In the News & Blogs
ZoomInfo has drummed up a lot of buzz in the news and blogs. Read what journalists, industry gurus and everyday business users are saying about us.
| In the News | In the Blogs | Podcasts / Video |
| Putting Your Face On |
| Blogger, Michael Benidt discusses the importance of using ZoomInfo for social networking. "Perhaps the single most important thing you can do for your social networking success is to put your face on ZoomInfo.com." Benidt provides a step by step guide for claiming your profile and making changes to ensure accuracy, add a photo and expanding your profile. |
| Sales Leads: Are You Mining for Gold or Throwing Money Down a Hole? |
| Chip Terry, ZoomInfo’s VP and GM of Enterprise products provides tips on leveraging business information for marketing and sales while also providing greater detail on what makes ZoomInfo so successful in improving the efficiency of sales, creating an impactful business-to-business marketing campaign and recruiting top talent. This story was also featured in Geeklytimes. |
| ZoomInfo, one of 30 Companies to Watch in 2009 |
| A leading research and advisory firm, Outsell listed ZoomInfo alongside Google and Apple as one of the 30 companies to watch in 2009. In a report titled "Information Industry Outlook 2009: No Guts No Glory," OutSell offers predictions, analyses, and key themes for the information and publishing industry. In addition to highlighting forward-thinking companies, the report outlines steps for fending off the challenges presented by recessions, which tend to exacerbate poor performance and accelerate competition for market share. Others in Outsell's "30 to Watch" include: BBN Ad Network, Blurb, British Medical Journal, BrownBook, CNN, Collexis, Critical Media, Data Explorers, Demand Media, Exact Editions, Flat World Knowledge, Google, The Guardian, Hakia, Hulu, IHS, LiveMocha, MarketTools, Nature Publishing Group, Public Library of Science (PloS), Safari, Thomson Reuters, Wood MacKenzie. |
| A Conversation with ZoomInfo's New President, Sam Zales |
| Total Picture Radio’s, Peter Clayton provides a preview of an interview with Sam Zales, new president of ZoomInfo. Six months from now, ZoomInfo users can expect to see data that is 'deeper, broader and fresher,' said Zales. "More than just more, the data will be better parsed, compiled, and structured, he pledges, so that a recruiter finds Sam Zales the CEO, 'not Sam Zales who worked at GM. |
| Finding a Job in a Bad Economy |
| CNN personal finance editor, Gerri Willis offers advice on how to network in a downturn economy. Sometimes, your professional profile is already online, without you even knowing it. ZoomInfo.com scours the Web, press releases and business Web sites for your professional information. If your profile is on this site, make sure all your info is correct, and supplement the information that's already there. |
| Selling in a Recession: The Value of E-Mail |
| The most cost effective method to reach new prospects is email — it can create immediate interest and can be easily forwarded within an organization. This article contains relevant and useful insights for creating and writing stellar emails. |
| The Death of Contingent Search |
| "ZoomInfo is a well-known content aggregator that will search the entire Internet (excluding job boards) and return relevant information about candidates who may be a fit for your position. Both of these types of technologies can replicate a recruiter’s Rolodex in about 5 seconds." |
| Thinking Home Business |
| "An example I use frequently to illustrate the potential problems and opportunities surrounding online reputation is the Zoominfo site. It is particularly important for anyone in the job market, or likely to be at any time, to check out their profile on Zoominfo, which is an early port of call for recruiters looking people up online. The info on Zoominfo comes from a couple of sources: a) what its robots find about you, or someone with your name, on the web, and b) what you put in (you can also change info there that is out of date or incorrect." |
| The Spiders Are Coming |
| "Most people know how important it is to have your site catalogued in the DMOZ, Yahoo! and ZoomInfo directories. If their spiders haven’t crawled your pages you’re probably missing out on some extra clickage. (I’m helping our chances just by linking to them in fact.)" |
| Rachel Carter PR |
| "http://www.zoominfo.com: Free place to post both a personal and company profile as well as be able to search for what other work might be online connected to you." |
| The Media Club |
| "Does what comes up support your offer or is it trivial and undermining to your brand? This is difficult to manage, but not impossible. You may also want to try visiting Zoominfo and similar sites to check what information is openly available on the internet about you. It will be enlightening!" |
| A VC in Vacationland |
| " In The Cost of Zero Cost chapter, for example, the author outlines the power of FREE! (the exact word he uses throughout the chapter). People are attracted to getting something for free--look at all the technology, like Linkedin or Zoominfo, that is given away for free so that the owners can develop highly valuable business networks, and try to get you to upgrade to the Gold version. Or companies like SeeWhy, who give away a free version of their business intelligence software, hoping that you will like it and again upgrade to the professional version. His point is that many businesses could use FREE! more effectively in their marketing and sales cycles." |
| careerbuilder.com blog |
| "These sites, like LinkedIn or ZoomInfo, generally list information about your career or highlight your professional accomplishments. Blogging sites that link you to a network of your friends. Some sites, like LiveJournal, are standard." |
| Research Diamond |
| "So, with the Sniper Approach, you do miss potential candidate targets that might not have detailed information in your tools (Zoominfo, Linkedin, Hoovers, HotJobs, Yahoo! Searches, etc.). What the Sniper Approach does give you is a very." |
| U.S. Public Records (USPRS) |
| "Pipl, PeekYou and WikiYou are also in the people-search mix, though they feature far smaller indexes and therefore more-spotty results. ZoomInfo, a people-search engine focused on the business world, is a relative industry veteran, founded in 2001." |
| Safety Consulting Corner |
| "Sure you have been hearing a lot about Facebook, myspace, linkedin, ZoomInfo and many others and you have probably gotten at least one invitation to either join or verify your information on these sites. While it is very easy to stick your head in the sand and ignore these websites, you would be smart to at least establish a basic presence online." |
| Curran Events |
| "This week, I want to mention a people-finder site that is more of a precision tool for the same job: Zoominfo.com … ZoomInfo is another handy tool for your people-hunting toolbox." |
| Reconnect with Anyone |
| "Business networks, such as LinkedIn, ZoomInfo, etc., can be a very helpful way to find professionals that may fit into your software development or management teams. LinkedIn has data that is entered by the individual, whereas ZoomInfo assembles data by scouring the 'net." |
| The Personal Branding Blog |
| "Now, several online tools and activities make it relatively easy to show up online … You can also put up your profile on other sites, including naymz.com, zoominfo.com, ziggs.com, or even qalias.com." |
| Practical Job Search Advice |
| "Use LinkedIn, ZoomInfo.com and the company's own website - plus Google - to identify a person by name and title, whom you'd like to reach out to." |
| Reconnect with Anyone |
| "Business networks, such as LinkedIn, ZoomInfo, etc., can be a very helpful way to find professionals that may fit into your software development or management teams. LinkedIn has data that is entered by the individual, whereas ZoomInfo assembles data by scouring the 'net." |
| The Personal Branding Blog |
| "Now, several online tools and activities make it relatively easy to show up online … You can also put up your profile on other sites, including naymz.com, zoominfo.com, ziggs.com, or even qalias.com." |
| Practical Job Search Advice |
| "Use LinkedIn, ZoomInfo.com and the company's own website - plus Google - to identify a person by name and title, whom you'd like to reach out to." |
| Education.au |
| "He’s also on ZoomInfo, which is another aggregating service using algorithms to give the impression that a human being has been involved in creating personal profiles of individuals. But it’s all publicly available information gathered by a bot and compiled by a software program." |
| So Little Time |
| "Here's my proposal to LinkedIn to "upgrade" itself to a post-Facebook world … Actively track and provide newsfeeds on people (ZoomInfo-like)." |
| Salesconx |
| "As anyone who has purchased a lead list before could attest to – just obtaining a name is valuable. Zoominfo, Hoovers and Spoke are just some of the firms that provide contact information (of course for a fee)." |
| College Recruiter.com |
| "Did you see the new Linkedin Recruiter… The redesigned Linkedin has a lot of potential and a lot to offer. Many of the features reminds me of ZoomInfo where you can create and save projects. You can share these projects (the profiles you saved or sourced) with your other recruiting team members." |
| StlRecruiting |
| "What happens when client lists are no longer considered confidential, because every name and number in your database is already supplied at Jigsaw or ZoomInfo or LinkedIn or Plaxo or Spoke or eCademy, and thus your storehouse of carefully screened client numbers is now in the public domain. The world of networking is moving online because it's efficient to do so." |
| Element Fusion |
| "I've been a big fan of LinkedIn for quite a while. Sometimes I refer to LinkedIn as ‘Facebook for grown-ups.’ But I’ve dabbled in quite a few: Facebook, MySpace, Quechup, Zubka, Twitter, ZoomInfo, LinkedIn, Spock, Plaxo, etc." |
| the SNOB |
| "Other companies have tried to create "professional" versions with much more specialized tools and deeper data mining, and sell them on a subscription basis, which requires spending a lot of cash on sales and marketing, though break-even will arrive sooner than in the previous option. Some have done well for a while--ZoomInfo comes to mind." |
| Help Wanted Hawaii |
| "Our search for a new job in a slow economy is going to take work. You should consider using every available resource besides the basic job board. I recommend LinkedIn, and ZoomInfo. These sites offer you a better way to network and connect with other professionals in your area." |
| Yitzys Blog |
| "ZoomInfo-business people name search. Now this one may be a real find! I think ZoomInfo should be looked at more carefully and considered as a reference resource to be used by librarians." |
| Column 2 |
| "He moved on to talk about Web 2.0 in the recruiting world, including the use of information aggregation tools such as ZoomInfo." |
| Recruiting and Sourcing Secrets |
| "Did you see the new Linkedin Recruiter.. Its being couple of years I am using Linkedin but the Corporate solutions for recruiters blew me off. The redesigned Linkedin has a lot of potential and a lot to offer. Many of the features reminds me of zoominfo where in you can create and save projects. You can share these projects(the profiles your saved or sourced) with your other recruiting team members." |
| Business Two Zero |
| "I’ll regularly use LinkedIn, along with ZoomInfo and other tools, to research a new potential client, or the speaker at the next conference." |
| Six Degrees from Dave |
| "For direct sourcing and networking we [Starwood] utilize ZoomInfo, Hoovers, Microquest, (both IT and Glass Ceiling), LinkedIn, Facebook, ERE and any other tool which will help yield results. We’re always open to others." |
| {digital}alchemy |
| "Geared toward corporate users, ZoomInfo lets you people- and company-search over 37 million people and 3.5 million companies in its database. Most profiles are automatically-generated by extracting information from web pages. Advanced search features let you narrow down by title, company size, company name, and other employment-related criteria. We found Arrington's profile page quite detailed, displaying details like his employment history, board positions, education, and numerous web references." |
| Search Engine Roundtable |
| "ZoomInfo – claim the information on your company. This shows up very quick in SE’s for brand searches." |
| The buzz 101 |
| "Here are some first steps on the path to managing your on-line brand. Check ZoomInfo.com to see what’s been tracked about you already." |
| Hidden Speaker Treasures of the Internet |
| "Here's one of our favorite “Beyond Google” resources. These days we don’t go far without logging into ZoomInfo.com’s PowerSearch. ZoomInfo’s PowerSearch barely has to dust off its search options in order to deliver." |
| The Fizzblog |
| "Have you seen ZoomInfo yet? They say they have profiles on more than 37 million people and 3.5 million companies are you one of them? If you have a social networking or professional networking profile on the web you pretty soon will be." |
| XML Scoop |
| "I just came across ZoomInfo today and sure enough, there I was listed, but I never recall doing this. Oh well, I guess I did 'cause I just logged in. I wonder how much of a good thing or a bad thing it is to be so easily found on the net? I can see both sides, but what if suddenly you don't want to be found anymore? Goes to show you, be careful what you say anyway." |
| Louise’s UK Recruiting Blog |
| "Here's a quick overview for those of unfamiliar with how you can use ZoomInfo as a recruiter. With the free service you can do a search on a potential candidate or client by their name and a profile on that individual is returned. However, with the paid for service you can do so much more. You can identify people by sector, job title and specific company. You can create lists of companies by quite detailed criteria and you can create "talent maps" of individuals within companies." |
| Louise’s UK Recruiting Blog |
| "Try similar searches on Zoominfo (for best results you will need a "premium account) results for UK are not as good as for US." |
| The Simple Job Search |
| "To that end, you can create a free account on LinkedIn.com, for example, where recruiters regularly look for talent. Or go search for your name on Zoominfo.com, where recruiters also spend a lot of time searching for candidates; you can create a free account there, too, to control what others see and enable more opportunities to find you." |
| Content Matters |
| "Advertising-supported or freemium businesses may be well-positioned to take users away from long-established paid content providers. Providers like ZoomInfo may not be as good as the incumbents they replace, but for free, they may be good enough." |
| Strategic Workforce Planning |
| "I have been looking at Zoominfo's latest research report 'The 2008 Recruiting Landscape: Five Recruiting Gurus' Predictions, and the number one item is workforce planning. It seems the term "workforce planning" is getting more confusing, and people are applying it to more and more things - it's getting like the definition of irony!." |
| Web Analytics World |
| "Over the last couple of days I have been digging into the ZoomInfo API (using C# - ASP.Net) to first of all better understand the API and secondly to leverage the data provided in order to use it for things like company profiling, competitors, and key contacts at a given company." |
| HRMDirect Blog |
| "Recruiting is partially an information business and companies like ZoomInfo (also an HRMDirect client) are making it easier than ever to find people whose resumes aren't in Monster's database." |
| SalesCareersOnline |
| "20 of the best sales resources on the web – ZoomInfo: Looking for information on an executive or business owner? ZoomInfo has basic information on about 23 million people." |
| Change your mind |
| "In our efforts to take over the entire universe, we now have two new profiles on spoke.com and zoominfo.com that detail head coordinator, leah angstman, and overviews of Alternating Current, to be able to find us on two more public/professional search listings." |
| Off Madison Ave |
| "I recently found a profile for myself on a website called ZoomInfo.com, a site that purports to be an 'employment search engine.'" |
| Off Madison Ave |
| "With the advent of public information being so much more public, you must remain vigilant about what's out there about you. Start a Google Alert for your own name. Do web searches as well for your name, perhaps with the city and/or state you live in. (It makes the search more accurate.)" |
| dailycamera |
| "When you do respond to posted job openings, there are a few good ways to get your resume noticed. First, of course, is to write to someone other than (or in addition to) the person or e-mail address specified in the job ad. You can find a different contact at the employer using a site like LinkedIn.com or ZoomInfo." |
| Larry's View |
| "If you need to find information on business professionals or on companies, then you need to tap ZoomInfo. ZoomInfo effectively narrows down your search and offers comprehensive search results on 2 million companies and over 31 million business professionals across different industries." |
| Bullhorn's Marketing and Sales Blog |
| "Not only is Bullhorn one of the largest, industry-specific SaaS solutions in the world, but the industry quickly adopted new Internet-based innovations like job boards, social networks and business search engines like ZoomInfo." |
| CollegeRecruiter.com |
| "Also, do a quick Google search for the person's name in quotes ("John Doe"), and take a look on ZoomInfo.com , Facebook or any other social networking sites that you use. It's always great to break the ice by saying, 'I saw online that you went to the University of Houston…'" |
| Hidden Business Treasures |
| "Paid databases like ZoomInfo excel at finding the right contact information for just the right corporate executive. They offer several reasonably priced strategies that will have you quickly dialing the right person without the pain. We’re not selling for ZoomInfo (we take no referral or advertising fees from any of the sites we write about), but it’s worth checking out their advanced selling tools - such as PowerSearch and PowerSell." |
| Employment Digest |
| "LinkedIn, as well as the services Ziggs and ZoomInfo, let you create a profile for free. (ZoomInfo also proactively aggregates Web info about professionals–34 million so far–and lets you verify your identity.)" |
| SixDegreesFromDave |
| "I want to thank Jason Davis for his efforts in organizing the event and for ZoomInfo’s generous and consistent support of the recruitment blogging community in sponsoring the event." |
| Working Girl |
| "How to get found as a candidate … Go to ZoomInfo and Jigsaw and edit your personal information to make sure it’s accurate." |
| A VC in Vacationland |
| "ZoomInfo scans the web and develops a profile of you (and over 38 million other professionals) based on web information. It is a great site to find out fast, and mostly accurate, information on potential employees and business partners." |
| Alliance Community Blog |
| "If you are not there or don't like what you see, you can create your own profile rather than allow ZoomInfo to compile data on you from all over the Internet. It's all part of the changing nature of both search and job seeking. Job seekers are increasingly building distinctive personal brands that help make them the go-to person for a specific role. So be out there." |
| searchviews |
| "Searchviews predicts that 2008 will be the year that: Consolidation will occur in the people search space (e.g., ZoomInfo, LinkedIn, Spock, etc.)." |
| Mashable |
| "Aside from granting access to your various social networking tools, there are other search tools, like Google Maps, ZoomInfo, Starbucks (in case you really need a shot of espresso), Yelp for restaurant reviews, flight updates, and weather." |
| HELLO, my name is blog |
| "101 Ways to Create a Powerful Web Presence -- #15: Publish your profile on ZoomInfo." |
| Orient Lodge |
| "So, where does this leave us with sites like Spock, Spoke, Wink, Zoominfo, and others? I thought I would look at my own digital footprints a little more closely ... A search on ZoomInfo provides fourteen hits. They provide another view, which is also fairly accurate." |
| Weblogsky |
| "Whole herds of my online contacts were sending me "trust requests" via the new people-focused search engine, Spock, and I finally took a few minutes to investigate. I found several articles that were generally positive, suggesting that a vertical search engine that aggregates data about people (not entirely new - think Zoominfo) might be worth checking out." |
| confessionsofanitgirl |
| "Unlike sites like Zoominfo, you can't correct that, combine multiple listings, or even opt-out. I don't know what purpose Spock is supposed to serve, but other than giving me a rant to put in a blog entry or a worst practice case study for social networking, I don't know what it is." |
| Hubspot |
| "Four directories that should include your company: ZoomInfo is a newer website than the other three. Also unlike the other three that really just have a link to your company, ZoomInfo has a full profile on your company, so that page sometimes shows up in search results. The other great news is that it is free." |
| Job Search Marketing |
| "Take a tip from ZoomInfo. The, 'premier business information search engine,' is sponsoring a best blog awards competition and asking those nominated to put the company's logo on their blogs. Zoom is also giving away free trip to vegas. They've contracted recruiting blog godfather Jason Davis to handle the logistics...well played ZoomInfo." |
| Social Media |
| "ZoomInfo will give you the employment results on the person you’re stalker-searching." |
| J's Scratchpad |
| "For those of you interested in people search, Vanessa Fox profiles the search engines Wink, Spock, and ZoomInfo in the October issue of Information Today." |
| Hidden Business Treasures |
| "However, if you make sales or business calls, ZoomInfo is worth a million bucks. Here's a secret, though - it doesn't cost a million bucks. The basic version of ZoomInfo, which is one of the fastest growing business reference sites on the web, is free." |
| Frostfirebuzz.com |
| "Wink, the people search engine, has partnered with ZoomInfo, a business information search engine used to quickly find information about industries, companies, people and products, to incorporate ZoomInfo's 38 million business people profiles into Wink's search results." |
| Wink Blog |
| "Wink is also announcing today that it has formed a partnership with ZoomInfo to include the 38 million ZoomInfo profiles assembled from information from across the Internet in the Wink search results." |
| Digital Solid: Marketing Technology ROI |
| "It's a silly name but a sound concept: Segment the registered users of your site by industry, company, title, education, seniority and role within the company. For good measure, throw in some traditional demographic items like location and gender. ZoomInfo calls this bizographics, or business demographics. The new ad offering was just announced to the press, and at the ad:tech New York internet marketing conference." |
| SearchAnywayBlog |
| "That the only way to compete with Google is to outpace them in a vertical that they haven't yet developed means that the significance of niches in search engine marketing is huge. Well, it seems that the B2B search ZoomInfo is shoring up its niche efforts to corner the business user marketing in advertising." |
| Adventures of an IT Manager |
| "Have you ever heard of these networking sites: Ziggs, Xing, Nayms, Ryze, Konnects or ZoomInfo? Except for ZoomInfo I hadn't either until recently but I joined them all today. I have been pushing my freelance consulting business and decided to do some online networking." |
| Lightspeed Venture Partners: |
| "As an example, look at the fairly detailed data (not all of it correct!) available about me on Spock, Rapleaf, Wink and Zoominfo. Zoominfo in particular has done a great job on this, pulling data from 150 different web references to compile an impressively complete summary." |
| The Savvy Gal Blog |
| "Savvy Gal Networking Tip: Think of web-searching as a treasure hunt ... Other good sites for finding information about people include LinkedIn.com, DWCFaces.com, and www.ZoomInfo.com." |
| ...from the Trenches |
| "Also a big congratulations to the ERE Foundation, that came out big raising over $9K in donations. Job Target and ZoomInfo also deserve recognition for their sponsoring this event. It was a great time for a great cause." |
| JobMatchBox |
| "The charity poker tournament made for a great end to the event for me. I had a chance to play with people from AIRS, Cisco, JobTarget, Monster, ZoomInfo, and a few others." |
| Blue, the Dutch Dude |
| "Last night I got an email from Zoominfo saying they lauched their API. You don't know Zoominfo? Check them out, it is a nice website to checkout people and companies. I was really surprised about the details they have on people." |
| Career Hub |
| "As a job seeker or just someone who is interested to see how social computing is starting to be used and is being recommended to be used by companies and recruiters check out ZoomInfo's latest FREE on demand webinar. Also if you are not building your on-line personal brand using such resources as ZoomInfo you should be - so take the time to start doing that too." |
| Tom Carrier - The New Global Workforce |
| "ZoomInfo, a business information search engine, already has this People Search functionality in place. ZoomInfo is not running its own social networking site. Instead, interestingly enough, ZoomInfo currently has an arrangement with one social networking site called Xing." |
| Strategic Online Presence |
| "You could also try listing yourself in MySpace, Spoke, Xing, Friendster, and Zoominfo.com, and PNN Online." |
| Louise's UK Recruiting Blog |
| "So, my advice when it comes to "people search engines" would be to Google (using other keywords where necessary to ensure you have the correct person) and ZoomInfo everyone." |
| BRB's Public Records Blog |
| "A great source for free searching is www.zoominfo.com. Keep in mind, though, that this information is being generated from other Web sites and needs to be verified." |
| 901a.m |
| "The Creative Group recommends that you build your professional profile at Zoominfo, be active in social networking sites like LinkedIn.com, post comments in blogs related to your industry, and create your own website." |
| Six Degrees From Dave |
| "The US makes more use of new technologies like blogs and chats and have more internet tools like AIRS and ZoomInfo." |
| BroadPeak Executive Forum |
| "ZoomInfo (www.zoominfo.com) is a great website for researching individuals. The site pulls articles, speaking engagements, employment history, and educational background from people on the web. It's a great way to find out if the CEO of your dream company wrote a book that you should read before your interview or that you can reference in your cover letter." |
| The Heinrich Manuever |
| "ZoomInfo has some information about yet another Julie Heinrich. Who knew there were so many?" |
| Austin Startup |
| "We want Indeed job search to be ubiquitous - for as many people as possible to benefit from Indeed's comprehensive and relevant job search results wherever they are on the web. Some of our partners include About.com and Zoominfo.com." |
| CheckMate |
| "Take proactive steps by getting the information you want online out there. One of the best ways to do that is to create profiles at places like LinkedIn, Naymz, and ZoomInfo. Not only do you get to post exactly what you want, information from those sites normally shows up near the very top of a Google search on your name." |
| Profy |
| "ZoomInfo ... This is a great research resource and I truly hope that they open up the service and get rid of the fee structure. Such a move would require a leap of faith, but they may honestly hold the potential to be the Google of people search." |
| Internet Affiliate |
| "ZoomInfo: a search engine index of company names and people. Find yourself (if you are there) and claim your space or create your profile." |
| localglo.be |
| "Mashery takes a lot of the pain away from company's who want to offer access to their web services API. Some of Mashery's current customers include Trulia, Compete and ZoomInfo." |
| Alarm:Clock |
| "Mashery also announced some new customers including: FreeWebs, ZoomInfo, JamBase, and Thumbplay." |
| Six Degrees from Dave |
| "Bryan Burdick has driven multiple consumer and B2B businesses for some of the most successful Internet companies. As Zoom Information's chief operating officer, he is responsible for sales, marketing, product and business development." |
| Inside the Market |
| "I get email alerts from ZoomInfo all the time but never use it. It seems like everyone is getting into the people search business -- even Seth Godin just launched such a site with SquidWho, his offshoot of Squidoo." |
| Pixelated Mind |
| "Interesting Web site: zoominfo.com. Brilliant concept. I found myself on it, but there's no way I'm claiming my profile." |
| Employment Digest |
| "Find your profile: You'll need to complete the online forms at zoominfo.com and ziggs.com. If you don't already have a profile, you can create one. Either way, it's free, and it takes less than 10 minutes for the basics." |
| FindingRoy.com |
| "Does anyone out there have experience with Zoominfo.com? The company profiles appear to be especially useful." |
| Food for Thought |
| "Take control of your profile on ZoomInfo; it compiles what's already out there, but you can update it." |
| The Executive Update |
| "ZoomInfo was also cited in the article as a search engine more focused on business profiles." |
| Sales is More Than Just a Numbers Game |
| "I recalled that a number of search results in our Web reports referenced ZoomInfo as a 'referrer'. I decided I would go check things out ... I was pleasantly surprised that our company information and my own profile were fairly current, and most of the information was sound and in good order." |
| SearchAnywayBlog |
| "ZoomInfo has already partnered with Xing, another social-network/directory/search-engine for business professionals." |
| Off On a Tangent |
| "I'm also checking out Zoominfo. I got a bright orange T-Shirt from them." |
| TECH cocktail |
| "Thank you to our sponsors Compete.com, Geezeo, North Bridge Venture Partners and ZoomInfo - we could not have brought TECH cocktail to Boston without your generous support." |
| graysky |
| "here was a good mix of different types of folks, who are often identifiable by their clothes. Flocks of people in bright orange t-shirt pumping Zoominfo or black shirts for Geezo, business casual for VC/lawyer/consultant types, more trendy for the PR/biz-dev ilk and code monkeys often have a certain look about them." |
| Kent Blumberg |
| "Ten ways to promote your personal brand ... Claim your profile on zoominfo.com and complete it." |
| Indiana Civil & Business Lawyer |
| "Sometimes you need to find information on a contact or a company. Here are two resources to do just that. Zoominfo. Wink." |
| Xconomy |
| "Aside from the the Nintendo Wii boxing matches sponsored by Waltham-based search company ZoomInfo and the free vodka-and-Red-Bulls, the most head-pounding thing about the gathering was its sheer size and its resulting decibel levels, which surely exceeded safety thresholds." |
| Patti Wilson's Blog |
| "It makes even using Google's search tools pale in comparison because Zoominfo does the search for you." |
| ecademy |
| "Facebook is transforming its social networking web site into something similar like the "White Pages" online. Following the trend of Spock.com and ZoomInfo." |
| InfoCommerce |
| "Facebook gave its members a one-month notice about the new public search capability to ensure that they were comfortable with their profiles "going public." This certainly isn't a revolutionary idea. It's one that has been successfully embraced by both ZoomInfo and LinkedIn." |
| Search is the Internet OS |
| "ZoomInfo contains profiles on more than 36 million people, including biography, employment history, Web references and other Web links such as blogs. Founded in 2001, ZoomInfo is a "relative" industry veteran, more focused on the business world, closer to LinkedIn-type content. The company also gives access to executive profiles requiring a paid subscription." |
| JimStroud.com |
| "Zoom has been around for many years, starting out as Eliyon. They have a huge proprietary database of over 37 million contacts and 3.8 million companies. They also have a feature whereby you can email a contact or group of contact directly from the program and track the email as well. A nice touch." |
| Search Insider |
| "Wink, Spock, ZoomInfo, and other people search engines are trying to capitalize on one of the ultimate "long tail" search categories." |
| MarksGuide Blog |
| "To help bring things together, TechCocktail Boston was sponsored by Compete.com, Geezeo, ZoomInfo, and Northbridge Venture Partners." |
| Somewhat Frank |
| "Geezeo, Compete.com, ZoomInfo, Party Resume, Veveo and Fafarazzi demo'ed at the event." |
| Olson's Observations |
| "As always we had some really sweet demos going on around the room. We really appreciated Geezeo, Compete.com, ZoomInfo, Party Resume, Viveo and Fafarazzi for coming out and showing off that they have been working on." |
| Tech Confidential Blog |
| "Facebook's initiative competes most directly with Spock.com and Wink.com. Other information gathering services, such as ... Zoom Information Inc. (which specializes in search services to prospective employers, aggregating biographical data on professional people from Web sites, press releases, and various other sources) may find Facebook just makes their jobs easier." |
| SearchAnywayBlog |
| "Well, the people/business search engine ZoomInfo is similarly fending off The Book, and it's doing so by following its lead. Unlike LinkedIn who fought Facebook with Facebook, however, ZoomInfo is fighting on its own terms." |
| Beti Cung |
| "Unlike ZoomInfo, which is positioned more toward a business directory and requires an upgraded service to view names, Spock seeks to index the whole world of people and be a true search engine." |
| Janereporter.ca |
| "ZoomInfo is one company doing that (compiling your internet presence) but it only scours the net on more reputable business sites." |
| Reportlinker's Blog |
| "Below, I'm discussing some of the business models that are generally involved in Web 3.0 services. People Search - ZoomInfo." |
| WildBlueSkies |
| "Wink.com and Zoominfo.com already have 215 million and 36 million profiles, respectively, while Spock.com claims to have indexed 100 million and growing. Most sites allow you to create a personalised profile, an some offer authority rankings as well." |
| Endless Knots |
| "For each new service - Facebook, Myspace, LinkedIn, ZoomInfo, and on and on (one estimate is that there are 5000 social applications/sites floating around as of now), you have to build a new network of "friends." What if you had just one and it belonged to you?" |
| Chapell Blog |
| "As more companies such as Spock.com and ZoomInfo collect information on me - some of that information is going to be incorrect." |
| My Small Business Blog |
| "So what should you do if you are about to launch yourself into the job market and make your next career move?...Use ZoomInfo to double check what recruiters can find out about you." |
| Social Media |
| "People search engines include: ZoomInfo, a people-search engine focused on the business world, is a relative industry veteran, founded in 2001." |
| StartupSquad |
| "Looking at the bigger picture, Twitter People Search very effectively completes with the likes of Spock(review), ZoomInfo, and more." |
| Shore Communications' ContentBlogger |
| "While it may lack some of the strong business oriented capabilities of finding professionals via services such as LinkedIn, Jigsaw or Zoominfo the Spock method seems to try to be a Switzerland of sorts for social media profiles: have as many as you want wherever you want them and Spock will use them as useful input for building yourself an all-encompassing profile and content directory on their own service." |
| CrimeFictionWriter |
| "ZoomInfo -- I was doing some reasearch earlier this evening and stumbled across Zoominfo.com. Of course, once I found the site, one of the first searches I did was for my own name. Very interesting. Y'all should try it." |
| Business and Blogging |
| "I learned about ZoomInfo in the course of co-authoring a couple of books about recruiting (LinkedIn for Recruiting and Big Biller). At the basic level it is an "open to all" online tool with which you can search for information about people and companies." |
| Thinking Home Business |
| "At the time of writing I thought I had managed to get Zoominfo to consolidate the various "identities" they had listed for me, but when I checked today there was still one "floating", from a now unfindable link on a fellow-coach's site. Hopefully that entry will be merged soon with the basic listing, but it reminded me that this is something to keep tabs on." |
| StartupSquad |
| "As the competition in the people search market has heated up, all the involved startups should be looking for wider distribution strategies via their APIs. Out of those involved, Wink already offers an API, Zoominfo is supposedly working on something, and unofficial member of this category LinkedIn has announced it's plan to launch platform type API later this year." |
| Paul Gillin's Blog |
| "In some ways, the service is like ZoomInfo's People Search feature, but the two sites are oriented very differently. Spock returns only information about people, whereas ZoomInfo is aimed at business research." |
| How to Split an Atom |
| "Already companies like ZoomInfo, Spock and Wink are trying to aggregate information online into meaningful profiles..." |
| eLegal Canton |
| "Anyone wanting to know something about an individual for any legitimate reason should take advantage of this. It might be a personal injury case such as this one, or to check out a job applicant, or a contractor you wish to hire to do a particular job. The tools to use include search engines such as Google, personal data aggregation sites such as Zoominfo..." |
| Derek Sorensen |
| "How many social networking sites are you signed up to? There's plenty to choose from. Facebook, Linkedin, Xing, FastPitch, Business Scene, 3Cs, TEN, Viadeo, 6nergies, Hyves, Babbello, Bebo, Biznik, Friendster, Zoominfo, Crickem, Doostang, Sisterwoman, MySpace, Network2Connect, Orkut, Rezonance, Ryze, Soflow, Startupnation, YSN, iRamblas, 60SecondsNetworking, Agloco, Join2Grow, Vshake, GoingOn, Apura, Vostu, Ted, MyBlogLog, Ecademy, First Monday ... and that’s not even an exclusive list." |
| NaturalSearchBlog |
| "And, ZoomInfo has worked to build a directory of searchable business profiles of individuals." |
| SearchRank |
| "Spock joins a growing list of "vertical" engines focused on the segment such as Zoominfo, Wink, Pipl, WikiYou, PeekYou and several others, including WhitePages.com and LinkedIn." |
| Content Matters |
| "I previously described Spock as "ZoomInfo meets LinkedIn". Vertical search engines like Spock and ZoomInfo are incredibly useful for this task. While you may not spend hours on Spock, adding apps and posting your favorites, it's likely you'll visit frequently when prospecting or recruiting." |
| StartupSquad |
| "After months in private beta, people search engine Spock is going live today. To start with, Spock is competing with the likes of Wikiyou.com, and Zoominfo, and also with other professional networking sites including LinkedIn and Xing." |
| openBLOG |
| "The Nucleus Research ROI awards recognize companies whose skillfull deployment of IT solutions has produced a positive, bottom-line financial return on investment (ROI). This year, ZoomInfo has received the prestigious award from a pool of 130 applications - for its use of Salesforce CRM and applications from the AppExchange." |
| down the avenue |
| "ZoomInfo has another goal and purpose. Like LinkedIn, it is largely focused on business profiles using natural language processing." |
| Venture Cap TVe |
| " Head's up LinkedIn, Zoominfo and you other successful networking sites, a new kid is on the block. He’s upping the ante and ready to run circles around the competition." |
| Competitive Intelligence |
| "LexisNexis announced the launch of a service that seems to be intended to compete with ZoomInfo and LinkedIn among others." |
| msearchgroove |
| "[ProxPro] got a real boost last June when Proxpro turbo-charged its social networking capabilities by partnering with Zoom Information, the company behind ZoomInfo, a B2B search engine that continually scans the Web to create individual summaries of people and companies. This smart move resulted in Research People, which allows users to access employment histories, bios and photographs from ZoomInfo's B2B search engine by inputting the person's name." |
| Six Degrees From Dave |
| "I wanted to let you know there are some great things going on at ZoomInfo lately. I just received official notification that ZoomInfo won this year’s Nucleus Research ROI Awards. ZoomInfo has also been named to this year's Red Herring 100, a prestigious award recognizing the most promising private companies driving the future of technology." |
| CyberSleuthing! |
| "Q: Do you find that indeed and Zoominfo capture the same candidates or are they very different results? A: Indeed is for job postings - what I showed in Zoominfo is a list of target companies. You can actually also get a list of target companies from Indeed, but only those that have posted jobs." |
| Read/Write Web |
| "Spock: This stealth start-up had been operating under a high level of secrecy until recently. Potential buyers include any major search engine looking to enter into people search vertical. Other companies of interest in the space include ZoomInfo, Wink, and ex.plode.us." |
| Traffick |
| "PeekYou is the latest in a line of people search tools clamoring for attention. (ZoomInfo is another you may have heard of.)" |
| More Than a Living |
| "ZoomInfo or other personal-profile aggregator services - Sure, this is the information they provided. But what does the Web history hold in store for me? Are there a bunch of random references to this person as part of their virtual breadcrumb trail?" |
| Treated & Released |
| "Casual Internet users are becoming more adept at online research. New search, aggregation, and networking servicessuch as ZoomInfo, Bloglines, and the currently invitation-only Spockmake compilation of Web-based intelligence about each of us instantly available to anyone who wants it." |
| Information Arbitrage |
| "With LinkedIn, Facebook, MySpace, ZoomInfo and others, there are simply too many platforms. There will be a colliding of worlds when people demand a single portal for their business and personal lives." |
| Reportlinkers Blog |
| "Executive search: Zoominfo allows users to search among enterprise executive, by industry, geographic zone, company revenues ..." |
| The FASTForward Blog |
| "Together we wonder whether the public relations community will soon gain a new cohort, the search relations person. Its a new way to reach the public, the right public, and on the publics terms. Their search terms. Search is the new media. [ADDENDUM: Here are two other podcasts Ive done on search, one with ZoomInfo and the other with FAST Search and Transfer.]" |
| IBM developerWorks Blog |
| "The first thing it reminded me of is ZoomInfo, a site that conducts a web search for a person's name and makes correlations, and creates a single profile for all the related info that match that person. It isn't all that accurate and sometimes gives multiple hits for the same person (e.g., "Rawn Shah" a name that as far as I have searched is currently unique in the world)." |
| Compete Blog |
| "After opening up Competes API, we turned our focus outward to engage potential partners to work with the Compete API. The efforts are starting to pay off with several implementations that have gone live in the last few months. Today we are pleased to announce that Compete statistics are now featured on ZoomInfo." |
| Treasure Valley Consultants Network Blog |
| "I notice a lot of consultants, including myself, use Web 2.0 networking tools like LinkedIn or ZoomInfo. One of the more important things a consultant can do in their career is create visibility for themselves." |
| Beyond the Hype |
| "A case in point is a post a couple of months ago about a panel discussion at Google about people search. ZoomInfo, one of the companies to watch called out in a sidebar in the Red Herring feature, was described as a "black sheep" -- as compared to the other panelists, Silicon Valley-based Spock and Wink -- because (among other reasons) it is profitable." |
| Inside Facebook |
| "Obviously, the technical challenges at Facebook are quite different than those outside the context of a social graph (Wink and ZoomInfo are two startups attacking the more general people search problem)." |
| ConsultantExchange |
| "Are you doing any Cybernetworking? Do you know about web sites like LinkedIn, Visible Path, Zoodango, ZoomInfo, Ryze and Xing? Have you ever used these sites? Do you know that employers are increasingly using them to find candidates?" |
| Fortify Your Oasis |
| "I'm also registered on Facebook, Twitter, Zoominfo, Ning, Orkut and a few others, but I haven't even begun to play with them yet." |
| Forresters Groundswell |
| "If I need to introduce myself to somebody, I send a personalized email describing the book in one sentence, linking to the blog post about the book, and telling them what I want and making it clear I have researched them and know what they are about -- and I frequently get a response the same day. Sometimes I use Zoominfo's PowerSearch." |
| Red Hot Internet Publicity |
| "Trying to do research on someone? Check out Zoominfo.com, this site is packed with experts and just about anyone you might need information on (including yourself!)" |
| Marketing Over Coffee |
| "Today we talk about: lists, zoominfo.com, Chris makes it into Business Week, Fergie, MentosIntern.com, PwC - Videogames surpassing Movies, Virtual Hotwings, Finals for Bum Rush the Charts, Second Life Concert Playlists go to the highest bidder, Gigadial, Fanmail from C.C. Chapman." |
| Hallam |
| "Networking sites, social, business and otherwise, often rank well in the search engine results. ZoomInfo crawls the web looking for information about individuals and then compiles it into a minisite about you." |
| Recruiting and Sourcing Secrets |
| "Use some tool like pipl or zoominfo and start calling them and don't call me for HR generalist positions. I am not looking to be one but yeah surely I like to hear what you have for a research positions." |
| Jason Schaeffer (v 1.3773) |
| "The article mentioned companies such as Garlik, Metaweb, Powerset and ZoomInfo with market estimates for such services growing from $7 billion today to $50 billion by 2010." |
| BlueBlog |
| "We are also leveraging semantics to aid finding related information. Specifically, we distinguish between the search on a generic engine like Google and vertical search engine like ZoomInfo." |
| Employment Digest |
| "ZoomInfo also proactively aggregates Web info about professionals34 million so farand lets you verify your identity.) Search for a name and these profiles generally show up in a search engines top 10. This is a low-stress way to control your image and, incidentally, make yourself a passive job seeker." |
| a thaumaturgical compendium? |
| "Ive been looking a lot at search lately, and revisited Zoominfo, a site that was designed to automatically generate personal profiles based on stuff out on the web. I found mine amusing." |
| paidContent.org |
| "Earlier this month, Xing signed a partnership with people search platform ZoomInfo that gives it access to some 36 million more people and company records." |
| WirelessJobs.com |
| "According to a recent ZoomInfo Insight Report titled, Gender in the Executive Suite, women have the most significant numbers as CEOs in non-profit and healthcare industries, and as partners in law firms and legal services, representing 29.6%, 22.1% and 17.7% of the executives profiled respectively. Advice for the up 'n comers who have their sights set on becoming CEO: choose your industry wisely." |
| James Kobielus Blog |
| "And, of course, there are the many semantic search vendors (e.g., Aduna, AskMeNow, Cha-Cha, Cognition Technologies, Conversa, Copernic, Endeca, FAST Search and Transfer, Google, Groxis, Hakia, Intelliseek, ISYS Search Software, Metacarta, Ontosearch, Powerset, Readware, Textdigger, Vivisimo, ZoomInfo." |
| InfoCommerce Group |
| "Competition in the social networking space just got a bit more intense. Through a partnership with ZoomInfo, Germany-based social networking site now boasts a network larger than LinkedIn. The partnership enables Xing members to access basic information from ZoomInfo's database of 36 million business profiles, which is considerably larger than LinkedIn's membership of 11 million." |
| Not Just Another Blog |
| "Other people search engines like Linkedin and Zoominfo are mainly targeting corporates. On the other hand Spock is targeting the average internet user." |
| Hydrapinion |
| "Take a look at zoominfo.com. It's a free site that searches the web for information about people and then cross references it to build profiles on people. I discovered the site when I was doing a Google search on someone before I interviewed them for a newspaper story." |
| Business Insight Zone |
| "Dan Farber of ZDNet talks about last weeks agreement between Xing and ZoomInfo, with thoughts on what it could mean for Facebook and other competitors. (My thumbnail take: Farbers probably right about people using Facebook." |
| James Kobielus' Blog |
| "Semantic-oriented search is the hottest of all the segments, judging by the number of startups and others pitching product/service right now....here's a quick list: Aduna, AskMeNow, Cha-Cha, Cognition Technologies, Conversa, Copernic, Endeca, FAST Search and Transfer, Google, Groxis, Hakia, Intelliseek, ISYS Search Software, Metacarta, Ontosearch, Powerset, Readware, Textdigger, Vivisimo, and ZoomInfo." |
| Blog World Expo |
| "Xing and ZoomInfo work together on biz info might not be a great thing. Remember how I mentioned a Xing-Plaxo rumour last week? This isnt a rumour." |
| A Visit To Lornitropia |
| "But there is good news. Xing, a European competitor to Linkedin has now signed an agreement with Zoominfo to offer services. I use both Xing and Zoominfo, and both have some weaknesses. Its hard to say how much synergy will be created between them. Regardless, its good news because Linkedin desperately needs a competitor. With some competition theyll be forced to get their product out of beta, charge a reasonable price for it, and treat their users like valued customers." |
| Ronald Knecht Financial |
| "While researching and discussing the different systems I have found an interesting link with a nice listing of fund accounting systems. Seems that Zoominfo is much more than just finding business contacts..." |
| Online Job Search Blog |
| "Also, check out LinkedIn, ZoomInfo, Classmates, etc. to find old friends, former colleagues, and others from the past who might live in her new location, too." |
| Federated Media |
| "Xing integrates with ZoomInfo, in move to overtake LinkedIn. Xing, the Hamburg, Germany social networking site for business contacts, has just signed a deal that makes its network larger than it U.S. competitor LinkedIn. It has announced a partnership with ZoomInfo, the largest fact-checked proprietary database in the world, of some 36 million business profiles..." |
| Networking Insight |
| "According to The National Networker Blog, XING and ZoomInfo haved formed a partnership. While I don't personally use either of these services, it seems like this partnership makes sense." |
| Tales from the Terminal |
| "Pipl also searches electoral rolls, directories, collections of peer reviewed literature such as Scirus and Google Scholar, Hoovers and Zoominfo." |
| 901am |
| "Xing and ZoomInfo bring together networking and information search to online business industry. With this partnership by the top companies in the online business industry, Xing.com and ZoomInfo aim to provide the U.S. business market unparalleled access to contacts and information that will take business networking and communications to the next level." |
| E-consultancy |
| "German based business network Xing has formed a partnership with ZoomInfo, a US-based business information search engine, in a deal which could potentially give it a larger network than LinkedIn." |
| Psychohistory |
| "Ive been thinking a bit about how people find people online. To sample, I tried three different services: Google, ZoomInfo, and LinkedIn. I wanted to get a sense of three different approaches to online people search." |
| JayFallon.Net |
| "Looks like the battle for the contact list is heating up between LinkedIn and Xing. Announced today was a comprehensive partnership between international networking platform Xing and US-based business search engine ZoomInfo." |
| openBLOG |
| "The integration between XINGs platform and ZoomInfos search engine is planned to go live in the fall of 2007. The entry into the US market is another step in the framework of the announced international expansion strategy of OPEN Business Club AG. The cooperation agreement with ZoomInfo represents the companys first in North America." |
| Deelphi |
| "Xing, the business social network, has partnered up with Zoom Info, a business information search engine to provide search tools and relevant results for Xing. The business social network, which recently reached the 2 million member mark, is also hoping to increase its American traffic with this deal as well." |
| Kathy Johnsons Blog |
| "XING's 2-million plus members will have immediate access to the profiles of nearly 36 million business people and 5 million people directly on the XING platform. With this link up, XING is now bigger than LinkedIn." |
| Vecosys |
| "XING has today announced a partnership with ZoomInfo to bring Xings business networking together with ZoomInfos business search. While the deal is flagged as giving Xings 2m users access to 36m ZoomInfo individual profiles and nearly four million companies. This deal also gives Xing a much higher profile in the US." |
| Fortyplustwo |
| "I am a member of XING and this is a very interesting step forward. XING recently launched the Marketplace and now this step into the US market. Guess I have to take a serious look at ZoomInfo" |
| Hasenpfeffer |
| "Perhaps you're looking for information about a particular company or individual. ZoomInfo might be useful." |
| YooName |
| "Named Entity (NE) technology has gained momentum in the information world. ZoomInfo clusters person and generates profiles specifying past employment, education, and geographic location." |
| TechieGold |
| "Google your manager. Go to the company website and read his/ her bio. Go to sites like Zoominfo.com or Linkedin.com to see if they have a professional bio." |
| Next Generation, Next Destination |
| "A small article in the Sunday New York Times Business Section told of a new report from ZoomInfo, a business data search engine, on the percentage of women chief executives in 13 industries. As expected, the news for women is pretty dismal. But surprisingly, the percentage of female CEO's in the legal field ranked number 3 out of the 13, below non-profit and health care, at 18%." |
| Social Networking Watch |
| "MySpace saw 49% growth in April compared with the same month last year (Nielsen//NetRatings). Far less than Facebook, which saw a 152% jump, and Bebo, up 109%. The fastest-growing sites were ZoomInfo and LinkedIn, which saw 276% and 210% growth, respectively, compared with April 2006." |
| 3greeneggs |
| "ZoomInfo is last, but its the most intriguing of all of sites Ive evaluated. Its the only one that parses the non-social web and make semantic inferences about the contents of various pages. For instance, ZoomInfo can recognize a text blurb about a person (or company), and pull out educational, work, or location info." |
| CyberSleuthing |
| "It wont completely replace looking folks up on databases like LinkedIn, JigSaw, or ZoomInfo. Nor will it replace lookups like Argali or Zabasearch, but it will make a researchers life much easier." |
| Executive Resumes and Career Transition Strategies |
| "The new resource is ZoomInfo. They have introduced a feature that enables you to find detailed information regarding more than 3.5 million companies through their proprietary business information search engine. Be sure to include this tool in your research efforts before going in to interview with a prospective employer." |
| Blog for Jobs |
| "Brian Balfour, a 23 year old who writes a blog called Social Degree, got his latest job through his own blog. The online profile site ZoomInfo hired him based on his blog." |
| TechLINKS |
| "Helpful tools are social networking technologies such as LinkedIn, ZoomInfo and Spoke, which automate the mundane and resource intensive tasks of data entry, analysis, search and recommendations." |
| Reactive, Autonomous |
| "ZoomInfo semantic search engine. Drivers? Consumers don't care about semantic web. But are voracious consumers of content. Would require thousands of people to create the content that we can automatically aggregate today. Barriers/priorities: disagree about advertising only. Trends suggest ad/subscription hybrids are growing. Rich semantic models allow businesses to determine how to partition business model between subscription and advertising." |
| Sales Leads Insights |
| "The results of a new study of business-to-business search and its role in purchase decisions were just released by Enquiro Search Solutions. Get your copy of this new B2B search study, compliments of Enquiro and its research sponsors, Zoom Information, MarketingSherpa and Survey Sampling International." |
| 4Prx |
| "Proxpro leads mobile people search, 30% of web-based search is people related. With Spock, currently in a closed beta, soon to join the ranks of ZoomInfo and Wink, it is great to see web-based people search is gaining more media attention." |
| College Recruiter.com |
| "What makes Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters so great? It uses the unconventional guerrilla marketing approach while also covering topics such as how to harness the full power of Google and business networking sites such as LinkedIn and ZoomInfo to find great opportunities in the hidden job market." |
| StlRecruiting |
| "8 ways to get noticed as a candidate. Go to ZoomInfo and Jigsaw and edit your personal information to make sure it's accurate." |
| Influential Interactive Marketing |
| "This weekend I started thinking about what my ideal family social network would look like, and came up with some core features: Visual Family Tree - This is the most readily available already, but it's an important and fun tool to see how everyone is related. Integrated into this would be the smarts of family history and ancestry look ups, as well as the types of identity look ups used by ZoomInfo to map profiles of individuals to existing content online under the same name." |
| ShoutWire |
| "A new tool called ZoomInfo helps in this regard. Type in any name and it will find many old press references for that name. What's smart about it is that it seems to be good at parsing out references to relationships between people, companies and other colleagues. It also seems to be able to collate references together into a profile, e.g. it can recognize the same press article in multiple places and summarize them together." |
| CyberSleuthing! |
| "On April 23rd I posted about a webinar I was going to conduct on peer regression analysis sponsored by Zoominfo. I've posted about PRA before, and even wrote an article on it, but until now I had never demonstrated it live. Zoominfo has made the Webinar available online for anyone to view! Yup. No charge. All you have to do is register with them." |
| Louises UK Recruiter Blog |
| "We posted an overview and screen shots last month and I recently moderated a panel that included them, Wink and ZoomInfo (notes are here)." |
| TechCrunch |
| "We posted an overview and screen shots last month and I recently moderated a panel that included them, Wink and ZoomInfo (notes are here)." |
| Naymz Blog |
| "Its nothing entirely new as sites like ZoomInfo have been at it for some time in terms of attempting to organize public professional data and make them findable." |
| Swarm Creativity Blog |
| "ZoomInfo is a fabulous way to get basic information." |
| WirelessJobs.com |
| "I'm logged-in and loaded at Blogger's Central here at Kennedy. Levy and I are prepping for today's Blogger Panel, and then we're headed to the opening session in about 10 min's. Should be a great kick-off - Bryan Burdick of ZoomInfo is moderating "Recruiting as a Competitive Advantage. He's got a great panel: Randall Stevens, Director, IT Recruiting, Nationwide Insurance; John Younger, President & CEO, Accolo, Inc." |
| Alacra |
| "Three search engines for people were discussed on TechCrunch yesterday: Wink, Spock and recently upgraded ZoomInfo." |
| Build and Break |
| "ZoomInfo, which has been around for a few years and is aimed at corporate and executive search claimed to be profitable, and generating cash through subscription revenue. Wink and Spock are aimed at the bigger and more general consumer markets and need to be supported to some extent by advertising." |
| John Battelles Search Blog |
| "Mike's got the lowdown on a panel featuring Wink, Spok, and ZoomInfo." |
| down the avenue |
| "Spock's CEO Jaideep Singh spoke at the SD Forum last night at Google's offices in a session on people search. Michael Arrington moderated the session that included Spock, ZoomInfo and Wink. It was certainly a timely discussion." |
| DJCline.com |
| "Bryan Burdick of ZoomInfo focuses on business contacts like LinkedIn. They have 35 million profiles showing the relationships between people and companies. Most searches are free. They make money through subscription. If you want a list of every VP of IT in Silicon Valley, you can subscribe for a hundred dollars a month. If you want a sales lead, this is the place to start. ZoomInfo makes a lot of money this way." |
| Jeff Claviers Software Only |
| "I want to give a big shout to David Beach, the new co-chair of the SDForum Search SIG. He has put together a very interesting event for Tuesday Night over at Google on People Search. Very interesting topic that has seen a bunch of activity over the past couple of years, and it is just the beginning. Companies participating are Wink, ZoomInfo and Spock - Mike Arrington will be mc'ing." |
| alex.moskalyuk |
| "Spock, ZoomInfo, and Wink presented at tonights SearchSig. Each startup presented their own vision of personal search, with Spock collecting all sorts of personal information from public Internet sites, ZoomInfo crawling various directories and corporate sites in order to create a business-oriented people directory, while Wink is also parsing all sorts of public sites in order to aggregate a single profile, which they then allow the user to own. ZoomInfo also sells premium subscriptions to some of the business-related information, and currently is profitable." |
| Secrets of the Job Hunt |
| "Do you suffer from a common name? If you do, it could hurt your chances of being Googled by a prospective employer. Well to be sure they are at a disadvantage but they can take steps to maximize their exposure. Create a number of online profiles on LinkedIn, Emurse, Jobster, ZoomInfo, Ziggs and Naymz." |
| Web Biennial 2007 |
| "Ok, this is a little indulgent. But I stumbled onto this site zoominfo.com which collects names and links for business people, and who did I find there if not Robert Sloon. When your pseudonym starts taking on a life of its own, I think you're definitely allowed to make that Artwork of the Week." |
| AI3 |
| "Browser extensions such as Zotero [16] are showing how to integrate structure management into acceptable user interfaces, as are services such as Zoominfo [17]. Yet we still lack easy means to design the differing structures suitable for a plenitude of destinations." |
| Webwatch |
| "Of course, Spock isn't the first or the only "people search" engine. Others include ZoomInfo and Uncloo. Uncloo is based in China but there's a Google-like English version at http://www.ucloo.com/english/search.html. I just tried it, and the first hit was to my entry on ZoomInfo..." |
| smh.com.au |
| "So who is Tony Glenning and why haven't we heard about him before? The most info you'll find about him comes from a zoominfo page which takes the following bio from a now inaccessible "about" page on the Tonic Systems site." |
| AI3 |
| "One of the emerging exemplars of structured presentation (among others) is ZoomInfo. Granted, the listing is a bit out of date. But it is a structured view of what can be found in bits and pieces elsewhere about me, being built from about 50 contributing Web sources." |
| Swarm Creativity Blog |
| "I'd like to suggest that in a future show we explore other social networking sites such as MySpace. I'd also like to talk about sites like ZoomInfo, which appears to be a massive effort to cull the Internet looking for connections based on two variables: a person's name, and the company they work for." |
| Influential Interactive Marketing |
| "Walking through the Expo, the one thing that struck me most about the exhibitors was the lack of what I would consider Web2.0 companies or ideas. Perhaps I missed the real innovative tools, but aside from a few standouts like Hakia or ZoomInfo, I left disappointed by the chance to see real innovation in search at the Expo." |
| JibberJobber |
| "Theres been a lot of good conversation about digital dirt - this is the concept of what bad stuff can be found about you by performing online searches?You should do searches on your name to see what comes up." |
| TechCrunch |
| "People search is a space that went from nowhere to crowded, fast. Wink changed direction and launched a people search product last November. Also in this space is Streakr (yet to launch), ProfileLinker, LinkedIn, ZoomInfo and Upscoop." |
| cheezhead |
| "I obviously dont have internal data, but if you believe that content has a lot to do with traffic (and I do), then the fact that sites like LinkedIn, ZoomInfo and even Jobster make their profiles searchable has a lot to do with growing traffic numbers, brand awareness, sales and a whole lot of other good things." |
| The Fein Line |
| "Russ Glass of Zoominfo is mentioned several times in the article. Russ writes about how he made an unsolicited job offer to a Product Manager because he was impressed with the candidate's blog. He also says that he cut short the candidacy of a potential sales person because he found that person's blog offensive." |
| Infodoodads |
| "In the past year Ive noticed a new trendsearch engines that focus on specific topics, and one of those topics is business. So far, I know of five. ZoomInfo - Starting with a simple homepage that looks similar to Google I had high hopes. I typed Caterpillar under the tabbed index for Company Search. The first hit provided a brief company profile including revenue, employees, key people, and job openings." |
| Karen Blakemans Blog |
| "Unlike most conventional company and people directories, though, the information is gathered and compiled automatically by what it calls a semantic search engine." |
| Mike Crowls Random Notes |
| "The other day, in one of those rare egotistical moments I have, I added myself to a site called zoominfo.com. It never crossed my mind to check that I might already be on there after all, there are six billion people on the planet, and zoominfo mostly focuses on people in the US. But today, when I happened to come across the site again while looking up Brent Stavig (see the previous post), I found I was on there not once, not twice, but four times!" |
| The Executive Resume Rescue Reporter |
| "Have you heard of ZoomInfo.com yet? Similar to LinkedIn.com and Rize.com, ZoomInfo allows you to build a personal/professional profile and link your network to those of others. ZoomInfo also enables you to connect with people you may have lost touch with (35+ million folks are already profiled) as well as seek jobs and new companies to contact (3+ million are already listed)." |
| The Idea Dude |
| "Red Herring reported that ZoomInfo announced the first-ever semantic search engine. Having dabbled in AI since the late 80's, involved with some reasoning systems in the 90's and worked recently with a semantic search company for almost 2 years, I'm perhaps a little jaded and a little skeptical." |
| Business Two Zero |
| "The last part of the jigsaw is that I watched a video presentation, which Ive now lost, on ZoomInfo at one of the recent Silicone Valley events. This is a free service that does semantic search of the web, with crawlers using a combination of artificial intelligence and natural language techniques, to connect together companies, people and information published about them." |
| The Bewilderness |
| "Zoominfo compares this productive approach with the broadbrush efforts of Google or Yahoo. There is some controversy over how far Zoominfo's product should be considered as the first semantic search engine: a useful reminder of the incremental nature of Web 3.0 technology. Early adoption is confined to niche products in particular markets, such as the B2B field." |
| FishSEO |
| "The headhunters best friend expands ZoomInfo today launched its Business Information Search Engine, a service that offers information on more than 3.5 million companies. Although the company profiles are similar to those offered by Hoovers.com and other subscription-based providers, ZoomInfo business profiles are free. More about ZoomInfo at Search Engine Land." |
| Wheii |
| "Technology tends to replace what was once a formerly labor-intensive process. The business search company ZoomInfo just launched their semantic search engine that works by applying tags to information that distinguish between key concepts, such as a person, an industry, or a company name. Zoominfo is very useful when looking at relationships within companies." |
| Cosmedia |
| "ZoomInfo launched its Business Information Search Engine, a service that offers free information on more than 3.5 million companies. While some of the information I checked out was outdated, this is one for the records." |
| matchmine blog |
| "According to their press, ZoomInfo is taking the path toward semantic search by utilizing their patented technologies to pre-scrub crawled data. This approach, rather than relying on adding linguistic magic at query time, allows them the flexibility to massage the crawled data into searchable indexes. In this way, it then looks like the information is retrieved by a users more typical keyword searches." |
| Ians iBlog |
| "ZoomInfo has upgraded its search tool for business users. Current features include: * Free Company Searches; * Comprehensive Job Searches; * Highly Relevant Product Searches; and * Low Cost Access to People Information." |
| V7N |
| "ZoomInfo is a business search engine. They claim they have launched the 'first market ready semantic search engine.'" |
| 2Fast4Web |
| "ZoomInfo, the business market search engine, will be announcing tomorrow a set of new features, including a patented semantic search that tags, aggregates and organizes the information for people, companies, products and services, and industries. ZoomInfo claims to be making business search easier and more digestible with this new release, offering a free alternative to costly research services." |
| BuzzTracker |
| "ZoomInfo, the business market search engine, will be announcing tomorrow a set of new features, including a patented semantic search that tags, aggregates and organizes the information for people, companies, products and services, and industries." |
| Mashable |
| "ZoomInfo has long been a standard for business research and provides data for recruiters, job seekers and others involved in corporate environments. Their new semantic search improves on their existing product and brings forth the needed evolution for niche search engines, and would do best to be applied to others across the board." |
| SearchEngineBlog |
| "ZoomInfo is a business search engine. They claim they have launched the first market ready semantic search engine.'" |
| Presto Vivace Blog |
| "On Monday, ZoomInfo.com plans to offer a newly improved business-oriented semantic search service, tailored for finding information about companies and their employees, to any Internet user under an advertisement-supported model. Disruptive is putting it mildly." |
| Technically Speaking |
| "ZoomInfo - A business market search engine will announce new semantic search. This patented search will aggregate tags and organize the information. I have never used their service personally, but it does sound like a worthwhile one from the article I read." |
| The FASTForward Blog |
| "What is the state of B2B search marketing? What are the business and technology drivers that make online search an emerging tool for business discovery and procurement? I put these and other questions to Forrester Research Senior Analyst Shar VanBoskirk and to Bryan Burdick, chief operating officer at ZoomInfo, to explore the fast-evolving power of targeted, semantic-oriented business search and marketing." |
| Medical Sales Recruiter |
| "Google, LinkedIn, and ZoomInfo are just a few of the tools that one can use to learn as much as possible about a company before speaking with a representative of the company about a potential opportunity. Note that I did not say that this research should only be done before the face-to-face interview, it should be done before the phone screen." |
| ContentBlogger |
| "Patrick had a very nice slide show of how media models evolved from the Stele of Hammurabi onwards. Movement towards free content, distribution of copies costs zero, huge online addressable market, Not an infinite enterprise market, lower willingness to pay in India and China, Zoominfo/Trip Advisor replace heretofore expensive-to-create information with machine created information." |
| Secrets of the Job Hunt |
| "You should also research the company you want to work for and find actual humans you can talk to. Use sites like LinkedIn.com and ZoomInfo.com to do the research. You may find someone you can connect with. And while you are at it, begin your digital fingerprint by creating a profile for yourself on those same sites." |
| The Personal Bee |
| "There are some new features in two of my favourite people tools. ZoomInfo, which has long been one of my favourite websites for looking up biographical information, has a new feature called BeFound, which allows you to take control of your Zoominfo profile, consolidate summaries, and add information (such as whether you are male or female), if you wish. Nifty! Im not a man anymore!" |
| Recruiting Bloggers |
| "ZoomInfo - the more publicly-visible the person, the more likely you'll find them here (VP and up in any area, all PR/marketing personnel, etc.)." |
| Six Degrees from Dave |
| "ZoomInfo and Indeed today announced plans to integrate Indeed.com’s job search into ZoomInfo’s business information search engine, allowing the more than four million unique monthly visitors to ZoomInfo.com to benefit from the Web’s most comprehensive search engine for jobs. An initial version of this capability is available today, with more extensive integration expected in the coming months." |
| Sites, Software and Tech |
| "YubNub is a excellent website that is essentially a ‘Power Google’ in some ways, as it enables you to create your own shortcuts for internet searching and information retrieval. These are just my common ones, there are others that you might use for more specific purposes such as doing business searches on zoominfo, or doing lookups on the Internet Movie Database." |
| JibberJobber Blog |
| "Get familiar with tools other than Google, tools that were designed to do this type of research. I’ve found websites that will help you do the same thing - one of these days I’m going to go more in-depth on these tools but for now you can start to get familiar with any of these: ZoomInfo: The search engine for discovering people, companies and relationships” … go search your name, or your company’s name and see what comes up. This is a great way to find where you have been mentioned, and the way it shows the results is more geared towards this type of research than a regular search engine is." |
| Blog Indeed |
| "Indeed is now powering job search on ZoomInfo, a leading people and company search engine. From ZoomInfo’s home page, you can search jobs as well as people and companies. You can also view a feed of job listings on each company profile page - so you can see new jobs at companies you are interested in. And, there’ll be further custom job search integration within ZoomInfo.com in the near future. We’re thrilled to add Zoominfo to our growing network." |
| CharlotteRecruiting |
| "Because I got an e-mail from him, and because he's always been a friend to the blogosphere, I want to pitch the ZoomInfo product to any local recruiters looking to improve their sourcing firepower. If you are a recruiter and your managers keep complaining about the lack of passive talent, consider looking at ZoomInfo. This is not a paid endorsement." |
| emurse blog |
| "Another great resource for corporate research is ZoomInfo (www.zoominfo.com). ZoomInfo scans the web for information and mentions of individuals and companies. The information found is compiled into an easily digestible report." |
| EXCELER8ion |
| "Maintaining multiple profiles on various social networks and community niches is hard work. Anytime there is a piece of information that changes that I want represented on my profiles - I currently have to make updates to this blog; LinkedIn; Facebook; MySpace; Squidoo; NewsVine; Jobster; ZoomInfo, Colgate Alumni Group, etc." |
| The Recruiting Edge |
| "When I was a baby sourcer, and didn’t have the crutch LinkedIn to jumpstart my searches, I’d go to the Internet (this was before ZoomInfo - formerly Eliyon) and the other internet strippers really got started, and I would google (back then I think it was dogpile or altavista I used before I kinda’ understood the magic of algorithms and the brains behind them) the name of the company I was trying to penetrate and the title I was working on." |
| Ian’s iBlog |
| "It seems that all job search tools are the same with the identical functions. Here is a tool that may bring something new to the table. Today, Indeed.com and ZoomInfo has joined forces to provide users with a tool ‘to search for jobs based on their location and industries of interest, research industries and companies, manage their personal digital brand, and connect with potential employers." |
| Internet News Blog |
| "ZoomInfo and Indeed today announced plans to integrate Indeed.com's job search into ZoomInfo's business information search engine, allowing the more than four million unique monthly visitors to ZoomInfo.com to benefit from the Web's most comprehensive search engine for jobs. An initial version of this capability is available today, with more extensive integration expected in the coming months. ZoomInfo.com's business users will be able to search for jobs based on their location and industries of interest, research industries and companies, manage their personal digital brand, and connect with potential employers." |
| MRHendersonville |
| "There are consequences to lying, omissions and misrepresentations made to a recruiter. First of all, a majority of recruiters use Google, LinkedIn, ZoomInfo and other business and social networking sites to learn more about candidates. Consequently, being dishonest and hiding critical facts are the fastest ways to ruin a relationship with a recruiter." |
| BlueBlog |
| "Blogs have people behind them and so BlueOrganizer helps you find out more information about the blogger. In addition to the traditional Google and news searches you can lookup blogger’s information on sites like ZoomInfo, LinkedIn and Facebook." |
| Workplace Visions |
| "I recently met a technical recruiter who works for a local staffing company here in Fort Lauderdale. She mentioned to me that they were currently trying to alter their recruitment efforts. She has often found that the job boards, such as Monster and Career Builder are showing the same resumes in a search. Other than referral programs, she is now looking for ideas on recruitment trends or non traditional recruitment ideas. If you’re looking for high level executives, then ZoomInfo is a good source of leads." |
| Ultimate Resumes |
| "Here are a few tips that I hope will help you to get some great job offers: Do Your Homework. This should be a no-brainer. Read the company website, annual report, and anything else you can find. Google the company, the CEO, and corporate officers. If you can find out the names of your interviewers before your interview date you should Google them too. Also search for their names on ZoomInfo and LinkedIn." |
| Feed the Beagle |
| "Guess what else, you have the names of the companies where they work. So now all you have to do is find their present employers phone number using either Hoovers, ZoomInfo, the YellowPages." |
| Ines Mergel |
| "It turns out there are ways to control what people can find about you. I talked to Bill Liao, the co-founder of Xing about this issue, and he pointed me to the people finder search engine ZoomInfo." |
| Six Degrees From Dave |
| "As part of my continuing series featuring voices from the recruitment industry and blogosphere, specifically, I had the good fortune of receiving perspectives on the Influence of Recruitment Blogs by recruitment technology vendors, Monster and ZoomInfo. According to Russell Glass of ZoomInfo, ‘Bloggers have had a positive impact on our marketing reach, but more importantly they’ve also provided critical user feedback during our beta testings." |
| Recruiting Bloggers.com |
| "Pipe Lining is just finding people who might prove to be good candidates in the future and becoming a business buddy so you're there when the fruit is ready to fall. In the spring of 2006, he wrote an article on pipelining-talent pooling for ZoomInfo and I covered it here." |
| Northwest VC |
| "I have frequently mentioned ZoomInfo as a portfolio company driving substantial innovation in this space. ZoomInfo can understand unstructured text to compile aggregate summaries of related information occurring across the Web. By understanding that certain words on a page mean a "person" or a "business" (i.e., smart data), ZoomInfo can impose structure around this information, enabling search and information discovery in ways that far transcend the capabilities for plain keyword-based search (such as Google, for example)." |
| Recruiting Bloggers.com |
| "ZoomInfo is the research tool I use the most. Can’t live with out it. Are you in it? You should be! And listing yourself or checking your profile is free. Register and Create a ZoomInfo Web Summary and Be Found and then Let Opportunities Find You. This is a craeer accelerator you can’t live without." |
| Asad Haroon |
| "There are so many options these days when it comes to online networking. The best for B2B are Hoover’s Connect, Ecademy (international focus), ZoomInfo, and LinkedIn." |
| Search Engine Land |
| "Deep Business & People Search. ZoomInfo demoed ZoomInfo PowerSearch 2007, a fee-based tool that's a specialized business and people search engine—think Hoovers meets LinkedIn, with some nifty organizational tools thrown in..." |
| DEMOletter – from the DEMO 2007 Keynote |
| "Yes, there is something really cool at DEMO - 68 somethings, to be exact. Each of these products is different, each is cool in its own right - whether it is 6th Sense's solution to layer business metrics into application development, or ZoomInfo's ability to gather and aggregate Internet-based information..." |
| Content Matters |
| "Below are some tips that may seem fairly obvious, but I find that even when recruiting for the most senior positions, I get applicants who violate these rules. If you follow them, you’ll have a better chance of making it through the first cut. Check your LinkedIn profile, myspace page, facebook listing, ZoomInfo page and anything on the first page of Google results; the employer most likely will." |
| Northwest VC |
| "I attended the DEMO 2007 conference last week. Zoominfo demonstrated new Power Search offering - positioning as “Semantic Search engine”. I'm biased, but I thought this was one of the best demos, lots of buzz." |
| A Visit to Lornitropia |
| "Adam over at Printmode recently wrote about the tools he uses, and invited me to do the same. I have quite a few I guess, as a lot of the work I do is research oriented. Linkedin, xing, Plaxo, and several other sites provide both good networking tools and good research tools, along with Zoominfo & Jigsaw." |
| The Groundswell (Forrester) |
| "Zoominfo PowerSearch 2007 (3:25pm) – Semantic search – info on companies and people. This engine is the search that a salesperson needs, surfacing the information businesspeople need to evalauate companies and people. Speaking as a researcher, I need this. Way better than the information in our company database." |
| ZDNet’s Office Evolution |
| "Moving the chore of collecting, filtering, and analyzing information to the network makes all kinds of sense as smarter algorithms become available that understand what we're interested in and how we want to access that information. ZoomInfo PowerSearch 2007 collects, analyzes, and organizes information about companies to support sales and market research." |
| Christine.net |
| "ZoomInfo launched PowerSearch, a business information search engine that compiles individual profiles based upon the information that it crawls. The product is targeted at sales and marketing professionals building their pipeline, or perhaps executive recruiters. The company anticipates competing with both LinkedIn and Hoovers, and with over $10 million in revenue last year, it's already profitable. As a marketer, I like this…" |
| StlRecruiting |
| "Sourcers utilize all databases including JigSaw and Zoominfo, as well as resume boards, among hundreds of other sources." |
| LatinOcean |
| "I kept reading at all the buzz and advertising surrounding ZoomInfo in the industry’s online portals, which i had reported on a few days back. Not surprisingly, the business is US focused, which means that’s where the mass of data is relevant to. Interestingly though..." |
| Read/WriteWeb’s Top 10 Picks from DEMO 2007 |
| "ZoomInfo offers a vertical semantic search engine, focused on companies and people. It is an impressive technology that turns the web into a database of corporate and personal information; and organizes it in an intelligent way. Whether you'd like to research companies in a competitive space, or you'd like to learn more about the career of a particular person, ZoomInfo offers you great resources and tools." |
| Pardon the Disruption |
| "Below are my picks for Best of Demo 07, for what it is worth. These are my own personal judgments based on what I liked, what I thought had good business potential, or what just struck me as cool. Best Information Intelligence Product: ZoomInfo PowerSearch." |
| VC Ratings |
| "I endeavored to speak with representatives from every private company at the Demo 2007 conference. I missed a few, nearly got punched by a few others, and in the end, learned enough to rank them all in order from best to worst. The criteria is based on the likelihood of the startup becoming a large and profitable company over time or earning a big return on investment in the next few months. Basically, home run investments. Number 12 is ZoomInfo – I’m not letting the fact that I’m the number one result for a query of my name color my judgment. Business search done right is lucrative. " |
| Conferenza’s Demo07 Blog |
| "Day 2, Afternoon: ‘Wisdom of the Algorithms’ – If you subscribe to the belief that marketers really need more complete and organized information about people and companies, then ZoomInfo is for you. The company aggregates search result information, and “normalizes” it in a useful manner so the format is similar." |
| Charlene Li’s Forrester Blog |
| "ZoomInfo caught Josh's eye because of it's core and expanded people search capabilities. I've been following ZoomInfo for quite a while and it's good to see them at DEMO (disclosure: I did a Webinar for them last February on the future of online recruitment.)" |
| Marketing Shift |
| "AO Live Blogging – ZoomInfo is using its technology to scour the web and find information where people and companies are mentioned. I equate it to a Hoovers of sorts but focused more on whats on the web." |
| Learning to Network |
| "Well, enough people have mentioned it, and its cropped enough times when I have searched for people, that I decided to create myself a profile over at ZoomInfo, using their free “BeFound” service. When I have found people on it, ZoomInfo merely seemed to be a search engine that agregates information into what it assumes are discrete individuals … there’s nothing wrong with allowing people to find me when they want, and setting that up was a 15 minute job." |
| Internet News |
| "ZoomInfo has developed PowerSearch 2007 for conducting research on people, companies, and industries. Subscription-based pricing starts at $3,950 per user per year. ‘More than 1,500 customers currently benefit from the power of ZoomInfo's patented semantic search engine." |
| DEMO Blog |
| "ZoomInfo PowerSearch 2007 is a business information search engine that crawls and organizes the “Business Web” and then automatically compiles easy-to-digest profiles about individuals, companies and industries. PowerSearch significantly improves the depth, freshness and accuracy of search results, and can be easily personalized depending on search styles and needs (sales, marketing, competitive intelligence, recruiting, etc.)" |
| Six Degrees from Dave |
| "With ZoomInfo PowerSearch 2007, marketers, salespeople, recruiters and other business professionals conducting research now have fast and easy access to comprehensive profiles on 34 million business people, three million companies and thousands of industries and market segments." |
| IBM developerWorks |
| Some Trends To Watch Out For – First, Data becomes even more public. Key examples today: ManyEyes, Zillow, CogMap and ZoomInfo. Beyond these examples, you might find in the future, a destination that has every product ever made with all the key components and attributes of those products." |
| Jason Davis’ Blog |
| "I would like to thank TheLadders, JobDig, MyStaffingPro, ZoomInfo, JobCentral, SimplyHired, Jobster, ERE, Monster, BountyJobs, HireVue and Yahoo and all of the great people who came out to support HopeLab last Thursday night. We raised 10k and the final figure may be a little more. The trash talk post is on its way along with details about the next charity poker event in San Diego for the ERE Conference." |
| Guerrilla Job Hunting |
| "Like ZoomInfo, if you can't be found on LinkedIn you probably don't exist ... or at least you've got an up hill battle trying to be recognized." |
| LatinOceanBlog |
| "Zooming In ’07 – ZoomInfo has been promoting the heck of its PowerSearch service over the last few weeks in ERE. My guess is that ZoomInfo has the potential to be as locally useful as LinkedIn is shaping up to be." |
| Recruiting.com |
| "On January 25th/07, Recruiting.com is putting on it's 2nd Charity Poker Tournament. Currently there are 10 sponsors for this event and each sponsor has picked someone to represent them at the main table. Many thanks to ZoomInfo, SimplyHired, Jobster, Monster, MyStaffingPro, ERE.net, DirectEmployers, TheLadders, JobDig and Recruiting.com for sponsoring this. We will raise more than 10k and this money will be donated to HopeLab.org." |
| Recruiting Fly Blog |
| "Martin Burns is ZoomInfo’s recruiting manager, and he writes a blog for job-seekers (with the occasional rant), called “good to know”. You'll also find ZoomInfo's open positions listed there which is a nice touch. Welcome to the recruitosphere Martin." |
| Job Search Guy Blog |
| "You can either visit the companies in person, or look them up from your local phone directory. You can also use online services like Lead411 or ZoomInfo." |
| BrandToBeDetermined |
| "Interesting items from bloglines. ZoomInfo - this one is showing up more and more. They aggregate information about PEOPLE. Not always accurate but still interesting." |
| Recruiting.com |
| "In 2006, ZoomInfo nearly doubled its customer base to over 1,500. Among those now subscribing to ZoomInfo PowerSearch to search for fresh and comprehensive information about companies and people. $12 million plus for the year." |
| Smogger Social Media Blog |
| "Social Media Literacy - An A-Z Guide to Web.20 Jargon. Z is for ZoomInfo. ZoomInfo is an example of a business/social networking site that is useful to recruiters and job seekers. It’s basically a niche search engine that allows you to search for information about a company or person using natural language programming, a type of artificial intelligence." |
| Robin Richter |
| "I found a new resource for getting yourself listed and being found - ZoomInfo.com. Try it yourself by searching for me, Robin Richter. I just updated my info and it won’t show for several hours, and there are several folks with the same name, so I’m making sure my info is correct and is easily found. You will see near the bottom of the page a place to add your web links." |
| Delaware Online’s She Said |
| "Though I haven't delved into it as much, Zoominfo.com, is another place to visit. This site actually tracks professionals who aren't even hooked up, culling online news sources for recent articles about them." |
| Sound Money Tips |
| "Dubbed ‘The search engine for discovering people, companies, and relationships’, this site’s bread and butter is corporate HR; it’s an online headhunter that taps into web sites, press releases, electronic news services and SEC filings to deliver fresh, comprehensive information on over 33 million business professionals and 2 million companies across virtually every industry. The average Joe can however use their extensive (and free) summarization search engine to search for a long-lost pal. I found stuff I didn’t find using Google..." |
| Truly Twisted Marketing |
| "While the home-base for Biznik is in Seattle, WA, no one is excluded and everyone (no matter what part of the world) is invited to participate. It’s small compared to a linkedin or zoominfo, but it’s fun and has a real grassroots feel to it." |
| Guerrilla Job Hunting for Marketers |
| "ZoomInfo – ZoomInfo is the research tool I use the most. Can’t live with out it. Are you in it? You should be! And listing yourself or checking your profile is free. Register and Create a ZoomInfo Web Summary and Be Found and then you can Let Opportunities Find You. This is THE career accelerator you can’t live without. It’s your “job search commando." |
| Six Degrees From Dave |
| "Meet Russell Glass: Indiana Russell & The Temple of Zoom! … Russell shares a common attribute of every person profiled to date at “Six Degrees,” - he is the consummate giver without consideration and he is six degrees of admiration by those who know him and know of him." |
| The Recruiting Animal |
| "ZoomInfo, however, is no stranger to the razor. It scrapes names and business profiles from a wide range of internet sites and dumps them into a huge database which they offer to you in free and fee-based formats." |
| CEO Consultant |
| "Taking ownership means taking a pro-active approach to your job search. That means researching companies you want to work for without regard to whether a specific job may have been posted. For minimal or even no cost, you can use Internet tools such as ZoomInfo.com, Lead411.com and Alexa.com. These are software services or tools that can be used to widen your job search and locate companies where you might fit as an employee." |
| Attracting Prosperity and Financial Freedom |
| "While most of us are aware of how recruiters use Google to discover the "digital dirt" on job candidates, the Herman Trend Alert shared some additional web resources that recruiters use: ZoomInfo: www.zoominfo.com." |
| Merger Talk |
| "WhitePages.com, a Washington-based directory business, may be an attractive target for a company that wants to enter the “people search” space, CEO Max Bardon said. WhitePages currently partners with ZoomInfo and could potentially partner with a business such as LinkedIn, but it is still too early to know whether acquiring such companies would make sense." |
| Better Communication Results |
| "My friendly bearded fellow FIR contributor Dan York has uncovered a little gem of a website. ZoomInfo is a search engine for discovering people, companies and relationships. " |
| Advanced Online Recruiting Techniques |
| "Q:I am an Internet-focused sourcer who sometimes gets primary phone sourced data to expand upon. However, there are times I get high-profile names from high-profile companies, and I still can't find anything about them, whether I use major search engines and resume databases, ZoomInfo, etc. Why is this, and what can I do? A: Aha! You have encountered the only quality problem in name-gen by telephone (a/k/a telesourcing): misspellings." |
| Girl Geek Speaks |
| "Get LinkedIn or Zoomed – If you are looking for ways to drive traffic to your websites or get networked with possible referral sources or leads, check out these two networking websites. You can join for FREE. Also, once you're there, look for me and invite me to your network!" |
| Everything 2.0 |
| "In the course of this year I've added little asterisk signs to the sites that struck me as brilliant - either conceptually, or businesswise, or technically, or graphically, or... well... otherwise. … Zoominfo* - Search persons; create your own page – Community" |
| Enterprise 2.0 |
| Running list of enterprise 2.0 companies and products. Enterprise 2.0 Networking: ZoomInfo |
| Simply Hired’s job seeker |
| "How to pick the right startup? To begin, talk to people who know/have worked with the team’s core members. With which companies have these people worked before? Who do you know who’d know these folks … and would give you the real scoop? If you don’t have “one hop” connections to the team, use tools such as LinkedIn, ZoomInfo and Google to root around further." |
| Blog.DanYork.com |
| "I stumbled upon a reference to Zoominfo which bills itself as "The search engine for discovering people, companies, and relationships. Seems to be an interesting site... " |
| Googling Job Candidates and Consultants |
| "LinkedIn and Zoominfo are also useful sites for finding more about individuals pre- and post-job interview. Some job candidates may have a presence at one of the social networking sites such..." |
| Industrialmarketingtalk |
| "In this issue: [5] Zoominfo - check out your company, check out yourself! [6] New Venture at Adept ... They say "ZoomInfo is a unique summarisation search engine that finds, ... Try it out for yourself: http://www.zoominfo.com" |
| Timtowle |
| "...aggregate relevant information from around the net about individual them – much like ZoomInfo does (here’s Guy’s profile on ZoomInfo) This would be the best tool to motivate them to control their identities. " |
| InternetFinancialNews |
| Matthew Ingram echoes the thoughts of ZoomInfo's Brian Balfour in this piece about Yahoo!'s latest acquisition |
| The CFO Coach |
| "According to a recent statistic I read in the ERE daily, ZoomInfo is used by the top 10 executive search firms and more than 20% of Fortune 500 companies to meet their hiring needs. " |
| Marketingprofs.com |
| "You can create a free account to establish or edit your profile. Hiring managers and executive recruiters are using ZoomInfo to learn about prospective employees. " |
| Redeye VC |
| "You could go to Switchboard, ZoomInfo or LinkedIn to do a person search. Or you could just type in their name and city in Google and get their phone number and even a map to their home." |
| WATblog |
| "ZoomInfo is one company that has created a headhunting search engine that finds names and builds out an automated resume of that person." |
| Entrepreneur Geek |
| "Now that was surprising. I was thinking of having a solution to find people just by their name from quite some time. And ZoomInfo has done that. There are many other people finding sites, I have not tried many, but I liked this one!" |
| Recruiting.com |
| "He met Russell Glass who is a VP at Zoominfo at my house and I told Mike that Zoominfo is a great product and he really needs to check it out. The last time I asked Russell if he could let someone use it on a trial basis for 3 months, ..." |
| Who Is This Person? |
| Highlight any name on a web page and see matching information from ZoomInfor and more. |
| Louise's UK Recruiter Blog |
| "The difference is that ZoomInfo take the next step and consolidate the information they find into summaries of people. ZoomInfo is basically a people search tool." |
| Profy |
| Zoominfo has a nifty business people search. It aggregates web information about people and links together their profile. |
| ZD Net |
| "We had a highly knowledgeable group of folks from a variety of backgrounds participate...In addition to myself, we had panelists Russell Glass, vice president of products at ZoomInfo." |
| Recruiting & Sourcing Secrets |
| "Kudos to the advertisement and the direct marketing team of Zoominfo in making this innovative and creative mailer..." |
| Topaz Partners |
| "As a proprietor of custom-tuned search engines for businesses, Russell talked about how the proliferation of good-quality cheap content will lean towards free vs. paid content..." |
| Mark Evans |
| "The question in search is: what would it take to knock off Google? Is it possible to develop a search engine that can produce better results than Google and, at the same time, capture the imagination of Internet users?" |
| People Management |
| "If you are a job-seeker, or think you will be looking anytime in the next year, the best way to get noticed by top-notch recruiters is to raise your online profile." |
| Inter Alia |
| "...The Zoom List is a very basic web site with some great information. It calls itself "a directory of companies, products, and services," and that's exactly what it is -- just select a company category, and you'll get a page with companies in that industry, with ZoomInfo information on each company." |
| Search 2.0 Round Up |
| " It compiles concise summaries about individuals and companies, in an organized manner. Social networking tools are available if you choose to be their customer. " |
| Topaz Partners |
| "As a proprietor of custom-tuned search engines for businesses, Russell talked about how the proliferation of good-quality cheap content will lean towards free vs. paid content..." |
| Recruiting.com |
| "There are some fantastic sourcing tools that are available to find candidates who range from passive to entirely disinterested. Such tools include ZoomInfo, Hoovers, JigSaw, LinkedIn, Spoke, and Im sure many others." |
| Keith: Inside/Outside |
| "You have to check this site out. Man, they can track down everything about a person..." |
| CoFactors |
| "ZoomInfo.com is a first step in the direction of a more organized and directed search experience. " |
| CNET News.com |
| "ZoomInfo has devised a search engine to ferret out job candidate, even if they aren't looking for a job." |
| Lou Adler's Blog |
| "My mantra is that with a phone and ZoomInfo or a list developed by Shally Steckerl, you can find three to four top people for any assignment within two days." |
| Guerrlila Job Hunting |
| "Go spy on your competitors. Guerrilla intelligence is invaluable...Use ZoomInfo to follow up on leads and/or prepare for the event ahead of time." |
| Paula's Space - Are you Famous Yet? |
| "You can make yourself famous. Simply click on the button named Be Found." |
| QViews |
| "...offers powerful tools for profiling someone's web presence, including you own. " |
| StraightUp Search |
| "ZoomInfo.com: This search engine is designed to provide information specifically about people, companies and relationships. " |
| Breaking Human Resources News |
| "Lou Adler Partners with ZoomInfo to Promote Best Practice Sourcing Techniques " |
| Career Hub |
| "Be sure you're ready to be 'zoomed.' If you're not proactive, you might find that negative information or no information at all can damage your search. " |
| Creative Concepts |
| "...ZoomInfo (a search engine that gives you info on people you could never find on google and yahoo)..." |
| Recruiting.com |
| "I have been using ZoomInfo for the past few weeks. I am pretty impressed. And I don't impress easily. OK, I do but trust me I was skeptical when I started using it." |
| Intelligent Agent |
| "We'd say ZoomInfo should definitely be part of your people finding research toolkit." |
| Secrets of the Job Hunt - Job Hunting Advice Blog |
| "If you haven't posted your personal profile on ZoomInfo yet then you will soon be missing out on the chance to be found by recruiters everywhere." |
| Career Hub |
| "Get proactive, because in today's job market, 'passive' could very well mean 'passed over.'" |
| Overdue Ideas |
| "There are even services (e.g. Zoominfo) who will groom the 'online you'" |
| AdPulp |
| "I was made aware of Zoom Info the other day. It's 'the search engine for discovering people, companies and relationships.'" |
| MarketingMonger |
| "ZoomInfo is a search engine for people. It is free to list your info." |
| Now what? Search Tech Opportunities |
| "I would put this in the category of VERY advanced search with an HUGE amount of innovation potential!" |
| Search Engine Journal |
| "ZoomInfo.com is now the default source of people search info for Amazon's A9.com search engine." |
| Career Advisor |
| "Basically, ZoomInfo creates structure out of the chaos of the Web." |
| Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing |
| "Can there be another Google? Sure!" |
| Phil Bradley's Weblog |
| "It's very easy to use - just whack in a name and see what it finds." |
| LifeHacker |
| "ZoomInfo publishes your page for other search engines to find as well as potential employers." |
| Weblovers |
| "Powerful stuff and a great example of Web 2.0 at work." |
| Software Only |
| "whenever you are hiring an executive, directly or through a recruiter, you want to check - as in confirm - previous employment, diplomas, etc." |
| Mark Evans |
| "Maybe the New Google would generate results from the deep Web" |
| Real Deal |
| "Just came across this...zoominfo.com...kinda like zabasearch.com. i updated my profile. check on yerself, and see what's listed. this tech thing is spooky." |
| Houston's IT Job Blogs |
| "So, if you want a new job, you'd sure better be on the Internet. And I *don't* mean the job boards." |
| The Virtual Sales Team |
| "For salespeople or recruiters without the skills to data-mine Google, I think it's a useful tool. " |
| The Interstitial Species: Technology Update |
| "I was impressed by the level on information that it had on myself I was impressed by the level on information that it had on myself " |
| SearchGuru |
| "Talk about an incredible search engine!!" |
| The Opinity Weblog |
| "The reputation industry is still in its infancy and we need to grow the market." |
| Employment Digest |
| "A ZoomInfo.com survey revealed web users are very concerned that the Web doesn’t provide recruiters with enough good information about them." |
| Information Today, Inc. |
| "Vertical Searches are hot" |
| Best-CRM-Solutions |
| "CRM - ZoomInfo Partners With InsideScoop to Deliver Salesforce.com Users Customer Information on 26 Million Business People ." |
| Distracted Attention |
| "It's time to take back control." |
| Mediagirl: Aliza Sherman Rants and Raves |
| "the thing that you are doing but maybe not admitting to it: searching for your own name" |
| Venture Chronicles by Jeff Nolan |
| "LinkedIn: Best Practices for Venture Capitalists...this made me think of the Zoominfo service that the BVP [Bessemer Venture Partners] guys mentioned to me." |
| InfoCommerce |
| "companies like, ZoomInfo, Linked-In and Ziggs are bringing still another level of innovation to this business." |
| Gav's Blog - What does ZoomInfo know about you? |
| "With all of the content on the internet, have you ever wondered what people can find out about you? ZoomInfo makes this job very simple." |
| Search Engine Journal - ZoomInfo: Meta People Search Engine |
| "Googling someone only goes so far, ZoomInfo brings a lot of public information to its users in one or two easy steps." |
| SLA PAM Division Blog |
| "The Newest and the Best from the One Who Knows" |
| The Virtual Handshake Blog - How to Find Your Next Job with Social Software |
| "Biography Analysis Software, such as Zoominfo and Jigsaw for finding/researching decision makers and contact info (job hunting or marketing) is very useful." |
| Online Idea Buzz |
| "Research clients and prospects when marketing... Type the names into ZoomInfo" |
| WOMP - Tim Draper On Social Networks |
| "People are now also able to read profiles of others that are both autobiographical (FaceBook) and biographical (ZoomInfo)." |
| Poynter Online - Find People Fast |
| "Think about how you can use this for background people, finding snitches inside companies or finding former employees." |
| ZoomInfo: On deadline try this one |
| "ZoomInfo aggregates, as best it can, information on people that is on the web... I have found that in a quick start people search ZoomInfo is probably the best place to start." |
| Fast Company - Search Me |
| "Zoominfo does a better job." |
| NightHawk - We know who you are... |
| "I tried it with my name and it works pretty well." |
| Hiring Insider - Recruiting Passive Candidates |
| "Eliyon is now ZoomInfo and while you can buy as you go I still think it's a better value to buy the license for a year." |
| Jon Lowder - People I Met in Chicago |
| "Great tool if you want to get some basic background on someone you are going to meet, or someone you're doing a deal with." |
| iLifeCoach - Differentiate yourself with Powerful Information |
| "Taking a few minutes to check could get you the inside information that will help differentiate you from all the candidates seeking the same position." |
| Ross Mayfield's Weblog - New Content Technologies and Models |
| "Try a search on your name, the transparency is quite disturbing." |
| Mark Evans - Zoomin In On You |
| "ZoomInfo offers a quick and broad snapshot of people - a particularly useful tool for students, journalists and researchers." |
| PIPEDA and Canadian Privacy Law - Taking "googling yourself" to the next level |
| "It looks like it scrapes the internet for information about people and compiles it into one handy-dandy place. I put in my name and was surprised about what it had to say about me. Thankfully, most of it was positive." |
| BARISTA - heartstarters for the hungry mind |
| "This is genuinely amazing. How much does the internet know about you?" |
| Alex Halavais - A Thaumaturgical Compendium |
| "An interesting experiment—and I suspect we are going to see a lot more such public experiments in auto-summarization in the near future" |
| John Battelle - ZoomInfo Redefines Vanity Googling? |
| "A neat idea - managing your own entry in the database of intentions." |
| Trend Junkie - Cool Search Tools: Check Yourself |
| "ZoomInfo, an engine that will summarize the content available on a particular person or subject and deliver it in easy to digest results - do a search for yourself and see what's out there." |
| GeekNewsCentral - Googling Yourself |
| "...since search engines display the most relevant results first, a well-constructed ZoomInfo profile would theoretically be the first or among the first choices that appear in search results." |
| Scoble's link blog - ZoomInfo (from: Robert Gale) |
| "Give your ego a boost by doing a search on Zoominfo." |
| Extra Strength Surfing Fingers |
| "...you can create or change your own ZoomInfo profile there so that people can find the correct "John Doe" when they look for you. Interesting. And it's free." |
| Paul Kedrosky - Infectious Greed |
| "Vertical search outfit Eliyon is now apparently Zoominfo. It's still interesting stuff -- and they have exposed a little more search functionality on the front page." |
| Gary Price - Search Engine Watch blog |
| "The service is well worth a look" |
| Robert Gale - A Welsh View |
| "Give your ego a boost by doing a search on Zoominfo." |
| Salon Blogs - New Personal Search Engine(s) |
| "I don't know which is scarier, the accurate information, the outdated information, or the erroneous information, all returned to whoever may ask, in a few seconds." |
| Geek Press |
| "The new Zoominfo website will let people find out an awful lot about you." |
| Shore News Commentary - Eliyon Becomes ZoomInfo, Adopts Google-Like Interface... |
| "It still retains its high-test capabilities for sales force integration and support of major content distributors, but now has functionality that will make it as easy as "Googling" someone to get well-formed information direct from the Web." |
| Big Brother 2.0 - Big Brother 2.0 |
| "This is cool. Try it. Then try it again...what an amazing way to compile public information." |
| The Open Society Paradox - Updating Your Public Profile? |
| "The good thing about an open society is that information can flow in more than one direction and in this case, empower the individual." |
| Realty Reality - Great Place #1 - Zoom Yourself! |
| "We'll bet the first person you zoom with this will be --- you. While you're at it you can update your own summary -- just to keep the record straight!" |
| ISOM Weblog - I know everything about you |
| "Now THIS is a cool site." |
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TechCrunch ZoomInfo's Bryan Burdick talks to Erick Schonfeld at the TechCrunch MeetUp 11 in Boston. |
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Briefings Direct ZoomInfo's Russell Glass and Shore Communications' John Blossom on the semantic Web. |
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Total Picture Radio ZoomInfo's Bryan Burdick on the background of ZoomInfo. http://www.totalpicture.com |
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Briefings Direct ZoomInfo's Bryan Burdick and Forrester's Shar VanBoskirk on the future of search marketing. |
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Total Picture Radio Recruiting guru David Perry on using ZoomInfo PowerSearch to recruit. http://www.totalpicture.com http://www.guerrillajobhunting.typepad.com/ |
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Sky Radio ZoomInfo's Russell Glass on search for business and people. |