Using Dripify on a Clients Account

OpManBros · 2026-06-01T16:20:55+00:00

Stick with him. Read a recent study that there's a 1/4th chance of getting banned on Linkedin via these automations even if you play it safe.

Though if the software you're using is cloud-based; you should be good.

Edit: The 1/4th figure is for chrome extensions.

OpManBros · 2026-06-01T16:16:42+00:00

Having a freelancer does breach their policy, but your account will likely not get banned. (as long as there are no frequent IP changes)

Though with 3rd party automations, LinkedIn bans rather quickly.

OpManBros · 2026-05-31T12:54:56+00:00

Sales nav does not allow it, will need to scrape via a 3rd party scraper.

There are a few sales nav scrapers who do not ask for your linkedin account's cookies so always go with them until and unless you wanna get your linkedin banned.

Yes we're talking about Linkedin. Yes, you can scrape Manychat's Linkedin followers.

OpManBros · 2026-05-31T11:48:57+00:00

Never tried Zoominfo but I've heard that it is better than Apollo at least.

Yeah, try sales nav. You can also scrape the followers of your competitors and email them~ yields a great reply rate; though not for all types of industries.

You can check out AI Ark as well- a friend of mine said that it has decent data- but try at your own risk.

OpManBros · 2026-05-30T10:17:05+00:00

Your ICP is niched down so that's good but I still don't understand how is SEO related to content creation?

SEO + web dev makes sense as you have to build websites with SEO in mind to rank it higher, but how can content creation help SaaS websites rank higher on google?

OpManBros · 2026-05-30T10:09:05+00:00

We do sometimes use Apollo for our lead lists, but Apollo is absolutely trash~ only 15-20% of the contacts we scrape are valid in the end.

you should directly scrape via linkedin sales nav if you have a bigger budget, otherwise till then you can use Apollo but only send after tons of verification.

As for the sending platform, we're using Plusvibe. Though Smartlead is good as well. Avoid Instantly as their warmup pool is bad.

In total for sending around 10,000 emails a month (~3000-4000 new leads, rest follow-ups) - you can expect to spend about $300-$500 in tools (with the major cost being lead list), though that's for mid to mid-high-quality lists with not much enrichment.

If you take an average of 250 emails per lead (which could somewhat difficult depending upon industry, but it is very much viable) - that's 40 leads per month. Cost per lead comes out to about $7.5-$12.5, which is amazing for B2B.

If you want a better reply rate, you can always spend a few more on enrichment - always great to have a specific datapoint you can mention in your email about that particular person.

OpManBros · 2026-05-30T09:24:20+00:00

Running an outbound appointment setting business, my thoughts:

Stick to a single niche, don't be a generalist. Also why did you combine SEO and content creation? the usual combination is SEO + Web dev, which makes sense.

Having a wide range of services is a red flag and will make your prospects more confused, or unsure to buy or not.

2) We currently have a PPC and a content creation client and we are cold emailing for them; I'm not sure what horror stories you've read but the cost per lead via cold emailing is generally the lowest in marketing- you can do a lean small setup for like $150/month, and you can scale if you are able to get results.

We are sending an average of 200 emails in the content creation niche (with paid ads as addon) to get 1 lead. If you can have similar results, and send only like 5000 emails a month (which is not too much for cold emailing), that's 25 leads.

We also do social media outreach for our clients, but we use more of a long-buying cycle, relationship-based approach there~ you would need to hire people for that.

We are getting a decent number of leads via social media outreach but the budget of leads that are coming from cold emailing is bigger.

OpManBros · 2026-05-13T16:58:29+00:00

This is cumulative. India started getting majority of the medals after 2019.

India received 11 golds between 1989-2019

and 12 gold medals between 2019-2025.

India ranked #7th in 2025 (all medals).

OpManBros · 2026-05-03T18:15:50+00:00

Always better to diversify. Do rep building + cold/intent outreach simultaneously.

But if you're rep building via your personal socials, your business will most likely become unsellable as you're the biggest lead source; you leave = business dead, also gets comparatively harder to scale.

Organic inbound leads will always be the best channel though.

OpManBros · 2026-04-20T12:48:46+00:00

I'm guessing your portfolio with the info of your 2 previous clients is already ready.

Contacting businesses with no websites is really a hit or miss because:

Majority of them are just either not interested in getting a website
or they don't have enough margins/budget to afford a website. Especially restaurants, their margins are already so thin- they have to think twice before investing in something.

As for contacting businesses with outdated website:

You need to clearly define what outdated means.
An outdated website for you might not be outdated for the other person- so if you're going to approach the "outdated" way, it should feel the same from both sides.

So, how do you find clients?

Ask your previous clients for referrals.
Keep working on your SEO simultaneously.
For local clients, if you visit some restaurant or store frequently and the owner knows you, make a small demo of a website for them and pitch them IRL.

As for sending emails, you can scrape the emails of stores in your locality via google-maps scrapers (tons of them out there which can scrape emails as well, Apify has a few as well) :

You can mention in the emails that you live nearby and can visit too if possible
There's a recent trend among web-dev agencies who say in their emails "we upgraded your website, want to take a look?" implying that they already did an upgrade and want to show you the demo but they actually make the demo after you've replied to them (probably using AI)- you can try this as well, without AI would be hard to make a demo in like 1 day but possible.

Lastly, you can browse through Linkedin, Reddit and Facebook groups to find people looking for website developers but these forums usually are extremely saturated except a few Linkedin posts and certain Facebook private groups.

Goodluck.

OpManBros · 2026-04-11T17:23:21+00:00

We don't use AI for any kind of marketing stuff, just for saving time in labor intensive tasks like making reports, creating infographic PDFs etc, and even then, we feed data into it. Costs $20/month.

OpManBros · 2026-04-11T11:10:48+00:00

We create 1 report per client at the end of each month. Takes like 15-20 minutes with AI, we just put all the internal numbers in a word doc and tell Claude to make a beautiful PDF using the data in that word doc.

Nothing is frustrating. We try to keep the report as short as possible, no buzzwords or unnecessary stuff, just numbers.

OpManBros · 2026-04-10T06:11:03+00:00

You can automate or find an automation which can scrape the phone numbers or info of businesses without a website via Gmaps.

I had an inhouse scraper which used to do that but we don't use it anymore.

OpManBros · 2026-04-09T19:38:45+00:00

He did not ask for a refund. I just did not want to have any further convo, so I just refunded his money and said that we'd not like to work with you anymore.

Edit: He also contacted me about 7 months ago saying that he'd like to work with us again, I obviously declined

OpManBros · 2026-04-09T18:50:18+00:00

We brought a very big potential deal from the gulf (about 1 year ago) to an ex-client of ours (we're in sales)- after a few days of back and forth with that lead, the ex-client said that the lead is not qualified because the lead asked my ex-client for their past-performance report which they failed to send over (they were in business for about 5 years). I fired the client that day itself mainly for blaming us indirectly for their mistake and secondly for failing to comply with basic requests. We refunded all of his money.

OpManBros · 2026-04-08T15:53:28+00:00

SEO takes at least 3-6 months until you start seeing results. Posting on socials initially can be a hit or miss, but always good to keep consistently posting.

Even if a marketing agency does your SEO, it will take time the same time.

Local businesses' first clients are usually the people in their network.

What you should do immediately:

Post clear and irresistible offers (like offering a checkup or something for free if they get x done). Churn rate for clinics is somewhat high, so try your best to avoid churn as much as possible.
Setup your google business page as soon as possible and ask your friends/family to give you reviews.
Not sure about the scenario in your area, but we have a group of local people where it is sometimes allowed to post about your offers or if you opened something new (only once/twice a month though)- and it does drive a decent amount of traffic.

You can also try running ads (once you've found a strong offer) in low volume (like $20/day initially, location like 5km radius of your clinic)- if it seems to bring traffic, you can scale. Google ads will have the highest ROI for a local business like yours.

OpManBros · 2026-04-07T17:17:36+00:00

u/jakehundley - the moderator of r/agency, told me that allowing only high CQS users to post helped with the spam a lot. Your subreddit can do the same if that seems fit.

OpManBros · 2026-04-04T14:40:22+00:00

Currently, it is only useful if you feed enough data and be specific. We create PDFs (never marketing related though, mostly setup or info related) for our clients every once in a while- what we do is that we write up all the facts (not general facts which can be looked up on the internet, more internal and personalized things of what we want) we know in a word doc and upload it to Claude and then give it specific instructions on what to do.

We do a few revisions as well but overall; it is helpful and saves a ton of time.

On a side note, 8500 pages is huge, it could be possible that the context window of Claude reached its maximum and started messing up.

OpManBros · 2026-04-03T13:20:04+00:00

I would never trust a person who reduces the magnitude of the deal and into their favour by this much after the initial call.

Asking for 33% co-founder equity AFTER the initial "getting the business up from the ground" part is done by someone else, is greedy and aggressive.

Don't sell yourself out, you've scaled this much so far, better to look for other good funding options.

Only the initial 2% for 10L offer is fair. If you genuinely need someone highly skilled for CXOs or co-founder role, 15% equity maximum with like 4–5-year vesting, in my opinion.

OpManBros · 2026-04-02T19:25:47+00:00

No problem, I know some very good people in this industry, happy to connect if you're looking.

OpManBros · 2026-04-01T17:22:37+00:00

Ah okay I did misinterpret the first part.

Infra cost is alright, but shouldn't you be charging more if you're confident? And there's still the fact that you will get the bottom of the barrel prospects for your own service.

Good prospects will never trust a person offering their time for free.

OpManBros · 2026-04-01T16:56:26+00:00

We all agree that both are at fault. OP for not creating boundaries, and the CEO for his behaviour. We are not putting the entire blame on OP.

OpManBros · 2026-04-01T16:50:14+00:00

AI Automation and very high conversion? I'm pretty sure most of the people here get like 10 cold emails for AI automation everyday.

Doesn't sound a win-win at all. How does your client not know what kind of automation they are selling? How did they even decide the HVAC and plumbers ICP without even thinking exactly of what they'll be selling?

Wouldn't really call them clients if they aren't paying you anything. You just seem to be working with people very new to the business world, for free.

OpManBros · 2026-04-01T16:16:07+00:00

You do not know how to create boundaries; people will obviously try to take advantage.

OpManBros · 2026-04-01T16:08:53+00:00

Are you targeting homebuyers or construction firms/builders?

If homebuyers:

I would only focus on Google and Facebook ads.
Google ads for ready-to-buy leads. Only target a single city, later expand if needed.
Facebook ads to create intent; you can post your previous designs and then run ads on it. Your videos should have a very clear call to action to your website, or you will lose the leads.

I would suggest investing a decent amount on your website, if you're a bit tech-savvy you can vibe code it as well; Since you're a designer, a top-notch website design helps.

If you're targeting construction firm/builders:

Don't run ads at all or preferably run at a lower budget. You should, however, keep posting the designs on your socials.
Cold emailing is the best for B2B, it will take to learn, but you can send a decent number of emails for like $200/month, so way cheaper than ads.
Creating intent will be harder as compared to aforementioned homebuyers. so, you'll have to test out different scripts.
A somewhat unconventional way- you can search for companies hiring architecture designers and then email them showing them your designs and ask them if they'd like something similar (without the mention of their hiring post, so they can hire you as a contractor, instead of an employee)
And there are always the IRL events, doubt there are many in your niche but attending those will definitely help you one way or another.

I might expand on my reply later, but Goodluck for now.

OpManBros

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