How to Generate B2B Leads: 8 Ways and a Step-by-Step Plan
How to generate B2B leads: 8 ways compared, then a step-by-step plan to build a list from Google Maps, check the numbers and reach out. Costs and rules too.
Practical guides to finding and qualifying business leads, with competitor prices checked against the vendors' own pages.
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The tools: Google Maps Scraper · Email Finder · LinkedIn Scraper · Facebook Scraper
Start here: How to Generate B2B Leads: 8 Ways and a Step-by-Step Plan · B2B Lead Generation Lists: Buy or Build Your Own
How to generate B2B leads: 8 ways compared, then a step-by-step plan to build a list from Google Maps, check the numbers and reach out. Costs and rules too.
Bought B2B lead lists are shared and ageing. Here is how to build your own list from Google Maps, what it contains, what it costs and the rules to know.
How to find clients for a marketing agency: pick a niche, list local businesses from Google Maps, spot who needs you, and send a short personal message.
Apify alternatives compared on real prices: Octoparse, PhantomBuster, Outscraper and LeadTrapper, a $50/year Windows app for Maps and social media leads.
Hunter.io alternatives compared: Hunter and Snov.io credit prices, and a $50/year Email Finder that reads business websites for emails, phones and WhatsApp.
Extract emails from a list of websites in bulk: paste up to 1,000 URLs, get every published email labelled and checked, plus phones and WhatsApp numbers.
Where businesses publish their emails, how to find them by hand, and how to collect them from hundreds of websites at once, labelled and checked first.
PhantomBuster alternatives compared: Start, Grow and Scale prices, tools for its LinkedIn automation, and a $50/year app for lead lists with no hour cap.
B2B lead generation outsourcing costs $1,000-$5,000 a month. Here is what agencies actually deliver, when it is worth it, and when software does the same job.
The best free lead generation tools in 2026, the real limits of each free plan, and how a Google Maps scraper compares. Prices checked 24 September 2026.
Lead generation starts with a choice: buy a list, pay someone to build it, or build it yourself. The lists guide sets buying against building, and the outsourcing guide looks at what hiring the work out really costs.
For a process to follow, read how to do B2B lead generation. If the budget is small, the free lead generation tools comparison shows what the free plans of the main tools actually give you.
Google Maps scraper, Number Filter and WhatsApp bulk sender in one Windows app. $50/year, 14-day free trial.
Get LeadTrapper — $50/year