Who is this for?
- Sales professionals looking to build lead lists from target company domains
- Business development teams conducting outreach campaigns
- Marketers building contact databases for account-based marketing
- Recruiters searching for potential candidates at specific companies
- Anyone needing to transform a list of company domains into actionable contact information
What problem is this workflow solving?
Finding business email addresses for outreach is a time-consuming process. The Apollo API doesn't provide a direct way to extract email contacts from domains in a single call. This workflow bridges that gap by:
- Automating the two-step process required by Apollo's API
- Processing multiple domains in batches without manual intervention
- Extracting, enriching, and storing contact information in a structured format
- Eliminating hours of manual data entry and API interaction
What this workflow does
This workflow creates an automated pipeline between Google Sheets and Apollo's API to:
- Pull a list of target domains from a Google Sheet
- Submit each domain to Apollo's search API to find associated people
- Loop through each person found and enrich their profile data
- Extract key information: name, title, email address, and LinkedIn URL
- Write the enriched contact information back to a results sheet
- Process the next domain automatically until all are complete
Setup
Prerequisites:
- An n8n instance (cloud or self-hosted)
- Apollo.io account with API access
- Google account with access to Google Sheets
Google Sheets Setup:
- Create a new Google Sheet with two tabs:
- Tab 1: "Target Domains" with a column named "Domain To Enrich"
- Tab 2: "Results" with columns: Company, First Name, Last Name, Title, Email, LinkedIn
n8n Setup:
- Import the workflow JSON into your n8n instance
- Set up Google Sheets credentials in n8n
- Update the Google Sheets document ID in both Google Sheets nodes
- Add your Apollo API key to both HTTP Request nodes
- Review and adjust API rate limits if needed
Testing:
- Add a few test domains to your "Target Domains" sheet
- Run the workflow manually to verify it's working correctly
- Check the "Results" sheet to confirm data is being properly populated
How to customize this workflow to your needs
Adding More Contact Fields:
- Modify the "Clean Up" node to extract additional fields from the Apollo API response
- Add corresponding columns to your "Results" sheet
- Update the "Results To Results Sheet" node mapping to include the new fields
Filtering Results:
- Add a Filter node after "Clean Up" to include only contacts with specific roles
- Create conditions based on title, seniority, or other fields returned by Apollo
Automating Workflow Execution:
- Replace the manual trigger with a Schedule Trigger to run daily/weekly
- Add a Filter node to process only domains with "Not Processed" status
- Update the status field in Google Sheets after processing
Additional Notes
- This workflow respects Apollo's API rate limits by processing one contact at a time
- The Apollo API may not return contact information for all domains or all employees
- Consider legal and privacy implications when collecting and storing contact information
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