Slack Search Export

Have you ever thought of Slack as a place where you can generate leads from?

Slack is a tool used by teams to work together. But its ease of use and feeling of proximity has turned it into a go-to tool for community-building. Especially in the tech industry, semi-private "Slacks" of all sorts have appeared:

• Growth

• Product

• Marketing

• Sales

• Hiring

• Dev

• etc.

You can find indexes of these public Slack workspaces on sites such as Slofile.

Getting value out of these Slack workspaces requires that you invest yourself and give to the communities before even thinking of asking from them. Answering people's questions regularly is simple to do and will give you the credibility you're looking for. If you feel like this first checkbox is ticked, let's get down to using the Slack Search Export.

Use-cases

Connect at scale on Slack: In your targeted Slack workspace, search "People" with the query "Growth". This will extract everyone with that job title for you. You can then directly reach out to them on Slack by saying "Hey, I noticed you're a #input-title-here#, I'm working at Company X and I'm sure you'd love Product Y".

Connect at scale on LinkedIn: Another strategy could be to use LinkedIn Profile URL Finder, and add these people to your LinkedIn network, mentioning in the connection message your shared belonging to that Slack workspace.

Find potential users: Are you selling a tool for recruiters? Searching for "recruit" and "we're hiring" will give you a list of posts by people hiring. Extract them all or, even better, only the most recent ones, then plug these into Slack Message Sender and reach out to them at the right time!

Pro tips

Slack's Search system is pretty advanced. Use advanced queries to make sure you have the cleanest results.