Heads up on that cheap B2B lead gen service I tried last week

Signed up for a $99/month lead scraping tool on Monday and by Friday my domain was flagged as spam by every major email provider. Anyone else get burned by these budget data providers?

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alice9286d ago

Tried a $49/month lead gen tool once and ended up on more blacklists than a career criminal.

richard_young806d ago

Honestly, the "end up on more blacklists than a career criminal" part is what gets me. That is a bad situation, but I gotta ask - did you actually verify that list before you sent anything out? Because I see too many people just buy some cheap tool, grab a free list off some shady site, and blast it without ever checking if those emails are even real. That's how you get blacklisted fast, not because the tool is bad but because you're hitting dead or fake addresses. A $49 tool can work fine if you spend half that time cleaning up your data first. Just saying, the tool might not have been the real problem here.

fiona_kim976d ago

The "career criminal" thing is funny but I disagree, you probably just didn't warm up the domain first. Even cheap tools work fine if you ease into the volume and clean your lists.