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Top 5 Questions Buyers Ask About Web Scraping Services (And My Honest Answers)
After 20+ years in this industry, I’ve heard every possible question from procurement teams, pricing managers and CIOs who are trying to figure out if managed web scraping services are the right fit for their business.


How Ficstar Deliver Competitor Pricing Intelligence That Enterprise Clients Can Trust
At Ficstar, we've built our reputation on delivering competitor pricing intelligence that enterprise clients can rely on, and there's a reason why companies choose our fully managed scraping approach over off-the-shelf datasets time and time again.


How to Use Competitor Pricing Data to Set Pricing Rates in Real Estate
Leveraging Competitor Listing Data for Real Estate Pricing Strategy Real estate businesses today can gain a competitive edge by analyzing...


What Clean Data Means in Enterprise Web Scraping?
Here's How Ficstar Delivers It When people talk about clean data in enterprise web scraping, they often mean “error-free” or “formatted...


Web Scraping Trends for 2026: What Enterprise Leaders Need to Know
Enterprise web scraping in 2026 faces tariff shocks, inflation, and AI cat-and-mouse tactics. Discover trends shaping data pipelines and pricing intelligence.


Why Enterprise Web Scraping Services Win Over Off-the-Shelf Tools
Enterprise web scraping at scale is a whole different ballgame than scraping a few pages with an off-the-shelf tool. After years of...


What I’ve Learned Serving Enterprise Web Scraping Clients for Over Two Decades
Read on LinkedIn After more than 20 years serving enterprise clients in the data space, I’ve learned a few things, sometimes the hard...


SaaS Web Scraping vs. Managed Services: Which One’s Better?
Web scraping is now used by over 65% of companies for competitive research, price tracking, and market insights. But what type of...


Web Scraping Services vs. Public APIs: What’s Better for Business?
Did you know that over 80% of businesses use scraped data and real-time external data via APIs? But here’s the catch: how you collect...
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