Freelancers and very small businesses with no contact list and no tool: starting from zero feels overwhelming. Where do you begin when you have nothing?
Apollo (apollo.io), which combines a huge database of professional contacts with AI agents. You search for companies by criteria, the AI builds your lists, writes your sequences and tracks replies, all from a single platform.
Trigger: You describe your ideal customer — builds the list, writes the sequence and tracks the replies, and you get a centralized prospecting pipeline.
$0 to $49/month per user (free plan to get started). Permanent free plan to get started.
Yes. Permanent free plan to get started.
Level: Easy. Setup takes 4 steps; the first: Create a free Apollo account and describe your ideal customer.
Start small: 50 well-targeted prospects are worth more than 5,000 random ones. Verify contact details before sending: databases always contain errors.
Prospects visit my site but leave without a trace
$0/month up to 500 identified visitors (free plan); paid plans starting at around $700/month for higher volumes.
My sales calls are never debriefed, and I keep making the same mistakes
Enterprise pricing, by quote (expect several hundred dollars/month).
Nobody picks up my cold calls, and I'm wasting my time
Usage-based pricing, depending on call volume (check the rates on bland.ai).
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