> Your data stays with you: It is scary enough to hand over your company’s most precious data - your customer database - to a large company with all the data break-ins today. But with a start-up, the risks magnify, as there is the added worry that the start-up will fail, or will be acquired. What happens to your data then?
> We never ask our customers to provide us with their data. We ask our customers for descriptions of their products and descriptions of their customer’s pain points. That information is enough to provide a continuous stream of targeted leads to our customers.
Considering that the "data" being collected & sold by Compile doesn't belong to its "customers", where is the question of trust? Also, why would any customers who are buying leads from you ever share their customer data with you?
I am the author of the post. The actual intention of my comment was that some companies ask their Customers for their Customer List, such that they can mine that data. At Compile, we do NOT look at our Customer's Customer Lists. We find the right information that our Customer can immediately use, and provide it to them. So we never ask our Customer to share their Customer data as you so rightly suggest.
> Your data stays with you: It is scary enough to hand over your company’s most precious data - your customer database - to a large company with all the data break-ins today. But with a start-up, the risks magnify, as there is the added worry that the start-up will fail, or will be acquired. What happens to your data then?
> We never ask our customers to provide us with their data. We ask our customers for descriptions of their products and descriptions of their customer’s pain points. That information is enough to provide a continuous stream of targeted leads to our customers.
Considering that the "data" being collected & sold by Compile doesn't belong to its "customers", where is the question of trust? Also, why would any customers who are buying leads from you ever share their customer data with you?
Or maybe I'm missing something here?
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