- Hey everyone.
My name is Larry Snow and in this video
I'm gonna be showing you a relatively new Chrome extension
for your Gmail called Connect.
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Now why would you want to install this extension?
Well let's say you get an email from a person
you don't know and you want to verify that person.
Connect will offer you the opportunity to see
who that person is.
Avatar, social networks, company name, website URL,
how many people work at that company, and more information.
Let's say you're in services or sales,
or offering a product, using Connect will offer you
the ability to drill down in a particular company
to find the people that you need to contact,
whether it's HR, recruiting or the sales department.
Let's take a look at Connect.
The first thing you wanna do is install the extension.
In order to do that you have to go to the domain name
connect.clearbit.com,
and click the blue button Install Chrome Extension.
After you click the blue button,
you'll see it installed here on the far right side
up in the corner where all of your extensions now are
in Chrome, you'll see a grayed C,
a white C in a gray background,
and that way you know it is installed successfully.
Let's take a look at the extension in my Gmail.
When you first install the extension,
you'll get an email from the Connect team.
They're letting you know that, hey welcome,
and here's what you need to know.
One of the things you need to know is
this is a give and get relationship.
You're giving up some of your data
to be associated with Connect.
You're giving up some of your Gmail
and some of your Google data,
and we'll tell you up front when you make that connection,
and in return, you get access to the Connect data sources.
That's a little caveat there just so that you know
what's going on with your data.
The major piece that Connect gives you
is this information over here in the far right side
of each email that you open.
It'll try to find the company name of the person
sending it to you.
It'll try to find information on that person.
It'll try to find information on the domain name
associated with that email.
In this case it is from Clearbit,
so you have information on Alex McCaw,
the person who sent it, his website address,
his social connection, where he's located
and the company Clearbit, Clearbit's information,
Clearbit's social and address,
and this is a great way for those opportunities
and connections to happen, it's name Connect.
The other thing that Connect does,
and this is where the data premium model comes from,
is the opportunity to actually connect with the company.
You could go in here, find an email.
I've done some searching already.
For this demo I will use AS Solution,
but for you, you would type in any name in here,
let's say Security.
You don't really have to know the company
right off the bat.
Again a great way to connect with service providers,
and sales teams, but just getting back to my list
that I've already checked, I'll go into AS Solution.
If you don't see the name listed there,
you can also just search for that name
and see if it pops up.
Here's Christian West.
You can find Christian's email right here,
and also here, location, the company URL,
and social networks.
Now you notice this little flag down here.
With connect, you can have the ability to say,
you know what that person doesn't work here.
The information you have for this person is not valid,
and you have the opportunity to make an update,
and send it to the Connect team.
They'll verify the information with their data,
and if necessary update it with what your suggestions were.
That's a nice little feature.
That's it for Connect,
a useful tool for services, products, sales teams
trying to connect with each other.
Just even a great peer to peer,
finding like minded individuals type of thing,
a great way to find recruiters and HR people
from larger companies, and make those connections happen.
Give Connect a try.
Let me know what you think.
Post your comments below.
Love to hear from ya,
and I'll see you in the next video.