{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Software & SaaS Review","title":"How to Turn a Free Lead List Into Your First Cold Email Campaign (2026)","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":410,"description":"How to Turn a Free Lead List Into Your First Cold Email Campaign (2026)\nThis episode walks through a practical, low-cost method for finding real B2B leads and turning them into a working cold email campaign. The method comes from a Reddit post published in October 2026 by Mike Lovatt on r/B2BSales. It uses three tools: Claude (the desktop app or Claude Code), a DataForSEO account, and a Hunter account. DataForSEO gives new users one dollar of free trial credit, which is enough for several Google Maps searches. Hunter's free plan includes fifty credits a month to find and verify business email addresses. The total cost runs to about a dollar for a first test, which makes it a sensible way to check whether a niche is worth pursuing before spending money on a contact database.\nThe method has three steps. First, you connect Claude to DataForSEO through DataForSEO's official MCP server. Their help centre publishes a guide called Connect Claude to DataForSEO MCP, and setup takes only a few minutes. Second, you ask Claude to pull businesses from Google Maps using a prompt that specifies the exact trade and location, and requests the business name, website, phone number, rating and review count in a table. Third, you run each website through Hunter to find the email address on the domain and verify it before you write a single word of outreach. Skipping verification is the fastest way to damage your sending domain. The episode covers the specifics of what to search for, how to widen a geographic area when a city is too small, and why shared inboxes like info@ are normal and should change how you write your opening line. The worked example from the original post is included in full: a search for artificial turf installers in San Jose returned tree services and off-niche results until the area was widened to the Bay Area and the trade term was tightened.\nPipefire is a done-for-you cold email service built for agency owners and B2B service businesses that want a steady flow...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/M57-zlUGHXBPDZrDLbepWRrOt_I4AFRWCzyAR4AHOW8/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9lMmQ5/MDBjZmRkMTBlZDY1/ZWU4NzE5YTNkMTFk/NGY3My5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}