Anyone have any idea on this? I'm interested in doing physical mailers to people who have recently registered businesses. I tried my state Corporation Commission and it seems they don't make this info available publicly.
How to get addresses of recently registered businesses?
- Thread starter cheesewhiz
- Start date
It depends state-by-state. In which state are you interested? It's daffy to say that registered businesses aren't made public -- sounds more like you asked the wrong people (reason being, all licences, corporate formations etc. are by definition public documents -- that's the whole reason they exist, to create a *public* record of businesses.)
Frank
Frank
I'm in AZ, and I am able to find all registered businesses through the corp. commission. What I'm actually trying to get is a list of the newest registered businesses (seems easier to convert someone who just formed their business and is still pumped on it). At least for the AZ corp. commission, they don't allow you to sort their records by date formed, they just give you access to a huge ass list.
Not exactly sure what SRDS is but I assume this: SRDS Media Solutions ®
I was really hoping to get my hands on a small list of newly registered biz's just to prove my concept works before buying large (and $$$) amounts of data. Thanks for the suggestion though.
I figured they would too but they don't include any details besides name, entity type, and file number.
edit: link for reference http://starpas.azcc.gov/scripts/cgiip.exe/WService=wsbroker1/connect.p?app=names-report.p
Get the whole list, wait for a week, get it again. Eliminate the duplicates between the two - the ones that are left are the ones that newly registered in the last week.
Actually, if you click on the individual names it has a wide range of date data. So may be scrapable, and you might be able to track down their webmaster and see about getting a dump of the db -- surely D&B, Experian et al. don't sit and thumb through that piece of shit UI looking up stuff one corp at a time.
Frank
Frank
sales genie if you need a large national list and more data... if you are looking to go local i used to go down to the county clerks office in my merchant services days and could get a list of new registrations that had their phone# if listed,address,name,and contact person for like .10 a page
Thanks for suggestions everyone, I'm not looking for huge amounts of data yet and would like to keep it on the cheap(ish) side of things, so I think I'll go the scraper route for now.
InfoUSA.com
ZapData.com, Hoovers (D&B)
Surprised you can't buy the data from the local government, though, especially with all governments being so broke.
I used to get a weekly Email from the City of San Francisco with all new business registrations in a nice text file. Years ago, but it only cost me $25/wk.
The biggest problem was sorting through the junk, as there are lots of business types that are not of interest usually (and SIC codes are an ancient outdated mess). Plus a lot of "new" businesses are not new, they just changed name or owner or corporation type and had to file paperwork with the government.
I know California sells the data, try registering a new LLC and see the mess of credit card processing / bank account / insurance etc. crap you get.
ZapData.com, Hoovers (D&B)
Surprised you can't buy the data from the local government, though, especially with all governments being so broke.
I used to get a weekly Email from the City of San Francisco with all new business registrations in a nice text file. Years ago, but it only cost me $25/wk.
The biggest problem was sorting through the junk, as there are lots of business types that are not of interest usually (and SIC codes are an ancient outdated mess). Plus a lot of "new" businesses are not new, they just changed name or owner or corporation type and had to file paperwork with the government.
I know California sells the data, try registering a new LLC and see the mess of credit card processing / bank account / insurance etc. crap you get.
You might also try to contact an Arizona corporate attorney, or one of the plethora of sites that sell AZ corps, and see if they can point you in the direction of some information. And again, as mentioned before, see if you can find the guy that actually maintains that data for the state, because there may be an API or paid access or something else that will get you the db without the shitty front end, but the person talking on the phone at the front of the building has no idea what the hell they do in the back of the building -- which is pretty typical of most government offices.
Frank
Frank