Apollo
If you have spent any time in outbound sales, you have likely scraped hundreds (maybe thousands) of contacts from Apollo

Written by
Hashir Khurram
Published on
October 8, 2025
13
min
It feels easy:
Filter by title
Set the location
Choose industry
Hit “Export”
But heres the uncomfortable truth:
Everyone else is doing the same thing
Which means your list is not just stale its saturated
And reply rates are dropping across the board
The Problem with People First Scraping
Most cold emailers start with the person:
“Give me all Marketing Managers in California”
But this leads to:
Wrong fit companies
Confusing ICP logic
Mass emails that feel off
Contacts who do not care about your offer
Its like fishing in a pond with 50 other fishermen using the same bait
Even worse? The same contacts get hit week after week
So whats the alternative?
Company First Targeting Is the New Meta
Instead of scraping people scrape companies
Ask better questions:
Who actually benefits from your offer?
What tech stack do they need to be using?
What stage should they be at?
Where are they located?
Then use that logic to build lists like:
“Find companies using Webflow, <20 employees, based in Texas”
“Give me D2C brands using Klaviyo and Recharge with at least 1,000 monthly visitors”
“Pull B2B SaaS startups using Stripe and hiring SDRs”
Now you are fishing where others are not
Scrapeamax Makes This Easy
Using Scrapeamax, you can:
Source companies first from 11+ premium databases
Run queries from BuiltWith, Crunchbase, GMB, Store Leads, Clutch and more
Enrich only the best fit companies
Then find the exact right person using tools like Clay or Findymail
And best of all? You are not scraping recycled contacts
You are building hyper relevant lists from scratch
Example: Old vs New Method
Traditional Apollo Scraping:
Filter: CTOs in the US
Output: 5,000 contacts from random companies
Issue: No alignment with offer, low relevance
New Company First Workflow with Scrapeamax:
Filter: AI startups using Stripe + Calendly, <50 employees
Output: 387 companies scraped via BuiltWith + Crunchbase
Then: Enriched with Clay to Verified emails to Sequenced via Smartlead
Result: 6X increase in positive reply rate
Ready to Ditch the Old Way?
We will show you how to:
Scrape unlimited companies
Build smarter, cleaner lead lists
Skip the mess of scraping Apollo contacts who have been hit 10x already
Book a Call and get your first list free
https://calendly.com/hashir-khurram/scrapeamax-unlimited-lead-lists
No pitch, Just show up and tell us your ICP
No tool limits
No spammed contacts
No more wasting time on the wrong people
Scrape smarter
Start with context
Scale with clarity
The Scrapeamax Team

Hashir Khurram
🏆 Winner SaaS Bootstrapper of the year 2024 Award by Tekpon | Growing Expandi towards $10M ARR | Prioritizing health -9% body fat year-round 🏋️♂️ | Sharing Real Stories in Public
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