Start your prospecting by targeting brands and companies similar to your best current customers. Focus first on companies in the fashion, beauty, home, and CPG sectors that value community-driven growth and have seen success with creator or UGC programs. Here is why: These lookalikes are most likely to benefit from your offering, making conversations warmer and increasing your conversion rate. Leadsforge can help you identify businesses that match the profile of successful clients like Henkel and Burlington. Use it to build lists by industry, size, and social signals for highly relevant outreach.

You can boost your list quality by targeting the followers of your competitors and similar platforms in the creator marketing and social commerce space. All you need to do is share the LinkedIn company page link of your competitors in Leadsforge and it will collect followers who may be interested in your solution. Here is why: Their followers are already engaged in your niche, so outreach is highly relevant and more likely to drive interest.

Segment your outbound by: 1) Industry (e.g., Fashion/Beauty, Home & Living, CPG) 2) Company size (SMB: 5–50 employees, Mid-market: 50–500, Enterprise: 500+) 3) Geography (US, DACH, UK/EU) 4) Buying signals (recent funding, new campaigns, hiring in ecommerce/marketing) 5) Use-case fit (UGC-focused, compliance-driven, affiliate/storefront interest) Here is why: Thoughtful segmentation lets you match your relevance and value prop to each audience, increasing odds of positive responses while keeping message volume controlled.

Go deep on verticals showing high engagement or growth opportunity: Fashion/Apparel, Beauty & Personal Care, Home/Decor, CPG, Retailers with strong social commerce. Prioritize based on case study traction or vertical-specific lead magnets (performance benchmarks, ROI calculator, micro-cases). Here is why: Focused vertical outreach signals expertise and increases your credibility compared to generalist cold emailers.