StackOptimise

Co-Founder

Birdie

Account Executive

Oxwash

Sales Manager

Senior Account Executive

Mallow & Marsh

Selling a premium FMCG product to cafes and convenience stores.

Opened over 30 accounts in 3 months during the hottest summer on record. Exceeded target by 100%.

Field Sales Intern

The Dealer App

Selling a discounter platform that allowed cafes, deli*s and restaurants to sell surplus food, minimising their waste and maximising revenue.

Closed 16 accounts, predominantly independent cafes. Delivered in-person platform demos to ensure a smooth onboard.

Conducted a multi-channel B29 campaign targeting University students, resulting in over 100 sign-ups.

Co-Founder @StackOptimise | Everything Sales-Tech ⭐️

Co-Founder @StackOptimise

A Premium Growth Partner for B2B Companies.  

We combine the latest AI tools & sales-tech with industry-leading copywriting to put your top-of-funnel on autopilot. 

1. Over 15+ years in B2B Sales. 
2. Awarded 2x expert certification in B2B sales-tech (1/6 Clay experts in the UK). 
3. Amassed a community of over 50k sales pro's across all platforms. 
4. Supported over 25+ B2B companies to generate a consistent stream of high-quality leads. 

If you're a B2B business with a total addressable market over 10k, let's have a chat: 

https://calendly.com/d/cqf2-9q8-qty/meeting-with-stackoptimise

Or if you're really serious, call me: 

+447800727673

Email: Penn@stackoptimise.com ✉️
IG: www.instagram.com/sellmethis_penn/ 📷
Newsletter: https://stackoptimise.substack.com/ 🚨
Website: https://stackoptimise.com

Penn Frank ⚙️

Most LinkedIn DMs go nowhere.

Ours booked 756 meetings this year alone, across all clients. 

Here are the 3 message styles that got prospects to actually say “yes.”

1️⃣ The Curious Insider Message
2️⃣ Future Framing
3️⃣ The Gut Check Voice Note

And that’s just a glimpse - these are pulled from our full library of 17 proven outreach templates we use every day to start real conversations.

Want the full list?

Like this post + comment “DM” below, and I’ll send it over. (Must be following to receive.)

11 Cold Emails That Booked Calls at Disney, Apple & Google (and more global brands)

Breaking into enterprise is a different ball game - and these 11 real-email examples show you exactly how we did it.

Inside you’ll find:
 • The full emails that secured meetings at massive companies
 • The exact prompts to replicate these emails for your own business
 • The gatekeeper-friendly trick that got messages forwarded to decision-makers

Want a copy? 

Like this post + comment “ENTERPRISE” below and I’ll send it over. (Must be following to receive.)

Year 2 building StackOptimise 🚀

Here’s what we shipped this year:

1️⃣ Launched the world’s first GTM Engineer course. 
2️⃣ Released the $1M Messages eBook. 
3️⃣ Launched our newsletter - 15k subs in 8 months.
4️⃣ Grew the team from 2 to 17.
5️⃣ Expanded our client base from 8 to 20+.
6️⃣ Rebuilt our website - monthly traffic up from 4k to 30k/month.
7️⃣ Became 3× certified experts in B2B sales-tech.
8️⃣ Expanded service line (LinkedIn outreach & RevOps). 

Year 1 was survival.
Year 2 was systems and scale.
Year 3 is where everything compounds.

Onwards.

Welcome to the team, Viktor. 

He’s only a few weeks in, but we knew straight away he was built for GTM Engineering.

We assigned him three clients on day one.

One of them launched a week after he started. Their target was 28 leads per month. He smashed that target in 3 days. 

Beyond the numbers, his technical depth is insane.

Custom landing pages and AI-generated videos personalised to each lead… fully bespoke GTME workflows that would take most people months to figure out.

This is exactly the level we’re building towards at StackOptimise. Elite operators who ship fast and seriously raise the bar.

If you’re an elite operator who wants to build at this pace, we’re still hiring - come join us: https://tally.so/r/m6a5rY

Cold email and LinkedIn DMs serve the same goal - but they work in slightly different ways.

We’ve run thousands of both everyday, and here’s what we’ve learned 👇

1️⃣ Copy
Cold emails need to sound professional and stripped down.
LinkedIn DMs work best when they sound like something you’d actually say.

2️⃣ Volume
Cold email = scale. 20–30/inbox/day.
LinkedIn = slower pace. Around 200 new connections/week/profile. 

3️⃣ Rules
Email success comes from relevance and proof - direct, simple, and credible.
LinkedIn success comes from consistency - showing up, commenting, and sharing useful content.

4️⃣ Follow-up
Email: 3-5 value-led touchpoints. No empty followups. 
LinkedIn: max 3 messages, spaced out, keep it social.

5️⃣ Tools & Testing
Email: test multiple versions - value, case study, pain question.
LinkedIn: test different DMs at scale, double down on what gets replies.

6️⃣ Results & Setup
Cold email: higher volume, lower reply rate, easy to scale.
LinkedIn: smaller volume, higher engagement, harder to scale.

Both channels work - but for different reasons.
Email is the engine.
LinkedIn is the accelerator.

The best outbound strategies use both — working together, not competing.

Learn how to leverage both at scale in 2025: https://lnkd.in/eN7qinfB

$250k ARR closed this week.

We’re scaling hard. We need more hands.

GTME applications @StackOptimise ⚙️: https://tally.so/r/m6a5rY

You’ll learn GTM Engineering at the highest level - plus a platform to build your brand and establish yourself as a recognised leader.

Felix and I only spotted the opportunity in outbound (AI-driven sales + GTM engineering) because we’d spent 15 years collectively in B2B sales. If we weren’t deep in that world, we wouldn’t have seen it. 

People talk about “eureka moments” like flashes of inspiration. Ideas that magically fall out of the sky. They don’t. As Zuckerberg says, this is a dangerous lie.

Your ideas are a product of your knowledge.
Your knowledge is a product of your experiences.
The deeper your experiences, the better your ideas. 

So don’t get emotionally attached to the first draft of a business idea - it’s just the starting point. Because early on, your business will likely change direction anyway (we've pivoted our model 3 times in 2 years). 

And the deeper you get into your domain, the more opportunities emerge. We’re now seeing entirely new ways to scale the business - ideas we simply couldn’t have accessed without being in the trenches long enough to earn that level of insight.

Don’t refrain from entrepreneurship because you question your initial idea - that idea is the stepping stone to unlocking great ideas. Get started.

How we generated $450k ARR for our agency in the last 3 months:

Cold email.

A 6-step cold email sequence.

Not 2 steps.
Not 3 steps.
Six.

Because when done properly, a longer sequence compounds your credibility.

This is the most powerful sequence I’ve ever created.

Here’s why it works:

1️⃣ We identify 22+ unique personalisation points per lead.
2️⃣ Every email builds on the last. There’s a cohesive narrative. 
3️⃣ Zero reminders. Every step adds new value.
4️⃣ The tone is so human it disarms people.
5️⃣ Lots of pattern disruptors. Copy that makes the reader pause and think: “Ok… this is different.”

When you stack all of that across six well-crafted touches, you create something rare: a sequence that starts conversations with people who normally ignore cold email.

The industry keeps preaching 2 - 3 steps.
But if each step compounds, you can scale it up. 

And if we can make it work pitching outbound service (the hardest, most saturated service to pitch via outbound), we can make it work for your business. 

If you want us to build this exact engine for you -
book a call and I’ll walk you through it step by step: https://lnkd.in/e3qxXKmr

Ok, I'm super biased. 

But I really believe this is the Age of the Outbound Agency.

Let me explain why 👇

1️⃣ Ramp time
SDRs take months to get going. You need to train people, test scripts, build lists, and wait for results. With an agency, you start seeing leads within weeks, sometimes days. 

2️⃣ Experience level
Most SDRs are entry-level. They learn on the job - which usually means learning with your accounts. Agencies are made up of specialists who’ve already run hundreds of campaigns. You skip the learning curve.

3️⃣ Tech stack
In-house teams often use old tools or limited software budgets. Agencies already have the full stack - data tools, enrichment layers, AI personalisation, automation - all integrated.

4️⃣ Data and optimisation
SDR teams often lack the volume or data to learn fast. Agencies run thousands of sends per day across clients, so they can spot patterns instantly and keep improving results.

5️⃣ Risk
Inexperienced SDRs are susceptible to bad practices that can destabilise performance, like burning your domain or TAM. Agencies protect deliverability with domain pools, warm-up systems, and smarter targeting logic.

6️⃣ Experimentation
A/B testing rarely happens consistently in-house. It’s slow, and SDRs don’t always have the time or know-how. Agencies live and breathe iteration. They test constantly - messaging, timing, CTAs - and double down on what works.

7️⃣ Cost
An SDR setup means salary, tools, management, and turnover. An agency gives you a whole team, stack, and strategy for a fraction of the cost.

Right now, agencies have the edge because outbound has become a technology game. The power lies in the tools, data, and automation - and agencies are the ones moving fastest to harness it ⚙️

Book in a call with StackOptimise and see how we can build a fully optimised outbound engine for your business: https://lnkd.in/eg3YnNdR

The StackOptimise mission statement: 

To find the fastest path to ROI in outbound, for B2B companies of all sizes. 

Our process is built around one goal: to scientifically find message-market fit as fast as possible.

Here's how we do it.

1. Create 10+ unique outreach messages  
2. Allocate 1–2k leads to each message. 
3. Scrap the low performers. 
3. Further testing on top performers (subject line, PS line etc). 
4. Merge the top-performing messages into a sequence. 
5. Granular testing on the full sequence (scheduling, length etc). 
6. Allocate 80% of volume to optimised sequence and keep 20% for innovation. 
7. Refresh messaging every 4 months. 

We treat outbound like a product. 

One that should evolve every month based on data, not instinct.

That’s how we find engineer message-market fit faster than anyone else.

Book in call with us to learn more: https://lnkd.in/e3qxXKmr

The 47 Laws of Outreach Copy 📕

Law 1️⃣ Never use the long em dash "—". 
Law 2️⃣ Keep paragraphs to 1-2 lines. 
Law 3️⃣ Emails can be long or short but always trim the fat. 

To access all remaining laws: 

📺 Video breakdown: https://lnkd.in/eN2BGNNr

📕 PDF File: https://lnkd.in/eKmMa8Cr

The most unhinged offer in outbound:

We build you an elite 4-month outbound engine with:

↳ Fully managed infrastructure
↳ AI-powered personalization
↳ Signal-based targeting
↳ Unlimited campaigns & volume
↳ Custom automations
↳ Dynamic lead magnets
↳ Full CRM integration

The guarantee: 50+ positive replies in Month 4 alone, or full refund.

That's it. Give us time to dial it in, then we deliver - or you pay nothing.

All we need? A big enough TAM.

Don't care about your offer, industry, or if you even have customers yet. 

If the market's there, we'll crack it.

Apply: https://tally.so/r/A777po

4 new eBooks released 📚📚

1️⃣ The Secret to Close Outbound Sales Opportunities 
↳ Turn warm replies into signed deals - consistently.

2️⃣ Inbox Engineering 
↳ The 2025 military-grade method to bypassing spam filters. 

3️⃣ 24 Business Learnings in 24 Months 
↳ Real lessons from rapidly scaling to $1.5M ARR. 

4️⃣ Making Cold Outreach Funny 
↳ How to utilise the most underutilised weapon in outbound.

Vol 30 🚀

Email sub here (15k+ subs in 8 months): https://lnkd.in/enBDWP5w

View newsletter: The StackOptimise Newsletter 

Go-To Newsletter for GTM Operators. Every week we share 1 template, 1 tutorial, 1 tool, 1 tip and 1 FREE Gift. This exists to be the most value-packed

Open article: Vol 30.  by Penn Frank ⚙️ • 2 min read

I teach or implement Clay for you.

Why me?

I am one of the first UK-based Certified Clay Experts.

And probably the only one:
↳  who can find use cases for Clay for your specific business & implement it in under 45 days 
↳ oh, and I teach Clay so simply that you don’t have to be technical to "finally get it”.
↳ did I mention us having 20+ testimonials from B2B clients and 100+ testimonials in 8 months alone for my course that teaches Clay for beginners?

Don’t believe me?
👇🏻Look at my Featured Section below 👇🏻

2 ways I can possibly help:
1️⃣ 𝐈𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐛𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬, head over to www.b2b-boosted.com & I will offer you a free Clay scoping session or a free Clay buildout in return for 30 mins of your time.
2️⃣ 𝐈𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧 𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐲 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐛𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐫 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐨𝐟𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐲 𝐬𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐬, you may as well check out Unlock Clay(.)com

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Tim Yakubson 🚀

8 INSANE Use Cases for Clay You Must Use
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(I'm breaking down all of them in 1 video)
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Most people use Clay for basic things: 
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Finding emails. Scraping a website.
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That’s scratching the surface of what’s possible.
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Here's what Clay can actually do when you know how to use it:
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Use Case 1: Poach clients from competitors → Scrape their LinkedIn followers, qualify them, personalize outreach at scale. 
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(using @Scrapeli, Followingg.co & Smartlead in the process)
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Use Case 2: ABM account research automation (Replace 5 hours of manual research with AI-powered "battle cards")
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Use Case 3: Job posting trigger campaigns → Target companies hiring for specific roles with pain-point messaging
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I know Fabian Herhold & recruiters that use Clay love this flow.
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Use Case 4: Technographic targeting → Find companies using specific tech stacks
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Underused
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Use Case 5: Podcast guest retargeting → Scrape podcast guest lists, reach out with hyper-relevant context
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Use Case 6: Event attendee workflows → Scrape conference attendees before/after events for warm outreach
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Use Case 7: Job change monitoring → Track when employees leave customers, follow them to new accounts
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Use Case 8: Social signal retargeting → Target people engaging with competitor content on LinkedIn
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After building every single one of these workflows with real clients at @B2B Boosted…
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I recorded a complete walkthrough showing you:
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✅ Exactly how each workflow works (step-by-step) 
✅ When to use each use case for your specific ICP
✅ Real Clay table examples for every workflow 
✅ Clay enrichments and tools needed 
✅ How to layer multiple use cases together 
✅ Common mistakes that waste Clay credits 
✅ Setting up integrations between Clay and Slack, CRM, HeyReach.io, Smartlead)
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This is the same training I’ve spent 5+ hours putting together.
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And I’m giving away the foundation for free.
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Comment "8" below and I'll send you the full breakdown video. 
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(Must be connected first. Not connected = no DM access)
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P.S. - If you implement even ONE of these and book a call, tag me in your win post!

I teach you Clay or implement it for you - your choice ✨ | Clay Expert (London-based) | Founder @ B2B Boosted

These 3 custom GPTs will save you 10+ hours a month inside of Clay.

(and I'm giving them away for FREE)

I speak to a couple of dozen Clay users every day.

(shout out to the 500+ inside Unlock Clay!)

A vast majority are wasting HOURS every week doing things AI can handle in seconds.

So...

Here are 3 GPTs I use (and share with consulting clients) that make Clay 10x faster to use day-to-day:

1️⃣ AI Copywriting GPT

Feed it your personalised cold email.

It will generate 2 prompts for you to copy & paste into Clay in order to generate any personalised email in just 2 prompts.

2️⃣ Data Scraper GPT

Tell the GPT what kind of data you are looking for.

And it will give you a video tutorial of how to use that tool.

E.g. 
Scrape followers of competitors - ScrapeLi

Scrape people that engage with posts of your competitors - Trigify

And yes, the GPT will provide a tutorial video of each tool & will even give you discount codes & extended free trials to tools.

3️⃣ Clay FAQ GPT

Built on every single Clay integration.

Ask it anything Clay-related...

From "how do I find tech stack?" to "how do I connect a webhook?" 

And get the actual answer based on the GPT's knowledge of Clay  (not the generic ChatGPT nonsense).

We use all three across B2BBoosted's client accounts daily.

Combined, they've cut our build time by over 10 hours a week (so I don't spend my weekends inside of Clay tables anymore).

If you're already using Clay, these will instantly make you more efficient.

If you're new, they'll make you look like you've been using it for years.

Comment "GPT" and I'll send you all three!

We just got listed on Clay's official Education Directory!
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Not gonna lie, this one feels good.
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Because Clay doesn't just list anyone. They vet EVERY partner on that directory. And after months of building Unlock Clay, we finally made it.
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People from Google, Clay, Trigify.io, and HeyReach.io have bought Unlock Clay. 
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Absolutely mad!
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Clay employees (the people who literally BUILT the platform) paid to take Unlock Clay.
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Shoutout to everyone I had the chance to speak with last week:
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Kurt Landon, Usama Raees, Jnr Asher, Adam Weil, Vishal Sakaria, appreciate you all.
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But I can’t be too humble. I didn’t make Unlock Clay to be another slop cookie cutter course on the market. It was MEANT to be the go-to resource for anyone serious about becoming a GTM Engineer.
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And if you've been on the fence about joining Unlock Clay, now you know: 
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Even Clay can't resist having us on their directory.
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PS
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DM me with the topic that you struggle with inside of Clay - I’ll see if I can help out
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If you are inside Unlock Clay already - a couple of fun updates coming up, stay tuned!

I spent 4 hours documenting every single way to scrape data inside Clay.
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If there's a way to scrape it in Clay, it's in this guide.
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Technologies
Job postings. 
PitchBook intel. 
LinkedIn profiles. 
Employee counts. 
Crunchbase data. 
Company financials. 
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… you name it.
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It’s ALL in this free masterclass. 
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I’m sharing this because I keep seeing people ask the SAME question inside my Unlock Clay ​ group: 
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"How do I get [this specific data]?"
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So I built a master guide with 20+ scraping methods. 
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Inside, you'll get:
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- 20+ data scraping methods (with instructions)
- How to scrape tech stack data (BuiltWith, Wappalyzer, etc.)
- Job posting scrapers (for hiring signals)
- Financial data sources (revenue, funding, etc.)
- Company intel (Crunchbase, PitchBook, Apollo)
- LinkedIn scraping workflows (people + company pages)
- And the exact enrichers I use for each scenario
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Want it?
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- Comment "SCRAPE"
- Connect with me if we're not already (so I can DM you)
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I'll send the guide + a link to Unlock Clay GPT (which has all this knowledge baked in).

I built a Clay table that saves sales reps 5+ hours per week and you can sell for $2.5k. 
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If your clients have sales teams manually researching accounts….
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This is the easiest sale you'll ever make.
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I tracked every project we've done for 2 years, and this Clay table CONSISTENTLY had the highest profit margin and lowest time investment.
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The 6-step process I use to build it:
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(1) Ask what their sales team researches manually.
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I'll jump on a call with a rep and watch them prep for a meeting. Button by button. I need to see how they think so I can replicate it in Clay.
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(2) Request sample input data. I ask for a list of companies they've recently met with. This becomes my test data to make sure the Clay table actually works.
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(3) Map it out in Miro. 
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I create a visual board: Company name (input) → What Clay does → Output. Then I send them a Loom walking through it to confirm I understood correctly.
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(4) Build the table with URL references.
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This is key: for every data point Clay finds, I include the source URL and date. Sales reps need to validate the research, especially if it's pulling from Wikipedia or a 2013 article.
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(5) Generate “Battlecards” using the Clay and Google Docs enrichment. 
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Use ChatGPT to format the text properly. I prompt it to bold section headers, space out paragraphs, and structure it like a briefing doc. Then I feed that into a Google Doc enrichment.
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(6) Set up Slack notifications and CRM updates.
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Every time the table runs, it sends the battle card to Slack and updates the CRM with notes. Zero manual handoff.
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This table? 
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It's boring. All it does is just fast account research.
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But it saves at least 3-5 hours a week, makes sales reps research faster, and you can spin it our in just a couple of hours.
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I'm not saying don't build lead gen tables - I'm saying don't ignore the boring stuff that can also make you money with less headache.
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Prospects don't know they need this until you build it for them.
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PS
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If you want the full video breakdown of this…
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Comment “Boring table” and I’ll send you the video walkthrough.

When I first started learning Clay, I had no clue what I was doing.
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I was binge-watching tutorials & messaging creators I looked up to.
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I remember DM’ing people like Max Mitcham and Alex Fine🌲 Fine JUST trying to figure out how they were doing it.
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No agenda, literally just wanting to learn.
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Fast forward to now…
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I’ve spoken alongside Max at the last Clay London event.
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From fanboying the biggest voices in the space…
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…to being invited to share what I’ve learned alongside them.
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It’s surreal!
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So if you’re learning Clay right now…
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Keep asking questions and keep reaching out. 
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PS
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If you’re trying to figure out how Clay actually fits into your workflow…
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Don’t be shy, DM me some questions & I’ll be happy to share my learnings and advice.

I'm genuinely tired of the email deliverability nonsense on LinkedIn.
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99% of it is sponsored garbage. 
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Tools pay creators to post about IP rotation and DNS configuration concepts that sound technical but mean almost nothing to someone just trying to land emails in the inbox.
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I’ve sent tens of thousands of emails in the last 12 months. 
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Here are the 5 things that actually matter:
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(1) Never send cold emails from your main domain.
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If you send outreach from [name@company.com](mailto:name@company.com), eventually your emails to investors, colleagues, and clients will land in spam. 
Buy similar-looking domains instead 
Use 2-3 inboxes per domain.
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(2) Warm up every inbox for 14 days minimum.
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Email warm-up tools automatically send and receive emails to build your sender reputation. Don't skip this. 
Your warm-up score needs to hit 100% before you send a single cold email. No exceptions.
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(3) Send 20-30 warm-up emails per day, per inbox.
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Even after you start sending cold emails, keep the warm-up running. 
I recommend 20-30 warm-up emails and 20 cold emails per inbox, per day. 
This keeps your sender reputation high while you scale outreach.
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(4) Use Gmail or Outlook 
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SMTP inboxes are cheaper, but I've tested them for two years.
 They're (mostly) burner emails with inconsistent deliverability. 
Gmail and Outlook cost more, but they actually work. Don't reinvent the wheel here and buy just Gmail & Outlook.
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(5) Never include links, images, or attachments in cold emails.
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These are instant spam triggers. Keep your emails plain text. 
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No: 
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- Hyperlinked signatures
- Embedded images
- PDFs. 
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Keep it clean, with simple copy.
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That's it. That’s all you need. 
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Email deliverability tools are commodities. 
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1) Pick an email deliverability tool (I’m not shouting any tool out here, as that will defeat the point of this post).
2) Buy domains & set up inboxes
3) Warm them up for two weeks.
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And start sending.
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DM me “emails” if you want me to share a doc with everything that you need to know about email deliverability - without the fluff.

I hit 1,000 YouTube subscribers last month.
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Here are the 5 most important lessons I’ve learned: 
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1) Loom → Tella → YouTube agency
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I hit 500 subscribers by uploading 70+ Loom videos.

After 500 subscribers, I switched to Tella, after Max Mitcham told me it looks more slick that Loom.

Now, just as I hit 1k subscribers, I started working with Views To Clients to scale my channel. Lots of high quality videos coming up 🍿, buzzing for you to see them! 

​2) Lead Magnets crush.
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I captured >4k emails from YouTube viewers in the last year alone.
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How?
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Just by saying “if you want the resources used during this video, check the top link in the description below”.
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I know it’s common sense, but at this rate you can opt in like 20% of your video viewers into your email marketing.
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3) Button by button tutorials are the way to go.
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Hardly anyone builds out a Clay table from start to finish.
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Most folks just do a walkover of a finished Clay workflow rather than showing you every tiny little step that you need to take in order to create a killer Clay table.
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So all my best-performing videos to date have been no-BS button by button tutorials.
 
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4) 1 in 2 people buy.
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Since I started posting on YouTube, for every 2 subscribers I get, I have 1 new student inside of Unlock Clay.
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At 200 subscribers: 100 Unlock Clay students.
Now 1k subscribers: 500 Unlock Clay students.
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Causation or correlation? 

No idea, mate. 
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5) Prospects trust you WAY more after watching a YouTube video.
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On the one hand it’s good because sometimes I can close new clients after just 1 sales call.
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On the other hand it means that now I need to pre-qualify leads from YouTube to make sure they have the budget & other requirements in order to work with B2B Boosted.
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PS
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I’m doubling down on YouTube this quarter.
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If you want to binge-watch some Clay tutorials, stay on top of new sales tools & see the occasional day in the life video from me...
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Come hang out on the channel - just search up @Tim-Yakubson and you'll find me!

I stopped working weekends 3 months ago.
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And somehow this is when I saw the most growth I've ever had at B2B Boosted and Unlock Clay.
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Which is the exact opposite of what everyone tells you nowadays. 
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”do more” is AWESOME advice for some folks.
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But for me?
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I had no priorities. 
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Working weekends was just compensating for the inefficiencies of my work Monday to Friday.
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Which turned into burnout in the long run.
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I recall Joel Sinclair-Horne telling me how when he works on weekends he ends up crashing after 10 consecutive days of working non-stop.
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 But, there are some folks that I met recently, like Abdul Mukati, who manages to work 7 days a week without the burnout. 
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I guess you just need to know what works for you.
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Here’s what I’ve been doing recently:
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1/ I started going to sleep super early.
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Call me crazy, but I’m in bed before 8pm and asleep by 9pm on most nights.
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I feel this way I get plenty of time in the morning to do some exercise, go on a morning walk & have some “me time” before starting work.
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(Btw - I’m currently watching a series called The Diplomat ​ - 100% recommend to anyone looking for a good series on Netflix).
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2/ Sports & recovery.
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Running twice a week. Football twice a week. 
Just went to some outdoor sauna and cold plunge place. 
Those have been the best ways to switch off from work during the week.
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3/ I stopped treating weekends like they were bonus workdays.
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To this day, when I wake up on a Saturday I have the inner temptation to reply to a Linkedin DM, record a new video or top up a campaign for a client, but I have to remind myself that I DON’T WORK WEEKENDS. 
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4/ Better focus.
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I used to think I could improve my Spanish speaking, learn N8N, grow my agency, and still remember to do laundry and load the dishwasher every evening. 
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(spoiler: I couldn't)
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Oh, and one thing I’m learning to do better now - saying “no” to random opportunities that come up, as they distract me from working on B2b boosted.
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PS: This is a pic of me, literally 10 mins after wrapping up the Smartlead webinar with Sanjana Kotak, Devesh Srivastava & Alka Gupta - going for a sauna & cold plunge. 
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That was a great webinar btw - if you want the video recap, just DM me “webinar recap” and I’ll send you the recap of the webinar.

I got hit up by a massive AI SDR tool last week.
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Their messaging was absolutely horrendous.
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- Robotic personalization. .
- Triple hyphens. 
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And the irony is that they wanted me as a referral partner.
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I messaged their head of sales: 

"You saw me on the Clay experts directory but sent me THIS? Do you think this is a good message to send?"
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And this is the very problem with cold outreach right now.
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Everyone's chasing the magic hack:
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AI agents, AI SDRs, shiny object syndrome Clay table.
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In reality…
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-Just source a list
- Write a personalised & relevant message.
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That's it. No way around it.
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Yet so many folks fall for this AI SDR crap.
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Clients want an all-in-one solution.
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But what they actually need is someone who can write copy that doesn't suck, build a clean list, and keep emails out of spam.
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Not an AI agent that hallucinates 10,000 terrible emails.
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Now contrast this with 1 email that we generated using Clay and our Custom GPT prompt.
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TL;DR: 
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(1) AI SDRs are hopeless.
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No one likes them. And I've never seen one work. They sound robotic because they ARE robotic - and prospects can smell it from a mile away.
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Oh, and I won’t join a “partner program” for AI SDRs anytime soon. 
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(2) There are so many better ways to do copywriting.
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If you want me to share the top 5 methods to personalise every cold message, DM me “copywriting” and I’ll send you everything that I learned about personalisation at scale.

The exact stuff that I shared at Smartlead’s webinar (shoutout to Sanjana Kotak, Devesh Srivastava & Alka Gupta for inviting me to that one btw).

I did 15+ webinars in the last 2 years with 7-9 ARR SaaS brands & VCs. 
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Here are my 4 biggest takeaways…
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But first, shout out:
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HeyReach.io (Vukasin Vukosavljevic)
Make (Daniel Zrůst  & Ina Adamczyk)
Smartlead (Sanjana Kotak, Devesh Srivastava & Alka Gupta)
Trigify.io (Max Mitcham, Piers Montgomery & Hugo Millington-Drake)
Attio (Matthew Fischer)
Knight Ventures (Mope Abudu)
Launch Africa Ventures (Florence Bavanandan)
Savant (David Rabinowitz)
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… was an honour to host webinars!
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I didn’t deny anyone who requested to have me on, because I love this kinda stuff.
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But frankly, I'm burnt out from it now.
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But here's what I learned before hitting that wall:
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1) ONLY host a webinar if you have a KILLER GIVEAWAY & more than 150 people signing up.
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Without a strong webinar promise(that is achievable), you're just talking to 20 people who half-listen. 
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The giveaway needs to be valuable enough that people actually show up & stay till the end.
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2) To prepare for a killer webinar, it takes at LEAST 4-5 hours.
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And yes, that’s assuming that you don’t want to just wing it.
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You need:
- quality slides (with your website in the corner of each slide so that the attendees can treat it as a CTA).
- lead magnet (aka something you give away in return for the attendee’s email address).
- a decent offer(free audit, free consultation, free automation or something that can convert attendees into buyers).
- 3-4 dry runs of the webinar before to make sure your timing is correct & you are articulate.
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3) The ROI isn't immediate.
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Of course, there may be a few folks that buy Unlock Clay whilst watching the webinar.
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But since I am mainly selling something higher ticket like B2B Boosted’s agency services - most of the money is made in the follow ups to the webinar.
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Just recently with the Smartlead webinar I created a “Webinar Follow-up Funnel” which nurtures leads & shares the resources.
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The better webinars book in 4-5 sales calls and I can close 2-3 deals.
Oh, and the worst ones? I have to pay a graphic designer for the presentation slides out of pocket & I make $0 after spending hours on it.
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The real value though? 
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Becoming a thought leader in the space. 
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And getting “borrowed attention” from the company that invites you to the webinar.
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And doing virtue signalling posts like this breaking down the economics of running webinars lol.
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4) You get stuck in an infinite invitation loop.
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Now admittedly, this is a positive. But if you do even one good webinar… people are watching. Once you finish a webinar, suddenly you're getting asked to do 2-3 more. 

I've actually had to turn down a lot of these new requests because I can't keep doing one every week. 
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Webinars are awesome for building authority and growing a business. 
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But they're not a quick money play. 
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And they'll drain you if you don't cap how many you commit to.
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PS:
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If you want the slide deck to the webinar I just did with Smartlead - comment “WEBI” and I’ll send them to you!

6 months ago, one of my best team members told me straight up:
 
"Tim, I'm going to start my own agency soon."
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For a bit of context…
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I’ve hired 15+ people in the last 2 years of running B2B Boosted
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There’s 1 trait that separates average hires from absolute killers. 
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And no…
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It's not: 
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- Speed of execution
- being not just fluent, but ARTICULATE when speaking.
- Technical skills
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(although those are great pre-requisited)
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It's this: 
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They want to start their own thing.
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Sounds backwards. 
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But when someone's end goal is to actually build their own agency or business, they do WAY more than just show up for a paycheck. They go beyond the job description and think like FOUNDERS. They move faster because every task is practice for their own future.
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Moaaz Mazhry is a perfect example.
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When Moaaz told me that he’s starting his own business, I didn’t panic.
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Why?
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Because from day 1 the deal was:
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”Let me know a couple of months before you consider starting your own agency.

And please document everything so it is a smooth handover for your successor.”
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It’s been 3 weeks since moaaz is no longer full-time with b2b boosted, the automations are still running just fine.
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The morale of this post?
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Dunno mate.
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Just kidding, but this taught me to always ask “what does success look like in 2-3 years from now?”
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This way you will avoid surprises when the employee quits in the next year.
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PS: Shoutout Moaaz Mazhry - I interviewed 10+ automations folks & I’m 100% convinced that his sales & business acumen means that he can systemise and automate any business out there. 

Should probably write him a recommendation one day too lol.

18 months ago, I trained 2 sales reps at E-Tabs from scratch.
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And this moment made me super proud.
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For context…
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When I just started B2B Boosted, I chatted with Benjamin Rietti who just brought in 2 sales apprentices at the time
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They had no previous sales experience selling B2B SaaS and needed help with building a sales process.
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Over 12+ weeks we built a multi-channel outreach system using HeyReach & Smartlead, powered by Clay, Apollo & Linkedin Sales Navigator.
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This wasn’t like the typical b2b boosted work, because we had to create sales scripts, train the team on the scripts & build a Sales Playbook from scratch.
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It was 100% worth it.
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Why?
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I was just scrolling through their Smartlead inbox to see how they were getting on and came across this email.
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Yes, it’s not 100% perfect.
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But, it has:
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- Personalised trigger
- AI-generated names of reports that the prospect actually creates
- mention of E-tabs’ USP (report automation)
- CTA (oops, cropped it out of the screenshot, my bad!)
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Shoutout David Scheffer for sending this email, really happy to see you grow in the role. 
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Generally, it makes me happy seeing clients not only implement the systems, scripts and processes, but also to grow in their roles thanks to these systems.
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 Next step - finding more sales triggers and signals to make the outreach even crispier :)
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PS 
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If you want to see what a sales enablement program looks like for this type of engagement…
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DM me and I will share our template!

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