COLD EMAIL
If your cold email campaign is underperforming before you blame the copy, the subject line or deliverability tools, ask yourself one question:

Written by
Hashir Khurram
Published on
October 17, 2025
13
min
Did the list deserve a reply in the first place?
Because no matter how clever your offer is, No matter how much you have warmed up your inboxes, No matter how much A/B testing you have done
If your list is off, your whole system is off
The #1 Reason Cold Email Campaigns Fail: Bad List Logic
Heres what most people do:
Fire up Apollo or Sales Navigator
Choose job titles + industries + employee ranges
Export 5,000 leads
Hope for the best
This is like showing up to a party and asking everyone the same question regardless of who they are or why they came
You will get ignored
Because context is everything
Contextual Targeting: The New Standard
Imagine this:
You are selling marketing automation service
You do not want every marketer
You want marketers at SaaS companies using HubSpot who recently launched on Product Hunt and just raised Seed funding
Now we are talking
You are not just building a list, You are building intent
Scrapeamax: Designed for Context, Not Clickbait
At Scrapeamax, we have reimagined cold email list building from the ground up
Instead of starting with job titles, we start with real world triggers:
What tool are they using? (BuiltWith, Store Leads)
What platform are they listed on? (Clutch, GoodFirms)
What are their reviews like? (Google Maps, Trustpilot)
Have they raised funding? (Crunchbase)
Are they even in your niche? (GMB, BBB, Yellow Pages)
Only once the company context is solid, then we layer on the people
Thats where Clay + Findymail + email validation tools come in
Examples of High Intent Lead Prompts
"Get me dental clinics in Florida with over 100 Google reviews and no in house SEO team"
"Find Shopify brands using Klaviyo + Recharge in the US doing 10 to 50 orders/day"
"Show me SaaS companies that use Calendly + Stripe and are hiring for BDR roles"
These are not filters, they are signals
Signals that this person is likely to reply
Results > Rows
Forget 50,000 row dumps that get 1 reply per 500
With Scrapeamax:
You get fewer but better companies
With real time scraping from premium sources
That your competitors are not seeing
Because everyone is using Apollo
But not everyone is using Scrapeamax + prompt based logic
How It Works
Come up with a prompt or let us help you craft one
We scrape it from trusted databases (GMB, Crunchbase, BuiltWith, Clutch, etc)
Deliver verified company lists within 60 to 180 minutes
You enrich in Clay + validate
Launch with confidence
Want to Try It Free?
We will give you the first list on the house, no strings attached
Book a Call + Get Slack Access
https://calendly.com/hashir-khurram/scrapeamax-unlimited-lead-lists
See what a high context list feels like
Because the best cold email campaigns? They start before the email is even written
Scrape smart, Close faster, Use Scrapeamax

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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