Amazing for multi-step cold email campaigns - Not so much for LinkedIn prospection
We bought LeadFWD for LinkedIn prospection, as it looked like it had most of Waalaxy's features for a fraction of the price with a LTD nothing can beat.
Turns out LinkedIn scraping is very slow (think 1 to 2 minutes per contact) and won't record LI profile data to LeadFWD database in most cases, as LeadFWD is mail oriented and only a tiny fraction of LinkedIn profiles have emails.
LeadFWD looks like a great product for email automation, with TONS of features, but it is not for us.
Kevin_Leadfwd
Nov 18, 2024Thank you for the review and feedback! We might be able to help you out on some of these issues, if you're up to it please shoot us a message: help@leadfwd.com I'd reach out directly, but I can't translate that AppSumo username into an account :)
1. You can control the export speed. But it's designed to be 'human like' to protect your LinkedIn account. We've been pretty clear that are methodology is not 'high volume, low effort'. Sales professionals that we work with are typically prospecting 100 or so contacts on LinkedIn per day using triggers and signals. So we might not be a good fit for ya, which is totally fine. But if we can make some tweaks or improvements to address your use case, that would be better.
2. Our rolling average on Email match rate range from about 50-60%. If you're not getting good results it could be a geographical area that we don't have good support for or if you're prospecting certain groups that can be challenging like freelancers or one-man founder operations. Also, unlike most other email finders we also run a true verification in real-time before delivering you an email address - and we'll also tell you if its verified or risky. If its risky, you don't pay anything for it. But you can also configure your export to only include contacts with verified email addresses too. Our waterfall approach includes 8-10 different data providers, so if we don't come up with a result, it might be difficult to find a mainstream provider that would. Any details you can provide to our team would be really appreciated - as EVERYTHING in our platform can be improved.
3. We definitely excel with a combined channel approach of LinkedIn + Email. Even if you're not thinking of the email component now, you might in the future.
Really appreciate the feedback and if you can ping us directly to share some more insights, that would be really awesome. Like I said, everything is on the table for improvement and I'm sorry we didn't meet the expectation this time around!
Cheers,
Kevin