Florin Tatulea

Sales Leader | LinkedIn Top Voice 2023 | GTM Advisor | Focusing on Seed → Series B

I'm a passionate leader that lives and breathes all things sales.

I was lucky enough to be the first sales hire at Loopio and have had the opportunity to be a part of and contribute to the exponential growth that had led us to a sales team of ~50 strong. In my 6.5 years at Loopio we grew revenue by 65x. 

I am now doing it all over again at Common Room

Whether it's been as an SDR, AE, Manager or Director, I'm constantly looking for ways to reinvent myself and my team.

I'm a people-first leader that understands that leading a team is not about me. It's about lifting others up and seeing them succeed. My success is simply a bi-product of my team's success. 

As a sales leader, I'm curious about scaling sales teams, generating pipeline, increasing win rates and lowering ramp times in a remote world.

As an individual, I'm passionate about copywriting, sequence/cadence building, leveraging social selling and the future of sales technology.

Director of Sales

I just took a look at the new Nooks launch.

Users of Outreach and Salesloft are going to want to take a look after what I saw with the their new AI Sequencer.

I believe they are going to seriously shake up the legacy sequencing space. 

Not a lot of people know this, but I was one of the first 10 customers of Nooks when the company was still just Dan, Rohan & Nikhil and a virtual sales floor.

As a multi-time customer, not even I could have predicted the level of execution that their team was going to put forth.

Apart from building a quality product FAST, Nooks did something (intentional or not) that is going to give them a massive competitive advantage over the next couple of years.

They owned the action/execution layer FIRST, and have now built the Data Foundation layer (Account Research, Signals, etc.) around it.

Most GTM tech orgs in the market today are doing the exact opposite.

They built the data foundations and are now trying to build an execution layer.

Why is this important?

Because the action layer is where the rep lives. If you own the action layer and do it well, it’s VERY sticky.

Reps will kick and scream if you take it away from them. Re-training tens or hundreds of reps on a new system of action is a nightmare for enablement.

Trust me, I’ve lived through the kicking and screaming.

Selling GTM tech, everybody was constantly asking us… “Can you integrate with Nooks? That’s where our reps live.”

Right now there is a full-blown race to see who will own the full “Sales OS”.

Today, Nooks made this race a lot more interesting by launching their new Agent Workspace for Intelligent Outbound.

They just added:

1. Signals (Combining live web intent with your CRM and past calls)
2. Autonomous Account Research Agents (Running in the background 24/7)
3. List Building Capabilities
4. An Omnichannel Sequencer (Executing across Email, Phone, SMS, and Social)

Imagine autonomous agents that monitor web intent in the background, cross-reference it with your CRM, draft hyper-personalized emails, and then drop the warmest leads into a power hour calling block.  Because it's actually an action layer, the feedback loop makes it smarter with each engagement. 

You can argue that they have a real chance at being the MAJOR player in the consolidation of the GTM tech stack.

They also have a massive moat of call data (50% of our own outbound meetings came from cold calls)... which a lot of other data platforms simply do not have.

​​GTM Leaders: what are your thoughts on this space? Let's debate below

(PS - go check out the massive Nooks launch ). 

#NooksPartner

GTM Leader | LinkedIn Top Voice | Advisor

Here's what my calendar would look like 9-5 when I was managing the whole SDR function a few months ago. 

This is why I always tell reps to try to call decisions makers between 8-9am or 5-6pm. 

We ran the data across thousands of calls in Nooks. It supports this as well. 

Managers and execs are in an insane amount of meetings (for better or worse).

Give yourself a better shot. 

#sales #coldcalling

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This competition asked students to choose a stock to either long or short, with the only requirement of it having a 30 day SMA of over $200m in market cap. Our team, being the only international presence in the competition,  chose to pitch Iridium (IRDM), a satellite communications company, and have received a final judgement score of 24/30 based on Stock Selection, Presentation, and Q&A. 

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If you prospect on LinkedIn, you should watch this. 

This is something I’ve always struggled with that I’ve now found a solution for.

If you use sequencing platforms like Outreach, Salesloft and Gong Engage you’ll know that after you do the manual steps of sending connect requests, LinkedIn activity just gets lost to the void.

There is no easy way to systematically filter for:

1. New LinkedIn connections who are actually in your ICP vs general networking contacts

2. Prospects who have accepted your request but you never actually bothered to send a DM to

This has made systematic outreach that’s coordinated more difficult.

This is no longer a problem as I’ve started to use Kondo: Superhuman for LinkedIn DMs. 

I can now:

→ Filter for connections and bulk tag them as prospects

→ Search for specific personas very easily with a fuzzy search that actually works

→ Open a custom of these personas posts on LinkedIn to build more tailored outreach

SOOO much easier. 

They have a great promo running right now if you sign up by the end of the week (Feb 28):

2 months free with this code:  https://lnkd.in/gFETw84Z

You are welcome :) 

#KondoPartner

2026 is the year to double down on cold calling.

Last year, 50% of all of our qualified opps came from cold calling. 

Keep it simple.

First, get yourself a proper data provider for cold calls so you actually get connects. 

FullEnrich has been an absolute CHEAT code for us with their 20-provider waterfall. 

They now also have amazing search functionality directly in the platform so you can build proper lists. 

Then, I break this down into 3 parts (here's an example):

1️⃣ Permission Based Opener

Hey this is {NAME}, I was actually just on the customer tab on your website at
{ACCOUNT}, and had a question. Do you have a sec?

2️⃣ Menu of Pain (most important part)

Noticed you are selling to accounts like {ACCOUNT}. Typically when I talk to SDR leaders at commercial open source companies, they’re focused on one of these three things:

1. Your SDRs see tons of developer engagement but struggle to identify which users are actually ready for a sales conversation.

2. Your team relies on community signals, but it’s hard to surface and action on real buying intent.

3. SDRs waste time digging through GitHub, Slack, forums, and LinkedIn instead of working on the right leads.

3️⃣ Open Ended Question

How are you making sure your SDRs are focusing on in-market leads?

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I like the menu of pain, because if done correctly and the messaging is tight, at least one of the 3 challenges is something they are likely thinking about.

This then opens the conversation.

3 days left this week. Let's get it 🫡

#FullEnrichPartner

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How do you feel about this take GTM leaders? 

To me it comes across as a take from somebody who doesn’t fully understand GTM. 

Sure, there are a lot of incredible things AI can do to automate TAM building, lead scoring, account research, funnel optimization etc. 

But GTM is also still one of the professions that is still deeply human. 

I doubt this person has spent a lot of time making cold calls, on demos, meeting clients in person etc. 

If you believe this, you essentially believe that robots will be selling to each other only in the near future. 

No offense to you Jay Sahnan. I respect the opinion and it’s a good discussion 🙏🏻

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We talk about “GTM Engineering” and “Revenue Orchestration” but how does it apply to outbound? 

Here’s how you tactically execute a strategy at scale using signal data. 

Now we have the ability to capture 100+ signals at a time, transform the data and tell us which leads are the lowest hanging fruit.

That’s a HUGE amount of context for sales reps to have in one place and it means that we can now get HYPER-specific with our messaging and sequences.

Each signal that is important to your organization should have its own purpose, messaging, and sequence built out.

Step 1: Write down all the signals that you currently have access to at your organization. 

There are standard signals everybody can use (I.e. web visits) but also very specific signals to your org (I.e. software outages for an outage tracking product) 

Step 2a: Map out where each signal implies a lead is in the buyer journey

Look at the image below. You can see that a signal and therefore message has to adapt to where somebody is in the BUYER JOURNEY.

Step 2b: Create a lead-scoring system that takes into account which signals (or combination of signals) tend to imply that an individual and account is ready to buy or at least talk to sales. 

This usually happens when they are in the “Solution Aware” and “Product Aware” stage.

Step 2c: Cross reference these leads with your account level- ICP criteria. 

Not all leads that exhibit buying behavior work at accounts that are good fits for your business. (THIS IS CRUCIAL). 

Step 3: Create messaging (i.e. email campaigns, outbound sequences etc.) for each signal.

You can get even more complex here and create messaging or sequences for combinations of signals.

Step 4: Set up alerts and workflows so that if a lead provides a certain signal or hits a certain threshold they get put into the respective “campaign”.

There are many platforms to do this in… Common Room, Clay etc. 

THREE OTHER THINGS TO CONSIDER:

1. Top of funnel leads that aren’t ready to talk to sales go in automated sequences that are more focused on education (this can either be done by marketing or SDRs)

2. Mid-to-Bottom of funnel leads are sent to the sales team and are put into the appropriate sequences (emails + call scripts + LinkedIn message templates are already built out by the team). It is up to the SDRs/AEs here to do additional research and tie your product's value to your prospect’s strategic priorities.

3. Consider the size of the account and the number of owners on the buying committee. Start multithreading into the various decision makers/economic buyers who will influence your deal so you establish momentum early.

(h/t FletchPMM  for the great visual)

#sales #outbound

There is a very simple but important question that most sales reps miss when they are selling to GTM leaders . 

And I say this from experience as somebody that buys software. 

Put simply: 

“Is your team hitting their number…What % of attainment is your team at?” 

The harsh reality is that unless you are a SVP/EVP/C-Level exec with long term incentives, the average GTM leader doesn’t really care to change much if things are working well. It’s a massive uphill battle to sell to a leader that is crushing. 

Even most VP, Sales are just trying to survive next quarter. 

It’s very difficult to sell somebody the “future” if they are at 110% of quota as a team and in accelerators. 

Saves you a lot of time as a rep. 

Just what I’ve seen over the last decade. 

Thoughts?

LinkedIn and X seem to be an echo chamber of Claude AI workflow hype beasts. 

Don't get me wrong, I think all of these AI agents are awesome and I see the potential. 

But curious to see from my network... who is actually finding real value with them today? 

What have you built and what has the impact ACTUALLY been? 

I saw some interesting examples of: 

1. Sales Demo Closed Lost Analysis 

Analyzing calls and extracting the reasons why the team is losing deals

2. Product Feedback 

Analyzing calls and pushing product gaps to the engineering & product teams in real time 

3. Intent Signal Agent 

Built a custom agent tracking 100s of first party data and creating the first draft of messaging for reps based on the signals 

4. Account Research

Doing the manual work an AE would usually spend 15 mins doing before a call and building a custom 1-page summary of an account and what to focus on during the next call 

#sales #outbound #ai

Elric Legloire

Outbound GTM strategy for B2B SaaS companies | SDR leader | Follow me + 🔔 for prospecting, productivity, and sales career tips for SDRs

If your outbound doesn't work, it's not a talent issue. It's a system issue.

Most B2B SaaS companies don't have a system for outbound. They have individual reps doing their own thing, different definitions of the same terms, no standard processes, and knowledge that lives in people's heads instead of in systems.

The result: chaos that looks like a talent problem but isn't.

I created the Outbound Kitchen System, a standardized system any B2B SaaS company can implement to make outbound predictable and scalable. Shared data. Shared language. Shared methodology.

The systems has 6 sections:

The Foundation - Strategy, market, ICP, product fit, company stage
The Ingredients - Accounts, data, signals, research
The Recipe - Messaging, sequences, channels, plays, playbooks
The Kitchen - Operations, tech stack, AI, productivity
The Team - Talent, training, enablement, coaching
Plus The Menu - Metrics, dashboards, forecasting, planning

$50M+ pipeline sourced. 30+ B2B SaaS companies. 7 years.

Two ways to implement the system:

- The Full Menu (done for you) - 90-day implementation
- Private Chef Retainer (Done with You) - Ongoing advisory

Ready to implement the system? DM me or book a tasting.

Want to learn the model first? 
Get a seat → newsletter.outbound.kitchen

SDR Manager

I help SDRs perform to their full potential and crush their quotas by mastering the mindset, habits, and skills needed to perform at the highest level.

One day. Five sessions. 

Every one built for SDR leaders who own outcomes.

That's Funnel 26, March 5 in Austin.

My friends: Dale Thorn, David Wilkins, and Anastasia Chihai put this together for 2nd-line SDR leaders. A curated single day where every session connects to how you grow revenue, lower CAC, or protect pipeline.

Here's the lineup:

Morgan J Ingram kicks off with a keynote on making sales human in an AI world.

Then a leadership panel, Angela Frackowiak moderates with Jonathan Mayer, Illango Dhandayudham (Ingo), and Sara Angell on what it takes to be the leader your leader needs.

Jay Glenn runs a workshop on tracking your team's P&L and CAC. Financial literacy most SDR managers never get.

Priyanka Venkat (HubSpot) and Peter Mollins (Nooks) close with a practical AI session, real use cases and a prioritization framework you can take home.

The day wraps with an AMA with all panelists.

Five sessions. One day that's worth more than most two-day conferences.

Ticket link: https://luma.com/funnel26

Outbound systems designed to 2x your team’s results, before adding headcount.

Great Outbound is rooted in unsexy work:

- Deep ICP analysis and persona mapping
- Account propensity and value scoring models
- Multi-layered tech, Data & AI stack orchestration
- Cultural transformation from order-taking to hunting

What you see publicly (the cold email or call) is only the 1% remaining.

For example, to book a meeting with an enterprise prospect you might need:

- 6 months of account research and scoring
- A gifting strategy aligned with buying triggers
- 15+ touch points across email, phone, and social
- Reps trained on consultative conversations, not scripts

Without these 4 elements, your outreach becomes spam.

So every time you see a competitor crushing quota and think "their cold email templates must be amazing, let's copy them."

You should actually say "let's copy their outbound system, multi-threading strategy, and the 200 hours they invested in rep enablement."

You are trying to steal their surface tactics while ignoring their foundational system.

Want predictable outbound? 

Stop obsessing over templates. 
Build the systems.

What other invisible outbound work would you add?

Follow me Elric Legloire for daily tips on how to scale outbound.

Outbound systems designed to increase your team’s results, before adding headcount.

Yesterday, I ran some tests to see which AI model to use for account research. 

Here’s my updated ranking:

1. Perplexity 
2. GPT 5.2 Thinking 
3. Grok 4.2 Beta
4. Grok 4
5. Claude Opus 4.6
6. Argon (Clay)
7. Gemini 3 Pro

I’ll share the full report in tomorrow’s newsletter: https://
https://lnkd.in/e_y9U947

Building & scaling outbound: 0 → 2,300 meetings.

I sat down with Matthew Roberts, Head of Sales Dev at Mosaic.tech (Acquired by HiBob), who built an outbound machine from scratch.

Here are the 5 biggest takeaways from our conversation.

Podcast link in the comments:

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