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Target: Anyone building a high-output cold email system with minimal tools

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❓ Why it works:

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Most teams overcomplicate their stack.

Too many logins. Too much manual effort. Way too much time wasted context-switching.

This setup uses just 3 tools to cover your entire workflow - from scraping to sending - and automates nearly every step.

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🛠 Tool Stack:

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• Apollo - for initial targeting
• Clay - for enrichment + AI personalization
• Smartlead / Instantly / Lemlist - for sending </aside>

👇 What to do:

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1. Build your list in Apollo

• Use filters like: company size, industry, job title, and location
• Export the list into Clay </aside>

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2. Enrich and personalize in Clay

• Pull emails, phone numbers, LinkedIn, funding, tech stack, and more
• Add AI prompts to write custom first lines, P.S., or CTAs
• Push qualified contacts straight into your sequencer </aside>

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3. Send through Smartlead / Instantly / Lemlist

• Automate your outreach
• Warm up inboxes
• Monitor campaign performance </aside>

This system gives you full control over:

• Who you target
• What data you use
• How personalized your emails are
• And how fast you can scale

✅ Tip:

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Start lean, don’t overcomplicate it.

Build one full outbound loop before layering on more complexity.

You don’t need 12 tools to get results - just 3 that actually talk to each other.

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