How to create targeted marketing data, create mailing lists and do thorough research using our CD-ROMs.
Our CD-ROMs come at no additional charge to purchasers of our full-version almanacs.
For additional information, see “How to Install the CD-ROM”, “How to Use the CD-ROM and "End-User Agreement.”
These CD-ROMs contain the full database of companies profiled in the almanac that you have purchased. For example, if you buy Plunkett’s Health Care Industry Almanac, you will find our superb, one-page profiles of each of the Health Care 500 Companies to be part of your book. You will greatly enjoy studying these firms in your book, and you will find extensive indexes to them.
However, we go one step further to give you data. We also provide you with a CD-ROM version of that company profile database. If you purchase a printed version of an almanac, the CD-ROM comes inside the front cover of the book. If you purchase an eBook version, you may request that your CD-ROM be mailed to you by filling out a simple form in the front of the book and faxing it to us.
Here are just a few of the ways you can use the CD-ROM to do marketing, research and analysis, and to create mailing lists and Excel spreadsheets of company data:
- You can view in page form each of the companies profiled in the almanac.
- You can sort the companies by annual sales; city, state or country; foreign, private, public or subsidiary; or primary line of business through industry sector codes.
- You can filter the companies to find only those firms that you want. For example, you can filter out only companies headquartered in a particular state (such as only those in California). You can also filter out companies that meet multiple criteria, based on your choices of industry type, location and annual sales.
- You can export portions of your selected data to either Microsoft Excel files or plain text files. You will be enabled to export company name, address, phone, fax and website. You will also be able to export the names of all of the executives, by title, that we have in the database.
- You can use your exported files for mail merge and other marketing uses. You can also import them into many types of contact management software, such as ACT.
You’ll find our CD-ROMs to be a tremendous advantage when doing research, job seeking or marketing, and you receive them at no additional charge with the purchase of one of our full almanacs.