Marketer for Startups | I help startup founders develop marketing strategy, execute tactics and scale their businesses

You've tried everything. Reddit, LinkedIn, Product Hunt, communities.
Zero traction. Zero customers. Here's what's actually broken...

After diagnosing 100+ B2B SaaS founders, I discovered 58% have the same execution gaps:
  • They post where their competitors are, not where customers gather
  • They mention their product too early (or too late)
  • They abandon tactics after 5 attempts instead of iterating

I've guided founders from 0 to their first 10 paying customers by fixing these gaps.

Not with more strategies. With better execution.

→ Follow for daily execution fixes
→ Follow me on Medium (https://medium.com/@shamal.r.badhe) where I write in detail why your marketing gets zero traction and how to fix it
→ DM if you're stuck and need immediate diagnosis

Shamal Borole - Badhe

Notion! Notion is an infinitely customizable blank canvas of ultimate power. 

Notion's greatest advantage is also it's biggest weakness. That's where I come in.

As the GTM Lead @ Optemization, I specialize in helping companies in hyper growth mode scale effectively without letting their workspace become a "dumping ground" for scattered info, links, meetings notes, and outdated docs that no one can trust. 

Optemization is an Ops Design consultancy focused specifically on the adoption of Notion. 

That could mean large migrations onto Notion, improving current workflows, creating custom automations and integrations, or auditing what you're currently working with.

If you've made it this far and want to learn more, here's some resources that can help:

Notion's Eleven - A free online course exploring the fundamentals of building an effective Notion workspace for teams of all sizes:

https://optemizations.notion.site/Welcome-to-Notion-s-Eleven-317a0fd26bf24d0295504e4cab1eba83

AND, my last offer is if you ever want to about anything related to Notion, I'm your guy 😎 

Lastly the fun part. My Special Skills and Fun Facts include:

🏆 3x Cornhole Champion 🏆 
🏅 3x Dodgeball Champion 🏅 
👨‍🍳 Former Food Cart Owner 👨‍🍳 
🥩 Steak Off Champion 🥩 
🐔 Notoriously known as “The Chicken Man” 🐔

Skyler Birk-Stachon

Maybe the LinkedIn DMs aren't so bad after all...

Your new favorite Notion and Pickleball guy | I scale your company’s Notion usage and host epic Pickleball Tournaments (or both!)

Baby it’s colddd outside.

But this surprise gift was the warmest thing I’ve seen all week!

Thanks so much Apollo.io, you're the best!!! 🫶

Incredibly unexpected but I appreciate you thinking of me!

Best gift box to pair with my Apollo pickleball paddle.

And they gave me a year's subscription to Calm which I already use daily.

Incredible!

Love when companies go the extra mile.

If you threw me back into time and I wanted to break into sales...

Here's what I would do:

Be a literal sponge to absorb and learn as much as humanly possible.

Here's the books I would read:

→ Never split the difference - Chris Voss
→ How to win friends and influence people - Dale Carnegie 
→ Gap selling - Keenan
→ The challenger sale - Matthew Dixon
→ Atomic habits - James Clear

Here are the LI sales creators I would follow:

→ Brian LaManna - All around 🐐 of everything sales and quota killer
→ Chris Orlob - Without Pclub I wouldn't be where I am today
→ Lauren Goodell - Everything you need to know about using AI in sales
→ Giulio Segantini - Your cold calling 🐐 
→ Morgan J Ingram - The Pipeline and Sales Nav Jedi
→ Troy Munson - Actionable tactics and software you should use
→ Julia Carter - Occasionally funny, usually useful 

Here is the course I would invest in

pclub.io - Literally unreal how much value is packed into it for the price

I'm currently a one man sales team who had never sold B2B before, there's no way I'd be where I am today if I hadn't bought it 

I would practice rejection therapy

Leverage AI to practice, you can cold call AI bots that are pretty damn good

When you start in sales, you're going to get your teeth kicked in 
**(that's just the reality, sorry not sorry) 

You're going to suck at it
**(cause of course you are, you've never done it would be unreasonable for you to not suck at it, but it'll get better over time)

But if you have the right mindset, are a coachable sponge and work hard...

You'll be just fine :)

10 Notion hills I will die on

#1 98% of companies use Notion wrong

#2 You can’t use Notion AI if your workspace is a dumping ground

#3 You need to stop letting your employees create random pages

#4 The reason you’re not getting the most out of Notion is that you haven’t properly invested into it

#5 I love Notion but 90% of Notion’s fancy features don’t actually matter to your employees

#6 You don’t have a Notion problem, you have an adoption problem

#7 Your company has a tool culture problem if you don’t have a unified way of working in Notion

#8 If you didn’t architect Notion correctly from the start you probably hate it now

#9 If your company isn’t database driven you’re using Notion wrong

#10 You’d be a fool not to be on a business or enterprise plan 

**cat is unrelated, he is simply just a goober

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