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Reached an audience with no corporate email and no LinkedIn, by targeting active rental listings.

PropTech (11 to 50 employees) selling property-management software (tenant placement, leases, maintenance, rent collection) to landlords and property managers.

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830
Qualified contacts (one campaign)
5.5%
Reply rate
0.5%
Bounce rate (vs 2–5% avg)
70%
Time saved vs manual
The challenge

Hemlane's buyers act like consumers, not corporate accounts. They often have no corporate email, little LinkedIn presence, and are hard to reach any traditional way. Earlier outreach, internal and external, produced lists that never turned into conversations, with reply and bounce rates worse than benchmark.

What was built

Sharper targeting

Redefined the buyer from generic 'landlords' to property owners with active rental listings on sites like Zillow, targeting the actual buying moment instead of a title.

Sourcing + enrichment

Clay sourced and enriched contacts at scale for an audience that standard databases miss.

Multichannel campaigns

Smartlead ran personalized messaging with controlled variation and naturally sequenced follow-ups, on top of rigorous deliverability: list validation and technical setup.

The plays we ran

Buying-moment targeting off active Zillow listings, not static 'landlord' lists.

Personalization with controlled variation to stay human at volume.

List validation and technical deliverability setup to protect the sender.

The results

830 qualified contacts from a single Zillow campaign, a 5.5% reply rate, and a 0.5% bounce rate against a 2 to 5% benchmark, while cutting roughly 70% of the time versus manual outbound. A second round kicked off the following year.

830
Qualified contacts (one campaign)
5.5%
Reply rate
0.5%
Bounce rate (vs 2–5% avg)
70%
Time saved vs manual
Stack: ClaySmartlead Nov 2023 – Apr 2024

“Working with the team was great, they're really true partners, and provided insights into growth.”

Jesse Litwin, Sales Outreach Consultant, Hemlane

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