Does anyone else think clay’s find people is bad?

In what way?

It’s their internal dataset. You can utilize another enrichment platform as well and still utilize a lot of what Clay has to offer, but it depends on what you’re trying to prospect into

Nazir Clay is much more useful when you bring your own data to the table. Its good for testing with but pretty low quality overall from what I've seen.

Mind sharing more about why Find People doesn’t work well for you? There are lots of tips & tricks with getting the most out of Find People :)

Aaron J. would love to hear more on where you’ve seen Find People not get to the data that you expect! 👀

Izzy partially because my primary market is SMB home improvement contractors, lots of turnover in that space and smaller businesses that aren't known in many larger databases. To me the Find People data looked a lot like Apollo data, which I regard as near-worthless.

Aaron J. ~ It's because most of the home improvement companies are not on LinkedIn and when you use Find People - the main source of data is LinkedIn. I'd use scrape from Google maps feature of Clay- i see a lot of people getting great results. If you want to go a step further, you need to build a custom scraper to do point by point maps scraping which requires coding knowledge.

I think Joe R. from Workflow company made some content about this in the past

Thanks for the tag Matt S.. Agree that the list-building strategy is highly dependent on which market segment you serve, and you would want to stitch together at least a couple different sources so as to not put all your eggs in one basket and to increase coverage. Here is the post on different levels of sophistication of extracting data from Google Maps that Matt referred to, in case anyone is interested.

Yeah! A couple things I’d try in your case Aaron J.

Our Find Companies & People dataset is more tailored towards businesses and individuals that have LinkedIn presence. Try the other data sources I suggested above and lmk if and how that changes your outcome!

Yeah we have a few data sources including Google Maps that form the backbone of our data set, and that data gets enriched by Clay via Web Research.