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Your existing clients and qualified prospects share characteristics that make them the right fit for your company's business. To grow your qualified prospect pipeline and ultimately increase your bottom line, it's crucial that you identify and understand these shared characteristics. Cause IQ's powerful tools help you do just that. Our customers use the:

• "Common Characteristics" tool to automatically find similarities amongst organizations in a peer list, and to find "look-alike" organizations that share the similar qualities;
• "Analyze" tool to view summary stats and identify sector-wide trends for the organizations that matter to them most;
• "Table" view to look at raw financial values, year-over-year growth rates, and multiple percent metrics; and
• Key performance indicators on an organization's profile to quickly see the values of the quantitative fields most relevant to them.

Cause IQ's "Common Characteristics" tool automatically finds characteristics that a list of organizations share with each other and shows you how strongly these characteristics predict an organization being in the list. Once the common quantitative and qualitative characteristics are identified, you can tell Cause IQ to run a search to find other organizations that share the similar qualities. Cause IQ customers use the tool to view the common fields and values that relevant organizations share and to identify new prospects to grow their business. Here are the steps to use the tool:

Here's an overview video of the Common Characteristics tool, including how you open the simlar organizations in the search interface:

Cause IQ customers use the "Analyze" tool to discover sector-wide trends for their clients and for organizations meeting their target criteria. You can add most quantitative and qualitative fields to the "Analyze" tool, so you can view means, medians, and percentiles for quantitative fields and most common values for qualitative fields.

Many customers create lists of their clients and qualified prospects (either from scratch or from an uploaded CSV) and access the "Analyze" tool gain additional insights into their target market. Once you create a list of organizations, you can access the list's profile by clicking "Lists" on the left of your Dashboard. Once you find the name of the list that contains the organizations you want to get summary stats for, click "Open in search interface" and Cause IQ opens the search interface with the list as the only filter. To access the "Analyze" tool, click the "Analyze" tab.

To select the fields you want to analyze, click "Change fields" on the right of the screen and find the fields by "Keywords" or "Categories". Cause IQ summarizes the quantitative information (e.g., Accounting fees) in a histogram graph. The graph shows the average, median, sum total and breaks down where the organizations fall in respect to the quantitative field by percentile. The qualitative information (e.g., Tax preparer firm) is summarized in a list. The list shows you the top 10 results with respect to the selected field, and you can view the top 30 by selecting "...view more".

Here's an overview video of how to analyze a list of organizations:

In addition to analyzing organizations in a list, Cause IQ customers segment organizations meeting specific search criteria and access the "Analyze" tool to better understand the market trends of the organizations. After adding appropriate fields to the "Analyze" tool, many customers download the market reports for additional analysis. You can download any report you build in the "Analyze" tool by clicking "Download report". This is especially helpful if you want to compare the same summary stats for different searches, such as market sizing for different metro areas.

Here's a look at where you can download the analyze report:

You can use Cause IQ's "Table" view to quickly view relevant financial fields for specific organizations in peer lists or organizations meeting your target search criteria. Cause IQ customers add relevant financial fields with multiple metrics to help them learn more about their existing clients and target market prospects. With the "Table" view, you have the option to view financial fields by multiple metrics. Including:

• Value
• One-year growth rate
• Percent of revenues, expenses, or assets (as appropriate)

You can add all financial fields, and their corresponding metrics, as columns in the "Table" view. To do so, click "Change columns" on the right of the screen and find the fields by "Keywords" or "Categories". You can sort the organizations by column header. Simply click on the column that you want to sort the organizations by, and Cause IQ adjusts the table accordingly. Here's a look at the "Table" view with multiple financial metrics and where you choose to select the information you want to add as columns:

Cause IQ customers use the "Key performance indicators" (KPIs) section on organization profile pages to bring the quantitative information that's most relevant to them front and center. You can add all available quantitative fields to the KPI section on an organization's profile. To choose the details you want to bring upfront on organization profiles, click "Change" and select the appropriate fields. Once you choose the KPIs on one organization's profile, they become the default for all profiles you visit. This way, you can quickly view the quantitative fields that are most important to you for all pertinent organizations.

Here's a look at where you access the KPI section from the "Overview" tab on an organization's profile: