I teach or implement Clay for you.

Why me?

I am one of the first UK-based Certified Clay Experts.

And probably the only one:
↳  who can find use cases for Clay for your specific business & implement it in under 45 days 
↳ oh, and I teach Clay so simply that you don’t have to be technical to "finally get it”.
↳ did I mention us having 20+ testimonials from B2B clients and 100+ testimonials in 8 months alone for my course that teaches Clay for beginners?

Don’t believe me?
👇🏻Look at my Featured Section below 👇🏻

2 ways I can possibly help:
1️⃣ 𝐈𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐛𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬, head over to www.b2b-boosted.com & I will offer you a free Clay scoping session or a free Clay buildout in return for 30 mins of your time.
2️⃣ 𝐈𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧 𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐲 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐛𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐫 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐨𝐟𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐲 𝐬𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐬, you may as well check out Unlock Clay(.)com

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Tim Yakubson 🚀

8 INSANE Use Cases for Clay You Must Use
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(I'm breaking down all of them in 1 video)
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Most people use Clay for basic things: 
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Finding emails. Scraping a website.
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That’s scratching the surface of what’s possible.
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Here's what Clay can actually do when you know how to use it:
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Use Case 1: Poach clients from competitors → Scrape their LinkedIn followers, qualify them, personalize outreach at scale. 
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(using @Scrapeli, Followingg.co & Smartlead in the process)
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Use Case 2: ABM account research automation (Replace 5 hours of manual research with AI-powered "battle cards")
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Use Case 3: Job posting trigger campaigns → Target companies hiring for specific roles with pain-point messaging
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I know Fabian Herhold & recruiters that use Clay love this flow.
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Use Case 4: Technographic targeting → Find companies using specific tech stacks
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Underused
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Use Case 5: Podcast guest retargeting → Scrape podcast guest lists, reach out with hyper-relevant context
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Use Case 6: Event attendee workflows → Scrape conference attendees before/after events for warm outreach
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Use Case 7: Job change monitoring → Track when employees leave customers, follow them to new accounts
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Use Case 8: Social signal retargeting → Target people engaging with competitor content on LinkedIn
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After building every single one of these workflows with real clients at @B2B Boosted…
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I recorded a complete walkthrough showing you:
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✅ Exactly how each workflow works (step-by-step) 
✅ When to use each use case for your specific ICP
✅ Real Clay table examples for every workflow 
✅ Clay enrichments and tools needed 
✅ How to layer multiple use cases together 
✅ Common mistakes that waste Clay credits 
✅ Setting up integrations between Clay and Slack, CRM, HeyReach.io, Smartlead)
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This is the same training I’ve spent 5+ hours putting together.
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And I’m giving away the foundation for free.
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Comment "8" below and I'll send you the full breakdown video. 
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(Must be connected first. Not connected = no DM access)
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P.S. - If you implement even ONE of these and book a call, tag me in your win post!

I teach you Clay or implement it for you - your choice ✨ | Clay Expert (London-based) | Founder @ B2B Boosted

These 3 custom GPTs will save you 10+ hours a month inside of Clay.

(and I'm giving them away for FREE)

I speak to a couple of dozen Clay users every day.

(shout out to the 500+ inside Unlock Clay!)

A vast majority are wasting HOURS every week doing things AI can handle in seconds.

So...

Here are 3 GPTs I use (and share with consulting clients) that make Clay 10x faster to use day-to-day:

1️⃣ AI Copywriting GPT

Feed it your personalised cold email.

It will generate 2 prompts for you to copy & paste into Clay in order to generate any personalised email in just 2 prompts.

2️⃣ Data Scraper GPT

Tell the GPT what kind of data you are looking for.

And it will give you a video tutorial of how to use that tool.

E.g. 
Scrape followers of competitors - ScrapeLi

Scrape people that engage with posts of your competitors - Trigify

And yes, the GPT will provide a tutorial video of each tool & will even give you discount codes & extended free trials to tools.

3️⃣ Clay FAQ GPT

Built on every single Clay integration.

Ask it anything Clay-related...

From "how do I find tech stack?" to "how do I connect a webhook?" 

And get the actual answer based on the GPT's knowledge of Clay  (not the generic ChatGPT nonsense).

We use all three across B2BBoosted's client accounts daily.

Combined, they've cut our build time by over 10 hours a week (so I don't spend my weekends inside of Clay tables anymore).

If you're already using Clay, these will instantly make you more efficient.

If you're new, they'll make you look like you've been using it for years.

Comment "GPT" and I'll send you all three!

We just got listed on Clay's official Education Directory!
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Not gonna lie, this one feels good.
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Because Clay doesn't just list anyone. They vet EVERY partner on that directory. And after months of building Unlock Clay, we finally made it.
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People from Google, Clay, Trigify.io, and HeyReach.io have bought Unlock Clay. 
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Absolutely mad!
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Clay employees (the people who literally BUILT the platform) paid to take Unlock Clay.
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Shoutout to everyone I had the chance to speak with last week:
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Kurt Landon, Usama Raees, Jnr Asher, Adam Weil, Vishal Sakaria, appreciate you all.
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But I can’t be too humble. I didn’t make Unlock Clay to be another slop cookie cutter course on the market. It was MEANT to be the go-to resource for anyone serious about becoming a GTM Engineer.
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And if you've been on the fence about joining Unlock Clay, now you know: 
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Even Clay can't resist having us on their directory.
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PS
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DM me with the topic that you struggle with inside of Clay - I’ll see if I can help out
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If you are inside Unlock Clay already - a couple of fun updates coming up, stay tuned!

I spent 4 hours documenting every single way to scrape data inside Clay.
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If there's a way to scrape it in Clay, it's in this guide.
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Technologies
Job postings. 
PitchBook intel. 
LinkedIn profiles. 
Employee counts. 
Crunchbase data. 
Company financials. 
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… you name it.
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It’s ALL in this free masterclass. 
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I’m sharing this because I keep seeing people ask the SAME question inside my Unlock Clay ​ group: 
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"How do I get [this specific data]?"
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So I built a master guide with 20+ scraping methods. 
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Inside, you'll get:
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- 20+ data scraping methods (with instructions)
- How to scrape tech stack data (BuiltWith, Wappalyzer, etc.)
- Job posting scrapers (for hiring signals)
- Financial data sources (revenue, funding, etc.)
- Company intel (Crunchbase, PitchBook, Apollo)
- LinkedIn scraping workflows (people + company pages)
- And the exact enrichers I use for each scenario
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Want it?
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- Comment "SCRAPE"
- Connect with me if we're not already (so I can DM you)
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I'll send the guide + a link to Unlock Clay GPT (which has all this knowledge baked in).

I built a Clay table that saves sales reps 5+ hours per week and you can sell for $2.5k. 
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If your clients have sales teams manually researching accounts….
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This is the easiest sale you'll ever make.
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I tracked every project we've done for 2 years, and this Clay table CONSISTENTLY had the highest profit margin and lowest time investment.
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The 6-step process I use to build it:
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(1) Ask what their sales team researches manually.
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I'll jump on a call with a rep and watch them prep for a meeting. Button by button. I need to see how they think so I can replicate it in Clay.
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(2) Request sample input data. I ask for a list of companies they've recently met with. This becomes my test data to make sure the Clay table actually works.
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(3) Map it out in Miro. 
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I create a visual board: Company name (input) → What Clay does → Output. Then I send them a Loom walking through it to confirm I understood correctly.
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(4) Build the table with URL references.
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This is key: for every data point Clay finds, I include the source URL and date. Sales reps need to validate the research, especially if it's pulling from Wikipedia or a 2013 article.
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(5) Generate “Battlecards” using the Clay and Google Docs enrichment. 
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Use ChatGPT to format the text properly. I prompt it to bold section headers, space out paragraphs, and structure it like a briefing doc. Then I feed that into a Google Doc enrichment.
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(6) Set up Slack notifications and CRM updates.
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Every time the table runs, it sends the battle card to Slack and updates the CRM with notes. Zero manual handoff.
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This table? 
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It's boring. All it does is just fast account research.
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But it saves at least 3-5 hours a week, makes sales reps research faster, and you can spin it our in just a couple of hours.
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I'm not saying don't build lead gen tables - I'm saying don't ignore the boring stuff that can also make you money with less headache.
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Prospects don't know they need this until you build it for them.
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PS
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If you want the full video breakdown of this…
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Comment “Boring table” and I’ll send you the video walkthrough.

When I first started learning Clay, I had no clue what I was doing.
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I was binge-watching tutorials & messaging creators I looked up to.
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I remember DM’ing people like Max Mitcham and Alex Fine🌲 Fine JUST trying to figure out how they were doing it.
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No agenda, literally just wanting to learn.
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Fast forward to now…
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I’ve spoken alongside Max at the last Clay London event.
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From fanboying the biggest voices in the space…
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…to being invited to share what I’ve learned alongside them.
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It’s surreal!
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So if you’re learning Clay right now…
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Keep asking questions and keep reaching out. 
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PS
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If you’re trying to figure out how Clay actually fits into your workflow…
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Don’t be shy, DM me some questions & I’ll be happy to share my learnings and advice.

I'm genuinely tired of the email deliverability nonsense on LinkedIn.
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99% of it is sponsored garbage. 
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Tools pay creators to post about IP rotation and DNS configuration concepts that sound technical but mean almost nothing to someone just trying to land emails in the inbox.
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I’ve sent tens of thousands of emails in the last 12 months. 
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Here are the 5 things that actually matter:
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(1) Never send cold emails from your main domain.
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If you send outreach from [name@company.com](mailto:name@company.com), eventually your emails to investors, colleagues, and clients will land in spam. 
Buy similar-looking domains instead 
Use 2-3 inboxes per domain.
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(2) Warm up every inbox for 14 days minimum.
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Email warm-up tools automatically send and receive emails to build your sender reputation. Don't skip this. 
Your warm-up score needs to hit 100% before you send a single cold email. No exceptions.
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(3) Send 20-30 warm-up emails per day, per inbox.
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Even after you start sending cold emails, keep the warm-up running. 
I recommend 20-30 warm-up emails and 20 cold emails per inbox, per day. 
This keeps your sender reputation high while you scale outreach.
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(4) Use Gmail or Outlook 
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SMTP inboxes are cheaper, but I've tested them for two years.
 They're (mostly) burner emails with inconsistent deliverability. 
Gmail and Outlook cost more, but they actually work. Don't reinvent the wheel here and buy just Gmail & Outlook.
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(5) Never include links, images, or attachments in cold emails.
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These are instant spam triggers. Keep your emails plain text. 
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No: 
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- Hyperlinked signatures
- Embedded images
- PDFs. 
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Keep it clean, with simple copy.
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That's it. That’s all you need. 
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Email deliverability tools are commodities. 
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1) Pick an email deliverability tool (I’m not shouting any tool out here, as that will defeat the point of this post).
2) Buy domains & set up inboxes
3) Warm them up for two weeks.
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And start sending.
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DM me “emails” if you want me to share a doc with everything that you need to know about email deliverability - without the fluff.

I hit 1,000 YouTube subscribers last month.
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Here are the 5 most important lessons I’ve learned: 
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1) Loom → Tella → YouTube agency
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I hit 500 subscribers by uploading 70+ Loom videos.

After 500 subscribers, I switched to Tella, after Max Mitcham told me it looks more slick that Loom.

Now, just as I hit 1k subscribers, I started working with Views To Clients to scale my channel. Lots of high quality videos coming up 🍿, buzzing for you to see them! 

​2) Lead Magnets crush.
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I captured >4k emails from YouTube viewers in the last year alone.
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How?
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Just by saying “if you want the resources used during this video, check the top link in the description below”.
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I know it’s common sense, but at this rate you can opt in like 20% of your video viewers into your email marketing.
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3) Button by button tutorials are the way to go.
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Hardly anyone builds out a Clay table from start to finish.
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Most folks just do a walkover of a finished Clay workflow rather than showing you every tiny little step that you need to take in order to create a killer Clay table.
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So all my best-performing videos to date have been no-BS button by button tutorials.
 
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4) 1 in 2 people buy.
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Since I started posting on YouTube, for every 2 subscribers I get, I have 1 new student inside of Unlock Clay.
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At 200 subscribers: 100 Unlock Clay students.
Now 1k subscribers: 500 Unlock Clay students.
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Causation or correlation? 

No idea, mate. 
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5) Prospects trust you WAY more after watching a YouTube video.
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On the one hand it’s good because sometimes I can close new clients after just 1 sales call.
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On the other hand it means that now I need to pre-qualify leads from YouTube to make sure they have the budget & other requirements in order to work with B2B Boosted.
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PS
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I’m doubling down on YouTube this quarter.
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If you want to binge-watch some Clay tutorials, stay on top of new sales tools & see the occasional day in the life video from me...
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Come hang out on the channel - just search up @Tim-Yakubson and you'll find me!

I stopped working weekends 3 months ago.
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And somehow this is when I saw the most growth I've ever had at B2B Boosted and Unlock Clay.
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Which is the exact opposite of what everyone tells you nowadays. 
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”do more” is AWESOME advice for some folks.
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But for me?
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I had no priorities. 
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Working weekends was just compensating for the inefficiencies of my work Monday to Friday.
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Which turned into burnout in the long run.
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I recall Joel Sinclair-Horne telling me how when he works on weekends he ends up crashing after 10 consecutive days of working non-stop.
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 But, there are some folks that I met recently, like Abdul Mukati, who manages to work 7 days a week without the burnout. 
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I guess you just need to know what works for you.
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Here’s what I’ve been doing recently:
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1/ I started going to sleep super early.
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Call me crazy, but I’m in bed before 8pm and asleep by 9pm on most nights.
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I feel this way I get plenty of time in the morning to do some exercise, go on a morning walk & have some “me time” before starting work.
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(Btw - I’m currently watching a series called The Diplomat ​ - 100% recommend to anyone looking for a good series on Netflix).
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2/ Sports & recovery.
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Running twice a week. Football twice a week. 
Just went to some outdoor sauna and cold plunge place. 
Those have been the best ways to switch off from work during the week.
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3/ I stopped treating weekends like they were bonus workdays.
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To this day, when I wake up on a Saturday I have the inner temptation to reply to a Linkedin DM, record a new video or top up a campaign for a client, but I have to remind myself that I DON’T WORK WEEKENDS. 
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4/ Better focus.
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I used to think I could improve my Spanish speaking, learn N8N, grow my agency, and still remember to do laundry and load the dishwasher every evening. 
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(spoiler: I couldn't)
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Oh, and one thing I’m learning to do better now - saying “no” to random opportunities that come up, as they distract me from working on B2b boosted.
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PS: This is a pic of me, literally 10 mins after wrapping up the Smartlead webinar with Sanjana Kotak, Devesh Srivastava & Alka Gupta - going for a sauna & cold plunge. 
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That was a great webinar btw - if you want the video recap, just DM me “webinar recap” and I’ll send you the recap of the webinar.

I got hit up by a massive AI SDR tool last week.
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Their messaging was absolutely horrendous.
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- Robotic personalization. .
- Triple hyphens. 
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And the irony is that they wanted me as a referral partner.
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I messaged their head of sales: 

"You saw me on the Clay experts directory but sent me THIS? Do you think this is a good message to send?"
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And this is the very problem with cold outreach right now.
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Everyone's chasing the magic hack:
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AI agents, AI SDRs, shiny object syndrome Clay table.
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In reality…
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-Just source a list
- Write a personalised & relevant message.
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That's it. No way around it.
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Yet so many folks fall for this AI SDR crap.
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Clients want an all-in-one solution.
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But what they actually need is someone who can write copy that doesn't suck, build a clean list, and keep emails out of spam.
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Not an AI agent that hallucinates 10,000 terrible emails.
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Now contrast this with 1 email that we generated using Clay and our Custom GPT prompt.
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TL;DR: 
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(1) AI SDRs are hopeless.
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No one likes them. And I've never seen one work. They sound robotic because they ARE robotic - and prospects can smell it from a mile away.
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Oh, and I won’t join a “partner program” for AI SDRs anytime soon. 
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(2) There are so many better ways to do copywriting.
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If you want me to share the top 5 methods to personalise every cold message, DM me “copywriting” and I’ll send you everything that I learned about personalisation at scale.

The exact stuff that I shared at Smartlead’s webinar (shoutout to Sanjana Kotak, Devesh Srivastava & Alka Gupta for inviting me to that one btw).

I did 15+ webinars in the last 2 years with 7-9 ARR SaaS brands & VCs. 
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Here are my 4 biggest takeaways…
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But first, shout out:
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HeyReach.io (Vukasin Vukosavljevic)
Make (Daniel Zrůst  & Ina Adamczyk)
Smartlead (Sanjana Kotak, Devesh Srivastava & Alka Gupta)
Trigify.io (Max Mitcham, Piers Montgomery & Hugo Millington-Drake)
Attio (Matthew Fischer)
Knight Ventures (Mope Abudu)
Launch Africa Ventures (Florence Bavanandan)
Savant (David Rabinowitz)
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… was an honour to host webinars!
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I didn’t deny anyone who requested to have me on, because I love this kinda stuff.
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But frankly, I'm burnt out from it now.
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But here's what I learned before hitting that wall:
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1) ONLY host a webinar if you have a KILLER GIVEAWAY & more than 150 people signing up.
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Without a strong webinar promise(that is achievable), you're just talking to 20 people who half-listen. 
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The giveaway needs to be valuable enough that people actually show up & stay till the end.
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2) To prepare for a killer webinar, it takes at LEAST 4-5 hours.
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And yes, that’s assuming that you don’t want to just wing it.
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You need:
- quality slides (with your website in the corner of each slide so that the attendees can treat it as a CTA).
- lead magnet (aka something you give away in return for the attendee’s email address).
- a decent offer(free audit, free consultation, free automation or something that can convert attendees into buyers).
- 3-4 dry runs of the webinar before to make sure your timing is correct & you are articulate.
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3) The ROI isn't immediate.
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Of course, there may be a few folks that buy Unlock Clay whilst watching the webinar.
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But since I am mainly selling something higher ticket like B2B Boosted’s agency services - most of the money is made in the follow ups to the webinar.
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Just recently with the Smartlead webinar I created a “Webinar Follow-up Funnel” which nurtures leads & shares the resources.
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The better webinars book in 4-5 sales calls and I can close 2-3 deals.
Oh, and the worst ones? I have to pay a graphic designer for the presentation slides out of pocket & I make $0 after spending hours on it.
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The real value though? 
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Becoming a thought leader in the space. 
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And getting “borrowed attention” from the company that invites you to the webinar.
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And doing virtue signalling posts like this breaking down the economics of running webinars lol.
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4) You get stuck in an infinite invitation loop.
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Now admittedly, this is a positive. But if you do even one good webinar… people are watching. Once you finish a webinar, suddenly you're getting asked to do 2-3 more. 

I've actually had to turn down a lot of these new requests because I can't keep doing one every week. 
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Webinars are awesome for building authority and growing a business. 
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But they're not a quick money play. 
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And they'll drain you if you don't cap how many you commit to.
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PS:
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If you want the slide deck to the webinar I just did with Smartlead - comment “WEBI” and I’ll send them to you!

6 months ago, one of my best team members told me straight up:
 
"Tim, I'm going to start my own agency soon."
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For a bit of context…
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I’ve hired 15+ people in the last 2 years of running B2B Boosted
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There’s 1 trait that separates average hires from absolute killers. 
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And no…
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It's not: 
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- Speed of execution
- being not just fluent, but ARTICULATE when speaking.
- Technical skills
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(although those are great pre-requisited)
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It's this: 
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They want to start their own thing.
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Sounds backwards. 
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But when someone's end goal is to actually build their own agency or business, they do WAY more than just show up for a paycheck. They go beyond the job description and think like FOUNDERS. They move faster because every task is practice for their own future.
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Moaaz Mazhry is a perfect example.
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When Moaaz told me that he’s starting his own business, I didn’t panic.
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Why?
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Because from day 1 the deal was:
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”Let me know a couple of months before you consider starting your own agency.

And please document everything so it is a smooth handover for your successor.”
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It’s been 3 weeks since moaaz is no longer full-time with b2b boosted, the automations are still running just fine.
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The morale of this post?
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Dunno mate.
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Just kidding, but this taught me to always ask “what does success look like in 2-3 years from now?”
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This way you will avoid surprises when the employee quits in the next year.
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PS: Shoutout Moaaz Mazhry - I interviewed 10+ automations folks & I’m 100% convinced that his sales & business acumen means that he can systemise and automate any business out there. 

Should probably write him a recommendation one day too lol.

18 months ago, I trained 2 sales reps at E-Tabs from scratch.
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And this moment made me super proud.
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For context…
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When I just started B2B Boosted, I chatted with Benjamin Rietti who just brought in 2 sales apprentices at the time
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They had no previous sales experience selling B2B SaaS and needed help with building a sales process.
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Over 12+ weeks we built a multi-channel outreach system using HeyReach & Smartlead, powered by Clay, Apollo & Linkedin Sales Navigator.
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This wasn’t like the typical b2b boosted work, because we had to create sales scripts, train the team on the scripts & build a Sales Playbook from scratch.
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It was 100% worth it.
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Why?
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I was just scrolling through their Smartlead inbox to see how they were getting on and came across this email.
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Yes, it’s not 100% perfect.
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But, it has:
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- Personalised trigger
- AI-generated names of reports that the prospect actually creates
- mention of E-tabs’ USP (report automation)
- CTA (oops, cropped it out of the screenshot, my bad!)
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Shoutout David Scheffer for sending this email, really happy to see you grow in the role. 
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Generally, it makes me happy seeing clients not only implement the systems, scripts and processes, but also to grow in their roles thanks to these systems.
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 Next step - finding more sales triggers and signals to make the outreach even crispier :)
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PS 
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If you want to see what a sales enablement program looks like for this type of engagement…
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DM me and I will share our template!

Roman Hipp

BetterContact

Co-Founder & Growth

Amazon

Business Development

charles

Business Analyst & Expansion

Moss | All-in-one spend management

Customer Success

BlackRock

Spring Week

Building BetterContact | Helping early-stage B2B SaaS companies with insights & ready-to-use templates

Currently building BetterContact, a B2B SaaS that aggregates various data sources to find and verify any email and mobile phone number.

Growth Co-Founder

Big news! On 4th Dec, we (BetterContact) will be co-hosting a GTM Christmas Party together with Clay in Berlin

Clay has been a great partner (we’re happy users ourselves), so we decided to together organize a GTM Christmas Party!

We’ll be discussing workflows, allbound, and a lot of other exciting topics - link to the event is in the comments.

Looking forward to meeting a lot of familiar (and new) faces in person!

P.S. thank you Nicolas and Taimoor for organizing this!

Building BetterContact | Helping B2B companies win outbound through more and better contact data

The last 3 months have been our strongest so far for BetterContact (+113.9% growth), and this time, we finally have a better understanding why:

1. The amount of times we get mentioned by happy customers has skyrocketed (⅔ new customers come through a referral)

2. We’re now far more deeply integrated into the Martech ecosystem (almost every major player in that space integrated our data in one way or another)

PS: there are some new big partnerships on the horizon

3. A lot happened on the data verification frontier, and people seem to especially love the improved accuracy on the phone side (as: more connects -> more conversations -> more revenue opps)

4. Significantly improved product performance due to a more robust infrastructure & error handling capabilities (100% uptimes in the last 60 days)

Our biggest challenge remains pushing churn below the 10% mark (it’s edging that for a while now).

While it won’t be an easy one, we put a lot of work into our Q4 roadmap, so we’re confident to get there EOY!

In October, BetterContact reached sub-10% customer churn for the first time, after battling with >25% churn waves. While still not optimal, it’s one of my proudest moments since we launched 26 months ago.

The difficulty of this astronomically high churn was that we’d win a new customer, only to watch an existing one leave.

So we *needed* to make it our #1 priority - here’s what we did:

1. PARTNERSHIPS & INTEGRATIONS

Over the last months, we partnered with tons of great companies:

- Outreach tools (Instantly, Smartlead, Saleshandy, Lemlist, Reply, et al.)
- CRMs (Hubspot, Breakcold)
- No-code tools (Clay, Zapier, Make)
…and many more

As many already use these tools, a seamless integration with them allows for using our product more easily. 

And as we’re going where the user already is, it decreases friction & churn.

(there are many more exciting partnerships in the pipeline!)

2. STRONGER PRODUCT

We didn’t only add 10+ new data providers, but also invested a lot in:

- Mobile phone verification, including geo-/name matching & activity scoring
- BetterAI, our algorithm to find the best provider sequence based on lead characteristics
- Stronger infrastructure & error handling capabilities, leading to better uptimes & enrichment times 
- Country-specific improvements to deliver better data to specific markets

We’ve seen a lot of users that rigidly compared our data with other solutions, and became customers after.

3. CO-MARKETING & EVENTS

Partnering & doing cool stuff together with brands our users already love drives a lot of brand advocacy - also, I’ve met a lot of great people in the space through that.

I can’t wait for our first ‘real-world’ get together at the Clay x BetterContact GTM Christmas Party in Berlin on 4th December! 

Our next big goal is approaching 5% churn - tough challenge in this market, but there’s a few things around the corner that make us confident to get there soon!

A few months ago, I asked myself: out of 100,000 'verified' emails, how many actually belong to the right person? Result? Only 74%.

(we tested that through email signatures, direct responses, and social scraping)

The reason this happens is that most email finders use a simple pattern-matching algorithm.

For example:

To find the email of Jason Fischer, they try things like j(.)fischer(@)company(.)com… 

Until there is a positive signal suggesting it’s a valid email.

But here’s where it gets tricky (and risky):

That “valid” email might belong to John Fischer, not Jason Fischer.

(Jason joined the company later and got jo(.)fischer(@)… instead.)

The result?

The outreach message lands in someone else's inbox.

In the end, that only results in wasted effort & damaged trust (and probably marking you as spam). Check the screenshot.

That’s why we at BetterContact stopped relying on pattern-guessing alone.

Instead, we shift more and more towards verified databases. 

This ensures the emails we find are actually the *right * email, not just a valid one.

Are you using pattern-generating email finders only? 👇

Last month, I spoke to an European agency owner who just hired 3 cold callers but is having trouble scaling cold calling with traditional data vendors (or ‘their existing setup with Zoominfo/Apollo’). Here’s what their problem is:

1. They use a mix of Apollo and ZoomInfo. Their connect rates are <7%. As they pay their cold callers a decent hourly base wage, the time it takes them to dial the 90% non-connecting numbers leads to significant fixed costs + low productivity.

2. Their cost on data is exploding. They average $0,3/enriched number - which is not bad. However, their cost/connect is at +$3 (due to unusable numbers). This discrepancy & the resulting ‘hidden costs’ are driving them nuts.

3. As Apollo/ZI are US providers, they often get +1 (US) numbers for their European leads, which they can’t call due to high fees (and it's not the right person anyways). This adds another layer of costs for unusable data.

Here’s how we helped them solve it:

1. We do proper activity scoring, which analyzes if the number has been recently active and picked up calls. If not, we don’t push it back and treat it as invalid.

2. As they’re an outbound agency, we put them on an agency plan, so 30% discounted ($0,28/verified number). This allows for good margins, as providers such as Lusha ($0,9/number) or Kaspr ($0,5) are not feasible at scale.

3. We conduct line type & geography checks, making sure that the number’s country code actually matches where the lead is localized.

They have just been with us for a months already & here are some stats they shared:

1. Connect rates average 19%. Their callers are now able to do more than double the conversations they were able to do before. This does not only lead to more booked demos, but just happier callers in general.

2. As they are on agency pricing, they average $0,28/enriched number. Considering their connect rates, their cost/connect decreased by ~60%.

3. Their non-EU dials (+1 etc.) for their European-only leads were driven to near 0 (we’re working on eliminating that completely).

What is your cold calling stack?

🎄Only 14 more days to go until the Clay x BetterContact GTM Christmas Party in Berlin, can't wait to see you there!

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Clay x BetterContact GTM Christmas Party (Berlin)

Even after 1000’s of Google meets & scaling BetterContact to a 7-figure ARR business, I never *really* talked to someone in ‘real life’ about what we do & the sales tech space in general 

Last week, however, I met one of our earliest customer quite randomly, which was one of the coolest experiences of that journey so far.

10x more personal than talking to someone on a Google Meet, and just… better.

That’s why I’m even more excited that in December, there will be an opportunity for many more of these ‘real life’ conversations.

Because on the 4th, we’re co-hosting a Christmas Party in Berlin together with Clay.

Very excited for this one as it’s the first SaaS event that I’m attending (and at the same time, the first one that we’re co-organizing).
 
Hoping to see as many familiar & new faces as possible (I'll put the link to the event in the description)!

🎄Only 8 more days to go until the Clay x BetterContact GTM Christmas Party in Berlin, can't wait to see you there! (link to sign up below)

The reason why most outbound campaigns fail is that they are built in the Red Ocean: targeting the exact same leads everyone else does. The Blue Ocean is where teams win these days.

Here’s why: legacy providers like Apollo, Zoominfo & Lusha only cover 30–60% of your TAM.

(i.e. you'll only get 30-60% valid emails & mobile numbers)

Means what?

Literally everyone else, including your competitors, gets the access to the same 30-60% of your TAM. So you end up competing with EVERYONE for the attention of the exact same leads.

Meanwhile, there's the Blue Ocean.

In outbound, 'Blue Ocean' doesn't have to mean a new, bigger market.

It can simply mean covering 20-30% more of your existing TAM, and going after the 'untouched' leads almost no competitors can find.

It’s the same market you already target, just the part no one else can reach.

At BetterContact, by working with 20+ data providers, we've built the tech to find, score, and verify contact data others miss (25–30% 'untouched leads').

This gives you bigger TAM coverage, higher connect rates and better results... Without ever diluting your ICP (the greatest sin of outbound).

Outbound isn’t broken. You're just fishing where everyone else is fishing too.

You can…

🩸 Keep fighting for 'leftovers' in the Red Ocean
💧 Or swim in the Blue Ocean, where others can’t

The 'outbound death zone' is probably the reason why most companies doing cold outreach shine at first, but fail miserably after & say 'outbound is dead' 

To better explain what I mean, here’s a real breakdown of the figures for a unicorn company that came dangerously close to getting stuck there:

𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐁𝐋𝐄𝐌

They used a mix of Apollo & ZoomInfo to break into the European market. High ACV, small TAM.

Their list building/lead sourcing process is rock solid and is based on 1st party intent data.

However, using Apollo and ZoomInfo, they found less than half of valid mobile numbers of these prospects for their sales teams.

This pretty quickly placed them in the middle of the ‘outbound death zone’ process: ICP dilution

As they did not have enough dials for their sales team anymore, and in order to hit quota, they were forced to also prospect leads which were not exactly matching what they initially agreed on as ICP.

Here are their numbers for a recent micro cold calling campaign they did:

Total dials: 1400
Conversations: 217
-> connect rate: 15.5%

Meetings scheduled: 17
Closed Won/Lost: (no data yet)

The problem is that the initial list that they built had around 3.000 leads.

So they were not even able to reach half of their list.  

𝐒𝐎𝐋𝐔𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍

So here’s how we helped them to solve it:

The big goal was TAM maximization.

We ran the 1.600 non-reachable through BetterContact, and found additional 750 verified mobile numbers, so 25% extra to their previous enrichments with Apollo and ZI (totals to 72% found) .

Extra dials: 750
Conversations: 174
-> connect rate: 23.2% 

Meetings scheduled: 15 
Closed Won/Lost: (no data yet)

𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐔𝐋𝐓𝐒

Just by using BC, they had an additional 174 actual conversations with their ICP, and 15 additional meetings booked.

Looking at their high-five figure ACV, we’re looking at an additional ~$750k in high-quality pipeline.

Considering previous campaigns they ran, and their meeting-to-closed won ratio, they will most likely hit their target for this micro campaign. All because they squeezed out that 25% extra reachable ICP coverage.

I was convinced we’d already tested every good contact data provider - but last week, one of our top customers challenged us to test one  we didn't know yet for the BetterContact waterfall

After testing their data thoroughly, the provider was able to add 0,4% valid numbers to our mobile phone finder waterfall.

Considering we already have 20+ providers in the mix, it was quite a pleasant surprise!

(good reminder to listen to your customers!)

So apparently, hidden gems still exist… and now we want more, to help us squeeze out every last % of valid data.

That's why we're putting out a bounty of $1k for everyone that points us to a data provider that adds to our current valid output by at least 0.5%, and which we will ultimately make part of our waterfall - please reach out! 👇

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