How to Build an Agency Prospect List
Use ProfileSpider to build a prospect list of agencies from public directories, agency listings, search results, and partner pages. Extract the visible agencies, save them to a list, enrich missing details, and export to CSV, Excel, or JSON.
Goal
What This Workflow Is For
Build a focused prospect list of agencies that match your niche, then enrich and export it for outreach.
Use this workflow when you sell to agencies or want to partner with them, for example marketing agencies, design studios, recruiting agencies, dev shops, or consultancies in a specific city or niche. Agency directories and listings are high-intent because they group agencies by service, location, and specialism.
You can also use this workflow as an agency yourself, to build prospect lists of the clients or partners you want to reach.
The flow is: find public agency sources → extract the visible agencies → save rows to a list → qualify by niche and fit → enrich where useful → find emails per row where available → export CSV, Excel, or JSON.
Prerequisites
Before You Start
Confirm the page and tooling match this workflow.
You need:
- ProfileSpider installed in Chrome and signed in
- A clear agency target by service, niche, and location
- Public agency sources such as directories, listings, awards pages, partner pages, or search results
- A saved list name such as marketing-agencies-berlin, design-studios-uk, or shopify-partners
This workflow works best when the source shows repeated agencies with names, services, locations, and website links you can extract.
Fit
Best For / Not Ideal For
Set expectations before you install or run an extract.
Best for
- Agency directories and listing platforms
- Marketing, design, dev, and recruiting agency lists
- Platform partner and certified agency directories
- Awards, rankings, and best-of agency pages
- Search results for agencies in a niche or city
- Agency teams building their own client prospect lists
Not ideal for
- Directories behind a login you are not authorized to access
- PDFs, screenshots, or images of agency lists
- Pages that only show agency logos without names or links
- Pages where agencies only appear after complex interactions
- Single-agency pages with no repeated listings
Steps
Step-by-Step Workflow
- 1
Define your agency target
Decide which agencies you want: the service type, niche, client focus, location, and size. For example: B2B marketing agencies in DACH, Shopify development partners, or boutique design studios in London.
- 2
Find public agency sources
Open agency directories, platform partner directories, awards or ranking pages, niche listings, or search results that surface agencies matching your target.
- 3
Load the agencies in Chrome
Make sure the agency names, services, locations, and website links you want are visible. If the page uses filters, categories, or load-more buttons, prepare it first.
- 4
Run ProfileSpider on the source page
Click the ProfileSpider extension and run extraction. A normal page scrape uses 1 credit per page, regardless of how many agencies are found within your plan cap.
- 5
Save useful agencies to a prospect list
Save relevant rows to a new or existing list. Use tags such as the service, niche, location, or campaign to keep your prospect list organized.
Saving rows, adding tags, and adding notes do not use credits.
- 6
Qualify and enrich the agencies
Remove off-target agencies, add notes, and mark fit or priority. Use enrichment on rows with usable website or profile URLs to add detail or a named contact. Bulk enrichment uses 1 credit per eligible profile in that flow.
- 7
Find emails per row and export the list
For qualified agencies where email finding is appropriate and supported, run email finding per row. If no valid email is returned, there is no charge. Export the reviewed list to CSV, Excel, or JSON for outreach or CRM import.
Schema
What ProfileSpider Extracts
Default fields for this workflow. Add or remove columns before you extract.
- Agency NameThe agency or studio name shown in the listing.
- Service / NicheThe service type or specialism, such as marketing, design, development, or recruiting, when listed.
- WebsiteThe agency website linked from the source page, when available.
- Contact / FounderA named contact or founder when the source exposes one.
- LinkedIn URLA LinkedIn company or profile URL if the source links to one.
- EmailOnly filled when visible on the source page or when per-row email finding later returns a valid result.
- LocationCity, region, or country when present in the listing.
- Source URLThe directory or listing page the row came from, useful for verification and deduplication.
Output
Example Output
What a downloaded file looks like. Real exports are saved as .csv, .xlsx, or .json.
| Agency Name | Service / Niche | Website | Contact | Location | Fit | Source | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cartergrove Studio | Design & Branding | cartergrove.com | Aisha Carter | studio@cartergrove.com | Amsterdam, Netherlands | High | example-directory.com/design |
| Northwind Digital | B2B Marketing | northwind.io | James Patel | London, UK | Medium | example-directory.com/marketing | |
| Lumen Dev Shop | Shopify Development | lumendev.com | Maria Chen | hello@lumendev.com | Berlin, Germany | High | platform-partners.example/agencies |
Troubleshooting
Common Problems
The directory mixes many agency types
Filter by service or category before extracting, or save everything and tag by niche so you can isolate the agencies that fit your offer.
Listings show agencies but no contacts
Save the agency rows first, then enrich the website to add a named contact, or open the agency team page and extract decision-makers into the same list.
Emails are missing
Save the qualified agencies, then use per-row email finding where appropriate. If no valid email is returned, there is no charge.
The same agency appears in several directories
Review duplicates inside the saved list and keep the source URL column so you know where each agency came from.
The directory is paginated or filtered
Extract each page or filter and save each batch to the same list, then deduplicate before export.
Questions