Showing posts with label lead generation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lead generation. Show all posts

Friday, January 29, 2010

Client List Automation


Most of us know that building client lists can be tedious and time consuming. Today I found myself going over a member directory wondering if I should use copy-paste to import contact information into Outlook, or create a webbot that would automate part of the task. I read "Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers" by Michael Schrenk a long time ago, but had never build a webbot until today, simply because I had no use for them. Using the LIB_parse and LIB_http libraries I wrote a simple script which did most of the work for me. After all this time I had found an application for things to do with a webbot.