“We keep approaching the same accounts.”
The pipeline is built on who you already know, not who you could be selling to.
The challenge
Most sales teams already hold valuable data. You know your customers, your past buyers and the accounts that went quiet. What's harder to see is everyone else: the organisations that fit your ideal customer profile but have never been approached.
That's where growth usually sits. Without a clear view of the wider market, prospecting falls back on familiar names, generic lists and guesswork about who to call next.
Sound familiar?
“We keep approaching the same accounts.”
The pipeline is built on who you already know, not who you could be selling to.
“We don't know how big our market really is.”
Without a defined total addressable market, it's hard to set targets or judge penetration.
“Our list doesn't reach the decision-maker.”
The organisation is right, but the contact isn't the person who buys.
“Our people are researching instead of selling.”
Hours go into finding names and email addresses rather than conversations.
None of this means your data is poor. It means your database and your market aren't the same thing.
What it is
Sales Prospect Intelligence is how we help your sales team decide where to focus. We define the market you want to sell into, compare it with the accounts you already hold and build the prospect data you're missing. Then we tell you which opportunities matter most.
The full set of organisations that match your ideal customer profile, by sector, organisation type, size and geography.
How much of that market your CRM or database already covers.
The organisations and buying roles you haven't reached yet.
A prioritised view of the accounts and contacts most worth your team's time.
Know who you're reaching.
Know who you're missing.
You don't get a spreadsheet and a goodbye. You get a quality-checked prospect audience, ready for your CRM, plus a clear explanation of what it means for your sales plan.
How it works
Tell us what you're trying to sell and who to. We'll handle the research, the data and the judgement calls.
A free consultation to understand your sales targets, your ideal customer profile and the buyers who matter. We turn that into a clear, agreed brief.
Using our Universe Map (Umap), we build your total addressable market from the organisation types, sectors and geographies you sell into.
We overlay your existing CRM or database to show your market penetration: who you already reach and who you don't.
Our researchers find the right organisations and the decision-makers inside them, validate contact details and categorise every record by sector, organisation type, job function and seniority.
We highlight the segments and accounts most worth pursuing first, so your team knows where to start.
You receive a clean, structured prospect file formatted for your CRM, with a short summary of what we found and what we recommend.
What you get
Every project is bespoke, but most deliver a combination of the following.
Your total addressable market, broken down by sector, organisation type, size and geography.
How much of that market you already reach, and where the biggest gaps are.
Organisations and decision-makers built to your brief, not pulled from a generic list.
Contacts categorised by job function and seniority, so outreach reaches the people who buy.
The accounts and segments most worth your team's time, ranked against your goals.
Validated, structured records your team can import and use straight away.
Less time researching, more time selling, and a pipeline built on the market rather than on memory.
Who it's for
Our specialism
Find the exhibitors and sponsors you haven't approached yet. Map the companies active in your sector, see which ones already exhibit and give your sales team a prioritised list of new targets well ahead of the event.
Clear audience intelligence also strengthens the exhibitor pitch itself: you can show who your audience reaches.
Identify eligible organisations that aren't members yet and reach the people who make the joining decision.
Grow advertiser and sponsor pipelines, and show commercial partners the quality of the buying audience you reach.
Give your clients a defined target market and validated prospect data, delivered by us behind your service.
Understand how big the opportunity is and who's in it before you commit sales resource.
Typical roles we work with
Why The Data Business
Technology-powered. Human-led. Bespoke. Accountable.
We don't sell access to a generic contact database or a bank of credits. We start from the market you want to win and build the prospect data around it.
Prospecting platforms can be a useful part of your stack, but someone still has to decide who to target, judge the quality of the results and act on them. We take responsibility for those decisions and hand you a finished, quality-checked output.
We use AI and automation for speed and scale. Experienced researchers check the results, fill the gaps and catch what technology misses.
We've worked for years with event organisers, publishers and associations, so we understand how exhibitor, sponsor and member pipelines work.
Every project has a dedicated account manager and research team. You pay for the data you receive, with no subscription.
We've used The Data Business for several years for bespoke list builds and reverification. Not only do we get great engagement rates from the data, but Chris and the team are always very helpful and diligent. They have a good understanding of the industries we operate in, meaning that we can give them very detailed briefs, which they deliver to the exact specifications we ask for.
FAQs
It's the work of defining your target market, comparing it with the accounts you already hold and building data on the organisations and decision-makers you're missing. The result is a prioritised view of who your sales team should approach next.
A list or database gives you access to existing records. We start with your goal, build the audience around your brief, check its quality and explain what it means for your sales plan. You get a finished output rather than a tool to manage.
We agree the organisation types, sectors, sizes and geographies that fit your ideal customer profile. We then use our Universe Map (Umap) to build that market and overlay your existing data to show coverage and gaps.
Yes. We research the relevant people inside each target organisation and categorise them by job function and seniority, so your outreach reaches the people who make buying decisions.
Yes. We deliver structured, validated records formatted for import into your CRM or sales platform.
Yes. This is one of the most common uses. We map the companies active in your event's sector, show which ones already exhibit or sponsor and build a prioritised list of new targets for your sales team.
It depends on the size and complexity of your market. We'll give you a clear timeline once we've agreed the brief.
We work with you to confirm the sources and lawful basis for every project.
Tell us what you're trying to sell and who to. We'll show you the size of your market, how much of it you already reach and where your best opportunities are. No obligation, just a useful conversation.
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