Start by reaching out to companies that closely resemble your own best customers—either those you’ve already seen success with, or those who fit your ideal customer profile. Leadsforge can help you identify and gather these lookalike prospects quickly, so you’re connecting with people most likely to respond and benefit from your outreach. Here is why: Focusing on lookalikes boosts your reply and meeting rates, since these companies already have pain points you know how to solve. Use Leadsforge to pull high-quality lists based on your best ICP.

Find new leads by targeting the followers of your top competitors and similar players in your space. With Leadsforge, you simply provide the LinkedIn page URL of the company you want to target, and our platform will handle the entire process—discovering the right contacts to approach. Here is why: Their followers are already interested in solutions like yours, so outreach to them is more likely to resonate. Share their LinkedIn company page link in Leadsforge and it will find leads for you.

Create your outbound lists by grouping prospects into clear segments like: 1) Founders/CEOs at 10–50 person SaaS for early-stage pitches 2) Heads of Sales/RevOps at 50–200 person companies for operational improvement messages 3) Marketing leads at agencies for partnership and white-label offers Here is why: This approach makes your messaging much more relevant for each recipient—people are more likely to respond if your outreach matches their role and stage.

Break your total market into vertical slices based on industry (SaaS, consulting, agencies), company size, and geographic focus. Prioritize your best-performing verticals using list insights from Leadsforge, so your team always works where response rates are highest. Here is why: Focusing first on verticals where you’ve seen the strongest results saves time and helps ramp up meetings efficiently.