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Nick Abouzeid

Slik - Get automated leads from a database of 70 million people 📊

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Slik is a platform that automates sales prospecting and lead generation. We've built a database of over 70 million people and created a simple way to filter through that database so that salespeople can save time and easily find leads that they want to reach out to.

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Stefan Stokic
Maker
Hi everyone! I'm Stefan, the co-founder of Slik, we're excited to be on Product Hunt today, and launching our latest product, an all-new way to automate prospecting and lead generation. We've built up a database of over 70 million people and created a a simple way to filter through that database so that salespeople can save time and automate their process of gathering leads and figuring out who to reach out to. Last year, we originally launched a Chrome extension that could find anyone's email address, but we realized that salespeople still had major issues with their workflow. So over the past few months, we've been focusing on creating our latest product, which solves a majority of the core issues we've seen salespeople have for prospecting. We collect all of our data without any human involvement, which allows us to have much higher accuracy than competitors(95% email accuracy compared to 50 - 60%), and be 1/3 of the cost. We're offering a 50 lead free trial, so would love for you to test it out & hear your feedback! Feel free to comments here, or email me stefan@slik.ai, if you have any questions or comments.
Seth Louey
@slik @stefanstok @soroushg_ Congrats on the hustle and hard work. Been watching this product grow from the initial concept.
Ravish
@slik @stefanstok I signed up for a trial and tried exporting 7 leads and it didn't have email addresses for 5 of them, but it deducted credits for all 7. Does it count records without emails against the credits in the premium account as well?
Phillip Yang
@slik @stefanstok congrats Stefan!!!
Ram Rayavarapu
@slik @stefanstok Congrats Stefan. I dont see the lead details after I create the list. Am I missing something?
Carla Daeninckx
@slik @stefanstok Nice work. My partner is a interior designer, would you recommend Silk.ai for generating local leads?
Sam Sexton
I'd be very cautious using any email leads like this outside of the US. While it doesn't breach CAN-SPAM, it does breach PECR, CASL, German law and the upcoming GDPR to name a few. My advice is never to send cold emails.
Steven Hambleton
@samsexton I think there's a distinction between selling and marketing here. If the data was collated from public sources and not from lists where the user gave permission for something else entirely then it should be fine. As long as it's transactional and not marketing. Adding these into a sales sequence and waiting for a reply is no different from researching yourself and emailing personally. *As long as all these emails are gathered from public sources.*
Kumar Thangudu
@samsexton Your advice is poorly positioned. Here's some evidence: http://bit.ly/viciousgrowth
Sam Sexton
@stinhambo unfortunately the law just isn't with you on this. The PECR regulations for instance, prohibit unsolicited mail to individuals and it makes special note that an individual is any one person. So public or not, that does not omit email senders from the law.
Sam Sexton
@datarade On the contrary I think good business ethics and following the law of the countries in which you send are very good bits of advice.
Kumar Thangudu
@stinhambo @samsexton How do you think LinkedIn grew massive? or SocialCam? etc... Your advice is okay, but not good for new companies in the USA.
Basil Farraj
Stefan, cool idea. But who are these people? how did you collect them?
Stefan Stokic
Maker
@basilfarraj Great question! We've spent the last few months perfecting our data gathering system, and it primarily focuses on people and their professional information. We index, crawl, and scrape the public web to gather this information, and then verify this data using data cleaning techniques and some machine learning. Some sources we use include social media sites, public directories, government filings, etc. We scrape hundreds of millions of sites a month to keep this data clean.
Basil Farraj
@stefanstok Thanks for the answer! Great work :-)
Danny Florian
@basilfarraj @stefanstok how often do you re-scrape the data...people move so just wondering
Soroush Ghodsi
Maker
@basilfarraj @stefanstok @dnyflorian Our data is updated every month, we've seen about 6-8% of data goes stale every month so it's really important that everything is done recently.
Ben Sauther
Soroush Ghodsi
Maker
Hey Makers! I'm Soroush, the co-founder of Slik. Thank you Nick for hunting us. We have a free trial of 50 credits if you signup at slik.ai. Would love to get feedback and I'll be on Product Hunt all day today answering questions, so ask away.
Angus
Is this legal to use? How can I email someone from my business, with what will basically be a sales pitch, when they have never opted into being contacted?
Soroush Ghodsi
Maker
@angus_halen You can send cold emails in the US and most other countries by following CAN-SPAM or respective guidelines. You just have to make sure you include a few things like a way to opt out of future emails, make sure the email is not misleading, etc. You can read more about it here - https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/...
Angus
@soroushg_ thanks for this info. Sounds pretty dodgy though. I'm not sure if you're aware of the new laws landing in Europe early next year.
Angus
@soroushg_ some info for anyone in the U.K. - cold emailing can lead to a minimum £5000 fine and as of march next year the fines are increasing to be absolutely astronomical: http://www.lawdonut.co.uk/busine...
Joshua Miller
Nice! It mentions on the home page '95%+ Email Accuracy'. Are users still charged for incorrect emails?
Stefan Stokic
Maker
@joshuajomiller Hey Joshua, we only charge users for emails that we find and are deliverable.
Joseph Ayoub
@joshuajomiller @stefanstok Hey Joshua. The product seems really cool, but I got 35 credits used (out of the free 50) and I have 7 emails once I upload this into my mailchimp account. Is there a way to just select those with emails ?
Joshua Miller
@stefanstok @joseph_ayoub Joseph, I recommend you asking your question to @stefanstok the maker. I am just an interested PH'er :) I Can't help you with you questions!
Rustin Rassoli
Love the product and the founders!
Gorkem Cetin
One question - is this 95% accuracy an overall percentage or do some of the categories listed there have higher/lower accuracies as well?
Soroush Ghodsi
Maker
@gorkemcetin There is certainly variance depending on the person and their employer's online presence. Generally, it should be over 90% for any industry though.
Rami Ghanem
Love the dedication and hard work of this team. Been following along since the beginning. Seriously a helpful tool and I'm glad others agree too. Good luck! 👍🏻🙏🏻
Stefan Stokic
Maker
@rghanem1 thanks Rami for all your help since the start🙏
Ranidu Lankage
Just tried this! Great product. Upvoted.
Stefan Stokic
Maker
@ranidu Thanks Ranidu! :) Appreciate it.
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