Marketing Ops with Sam

Automations · Built and documented

A lead generation workflow that doesn’t guess.

Quick answer: This lead generation workflow has three stages: collect business data with Apify, find a usable email address, then send and log the outreach in n8n. If no good email is found, it stops, because no email is better than a bad one.

How it flows.

  1. 1Collect business dataApify
  2. 2Find a usable emailn8n
  3. 3Stop if none foundn8n
  4. 4Send + logn8n + email

How it’s built.

  1. Data intake

    Business data comes from scraped listings, forms or a spreadsheet. Nothing is enriched or emailed yet.

  2. Email discovery

    The workflow looks for a usable address and stops if it can’t find one.

  3. Send and log

    Outreach goes out and every send is logged, so nothing is chased twice.

The full write-up

The full workflow diagram and each stage explained.

Read the full build

Questions people ask.

Can I automate lead generation with n8n?

Yes. n8n can take data from a scraper like Apify, find contact details, send outreach and log every step.

Is cold email legal in Australia?

Australia’s Spam Act has rules on consent and identifying yourself. Check them, and keep outreach relevant and easy to opt out of.

Want this built for you?

I build automations like this in your own accounts, with the same guardrails, and hand over a runbook so your team can run it.

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