explorations
When starting a technology company, understanding the needs of the market can be the difference between success and failure. The best way to understand whether you have a viable business idea is through market research.When it comes to market research for your product, most people trust their instin
Ecommerce Operations
Are you looking to scrape business directories to generate leads?Here are a few tips for scraping business directories.Web scraping is not rocket science. But there are good and bad and the worst ways of doing it.Generating sales qualified leads is always a headache. The old school ways are to buy a
Ecommerce Operations
When I started my career in sales, one of the things that my VP of sales told me is that “In sales, assumptions are the mother of all f**k ups.” I know the F-word sounds a bit inappropriate, but that is the exact word he used. He was trying to convey the simple point that every prospect is different
Ecommerce Operations
The HR industry is undergoing big transformations. The core problem it solves, recruitment process still remains a problem. It is always difficult find quality people that is a perfect fit for the job. The advancements in technology figured out ways to solve this problem. Web scraping most certainly
Thought Leadership
The idea of web data creating business value is not new. However, ready to use data it isn’t easily accessible to startups due to the high cost involved. We understand this problem as we are also a startup. In the last six months, we’ve helped startups building minimum viable products by giving them
Ecommerce Data
In the age of Big data, companies realize its value in the E-commerce business. Data points like pricing, product IDs, images, product specifications, brand and many more are extremely useful for a variety of purposes. Product data feeds from e-commerce sites are used to gain a competitive advantage
Ecommerce Operations
Meet Antonio, he came to New York from Italy. He is a foodie and music lover. It is Saturday night and he wants to find out what’s happening in the City. He opens his event discovery app on his android and found out Katy Perry, his favorite singer is performing on stage within a walking distance.Do
explorations
Big data is becoming an integral part of solving the real world problems. Data on the Web is crucial for solving these problems. But it is not in a structured format which makes it unusable for business use. That is where web scraping comes into action. Web scraping helps to extract structured data
Ecommerce Operations
I recently came across this question in Quora – How real businesses use web scraping? Since then I wanted to share some thoughts based on my learning experience at Datahut.These are a few examples of how our clients (at Datahut) are using web scraping for their business.Lead generation – Some of our
Ecommerce Operations
Warren Buffet once said, “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.”Do you agree with Warren Buffet?What does reputation monitoring and management mean for companies?In my view, it is simply having the control over wha
explorations
Leads are the lifeblood of every company. I’m sure you have heard your sales reps saying “I don’t have enough leads” or “The leads are not good.” Trust me, almost every CEO hears this from their sales department all the time. As a CEO/VP of sales, you should always have enough qualified leads to kee
Thought Leadership
Datahut is on a mission to make the web scraping painless, affordable and super comfortable. Our focus is primarily on non-technical customers or companies who do not know how to go about data extraction and processing. We will take care of all the technicalities involved and just deliver clean, str