My cold outreach campaign essentially says 'I'll bring you clients' — if a prospect says yes, how do I actually generate the templates or demo websites I'd need to deliver? I got a few positive replies from your Watch Me Start And Sell video but I'm lost on how to find companies actually hiring website developers via Apollo.
The vibe isn't that you already have the perfect system built before you pitch. To find companies hiring website developers: scrape LinkedIn Jobs (e.g. via Apify's LinkedIn Jobs scraper, roughly $1 per 1,000 results) filtered to a country and role like 'website developer in the United States,' enrich the company name/info, then find emails for the hiring team with a tool like Any Mail Finder, and email them directly. You don't need the whole delivery system built before you sell — I just sell first, and when someone says yes, that's when I figure out how to actually deliver it.
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Congratulations on landing $2,500—that's more than 90% of the world makes outside traditional employment. You should be stoked. To build the search intent video system, start by scraping the simplest source: LinkedIn jobs. Use an Appify actor (like a LinkedIn job scraper) to pull job postings. You don’t need company details at first; just scrape the jobs. Then, to get emails, scrape or enrich using the company name to find the website, and use a mailfinder tool (any mailfinder) to get emails from those domains. If the mailfinder doesn’t give you the URL, you’ll need to scrape company details to get the website. Once you have the websites, enrich them to find people at those companies, identify decision makers, and then feed the email and domain into an AI tool that searches the domain and combines results with the email to pull out the person's name (e.g., turning 'nick@leftclick.ai' into 'Nick Sarif'). This makes your outreach far more effective. After gathering the emails, customize your outreach using the scraped information, and you can also scrape job details if needed. This whole process lets you turn raw data into personalized, high‑conversion cold emails.
To gather leads on Apollo for your target niches, start by building a list in Apollo (e.g., real estate agencies, hiring agencies, digital marketing agencies). Export that list’s URL and paste it into a scraper like Apify (or Ampify) to pull the data and extract email addresses—this is cheaper than scraping LinkedIn directly. If your initial list is too small (e.g., only 50 leads), broaden the filters (remove overly specific sectors) to increase volume. Export the results to CSV, then run them through a workflow that combines the emails with profile fields (such as headline, title) and uses AI to generate personalized one‑line icebreakers. Finally, feed those icebreakers and emails into a platform like Instantly to automate your outreach.
Cold email works fantastic for consultants. If you run a software development, no-code development, or AI automation agency, you are essentially a consultant. I regularly pitch people in the AI and automation vertical to use cold email to get clients, and I use it myself to get my own clients. The same system that works for you will work for any other consultant. You don't need to worry about whether it works for consultants—it does. Proof is in the pudding: if you're using the system to acquire clients, then by definition it's working. Additionally, you can explore niche packs inside Maker School and other systems you could sell, such as unique repurposing content creators, trend detectors, YouTube comment ideators, and tools like Vid IQ that help find liars for inbound flows. There are also YouTube-specific tools for long-form content creators. In short, cold email is great for consultants, coaches, and similar professionals.
You can build a venture‑backed startup list in two ways. First, monitor press releases and announcements—many have RSS feeds. Use AI to filter for new funding announcements, extract the company name, then look up the LinkedIn URL and website to find employee emails or add them to a LinkedIn outreach sequence. Second, use a paid database like Crunchbase: for about $199 a month you can scrape up to 5,000 rows of funded companies, which gives you a ready‑made list of prospects with websites and LinkedIn profiles to pull contact data from.