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TUM.ai's personal outbound strategy

We’ll share the exact tools that work best for TUM.ai in the Information Technology & Services / Student AI Initiative to scale your outbound efforts and help you build more pipeline.

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

Lead generation

Customer Lookalikes

When you start building your outbound list, focus first on companies or teams similar to your best current or ideal customers—think about your existing sponsors and partners like IBM, NVIDIA, or Antler. Leadsforge can help you find similar organizations by targeting innovation labs, AI teams, or technical recruiting leads at major enterprises and scaleups. Here is why: Targeting lookalikes helps you reach companies that already value the kind of talent pool and project collaborations you offer, increasing your chance of positive replies and sponsorships.

Competitor Followers

Finding people who already engage with organizations similar to yours can be a goldmine. Start by targeting the followers of your competitor or peer company pages (such as university AI groups, AI innovation hubs, or leading tech student organizations). You only need the company name and website—Leadsforge will do the rest. Share their LinkedIn company page link in Leadsforge and it will find potential leads for you.

Ideal Customer Profile

The most effective outreach starts with a clear description of your ideal customer profile (ICP). For TUM.ai, this means: 1) Corporate Innovation, R&D, or AI Team Leads in the Munich/DACH region 2) Talent Acquisition or Technical Recruiting heads 3) Corporate Partnerships/University Relations managers 4) VC or accelerator partners focused on student innovation 5) Startup founders interested in mentorship. You can refine by industry, company size, or even geography before sending those requirements to Leadsforge. This makes your prospect data both clean and highly relevant.

Targeting

Segmentation

Effective segmentation increases reply rates and makes your campaigns easy to personalize. Try these: 1) Segment A: Large enterprises (Fortune 500/major DACH corporates) 2) Segment B: Fast-growth AI startups and scaleups in your area (Munich, Berlin, EU hubs) 3) Segment C: Venture partners, accelerators, and startup builders 4) Segment D: Local HR or TA leaders focused on university partnerships. Here is why: By segmenting, you can tailor your messaging and offers—such as sponsorship packets or Makeathon invites—directly to what each group cares most about.

Vertical Slices

Break down your campaign lists further by vertical markets. For example: - Automotive innovation teams - Health/med-tech research labs - Financial services/AI teams - Manufacturing R&D - Consulting firms active in AI hiring. Here is why: Vertical targeting allows you to offer highly relevant case studies, student project wins, or sponsor ROI examples that match each sector, making your outreach stand out.

Signals

To stay relevant (and avoid being ignored), set up triggers based on public company events such as when a target secures funding, posts new AI job roles, attends local conferences, or announces new research partnerships. Salesforge can automate these as trigger-based follow-ups. Here is why: Emailing leads when something newsworthy happens ensures your proposal is timely, and your offer aligns with their current needs.

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Do Outbound Using

Unlimited Linkedin Profiles

Unlimited Mailboxes

Unlimited Premium Warmup

ESP Matching for increased delivery

Here’s Why

Salesforge is your all-in-one hub for running and tracking outreach—manage your multicultural team’s email inboxes, personalize each touch, automate sequences, and monitor deliverability, all in one place. Here is why: With complex, multi-segment outreach like TUM.ai’s, Salesforge keeps things organized, optimizes send timing, and helps ensure nothing slips through the cracks, all while giving you analytics to improve every campaign.

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 designed for targeted, clean, up-to-date lead generation. You can easily build prospect lists based on your ICP, company verticals, or even LinkedIn followers of similar organizations. Here is why: Outbound campaigns rely on great data. Leadsforge saves hours of manual research and provides high-quality, validated prospects that boost your reply rates.

Possible combinations

To get started, use Primeforge for Google or Microsoft mailboxes, ensuring top-tier deliverability and credibility. Mailforge can be your sending platform if you prefer its setup—either option keeps your sender reputation safe and makes outreach smooth for a student organization. Here is why: Both integrate smoothly with Salesforge’s sequence management and reduce risk of your campaigns getting caught in spam, especially when using new secondary domains and warming them up for you.

Available Domains

tum-ai-team.com tum-ai-new.com tum-ai-support.com tum-aiapp.com

Expected Results

10,000

Prospects Contacted This Month

20 – 40

Sales Calls Per Month

Pricing

Send Emails

1,000 Leads to reachout

10,000

410,000

Cost

$96 per month

Setup Time

5 Minutes

Reachout to 10,000 Leads via Linkedin & Email

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Find Leads

8,000 Leads to extract

8,000

100,000

Cost

$40 per month

Setup Time

Instant

10,000 Credits to extract Linkedin, Email & Phone Numbers.

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Get Mailboxes

Google + Microsoft

0 Leads to process

100,000

Mailboxes

Cost

$113 per month

Domains

Cost

$126 per year

Try Primeforge

Get Mailboxes

Shared Email

0 Leads to process

100,000

Mailboxes

Cost

$75 per month

Domains

Cost

$126 per year

Try Mailforge

Get Mailboxes

Private Email

0 Leads to process

100,000

Mailboxes

Cost

$100 per month

Domains

Cost

$126 per year

Try Primeforge

Total price

$600

per month

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Sam Momani

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"Salesforge's new infrastructure is a game-changer. Big boost for my deliverability and sending capacity. I've tried multiple outreach tools and let me tell you: it's a must-have for everyone that is serious about cold emailing at scale."

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