It’s easier to get going. The analogy I’ve seen used for this is apple vs android. Instantly has everything you need out of the box to run campaigns at scale. Smartlead requires a bit more tinkering to set things up
It’s best to have a dedicated sending tool while keeping apollo for list building only. both instantly and smartlead are great. If you’re going to utilize apis heavily, then I’d go with smartlead, if not instantly works.
This may have be brought before but I’d love to see how many credits are used per table. Somewhere next to the last modified date might make sense imo for a first glance insight
Sahil S. I can see why you were drained. That is a very manual approach but I wouldn’t say you wasted your time. You probably learned a lot by doing it in hard mode.
Since you were sending manually, I doubt half of the email ended in spam since you were below the daily send limit. Your response rates appear to be ~10% with 1 booked and 2 positive responses out of 30% so that’s a good sign that your offer is resonating. You should iterate and optimize from here with another set of 60 leads and see how that goes.
Overall it sounds to me like you’re finding your way in how to do outreach effectively. There are tons of resources that can help you speed up the process, starting with https://www.clay.com/university. Let me know if this helps or if you have additional questions.
Sahil S. Could you provide more details on what you mean by manual outreach? What was the volume? What has been your response rate so far? Do you think your outreach was as targeted as it could be ?
