AIViral vs a bought lead list.
A list looks cheap until you measure it against the only thing that matters: how many of those people would reply. A bought list gives you reach without interest, and the cost lands in your domain reputation and your sales team's week.
How a bought lead list usually runs.
Before judging it, it is worth being precise about what you are actually buying.
- You pay per contact or per export from a database of scraped or licensed business records.
- Your team - or a tool - sends outreach to those contacts.
- You find out what the list was worth when nobody replies, or replies are hostile.
What it genuinely does well.
We would rather you pick the right tool than pick us. Where this approach wins, it wins - and here is where.
- Cheap per record, and instantly useful for research and account planning.
- Good for filling a CRM's firmographic fields or sizing a market.
- You control exactly who gets contacted and when.
Where it lets you down.
Not faults of character - structural ones. These are the parts that show up in a quiet month.
- Nobody on the list asked to hear from you, so reply rates are low and often lower than the price implies.
- Records age: people move, companies shrink, and a third of a list is stale within a year.
- Bounce-heavy sends damage your sending domain, which costs far more than the list.
- The same records are sold to your competitors, who email the same people the same week.
How we do it differently.
Same goal - conversations that can become customers - with the billing pointed at interest instead of effort.
- We do not sell lists. Every lead is one person who replied to a campaign we ran and asked about your company.
- Interest is verified by a human reading the reply before the lead reaches your dashboard.
- You pay for a handful of real conversations instead of thousands of unverified rows.
- B2B only, business addresses only, opt-outs applied immediately.
The comparison, line by line.
| A bought lead list | AIViral | |
|---|---|---|
| What you buy | Rows of contact records | People who asked to be contacted |
| Verified interest | None | Read and qualified by hand |
| Typical outcome | Low replies, some bounces | A reply already in your inbox |
| Domain risk | Yours to carry | Ours - we run the sending |
| Cost model | Per record, up front | Per hot lead, $5-$50 |
| Data decay | Rapid | Not applicable |
These descriptions cover the approach in general, not any single company. If you are choosing between us and a specific provider, tell us which and we will give you our honest read instead of a generalisation.
Buy lists for research. Never for outreach - the money you save on records you pay back in domain reputation and wasted selling hours.
Common questions about this choice.
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