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So apollo mcp can extract leads (all data , except email and phone technically).

This is great, becuase their api do not provide that data for free.

I think apollo make a mistake and they will fix this soon or as soon they figure out.

What is means?

-You can bypass 5 pages limit

-You can search contacts or scrape the entire apollo database if yout want. Well based on my experience around 15k contacts per day with free account. You shoul be able to do 600 requests per day with free account, so this is possible.

-You can use that data to get emails, just by combining it with an unlimited email finder or validation api.

-You can donwload linkedin profiles , unlimited free.

I think they will remove this at some point. because their api is well protected on this. XD.

But right now, i am just enjoying all the free things they are giving. XD

Just sharing the tip.

So apollo mcp can extract leads (all data , except email and phone technically).

This is great, becuase their api do not provide that data for free.

I think apollo make a mistake and they will fix this soon or as soon they figure out.

What is means?

-You can bypass 5 pages limit

-You can search contacts or scrape the entire apollo database if yout want. Well based on my experience around 15k contacts per day with free account. You shoul be able to do 600 requests per day with free account, so this is possible.

-You can use that data to get emails, just by combining it with an unlimited email finder or validation api.

-You can donwload linkedin profiles , unlimited free.

I think they will remove this at some point. because their api is well protected on this. XD.

But right now, i am just enjoying all the free things they are giving. XD

Just sharing the tip.

I'm planning to offer a 2-month B2B cold email pilot for $5,000 MXN (So $300 USD).

It includes:

• ICP research + 500 prospects
• Email validation
• Campaign setup + warm-up (1 month) + Initial report
• Cold email + follow-ups (1 month)
• No automated sequences (So only one email per contact)
• Detailed campaign report and recommendations

The idea is to test whether outbound can generate interest and give the client useful data, even if the campaign doesn't convert. I am doing this for Latam. Really people do not nothing about cold email, 0 , nada, they are empty and think it is spam.

Honestly, I'd consider something like 500 prospects → 6 replies → 3-2 positive → 0 meetings → 0 sales a realistic outcome in some niches.

Would you consider this a fair offer? What would you change?

I know price is extreamly low, but consider:

-It is latam

-People dont trust

Hello Everyone,

I give the service of lead research and i just want to share something that happened to me recently.

A client told me he wanted leads from an ecommerce industry. He told me he hired some guys in upwork before, but they only delivered low quality leads.

So, i delivered him high quality leads, i told him i manually researched each lead. Here was my process:

1. Review and scrape multiple b2b databases.
2. Review each lead with claude (sometimes claude told me to review some of them manually)
3. Review some of the leads manually in their website.
4. Adding an extra field called "why it fits" which explain why this lead make sense for his product.
5. Validate each email (including catch all email verification). So 98% valid.

He told me , it was the best lead dataset. He was very happy with the test sample i sent to him.

So, he asked me , what is the price. And I said it is 2.5 USD per valild lead. He told me "Are you crazy , 2.5 USD is too expensive, i will never pay that".

I mentioned, man, it takes time, checking multiple databases for best coverage, ranking each lead, manually checking some websites, validating emails so i am sure they are valid". I said, in the past other gave you garbage data, you even told me that.

So you want quality, you have to pay for it.

So, what do you think? Sometimes I think clients are too cheap. They expect high quality but don't want to pay. They expect leads price is the same as the price that appears in Apollo or Prospeo, it is not.

If you send emails to bad leads, you are just doing harm to your own brand. Sending an email to a brand that do not sell your product for example. Your reply rate plumeted and stuff like that.

I just see this pattern is many clients.

I want to share the cold email approach that got me my best client. Over $3,000 USD in revenue so far, and they keep coming back.

The secret is not the copy. It is the intent data. I found this company because they were actively posting on a job board asking for exactly the service I sell. They already wanted it. I just skipped the proposal queue (and the connects haha) and emailed them directly.

The process:

1. Scrape job boards (I use Upwork)
2. Get the company website behind each job post
3. Find and verify the decision-maker's email
4. Send a short, direct email using this template:

Hello [name],

I am [your name] and I am an expert in [your service].

I saw your company [company name] was asking for [service they posted] on [job board name].

I just want to offer my services. Happy to provide a free sample so you can evaluate the quality.

Regards, [your name]

That's the whole email. Short, direct, no tricks. The client replied the same day asking for a sample, and that first project turned into multiple recurring projects.

With this intent-based approach my reply rate is around 17%. Compare that to blasting a cold list you bought somewhere.

Two honest warnings: verify the emails before sending (bounces will burn your domain), and platforms change — if the job board hides company data tomorrow, adapt.

Has anyone else used job boards as an intent signal? What other sources of intent data are working for you?

Irán sigue teniendo buenas posibilidades de clasificar como uno de los mejores terceros, pero hay una combinación de resultados que prácticamente lo dejaría fuera del Mundial.

El escenario de pesadilla es:

• 🇭🇷 Croacia derrota a Ghana.
• 🇩🇿 Argelia derrota a Austria.
• 🇨🇩 RD Congo derrota a Uzbekistán.

Si se cumplen los tres resultados, estos equipos superarían a Irán en la tabla de los mejores terceros y los iraníes quedarían al borde de la eliminación.

La buena noticia para Irán es que necesita que al menos uno de esos resultados no ocurra. Si Ghana suma puntos, Austria evita la derrota o Uzbekistán evita perder, las opciones de clasificación de Irán aumentan considerablemente.

¿Creen que Irán logrará avanzar o se terminará dando este escenario de pesadilla?

Hello Everyone,

I need beta testers to test my apollo scraper chrome extension. You can download all the data, except fot the email. So, technically, you can download:

Name,

Last name,

Website,

Person Linkedin

Country

etc. etc. etc.

It is a chrome extension, and just trying to get some users, so i can know if the extension works well and also the user interface is ok. If you want the extension, you can send a dm, or comment here, and i send you the link. Or if you don't believe me, we can talk in a video chat and i can share the extension live, so you can see it.

Don't want to sell anything, I just need the feedback.

Let me know, i will not put any link here, becuase i don't want this post to look like spam or something like that. Happy to share it, and hopefully it can help you.

Hola Taqueros,

Solo vengo a desahogarme con el mercado de freelancing de programación porque sinceramente ando medio encabronado.

Antes que nada, creo que tengo autoridad para opinar en esto puesto que ya llevo 3 años con varios trabajos entregados en fiverr (35+ reviews de 5 estrellas) y varios trabajos entregados por fuera a clientes. Si no me creen, les envío capturas de mis reviews por dm.

Primero que nada, si quieres ser freelancers tienen dos opciones: Usar una plataforma (tipo Fiverr y Upwork) o buscar clientes por su cuenta. Vamos a ver cada una:

1) Fiverr (el peor de todos) - No se si existe el infierno pero creo que esto se acerca.

Literalmente los clientes tienen la realiadad bien alterada. Fiverr esta inundado de "clientes" que quieren trabajo premium a precios nivel indio o pakistaní.

Ejemplo de clientes que me llegan por aqui:

• El típico dueño de empresa lider en el sector, que me pide un trabajo de 1 mes queriendo pagar el sueldo mínimo. Yo asi de we, soy freelancer , tengo pura review positiva de 5 estrellas, y todavía llegas a quererme pagar lo mínimo cuando ambos sabemos que esta chamba requiere a un programador mínimo por un mes y que sepa de las cosas.
• El cliente de España que por alguna razón piensa que los mexicanos cobramos y tenemos los estandares de los indios o pakistanis. Tipo es que ya coticé y me cobran tanto, o ya investigué en el mercado y el precio de esto está en tanto. Ya la verdad, namas les suelto el precio de primera namas para filtrarlos rápido y no perder tiempo
• Ya ni les cuento de los dichosos brief en fiverr, eso ya llega a lo ridículo, y pienso dejarlo para otro post aqui, son como que ofertas "premium" de trabajo que me llegan. Literal, esta para tomar screenshots y publicarlo.

Aveces, de vez en cuando, llegan clientes buenos con pedidos chicos de 1 o 2 días, donde cobro tipo 100-300 dolares, tipo por un script o algo pequeño. Pero proyectos grandes, literalmente no es sustentable ahi. Solo he hecho un proyecto grande como de 2k alguna vez.

2) Upwork - Mejor que Fiverr pero igual pal perro con lo que piden.

Igual no me creen, pero el otro día via a uno pidiendo un software completo de validación y enriquecimiento de correos por 200 dolares. Y dije igual es un caso aislado, pero no, la verdad, es que las ofertas de trabajo ahi, ya parecen de risa. Repito, igual no me creen, pero hagan una cuenta en Upwork, y filtren por trabajo con presupuesto definido y literal dices esto no tiene lógica.

Ya llevo gastado no se cuentos connects y nada, literalmente nada. Talvez, si eres contractor o agarros un puesto de empleado, talvez valga la pena, pero la verdad, los trabajos "rápidos" ofertados son muy malos.

3) Buscar clientes por su cuenta - La mejor opción y la razón por la que aun sigo en esto

Sin duda, la mejor opción pero si te lleva como un año aprender a prospectar clientes, yo todavía ni lo domino bien, buscar los contactos, checar que los contactos tengan intención de compra, enviarles dm o mensajes, hacer contenido para atraerlos, si esta dificil.

Pero es la que mejor paga y donde te sientes que si hace lógica los precios. Pero si esta cabrón, sobretodo la incertidumbre de tener que buscar clientes cada mes, aunque algunos son recurrentes.

Pero igual aqui no te salvas de clientes malos, que quieren todo por casi nada.

Entonces, Porque lo hago y no soy empleado?

La verdad odio tener jefe y alguien que me diga que hacer, y tener que hacer cosas que son impuestas, tener que ir a hacer team building en el sol, o tener que actuar de una manera por la cultura de la empresa. Ojo no digo que freelancing sea mejor que ser empleado (la neta no lo es), pero mi estilo va más con freelancing por la libertad. Además, que construyo SaaS, y hacer freelancing me da más tiempo para dedicarle a construir mi SaaS que ser empleado.

Pero si esta bien cabrón el mercado de freelacing, muchos se quejan del mercado de ser empleado en programación, pero igual el mercado de freelancing de programación esta dificil. Mi recomendación, es si tomarse un año en aprender a conseguir clientes usando inbound marketing.

Dudas o preguntas, las respondo, creo que me extendí mucho, si no quieren leer igual lo entiendo, no hay problem. XD.