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Hey there, I know this group is mostly about Clay, but I’m curious if there are any Apollo users here? I’m reaching out about Apollo because it lacks its own dedicated community, and I believe someone in this chat might be using it. I am new to sales and my issue now is finding a clean list of leads. Say I’m looking for CEOs in e-commerce. In this case, I input “CEO” in the “job titles” field and “e-commerce” in the “Company keywords” field. When I search, I get CEOs of e-commerce businesses, but also CEOs of agencies and platforms that serve e-commerce, which isn’t what I want. So, I end up checking each contact’s website to make sure they’re really in e-commerce. It’s a big time suck. Even trying support and experimenting, I can’t figure out how to get a clean list of the leads I need. Any tips on making clean lists faster in Apollo? Or any other way to quickly get a good list of specific leads, like e-commerce CEOs? Thanks!!!!

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Hey Daria, thanks for reaching out! Definitely a few people using Apollo here, hopefully, they can share some knowledge soon. Eric N. has some YouTube videos sometimes showing how he uses Apollo in case it helps https://www.youtube.com/@ericnowoslawski
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For e-commerce though, I think there are more dedicated platforms that could help generate an appropriate list of companies to search for contacts at them, like Store Leads.
Rubi S.
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Apollo user here, I'd either use another platform to get that data accurately or, import those companies to Clay and make a prompt with ChatGPT (or maybe Claygent) to filter out the ones who's LinkedIn descriptions match E-commerce.
Eric N.
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Turn on the technology filter in Apollo for ecommerce technologies like Shopify and then narrow with industries and you'll get a pretty great list of ecommerce stores
Daria
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Rubi S. Thanks. I’m not a user of Clay yet, but it seems like if I were to filter out those whose LinkedIn descriptions match “e-commerce,” I’d encounter similar outcomes: e-commerce businesses, agencies, and platforms that logically mention “ecommerce” in their LinkedIn descriptions, isn’t it?
Daria
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Arturo O. Eric N. thanks for your replies! I’m testing with various personas and need to gather not just e-commerce CEOs but also other companies related to digital platforms (such as SaaS companies, finance-related apps, assurance, edtech, etc.). It would be great to find a simple framework for generating a clean list of leads applicable across the various personas I’m testing. I started to watch the videos of Eric that Arturo sent. Why I didn’t find it earlier?! 😀It looks like answers on my questions should be there and solvable within Apollo?