A question from the UK

If I wanted to source local Business within a 50 mile radius of my home town, which is Peterborough UK, is their any program or quick way of finding all these different forms of business. To take it a stage further could I locate Business in a specific niche anywhere within the UK OR even the world. {sounds a bit James Bond ish to rule the worlThe reson I ask is that I want to start writting apps and facebook fan pages and mobile sites etc etc.

Any suggestions - free programes would be great!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks

Use Yell - just type in what type of business you want and Peterborough as the location and it starts closest and spreads out from there in distance.

Have you tried Manta? It does UK and US businesses, although there tends to be less information on UK businesses than US for some reason. Still, it's a good source.

Then of course there's Places Scout (software - and definitely not free!). Haven't used it myself but I know people who use it and swear by it.

Or try searching for a free scraper tool and you should be able to scrape for any business anywhere.

Just a few thoughts for you

Many thanks for all your replies and have tried Yell but very old fanshioned aand not many Business people like it. Scout I think would be great but $97 or so is above m budget for the moment - give me 2 months and I will be able to buy it. Need somthing a bit cheeper........Any thoughts

@ The Op. you really should know where the right place to post
is by now.

I have two pieces of software for local searches.
you enter your keyword and location/ zip or postcode.
One Mobile Detective will produce the website URL whether or
not they have a mobile site and whether they have paid ads.
This only scrapes US and UK.


VT Scan 0/39
Download
Note:

If you are having errors trying to launch the program you will need to visit this link and download the correct file:
x86 is for 32 bit and x64 is for 64 bit.


The other Local Lead Finder produces Name, address, phone number
Website URL and country. This will scrape UK, US Canada and Australia.

Grab it it's free.

There was a wso featured recently here on BHW that can help.

Sorry, I can't post links, but it was called:

[GET] The Most Powerful Lead Generation Software -700+ Sold - Offliner's Wet Dream

335161-get-most-powerful-lead-generation-software-700-sold-offliners-wet-dream.html

and it is on the second page of Member Downloads

I believe it works pretty good.

Please add rep and thanks if this helps.

steviej815

Many thansk to OxonBeef for the kind links and also to Stevie and I am trying to track it down.
Sorry for the delay in thanks however have been away for the week-end to just catching up.

Once again thanks for all you help

try "places scout" it does exactly what you need!