I did, likely, a full day of research, into and with AroundDeal.
I want to point out a couple of things. I am in no way in love with AroundDeal. I think that this is one of the most poorly written, almost purposely cryptic deal pages I have ever seen.
However, Avery has been pretty responsive to the criticisms, and the offer has been improved.
There are some low taco ratings from early on, some referring to issues that have been fixed.
In fairness, I asked the AppSumo team to review and possibly remove these reviews, which are no longer relevant, but they declined.
The other point - Anyone who puts up $59 gets to vote. Not all these people are well-informed, some even ignorant, and some are just tightwads.
As it stands, I am going to have HubSpot integration, and the ability to export 500 leads at a time, up to 1000 a month, since Tier 4 grants the Ultimate upgrade, and to manually export up to 17000 contacts a month, I guess, via cut and paste. It took a lot of reading questions and reviews to piece this together...for around $200 a year.
...about 1% of what ZoomInfo wanted for a year. We were enough in shock that we never did ask for a formal quote, but we got the "end of quarter pricing flexibility" pitch (March 2024), which actually felt kinda used car saleman-ish.
Now, in my research, I found people listed in AroundDeal as working for Wynn Resorts in Las Vegas as Buyers, who had not been there for 14 years and had 4 subsequent jobs on their LinkedIn profile, like this person, https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-ayala-74885752/ - who has since disappeared from AroundDeal, mysteriously, which is an improvement over bad information.
I also cross referenced employee counts for a company called Ramaker, where HubSpot reported 250, Around deal 50-200, and Data Axle, which is kind of a gold standard for being phone verified at least once a year, had 63 at the two US locations. But the company is international, so we can't be sure, but AroundDeal seems to be closer.
There is a company, in Tennessee, a lapsed client of ours, for which AroundDeal had about a dozen people, and Data Axle had no record at all of this company's existence....and I found out that our former contact had had a name change, as well as personal email and phone numbers.
From a pure research perspective, I was able to do some quick analysis of our target market by job title with a wildcard *, Company Industry, and Skills (pretty clearly from LinkedIn), which allowed me to see that up to 2/3 of our targets by industry did not list any of the 3 principal CAD packages, which pretty drastically changes how we think about our market-specifically that there would seem to be an education-driven approach to win the market. That would not have been possible without AroundDeal.
My current thinking is that I am willing to bet on AroundDeal, especially as I see them better sometimes than the industry standards, and around 1% of the price, and improving. I find Avery extremely responsive to all issues.
If they only served as a LinkedIn scraper, it would be a good value, especially with HubSpot integration, but the research I was able to do makes this one a pure slam dunk.