Shaheem Alam

Starting my first venture at the age of 20 showed me incredible highs and crushing lows (eating PB&J for every meal). 

From the grind of door to door sales, to building massive sales teams, to hitting the reset button and starting a career in tech sales, and finally co-founding FiveRings Marketing.

I learned a lot over the years and continue to grow both personally and professionally.

At any given moment, we're helping 40+ B2B companies grow sales.

Want to get in touch?

shaheem@fiveringsmarketing.com

Chief Executive Officer

Ollie Whitfield

Slingshot Content

Building content that nobody else would come up with. 

Positioning Founders and their businesses at the tippy top of their ICP's mind when they come to market. 

Ask me how.

Partner

durhamlane

Marketing (Fractional) 

gtmDIFFERENT

Media brand owned by Slingshot Content. Sponsored by brands who believe in doing B2B differently.

Co-Founder

MySalesCoach

Helping build the marketing team at MySalesCoach. Running webinars and building content partnerships.

Fractional, Marketing

Spiralyze

Continual content development and ideation + iteration. Building the best B2B game show, CRO Crimes and deep thought leadership content with the Conversion Lab series.

Content Strategist

Splashmaker Media

Founder

Flatsafe Holdings 

VanillaSoft

Leading the Demand Gen team at VanillaSoft and Autoklose. 

Q1 2022 - 105% demand gen lead commitment
Q2 2022 - 125% demand gen lead commitment
Q3 2022 - 110% demand gen lead commitment
Q4 2022 - 115% demand gen lead commitment

Noteworthy:
Give-A-Con - 
VanillaSoft's first ever Virtual Conference executed March 2022. 250+ highly qualified target buyers registered in the Higher Education market. 16 leading speakers in the space delivering 8 sessions over the course of the 1-day event.

Growth Month - 
Autoklose's first ever Virtual Conference executed June 2022. 47 leading Sales and Bootstrapped growth speakers delivered 2 sessions per day, over every business day in the month of June. 1250+ highly qualified target buyers registered for the event to support the Autoklose product line pipeline, focused  on Founders running their SMB's. 

Leading Bi-Monthly Webinar Execution - 
Twice monthly webinars focused on separate target markets to provide pipeline and lead flow for our 2 product lines, each having very different ICPs. 
Guest planning and logistics, approaching sponsors and Hosting each show. 

2021 record webinar: "The State of Cold Sales Outreach" hosted by Darryl Praill ft. Brynne Tillman, Victor Antonio & Samantha McKenna. Sponsored by Lavender, RepFabric, Tenbound, Progress Coaching. 800 registrations.

2022 record webinar:  "Write The World's Best Emails" hosted by myself ft. Samantha McKenna & Kyle Coleman. Sponsored by Allego & Lavender. 500 registrations.

The 0 To 5 Million Podcast - 
Launched the podcast in March 2021 from idea to weekly publishing on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Apple Music and all other popular podcast platforms. Currently at 4000+ downloads.
Began publishing video episodes on YouTube in November 2022 as well as weekly LinkedIn Live and Twitter broadcasts.

Marketing Lead

The 1st Growth Marketer at VanillaSoft. 

Planning & executing all lead generation campaigns and ongoing activities over the year with a lead commitment reverse engineered from a growing yearly revenue target.

Ran experimental campaigns into emerging markets, tested new messaging and tactics to drive Demo's and lead flow for the sales team. 

Noteworthy:

Tested Law Firm's as an ICP for VanillaSoft by cold calling - 
Spent 2 weeks cold calling law firms to test out self-created sales messaging for VanillaSoft to see if there was traction or any resonation with the buyers in this market with what we offer. Pages of market research notes. Call script and email cadence created and sent over the course of the 2 weeks.

Growth Marketing

Product Marketing for the Autoklose product line at the time of acquisition by VanillaSoft. 

On acquisition - 
ExComms & announcement preparation

Post acquisition - 
Product-related content
Product release communication internally & external announcement
Upsell & cross-sell campaign planning

Product Marketing

The 0 To 5 Million Podcast

Subscribe👉🏻👉🏻 https://anchor.fm/0-to-5-million-podcast 

Ideation, Planning & Co-Host of the podcast. Top 11% of Business podcasts worldwide in 2022 according to Spotify Wrapped. Regular listeners in 14 countries, top 30% of most followed podcasts on Spotify

Started March 2021, currently at 4000+ downloads with a weekly upload schedule (Now on YouTube and LinkedIn Live as well as the usual Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music etc.)

Top episodes:
Nancy Kelly: Delivering Quality Service At Scale & Community
Michael Hanson: Cold Email Cadences, Following Up & Feedback Emails
Is This Podcast For You? Shawn Finder & Ollie Whitfield Explain 🙌🏻
Chris Walker: Inbound Marketing, Choosing Channels, Fine-Tuning Your Services
Alex Oswiecinski: Pivots, Covering Your Weaknesses & Rapid Scale Growth

Co Host

Creation Agency

Top project/Client Account Manager.

Managed team of 5 across $400k/year of clients in the SaaS/Sales Tech space. Responsible for maintaining client relationships on monthly retained services and upselling new services or expansion within client accounts. 

Noteworthy: 
Led the largest account on the client list for 2 years prior to leaving the firm. 

Sold & implemented Hubspot CRM as part of our Hubspot partnership agreement for 1 client. 

Led and ran £300k project for ABM & Social Selling pilot with global enterprise client. Hit 100% of weekly quota for lead generation from beginning to end of the client engagement. POC on the account promoted to Deputy CMO of the organization during the engagement. 

Sold 3 pilot engagements for new service & project managed the clients for 12+months. 

Weekly & Monthly delivery of:
Content planning
Podcast
Blog
Social Media Management
Email Marketing
Image Creative
Video Creative
Landing Page creation
Social Ads (Facebook, LinkedIn) 
PPC 
Ebook creation & promotion
Facebook & LinkedIn Live content
Dashboard creation
Salesforce <> Hubspot integration building
In-person event ticket sales
Book launch & promotion
Online workshop ticket sales

Client Relationship Manager (North America)

Produces content nobody thinks of. Generates pipeline, awareness, differentiation.

We break the boring out of b2b content. So much of it is utter trash. 

How to work with us:
Starter Video Pack - for Founders who need to make a name for themselves
90 minutes of your time, content strategy mapped, 5 short form edited videos cut for you. 
Dont like them? Full refund. 

Hour a Month Content Pack - 
Similar to the above, just 60 mins of recording instead of 30. 
More videos. Quantities TBD per deal. 

Build Us A Show:
Custom. You ask us to make "Hot Ones" but for your brand and situation. We go and do it. 

Work examples: 
⏬ GTMDifferent (Pinned post)
⏬ CRO Crimes (Pinned post)
⏬ More we can share soon...

taplio

The Battle

Shaheem Alam

Ollie Whitfield

Followers

Posts

Engagements

Likes

Ready to grow your LinkedIn presence?