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DesignGuru's personal outbound strategy

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Here's what DesignGuru should do to generate more qualified meetings every month.

Lead generation
Customer Lookalikes
The smartest way to build your outbound lists is by identifying your best existing customers or ideal customer profiles first. Use Leadsforge to automatically find companies and decision-makers who look just like your top clients. This is especially effective for companies offering creative services, as you can target similar SaaS firms, e-commerce brands, agencies, and fast-growing startups—the exact types already seeing value from your solution. Here is why: Focusing on high-fit lookalikes means your outreach lands in inboxes where your service already resonates, increasing open rates and replies.
Competitor Followers
A clever way to reach new prospects is by targeting the followers of your competitors’ company pages. You only need to provide the company name and website—Leadsforge will find these followers for you. Share their LinkedIn company page link in Leadsforge, and it will do the rest. Here is why: Followers of similar or competitor pages are already engaged in your market and likely interested in services just like yours, meaning less friction when you start the conversation.
Ideal Customer Profile
Define your Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) based on what’s already working: small to medium businesses (10–200 employees), especially SaaS companies, e-commerce, digital agencies, and growth-minded consumer brands. Target decision-makers such as CMOs, Heads of Marketing, Founders, CEOs, and Product and Performance Marketing Managers. You can refine your targeting by specific roles, company size, industry vertical, and geography, then send your criteria directly to Leadsforge for list building. Here is why: Tightly defined ICP targeting ensures your outreach is highly relevant, saving you time and increasing your response rate.
Targeting
Segmentation
Segment your target lists by job role (decision-makers vs. users), by company size (early-stage and scaling SMEs), by vertical (SaaS, e-commerce, agencies, consumer brands), and by geography. Tailor your email content to each segment, mentioning examples that match their business type or campaign needs. Here is why: Carefully segmented messaging leads to higher engagement—your prospects feel like you’re speaking directly to their needs.
Vertical Slices
Focus on the main verticals most likely to need creative services on demand: SaaS (showcase tech product launches), e-commerce (highlight campaign creative or product visuals), agencies (offer overflow creative), consumer brands (demonstrate before/after improvements). Use real customer examples from each vertical to prove your value.
Signals
Monitor real-time signals such as recent funding, major marketing/design hires, product launches, new app updates, tradeshow participation, or any sign they need more design (like ‘hiring designer’ job posts). These triggers mean they’re likely ready for creative support now.
Outbound Stack We Recommend:
Every company should choose outbound tools that work specifically for their industry.
Do Outbound Using
Unlimited Linkedin Profiles
Unlimited Mailboxes
Unlimited Premium Warmup
ESP Matching for increased delivery
Here’s Why
Salesforge lets you automate and personalize multi-step outreach with analytics and CRM sync—great for creative agencies scaling outbound or coordinating large volumes of emails through multiple team members. You’ll stay on top of every lead and never miss a follow-up. Here is why: Salesforge helps creative businesses like yours reach more fits and track what messaging resonates, making every rep’s workflow more efficient and transparent.
Find Leads using
Latest & High Quality Contact Data
Find Competitor’s LinkedIn Page Followers
Highest Data Coverage (10+ Providers)
Find Lookalikes of your Customers
Find Linkedin, Email & Phone Number
Here’s Why
Leadsforge is perfect for building clean, segmented lists of founders, marketing leaders, and growing companies in your best-fit verticals. You can specify company size, vertical, role, and even intent triggers (like recent funding), then export campaigns-ready contacts with validation. Here is why: The less time you spend hunting down good leads, the more time you can focus on making creative connections that convert.
Possible combinations
For mailbox setup, start with Primeforge for real mailbox infrastructure and Mailforge for fast, reliable sending from shared IP pools. We recommend using Google or Microsoft mailboxes to maximize deliverability and manageability. Here is why: This pairing gives you great inbox placement, reduced risk, and easy scaling without any technical hassle. Move to Infraforge only when your send volumes and maturity require dedicated IPs and reputation control.
Available Domains
godesigngurucreative.com godesignguru.uk godesignguruagency.com
Expected Results
10,000
Prospects Contacted This Month
20 – 40
Sales Calls Per Month
Pricing
Send Emails
Choose No. of Leads
1,000
100,000
Cost
$96 per month
Setup Time
5 Minutes
Reachout to 10,000 Leads via Linkedin & Email
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Find Leads
Choose No. of Leads
1,000
100,000
Cost
$89 per month
Setup Time
Instant
10,000 Credits to extract Linkedin, Email & Phone Numbers.
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Get Mailboxes
Google + Microsoft
Choose No. of Leads
1,000
100,000
Mailboxes
25
Cost
$113 per month
Domains
9
Cost
$126 per year
Get Mailboxes
Shared Email
Choose No. of Leads
1,000
100,000
Mailboxes
25
Cost
$75 per month
Domains
9
Cost
$126 per year
Get Mailboxes
Private Email
Choose No. of Leads
1,000
100,000
Mailboxes
25
Cost
$100 per month
Domains
9
Cost
$126 per year
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