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If you’re a sales or growth lead at a SaaS company, a lead-gen agency owner, or an event sponsorship coordinator doing targeted outreach to event organizers or businesses, you’ve probably tried to collect data from Google Maps to pinpoint prospects. But doing it manually or via Google Maps API is not scalable, for the following reasons:

When I started building scraping Actors in Apify, my iteration cycle was brutal: make a change, run the Actor, wait over a minute fo...

Your brand just got named in a Reddit thread. Maybe it's a complaint that's gaining upvotes. Maybe it's a comparison where you lose. Maybe it's a question a competitor is about to answer instead of you. Before you realize, the thread already has 400 comments.

Brand monitoring SaaS tools that catch this for you cost hundreds of dollars a month. The Reddit brand monitorin...

The purpose of generating leads is to make contact with people who are potentially interested in what you have to offer. Get them to warm up to you, and they could become qualified prospects willing ...

Since the AI boom that kicked off with the public release of ChatGPT in 2022, the technology has advanced rapidly, leading to the release of other large language models (LLMs) like DeepSeek, Claude, and LLaMA.

While LLMs are great at reasoning, they were originally stuck inside a text-based box with no way to interact with the world. Over time, that started to change wi...