Duplicate contacts when you sell to electricians
How many companies appear in your list twice? Here is how people who sell to electricians fix it.
How many companies appear in your list twice?
When you combine lists from several sources, the same company shows up more than once with slightly different details. Cleaning that up by hand is slow.
It hits harder when you sell to electricians. Electrical contractors range from one person domestic firms to commercial contractors with site teams and estimators. Small firms buy through the owner, while larger ones often have an office manager or contracts manager who handles suppliers and software.
Duplicates mean double emails, confused statuses and a list that looks bigger than it is. They make your outreach look sloppy.
Duplicates flagged before they enter your database.
Every lead file has a key field that Riftjaw uses to spot duplicates. On import, duplicates inside the file and against your existing database are flagged before anything is pushed. You decide what goes in.
- Fields that fit electricians, such as domestic or commercial
- Email prefixes that fit, like info@, office@, admin@ and enquiries@
- Status, tags and a segment on every record
The fix, step by step
- Pick a key field. Choose the field that identifies a company, such as website or email.
- Import the list. Riftjaw checks the file and your database for matches.
- Review the flags. Skip the duplicates and publish only new records.
Other walls when prospecting electricians
Domestic and commercial electricians sit in the same directory lists, so one message rarely fits both.
Add a Domestic or commercial field, fill it during import and save a filter for each so every campaign stays relevant.
Lists from certification registers and directories overlap heavily.
Riftjaw checks each import against your lead file and flags duplicates before you publish, so the same firm is not mailed twice.
You lose track of which contractors already had a sample or a demo.
Every contact keeps notes, tags and a history of each mail, open and click, so the next person on your team sees what happened.
Fields worth recording for electricians
Any column in your import can become a field. These are the ones worth keeping for electricians.
| 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. |
| Domestic or commercial | The type of work decides which products and messages are relevant. |
| EV charger work | Firms that fit car chargers are a clear audience for charger brands and suppliers. |
| Certification scheme | Membership of a scheme hints at size and at the paperwork they deal with. |
| Service area | Lets you plan outreach by region or by branch territory. |
| Decision maker | Note whether you deal with the owner or an office manager. |
Questions people ask
Common sources are map listings, trade directories and the public registers of certification schemes. You collect the list yourself, for example with a scraper export or the paste and collect tool, and import it into Riftjaw.
Yes, if the information is on their listing or website. Record it in a field or a tag and save a filter on it, which you can then use as the audience of a campaign.
If your file has an email column, that wins. If it only has websites, tick the prefixes you want, such as info@, office@, admin@ and enquiries@, 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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