#rocketreach

"Sometimes you just have to take a leap, and build your wings on the way down." - Kobi, Yamada, "What do you do with an idea?"

Last year we built a pretty lightweight API, anticipating that our technology would be useful to other systems. Little did we know how far reaching its applications would be.  

When you use the RocketReach API you are using the same underlying stack (platform) as the one that powers our web UI, as well as our (ever so powerful) RocketReach Chrome Extension. We really built it for ourselves, or systems like ours - in the sales intelligence space.

And, while a majority of our API users are other Sales Intelligence systems, every few weeks we’ll see the API being used to build systems and solve problems we could have never anticipated.

For example, a leading payroll company uses the RocketReach API for customer analytics, and a european university uses it for academic research into career progression. We’re constantly amazed by the versatility and wide reaching applications of our API.

The latest one of note, is SellPersonal, who has incorporated our API into their slack bot.

SellPersonal helps you “build a scalable sales process for your sales team”. Per Christien Louviere, SellPersonal is “on a mission to solve one of the major challenges sales teams face”... with thousands of sales technologies on the market, how can revenue generators sift through the noise and find the best tools to create a targeted and bullet proof sales pipeline?

Choosing the wrong tools could slow a team down, make them work 2x as hard for the results they need, and create a huge hole in their pockets. Christien and his team at SellPersonal set out to solve that challenge by helping revenue generators build a targeted sales pipeline faster, using proven sales workflows. They can analyze an existing Sales Pipeline, and turn it into a sales flywheel that is scalable, predictable, efficient and successful.

Basically, SellPersonal wants to make it easier for sales teams to do their jobs. Well, we’re onboard with that!

SellPersonal’s Slack Bot, powered by the powerful RocketReach API, is a vital part of their sales stack. It allows customers to quickly discover and share their prospects within a Slack Chat, saving them time, and increasing productivity. And using the slackbot couldn’t be easier.

To learn more about the awesome work the folks at SellPersonal are doing, reach out to them directly at [email protected].

Let’s face it, job hunting can be a drag. You’re spending hours scouring the web and applying to what seems like 1000s of jobs, only to feel like your resume is going into a black hole.

And if you’re like most people, you’re likely not hearing anything back beyond the standard “thank you for applying” email - no interview, no follow-up, no feedback about why you weren’t selected… just silence.

Between trying to make it past Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS), networking, and constantly updating your resume, job hunting can feel like a full time job - an extremely discouraging and frustrating full time job. Unless of course, you’ve discovered the job-search hacks that’ll help you land a job faster.

Here’s a recipe for job hunting that’ll help you land your next gig in record speed:

Fine-tune Your Resume with JobScan. The JobScan app analyzes your resume based on the job description of the position you’re applying to. It’ll make sure your resume includes the keywords that’ll help your resume stand out.

Find Hiring Managers with LinkedIn. Once you’ve found a job you want to apply to, do some research on LinkedIn to find the hiring manager for that position.

Grab Their Email Fast. Now it’s time to set yourself apart from the rest of the applicants! While everyone else is relying solely on their online application, you’re going to reach out directly to the hiring manager. Here’s the deal, ATS keeps most resumes from making it to the desk of a recruiter. By reaching out directly, you can drastically increase your visibility and get your resume to the top of the stack. While on the hiring manager’s LinkedIn profile page, click the RocketReach chrome extension and RocketReach will return all the verified emails and social links found for that contact.

Craft a Standout Email and Reach Out. Now that you know who you’re reaching out to, it’s time to craft the perfect email. Not sure what to say? Check out this pretty awesome email template from the Muse. Pro Tip: You can also use RocketReach to find the Hiring Manager’s social links, so that you can get his/her attention through a well-crafted tweet.

Track your emails. Use an email tracking app to keep track of when your emails are delivered and read. You can also create a simple Excel or Google Sheets spreadsheet to keep track of and schedule your follow-ups.

Once you’ve aced your interview, don’t forget to send “thank you” emails. You can use RocketReach to find the email addresses of your interviewers.

If you’ve ever Googled, “Is RocketReach” you’d see a whole slew of autocomplete search terms like:

Is RocketReach legit?

Is RocketReach safe?

Is RocketReach legal?

Is RocketReach free?

Is RocketReach reliable?

I wonder if anyone’s googled “is RocketReach awesome?”- which BTW it is! It absolutely is 😃, but more on that later. Let’s address these points first.

Is RocketReach legit?

RocketReach now has over 1 Million registered users, and as we speak, RocketReach is trusted by sales people and recruiters in some of the largest companies on the planet - Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon to name a few. Google and Amazon have over 400 employees each who trust and use RocketReach everyday. That’s about as legit as it gets. And users are switching over from more expensive alternatives like data.com, zoominfo and hoover by the droves. Unlike our entrenched competitors, our data is generated and checked in real time, and costs as little as $49/month. Whereas, the moment you sign up for those other services you’ll be out $40,000 even before you know whether the data is worth anything. And many times - it isn’t.

Is RocketReach safe?

We take privacy seriously. When you create an account on our site, your information is never shared with anyone else - period. We encrypt all sensitive data. We only serve pages over HTTPS. We never collect or save your credit card information, and all of your personally identifiable information is housed inside external payment processors (Braintree, Stripe, and Paypal) so we NEVER have access to them.

Is RocketReach legal?

RocketReach upholds strict ethical standards and is legally compliant. We mine profile information using a combination of a web crawler (similar to Google) and data mining algorithms such as entity recognition, email prediction etc. In essence, the information provided by our site is already publicly accessible on the internet. If our crawlers can find it, so can Google, Bing etc. Email addresses listed on our site are either found via entity search or predicted. For more information on how we mine information, check out our help center article.

Is RocketReach free?

A vast majority of our users use RocketReach for free. If you are a casual user, who only needs to reach out to a few people a month, you can essentially use RocketReach for free forever. It’s only if your usage exceeds certain thresholds that you’ll need to upgrade. RocketReach also doesn’t restrict certain features to paid plans only, so even as a free user you can still take advantage of our Chrome Extension, Bulk Lookups, Advanced Search, API and CRM integrations free. You are only limited by the number of lookup credits you have available in your account. 

Is RocketReach reliable?

Our site is up 99% of the time, and Accuracy is 87% on average. Though there will always be some emails that are not available due to reasons beyond our control, you will never use a lookup credit for lookups that come back ‘email not found’ or only partially verified.

In short, RocketReach works hard to bring industry best practices under one roof making prospecting quick and easy.

But don’t just take our word for it, give it a try today and see for yourself why over 1 Million users trust RocketReach.

We spoke with some of our customers about the challenges they had with their old way of prospecting, and they threw out terms like...

“Time consuming” “Tedious” “Pain in the…”

Well let’s just say, they found it frustrating.  

If this sounds familiar, you’ve come to the right place. The team at RocketReach works hard to make it as easy as possible for you to reach the people most important to you, and your business.

Features like Advanced Search and our Chrome Extension will take your prospecting and lead-gen flow to the next level. Some have even called them genius.