Data locked in a tool when you sell to web designers
What happens to your leads the day you cancel? Here is how people who sell to web designers fix it.
What happens to your leads the day you cancel?
Some tools rent you access to contacts or make it hard to take your work with you. Your notes, statuses and lists stay behind when the subscription ends.
It hits harder when you sell to web designers. Web designers are often freelancers or small studios who build and look after sites for local businesses. They buy hosting, tools and outsourced development, and they choose partners who make them look good in front of their clients.
Every month you invest more work into a list you do not really own. Switching tools later means starting over.
Your data, exportable at any moment.
In Riftjaw you build your own lead database on your account's own server. You can export contacts to CSV at any time, all at once or per segment. Form entries and original import files come back out too, including on the day you leave.
- Fields that fit web designers, such as platform
- Email prefixes that fit, like hello@, info@, studio@ and design@
- Status, tags and a segment on every record
How to fix it in Riftjaw
- Choose what to export. Pick all contacts, a filter or a segment.
- Export to CSV. Get a clean CSV that opens in any spreadsheet.
- Get the originals back. Retrieve the original import files and form entries as well.
Other walls when prospecting web designers
Web designers find their own names in footers and get many partnership mails.
A short, specific message sent in small batches stands out more than a long pitch.
Freelancers rarely list an email address and use hello@ on their own domain.
Email from domain with hello@ ticked gives you a likely address to test.
You cannot tell studios from freelancers in a scraped list.
Add a field for freelancer or studio and fill it as you check portfolios.
Fields worth recording for web designers
Any column in your import can become a field. These are the ones worth keeping for web designers.
| Field | Why it helps |
|---|---|
| Company name | The key field. Duplicates are checked on it or on the website. |
| Website | Needed to derive an email when the export has none. |
| Platform | The site builder or framework they use shapes your offer. |
| Freelancer or studio | Studios buy more seats and more outsourced work. |
| Client type | Local shops or larger companies need different services. |
| Maintenance | Whether they sell care plans shows interest in hosting and support. |
| Portfolio link | A quick way to check fit and find an opening line. |
Questions people ask
You can gather the sites yourself and paste the page HTML into paste and collect, which turns repeating blocks into rows. Riftjaw does not crawl the web on its own.
No. They are likely addresses built from common patterns. Test with a small batch and watch the send log.
If your file has an email column, that wins. If it only has websites, tick the prefixes you want, such as hello@, info@, studio@ and design@, and Riftjaw derives addresses from each domain. Derived addresses are good guesses, not verified, so start with small batches.
Yes. The Free plan runs the whole pipeline on one list with small campaigns, and you do not need a credit card. Move to Pro when you want more lists, segments and bigger campaigns.
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