Your sales team should focus on building relationships, generating opportunities, and closing deals — not spending hours searching for company details, verifying contact information, or updating CRM databases.
Yet, manual prospect research remains a hidden productivity drain in many B2B organizations.
According to Salesforce’s State of Sales report, sales representatives spend around 14% of their weekly capacity on account and prospect research. This means valuable selling time is lost to repetitive administrative tasks.
The real cost of manual research
Consider a team of five account managers, each spending just three hours per week on basic data entry and prospect research. At an estimated employer cost of €65 per hour, this adds up to:
15 hours lost every week
€975 in weekly labor costs
€44,850 in annual costs (based on 46 working weeks)
And this calculation doesn’t even include the revenue opportunities lost while sales representatives are busy handling administrative work.
Why automation alone isn’t enough
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Prospecting software and commercial databases can provide large volumes of information, but they don’t always capture complex company structures, accurate decision-maker details, or recent organizational changes.
That’s why human validation remains essential. Combining automation with specialist expertise ensures more accurate, reliable, and actionable B2B prospect data.
A smarter way to organize your sales process
The key is to separate sales activities from back-office data operations.
Sales teams should define their ideal customer profiles and identify the right decision-makers. Back-office specialists should handle data collection, verification, enrichment, company research, and CRM updates.
This allows sales professionals to focus on what matters most: selling.
Turn lost hours into sales opportunities
Outsourcing repetitive web research and data management can help reduce operational costs, improve data quality, and increase your team’s selling capacity — without hiring additional account managers.
At DataMondial, we combine RPA technology with human expertise through a Human-in-the-Loop approach. As a Dutch company with nearshoring facilities in Romania, we provide secure, scalable, and EU-compliant back-office support, backed by ISO 27001 certification.
Let your sales team focus on closing deals while we take care of the data behind them.
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