Let AI build the list you're going to call

If your work involves calling local businesses, the slow part was never the calling. It was building the list. That part hands off almost completely now, and the whole job goes from a week to an afternoon. There is exactly one thing it will lie to you about.

What a list actually needs

Name, phone, address, whether they have a website, and their rating and review count. That is enough to sort by. Everything else is decoration you will never use.

The cheap way and the expensive way

Search data is sold by a lot of companies at wildly different prices for the same thing. The gap between the cheapest useful option and the one that markets itself hardest is easily ten to fifteen times, for identical results. Check two before you commit, always.

Sort by the thing that predicts a yes

Not by rating. A four-point-nine with three hundred reviews does not need you. The list you want is the one with real reviews, a real phone number, and nothing good on the other end when you look them up.

The one thing it always gets wrong

The no-website column. It is wrong constantly. A shop shows blank in the data and has a perfectly good site. A shop shows a website and it is a dead Facebook page from 2019.

Check every one by hand before you build anything or make a call. Three out of three checked on one real list came back wrong. Anything you build off an unchecked flag is work you did for nothing, and it is embarrassing on the phone. There is a fuller version of this in the next guide.

What it cannot do

It cannot tell you whether the owner is the kind of person who buys things, and it cannot tell you a mobile number from a landline without a separate paid lookup. Both of those are still your job.

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