilanorbert.com\/enrich<\/a>
\nPrice: $.04\/email up to 2k, $.02\/email up to 50k, $.015\/email above that (
details<\/a>)
\nFree option 1: None<\/p>\n

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Voila Norbert is known for its email-finding tool (which was rated as the most thorough and accurate<\/a> of all the email-finding tools on the market by Ahrefs), but they have another tool most people aren’t aware of; enrichment. If you already have an email address, Voila Norbert can find the contact’s “can fetch the current job title, employer, location and social networks of the person behind the email you are verifying. No accounts, no recurring payment, no bullshit.”<\/p>\n

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AeroLeads<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Website: aeroleads.com<\/a>
\nPrice: $49 – $499 per month (bespoke pricing offered to enterprise clients) (
details<\/a>)
\nFree option: Free trial with 10 free credits<\/p>\n

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AeroLeads simplifies B2B prospecting<\/a> so sales representatives can spend more time selling. It does this by finding business details of individuals and businesses in any location and industry, which you can export to your CRM and marketing software with a single click.<\/p>\n

Cloze<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Website: cloze.com<\/a>
\nPrice: $13.33 per user, per month, when billed annually, or $19.99 when billed monthly (
details<\/a>)
\nFree option: Smart Inbox and Contact Manager available for free. 14-day free trial for paid plans<\/p>\n

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Cloze is like a personal assistant for your professional relationships that\u2019s always prompting you at the right moment and remembering what you don\u2019t. It pulls from your apps to automatically create one view of every person and company – all their contact details, and your complete history – every email back and forth, your phone calls together, meetings, notes, files, social, and messages.<\/p>\n

It’s all organized for you – without any busy work.<\/p>\n

With everything in one place, Cloze uses AI to figure out who is important and keeps them top of mind, and will even remind you to reach out to a contact and refresh a fading relationship.<\/p>\n

DiscoverOrg<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Website: discoverorg.com<\/a>
\nPrice: Demo required (
details<\/a>)
\nFree option: Limited free data available (
details<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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DiscoverOrg is an award-winning predictive sales intelligence platform that makes it easy to predict, prioritize, and monitor your target prospects, and conduct deep prospect research – so you can find more leads, build more pipeline, and close more deals<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It offers direct-dial phone numbers, verified email addresses, sales “trigger” alerts, a top-rated Chrome extension, and more. Better yet, their data is verified every 60 days by a human research team, and guaranteed to be 95% accurate.<\/p>\n

FullContact<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Website: fullcontact.com<\/a>
\nPrice: $99 – $499 per month (bespoke enterprise options available) (
details<\/a>)
\nFree option: Free limited access accounts available for both standard and developer users<\/p>\n

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FullContact improves sales prospecting<\/a> by turning an email, social handle or phone number into a full person or company profile that you can use to prioritize and tailor your outreach.<\/p>\n

The platform is configured so users can easily integrate the API with their CRM, sales, marketing or email platform, and enhance them with social profiles, affinities and demographics. Users can also create lookalike prospects that will help them understand their highest value customers and discover additional prospects from a global database of companies and people.<\/p>\n

KickFire<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Website: kickfire.com<\/a>
\nPrice: free chrome plugin (
details<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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KickFire Prospector promises to reduce the time your sales team<\/a> spends prospecting, increase the amount of qualified accounts in the sales pipeline<\/a>, and maximize productivity. It also offers a browser extension designed to find leads, get verified contact information, and push new accounts into your CRM \u2212 all without having to leave a website.\u00a0KickFire also offers IP address intelligence & B2B firmographic data that allows you to translate IP addresses to companies, identify anonymous web visitors, and integrate account data into your technology stack – all based on company’s IP address<\/p>\n

Leadspace<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Website: leadspace.com<\/a>
\nPrice: Demo required (
details<\/a>)
\nFree option: None<\/p>\n

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Leadspace B2B Audience Management Platform provides Sales and Marketing with up-to-date, highly accurate data and intelligence on the account and individual level to find, engage and convert their ideal customers – with turnkey integrations into leading CRMs, including Salesforce.<\/p>\n

Leadspace\u2019s real-time data enrichment ensures Sales have all the information they need to know who to engage with, how to engage them and when to reach out, drawing from over 40 third-party data sources to append over 100 fields of accurate, current data to each contact\/lead\/account. Leadspace data goes far beyond generic fields like job title or company name, to include highly actionable information like installed technologies, seniority, job responsibility and intent data. Leadspace lead-to-account matching enables efficient lead routing and account-based marketing – with site-level matching capabilities taking this a step further by providing full visibility into “parent” accounts – while Leadspace predictive scoring lets sales reps effectively prioritize their efforts by accurately predicting which prospects are most likely to buy.<\/p>\n

For prospecting, Leadspace uses Artificial Intelligence to discover “look-alike” prospects who closely resemble your best existing customers, and then pinpoints the decision-makers and influencers within those companies for effective account penetration.<\/p>\n

Nudge.ai<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Website: nudge.ai<\/a>
\nPrice: $19.95 – $59.95 per month (
details<\/a>)
\nFree option: Limited free forever plan. 30-day free trial for paid plans.<\/p>\n

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The most difficult part of winning any deal is finding it, so Nudge promises to turbo-charge your sales performance by giving you a way to access any account on your list.<\/p>\n

Insights on a person can help spark a conversation. Being first to share game-changing company news allows you to share an interesting point of view. Knowing that the buyer is close with your CMO can lead to a warm introduction.<\/p>\n

Nudge will do the repetitive task of digging up insights so you can act on them, and get the deal moving.<\/p>\n

EmailAnalytics<\/h3>\n

Website: emailanalytics.com<\/a>
\nPrice: $15 per month per user (
details<\/a>)
\nFree option: 14-day fully-featured free trial<\/p>\n

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EmailAnalytics is a simple-yet-robust app that enables you to track, monitor, and visualize email activity for your team (such sales and customer service teams). It provides you with daily email reports to make it super easy to track performance for each of your team members without leaving your inbox.<\/p>\n

Learn your team’s emails sent and received, busiest times of day, busiest days of the week, and key performance indicators such as average email response time. It’s all possible and super easy with EmailAnalytics.<\/p>\n

RocketReach<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Website: rocketreach.co<\/a>
\nPrice: $49 – $299 per month (
details<\/a>)
\nFree option: 5 lookups a month<\/p>\n

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RocketReach makes it really easy for users to find contact info for sales prospects – and it promises to be super accurate at it too (it boasts over 87% accuracy, and a dataset that includes over 400 million professionals, across 6 million companies).\u00a0RocketReach currently has over a million registered users, and is trusted by the who’s who of the S&P 500 – including customers like Amazon, Facebook, Google, Morgan Stanley.<\/p>\n

Refiner<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Website: refiner.io<\/a>
\nPrice: $99 – $699 per month
\nFree option: 14-day free trial<\/p>\n

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Refiner is a lead qualification software helping B2B SaaS companies with a self-service model to go upmarket by closing more high-value deals. By leveraging data enrichment and behavioral tracking,<\/p>\n

Refiners uncovers your product qualified leads continuously and provides you with insights to start more relevant sales conversations with them. With Refiner, your inside sales team always knows which opportunities to pursue and when, and how to engage those people successfully.<\/p>\n

SalesWings<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Website: saleswingsapp.com<\/a>
\nPrice: $99 – $499 per month (
details<\/a>)
\nFree option: 14-day free trial<\/p>\n

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SalesWings tracks your lead’s website engagement, applies lead scores automatically, and connects to sales and marketing technology to trigger actions. It does this using its own proprietary predictive activity algorithm that analyzes and compares website visits of sales or marketing leads, and automatically filters out the 5-20% most interested.<\/p>\n

SalesWings also provides lead intelligence data, which includes information about the leads, links to their social media profiles, and key data about the company they\u2019re part of.<\/p>\n

Synthio<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Website: synthio.com<\/a>
\nPrice: Demo required (
details<\/a>)
\nFree option: 7-day free trial<\/p>\n

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Synthio is an \u2018always-on\u2019 customer data platform that enables real-time data cleansing, enrichment, and database management.<\/p>\n

Outdated data, whitespace, misinformation, and technical hurdles can create a big gap between you and the people you\u2019re trying to reach – costing millions in wasted efforts and missed opportunities. Synthio helps you close the gap with global coverage that stays current by following the people, not the company.<\/p>\n

ZenProspect<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Website: zenprospect.com<\/a>
\nPrice: Demo required (
details<\/a>)
\nFree option 1: Free 1,000 leads with verified emails and guaranteed 95% deliverability (
details<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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ZenProspect is a unified sales platform that helps sales teams generate qualified opportunities.<\/p>\n

They do it by mapping their 160 million strong B2B database to their completed tasks and closed won data to provide insights on how to sharpen customer profiles.<\/p>\n

Users also benefit from custom reporting in pre-built dashboards that have been designed to meet the needs of top sales teams.<\/p>\n

ZoomInfo<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Website: zoominfo.com<\/a>
\nPrice: Demo required (
details<\/a>)
\nFree option: Limited free trial (
details<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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Simplifying prospecting is easy and quick with ZoomInfo\u2019s ReachOut extension. Get direct phone numbers and email addresses while viewing LinkedIn profiles, corporate websites, or Leads, Accounts, and Contacts in Salesforce.<\/p>\n

Finding Prospects<\/h2>\n

Finding prospects<\/a> is easy – so much so that there are countless companies offering to sell you \u201cleads.\u201d Unfortunately, not many of them manage to live up to what they claim. Expect to receive unqualified leads at best, and expired email addresses and phone numbers at worst.<\/p>\n

Here are some of the best sites around for discovering quality<\/em> prospects who could benefit from your product – and are in a position to buy.<\/p>\n

Voila Norbert<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Website:\u00a0voilanorbert.com<\/a>
\nPrice: $ 39 – $399\/ month (
details<\/a>)
\nFree option: 50 credits for free
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\nVoila Norbert claims it can find anyone’s email address so it’s no surprise to see it #1 in our ‘finding prospects’ section of the article. Ahrefs elected it the most accurate email finder on the market with an 87% success rate. Norbert offers a great pricing plan as users can pay as they go or sign up to a monthly plan depending on their prospecting needs. For professionals that have high-volume needs you can get in touch for custom pricing.<\/p>\n

Accompany<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Website: accompany.com<\/a>
\nPrice: Demo required
\nFree option: Relationship management app (
details<\/a>), Accompany for Gmail (details<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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Accompany creates AI-driven products for finding new prospects and strengthening your relationships, built on the largest database of senior decision-makers in the world. Accompany’s free relationship management app provides sales professionals with constant, contextual insight into the relationships that are important to them, making every interaction deeper and more relevant. Their enterprise products take things even further by providing large teams with competitive analysis, curated prospect lists, and more.<\/p>\n

BuiltWith<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Website: builtwith.com<\/a>
\nPrice: $295 – $995 per month (
details<\/a>)
\nFree option: Free forever for individual site lookups<\/p>\n

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BuiltWith helps to identify websites using specific web technologies, as well as identifying technology spend, location information, verticals and many other options to filter and create a solid lead list of websites based on their technology and internet footprint.<\/p>\n

The Big Willow<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Website: thebigwillow.com<\/a>
\nPrice: $7,500 – $20,000+ per month (
details<\/a>)
\nFree option: One month use of The Big Willow Account Discovery pixel<\/p>\n

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The Big Willow uses data science and machine learning to create accurate buyer intent signals that show the current total active market across hundreds of B2B categories. Sales teams can then apply their target accounts against the total active market and find out what percentage of the whole is currently in market while at the same time finding hundreds – even thousands – of lookalike companies that are sales-ready now.<\/p>\n

DueDil<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Website: duedil.com<\/a>
\nPrice: Demo required (
details<\/a>)
\nFree option: None<\/p>\n

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Expand your company\u2019s addressable market by identifying net-new prospects that are not currently on your radar. Strike the right balance between coverage, granularity and reducing noise. You can find the different datasets available here.<\/a><\/p>\n

With DueDil, you can:<\/p>\n