If you are in a B2B industry and have ever bought a prospect list from a list broker, then this post is for you.

For the past week I have been testing out a piece of software called Google Maps Scrapper that pulls business records directly out of Google Places. So far I have a list of over 17,000 prospects including business names, mailing addresses and emails and I’ve only run it against a fraction of the cities I plan to market to. Total cost = $99 one time. I don’t see why I would ever need to buy a marketing list again, ever. Allow me to explain.

Google is currently making a major push to educate business owners about the importance and value of creating and/or claiming their business profile on Google Places. It is in the business owners’ best interest to provide accurate and complete information so that potential customers can find them online and offline. This is the exact database that the Google Maps Scraper pulls from!

Do you see the beauty? No more middleman. Now any B2B marketer can get quality contact information directly out of Google Places.

You could get the data by assigning the data collection task to an assistant or outsourcing it to a freelancer on oDesk. But, why do that, when you can pay $99 one time for a piece of software that pulls the data directly into a spreadsheet. (My 17,000+ rows thus far would have been hundreds of outsourcer or assistant hours!)

There is only one thing that could make this even better… a free trial download. The  free trial version disguises the data so its not useful for marketing, but you’ll get to see the software run on your machine before you buy. You’ll be able to tell from the free trial whether it is a good fit for your prospect list needs or not.

Here’s that link again => Google Maps Scrapper