The exact tools we use to run Allbound Media, GiveMeLeads, and EasyMailbox

GiveMeLeads

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GiveMeLeads is the tool we built ourselves after getting fed up with clunky scrapers that charged per lead and still missed half the emails. We use it every day to pull leads straight from Sales Navigator and Apollo searches with verified emails attached, in one click. If you're already in our program, this is the backbone of your outbound stack — no reason to pay for anything else here.

EasyMailbox is our done-for-you answer to the endless pain of setting up cold email infrastructure — domains, DNS records, warmup, all of it. We manage it exactly the way we manage our own sending infrastructure, because it is the same infrastructure. If you don't want to spend a weekend fighting SPF records, this is the fastest way to get sending safely.

Dripify

Top Pick

Dripify is genuinely one of our favorite tools for combining LinkedIn and email into a single outreach sequence. The drip-campaign builder is simple enough that you can set up a multi-step sequence in minutes, and the analytics tell you exactly where prospects are dropping off. This is a top pick for us specifically because it doesn't try to do twenty things — it does outreach sequencing very well.

Instantly

Top Pick

Instantly is the cold email tool we send almost everyone to first, because it handles sending infrastructure, warmup, and campaign sequencing in one place without falling over at volume. We've scaled outbound campaigns through it across dozens of mailboxes without the deliverability nightmares we've had with other platforms. It's a top pick for us because it's the tool that just works, even when you're sending a lot.

ActiveCampaign

ActiveCampaign is what we recommend when someone needs real marketing automation, not just a newsletter tool. The segmentation and automation builder are genuinely powerful once you get past the learning curve, and it holds up at scale far better than the cheaper tools. We don't use it for cold outbound, but for nurturing an existing list it's one of the best on the market.

Apollo

Apollo is one of the first tools we ever used to find leads and verified emails at scale, and it's still in our stack today. The database is massive and the filters let you get scary specific about who you're targeting. It's not the cheapest option per lead, but the data quality is consistently good enough that we don't second-guess it.

Brevo

Brevo used to be Sendinblue, and it's the email marketing tool we point people to when budget is tight but they still want solid deliverability. It handles transactional and marketing email in one place, which saves you from stitching two tools together. It's not as flashy as ActiveCampaign, but for the price it punches well above its weight.

Close CRM

Close is the CRM we recommend to sales-led teams who actually want to spend time calling and emailing, not clicking through menus. Calling, SMS, and email are all built in, so your reps never have to leave the pipeline view to follow up. It's opinionated in a good way — built for outbound teams, not adapted from an enterprise sales tool.

Closely

Closely is one of the LinkedIn outreach tools we've tested that actually respects safe daily limits instead of getting your account flagged in week one. It combines LinkedIn automation with email finding in the same workflow, which cuts out a step most people miss. We like it enough that we negotiated a discount for anyone coming from us.

GetResponse

GetResponse started as an email marketing tool and has quietly become a decent all-in-one platform with landing pages and basic automation built in. We recommend it to people who want one subscription instead of stitching together an email tool, a landing page builder, and a form tool separately. It's not the most cutting-edge option out there, but it's reliable and the pricing is fair.

InboxAlly

InboxAlly focuses on one very specific problem: getting your cold email out of spam and into the primary inbox through real inbox placement warming. We've used deliverability tools before that just simulate opens, and this one actually engages real inboxes, which is a meaningful difference. If your reply rates have quietly dropped and you can't figure out why, deliverability is usually the first thing to check.

Lemlist

Lemlist was one of the first tools to make personalized images and video at scale actually usable in cold outreach, and it's still ahead of most competitors there. It combines email and LinkedIn steps in the same sequence, so you're not juggling two separate tools for one campaign. If personalization at scale is your bottleneck, this is the one we'd point you to.

Pipedrive

Pipedrive is the CRM we recommend when a team wants something visual and dead simple to keep a pipeline organized without a steep onboarding curve. The deal-stage view alone makes it obvious where every prospect actually stands, which is more than you can say for a lot of CRMs. It won't do everything a heavier platform does, but most outbound teams don't need everything.

Reply.io

Reply.io has been around long enough to have built a genuinely mature multichannel sequencing product, mixing email, LinkedIn, and calls into one cadence. We like that it gives you a lot of control over sequence logic without making the interface feel overwhelming. It's a solid pick if you're running multichannel outbound and want everything tracked in one dashboard.

Seamless

Seamless.ai leans hard into volume — it's built for pulling large lists of contacts and verified emails fast when you need to fill a pipeline quickly. The Chrome extension makes it easy to pull data straight off LinkedIn while you're prospecting. It's not always the most precise on niche B2B segments, but for raw list-building speed it's hard to beat.

ZoomInfo

ZoomInfo is the enterprise-grade option in this category — deep firmographic and intent data most other tools simply don't have. We recommend it to teams with a real budget who need signals beyond just contact info, like buying intent and org charts. It's an investment, not a starter tool, but at scale the data depth pays for itself.

Botdog

Botdog is a LinkedIn automation tool we've tested for running outreach campaigns without babysitting a browser tab all day. The setup is straightforward and the safety limits are sensible by default, which matters more than people realize until their account gets restricted. We've got a discount code for anyone coming through us, which makes it an easy one to try.

HeyReach

HeyReach is built specifically for teams running LinkedIn outreach across multiple accounts at once, which is exactly the problem most LinkedIn tools ignore. The multi-account dashboard and shared inbox make it genuinely useful once you're past a one-person operation. If you're scaling LinkedIn outbound across a team, this is one of the few tools actually built for that.

MailScale

MailScale is one of the newer infrastructure tools we've tried for spinning up cold email domains and mailboxes fast, without doing it all by hand. It automates the tedious parts — domain purchasing, DNS setup, mailbox creation — that used to eat a full afternoon per batch. If you're sending at real volume and setting up infrastructure manually, this saves a genuinely painful amount of time.

Smartlead

Smartlead is a cold email platform we've used for running high-volume campaigns across a large number of mailboxes without deliverability falling apart. The unified inbox and automated warmup make it easy to manage sending health across dozens of accounts at once. It's become one of the go-to tools in the cold email space for exactly that reason.

Spaceship

Spaceship is where we buy domains specifically for cold email infrastructure — cheap, fast, and without the upsell-heavy checkout flow some registrars push you through. It's not fancy, it's just a clean place to register and manage domains at volume. For anyone spinning up multiple sending domains, the price difference alone adds up fast.

Zapmail

Zapmail focuses on making Google Workspace mailbox setup for cold email fast and mostly automated, instead of manually creating accounts one by one. It handles the domain, DNS, and mailbox creation in a workflow built specifically for outbound senders. If Google Workspace is your infrastructure of choice, this removes most of the manual setup pain.

PhantomBuster

PhantomBuster is the automation tool we reach for when we need to scrape or export data from a platform that doesn't have a friendly API — LinkedIn, Sales Navigator, and dozens of others. The pre-built "phantoms" mean you're rarely starting from scratch, even for fairly specific scraping tasks. It's a bit more technical than some tools on this list, but the flexibility is unmatched.

Expandi

Expandi is a cloud-based LinkedIn automation tool built around staying inside safe usage limits, with a cloud-based IP so you're not routing everything through your own browser. The campaign builder supports fairly advanced multi-step sequences with conditional logic. It's one of the more mature options in the LinkedIn automation space, and it shows in the reliability.

ReactIn

ReactIn is a newer LinkedIn engagement tool focused specifically on automating likes and comments on posts to build visibility before you ever send a connection request. It's a different angle than most outreach tools, which jump straight to messaging — this one warms up the relationship first. We like it as a complement to a LinkedIn outbound sequence, not a replacement for one.

Waalaxy

Waalaxy is one of the most beginner-friendly LinkedIn automation tools we've tried, with a Chrome extension that makes building a sequence almost drag-and-drop simple. It's a great starting point if LinkedIn outreach is new to you and you don't want to be overwhelmed by a complicated interface on day one. It won't have every advanced feature the bigger platforms do, but for getting started fast, it's a solid choice.

Overloop

Overloop combines LinkedIn automation with email sequencing and a built-in CRM, so you're not exporting data between three different tools to see the full picture. The all-in-one approach means less setup overhead if you want everything under one login. It's a good fit for a small team that wants outbound and pipeline tracking without stitching multiple subscriptions together.