paying $29/m for 25 emails is a scam

I'm a freelancer who's been working remotely for the past 3 years and I use cold emails to find clients. I noticed my email outreach campaigns would mainly involve me scraping leads from Apollo, verifying their emails from Hunter or NeverBounce.

These tools are not cheap and when you want to add finding funding information from Crunchbase, your bank balance would be in the negatives before you even get a positive response.

I started working on justraisedfunding.com initially as a way to have a ready stream of leads for my campaign but realized it could be helpful for others so I launched it and made $19 a few days after launching.

I've made $57 since then in lifetime deals and plan to expand my marketing and provide better data for my customers.

My process can be summarized into I find a recent funding post on x, linkedin or on Google. I find the CEO and enrich their contact information, I then verify their contact details and any additional data points that can help in a personalized cold email.

The question becomes, why pay $29/m when you can get a lifetime plan and get a consistent stream of prospects likely to buy your offer.