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Gist: Where Your Inbox Meets the Web

October 14th, 2008 (8:00am) Scott Blitstein 1 Comment

No one questions just how important the process of gathering business intelligence is. Knowing about the folks you are working with, or selling to, is always a key component to good relationship building.  Those who do it well can have a considerable competitive advantage.

With the proliferation of distribution channels and the sheer abundance of information available though, this process is getting more difficult.  We’ve discussed some helpful tools in the past and there are companies that will charge you a small fortune for their research, but a recent launch by Seattle based Gist aims to make compiling and reviewing relevant information about your contacts  a whole lot easier.

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