Real founders and agencies asking for lead generation and outreach tools on Reddit right now, updated weekly.
The most searched question in every founder community: "Where do I find customers?" On Reddit it gets specific - "Tool to find people asking for my product?", "How do you fill your agency pipeline?", "LinkedIn outreach is dead, what's working?". r/SaaS, r/Entrepreneur, r/startups and r/agency generate this demand daily.
Leadverse - itself a lead generation tool that finds buyers on Reddit - tracks these posts and filters them for intent. Everything below comes from authors actively looking for prospecting tools, warm-lead sources or outreach help. Consider this page a live demo: these leads were found exactly the way Leadverse finds yours.
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The cheapest LinkedIn automation tools aren't always the cheapest to run
Hey! I’d been comparing LinkedIn automation tools in a few previous posts, including Expandi, Linked Helper, Lemlist, Waalaxy, Closely, SalesRobot, HeyReach, Botdog, and PhantomBuster. This time I wanted to look at a simpler question: which tools are actually the cheapest once you move past the advertised entry tier? I compared the lowest plan that can handle a basic outreach workflow with multi-step sequences, reply-based stopping, and lead export. Here are the four cheapest options I found. 1. Linked Helper: $15/mo The $15 Standard plan already includes multistep workflows, auto-stop on reply, CSV export, and 11 native CRM connectors. Standard and Pro mainly differ in throughput rather than basic workflow features. The subscription is billed per LinkedIn account rather than per user. There is also a 14-day free trial, and the annual equivalent is $8.25/month when prepaid for a year. The main additional cost is infrastructure: the desktop app runs on your own machine, so 24/7 operation requires a VPS. Depending on the setup, that can add roughly $35–55/month. 2. Octopus CRM: $21.99/mo The advertised Starter price is $9.99/month, but its feature grid leaves out several functions needed for a regular campaign, including bulk messaging, campaign building, and data export. Those features start with Advanced at $21.99/month. The Unlimited plan costs $39.99/month and adds the listed safety controls and integrations, as well as compatibility with LinkedIn Premium and Recruiter. It runs as a Chrome extension, so campaigns depend on the browser remaining available. Monthly purchases are non-refundable, while annual purchases can be refunded only within 24 hours. 3. Botdog: $69/mo Botdog's $35/month price is the annual-billing equivalent. The actual month-to-month Starter price is $69/month. Starter includes multi-step sequences, auto-stop on reply, and CSV import/export without a separate upgrade. Since it runs in the cloud, there is no separate VPS or proxy cost to add. CRM integration is less straightforward: the documentation points to a higher plan plus a separate Zapier subscription, with Zapier Professional required for webhook functionality. Annual fees are non-refundable except where required by law. 4. We-Connect: $69/mo The Growth plan costs $69/month when billed monthly. The same plan is $49/month with annual billing, paid upfront at $588/year. The cheapest Growth plan includes sequences, branching, auto-stop, and the available safety controls, so there isn't an immediate feature upgrade required for a basic outreach workflow. It's cloud-based, so there is no VPS to maintain. The platform doesn't currently include email or company enrichment; its documentation lists those as upcoming features. What I took from the comparison The advertised entry price isn't always the most useful number when comparing these tools. Some entry plans have lower usage limits or exclude features that may be necessary for a basic workflow, while monthly and annual billing can also produce very different totals. For me, the prices ended up being quite different depending on the workflow, so I'd compare the actual requirements first and then look at the starting plan rather than the headline price. What are the cheapest LinkedIn automation tools you've tried? Let me know!
What changes when you run LinkedIn outreach across multiple accounts
Hey everyone! After the first post, I wanted to look at another practical part of LinkedIn prospecting: how pricing and account management change when you're running several client accounts rather than just one. I compared four tools based on the same points: pricing, how accounts are billed, how client accounts are separated, and what the setup looks like when you're managing several accounts. 1. Expandi Expandi starts at $99/month, or $79/month with annual billing. Its Business plan includes branching campaigns, a shared Global Inbox, and account roles. For agencies, white-label is available through a separate Agency / White Label tier with 10+ seats and custom pricing. The public $79 rate therefore isn't a confirmed 20-account agency price. At that rate, 20 accounts would work out to $1,580/month, but this is only a calculation from the published price. The platform is cloud-based, with LinkedIn sessions handled through its infrastructure. Client access can be managed through roles, although separate workspaces aren't the default setup. 2. Linked Helper Linked Helper starts at $15/month, or $8.25/month with annual billing, with a 14-day free trial. For 20–49 accounts, the published bulk discount is 20%, bringing 20 monthly licences to $240/month, or $12 per account. The desktop application can also run on a VPS, and each client can be separated into its own Workspace. LinkedIn sessions remain on the user's machine or VPS rather than being transferred to a vendor cloud. There is no full reseller white-label program, but the setup supports separate client workspaces and can be used for continuous multi-account operation through a VPS. The main difference from the cloud options is simply where the infrastructure is managed. 3. Dripify Dripify starts at $59/month, with Advanced at $99/month. It is a cloud-based platform combining LinkedIn and email sequences, so accounts can run without a separate VPS. Each LinkedIn account requires its own subscription, with no public bulk pricing. At the $99 Advanced rate, 20 accounts would come to about $1,980/month. The platform is designed around operator-managed accounts rather than separate client workspaces. I couldn't find a white-label option or BYO proxy support, while LinkedIn sessions are handled through the vendor's cloud infrastructure. 4. Dux-Soup Dux-Soup combines its Chrome extension with a Cloud Agency tier for managing multiple client accounts. The package starts at $371/month for five prepaid seats, with additional sessions at $74.20 each, putting 20 accounts at roughly $1,484/month. The Agency setup includes a shared dashboard, Unified Messaging, Open API access, and an account manager. There is no bulk discount, and the five-seat minimum applies even if you have fewer clients. Client account separation is documented, although Dux-Soup's support documentation also says that admins can access other client accounts. There is no white-label option, so I'd clarify the exact access model before setting it up for multiple clients. The main difference I noticed is that the four tools solve multi-account management in different ways. Expandi and Dripify keep the infrastructure in the cloud, Dux-Soup combines its extension with a cloud agency dashboard, while Linked Helper uses a desktop/VPS model with separate client Workspaces. For a multi-account setup, I'd compare the licence cost together with the account-management model and the amount of control you want over the underlying infrastructure. What other LinkedIn tools are you using for multi-account or client setups?
What have you found are the best automations to implement in Roofing businesses? Do you find there are any automations that go well with their ads also?
I see a lot of posts from different agency owners regarding managing multiple clients, niches and industries. I'm a beginner, I have 4 clients at the moment and is on the process of onboarding my 5th (contracts signed, need to start his campaign). I work with IT services firms and MSP's and help them find new businesses via cold email. I like the niche as I used to work in the sector before and can understand what makes a good customer, the technical lingo and feel more comfortable doing marketing for an industry I'm familiar with. I mainly need help on strategies I can use to make onboarding, reporting and client management easier. I can generate decent leads but I can see that two of my customers arent effectively taking advantage of the hand-offs, reducing their roi. Chasing after them and ensuring everyone is fully satisfied also takes a lot of my time that I could spend on outbound and adding more revenue. What software/tactics can you all recommend to make client management easier? Anyone had success automating replies and lead management or should I hire someone? Open to all thoughts
Automated conversations with quiz takers for more sales
Hey guys Recently set up a quiz funnel using Octane AI on my DTC wellness brand. \+3% increase in conversions of people who go through it. Tried emailing some people based on their results and got some convos going that ended in sales. Looking for a tool to automate outreach to people who're likely to buy at scale. Ideally responding back and forth with them. Have the essential email flows set up, but seems emailing them very personalised has real potential. Anyone know a tool for this? See lots of AI SDRs but not compatible.
Looking for experience connecting buyer intent data to Agentforce
Hi all, I am wondering who has tried connecting 1st party intent data (SFMC engagement data, lead web activity, products & services they're interested in, buyings signals) to Agentforce agents and how successful it was. Specifically this could be agents that reach out to buyers on whatever channel. Also copilots of any sorts or segmentation agents that plan campaigns. Finally, keen to hear how it was technically achieved, whether through Data Cloud or else.
The ‘One Automation’ That Multipled Your Revenue—Drop Your Workflow or Tool 🛠️
From AI-driven lead gen to simple scripts, what single automation moved your financial needle the most in 2025? Show your process, recommend a tool, or ask for the best current ones out there. Let’s build a resource thread for scale-minded money makers..
What lead gen tools/AI can I use for business loan leads ?
I want to get more into ai to generate leads for my business loan business. I’m not talking about generic ai video content. I want AI agents actively searching the web for high intent buying signals, enrichment, cold outreach and get them in my funnel to apply. What tools are out there rn that works ?
Best lead sources right now? (bought 100k scraped Apollo leads, results below)
Bought 100,000 scraped Apollo leads this weekend for $200. Ran them through a cleaning service for $80 — after cleaning, I'm down to 12,000 usable leads (about 12% yield). Bounce rate on what's left is under 1% (\0.68%), so the cleaning clearly did its job. Cost so far works out to about $0.023/lead. Decent for the price, but I'd rather pay more upfront for a list that doesn't need an 88% haircut. For those doing outbound at volume — where are you actually getting your best leads these days? Curious about: Apollo vs ZoomInfo vs Clay vs other scrapers/enrichment tools Whether paying more per lead up front beats cheap-and-clean Any sources with better hit rates for cold outreach specifically What's working for you right now?
Popsy is completely down, so I ended up building my own for my agency.
Me and my cofounder are both very technical, but marketing and client acquisition has always been the part we struggle with the most. We used to use Popsy to find Reddit posts from people actively looking for an MVP, app, developer, etc. It was honestly pretty useful for finding people who already had intent. A few weeks ago it stopped working properly, and now it seems to be completely down. So I decided to just build our own. We already have an internal admin dashboard for our agency, so I added a lead generation tool that finds relevant Reddit posts, ranks them based on how good of a lead they are, and tracks our outreach. Basically our own little Popsy, built specifically for our agency. I’m thinking of adding X and LinkedIn later too. For anyone who used Popsy before it went down, what are you using now to find people who are actively looking for your service?
How do you decide which LinkedIn prospects are actually worth contacting?
I've tried a bunch of LinkedIn outreach tools and a lot of them seem to solve the same problem: find people send connection requests send messages follow up Which is useful, but it still leaves you with the same question: who should actually get the outreach? A list can have 1,000 prospects in it, but that doesn't mean all 1,000 deserve the same sequence. Some are a great ICP fit. Some barely fit. Some are showing signs of interest. Some probably shouldn't be contacted at all. That's the part I think is more interesting than just automating the sending. I've been using We-Connect because it looks at things like prospect fit and intent, then lets you use that information to decide what happens next across LinkedIn and email. So instead of: "here's my list, send this sequence to everyone" it's more like: "here's my list, figure out who actually matters and treat them accordingly." That's a much more useful kind of automation to me. How are you currently deciding who gets what outreach? Is it mostly filters before the campaign, or are you changing the workflow based on what you learn about the prospect?
Best tool for building a lead list with verified emails when you're a one-person shop?
Hi all, I'm a solo consultant running my own outbound. I need to build lists of companies and get working emails for the right person at each one. Requirements are pretty basic. Filter by industry, headcount and country, ideally by tech stack too, then get emails. Budget somewhere around $100-300/mo. I was on ListKit until their pricing moved somewhere I can't justify, so I'm starting from scratch on this. What's everyone running?
When does it make sense to hire an AI agent development company?
I'm curious where people draw the line between using an existing AI tool and investing in custom AI agent development. If a business has complex workflows, multiple systems, or needs an AI agent to take actions rather than simply answer questions, does custom development make more sense? What factors would you consider before deciding?
Is anyone actually running ai lead qualification in production and not just testing?
Lots of tools claiming to do ai lead qualification but I'm struggling to find anyone who's running it in a real pipeline with real numbers. Not a demo, not a blog post example, an actual production system where AI is qualifying leads before they reach a human. What's the architecture look like? What's the error rate? Is it scoring based on rules the AI generated or is the AI doing real time inference?
A few differences I noticed between LinkedIn prospecting tools
Hello everyone! For the first post here, I wanted to start with a practical comparison of a few LinkedIn prospecting tools. I’m planning to use the subreddit for occasional product comparisons and observations around prospecting tools, extensions, and data collection. This time I looked at how many different LinkedIn source types each tool can work with. The comparison covers 13 sources, from regular searches and Sales Navigator to groups, post engagement, and profile pages. Waalaxy came up in the comparison, so I used it as the starting point and looked at a few alternatives that approach LinkedIn data collection differently. 1. Waalaxy Waalaxy starts at $42/month, or $16/month with annual billing for Pro. It has a 14-day free trial. It covers 3 LinkedIn data sources and combines LinkedIn prospecting with email sequences. Leads are organized in lists, with integrations available through Zapier. Email finding uses credits, and the Pro plan has around 800 invitations/month. The setup uses a Chrome extension connected to a cloud backend. The extension uploads the LinkedIn cookie to Waalaxy's servers. 2. PhantomBuster PhantomBuster starts at $69/month, or $55.20/month with annual billing, with a 14-day free trial. It supports 13 LinkedIn data sources, including Sales Navigator searches, and uses reusable Phantoms for scraping and enrichment. Workflows can be scheduled and chained, with collected data sent to external systems rather than managed through a native LinkedIn CRM. Its extension uploads the li\at cookie to PhantomBuster's infrastructure. The extension is also listed on LinkedIn's Active Extension Detection list. 3. Linked Helper Linked Helper starts at $15/month, or $8.25/month with annual billing, with a 14-day free trial. It covers 13 LinkedIn data sources, including Sales Navigator searches, group members, event attendees, and post commenters. Collected leads can be managed in the built-in CRM, with 11 native CRM connectors. Campaigns also support nested IF/THEN/ELSE logic. The application runs on a desktop or VPS, keeping the LinkedIn session on the user's hardware. A proxy quality check is available before routing campaign traffic. 4. Lemlist Lemlist starts at $79/month, or $63/month with annual billing. It offers a 14-day free trial. It combines email outreach with LinkedIn steps through a browser extension. Its LinkedIn side covers 3 data sources, while the broader platform focuses on email, personalization, and deliverability through Lemwarm. CRM connections are available for moving campaign data into other systems. The LinkedIn extension uploads the cookie jar to Lemlist's infrastructure, so the LinkedIn session is handled through the platform rather than locally. For this comparison, the biggest difference was the range of LinkedIn sources: 3 for Waalaxy and Lemlist versus 13 for PhantomBuster and Linked Helper. The other distinction is how the collected leads are handled afterward, particularly whether the tool includes its own CRM or relies on external integrations. Are there any other prospecting tools you’d add to this list? Share your thoughts!
How to figure out who's visiting your website after an email campaign but not replying?
We run outbound email campaigns to about 2,000 prospects per month. Open rates are solid (45-50%), click-through rates on links to our website are decent (8-10%), but reply rates are stuck around 2%. That means roughly 160 people click through to our site every month, spend time on our pages, and then disappear without responding to the email or filling out a form. These aren't cold strangers they received our email, were interested enough to click, visited our site, and then ghosted. There has to be a way to identify who these people are and follow up specifically with them. Right now we're just sending generic follow-up sequences to the entire list with no idea who actually engaged beyond the click. Anyone using tools that connect website visits back to email campaign recipients so you can prioritize follow-ups based on actual engagement?
I recently started an AI automation agency, building workflow automation for small businesses that are still running on manual processes — things like spreadsheets, WhatsApp, and phone calls for lead tracking, appointments, follow-ups, etc.
Been looking into why service businesses (real estate, clinics, salons) lose leads even when the owner is genuinely responsive. The pattern is almost always the same: A lead comes in on WhatsApp at 9pm, gets seen at 11am next day — by then they've called a competitor Missed calls never get a callback because nobody's tracking them centrally Follow-ups depend on someone remembering to do them, so the ones that don't get scheduled just don't happen No-shows aren't chased because there's no automatic reminder step None of this is a discipline problem. It's a systems problem — the business has 4-5 lead channels and zero process tying them together. Fixed this for a dental clinic recently: centralized every channel into one place, added automatic reminders + follow-ups, and re-engagement for patients who hadn't visited in 90+ days. No-shows and response time both improved measurably within a month, without hiring anyone new. Curious if others here have run into the same thing — how are you currently handling lead follow-up across channels? Manual, or have you found a way to automate it?
Ai receptionist r one of the most heard things for agencies nowadays I want to get started with this ,how will I actually make these receptionist which will work fr and get me clients Need helpp!!
I built a tool that finds potential customers commenting on competitors' Instagram posts. Would you pay for this?
I have a couple of clients who sell small services, things like website design, automation, etc. The problem is that there are \\thousands of accounts offering basically the same thing\\. And now that automated DMs are common, someone can comment on a competitor's post and almost instantly receive a proposal, offer, or upsell message. But obviously, those automations generally work on the business's \\own Instagram account\\. So I had an idea: \\what if you could monitor your competitors' posts - not just to see what they're posting, but to identify their potential leads?\\ While researching this, I found that there are already several apps that let you monitor competitors and notify you whenever they publish a new Reel or post. But that's not really what I'm interested in. \\My point is: I don't want to know when my competitors post. I want to know when they get a potential lead.\\ The basic idea is: Someone comments on a competitor's post → my client gets a notification within \\\20–30 minutes → notification includes the person's profile link + a pre-configured outreach message → my client can decide whether to reach out and offer their own service. I've currently tested this with a small batch of \\2 clients\\, and it's working. I'm using my own scraping/automation setup rather than relying on the client's Instagram account or IP, and I'm successfully receiving the comment notifications. The question is: \\is this actually a useful service, or am I just automating something that sounds clever but nobody really needs?\\ I'm not looking to build a huge business around it. Even if 10 people paid $50 for something like this, that's $500, which would make the experiment worthwhile. For people who sell services through Instagram: \\Would you actually pay for something like this?\\ And more importantly, do you think getting notified about people commenting on competitors' posts would lead to enough genuine leads to make the service valuable? I'm particularly interested in hearing from people who have actually tried competitor monitoring or social listening for lead generation. \\\Note: used chatgpt to structure my thoughts\\\
We're losing 60% of our inbound leads what's going wrong?
We spend about $40K/month on paid ads and content marketing generating inbound demo requests I looked at the data and our average time from form submission to first contact is 3+ hours. During business hours it's better (\45 min), but evenings, weekends, and holidays? Those leads sit untouched for 12-24 hours. We've tried auto-emails ("thanks for your interest, we'll be in touch!") but the conversion rate on those is embarrassingly low. Has anyone solved the speed-to-lead problem without just hiring more SDRs across time zones? .
Hubspot CRM vs Attio between the two, which platform is for the lean B2B sales team?
We’re evaluating our setup for a growing 12-person B2B sales team. We need something that handles inbound lead routing and email sequencing smoothly without requiring a full-time admin just to keep custom objects working. Question since we're thinking between the two, how are they when it comes to reporting flexibility, out-of-the-box automation usability, and data cleanliness as contact volume scales past 50,000 records?
I was thinking of building something in real estate space, therefore I would need some feedback. 1. What tools do most agencies/setup use of social media/outreach/inbounds. 2. Do they encourage the use of technology, if this saves them time or money. Asking as most companies are sethya, therefore majority aren't interested in tech. What if I pick a single workflow, say outreach, and the hassle of messaging all your leads one by one. This saves your team time and energy, while also boosting the chances of closings. Would you pay me for this? It's just a market run, and I would love your feedback, specially from people part of this setup. I am not a big fan of building things out of imagination, till I get some real insight.
Best ai sms tool for lead follow up with live transfer to a rep?
I’m looking for something pretty specific: an AI SMS tool that can qualify a lead over text and then hand the conversation off to a human rep when they’re ready to talk. I’m not really looking for something that just sends a notification to the CRM for someone to follow up later. Most of the tools I’ve tried seem to be good at either the SMS qualification side or the live handoff, but not really both. Has anyone actually run something like this end-to-end and found a setup that works well?
HVAC business owners — what do you use to manage your leads?
Do you use a CRM, spreadsheet, or another system to manage leads from calls, websites, ads, and referrals? I’m curious what you’re currently using and what you like or dislike about it.
Hey folks Quick question. Anyone use any tools or setups to pull data from their competitors? Who liked their LinkedIn posts? Who visited their website? Stuff like that.
We're starting cold outreach and I'm confused between using the Instantly Hyper Growth plan or the regular plan because since we're just starting out I'm not sure. On top of that, which lead database should I use? Should I get the $47 Growth plan and the $47 credits plan, like the $47 Lead Database plan for Instantly, or should I invest $100 or $97 for the Hyper Growth plan and find leads from somewhere else? What is the best strategy that someone who's just starting out should apply? I probably have a budget of around $150 to $200/mo (Im a student)
What are the best AI marketing automation tools recommended for businesses?
Hi all- we are a regional business with about 50 employees but our marketing team has been always pretty lean. I currently lead the marketing for us and I was curious what are some great marketing tools everyone recommends! We dont mind paying but are looking for tools to either help us save time or do things that were previously not possible with our small marketing team. So curious, what are the best AI marketing automation tools recommended for businesses?
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