Manuel Hartmann

Founder & CEO@SalesPlaybook | Build & scale B2B sales without trial & error

Transforming B2B SaaS Sales in the DACH Region

With over 5 years of experience, I built SalesPlaybook from CHF0 to 30k MRR in under 18 months and scaled it to a 7-figure annual revenue with fewer than 6 FTEs. I’ve supported 300+ B2B SaaS and Professional Service Entrepreneurs to:
- Achieve EUR 0-10 Mio. ARR in under 3 years profitably
- Accelerate ARR growth by over 5x from 0-1 Mio. in less than 18 months
- Close 10-50x larger deals through Message-Market-Fit & Value Selling
- Implement & optimize HubSpot Sales Hub & Outbound Sales from scratch

Career Highlights:
- 2009: Launched sales career with 3-figure NPO donations
- 2012: Reached 6-figure sales with sportscars@Tesla
- 2014-2016: Led 7-figure CRM transformations@Accenture
- 2017-2019: Managed 5-figure AI SaaS@Onedot
- Present: Driving 5-figure deals@SalesPlaybook

What I Offer:
- Pipeline Generation: Developing and executing strategies to build robust sales pipelines.
- Sales Enablement: Equipping sales teams with the tools and training needed for success.
- HubSpot Services: Comprehensive implementation and optimization of HubSpot CRM

Personal Interests: 
- I’m an avid UFC fan, active (kick)boxer, snowboarder, and musician (piano + e-guitar). 
- I enjoy taking on challenges like writing a book in under 30 days or completing 1,000 push-ups

Education: Master’s Degree in Business Innovation from HSG with MBA Exchange in Canada

Let’s connect if: 
- You're a B2B entrepreneur looking to scale sales quickly, efficiently & without 6-figure mistakes
- You identify as a Top 1% talent on hunger & drive, urgent curiosity, intelligence & integrity

Founder & CEO

Join 220+ customers to build & scale sales with the #1 B2B SaaS Startup Sales Journey Partner in DACH.

All the expert sales help you need to fast forward your B2B SaaS Startup.

👉 Book a 1:1 Sales Assessment Call: https://thesalesplaybook.com/bookacall
👉 Get proven hands-on sales resources: https://thesalesplaybook.com/resources
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Track Record:
❖ 0-2M booked ARR in <15 months by finding message-market-fit in <9 months (boostbar)
❖ 0-7 figure ARR in <12 months by hitting message-market fit, setting up outbound sales engine & more (Kyan Health)
❖ 0-7 figure ARR in <18 months by hitting message-market-fit, building outbound sales & training first sales hires (Archlet)
❖ >10 projects to 50+ subscriptions to exit after building outbound sales from 0 (Airica)
❖ 0-2M+ ARR in <18 months by building a sales team from scratch (rready)
❖ 5x MRR by building scalable sales & hiring first sales rep (Turbit)
❖ Ramp 5 SDRs to quota in less than 3 months (Beekeeper)
❖ 4x annual revenue after closing 700k deal with Fortune 500 company by leveraging value-selling (novoMOF)
❖ 2x MRR in 6 months by niching down on Ideal Customer Profile (Houston & Ko)
❖ 370k+ deal closed through hands-on support, approaching 7-figure revenue (56k.Cloud)
❖ 2x ARR in 9 months by 10x'ing ACV by 10x, winning 100K+ deals & hitting 90% reply rates (Classtime)
❖ 2x MRR in 3 months, from 5-10k deals to EUR 150k contract, hitting 30% booking rates (wowflow)
❖ 2x MRR in 6 months from group coaching sessions & more (Houston & Ko)
❖ 250k ARR deal closed by changing their positioning & negotiation approach (Linimex)
❖ <5% to 80% opening and 30%+ reply rates on scalable outbound sales (TRESIO)
❖ 2x MRR in 6 months by niching down on Ideal Customer Profile (Houston & Ko)

Forecastio

All sales and revenue leaders face the same challenge: consistently achieving their sales and revenue targets.
Market turbulence, changing customer preferences, fierce competition, and the inability to make informed decisions in a timely manner all lead to missing sales quotas.

We can’t change the market or customer behavior, but we can equip sales and revenue leaders with the tools necessary to enhance sales performance and hit their sales goals.

CRMs are good at process automation. However, they often lack critical functionality needed by sales and revenue leaders, such as advanced sales planning and forecasting, sales quota assessment, capacity planning, real-time AI-generated insights into sales performance, and more.

This is the main reason why our team created Forecastio - to help sales leaders make informed decisions, prevent revenue leakage, and lead their teams to great results.

Having worked with a range of tech products, I know how irritating long and heavy implementations are.

Therefore, while creating Forecastio, our main focus was to minimize the time our customers spend on implementation and enable them to get value from using the platform as soon as possible.

CMO & Co-Founder

Sales Hacker, Inc.

Contributing Author

Belkins

Main goals:
1. Helping the sales team increase sales rate through the outbound channel.
2. Setting up the flow of inbound leads.

What I've done:
- Developed a marketing strategy
- New branding, and website
- Launched the Blog
- Set up content distribution
- Active work with social proof platforms
- SEO optimization and internal link building
- Developed and Launched the Belkns Growth Podcast (producer role)
- Developed and Launched Help-Center (FAQ)
- Marketing automation
- Developed new products and services

Achievements:
- In one year I managed to make Belkins a recognizable company in B2B lead generation on US and EU markets.
- According to Clutch, we are the top 1 b2b lead generation company in the US.
- Inbound Sales are more than 50% of new sales

Chief Growth Officer

Belkins is the most in-depth way to accelerate Outbound Sales. We provide a dedicated sales team, whose primal goal is to target YOUR prospects, design account-based sales campaigns and convert pre-qualified prospects into qualified Sales Appointments. We deliver a Predictable Sales Funnel Solution and support it with a detailed campaign statistic. 

📌 https://belkins.io

I analyzed the competitors and created a marketing strategy that allows Belkins to grow by 20-30% every month.

Chief Marketing Officer

Folderly

All-in-one platform for domain audit, email deliverability monitoring, and spam testing. Our goal is to help marketers accelerate their sales by helping them send emails that drive revenue

Make the inbox your only destination folder.

MyDutyFree LLC

Mydutyfree is a global duty-free marketplace, where travelers can find out about product availability/prices at duty-free stores and make pre-orders.

Jun 2017 promoted from Marketing Manager to Chief Marketing Officer reporting to CEO. 

Responsible for all global advertising, brand marketing, product marketing (software and services), partnerships, pr, research, social, CRM/lifecycle marketing, and all customer acquisition, engagement, and monetization.

Marketing Manager

Digital Forest

I am building an affiliate network for the startup.

•	Search traffic channels
•	Negotiations with partners
•	Traffic analysis
•	Reporting purchase traffic
•	Control of payments for traffic

Media Bayer

Newmark Ukraine

Sales Manager

Soft.ua

B2B Marketing Expert | Building my own SaaS startup from Zero to Market Leader. Sharing insights and actionable advice.

I transform startups into industry leaders through strategic marketing and brand development.

As Head of Marketing at Belkins, I built the brand from scratch and elevated it to become the #1 B2B Lead Generation agency in the US (Clutch-ranked), scaling revenue from $30K to $900K MRR while generating 250+ qualified meetings monthly.

I've successfully launched multiple ventures, including building the strategy, brand and marketing team for Folderly (SaaS), helping develop the business model for Wiseboard (advisory platform), and most recently, co-founding Forecastio, a sales performance management platform for HubSpot users that reached #3 Product Hunt's "Product of the Day" with zero marketing budget.

My approach combines data-driven strategy with creative execution to deliver measurable business impact. I specialize in:

- Brand development and positioning
- Growth marketing for B2B SaaS
- Content strategy that drives qualified leads
- Building high-performing marketing teams

I thrive in fast-paced environments where I can turn marketing challenges into growth opportunities. 

Let's connect if you're looking to scale your startup or need a strategic marketing advisor.

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