Your “Automated” outreach tool still runs on a spreadsheet, Here’s Proof!

The landing page reads 'FULLY AUTOMATED', cute. But, it fails to mention what you actually have open in your browser tabs, right now. There it is, the spreadsheet. The one tracking who you messaged, who messaged you, who is "still considering" a meeting, and who you were supposed to follow up with three days ago. Your linkedin outreach automation tool did not ask you to build this. It did not build this. It simply assumed, and moved on.

What does 'automated' typically mean in practice?

 In practice, most linkedin outreach tools will automate the low hanging fruit, sending the connection request, the scheduled message, which is perhaps 20% of what actually constitutes outreach. The other 80% of the work (actually worth your time) they hide, neatly wrapped up in an attractive interface, telling you that they handle the tedious, manual work.

They don't. You do. It's the part that wasn't really holding you back in the first place.

You can tell an automated outreach tool by the fact that they make you create a spreadsheet to track who you contacted, who contacted you, and who you need to follow up with. When they ask you to, it's not automation. It's a scheduling tool.

When (not) to expect it

No tool will declare on their landing page that you will still need a spreadsheet for this, it's not a selling point.

The reality is simple, and not difficult to grasp. Until a tool eliminates the need for that spreadsheet (for good), it's only automating the parts of LinkedIn outreach that weren't costing you any real time in the first place. The tedious, dull tracking work remains exactly where it's always been, on you.

This isn't an edge case, it's a common occurrence. Because it's a much harder problem to solve, than to build a tool that simply sends out a message on a schedule.

What really solves the spreadsheet problem, for good.

A better looking dashboard, or a nicer way to do the same manual spreadsheet work yourself, won't do it. What will solve it, is a better tool built to eliminate the tedious parts of outreach, and not simply provide a shinier interface to the work you were already doing.

With Unifers.ai  there is no data to export elsewhere, no spreadsheet to maintain, no column asking if you need to follow up (with a question mark, even!) in any software. Leads are found, verified, and tracked, with no manual bookkeeping on your end.

If your tool requires a spreadsheet to even function, it didn't solve the problem of manual bookkeeping, only hid it.

Close that spreadsheet, try Unifers.ai