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Inconsistent Lead Adding to Sequence: Contact Not Found Issues

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TLDR: When adding a lead to a sequence, sometimes it finds the contact and other times it does not

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    kushagra
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    did you figure out the issue with this Jake B.? never used this but was reading the docs out of curiosity and maybe have thoughts what might be the issue and things to try to debug

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    Jake B.
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    kushagra yes! So if the lead is set at 'active' it wont work

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    Jake B.
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    it doesn't throw an error or anything, so that's kinda weird.

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    kushagra
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    ahhh i see, interesting - glad you figured it though

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    kushagra
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    i thought it was because id from enrichment can sometimes be a contact and sometimes not, was completely off track lol

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    Jake B.
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    I thought it was like 20 different things

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    Jake B.
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    so frustrating haha, but it's working and i think the automation is saving the sales team some time now

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    kushagra
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    haha pay off must have been good after all the debugging btw deliverability still good with the apollo sequencer?

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    Jake B.
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    no, just using it for a call only sequences

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    Jake B.
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    Nightmare city with Apollo around delivery. Love them for account data and some phone numbers.

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    Jake B.
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    not really my first choice for anything TBH but always the most economical path

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    kushagra
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    yeah same, only use them for data never for email sequences

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    sneha
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    Jake B. kushagra omg so true. i only use apollo for leads n stuff. what scraper do u guys use? or just apollo? like. apollo alone is expensive asf