Glossary

Firmographics

Company-level attributes used for targeting: industry, employee count, revenue, location and structure.

Firmographics are the backbone of B2B targeting. They decide which companies belong in a list before any person-level filtering happens.

Employee count is the most abused field. Ranges are estimated, often from profile data, and a company listed at forty staff may have twelve. Treat bands as approximate and widen them slightly rather than chasing false precision.

Industry classifications are similarly loose. Keyword screening on what a company actually says it does is usually more reliable than a category code.

How we handle it

Targeting combines industry, size and geography with keyword screening on the company description, so the list matches what a company does rather than how it was classified.

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