👋 Hey there

Let me guess...

You're spending thousands on lead lists from Apollo, ZoomInfo, or Sales Navigator.

Your SDRs are making 100+ cold calls a day.

Your email sequences have a 2% reply rate (and half of those are "unsubscribe").

You're running a Manual Outreach Campaign that cost $200 to 400+ per lead.

And your pipeline is still struggling.

Here's the hard truth:
Traditional outbound is dead.

🚨 The Outbound Strategy That's Wasting Your Budget

The way most B2B companies do outbound in 2026 is fundamentally broken.

Here's what's NOT working anymore:

Buying static lead lists from databases that are 6-12 months old

  • By the time you call them, their situation has completely changed

  • They're not in buying mode, so you're interrupting, not helping

  • You're competing with 50 other vendors using the same list

Cold calling without context

  • SDRs burning through 100 dials/day with 1-2% connect rates

  • Even when you connect, there's no buying intent

  • Expensive ($60K+ per SDR) with terrible ROI

Spray-and-pray email campaigns

  • Generic "Hey [First Name], I noticed your company..." templates

  • 2-3% reply rates if you're lucky

  • Burning your domain reputation and future deliverability

Relying on expensive intent data tools

  • ZoomInfo: $15,000-30,000/year

  • Cognism: $12,000-25,000/year

  • You're still getting the same signals as your competitors

  • Everyone is targeting the same "in-market" accounts

The result?

You're burning $10K-50K per month on outbound with mediocre results. Your CAC is climbing.

Your sales team is frustrated.

There has to be a better way.

💡Why This Problem is Getting Worse?

Here's what makes this even more painful:

1. Your competitors are calling the same prospects. When everyone uses Apollo or ZoomInfo, you're all fighting over the same list. The prospects you're calling have already been contacted by 5-10 vendors this week.

2. Timing is everything (and you're always late). By the time a company shows up in traditional databases as "in-market," they've already been researching solutions for 60+ days. You're late to the party.

3. Decision-makers are hiding. C-suite executives have assistants screening calls. They ignore LinkedIn messages from strangers. Your perfectly crafted email gets lost in 200 daily emails.

4. Budget scrutiny is at an all-time high. CFOs are demanding ROI on every dollar. When your outbound cost per meeting is $500+ and only 10% close, you're on thin ice.

The painful truth:

Most companies waste 70% of their outbound budget on prospects who will NEVER buy, simply because they're targeting at the wrong time with the wrong message.

But here's what the top 1% of sales teams figured out...

High-Intent Lead Scraping Using AI & Modern Tech Stack

The companies crushing it with outbound in 2026 aren't doing traditional prospecting.

They're targeting buying signals in real-time.

Instead of calling 100 random VPs of Sales, they're calling:

Companies that just posted a VP of Sales job (they're scaling, need solutions)
Companies that raised Series B funding (budget unlocked, buying mode activated)
Companies where a new CRO just started (new leader = new priorities)
Companies adopting new tech stacks (showing in job descriptions)
Companies opening new offices (expansion = new needs)

This is called Intent-Based Lead Scraping.

And it's completely changed the game.

🔧 The Modern Tech Stack That Makes This Possible

Here's the beautiful part:
You don't need expensive enterprise tools.

You can build your own intent scraping system using affordable, powerful tools that cost $200-$1,000/month (vs $5K-10K for traditional databases).

The Tools We Recommend:

🔍 Search & Discovery:

  • Serper.dev - $50/mo - Google Search API (30K searches/month)

  • SerpAPI - Alternative search API

🕸️ Web Scraping:

  • Apify - From $39/mo - LinkedIn, job boards, custom scraping

  • Firecrawl - From $16/mo - Clean structured data extraction

  • Bright Data - $500+/mo - Enterprise-grade scraping

  • ScraperAPI - $49-249/mo - Proxy layer for JavaScript sites

  • PhantomBuster - From $69/mo - LinkedIn automation

💎 Enrichment & Contact Finding:

  • Apollo.io - Free-$99/mo - Company + contact enrichment

  • Hunter.io - From $49/mo - Email finding & verification

  • Clay - From $349/mo - All-in-one enrichment orchestration

  • ZoomInfo - $15K+/year - Premium data (if budget allows)

  • Cognism - $12K+/year - Global B2B data

  • Lusha - $29-99/mo - Contact enrichment

  • RocketReach - $39-249/mo - Email + phone finder

Email & Phone Verification:

🎯 All-in-One Platforms:

  • Instantly.ai - $37-297/mo - Email outreach + warmup

  • Getsales - $39-94/mo - Multichannel Outreach automation

  • Lemlist - $59-129/mo - Personalized outreach

📊 But Here's the Problem...

With so many tools available, most teams get overwhelmed.

Which tools do you actually need?
How much should you budget?
What lead volume can you realistically expect?
What's the ROI at different investment levels?

That's why we built something to help you.

🎁 FREE TOOL: Intent-Based Lead Scraping Calculator

We created an interactive calculator that shows you exactly:

Which intent signals to track (hiring, funding, executive changes, etc)
Complete tool stacks for every budget ($229/mo to $4,549/mo)
Expected lead volumes at each investment tier
Cost per lead calculations
Decision-maker targeting rates
Quarterly ROI projections

You can select which intent signals matter for your business and instantly see:

  • How many high-intent leads do you get per month

  • Exact costs per lead

  • Complete tool recommendations

  • Quarterly pipeline projections

It takes 2 minutes and might completely change your outbound strategy.

🎯 Real Results from Teams Using This Approach

Before: 50 cold leads/month, 2% reply rate, $8 cost per lead
After: 800 intent-based leads/month, 12% reply rate, $1-2 cost per lead

Before: $15,000/month on ZoomInfo + 2 SDRs
After: $400-900/month custom stack, 1 SDR, better data quality

Before: Calling 100 prospects/day, hoping to find someone interested
After: Calling 20 prospects/day who just showed buying signals

🚀 Want Us to Build This for You?

Here's our offer:

Book a free 30-minute GTM Strategy Call and we'll:

Analyze your current outbound approach and identify where you're bleeding money

Design a custom intent-scraping system tailored to your ICP, industry, and budget

Recommend the exact tool stack you need (no guessing, no overwhelm)

Map out your implementation timeline with step-by-step workflows

Show you the ROI projections for the next 2 quarters

PLUS: We'll deliver 100 high-intent leads for FREE as a bonus when you book the call.

These aren't random contacts from a database. These are decision-makers at companies that have shown recent buying signals relevant to YOUR solution.

(Limited to 20 calls this month — we're capping it to ensure quality)

🤔 Who This Is For

This system works best for:

B2B SaaS companies selling to mid-market or enterprise
Agencies looking to scale client acquisition
Service businesses with defined ICPs
Sales teams are frustrated with traditional cold outbound
Companies spending $5K+ per month on lead gen with poor ROI

Not a fit if:
You're selling to consumers (B2C)
You have no clear ICP or target market
You need leads tomorrow (this is a system, not a quick fix)

📈 What to Do Next

Step 1: Try the Intent Scraping Calculator (2 minutes)
See exactly what you could achieve at different budget levels

Step 2: Book your free GTM Strategy Call (30 minutes)
Get a custom plan + 100 free high-intent leads

Step 3: Implement the system
We'll guide you through every step (or do it for you)

Step 4: Watch your pipeline fill with qualified prospects
No more cold calling into the void

⚡ The Bottom Line

Traditional outbound is burning your budget and wasting your team's time.

The future of B2B sales is intent-based prospecting — targeting decision-makers at the exact moment they're ready to buy.

You can either:

  1. Keep doing what you're doing, and hope it improves

  2. Build an intent scraping system and 5x your outbound ROI

The tools exist.
The playbook works.

The only question is:
Will you adapt?

Until next time,

Ankit Modi
Founder at Six Figure Consulting

P.S. — Seriously, book that call. We're only doing 20 this month, and spots are filling up. Plus, those 100 free high-intent leads could be the start of your best quarter ever.

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