{"id":4684,"date":"2017-08-01T15:32:33","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T22:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/3.14.248.234\/?p=4684"},"modified":"2020-06-26T15:44:19","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T22:44:19","slug":"how-to-target-capterra-reviewers-with-cold-emails-facebook-ads-and-linkedin-automation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bamf.com\/how-to-target-capterra-reviewers-with-cold-emails-facebook-ads-and-linkedin-automation\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Target Capterra Reviewers With Emails, FB Ads, and LinkedIn Automation?"},"content":{"rendered":"
\t\t\t\tIf you\u2019re involved in SaaS I\u2019m sure you\u2019re familiar with the likings of<\/span> Capterra<\/span><\/a>,<\/span> GetApp<\/span><\/a>,<\/span> G2Crowd<\/span><\/a> and their gazillion cousins.<\/span>\nWhen I started at Salesflare, I was obsessed with these websites.<\/span>\nNot because they would get us tons of leads. They just don\u2019t if you\u2019re not willing to open up your wallet big time for a good listing.<\/span>\nNo, I used to browse them for hours because of the gazillion reviews people left our competitors. It was a great way to get to know our target audience and their needs. It helped me figure out what kind of value we needed to create to win them over.<\/span>\nToday, I know who our target customers are and I know what kind of value they\u2019re looking for. The game has shifted from getting to know them to put the moves on them.<\/span>\nWhich brings us to the next phase: how do you target all those target customers at scale?<\/span>\nThis guide will walk you through the steps needed to get target customers like these in front of your value using cold emails, Facebook Ads and LinkedIn automation.<\/span>\nWe\u2019ll be taking Capterra as an example but you can make this work for any webpage that provides you with at least the following three elements:<\/span>\n\n\n\n \t\n\n
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Here\u2019s what a typical Capterra review looks like (for workflow automation gem Zapier<\/a>)<\/h5>\n\n\n\nIn addition to the name of the reviewer and the company he\/she represents, we\u2019ll also have their role and their industry.<\/span>\nZapier has 130 reviews on Capterra. Of course, there\u2019s no way we\u2019re going to manually copy and paste all of that data.<\/span>\nWelcome to the Scrapocalypse \u26cf<\/span>\n\n\n\n
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Step 1: Create a scraping recipe with Recipe Creator<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\nThere\u2019s tons of scraping tools out there.<\/span>\nTo get the data we want, we don\u2019t need something fancy schmancy.<\/span> DataMiner<\/span><\/a> is a free and easy Chrome extension that does the job.<\/span>\nFirst thing you\u2019ll need to do is set up DataMiner to scrape the data you want, creating a recipe for it.<\/span>\nI\u2019d happily share mine in the public DataMiner directory but I\u2019d need to have a paid subscription to do that, which I don\u2019t.<\/span>\nInstead, I\u2019ll just tell you how to create the recipe yourself, which will also get you acquainted with data scraping logic.<\/span>\nOnce you get a hang of this, no data on the web will be safe for you anymore.<\/span>\nFirst, download<\/span> Recipe Creator<\/span><\/a> \u2014 another Chrome extension that will work together with DataMiner. Open it up on the page you want to scrape and click \u2018New Recipe\u2019.<\/span>\n\nYou\u2019ll now be taken through a process that\u2019ll help you define the data you want to retrieve from the review page.<\/span>\nCheck out this 2-minute video for instructions: <\/span>https:\/\/youtu.be\/XZY1KQq62hE<\/span><\/a>\nThis recipe will work for every Capterra product page you\u2019d ever want to scrape.<\/span>\n\n\n
Step 2: Scrape it real good with DataMiner<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\nTime to mine the gold.<\/span>\nOpen the DataMiner Chrome extension and select the recipe you just created with Recipe Creator.<\/span>\n\nBam.<\/span>\nNames, roles, company names, industries and company sizes.<\/span>\nHit \u2018Download\u2019 on the bottom of the DataMiner UI for a .CSV with the results.<\/span>\nPretty sweet but not quite enough have them fall into your web. Yet.<\/span>\n\n\n
Step 3: Match Company Names with Domains using PhantomBuster<\/a><\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n(There is an alternative way to retrieve Domains. This involves getting LinkedURLs from names + company names (with another PhantomBuster script) and then revisiting\/scraping those LinkedIn profiles using Dux-Soup. <\/span><\/i>Head over to Step 5\u20136 if this sounds more like your jam.<\/i><\/b>)<\/span><\/i>\nTo find email addresses, we need (1) names and (2) domains.<\/span>\nNames we already have.<\/span>\nDomains we can find by running the Company Names through a search engine and getting the first result, which will be the company\u2019s website in about 90% of the cases.<\/span>\nNo, we\u2019re not going to do this manually. <\/span>\n\n\n
You\u2019re a human being. This is robot\u2019s work so we\u2019ll have a robot do it.<\/span><\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\nPhantomBuster<\/span><\/a> is a platform that gives you the power to automate repetitive data scraping tasks like this one.<\/span>\nYou just have to tell it what to do.<\/span>\nWe to set up a bot that automatically runs search queries in Google for each of the company names, then save the first result in a column of a .CSV export file.<\/span>\nThat is exactly what this<\/span> script<\/span><\/a> does.<\/span>\nYou can follow these steps to set up the script in PhantomBuster and run it to retrieve Company Domains from a list of Company Names:<\/span>\n\n\n
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Step 4: Use FindThatLead<\/a> to find email addresses for cold emailing<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\nFindThatLead is a badass lead finder tool that will get you email addresses from inputs like names and domains.<\/span>\nFrom the data we have gathered, there\u2019s two things we can do with FindThatLead:<\/span>\n\n\n
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Domain Search<\/b><\/h5>\n\n\nAll you need: a .CSV with a \u2018Domain\u2019 column \u2014 FindThatLead will get you emails for every domain.<\/span>\n\n\n
Lead Search<\/b><\/h5>\n\n\nTo find the email addresses of specific people at companies, you\u2019ll need a .CSV with three columns: First Name, Last Name and Domain.<\/span>\nSince you scraped the names in full, you\u2019ll need to split first name and last name. The fastest way to do this in Excel is to select the column containing the name and then using Data > Text to Columns, using \u2018Space\u2019 as delimiter. <\/span>\n\nA free FindThatLead account will get you 10 credits per day, so you\u2019ll need to upgrade to a paid plan.<\/span>\nHere\u2019s the thing though: you won\u2019t find anything cheaper that is as good.<\/span>\n\n\n
Step 5: Find LinkedIn Profiles with PhantomBuster<\/a><\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\nHaving names and domains also allows us to match reviewers with LinkedIn Profile URLs.<\/span>\nSimilar to how we matched Domains to Company Names, we\u2019ll have PhantomBuster automate scraping Google to retrieve LinkedIn URLs from name + company name.<\/span>\n