I want to thank my friend Jeremy Shoemaker for letting his readers know about LeadFerret, and sporting the LeadFerret threads on “Free Shirt Friday”: http://www.shoemoney.com/2012/05/18/free-shirt-friday-lead-ferret

If you have any interest in Internet marketing, affiliate marketing, etc., Jeremy’s blog is where you want to start: http://www.shoemoney.com

Forest Cassidy – Co-Founder

A special thanks to Wendy Weiss, The Queen of Cold Calling, for her recent recommendation of LeadFerret.

Go to the link below and scroll to the bottom of her newsletter to see her write up on LeadFerret:

https://wendyweiss.infusionsoft.com/app/hostedEmail/10626941/cd1eed6923dd05b1

Here is what she says:

We want to thank the hundreds of people who showed up for this past Tuesday’s Webinar featuring LeadFerret and SalesNexus.  We were happy to see many of our users there along with many new “faces”, most of whom have now become users as well.

If you were not able to attend the Webinar, or you just want to see it again, you can view the recorded version at:

http://www.salesnexus.com/webinars/high-tech-prospecting-for-b2b-sales-pros/

Renowned sales author Steve W. Martin writes about LeadFerret in his Heavy Hitters Sales Blog:

http://heavyhittersales.typepad.com/heavy_hitter_sales_sales_/2012/05/game-changer-provides-free-b2b-contact-data.html

It’s nice when you’re working to change the game and someone like Steve takes notice.

The Heavy Hitter himself, Steve W. Martin

Register here: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/455783098

Date: Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Time: 4 PM – 5 PM ET / 1 PM – 2 PM PT

We’ll be showing you how to utilize some of today’s most cutting edge tools and resources to maximize the returns from your time spent prospecting. This will not be a high-level, conceptual debate. We’ll get right down into the details and show you real tactics that you can put to use immediately.

In this Webinar we will show you how to:

1) Quickly search for your ideal prospects.
2) Download your prospects’ information including phone, email and much more.
3) Reach out to hundreds of prospects with emails that pre-qualify prospects.
4) Focus valuable sales time on closing high value, pre-qualified prospects.

Thanks to a partnership between LeadFerret.com and SalesNexus.com this completely new way to prospect is now a reality! We look forward to showing you the exact steps that you can use to execute your next campaign in under 15 minutes.

We hope you’ll be able to join us, but even if you can’t attend, sign up anyway and we will send you the slides and on-demand recording and a free bonus!

LeadFerret Co-Founder Forest Cassidy was selected to participate in the Tech Coast Angels Fast Pitch competition Tuesday, April 24th.

There were over 170 applicants, making it a real honor to have been selected as one of the final 10 startups to pitch live at this event.

See the video of Forest Cassidy pitching at the event in front of an audience of 600+ at: http://vimeo.com/41233457

Videos for all contestants can be found at: https://vimeo.com/techcoastangels/videos/

Congratulations to “3 Day Rule”, who won top honors, and “Fanzooloo” who won best presentation.

A special thanks to all the event sponsors, organizers, and judges for giving us this opportunity.  Especially, Steven Sarfati and Laurelle Johnson for all their help.

Event details: http://www.pitchtheangels.com/pp/event/ct/event/eventid/19

We have just introduced 2 new ways to earn more points, which will allow you to download more free data, and they are extremely simple.

All the details can be found at: http://www.leadferret.com/how_to_earn_points.php (scroll down to #11 and #12)

And here is a quick summary:

11) Earn 100 or more points EACH MONTH when you add a link to LeadFerret.com to you site. If you feel your site’s traffic and/or audience relevance warrants more than 100 points per month, email us at points@leadferret.com and we will review your site and get back to you.  Go to http://www.leadferret.com/how_to_earn_points.php to get the simple code to plug into your site.

Here’s an example:

12) Earn 100 or more points when you add a post about LeadFerret to your blog. It’s that simple.  Just tell your blog readers how much you love LeadFerret, provide a link to http://www.LeadFerret.com, email us at points@leadferret.com.

If you feel your blog’s traffic and/or subscriber base and/or audience relevance warrants more points, email us at points@leadferret.com and we will review your blog and get back to you.

So, in summary, we hope you love LeadFerret, and we want to reward you once again for helping to spread the word.

Let us know if you have any questions.

Continuing our quest to reach 20 million complete business contacts by the end of 2012, we have added over 1 million new records, bringing the total database size to an excess of 5 million.

Get the full story at:

http://news.yahoo.com/leadferret-adds-over-1-million-b2b-contacts-now-140407159.html

Or here:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2012/04/10/prweb9386488.DTL#ixzz1rerTI9J8

Or here:

LeadFerret Adds Over 1 Million New B2B Contacts, Now Totaling Over 5 Million!

LeadFerret, the world’s first 100% free B2B database with complete information, including email addresses and social media links, has added 1 million new B2B contacts, bringing their total database to over 5 million records.

Calabasas, CA (PRWEB) April 10, 2012

Continuing their quest to reach 20 million complete business contacts by the end of 2012, LeadFerret has added over 1 million new records, bringing the total database size to an excess of 5 million.

LeadFerret is widely know as the first site to offer complete information for business contacts, including email addresses, absolutely free of charge. LeadFerret.com was built on the idea that if you give people better quality data, more complete data, and better search tools, all for free they would be crazy to go anywhere else and pay for data. If LeadFerret is able to reach the 20 million record mark by the end of 2012, they will also have a data set that rivals the largest pay-per-record and subscription based services.

“Free data, better data, more complete data, and soon more of it. That’s our objective.” explains Forest Cassidy, Co-Founder of LeadFerret.com.

It seems that LeadFerret is making a move to change the way people source data, which makes one wonder what the business information industry will look like in years to come.

About LeadFerret
LeadFerret, Inc offers a free online B2B database with complete data for millions of business contacts. It’s 100% free, no gimmicks, no subscriptions, no need to upload your contacts to get contacts, etc., and every record is complete, including email address. LeadFerret.com was launched in BETA version on August 11th, 2011, and has seen rapid growth in a very short period of time. For more information, go to: http://www.LeadFerret.com

We have entered LeadFerret in the “Vator Splash LA (June 2012)” competition.

To get to the live event, we need to get votes.

We get votes when people follow the link below, log in with their facebook account, and click on the “vote” button next to LeadFerret.

http://vator.tv/o/8b/2dba

So, we would appreciate it if all LeadFerret users voted for us.

Here is a link with details on the event: http://vator.tv/competition/vator-splash-la-june-2012