Contents...
1. HotData Delivers
2. Looking for Demographic Data?

PikeNet 2000 / Apr 5-7, 2000 / San Francisco

1. HotData... John Childers with Colliers Oxford in Austin, TX, raves about HotData, which plugs your desktop contact manager (ARES for ACT!, ACT!, Goldmine) into dozens of online data sources, including Dun & Bradstreet, Experian, the U.S. Post Office, and a dozen more. Here's how Childers describes it: "Take your existing contacts database, run the Hotdata program, and it will bring up information such as revenues, # of employees, CEO, CFO, updated zip codes and area codes.

"One of the coolest things about it is this: I've actually been driving down the road and seen a sign on a building. When I got back to the office, I typed in the company name, city and state into ACT! and ran a search with HotData. It pulled up revenue information, key executives, # of employees, and SIC codes immediately. ... You can sort based upon any of the fields, including number of employees. If I had a 30,000 sf office sublease listing and wanted to determine companies which would fit that size, I could search a database to find companies with 100-150 employees, and then either send them a flyer or follow up with a call directly to the CEO or CFO." ... Wow.

2. AnySite.com... Check out AnySite.com, which offers ring and drive-time analysis and reports, including locations of your choice (e.g., competitors, shopping malls, etc.). ... I've posted step-by-step instructions in the Maps and Directions section of PikeNet's Web Resources (left-hand column of home page).

--Peter