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Curious what’s normal here.

For a B2B SaaS campaign targeting ops and sales teams in SG/PH/ID, a 1,000-lead export takes maybe 30 minutes.

But cleaning it properly takes us 1–2 days. After removing generic emails, wrong roles, outdated contacts, and bad-fit companies, we usually end up with around 500–600 usable prospects.

So the list looks big at first, but almost 40% gets cut before sales even touches it

Curious how long this takes for others.

Are you cleaning lists manually, using tools, or just sending the export straight to outreach

Been doing more prospecting across PH, ID, and SG lately, and curious how others are handling this. Cause I'm honestly confused.

Don't get me wrong finding companies is easy enough. But finding the actual decision maker is where it really gets messy.

Had a lot of bad expereinces so far. Like titles don't always translate cleanly across markets. Sometimes the "Head" isn't the final decision-maker. Then, sometimes founders are still involved, especially in PH. Sometimes the best contact is the person closest to the problem, not the most senior person. So it's a case-to-case basis.

Curious to know how you are handling this chaos? Cause it's becoming tedious and time-consuming for us

we automated around 80% of our follow-ups recently, and I was honestly expecting it to hurt conversations. It dodn't hurt conversions. It didn't. It actually helped. I think the uncomfortable truth was that our "manual follow-up" wasn't really thoughtful. It was just inconsistent. Some leads got followed up within a day. Others got a reply a week later.

Automation fixedthe boring partslike timing, reminders, basic nurture, and routing . The importantpart was leacing room for humans where it mattered. Bigger accounts, arm replies, weird edge cases, anything with real buying intetn. Those still needed an actual person.

I don't think manual sales is dying. But I do think I'll remember to follow up later is dying. Curious how others are handling this. What do you automate, and what do you still keep human?

Curious to know what's actually working for people here? A lot of lead gen advice focuses on getting more leads, but not alays better ones. In my experience, the bigger unlock is usually improving the signal before the lead even enters the pipeline.

SO wha's one change you made that noticeably improved lead quality