Hi all—I searched through some posts to see what everyone was doing to get new clients/leads. I saw cold calling, Facebook/LinkedIn groups, loom videos etc. I started using a platform called Apify.com to scrape leads from Apollo.io (they're cheaper on apify) using apollo's search tools to target niches. This can get you thousands of business owner's emails and websites. If you want to try it: 1. Go to Apify.com 2. Search for apollo lead scraper 3. Select "🔥Apollo Scraper - Scrape upto 50k Leads" 4. Go to apollo.io and try it for free (no sign up needed) 5. Narrow down your search to get the niche and # of results where you want it 6. Copy that url into Apify scraper and run it! 7. Export the list to wherever you keep lead lists Those leads only cost $1.20/1,000 (Just fyi the price is going up in September) Let me know what y'all think! If anything is unclear, let me know that too lol. Hope this helps you 🙏

So, one of the things I've learned through my time on Skool is that speed is king. How quickly you respond to your clients massively increases the perceived value of your service. But, your most productive times are when you're in the groove of work. And that gets completely shattered but shifting your attention to a random email every 10 seconds. So what now? 1. You can set up email auto-responders that tell your valuable clients that you're out of office and (in their mind) won't be doing any work for them for the rest of the day/week...that sucks Or: 2. You set up an email responder that can respond with their name and take into account what you're working on for them as well. So, instead of "Hello, I'm currently out of the office right now and email access is limited. I will get back to you ASAP when I return on 9/29", you get something like: "Hey James, just got your email but I've got my hands full with another project right now. I should be wrapping up in the next few hours or so and I'll look into the status of your return. Talk soon" Which one would make you feel more valued as a client? All done with the simple scenario below. Just map the received email to the "To:" input line on the second module and then write whatever you'd like the message to be with the name of the sender mapped to the intro. Tons of things can be added to this: AI message writing, tying in your CRM, pulling email history, tons of stuff. LMK if you have questions and whether or not these kinds of posts have been helpful🙏

I've been messing around with it and those leads I scraped off of apollo/Apify and I found this cool way to stand out to the random people you're bothering lol Following the principle that @Patrick Spiegel talks about with the hyper-personalized videos, personalized text outreach converts better than non-personalized (duh). But, the value you give in the 5 min video is so much higher than the same amount of time spent researching and caring about a lead but only being able to reach out over text. Anyways, I found this way to hyper-personalize at scale. 1. Sign up to Make.com 2. download the JSON script I have attached here 3. Start a "New Scenario" in Make.com 4. click "Import Scenario" at the bottom in the middle-ish 5. Connect your google account (to connect to google sheets full of lead data) 6. Make sure to connect the modules to the actual spreadsheets your leads are on 7. Connect your Open AI account (Prompt for personalization will already be in the module) 8. Organize your lead data to match the columns in the picture (with column H empty for personalization and column I empty for "shortened company name" 9. Run it Boom: personalization you don't need to research and ponder over. You can stick it at the beginning of a cold DM on LinkedIn or Facebook or Instagram or cold emails or whatever. Let me know 1. if it makes sense lol 2. if/how you use it and 3. if it was successful for you. Hope this helps🙏

I just recently noticed how much of my time has been taken up with tasks that are 100% necessary to my business, but seem to take just forever. One of those that has been irking me the most recently is generating/sending invoices for clients. "But Ranleigh, that's like 1 step away from money! How could you hate that?" It's so repetitive and takes so long every time. If you're organized already, then you have to go into your CRM or spreadsheet and change something to signify that it's time to invoice, then you have to go to Stripe or something and put in the client (first time), create the invoice, look it over and send it off. Then you go back to your CRM/spreadsheet and update it again to say that the invoice has been sent so you know what your follow up schedule is (should you need it). And that's if you ARE organized lol. That's a lot of non-website related work you have to do for every project for every client. Anyways, I took my inner rage (lol) and aimed it at the internet and came up with a cool solution (See below) Something simple like this can be set up so that you: Change the status of a client to "send invoice" or whatever you'd like That triggers this flow to send that clients info along with any other necessary info to Stripe Stripe then pulls an Invoice template to fill out with clients info and sends it to them Boom: click one button and the client now has an invoice! Let me know if you give this a try and how it goes! Let me know if you need more help and if I see patterns in info I left out, I'll make another post adding to this one so everybody will have the info Hope this solves a problem for you!🙏 P.S. - I didn't bother with adding the downloadable JSON this time since everybody's SOP for invoices are completely different.

Hey everyone! I’m a front-end developer focusing on local businesses. I chose Pest Control as my niche, and I’m generating leads by scraping Google My Business profiles. Here’s the challenge: When I check these businesses on Facebook or Instagram, their last post is often months (or even years) old. I’m unsure whether it’s worth messaging them—maybe the business isn’t active anymore, and I don’t want to waste time. My questions: - Do you still reach out to businesses that seem inactive on social media? - How do you confirm if a business is actually still operating before you DM them? - Any tips on verifying active leads would be awesome. - Also, if you’ve found other profitable niches for local business websites, I’d love to hear your suggestions! Thanks a ton for any advice!