Elliott Garcia

Daily SDR Content | Lifetime Student | Espresso Please! | Story Teller | Community Influencer | Bilingual | Theater Nerd |

WELCOME 👓

What started as a coffee shop conversation that pulled me into SaaS turned into a career built around one thing: creating high-quality conversations that convert into real outcomes.

Today, I work as a Senior Sales Development Specialist, owning the full outbound motion across B2C channels for Annuity Association. My focus is simple but disciplined, connecting retirees and pre-retirees with fiduciary advisors who help them make confident, informed decisions about lifetime income, asset protection, and long-term financial security.

At Annuity Association, we help clients avoid common retirement pitfalls by building plans that include:
• Predictable income guaranteed for life
• Safe growth with no market risk
• Long-term care solutions
• Thoughtful legacy planning

My role sits at the front of that experience driving relevant, trust-based conversations through phone, email, and multi-touch outreach that respects the consumer while delivering a consistent pipeline for advisors.

Before moving fully into this role, I led and scaled SDR teams and founded TopMountaineer, a full-cycle outbound firm built from the ground up. That experience sharpened every part of my outbound skill set, including ICP development, messaging, call frameworks, sequencing, objection handling, and conversion optimization across both B2B and B2C environments.

I’m known for:
• Veteran-level outbound execution across channels
• Building trust quickly in high-consideration, consumer conversations
• Translating complex financial concepts into clear next steps
• Creating repeatable, ethical pipeline at scale

I enjoy connecting with sales leaders, outbound practitioners, and operators who care about quality conversations, disciplined execution, and long-term value creation.

-ELLIOTT

Growth Manager & Partner 

Jared Robin ⏭

Helping Founders & GTM Leaders Go-to-Market Collaboratively | Founder of RevGenius community of 40k+ GTM leaders | Startup Advisor | “The most important thing you can do in sales and life is be a homie” - Bloomberg

The loudest don't win. The most resonant do.

I help founders turn audiences into movements - not through marketing noise, but through authentic connection that compounds.

I've built this playbook firsthand:
- Grew RevGenius from 0 to 55,000 members and 7-figure revenue in 3 years
- Scaled multiple startups from zero to 7 figures, including 2 exits
- Now advising 12+ SaaS startups on audience-led growth

Here's what I've learned: The companies that create new categories don't compete for attention - they create their own gravity. They build audiences that become movements. That's The Resonance.

I work with founders and GTM leaders to:
- Clarify their POV so it cuts through the noise
- Build audiences and communities that compound over time
- Create category-defining movements, not just marketing campaigns

If you're ready to build through resonance instead of noise, let's connect.

Writer

Launched a newsletter helping Founders, Fractionals and GTM Leaders go-to-market collaboratively.

After 5 years of posting consistently on LinkedIn I finally was recognized as a Legend.

It only took me 2847 posts.

Great hanging with Katie Penner and Nick Bennett at B2BMX.

This is my first year doing the marketing conference circuit and it rocks. 

Best swag and most creative folks in b2b.

Excited to see Leslie Venetz and Devin Reed speak and hang with the homie Aneesh Lal.

Amped for meeting all friends and new.

Thank you Influ2 for the honor :)

Jared Robin

I help founders create markets, not fight for them 🏴‍☠️

No alternative text description for this image

Influ2 delivered the vibiest happy hour I’ve been to, at b2bmx. But this post isn’t to brag about the ŌURA ring I won-

I wanted to shout out my good friend Katie Penner .

Katie is their VP of Sales Dev. She’s incredible at what she does - one of the best.

But more importantly (to me) she’s a friend. 

She will always pick up my calls to listen to whatever ideas are spinning in my mind. (At times there’s a bunch)

Text me (or call me!) back when she’s with her family in the car. 

She will help me at a moments notice when I’m looking for a moderator or speaker (she’s the best), an interviewee (again the best), or any intros.

When I got a chance to meet the team at Influ2 IRL last week, I instantly understood why she felt at home there. (Even after  working for such an epic company previously)  

They’re on that same wavelength too. 

Thank you to Dasha Ivanova Natalie Burt , Chris Murray and team for being every bit as awesome as my friend Katie.

Ai can’t duplicate our friendship and what we do to support one another (yet).🤣

People are the moat.

❤️

undefined undefined

This table of creators is far more than just influencers. 

They are people of influence. They drive revenue.

Sitting with 🐐s last night at a close to day 1 of b2bmx.

Elfried Samba , Devin Reed , Shali Rana Reed , Katie Penner , Jen Allen-Knuth , and Aneesh Lal.

Aneesh was the first head of community of RevGenius. 

Watching him take that and build the most powerful Influencer agency has been exciting.

There are dozens of influencer agencies.

They’re tactical, transactional, paid-ad like motions. 

Aneesh is out here building the most powerful agency representing people with influence. 

Strategic, growth focused, partners and evangelists. 

The revenue results are the difference.

Proud of him. 

Grateful to be in the room.

March is the worst in NYC, so I'm leaving:

Going to B2BMX in San Diego next week.
Going to Wynter's Spryng conference in Austin in 3 weeks.

RevGenius partnered with B2BMX and is sponsoring the conference.

Amped to hang with friends like Kris who's been absolutely crushing with Sendoso next week.

And then Peep Laja, who's been growing Wynter steadily since we met IRL at SaaStr (and before digitally) a few years ago. 

Texted Ding Zheng and will be visiting his new office in Austin while there and hanging with new friends like Lauren Thompson who's working with David Walker and {Jon} Studham to build a powerhouse with Spara.

I've done the SaaStr and Dreamforce thing and they're great.

But there's something that just hits differently with these marketing focused events for me.

I have a feeling I'm going to love the intimacy of Spryng.

March doesn't have to suck. 

Anyone else going to either?

Met with George Vlasyev yesterday at my new 'co-creating' space The Lighthouse.

Been getting so much life from the space and had the opportunity to use one of their podcast studios to be interviewed on a range of AI GTM topics.

The future of search, Audience Engineering, ads in llms (OpenAI 👀), video and so much more.

George is bullish on video in funnels and has mastered it. 

Even more importantly, he's going to be moving to NYC (putting it out there), to double down on his startup and aspirations.

Video episode dropping soon. 

Thank you for your time homie.

Follow him, he's going to do massive things.

Yesterday got 172 responses in a couple hours in RevGenius. This is a hot topic and I'm opinionated, but would love to hear your POV-  Who's going to own the future of CRM?

 👍 Salesforce
 👏 Hubspot
 🫴 New AI Player
 ☠️ CRM as we know it will evolve
 👷‍♀️ Teams will build CRM in-house

 🧵 your thoughts.

What crm do you use today? 

And what are the biggest needs you have for any crm or crm-like instance to have for you to switch?

Most reps see a signal and think buying intent. And it's absolutely killing their reply rates.

Leslie Venetz calls it what it actually is: noise you're creating for yourself.

She's been doing signal-based outreach since 2009. Her take: every signal puts your prospect in one of three buckets. And most reps treat them all the same.

Problem Unaware: they just changed jobs. They don't know what's about to hit them. Don't pitch. Deposit value. Leslie waited two weeks after a new CPO trigger, then sent a 3-page guide on how to nail the first 100-day internal roadshow. No ask. Just relevance.

Option Unaware: they're attending webinars, downloading content, figuring out what "good" even looks like. Stop pushing them to a demo. Keep educating. Become the resource they trust before the decision is made.

Vendor Aware: they're on your pricing page. Now get out of the way. Answer the question. Use video. Remove barriers. Stop forcing a 45-minute demo on someone who asked one thing.

The shift: from "what's my in?" to "what do they actually need right now?"

Companies she's seen making this shift went from 0.02% to 20-30% open and reply rates.

Not by sending more. By sending what actually earns the next email.

Read the full drop: https://lnkd.in/gEp589zN

In a world full of ai, taste is still in short supply.

About a year ago I met Mike. 

I can't tell you the positive impact he had on my journey. (and he probably doesn't even realize it)

I was burning out fast and felt like I was all alone. Burning out and feeling alone is a really difficult combo.

Even running a 60k+ person community, it's possible to feel alone.

We were speaking about collaborating on a project at the time.

We'd have conversations I'd yearned to have with somebody who's been in my situation. Has been successful.  He gave me space to open up and to not feel so alone.

He became a guide for me over a relatively short period of time. 

Following, I made some tough decisions and placed some bets. Not all of them panned out. 

But that's ok, my sleepless nights became fewer and further between. 

I felt more in control - even with failed bets and through tough times.

The tough times made me a stronger operator. More seasoned.

My love for growing our community grew stronger than ever in the process.

And today, I'm exactly where I need to be.

We caught up last week and snapped this picture. I'm sure he could sense a shift in me.

All because he was a friend before business.

If you're just repeating 'congrats on raising a round of funding' you're driving zero connection. And they probably don't even know they have a problem

The problem unaware bucket is where you can drive the most impact to revenue by changing your mindset.

Interviewed Leslie Venetz for our newsletter.

She's been doing signal-based outreach since 2009. Her take: every signal puts your prospect in one of three buckets. And most reps treat them all the same.

In this clip, she discusses the problem unaware one.

They just changed jobs and don't know what's about to hit them. 🤣

Her suggestion is to not pitch and deposit value. Leslie would wait two weeks after a new CPO trigger, then sent a 3-page guide on how to nail the first 100-day internal roadshow. 

Just straight value. 

How are you leveraging nuance with signal-led outreach?

taplio

The Battle

Elliott Garcia

Jared Robin ⏭

Followers

Posts

Engagements

Likes

Performance ScoreJared Robin ⏭'s LinkedIn Performance

Ready to grow your LinkedIn presence?

taplio

The Battle

Elliott Garcia

Jared Robin ⏭

Followers

Posts

Engagements

Likes

Performance Score.css-goub6s{font-size:var(--chakra-fontSizes-md);font-weight:500;color:var(--chakra-colors-gray-600);display:block;margin-top:var(--chakra-space-1);}Jared Robin ⏭'s LinkedIn Performance

Ready to grow your LinkedIn presence?

Performance ScoreJared Robin ⏭'s LinkedIn Performance