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Friday, June 20, 2008

Sourcing prospects from local events

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Shally Steckerl (1969)

Local events are a fantastic source of leads for prospects in fields where there is otherwise little online footprint. For example, in fields such as Accounting, Finance, Nursing, Law and Medical, among others, you may find individuals who occasionally blog or participate in online communities, but such individuals are not as plentiful as in other industry sectors.

 

Many continuing education companies employ local experts to teach recertification courses. These courses can be found online but frequently behind dynamically generated content which makes it “deep web” content not picked up buy regular search engines. However, the content of those sites can be easily found with just a little bit of digging around.

 

Take, for example, Tax Accountants. Lorman.com is offering 98 local training events over the next three months in just about every state in the US and province in Canada. If you are looking for someone in Sales & Use Tax in Arizona, look no further than here: http://www.lorman.com/seminars/seminar_faculty.php?pid=186496&tid=&sid=. Each course lists a bio on the faculty presenting the course, and there are hundreds of people listed in these bios. Simply find the topic or city of interest, and look up the faculty.   

 

Lorman.com teaches other course as well, in areas such as:   Employment & Labor, Workers Compensation, Payroll, Benefits, Constructions, Environmental Services, Water Law, Public Works, Land Development, HV AC, Medical Records, Nursing, Insurance, Banking, Collections, Sales, Manufacturing, and a few others.

 

If instead you seek Financial Attorneys specializing in Probate Law, check out this event

http://www.nbi-sems.com/seminfo/nbi-moreinfo.asp?session-id=46101 and look at this faculty http://www.nbi-sems.com/seminfo/nbi-EvtBio.asp. Or maybe you are looking for Nurses? http://www.crosscountryeducation.com/cce/conferences/bootcamp/faculty.jsp. Or say you work for a Children’s Hospital and need Coders: http://www.codingconferences.com/pediatric08s.htm or Speech Pathologists like Julianne http://www.audioeducator.com/industry_conference.php?id=1009.

 

Yeah, it is just that easy.  

 

Oh and sometimes you find not just the instructors but also participants, particularly when the training company publishes “testimonials” such as the dozens found on this HV AC training company’s page: http://www.americantrainco.com/about_Company.aspx.

 

 

Cheers,

Shally 

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Nice examples, but we would've preferred the "how"
posted 6/22/2008 at 11:20 a.m. PT by Glenn Gutmacher

This method indeed seems like a great way to uncover people profiles in areas where relevant talent is less likely to have online footprints, Shally. What I think your many readers would have liked even more, however, were some template search strings that you would have used to first generate the results that included lorman.com, nbi-sems.com, etc., pages that led you to share the example sites you chose for this post. Will any of those strings be among what you show in your webinar this week? If so, I think you'll see a lot of last-minute signups!


"Deep web" but "how"?
posted 6/22/2008 at 12:40 p.m. PT by Srinivas Gundelli

As Glenn mentioned in his comment..Good examples to find people from the non-searchable community, but as a recruiter and internet sourcer I would also like to know the "how" part of you examples, shally. I would like to know how to go about searching the resources or the urls/ websites you generated in the examples. How would I dive deep down in the non-searchable pages where the search engine robots won't crawl for the results?
I am happy to sign up for the webinar on Wed 25th, hope we could learn some extreme deep web techniques in the web searches.
Thanks for this post !



You can't search dynamic pages from Google
posted 6/23/2008 at 9:37 a.m. PT by Shally Steckerl

Well its going to depend on the training provider but for example with Lorman.com just use:

site:lorman.com inurl:seminar_faculty

And you are off to the races. Add something simple like Tax:

site:lorman.com inurl:seminar_faculty tax

And you get this: http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&safe=active&client=opera&rls=en&hs=06o&q=site%3Alorman.com+inurl%3Aseminar_faculty+tax&btnG=Search

Or even better add a company name like RSM McGladrey and you get these six names:

http://www.google.com/search?q=site:lorman.com+inurl:seminar_faculty+RSM.McGladrey&num=100&hl=en&safe=active&client=opera&rls=en&hs=Jn9&filter=0





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