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every sales prospecting tool you need

Sales software for every stage of your prospecting process

FUNCTION
TOOL NAME









Email Finder
Apollo
Hunter
Anymailfinder
Kleanleads
VoilaNorbert
GetProspect








Email Sender
Lemlist
Mailshake
Apollo
Quickmail





Email Warmer
Mailreach
Mailwarm
Quickmail Autowarmer
Lemwarm





Email Verification
Neverbounce
Zerobounce
Debounce
Kickbox





LinkedIn Automation
Expandi
Prospectin
MeetAlfred





Multi-platform Outreach
LaGrowthMachine
MeetAlfred
Lemlist
Saleshub





Scraping
Phantombuster
Kleanleads
Captain Data
Blockspring
TexAu
Scrapebox
1. Fundamentals
  • Email finder

  • LinkedIn Extension

  • CRMs

  • Data Enrichment

  • Intent Signals

  • Twitter Automation

  • Email verification

  • Catch-all verification

  • E-Meeting

  • E-Signature

  • Sales Coaching

  • Postal Mail Outreach

  • Warm Intro

  • Webinars

  • Sales Assistant

  • Email sender

  • LinkedIn Automation

  • Prospecting Database

  • Video Outreach

  • Visitor Identification

  • Technology Lookup

  • Prospect Insights

  • AI Meeting Notes

  • Reddit Automation

  • Data Attribution

  • Account Research

  • Buyer Engagement

  • Multichannel Outreach

  • Deliverability Infrastructure

  • LinkedIn Scraping

  • AI Copywriting

  • Workflow Visualization

  • Workflow Automation

  • Phone number finder

  • Sales Reporting

  • Proposals

  • AI Customer Service

  • Phone Dialers

  • Prospect Gifting

  • Demo

  • Sales Funnel

  • Social Listening

  • Find Physical Addresses

  • Social Selling

  • Inbox Management

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build the ultimate sales prospecting tool stack

How to pick sales prospecting tools?

Introduction

There are countless sales software to choose from. If you're trying to define what your tool stack should look like - it is essential to understand what you are trying to accomplish.

Many tools look enticing and seem to be good solutions to boost your sales results but might prove unnecessary pretty quickly.

The easiest way to decide which solutions to go for is to map your sales & prospecting processes - and focus on the areas that require the most improvements.


In any efficient prospecting system the following is required:

1. A process that lets you source potential clients precisely.
2. A platform on which to reach out to these prospects.
3. A way to ensure prospects notice your messages.
4. An efficient message that highlights your value proposition.
5. Lead management practices to not let deals fall through.
6. Automations that save time for your sales reps.

As you might have guessed - at all these stages, there are sales software that will make your life easier. We'll dive deeper into how to use software to enhance your performance at each of these stages. Beforehand, let's talk about your current stack.

Take a look at your current stack

You might be able to save thousands of $/€ by replacing some of your tools with other ones. A good example (thay we'll cover) later one, is with sales engagement tools. Most make you pay per profile (e.g: Salesloft, Outreach, Lemlist), which means that the bill becomes huge pretty quickly. Some other tools, such as Smartlead, have different pricing model, that can be way more advatangeous as you scale.

Here's my advice to you:
-> Look at each of your software.
-> Start with the ones that are more "nice-to-have" than "must-have". --> Check which sales tool category they belong to.
-> Compare pricing plans with other tools laid out above on the page.

Example for alternatives

Here are typical alternatives that help businesses save money on their sales stack every month:

Email Finder: Most tools charge per email found and provides a limited amount of credits. Apollo has very generous pricing - that lets you find 10,000 email addresses per month on their $99/mo plan.

Sales Engagement: Most tools have a pay-per-profile plan. This means that, if you were to take a subscription to Lemlist, for example, you would pay $59-$99/mo per profile.

If you have 10 sales reps on your team, that would mean min. $590/mo.
In comparison, Smartlead or Instantly charge based on total sending volume and lets you use an unlimited number of profiles. You would be paying $94-97/mo instead of $590/mo. Big difference, right?

Data Extraction: Instant Data Scraper (IDS) is completely free and can be used for (almost) all your data extraction needs. Make some savings on scraping software right away. To scrape big platforms [e.g: LinkedIn], I still recommend using a dedicated software such as Phantombuster.

Workflow Automation: Both n8n and Make are designed to let you scale to a high number of automated workflows. You can divide your Zapier's bill by 2 depending on how many automations are set up for your business.

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