Find the right people before writing the email. Learn how to define an ideal customer profile, identify buying signals, build relevant prospect lists and check contact data.
Y Combinator introduces cold email as a way for founders to reach potential customers. Use the lesson to connect customer selection with a message that can start a sales conversation.
A tutorial combines Apollo prospect data with Claude Code in a lead-generation workflow. Use it to understand how research and automation can fit together when building a targeted list.
A practitioner’s approach to generating leads through cold email. Use it to review your prospecting process rather than treating the title’s ranking claim as established evidence.
A short tutorial on sourcing prospects from LinkedIn with cost in mind. Use it to explore a lead-finding workflow, then evaluate the relevance and quality of the contacts it produces.
This tutorial targets recently funded startups and moves through finding leads, enriching them and writing scripts. Use it to connect a business event with a relevant outreach angle.
A Clay-based approach to building an outbound pipeline. Use it to explore how prospecting workflows support sales conversations; the meeting count is the creator’s claim.
A lesson on finding prospects with a plausible need for your service. Use it to make audience selection more deliberate before investing in outreach volume.
Michael Seibel discusses reaching investors by cold email. Use this founder-focused lesson to think about recipient fit and the information an investor needs to understand an approach.
An overview of tools for finding contacts at target accounts. Use it to connect account selection with the practical work of identifying people to approach.
Open job listings provide a concrete signal for selecting accounts. Use the workflow to connect a hiring need with an outreach angle relevant to that company.
A targeting workflow uses LinkedIn events, posts and groups as context. Explore audiences defined by interests rather than relying only on job titles and company size.
A lesson on targeting accounts through the technologies they use. Build a more specific audience when your offer relates to an existing tool or software stack.