30+ Beste Lead Generation Tools (nach Typ)

Und wie man eine B2B-Verkaufsleiter-Maschine aufbaut

Sind Sie auf der Suche nach Lead-Generierungs-Tools und wie Sie diese nutzen können, um Ihr eigenes B2B-Verkaufs-Lead-Generierungssystem in Gang zu bringen?

Then you’re in exactly the right place! 😄

We won’t just present you with a bland list. We will actually help you make sense of that list, so you can clearly see how the different software tools relate to each other. 💡

As experts in the B2B lead generation space, we’ve only listed tools we can personally vouch for. All of the tools below have actually been used or thoroughly tested by our team.

And all these tools can be integrated with our very own B2B salesCRM software with built-in lead gen features, Salesflare. ✨

But, before we dive in deep, let’s take a look at the big picture first: what types of lead generation tools exist?


Arten von Software-Tools zur Lead-Generierung

Grob gesagt gibt es drei Möglichkeiten, Leads zu generieren:

  1. Outbound: potenzielle Kunden ansprechen
  2. Inbound: Umwandlung von bestehendem Verkehr in identifizierte Leads
  3. Nurturing: eine kalte, aber bereits identifizierte Zielgruppe in verkaufsbereite Leads umwandeln

That’s exactly how this list of lead generation tools is organized, with different subtypes per main type.

Here’s a quick overview of the structure (feel free to click through to a specific section 🖱️):

  1. Werkzeuge zur Erzeugung von Leads
  2. Inbound-Tools zur Lead-Generierung
  3. Werkzeuge zur Pflege von Kundenkontakten
  4. Bonus: Wie man eine B2B-Verkaufsleiter-Maschine aufbaut

If you see Salesflare pop up more than once in the list, that is normal: Salesflare comes with many lead gen tools built in, so you don’t have to juggle your sales leads between a series of different systems. Fret not, however: we’ll present you in each section with a worthy alternative.

Now let’s explore these lead gen tools! 👇


Outbound lead generation tools 📣

Despite what some self proclaimed thought leaders may tell you, most lead generation still starts with outbound efforts. No, your customers will not magically find you. 😏

Die Outbound-Lead-Generierung besteht im Wesentlichen aus zwei Teilen:

  1. Finden neuer qualifizierter Leads und ihrer jeweiligen Kontaktdaten
  2. Diese Kontakte ansprechen

Here are the tools that can help you. 👀

Neue Leads und deren Kontaktdaten finden

Finding quality sales leads is essential. To make your lead generation process work effectively, you’ll need well targeted leads with well verified contact details.

B2B-Lead-Daten-Finder

Adapt.io

Want to target people who work in a specific industry, geography, company size, and role or department (and maybe use a specific technology on their website)? Adapt.io can help you find these people with their respective email address and often also their phone number. It’s one of the best B2B lead data finder tools we’ve tried. And its pricing starts at $39 per month.

UpLead

UpLead is a worthy alternative to Adapt.io (just above) and it comes very highly recommended by reviewers on G2.com as well. Even though its lowest plan is slightly more expensive than Adapt.io’s, it becomes significantly less expensive as you scale.

Finder von E-Mail-Adressen

Salesflare

Want to find an email address for someone you find on LinkedIn, for a list of leads (like in Excel or in a csv), or for any contact in your CRM? Then Salesflare will find you a quality email address in over 70% of the time. The best part: this email finder is built into your CRM (with an integrated email sequence tool and LinkedIn sidebar) and all CRM plans come with free email finder credits included. 🆓

VoilaNorbert

Dead set on your email sequence tool and CRM? Then you can use VoilaNorbert instead of Salesflare. Its accuracy is pretty similar (good quality!), its pricing is not exorbitant, and its search is quite quick. Tip: when you say “VoilaNorbert”, try to use your best French accent. 🥐

FindThatLead

Eine dritte großartige Option: FindThatLead. Wie Salesflare und VoilaNorbert verfügt auch FindThatLead über eine praktische LinkedIn-Seitenleiste. Alles in allem ist die Funktionalität relativ ähnlich und der Preis ist etwas niedriger. Unser einziger Kritikpunkt: Die E-Mail-Suche kann eine ganze Weile dauern, bis eine Liste abgearbeitet ist.

Einen ausführlichen Vergleich dieser drei Tools finden Sie in diesem detaillierten Vergleich der E-Mail-Finder.

E-Mail-Listenüberprüfung

MyEmailVerifier

With tens of email list verifiers on the market (even VoilaNorbert and FindThatLead have their own version) it’s hard to find which is the best one. MyEmailVerifier is the best one we’ve found so far at a (very) affordable price.

LinkedIn E-Mail-Finder

Salesflare

We’ve covered email finders, but what if you’re looking at someone’s LinkedIn profile and you’d like to find their email address straight from there? With Salesflare’s email finder extension for LinkedIn it’s just a click away. And best of all: you can add the person straight into the CRM and enter them in an email sequence. Could life be any easier? 😍

Snov.io

We tested a whole series of email finder extensions for LinkedIn and most are slow or ugly. In that sense, the plugin that Snov.io offers is a breath of fresh air. It looks good, quickly offers results, and adds them to a list so you can easily use them in the next step. Installing it can be a little complex for novice Chrome users, as you need to sideload the extension; if you know how to do it, don’t let it hold you back.


Erreichen Sie Ihre Kontakte

Got your lead data together? Then let’s get in touch with them using emails, LinkedIn connections requests/messages, calls or personalized videos.

E-Mail-Erreichbarkeit/Sequenz-Tools

Salesflare

Salesflare pops up again? 😮 Yes, it can also power your outreach to sales leads. With Salesflare, you can effortlessly send personalized email sequences at scale. You can send the emails from the CRM and have everything be recorded back in the CRM automatically: email opens, clicks, replies, bounces, unsubscribes, … Salesflare even detects and parses the email signatures in these replies to update the contact details. And it helps you follow up and close the deals.

Reply.io

While we previously used to recommend Mailshake because it was more affordable, they upped their price and now only offer annual billing. Reply.io is a great, premium alternative with monthly billing. It’s pleasing to the eyes and does what you expect it to do, i.e. send email sequences reliably.

Automatisierungstools für die LinkedIn-Reichweite

Dux-Soup

Our tool of choice for many years now when automating outreach on LinkedIn, like connection requests, messages and endorsements: Dux-Soup. This lead gen tool is very reliable, adapts quickly to new LinkedIn updates, and consistently manages to stay off their radar. It also has the necessary safety mechanisms built in to make sure that you don’t get your LinkedIn account suspended. (Check out the interview with their founder on our Founder Coffee podcast when you have a chance!)

Anrufsoftware

RingCentral

Want strong VOIP (Voice over IP) software to place calls to leads straight from your computer? Then RingCentral is what we usually recommend. It doesn’t only work well; it also offers great integration options with any other software using Zapier.

Vertriebsvideo-Tools

Bonjoro

To say “bonjour” in a warmer way to your leads or customers, you can use Bonjoro. The handy thing about Bonjoro is that you can get notified on your phone automatically when there are new people to send a video to and then immediately record and send it from your phone. That way it easily fits in your normal workflow. Want to send a “group video” to a list? That’s super easy too.


Inbound lead generation tools 🧲

Want to build an inbound stream of leads as well? Then let’s explore what tools exist for this.

Es gibt im Wesentlichen zwei Aufgaben (Link zu den Überschriften in StoryChief später):

  1. Mehr Besucher für Ihre Website
  2. Mehr von diesen Besuchern in Leads umwandeln

As there are many ways to go about these things, there are as many different types of inbound lead generation tools available. 😅

Website-Besucher gewinnen

Inbound lead generation can only work if you have website visitors, so let’s get these first; you can get some of that traffic from search engines (you’ll need to work on your SEO), from ads, or from automated social promotion.

SEO-Werkzeuge

Ahrefs

Whether you’re looking for the right keywords to focus on, want to track how you’re ranking, examine where your competitors get their traffic, or audit the technical SEO of your site – Ahrefs can do it all and its backlink data seems unrivaled (by Semrush and Moz).

Plattformen zur Anzeigenverwaltung

AdEspresso

You can organize your ad campaigns from one place using AdEspresso. Unlike the Facebook Ads and Google Ads platforms, it’s also super easy to use. And it allows you to create variations of your ads in bulk and test them. It’s a great tool for anyone who wants to get into online ads without instantly getting a lot of gray hair. 🧓

Soziale Werbeplattformen

Quuu Promote

If you’re creating a lot of great content which could use some sharing on social media, we have good news for you: on the other end of the game there are many people who want to share great content around a certain topic, but don’t have the time to find it. Quuu connects the two. With Quuu Promote you can add your content to their social timelines. Obviously, it’s paid on your end. And, to everyone’s benefit, there is moderation in place. 😌


Verwandeln Sie Ihre Website-Besucher in identifizierte Leads

Verfolgung und Identifizierung von B2B-Webseitenbesuchern

Leadfeeder

If you’re selling larger deals to companies and many of those come to your website to check out your product without necessarily reaching out to you, then you can use a tool like Leadfeeder to reach out to them instead. It allows you to see which companies came to your site (including all details about all visits they paid you) and who would be the right person at each company to get in touch with.

Lead-Popup-Tools und Quizfragen

Poptin

Our tool of choice for lead generation using pop-ups is Poptin. It’s not just super easy to use and affordable; it also has all the nifty options built in that you can imagine. On some pages, Poptin allows us to convert 8% of our visitors into leads. While it takes some experimentation to get things right, Poptin allows you to run this kind of A-B testing easily as well. Plus, they have a free plan you can start off with.

OptinMonster

It’s a monster eating opt-ins! And they have this cute little monster as their mascot (did I forget to say that Poptin has a fancy parrot?). Jokes aside, OptinMonster is solid software for pop-ups, which we’d probably use if we weren’t using Poptin instead. They don’t have a free plan, but their basic plan is quite affordable too.

Landing Page Builder Software

Unbounce

If you want to build landing pages, but don’t have web developers at your disposal (or don’t have the budget for them), then Unbounce is a godsend. You can use it to design and create a landing page as if you were making a slide in PowerPoint… and then push it live in seconds. Its forms nicely integrate with any other tools through Zapier, so you can for instance get your leads from your landing pages automatically pushed into your CRM or email marketing software. (Their co-founder also got interviewed on our podcast.)

Blogging-Software

StoryChief

If you know the pain of writing an article, styling it in your blogging platform(s), promoting it on social media with nice previews, getting your SEO fully right, … then you’ll love StoryChief. This tool allows you to focus on writing the content and takes care of the rest for you. This very article was made, published and promoted using StoryChief. We love it and we’re not shy about it! And its forms integrate natively with Salesflare.

Website-Formular-Tools

WPForms

If you have a WordPress site, then WPForms may be the easiest way to get a form up and running. You can just install the plugin to get going. And then build your form with their drag-and-drop builder. It doesn’t only integrate well into your site, but also offers decent integration capabilities with a lot of other software.

Cognito Forms

… and if you don’t have a WordPress site, then have a look at Cognito Forms! You can easily build a form in minutes and then embed it into your site. And we listed this website form tool here for the same reason (instead of any of the others): great integration capabilities.

Click-to-Call-Widgets

CallPage

If your customers are likely to call you when they’re on your site, but they need an extra proverbial kick in the butt, then CallPage may provide the perfect solution. It adds a little call widget to your site and if people click it they are presented with the option to receive a free callback. How could they say no?

CrankWheel

Want that, but miss the ability to share screens? 🖥️ Then CrankWheel screen sharing software can help. Noone wants to guess what their lead is looking at. With CrankWheel, you can virtually look over their shoulder and explore things together. Super easy.


Lead nurturing tools 🔃

Haben Sie relativ kalte Leads, die noch nicht verkaufsbereit sind?

That’s where good lead nurturing comes in, because most of them will only consider buying from you after enjoying being in touch with you for a while. And, after that, you’ll finally follow up these leads from lead to deal.

Jetzt geht's los! 👇

Pflegen Sie kalte Leads, um sie verkaufsbereit zu machen

Tools für E-Mail-Drip-Kampagnen

Salesflare

Yup, Salesflare can do this too! 😁 It can send automated emails from your mailbox (no one can see it wasn’t you sending the email manually!) based on triggers, like when an opportunity moves to a certain stage, a tag is added, the last interaction is more than x days in the past, or any other combination of the tens of filters available. If you want to get some good inspiration on how you can use these powers effectively, make sure to watch the video at the bottom of this article. 👇 (or just watch it here!)

Customer.io

If you want to go beyond drip emails and build more complex messaging workflows, with complex filtering and with other channels like SMS and push notifications, then have a look at Customer.io. It’s not the cheapest software, but it’s definitely fancy stuff.

Retargeting-Tools für Anzeigen

AdRoll

While you can drip emails to your leads to entice them, you can also approach them through other channels in parallel, like ads. AdRoll allows you to “retarget” your tools across multiple media with ads, like through Facebook, Google and many other sites. You’ll be everywhere.

Webinar-Software

Zoom

One of the best ways to nurture a lead (it’s all about providing them value!) is inviting them to an interesting webinar. While there’s a lot of good webinar software out there, Zoom offers one of the simplest, most stable and most familiar experiences out there. Plus, it’s very affordable.


Weiterverfolgung von Leads vom Lead bis zum Abschluss

CRM-Software für den Vertrieb

Salesflare

With Salesflare already appearing a bunch of times in this list, you probably got the impression that Salesflare is all about lead generation… while it actually started off as an easy-to-use and automated CRM for small and medium-sized businesses and startups. The CRM automatically tracks all interactions with your sales leads and all information about your leads by plugging into the systems you already use. Salesflare integrates very closely with Google Workspace, Microsoft Office 365 and LinkedIn. And of course it has all these neat lead gen tools built in. Don’t hesitate to give it a try! (it’s free for up to 30 days)

Pipedrive

When people are looking for a good sales CRM, they usually compare Salesflare with Pipedrive, so it’s only fair that we include them in this listing. We like how its basic platform is easy to use and really helps you keep a good view on your sales pipeline… although we must of course stress that it’s not nearly as automated as Salesflare, doesn’t offer an email finder, no email sequences, no Chrome extension for LinkedIn, only a limited set of features in their mobile app… oh sorry, I got a little carried away here. 😬

Looking for more sales CRMs? Then check out our sales CRM comparison… or our list of lead tracking tools. If you need a CRM for another purpose, check out these example CRM use cases. And if you’re not ready for a real one yet, check our CRM templates for Excel and Google Sheets.

E-Mail-Verfolgungstools

Salesflare

Did we already mention that Salesflare can track email opens and clicks? The tracking works in Salesflare, Gmail, Outlook, and of course in email sequences. Your own opens and clicks are automatically excluded. What’s more: Salesflare also offers website tracking that links up with the email click tracking and follows your leads across your site, showing you what pages they look at and for how long. 👀

Right Inbox

If you simply want to track emails in Gmail, then Right Inbox can help. The Chrome extension integrates email tracking in all emails you send from Gmail with the sidebar enabled and it also shows you all the tracking straight in Gmail. We admit that the plugin looks a little dated, but it still works really great. It’s free for up to 5 tracked emails per month.

Want to check out more email trackers like these? We’ve compiled a detailed E-Mail-Tracker-Vergleich.

Software zur Dokumentenverfolgung

DocSend

While it seems a little weird to have people read your document through an online link in their browser (and you should only do this if you can get away with it), it can have one big advantage: you can see when and how long they read your document, down to the page. If you’re sending over long sales decks or proposals, this can be worth a gold mine.

Software für Verkaufsangebote

Better Proposals

If you’re still making sales proposals in PowerPoint or Word and want to upgrade to something more pretty and modern (and that looks good on small phone screens), then check out Better Proposals. This software has nailed proposal design. And it has some neat extra functionality too, like document tracking (yup!), electronic signatures and even built-in payments. (Here’s an interview with BP’s co-founder Adam on our podcast!)


Bonus: how to build a working B2B sales lead generator machine ⚙️

Wie Sie sehen können, gibt es eine erstaunliche Reihe von Lead-Gen-Tools, um Ihnen zu helfen.

But how can you actually build a solid lead generating sales machine? 🤔

In der untenstehenden Aufzeichnung unseres Webinars mit Matteo und Giacomo von ResultConsulting erklären sie Ihnen, wie ihre bewährte Lead-Maschine funktioniert, einschließlich:

  • Wie Sie konsequent B2B-Verkaufsleads über LinkedIn generieren
  • Wie man diese Leads pflegt, um langfristig mehr von ihnen zu konvertieren
  • Wie man sie effektiv weiterverfolgt und Geschäfte abschließt
  • Und wie Sie Ihren Umsatz verdoppeln können, indem Sie Ihre Verkaufsmetriken verfolgen

The video takes about an hour, but – if you want to generate more leads – we promise their free lead gen advice is 100% worth it! 🤩

Matteo and Giacomo of ResultConsulting explain how they generate tens of leads per month from LinkedIn ☝️

If you’re short on time, here are five takeaways from this video:

  1. Mit nur 1 Stunde Lead-Generierung pro Tag können Sie Dutzende von Neukunden pro Jahr gewinnen.
  2. Wenn Sie sich zum ersten Mal an neue Interessenten wenden, vermeiden Sie es auf jeden Fall, ihnen etwas zu verkaufen (vermeiden Sie auch alle Andeutungen, dass Sie etwas verkaufen wollen).
  3. When people decide to connect with you, focus on providing them a lot of value with case studies, webinars, …
  4. Pflegen Sie Ihre Leads weiter: Die meisten Verkäufe kommen nur zustande, wenn Sie eine Zeit lang kontinuierlich mit den Leuten in Kontakt sind.
  5. Build a repeatable process and then massively improve it by tracking your sales metrics on your CRM’s sales dashboards.

But, again, for the concrete examples and proof behind these takeaways, just watch the video. ☝️


FAQ

Welches ist das beste Instrument zum Sammeln von Leads?

Es gibt drei Möglichkeiten, Leads zu sammeln, und wir haben einige der besten Tools auf der Grundlage dieser drei verschiedenen Methoden aufgelistet.

Outbound: Tools wie Adapt,io, UpLead, Salesflare, VoilaNorbert, FindThatLead können die besten Werkzeuge sein, um potenzielle Leads zu erreichen.
Inbound: Tools wie Ahrefs, AdEspresso, Quuu Promote, Leadfeeder sind die besten Tools, um bestehenden Traffic in identifizierte Leads umzuwandeln.
Nurturing: Tools wie Salesflare, Customer.io, Adroll können die besten Werkzeuge sein, um ein kaltes, aber bereits identifiziertes Publikum in verkaufsbereite Leads umzuwandeln.

Was ist CRM-Lead-Generierung?

CRM-Lead-Generierung bezieht sich auf den Prozess der Verwendung eines Customer Relationship Management (CRM)-Systems wie Salesflare zur effektiven Generierung und Verwaltung von Leads. Dabei werden Informationen über potenzielle Kunden über verschiedene Kanäle wie Website-Formulare, soziale Medien, E-Mails oder Veranstaltungen erfasst und diese Daten dann in die CRM-Datenbank importiert. Sobald sich die Leads im CRM befinden, können Unternehmen ihre Interaktionen verfolgen, sie anhand von Merkmalen segmentieren und gezielte Marketingmaßnahmen ergreifen, um diese Leads in Kunden zu verwandeln. CRM-Lead-Generierung rationalisiert den Lead-Management-Prozess und verbessert die allgemeine Vertriebseffektivität.

Wie bekomme ich B2B-Leads auf LinkedIn?

Die Gewinnung von B2B-Leads auf LinkedIn kann durch verschiedene Strategien erreicht werden:

  • Wenn Sie sich zum ersten Mal an neue Interessenten wenden, vermeiden Sie es auf jeden Fall, ihnen etwas zu verkaufen (vermeiden Sie auch alle Andeutungen, dass Sie etwas verkaufen wollen).
  • When people decide to connect with you, focus on providing them a lot of value with case studies, webinars, …
  • Pflegen Sie Ihre Leads weiter: Die meisten Verkäufe kommen nur zustande, wenn Sie eine Zeit lang kontinuierlich mit den Leuten in Kontakt sind.
  • Build a repeatable process and then massively improve it by tracking your sales metrics on your CRM’s sales dashboards.

Welche ist die beste Plattform für B2B-Leads?

LinkedIn gilt weithin als eine der besten Plattformen für B2B-Leads. Mit seiner professionellen Nutzerbasis und seinen leistungsstarken Targeting-Optionen bietet LinkedIn ein ideales Umfeld für Unternehmen, um mit potenziellen Kunden und Entscheidungsträgern in verschiedenen Branchen in Kontakt zu treten.

Was ist das Werkzeug für die Lead-Generierung?

Der Begriff Lead-Generierungs-Tool bezieht sich auf eine Vielzahl von Lösungen, die die Umwandlung potenzieller Leads in Kunden fördern sollen. Diese Tools umfassen B2B-Lead-Daten-Finder, E-Mail-Adressen-Finder, E-Mail-Listen-Verifizierer, LinkedIn-E-Mail-Finder. E-Mail-Tools, LinkedIn-Automatisierungstools, Anrufsoftware, Vertriebsvideotools, SEO-Tools, Anzeigenverwaltungsplattformen, Social-Promotion-Plattformen, Blogging-Software, Website-Formulare, Click-to-Call-Widgets, Tools für E-Mail-Drip-Kampagnen und CRM-Software für den Vertrieb.

Was ist B2B-Lead-Generierung?

B2B lead generation is the process of identifying and attracting potential business customers (leads) who have expressed interest in a company’s products or services. It involves using various marketing and sales strategies to capture the contact information of potential clients and nurturing these leads through the sales funnel to eventually convert them into paying customers. B2B lead generation focuses on building relationships, providing valuable information, and addressing specific pain points to establish trust and credibility with potential buyers in the business-to-business context.

Lots of luck generating sales leads! 👊

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