Status so far: I’ve found 440 emails, which is not really enough, but it’s a start at least. Next step is to clean the leads, and after that start sending emails to the recruiters :)

Hello everyone, How is everyone doing? I hope you all had great Christmas season and a wonderful start into the new year ☺️. Happy to catch up here and excited to see what everyone was doing.

I’ve set up a cold email infrastructure now, but I’ve kinda started to realize that it might make more sense to do intent-based cold email than spray and pray. But since this is a bit new to me, and I kinda have to perform because of this client I’m working with, I do kinda need to make this right. So long story short, is there anybody in here creating lists by using different intents in the market? If so, how? And where do you even look for these intent signals?

A few months ago, I think I really started with n8n in August. At that point, I hadn’t made money with any of the things I’d tried up to then. Then I randomly came across n8n and started getting into it. And damn, that changed everything. Since then, I’ve managed to get 21+ clients, landed a few retainers, and built a steady flow of jobs. In fact, I’m now saying no to more jobs and constantly raising my prices so I can get into the $1,000 range per job. So what changed? I started pitching to more people and actually applying. And because of that, I started getting more jobs. The funny part is that the people I talked to when I started laughed at me when I told them I made $20 on my first gig. But when I look at them now, they’re still stuck in the same place, having not made a single dollar yet. Meanwhile, I’m turning down contracts that are too low for me to even consider. Here's the lessons I learned after a while. 1. You can start making money pretty fast. But building automations are harder than what you might think. 2. A lot of the things that I see on YT are things I barely see people order. 3. A lot of people suck at this and are slow. If you're fast and good, people will keep coming back and buy more. I had one client give me a 2 week deadline, I completed the project within 4 days, and I made a new order right then and there. I don't know if I can say keep pushing or keep going, because looking back on my own journey. They're certain actions if done right will lead you to the place you want to. But if you do the wrong actions it won't really work. So you kinda need to figure out what the right actions are fast. GL and enjoy the year!

I'm setting up a cold email infrastructure right now using: - Instantly - AI to write icebreaker, cliffhanger and psline - Apify to scrape leads Just wanted to share the process in case somebody else want to copy it and try it out. But this is how I'm approaching cold emails right now.