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Need your business email list in a spreadsheet? With one click, export your contact database to CSV for quick data extraction and seamless integration with your CRM or email marketing tools. No manual work required.
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SphereScout helps founders, agencies, and sales teams turn a target market into a clean prospecting file without manual directory research.
Target by market
Pick a business category and geography before you export, so every file starts with a clear prospecting segment.
CSV in one step
Preview matching companies, then export a spreadsheet your CRM or outreach tool can use.
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Browse company contact data across 46 countries and thousands of local business categories.
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Coverage
100M+ contacts across 46 countries
Fields
Company, location, website, phone, email when available
Sources
Structured from public business sources
Export
Preview results, then export CSV lists
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a prospecting file?
A prospecting file is a structured B2B dataset you can use to target and contact companies with consistent rules. It combines company and contact fields such as company name, industry, location, email, phone, and website so outreach can run without rebuilding data manually each time. A reliable file is segmented first, validated second, then exported to CSV or Excel for CRM and campaign tools. The most important checks are recency, completeness, and contact validity, because outdated or partial records increase bounce risk and wasted SDR effort. A practical workflow is simple: define audience criteria, filter by firmographics, verify contactability, then launch controlled outreach with tracking. When that process is followed, a prospecting file becomes a repeatable outbound asset rather than a one-off list.
How do I build an effective prospecting list?
Build an effective prospecting list by combining precise targeting with strict validation before scale. Start with a measurable ICP: sector, geography, company size, and role relevance. Collect records that match those filters, then remove duplicates, incomplete entries, and out-of-scope contacts. Validate the contactability layer next, especially email syntax, domain health, and role-company fit, since this is where many campaigns fail early. Before full rollout, run a controlled test batch and measure bounce rate, reply quality, and conversion signals. Use those results to tighten filters and scoring rules, then export to your CRM or sequencing tool. The key principle is that list performance usually comes from targeting accuracy plus verification discipline, not raw volume. Better hygiene upstream protects deliverability and prevents avoidable pipeline loss.
Can I get a free business email list?
Yes, free business email lists exist, but most free sources are inconsistent in freshness, structure, and verification quality. Public directories, scraped pages, and social platforms can provide useful signals, yet they often require significant manual cleaning before they are campaign-ready. Common issues include stale records, missing role context, inconsistent formatting, and higher bounce risk from unverified addresses. A practical approach is to treat free data as a starting sample, then apply strict filtering and validation before any outreach. At minimum, check email syntax, domain status, deduplication, and relevance to your target segment. If you want predictable outbound results, the main factor is not whether the data is free, but whether it is recent, structured, and validated enough to protect deliverability and sales productivity.
What is the difference between a prospecting file and an email list?
A prospecting file and an email list are related, but they are not the same operational asset. An email list usually contains only email addresses and minimal context, which supports basic email sends but limits segmentation and multi-channel follow-up. A prospecting file is broader: it includes structured company and contact fields such as industry, location, phone, website, and role clues that support outbound workflows across email, calling, and CRM qualification. Because it contains more context, a prospecting file can allow better prioritization, cleaner routing to teams, and stronger personalization logic. In practical terms, an email list is a narrow channel input, while a prospecting file is a full targeting and execution dataset. Teams that want reliable B2B pipeline usually need the second model, because channel flexibility and data depth drive better conversion decisions over time.
How much does a B2B contact database cost?
The cost of a B2B contact database often depends mainly on scope, data quality controls, and usage model rather than a single universal price point. Pricing typically varies by number of records, market coverage, targeting depth, and whether data is delivered as one-time exports or recurring access. Higher quality datasets generally include stronger validation workflows, cleaner structuring, and better freshness maintenance, which increase acquisition cost but reduce campaign waste. When evaluating price, compare cost per usable contact, not cost per raw record, because unusable rows create hidden spend in deliverability loss and SDR time. A practical buying method is to estimate expected conversion from a test sample, then scale only when response and bounce metrics are acceptable. In short, the right benchmark is economic efficiency per qualified outreach opportunity, not the cheapest nominal list price.
Should I buy or rent an email list?
Buying and renting email data serve different objectives, and the right choice often depends on reuse needs and campaign horizon. Renting usually means limited-time access for a specific send or short window, with tighter reuse restrictions and lower control over long-term workflow integration. Buying generally provides persistent ownership of the exported dataset, so teams can segment repeatedly, enrich internally, and combine it with CRM intelligence over time. If you run one-off outreach, rental can be sufficient. If you run recurring outbound programs, ownership often produces better economics because list preparation work can be reused across sequences and teams. The critical due-diligence point is contractual clarity on usage rights, retention limits, and compliance obligations. Strategically, buy when you need durable operating data, and rent only when campaign scope is short and clearly bounded.
Are your prospecting files GDPR compliant?
Prospecting files can be GDPR-compliant when they are built and used under a valid lawful basis, with transparent sourcing and enforceable rights handling. For B2B outreach, many operators rely on legitimate interest, but that requires necessity, proportionality, and a practical balancing test documented in process. Compliance is not just about source availability; it also often depends on purpose limitation, data minimization, retention controls, and clear objection handling. Operationally, teams should maintain evidence of source origin, processing purpose, and suppression logic for opt-outs so records are not reused after objection. Campaign execution should include identity disclosure and an effective unsubscribe path in every communication flow. In practice, GDPR-safe prospecting is a governance system, not a single checkbox, and quality operators treat legal controls as part of normal outbound operations. That standard materially can reduce regulatory and reputational risk.
How do I verify and clean an email list?
To verify and clean an email list, you need a repeatable QA process that removes invalid, risky, and low-relevance records before outreach starts. First, normalize format and deduplicate by email and company-contact combinations so duplicate sends do not damage reputation. Second, validate addresses at technical and domain levels, including syntax, DNS/domain readiness, and mailbox plausibility signals. Third, segment out role-mismatched or out-of-scope records that reduce reply quality even when technically deliverable. After each campaign wave, feed bounce and engagement outcomes back into suppression and scoring rules to improve future list quality. The most useful metric is not total rows cleaned, but the downstream impact on bounce rate, inbox placement, and qualified response rate. A clean list is therefore typically a maintained system, not a one-time preprocessing step. Ongoing maintenance is often what helps keep performance stable at scale.