Heyo!
Last week, we had a webinar with the ZeroBounce team, where we showed how we build our own outbound (check it out here).
A lot of people were impressed by not only strategy but also the mall growth hacks I showed (like Sales Navigator Formula) 🔥
So I’ve decided to share my fav cold email & lead gen Free growth hacks ❤️
Find Anyone’s LinkedIn Profile Growth Hack
There are 2 things that you need to know about your contacts for outbound:
- LinkedIn profile
With email it’s easy, you can use any Chrome extensions or tools to find emails.
With LinkedIn, it’s a bit harder…
So we’ve made a Google Sheet’s Growth Hack that finds anyone’s LinkedIn Profile for FREE, check it out how it works:
Here is a quick video on how to implement it:
Cold Email Planning Calculator
Most founders and sales teams say:
“We need 20 qualified leads/month.”
Then they send 500 emails and hope for magic 🪄
❌ The math doesn’t work.
Not in 2025. Not with how reply rates are tanking across the board.
✅ The Fix: This Cold Email Calculator
We built a dead-simple, interactive Google Sheet.
You just plug in:
- 🎯 Your monthly lead goal
- 📬 Your average reply rate (or use our benchmarks)
- 👍 Your positive reply rate
100% Email Verification Growth Hack:
Do you know that Google might tell you what email exists and what doesn't?
Yes - Google tells it directly!
Here is how to do it:
- Select all emails in your Google Sheets
- Convert it to "People" using Smart Chimps
- Everyone who was converted = 100% valid email
*it works only for emails on Google
Sales Navigator Growth Hack
Sales Navigator is amazing, but combining both “Account” & “Lead search” is challenging, so we’ve developed our way to scrape the most relevant people.
- We find relevant companies;
- We scrape them;
- We use the formula (download below) with titles we want to scrape
As a result, it creates a unique Sales Navigator URL, that we can scrape in bulk using Phantombuster or TexAu.
Btw, if you need a solid Infrastructure or Strategy for your Outbound → we may help!
With 🫰to your Growth,
Talk to the team that runs this every day
Book a 30-minute call. We look at your outbound and tell you what we would change first.
Ilya AzovtsevCo-founder
Co-founder of GrowthBand. Helped scale lemlist from $20k MRR to $10M ARR and built automation at Expandi; now runs the cold email infrastructure behind 32,000+ mailboxes.
