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Hunter

Put live web data in Hunter: the agencies hiring their first salespeople, the clinics rated 4.5 or better in your territory, the companies that raised money this week. Each record that published an email arrives as a lead in the leads list you choose, with its fields filled.

What you need

  • A SpecStream account. Starting is free: new accounts get $10 of credit, no card.
  • A Hunter account and its API key.
  • Results from a finished request. An imported file needs its matches found first.

  1. 1. Connect Hunter

    In Hunter, open your account menu, then API, and copy your API key. In SpecStream, open Connections, choose Hunter, paste the key and click Connect Hunter.

    SpecStream reads and writes leads, and reads your leads lists and the names of your custom attributes. It never starts a sequence, sends an email, or runs a search or a verification. The key is stored encrypted.

  2. 2. Choose where leads go

    Pick the leads list the records join. Decide what happens when Hunter already has a lead: fill it in and update it, or leave it as it is. Then pick the collection the records come from and select the ones to send.

  3. 3. Match the fields

    Choose the Hunter field for each detail: position, company, industry, company size, website, country, LinkedIn, phone number, Twitter and notes, and the custom attributes your team made, by their names. Fields you don't map aren't sent.

    A person arrives with a first and last name. A shared address, such as an info@ address, arrives with its company. Map Why it matches, with sources to notes or to a custom attribute, and every reason stays on the lead with its page. If you don't map it, a new lead carries the reasons in its notes.

  4. 4. Review and send

    Review shows exactly how the first record arrives in Hunter. Send the records, and turn on Keep sending to send the collection's new and changed records to the same list with the same mapping, including what a monitor finds on its schedule.

    Once Hunter is connected, send from any collection too: select results, open Export and choose Hunter under Send to.

Matching

Every lead needs an email the record published. SpecStream never guesses one, and a record without one is skipped. Before it creates anything, SpecStream looks for a lead with that email in Hunter. A match is updated or left alone, as you chose, and only the values that differ are written: a name, a company and notes you gave the lead stay. A lead you already have joins the chosen list and stays in its other lists. If a write times out, SpecStream checks what arrived instead of writing it again.

Leads only

SpecStream never adds anyone to a sequence and never sends an email. Each new lead has SpecStream as its source in Hunter.

Cost

Sending results to Hunter costs nothing on SpecStream's side, and saving a lead runs no search and no verification in Hunter. Requests are paid from your SpecStream balance, per result that matches, and each one shows the most it can cost before it starts. See balance, quotes and billing.

Disconnect

Disconnect from Connections in SpecStream, which deletes the stored key. You can also create a new API key in Hunter and delete the old one. Leads already in Hunter stay there. The other tools SpecStream connects to are in Connect your tools; for help, email [email protected].