Copying from directory pages when you sell to driving schools
Are you still copying company names from a web page one by one? Here is how people who sell to driving schools fix it.
Are you still copying company names from a web page one by one?
A directory or member list shows exactly the companies you want, but there is no export button. Copying every name, website and phone number by hand takes forever.
It hits harder when you sell to driving schools. Driving schools are mostly independent instructors plus a smaller number of schools with several instructors under one brand. Instructors spend their day in the car, so they want simple booking, payments and steady enquiries without extra admin.
Useful lists stay on the page because turning them into rows is too much work. Manual copying also introduces errors.
Paste a page, get rows.
With paste and collect you paste the HTML of a page you opened yourself into Riftjaw. You pick the repeating blocks, turn them into rows and send them to import. Riftjaw does not crawl the web; you supply the page.
- Fields that fit driving schools, such as independent or school
- Email prefixes that fit, like info@, bookings@, hello@ and lessons@
- Status, tags and a segment on every record
How to fix it in Riftjaw
- Paste the HTML. Copy the source of the page you opened and paste it in.
- Pick the blocks. Select the repeating block that holds one company.
- Send to import. Turn the blocks into rows and map them like any other file.
Other walls when prospecting driving schools
Many instructors trade under their own name with no company name.
Placeholders with fallbacks, such as {company|your driving school}, keep the mail natural when a field is empty.
Instructors and schools with many instructors sit on the same list.
Add an Independent or school field and save a separate filter for each.
Instructors cannot reply during lessons and forget your message.
Statuses and tags show who has not replied, so a short, polite follow-up goes only to them.
Fields worth recording for driving schools
Record these and you can split the list later, write sharper mails and see who fits your offer.
| Field | Why it helps |
|---|---|
| Company name | The key field. Duplicates are checked on it or on the website. |
| Website | Needed to derive an email when the export has none. |
| Independent or school | A single instructor and a multi instructor school buy differently. |
| Manual or automatic | Tells you what kind of car and training they offer. |
| Online booking | Shows whether they already take bookings on their site. |
| Areas covered | Instructors work in specific towns and test centre areas. |
Questions people ask
Keep them in your lead file with the phone number and a tag. Email from domain only works where a website is known, and those addresses are guesses.
Yes. Add a Manual or automatic field, fill it from their listings and save a filter on it.
If your file has an email column, that wins. If it only has websites, tick the prefixes you want, such as info@, bookings@, hello@ and lessons@, and Riftjaw derives addresses from each domain. Derived addresses are good guesses, not verified, so start with small batches.
Yes. The Free plan runs the whole pipeline on one list with small campaigns, and you do not need a credit card. Move to Pro when you want more lists, segments and bigger campaigns.
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