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🧰 3 Ways I'd Turn Attention Into Leads
Published about 4 hours ago • 4 min read
🧰 Smart tools. Useful tips. Weekly.
Hola friend 👋,
I’m Josep. Each week, I hunt down practical tools and productivity hacks to help digital doers like you do more with less effort.
This week: three different ways I'd turn attention into leads.
When people talk about lead generation, they usually mean a form on a landing page you can follow up on. But in real life, a lead’s journey isn’t always as straightforward as that.
Today, I'm sharing one tool we actually use for interactive lead capture, one marketplace that can help small brands get in front of the right creators, and one prospecting tool that makes outreach less of a guessing game.
Plus: AI free tool for cleaner audio (works like magic), a practical AI browsing habit that can save you from outdated info, and a LinkedIn privacy story that may make you cringe a tiny tad.
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If you watched the video above, you already know why I keep coming back to Involve.me. It's one of the most practical ways I've found to turn passive clicks into something more useful (and fun): answers, user intent, segmentation, and actual leads.
What I like is that it goes beyond a plain form. You can build quizzes, calculators, recommendation flows, and lead funnels that feel a bit more alive. We use it for recommending website builders and email marketing tools.
The free plan includes 2 live funnels, 50 submissions per month, and 500 visits per month, while paid plans start at $19/month. Sadly, all plans limit the number of funnels you can build – this is my main complaint about Involve.me and other similar tools.
🛠️ Alternative to: Typeform, Outgrow, ScoreApp 👉 Visit: involve.me 💰 From $19/month | Free plan available.
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Not every lead starts on your website. Sometimes the smarter move is to create interest first, and Collabstr is useful for that. Instead of hoping people randomly discover your brand, you can browse creators, see their prices up front, and test small influencer or UGC collaborations without the usual agency drama.
Sponsorships can start from as low as around $200, which makes it interesting for smaller brands. It’s also not exclusive to ecommerce brands. I checked some of the ads and saw not only physical products, but also UGC collabs for games, apps, and online services.
🛠️ Alternative to: Insense, JoinBrands, Afluencer 👉 Visit:collabstr.com 💰 Pay per ad or monthly plan ($249 a month for 1 campaign)
Once you know the kind of company or person you want to reach, Lusha helps with finding reliable contact details, without getting sucked into a giant enterprise sales stack.
As I see it, it has two main use cases.
Prospecting: you can ask Lusha’s AI assistant to find contacts and companies that match a specific profile. For example, “email marketing deliverability experts in the Bay Area.”
Data enrichment: you can upload your own list of contacts (e.g. potential clients) where you only have partial data (for example, missing phone numbers), and ask Lusha to fill in the gaps.
I also like that it includes an AI agent so you spend less time fiddling with filters, plus an API and MCP to connect it with external tools like Claude or ChatGPT. However, if you use it regularly, Lusha does come at a price: $37.45 a month.
🛠️ Alternative to: Apollo, LeadIQ, Cognism 👉 Visit:lusha.com 💰 From $37.45/month | Free plan available.
Adobe Podcast is one of those tools I appreciate because it solves a very boring problem fast: rough audio. If you record voice notes, videos, tutorials, or quick podcast clips in less-than-perfect conditions, the Enhance Speech tool can clean them up surprisingly well without dragging you into a proper audio-editing rabbit hole.
The free plan is enough for light use, but it has clear limits: Adobe says free users get 30-minute max files, 1 hour per day for Enhance, and fewer Studio export options. Premium lifts those limits quite a bit and adds extra Studio and Adobe Express perks.
I wouldn’t use it as my full podcast workflow, but as a “make this sound less messy in five minutes” tool, it’s excellent.
🛠️ Alternative to: Cleanvoice, AudioCleaner AI, cleaning up audio manually 👉 Visit:podcast.adobe.com 💰 From $9.99/month | Free plan available
⚡This Week’s Productivity Hack
Most AI learning fails because it is too random. One day you watch a prompt video, the next day you bookmark a list of tools, and by Friday you still have not changed anything in your actual work.
Our friends at AI-Ready CMOhave a free learning hub with AI marketing courses (as well as workshops, prompts, templates, and guides).
I’d start with the Learn section and choose one course that matches a real problem you have this week and spend 30 to 60 minutes on it – this could save you potentially hours of work in the long run.
LinkedIn, the place that encourages the sharing of uplifting career advice (and the occasional humblebrag), got accused of doing something much less wholesome in the background: scanning visitors' browsers for 6,000+ installed extensions and collecting device data (source).
Creepy!
A BrowserGate report made the accusation, while BleepingComputer said it independently confirmed the extension scanning behavior. The broader motive claims are still disputed, and LinkedIn says the scanning was tied to abuse prevention and Terms of Service enforcement, not some cartoon-villain data plot. Still, a bit unsettling.
What makes it especially awkward here is that the alleged scanning reportedly included tools that compete with LinkedIn's own sales ecosystem, including names like Apollo, Lusha, and ZoomInfo.
The practical lesson is simple: trust big platforms a little less than their marketing recommends and maybe separate your work setup from your professional one when you can.
That’s it for this week. Thanks for reading! Next time, I’ll share a few easy ways to get started with ecommerce or level up your ecommerce game.
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