I've rewatched Instantly.ai event "Finding clients. Solved." They've nailed the outbound industry. Period. Instantly has eliminated: - Manual lead generation work - List building via Google maps (almost) - Leads research and enrichment tools usage - Personalization in email sequences for every single prospect So on... I've been a user of Instantly since 2024 and so far, I haven’t come across any other tool that can do this or work around it. Plus, the team; they're aggressive and push every inch of effort in their work to maximize the success of their customers. I'm going to explore all of it this weekend and will come up with some solid use cases that B2B agencies can use in their outbound marketing. Stay tuned.

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Most advice says expect nothing in the first few weeks. On Nov 7 I launched and a CEO of a 40-year-old web design agency replied "Thursday will work" 2 minutes after Email 1 went out. One call doesn't prove a campaign, but here's the setup behind it: 1. 3 niches x 2 offers = 6 campaigns, split 50/50, so the data picks the offer and I don't have to guess. 2. 15 mailboxes warmed about 25 days at 100% health, then 30 emails a day each. That's the 450. 3. A personal first line for every lead, written from their own website. 4. Plain text, no links, no tracking. Email 2 on day 3 opens with the offer itself, Email 3 on day 7 is a lower friction ask. The part that went wrong: 6 to 11% bounces on day one. Instantly's verifier flagged 300 of my 1,468 leads as bad, even though the scraper had marked them validated. They're gone now and every new lead gets verified before upload. Screenshot is the simple sheet with the real day one numbers. What did your first day of sending look like?

Hey everyone, I’m running cold email campaigns for a very specific niche in a specific region (small local businesses in one country/state). The problem is that Apollo returns very few results, and most of the contacts it does have are outdated or missing emails. Here’s what I’ve tried so far: - Apollo filters (by industry, location, and keywords) - Apify email scraping from the company’s website URL. What I’d love to hear from you: 1. Where do you source emails for local, niche-specific lists when Apollo, ZoomInfo, and similar databases don’t have enough coverage? 2. How do you use Apify effectively for lead gen? Which actors are worth using (Google Maps scrapers, contact info scrapers, etc.), and how do you chain them into a full workflow, from finding businesses to getting website URLs to extracting emails? 3. How do you find the owner’s email, not just info@ or contact@ addresses? Any good workflow for finding the owner’s name and then the email pattern? 4. Which email finders and verifiers have given you the best hit rate for small businesses (Hunter, Snov, Findymail, etc.)? 5. Any other sources (directories, licensing databases, Facebook pages, Yelp, associations) that work well for local niches? If you have a workflow or stack that works, even a rough outline, I’d really appreciate it. Happy to share my results once I test the suggestions. 🙏

Doing cold email from past 3 months slowly scaled from 5 mailboxes to 31 right now ( currently warming up all of them - 2 week has passed by the way ) but the thing is now i have not send any email from past like 16 days so the thing that confusing me is ( bfcm season is coming then christmas sale is coming after that sale will be slowed for ecom stores and i provide fb ads services to these stores ) and i need my first paying client ( the thing is that is giving stress is in next 2 to 5 days i will start cold email who will going to change their current agency for my service in this bfcm everyone will be focused on ads , more sales type things no one will be buying my service in this month or next month . i am new so can you tell is this hypothesis on mine is correct or not ?