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Identify your anonymous website visitors -> cold email them!

IlyaIlya AzovtsevCo-founder2 min read
The words who visited? beside a clay magnet pulling in an email card, with a click icon and an ICP match tag.
On this pageHow to set-up website tracking
  1. How to set-up website tracking
  2. How to segment people
  3. Outreach strategy
  4. Important note

Breaking news!

Now you can track your website visitors → identify who exactly (on a person-level 🔥) visited your website → segment them → send cold emails!

Instantly https://instantly.ai/ just released their new “Website tracking” feature!

Instantly Website Visitors list of identified people with name, email and job title, under the text Track website visitors (USA only)

Important: It’s only working with USA visitors 🇺🇸

Let’s see how to set it up:

How to set-up website tracking

First things first → sign up at Instantly → https://instantly.ai

This is not a tool for website tracking only (initially it’s a powerful cold email automation software).

Instantly home page with the headline Find, Contact & Close Your Ideal Clients and a Start for free button

Once you do that.

Go to the website visitors (the last button on the left bar):

Instantly left sidebar with a red arrow pointing to the Website Visitors icon, the last button in the bar

Enter your domain:

Get Your Website Visitor Code dialog with the domain field highlighted above the Get the pixel button

And get the pixel.

Now you need to copy the pixel you got and embed it on your website:

Installing script with HTML code dialog: copy the pixel code, place it in the head tag, then test the script

For example, if you use Webflow go to the settings → Custom code and inject this pixel:

Webflow site settings, Custom code tab, with the visitor pixel script pasted into the footer code field

Once you do that, go back to https://instantly.ai/ and test your Pixel. It’ll show whether it’s installed or not.

Browser alert saying the visitor tag was installed successfully and the tab can be closed

How to segment people

Now https://instantly.ai/ will let you create a dedicated segment. The thing is, you don’t need to reach out to everyone, you need to reach out only to those visitors who actually fit your Ideal Customer Profile.

New Website Visitor View dialog with a name, optional Slack notifications and auto-adding matching leads to a list

So in this case, we need to choose the parameters that https://instantly.ai/ will use as filters.

For example, if you’re a Software Development Agency you need to filter people by:

  • Seniority level = VP, Director, C-level
  • Department = Engineering
  • Company size = 0-100

You can choose your own filtering approaches:

Visitor view filters set to C-level, VP and Director seniority, Engineering department and 0 to 100 employees

Once you do that, all your new website visitors who match with your ICP will be shown in the list:

Website Visitors list showing identified visitors who match the ICP filters, with names, emails and job titles

Now it’s time to reach out to them!

Outreach strategy

The best thing that you can do - is to reach out to relevant people who just visited your website and offer your solution. So for this, we recommend you use a simple but timely temapate:

Instantly sequence step with the subject need {solution}? and a short email asking if the visitor is looking for a solution

As a follow-up you can go even further and send a personalised video to these people to catch their attention even more!

For this, you can use https://sendspark.com

Here is the full guide → https://growth.band/blog/video-personalisation

Basically people will get the email with a personalised loom-type video (with their website as a background):

Follow-up email step with a personalised video thumbnail over the prospect's website background

With https://sendspark.com you can personalise:

  1. the background of your video (so it’ll be their website)
  2. say their “firstName” in the video
  3. add your calendar link directly
Sendspark editor marking the personalised website background, first name greeting, text and calendar link

Here is how to implement it - https://growth.band/blog/video-personalisation

Important note

This is the newest feature on the market!

So there are 2 reasons why you need to implement it right now:

  1. The earlier you insert website tracking → the earlier you’ll collect the website visitors and generate actual leads
  2. Not a lot of companies are using this approach right now, so if you implement it right now, you’ll take the FULL advantage of this growth hack!

Tools:

Website tracking & Email outreach → https://instantly.ai/

Extra personalisation → https://sendspark.com

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Ilya

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.