There are over 20 “sales intelligence” tools that farm and collect your email (personal and business) and sell them to AI SDRs and companies.

The top 10 are

ZoomInfo Apollo.io Lusha Cognism Clearbit Seamless AI UpLead LeadIQ Hunter.io Clay and 6sense

The only way you can reduce emails is to “Opt out” of their lists. While they make it hard, I have put together a list of their opt-out pages.

Now, before you tell me “Why can’t you make it so I get a single form?” and I can “make an agent that automates this”.

No. You cannot do it, because the companies have no incentive to help you get it done. So they make it hard. There is one company DeleteMe that helps with this, but many users I have spoken with told me it is a cumbersome process.

Especially because every person has 2-3 emails – personal, work and “private”. They have to delete all 3 emails from those systems.

It would take you about 1-2 hours to do this with each email.

They give you a form with double opt-out.
You have to give them your phone number to confirm.
You have to then click on an email they send to your email address to confirm.

But let’s say you do all that. And you go through the process.

The number of emails I have received in the last 3 months (after going through this process) vs 6 months prior has dropped by over 60%.

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