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CEO @ Conversion House 🏠 | On-demand design for small SaaS marketing teams so they can launch faster, position better and convert more.

Are you a SaaS / tech startup between $500k and $3M ARR with high retention, but low ARR growth?

If the answer is yes, then acquisition is the bottleneck. 

If we dig a little bit deeper, it's because you don't have a system for generating consistent pipeline.

In other words, you're too dependent on referrals and inbound (Spoiler: Hope is not a strategy).

The solution? Allbound:
→ Hyper-targeted outreach fills pipeline today.
→ Scroll-stopping content fills pipeline tomorrow.
→ Together, results multiply.

Want to learn more about allbound?
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Joe Wheatley

The best GTM principle → Create abundance where there is scarcity

Credit goes to Santosh Sharan for this one!

Before ZoomInfo, B2B data was locked behind Dun & Bradstreet at $100K/year. Only the IBMs of the world could access it.

ZoomInfo dropped that to $5K/year and went from $10M to $100M (abundance for SMBs)

Then Apollo arrived and made B2B data available for under $100/mo (abundance for everyone)

Each time, data was scarce for a lower segment of the market
A company noticed → made it abundant → their growth exploded

The cycle repeats over and over. Scarcity becomes abundance. Winners look for new scarcity.

And when data becomes fully abundant (thanks Apollo) the old playbooks stop working (goodbye spray and pray). That's why the industry has shifted towards signals. 

Tools like:

- Clay
- Freckle.io
- BirdDog
- Signalbase (Previously LeadsOnTrees)

So the real money question: What’s scarce now, and what will be scarce next?

That’s where the opportunity lies.

Joe Wheatley 🏠

Founder @ Demand House | Intelligent outbound for B2B SaaS | Trusted by Warmly, Summize & Coefficient

Proof that cold outbound isn't dead, and remains the BEST channel for building predictable pipeline

Last week we sent 1,800 emails across 3 campaigns (roughly 600 leads contacted)

Reply rates between 5.7-10.6%

5 opportunities

See for yourself.

Given we only just started running outbound for ourselves (started in 2026), with only 10 secondary inboxes, I'd say this is a damn good start

Before you say outbound is dead, think again!

You need to give the recipient a reason to reply (value).

Then you need to deliver on this value and offer more value to get the call.

But most don't offer real value, and then complain no one responds. Why would they?

Others give value to the wrong people. Your fault you've got a bad list.

Also - stop relying on marketing / content as your savior. It's a long-term play that should consume 20% of your efforts max. 80% should be on near-term pipeline aka. outbound.

If you put in the work to build the right list and offer (and you deliver on your promises), you will win.

2025 reflections and plan for 2026

1️⃣ 2025

Marketing
↳ 0 → 3k+ LinkedIn followers
↳ 0 → 300+ newsletter subscribers
↳ 0 → 25 podcast episodes on YouTube

Network
↳ Built relationships and become friends with amazing founders, CEOs and GTM leaders across B2B SaaS

Social proof
↳ Worked with 4 x $5M+ ARR SaaS companies
↳ Worked with 10+ $1M+ ARR B2B companies
↳ 27 five-star Google reviews

Business
↳ Pivoted from websites → content → GTM

Who we help
↳ B2B SaaS from ~$500k ARR and up

2️⃣ 2026

Marketing
↳ 3k → 6k+ LinkedIn followers
↳ 300 → 1k+ newsletter subscribers
↳ 25 → 60 podcast episodes

Network
↳ Network better, give more
↳ Go deeper in the GTM communities I am already part of
↳ Potentially launch a startup GTM community (for those who aren't mature enough to work with us)

Social proof
↳ 10+ outbound case studies
↳ 50+ five-star Google reviews

Business
↳ $60k MRR
↳ 2 new clients per month
↳ 100% retention

Who we help
↳ DIY outbound consulting for startups with sub-5 person sales teams (under $2M ARR)
↳ DFY outbound systems for B2B SaaS with 5+ sales reps ($3M+ ARR)

Biggest Change from 2025 to 2026:
- We’re qualifying out unvalidated startups (pre-$1M ARR).
- You cannot guarantee results if they’re unproven.
- You can do everything right, but at the end of the day, if the founder isn’t made of the right “stuff”, nothing will save them.
- If you have social proof (which we do now), leave the brokies behind.

Onwards 🚀

Outbound systems for $3M+ SaaS | Trusted by Warmly, Summize, Coefficient & more | 27 x 5-star reviews on Google | Founder @ Demand House

Building Curacity's top 100 prospects in 10 minutes:

1 / What they do
Demand creation platform where hotels create content, Curacity distributes to premium publishers (Travel + Leisure, Condé Nast Traveler, etc.) to drive bookings and revenue

2 / Define ICP by analyzing best customers
50% small chains (8-14 properties), 33% independent (1 property), 67% US-focused, 83% hotels

3 / Identify buyer personas
CMOs, VP Marketing, Director of Marketing, VP Revenue Management (decision makers) + Marketing Managers, Brand Managers, Revenue Managers (champions)

4 / Identify key signals
Rapid growth (headcount/revenue), hiring for marketing manager, new CMO/VP Marketing, new property launches, rebranding, recent funding/acquisition, performance issues (low direct bookings, declining occupancy)

5 / Find leads in Apollo
Filter by marketing roles, C-suite/VP/Director level, company lookalikes (Viceroy Hotels, Virgin Hotels), US location, 200-1,000 employees, hotels/hospitality industry, layer on signals

6 / Import to Freckle / Clay
Combine 4 signal lists from Apollo (lookalike + rapid growth, lookalike + hiring, rapid growth, hiring) and import to Freckle/Clay

7 / Validate emails
Zero Bounce for validation, Bounce Ban for catch-all verification

8 / Enrich with phone numbers

9 / Verify ICP + buyer persona match
Is company ICP? Is person decision-maker? Remove leads that don't match both

10 / Build messaging
Rapid growth: "Growing team = need revenue to support payroll, explore new marketing channels?" / Hiring: "What are new marketing manager's priorities? Open to exploring new channels?"

Result: 94 verified top hotel decision-makers ready for multichannel outreach to drive Curacity sales

Top 100 Prospects in 10 Minutes for Blink (Employee Engagement Platform)

- Determine ICP based on best customers
- Map TAM & signals
- Build tiering system
- Find leads in Apollo
- Enrich, validate and filter in Freckle (or Clay)
- Build messaging relevant to signal (observation), ICP and persona

How to reach out with REAL relevance (not fake relevance) - event software example

1 / Scrape list in Apollo
Event managers, 200-500 employees, US, B2B. Export top 3 people per company.

2 / Build relevance query in Freckle / Clay
Import list, validate emails. Categorize company type (corporate, venue, event planner, education). Scan all events (last month through 2026). Identify which event is top of mind right now. Determine timing: recent (reflecting), current (executing), near-term (planning 30-90 days), or post-90 days.

3 / Validate outputs
Check event names are real and correctly timed. Verify event is flagship and relevant to buyer persona. Update prompts if outputs are off.

4 / Filter out bad leads
Filter out low relevance matches. Keep only verified flagship events where person has vested interest (metrics, responsibilities).

5 / Export as segmented lists
Segment lists, filtering by category and timing e.g. corporate vs education and recent event vs upcoming event. Export segmented lists.

6 / Reach out with relevant messaging
Run a separate campaign for each sub-list, for example:

- Recent event: "Saw you ran {{eventName}}  last month. How’d it go?"
- Current event: "See you’re in the middle of running {{eventName}} - will make this quick."
- Near-term event: "Bet you're ramping up for {{eventName}}  right now?"
- Event in 90+ days: "Big events lined up this year like {{eventName}} in {{eventMonth}} ."

Result: Now you have a real reason to reach out based on what's actually top of mind right now → higher response rates + more trust

Frank Sondors 🥓 is literally the 🐐 of startup sales (he books 500 demos per month and scaled Salesforge.ai 🔥 from $0-$3M in less than 1 year)

When building a team, he said to start off with 2 reps
(Do not hire from big corporate like Google - wrong mindset)

And then he talked about how to acquire customers. It's not about one channel, it's about multi-channels working together.

Get data, test & iterate.

He also spoke about why you need to track first touch and last touch attribution

And finally, how to warm-up prospects before booking the demo

Head over to Frank's profile now and follow him. The guy to watch in 2026

Frank Sondors 🥓 (Founder of Salesforge.ai 🔥) is booking 500 demos per month by dogfooding

He’s solving a real problem:
- Sales reps are split across too many tools → forced to stitch workflows together and deal with unnecessary complexity

And he has a solution:
- An apple-like experience for sales teams

How:
- Mailforge, Primeforge, Infraforge and Warmforge for infrastructure & deliverability
- Leadsforge for finding leads (larger DB than Apollo)
- Salesforge for outreach execution (LinkedIn + email)
- The suite integrates together seamlessly giving you an 'apple-like' experience

Proof of value:
- Forge has a huge TAM (sales teams worldwide)
- They're dogfooding with 250 domains and 500 inboxes
- A sh*t ton of email & LinkedIn outreach (and they’re adding a dialer in 2026)
- Booking 500 demos per month

And before you assume that with this number of inboxes they’re just spamming the TAM - watch the full episode.

Frank used to lead sales teams of up to 100 people. At the end of the show, we actually talked tactics and that there's an unreal amount of gold there

Frank is an absolute authority on building sales teams & outreach and the results speak for themselves.

Will you be bringing home the bacon 🥓 like Frank in 2026?

P.S. They went from 0 to $3M+ ARR in less than 12 months (so clearly, they are very good demos)

We're getting more positive replies than we can handle.

Here's one example:

- Reached out to someone who just joined a 7/8 figure SaaS as Head of Sales
- Asked how the role was going (be human!)
- Offered genuine value

Outbound works when you do it better than everyone else.

Step 1 - Offer value to get the reply 
Step 2 - Offer value to get the call/audit

If you offer what they actually want and deliver on it, you'll win. Simple.

Building SuperLegal's top 100 prospects in 10 minutes:

1 / What they do
Contract lifecycle management software. Legal creates templates so sales, marketing, finance can send agreements without waiting for approval. Legal stops being the bottleneck. Less manual, more strategic work instead.

2 / Define ICP by analyzing best customers
Even distribution 51-10,000+ employees, 82% US-focused, 39% software/data/tech, 17% manufacturing/industrial/energy

3 / Identify buyer personas
Chief Legal Officer, General Counsel, VP/Director/Head of Legal (decision makers) + Legal Ops Manager, Contracts Manager, Senior Counsel, Paralegals (champions). Finance approves budget.

4 / Identify key signals
Hiring for CLO/General Counsel/Head of Legal, hiring for Legal Ops Manager, growing legal team (2+ roles open), rapid growth, new office/region, post Series B/C funding, M&A activity, using competitors (Ironclad, Duro), complaining about legal workload on LinkedIn, Glassdoor reviews mentioning overwhelmed legal team

5 / Find leads in Apollo
Filter by legal decision maker titles, US location, US company, 51-10,000 employees, layer on hiring + rapid growth signals

6 / Import to Freckle / Clay
Export lists from Apollo, combine lists using Claude, import to Freckle/Clay

7 / Validate emails

8 / Enrich with phone numbers

9 / Verify ICP + buyer personas
Is company ICP? Is person decision-maker? Remove leads that don't match both

10 / Build messaging
Rapid growth: "More people = more contracts. How's legal handling volume? Are they the bottleneck between teams?" / Hiring: "What tools will your new legal manager have to manage contracts efficiently?"

Result: 83 verified legal decision-makers ready for multichannel outreach to drive SuperLegal sales

Open to Work • Immediate Joiner •Ex-Mahindra & Mahindra• Ex- Hero MotoCorp• Ex- Hyster Yale• Ex- Divgi Warner• R&D Specialist•Purchase,SS•NPD Specialist•SQA •Project Management Specialist• EV• IT•11+years of Experience

Project Management.
Development of Gears & Shafts. 
New Product development.
Strategic Sourcing.
Purchase.
Supplier Management.
Data Analytics
•	Accomplished Mechanical Engineering professional with 10+ years of diverse experience in the automotive industry with different domains like – New Product Development, R&D, Strategic Sourcing, Purchase, SQE, Vendor Development, specializing in gear and shaft development, transmission systems, supplier quality assurance, and advanced manufacturing process design.

•	Proven track record of leading end-to-end development and localization of critical components (31 gears, 12 shafts, 7 sprockets) across geographies including USA, China, and Japan, enabling strategic cost savings and faster go-to-market execution.
•	Highly proficient in supplier quality management, including RFQ, costing, vendor negotiation, APQP, and PPAP, ensuring seamless collaboration between R&D, sourcing, and supplier ecosystems.
•	Certified Lean Six Sigma Green Belt and PMP, with strong exposure to operational excellence, tooling cost optimization, quality improvement, and digitized tooling lifecycle management.
•	Currently pursuing PG Program from IIM to augment strategic management acumen, reinforcing capability to transition into leadership roles in product development, NPI, and operations strategy.

Dynamic and results-driven Mechanical Engineer with over 10 years of experience in the automotive and manufacturing sectors, specializing in the development and quality management of mechanical components, especially in transmission systems. I have a proven track record of managing the complete lifecycle of components, from design and development to procurement, supplier management, and quality assurance. My expertise spans across supplier quality engineering, gear and shaft development, new product engineering, and strategic sourcing, with a focus on process optimization, lean manufacturing, and cost-effective solutions. I have been fortunate to work with industry leaders like Hero MotoCorp, Mahindra & Mahindra, and Hyster Yale, where I honed my skills in project management, vendor management, and technical feasibility. With a strong foundation in process design engineering and a deep understanding of gear manufacturing processes, I consistently strive for innovation and excellence in all my endeavors. I am currently seeking new opportunities in the fields of Supplier Quality Engineering, Purchasing, Strategic Sourcing, New Product Engineering, and HTML Development to further contribute to organizational success.

Nitish Kumar

💡 Belief Is Not Wishful Thinking — It’s a Decision 💡
We’ve all heard statements like:
“It’s unrealistic to think you can move a mountain just by saying it.”
And that’s true — wishing alone changes nothing.
You can’t wish yourself into leadership.
 You can’t wish yourself into an executive role, financial security, or the top of your career.
✨ But you can move mountains with belief.
Belief is not magical or mystical.
 Belief is practical.
 Belief is powerful.
When you truly believe “I can do this”, something remarkable happens:
Your mindset shifts from “if” to “how”
Your energy aligns with action
Your skills begin to grow through effort and learning
🔑 Belief creates the “I CAN” attitude — and the HOW follows.
Every day, countless people start new jobs hoping for success someday.
 But hope without belief keeps them average.
 When people believe success is impossible, they stop looking for the steps that lead upward.
🚀 Yet, a small group chooses differently.
 They believe growth is possible.
 They believe the top is reachable.
 They observe, learn, prepare, and model the habits of leaders and senior professionals.
And over time — they rise.
🙏 I’m grateful for this reminder:
 Success doesn’t begin with wishing.
 It begins with believing, followed by consistent action.
👉 What belief helped you move your first “mountain” in your career?
#BeliefInAction #GrowthMindset #CareerSuccess #LeadershipJourney #PositiveThinking #ProfessionalGrowth #Gratitude #LinkedInLearning

🌟 Success Begins with Belief 🌟
Success is not just about money or titles.
 It’s about freedom—freedom from fear, self-doubt, and limitations.
 It’s about self-respect, growth, and the joy of becoming more than you were yesterday.
Success means:
Creating security and comfort for your family
Earning respect and leadership in your professional life
Living without constant worry and frustration
Finding deeper satisfaction and purpose in what you do
At its core, success is winning the inner game first.
Every person wants the best life has to offer. No one dreams of living small or settling for mediocrity. Yet the difference between those who dream and those who achieve comes down to one powerful force:
👉 Belief.
When you truly believe you can succeed, your mind begins to find the way forward.
 Belief fuels action. Action creates results.
 Those who don’t believe rarely try—and therefore rarely win.
💡 Think big. Believe big. Act boldly.
 Because success doesn’t start with circumstances—it starts with your mindset.
#SuccessMindset #BelieveToAchieve #ThinkBig #PersonalGrowth #Leadership #CareerDevelopment #Motivation #LinkedInGrowth

Live Fully. Manage Emotions. Be Grateful. 🌱
A powerful idea that feels deeply relevant in today’s fast-paced, anxious world—many of our worries about health and life can quietly become our biggest burden, even when there is nothing truly wrong.
Here are three gentle but life-changing reminders worth sharing:
1️⃣ Trust facts, not fear
 After proper medical checks, learn to accept the diagnosis with calm confidence. Constantly searching for illness often creates more harm than protection. Peace of mind is a form of healing.
2️⃣ Manage emotions—they shape health
 Research shows that a large number of illnesses are emotionally induced. When we learn to manage stress, fear, and anxiety, we don’t just improve our mindset—we reclaim our well-being. Emotional discipline is as important as physical care.
3️⃣ Live until you die
 This thought stayed with me deeply:
“Every minute spent worrying about dying is a minute not spent living.”
Life is meant to be lived fully, even with limitations. Why be half alive when we can choose purpose, gratitude, and joy every single day?
🙏 Grateful for the wisdom shared by those who remind us that health is not only about the body, but also about the mind and emotions.
 🌼 Respect for everyone quietly fighting battles while still choosing to live meaningfully.
 🌟 Positivity in choosing life over fear.
Let’s not confuse living with worrying.
 Let’s live—fully, thankfully, and consciously.
#Gratitude #PositiveMindset #EmotionalWellbeing #LifeLessons #MentalHealthAwareness #LeadershipMindset #LiveFully #Thankful

💡 Health Excusitis: When the Mind Limits More Than the Body
One of the most common excuses that quietly holds people back is health excusitis.
 It ranges from “I don’t feel good” to “I’ve got something wrong with me.”
Across the world, health is often used—consciously or unconsciously—as a reason:
Not to take greater responsibility
Not to aim higher
Not to grow professionally or personally
Yet when we pause and reflect, we realize something powerful👇
 Most highly successful people could use health as an excuse—but they don’t.
Doctors themselves agree: the perfect adult body doesn’t exist.
 Almost everyone carries some physical limitation.
 The difference is not the condition—it’s the attitude.
✨ Success-thinking individuals acknowledge challenges, but they don’t surrender to them.
 They adapt. They manage. They move forward with wisdom and courage.
I once met a young professional who told me, respectfully,
“Your ideas can’t help me much. I have a bad heart.”
Four doctors couldn’t even identify the issue—yet the fear had already taken control.
 That moment reminded me how easily the mind can impose limits even before the body does.
🙏 I’m deeply grateful for this insight:
 Health deserves care, respect, and responsibility—but not excuses that shrink our potential.
Let’s choose:
Awareness over fear
Action over alibis
Gratitude over limitation
Because true progress begins when we refuse to let excuses—of any kind—define our future.
🌱 Respectfully sharing this thought for reflection and growth.

One small habit can quietly reveal how we feel about ourselves:
 the way we walk.
A child learns something unexpected just by watching people move.
 Some walked with energy and purpose.
 Others drifted—heads down, steps slow, shoulders heavy.
Psychologists tell us that posture and pace often mirror mindset.
 A sluggish walk and slouched shoulders usually signal more than fatigue—they reflect how someone feels about their work, their confidence, and themselves.
Here’s the powerful part:
 movement doesn’t just reflect attitude—it can shape it.
When you walk a little faster:
 • your posture improves
 • your focus sharpens
 • your sense of purpose increases
You don’t have to rush life.
 You just have to move with intention.
Grateful for this simple reminder:
 Confidence often begins in the body before it reaches the mind.
Today, try walking just 25% faster—not from pressure, but from purpose.
 Your energy may arrive before your motivation does.
✨ What small physical habit helps you shift your mindset when you need it most?

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