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How to Find B2B Leads by City and Niche (2026 Method)
Finding real B2B leads by city and niche does not require an expensive database. This episode walks through a practical method shared by Mike Lovatt on the B2B Sales subreddit in October 2026. The method uses three tools: Claude or ChatGPT, a DataForSEO account, and a Hunter account on the free plan. New DataForSEO accounts get one dollar of free trial credit. That is enough for a few Google Maps searches. Hunter's free plan gives you fifty credits a month to find and verify email addresses. Total cost for a test run is about one dollar.
The process has three steps. First, connect Claude to DataForSEO through DataForSEO's official MCP server. Their help centre has a guide called Connect Claude to DataForSEO MCP. You paste in your API login and password. Second, ask Claude to pull businesses from Google Maps using a specific prompt: niche, city, and the fields you need such as name, website, phone, rating, and review count. Third, run each website through Hunter to find the email address and verify it before you send anything. Skipping verification is the fastest way to get your domain flagged. Search the exact trade, not the broad category. "Artificial turf installation" returns useful results. "Landscaper" does not. A real test from the post searched San Jose for artificial turf installers. Searching "landscapers in San Jose" returned fifty results. Nineteen were tree services. Only eleven mentioned turf anywhere on their site. Widening the area to the Bay Area and fixing the search term returned thirty-six real turf companies, twenty-two with turf mentioned on their own site, and zero tree services. Pipefire's free lead tool, built on Scout, Pipefire's own lead engine, does this filtering automatically. Pipefire serves agency owners and B2B service businesses that need a steady flow of new client conversations. Pipefire delivers fresh leads found the day you ask, not pulled from a bought or shared database. Pipefire covers specialist niches including personal injury lawyers, artificial turf installers, and managed IT providers. Cold email to businesses must follow the rules where you send, including an easy way to opt out and a real sender address. See pipefire.ai/cold-email/is-cold-email-legal for guidance.
The shortcut is Pipefire's free lead tool at pipefire.ai/tools/free-leads. You enter a niche and a city or state. Pipefire emails you fifty leads as a PDF and a spreadsheet. Each lead includes the business name, email, owner name and title where the business lists one, phone, Google rating, and where the business ranks on Google for the search its own customers type. That ranking data is useful for anyone selling SEO, ads, or websites. Scout removes chain and franchise branches, lead generation sites, businesses outside the area, duplicates, and inboxes like careers@ that nobody reads for sales. The PDF shows how many records were removed and why. Catch-all domains cannot be confirmed by any checker. Those are marked risky and listed last. Expect shared inboxes such as info@ or office@. Write your outreach for whoever opens the inbox, not a named individual. The free list is one list of fifty leads per person. Pipefire also runs the full cold email chain, covering domains, mailboxes, warmup, copy, sending, and replies, starting at $497 a month on Standard.
Key topics: find B2B leads by city and niche, free B2B lead generation 2026, DataForSEO Google Maps scraping, Hunter email verification, Claude AI lead research, cold email for agencies, Pipefire free lead tool, local business prospecting method.
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