Hi all—I've been struggling with finding leads manually and I’m sure a lot of people here have been too (especially when starting out).
I spent some time working through it last week, and here’s a simple way I solved it for less than $10
1. Using Apify, (a scraping platform with a good free tier) I used the google maps scraper to find me businesses in a certain niche + general location
2. I used these leads to create a large google sheets list with information such as current website, contact info etc
3. From there, reaching out and cold contacting these places became a lot more systemised and simple
Just a huge win that helped me with outreach a ton.
If anything is unclear, let me know. Hope this helps you 🙏