Any/all advice welcome.
I had an idea around Feb of last year while working a business development job that required a lot of cold emailing.
The idea seemed simple enough: ‘targeted’ email generation.
There are a handful of lead generation services out there. Seeing that most/all are subscription based, I thought it would be cool to sell an email generating product at a low flat rate.
Aside from time and paid social media posts, there are really no costs involved. The script is written in python, it’s a web scraper with a nifty verification trick at the end. That anyone could do on their own, if they know what they’re doing.
Anyways, I was pretty excited about this potential side hustle idea, and really dug in last spring on weekends / evening hours.
After ~$500 paid ads through Facebook, I’m guessing somewhere around 100 hours (mainly self promotion), I have yet to sell a single script.
MVP: employee emails by position / company, general store emails by location and emails on Facebook from users based on tags in their bio (‘environment’).
I have a few trains of thought as to why it didn’t work. If I can do it, with relatively little tech know how, maybe a bunch of people have/are doing it. Guessing most sales companies provide lead generation services to their employees, but the one we had sucked (lead411 - incomplete/dated). Lastly, I think trust might be an issue.
I named the site inconsistent contacts to get around this, but it might be doing the opposite. I’m 24M and don’t want to come off as a “Constant Contact” or some other consultancy term.
Would love to hear what y’all think, may have just spent my last $20 on FB promos that don’t seem to work (25-50 cents/click).