We have bought local business regional data for less than $1,000 that was as accurate as the data from iBegin.

I imagine if we had tried to buy the entire state’s data (unnecessary as mentioned in the post above) it would cost substantially more than $1,000 USD so I don’t contest what you’re saying but I think there’s a niche there you folks could be missing out on. Small business marketers working regions don’t need the entire state or all of USA data. You might want to consider that by offering plans by zip codes and/or regions, if that’s not already on the drawing board anyway.

A call center will definitely be necessary. Could be annoying if you are having to repeatedly call businesses to verify information that some miscreant or spammer is changing. Hopefully that doesn’t happen. That will eat into patience and profit margins

Best of luck with your business. Let me know how it’s coming along in six months

A few things I wanted to address:

1. Sorry about that error you saw. It is now fixed.
2. Can you tell me (here or via email) what your company’s name is? Search takes 24 hours to generate, so it could have been a hole (or a mistake on our end)
3. All edits are manually checked up and verified. We have been extremely busy this week with the rollout, but the calls will begin starting next week (already 42 updates). The idea of the Wiki is simply to make it easy to update, but we will be actively checking every single one.
4. The pricing, even at $1000, is a lot cheaper. No one else will even look at you even in the five digit range (upto $99k).
5. Yes data accuracy is a big headache. It will take time, but the combination of user-edits + other data sources we are amalgamating (such as CRM data) should greatly increase the accuracy.

Hopefully in six months we can take a look back and see how far it has come.