How should I conduct my first round of link building?

Hi everyone,

I recently had a publishing website developed. I'm now starting a link building campaign for the first time in an attempt to rank better in the SERPs for a list of keywords relevant to the website.

So far, we are on the 3rd step of our link building campaign, which is as follows.

Step 1: Download competitor backlinks from Ahrefs and organize them in Excel.

Step 2: Comb through the links to find relevant referring domains.

Step 3: Use hunter.io or snov.io to find the relevant emails for the chosen referring domains.

Step 4: Start sending emails (100 at a time) with a value proposition in the email.

What I'm unsure of is:

1. How effective is the method comprising of these steps going to be? If, some part of it or all of it will be ineffective, what can I do to change that?
2. How many links should I be aiming for? Is it simply the more the links, the better? Assuming a good mix of high, low, and medium domain ratings here.

This is my first link building campaign, so please excuse my ignorance. Just looking for some guidance, so I can do better. Thank you.

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