Spent $800 on a lead gen tool that got me zero real clients in 3 months

I signed up for this B2B lead scraping software back in March thinking it would save me hours. It promised warm leads from LinkedIn and company databases, but every single contact I got was either outdated or totally irrelevant. I wasted three months tweaking filters and still couldn't get a single qualified conversation out of it. Meanwhile, I spent maybe 20 hours on cold email research myself and landed two solid meetings. So is it just me, or are most of these automated B2B outreach tools actually a scam for small operators? Has anyone else burned cash on one of these and regretted it?

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emery104d ago

The real problem is that these tools treat all businesses the same way. A tool built for a 50 person company is never going to work for a solo operator or tiny team. Your filters and data sources are way different than what a big sales team needs. Most of these software companies never even talk to people running small shops. They just build one size fits all and hope nobody notices.

tessa_carr3d ago

Yeah, "one size fits all" stuff bugs me everywhere, not just software. It's like shampoo companies thinking the same bottle works for curly hair, straight hair, and a bald guy.