Anyone facing this issue? What's the turn around here? I ran ~300 serper.dev queries and got about about 30 k leads Deduped the list → roughly 15–17 k unique companies Using Claygent to tag each one: “Yes” if fintech, “No” if not (needed to prompt very nicley and cross verify it many times. That gave me the cost of $0.02 per run. So getting 20 k records ≈ $400 +more ai use is coming to find the job titles in those companies. - Extra cost. That’s higher than most third‑party data vendors. How do you keep this step affordable, do you just absorb the cost, or is there a workaround?

Big shout out to John and his YouTube content. I started cold email less than three months ago and just hit a 7% reply rate and 9 solid opportunities from only 550 emails sent. The real win for me isn’t just the numbers but the quality of replies and the excitement from prospects. After a consulting call with John and diving into all his videos, it was clear that just grabbing an Apollo list and lightly "personalizing" is low value and doesn’t cut it. I put in the extra work: scraping with SERP data, piecing together niche-specific signals, and building highly targeted lists that actually resonate. Even at low volume to protect deliverability, we saw strong results right out of the gate. Most "not interested" replies were about timing, not fit, which shows how relevant the outreach was. This approach is absolutely worth it now and will only become more essential as inboxes get noisier. My biggest challenge now is scaling this process quickly and affordably. Sometimes I start with 10,000 rows and end up with only 500 great leads, which can be expensive but is part of the learning curve. Just wanted to share honestly, give John the credit he deserves, and wish everyone here good luck. Open to any tips on scaling this faster and cheaper.

Update: I've previously asked a question about how to use clay effective and as cheap as possible, my current solution: Several google accounts to get multiple free CLAY trials (3 accounts = 3 months) & i already had 4 accounts so easy to do. Several google accounts to get multiple free SERPERDEV trials (2.5k free credits per account!!) Buying 50$ plan @ findylead (5k email enrichment + 5k verifications) + i'm using instantly Hypergrowth plan (don't cheap out on that one) (90$ish) + i'm using SMTP plan at Scaledmail (50$ish) Keep the grind on everybodyyy!

Hey guys, for the life of me - I do not know how to write to table based on one of my serper.dev HTTP outputs. Loosing my mind here. Here's what it looks like. So I have 49 entries, within each entry sometimes places has results, sometimes it has 0 - no matter what I do - I can not write places universally over to another table - it works if I do it for one specific places at a time - but I can't do 50 write to table's - that would be ridiculous. If anyone could give some help - that would be greatly appreciated.

Hello! Question: do I need a Clay subscription in order to run the Google Maps leads process? Currently on the free trial but I noticed the middle tier of clay allows for HTTP API's which was included in the tutorial. Do I need to subscribe to that tier in order to access it? Beginner here, so any answers and advice is appreciated!