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Joe Wheatley

After 2.5 years, I've closed the agency down.

In August 2023 I was completely new to business. Came from the defence industry. Didn't know what SaaS was, didn't even know the difference between marketing and sales.

Knew how to make websites and write, so started freelancing - blog posts and websites for marketing agencies.

Then started landing my own clients. Re-invested everything back into the business - courses, paid ads, tools.

A few courses said "pick a niche", so after some research and zero prior experience, niched down to SaaS.

Started posting about SaaS design on LinkedIn (around November 2024). One month later, landed my first major SaaS gig. Built a website for Summize.

A few more websites, then pivoted to content for SaaS companies. Started a podcast around this time. 

FYI, podcasts are one of the biggest growth hacks - you learn from people you wouldn't otherwise get in a room, they get free marketing.

Summer 2025, flew to San Francisco and filmed videos for a few names you'd recognize.

Came back, jumped on some disco calls. The demand was for outbound not content. Followed the demand. Learned outbound, picked up some new clients. Someone even offered equity for Demand House.

As of today: 30+ B2B companies, multi 10k+ projects, 27 five-star reviews. Not every project was a success - but when we failed, we reflected and learned from our mistakes.

At the beginning of Feb 2026, started thinking longer term. Two things kept coming to mind:

1. GTM agencies are fighting over lower market and small budgets - a race to the bottom with automation and AI.

2. The market rewards those with a top 1% skill, not a jack of all trades.

That pointed to one thing: build a career in tech sales, selling to mid-market and enterprise. Big budgets, opportunity, high-touch, human-led. Skill still matters.

Started applying for roles. Found Vertice - 13x growth in 2 years (one of the fastest growing tech companies in Europe).

Went to their office for the final interview and the floorplate was pure hustle energy. Perfect

Starting on monday as a BDR. Team look great. Very excited. All-in.

Reflections:

99% of this 2.5 year journey was raw action in the face of intense confusion & ambiguity

But push through and on the other side is clarity. Then you must repeat.

That's growth.

Everyone has been through this process, but most stop. The process defeats them. You see it all over their faces. This is what you must avoid.

Instead, you must learn to love the journey. The good, the bad. Every single part of it. Amor Fati

Like Yin and Yang, there is no light without dark.

Everything is connected.

So if you take away one thing away from this post it’s this:

- The journey is the point.
- There is no finish line.
- NEVER stop chasing growth.

GTM @ Vertice | Intelligent Procurement Platform | #1 fastest growing scale-up in UK (Sifted) | #2 in Sunday Times 100 Tech

Master these 5 areas of deliverability so you avoid the spam folder and book more qualified meetings

1️⃣ Infrastructure & Settings
→ Purchase domains with reputable providers like Porkbun
→ Use .com domains
→ Age domains for 30 days before sending
→ Buy backup domains for rotation
→ Use 2 inboxes per domain
→ For inboxes, use trusted re-sellers like Zapmail.ai
→ Diversity your sending infra (mix of Google, Outlook and 3rd party)
→ Ensure proper authentication and DNS (SPF, DKIM, DMARC, URL re-directs)
→ Warm-up inboxes (start at 5 per day, increase by 1 per day up to 15-20)
→ Set warm-up reply rate to 70%
→ When warm-up is complete, send maximum of 25 emails per day per inbox
→ Ensure warm-up stays on at 10-15, 70% reply rate
→ When starting cold email campaigns, begin with 5 emails per day in week 1
→ Then gradually increase to 25 emails per day by the end of week 2
→ Match ESPs for better deliverability (outlook to outlook, Google to Google)
→ Keep bounce rates < 2% and spam complaints < 0.1%
→ Check domains aren't blacklisted using MXtoolbox

2️⃣ Lead Lists
→ Ensure company is within your TAM or ICP
→ Ensure contact is a buyer persona
→ Use enrichment waterfalls like BetterContact to maximize both quality and quantity of contact data
→ Ensure proper enrichment, scoring, tiering, filtering and lead routing using Freckle.io or Clay

3️⃣ Offer
→ Must be compelling
→ And relevant

4️⃣ Sequence
→ Good sequence length e.g. for Tier 3 email-only outreach, max 3 emails
→ Optimize time between steps (depends on ICP and tier)

5️⃣ Copy
→ Write in plain-text (no links, no HTML)
→ Add unsubscribe option
→ Remove any spam trigger words (use spam checkers like Mail Meteor)
→ Use Spintax, messaging frameworks and AI-generated copy
→ Ask questions and personalize
→ A/B test
→ Follow copywriting best practices

Anything to add? Drop below

ISR @ Warmly | Entry-level BDR coach | Sales Advisor | Automation Preacher | Deliverability Guru | Demo to Close Graduate

I didn’t grow up with money, connections, or English as my first language.

What I did have was an early obsession with sales, personal growth, and building real-world skills that actually move revenue.

I started in network marketing at 18, spent years learning from top entrepreneurs and operators across Europe, and built one of the largest young marketer networks in the region. That phase taught me something school never did:
sales, communication, and systems beat pedigree every time.

After a short reset, I went back to fundamentals:

insurance sales
lead generation
cold calling
BDR / SDR roles

From there, I scaled across almost every revenue role you can name:
BDR, SDR, AE, Inbound Rep, Sales Coach, Team Lead, VP of Sales.

Over the last 6+ years, I went from a non-native English speaker to leading teams, closing deals, and designing GTM motions that actually work in the real world.

Today, I manage Partnerships at Warmly, where I focus on one thing:
turning ecosystems, partners, and signals into measurable pipeline and revenue.

What I share here:
• Partnership-led & ecosystem GTM systems
• How to turn LinkedIn, partners, and signals into pipeline
• Practical sales lessons from the trenches (not theory)
• What actually scales when you don’t have unlimited budget or headcount

If you’re a:

founder
GTM leader
agency owner
partnership or sales operator

…trying to build repeatable growth without fluff — you’ll feel at home here.

👉 Feel free to DM me if you want to talk partnerships, GTM systems, or building pipeline the smart way.

Boris Murdjev

11,000 people follow me here.

That’s wild.

Most of you followed me for partnerships, ecosystem growth, or GTM stories.

So here’s a proper re-introduction, and what I actually do.

Over the last year at Warmly, I’ve been obsessed with one question:
Can partnerships drive 20%+ of company revenue, predictably?

Not “nice to have.”
Not “logo swapping.”
Not “let’s host a webinar.”

Real revenue.

Here’s what that looks like in practice:

• 200+ partners onboarded 
• $1.4M in partner-sourced pipeline
• $750K+ in closed revenue
• A full migration of our tracking infrastructure
• A shift from hustle to systems

But the most important shift wasn’t operational.

It was philosophical.

Partnerships are not about volume.
They’re about leverage.

The next phase is different.
Less manual management.
More automation.
Fewer but deeper strategic relationships.
And building a machine where I don’t need to personally manage 200 people to generate revenue.

If you’re building a partner motion, or thinking about it, I’ll be sharing more tactical lessons here:

– What actually works
– What’s overrated
– What breaks at scale
– How to build partner programs that generate revenue

And if you’ve been following quietly,  thank you. 🙏

Partnerships @ Warmly • Built $1M+ Partner Sourced Pipeline • Sharing Ecosystem Led GTM Workflows

I've met many of you at events, so here's my next stop:
SaaStanak (May, Croatia)

who else is going?

ps. any other events in Europe you recommend?

#saas #events #ai #europe

We just dropped something special with our friends at LeadIQ 👇

The Warmly + LeadIQ bundle combines two of the best tools in the game:

🔥 Warmly's Inbound Agent identifies visitors at the person level (not just the company), BEFORE they fill out a form. 
It then engages them with AI chat that knows their CRM history and pages viewed, and books meetings directly on your reps' calendars.

📋 LeadIQ enriches those high-intent accounts with validated work emails and mobile phone numbers, on autopilot.

So instead of watching hot leads bounce off your website, you're catching them while they're in the moment and arming your team with everything they need to follow up fast.

This is the low-hanging fruit play that B2B revenue teams have been sleeping on.

If you want to see the full offer → link below my profile (or drop a comment and I'll send it your way) 👇

ps. go ask AI about us and share results 


#gtm #outbound #inbound #growth #sales #ai

how many celebrations did you have this week?
😂

🔥 hot take: 

HubSpot agencies don't have a pipeline problem.
They have a signal problem.

Their clients are generating intent every day. Visitors landing on pricing pages. Decision-makers browsing at 11pm.
And none of that is making it back to the rep in time.

Warmly fixes that.

If you're a HubSpot partner and you want to turn your clients' website traffic into booked meetings - let's talk.


#hubspot #inbound #GTM #partnerships #agencies

Something I didn't expect when I started in partnerships:

The best pipeline doesn't come from cold outreach.
It comes from a partner's AE who trusts you enough to CC you on an email.

You can't automate that. You can't shortcut it.
You build it by showing up, adding value, and making it easy for partners to win with you.

That's it. 
That's the whole playbook.

Happy to connect with anyone building in the HubSpot ecosystem, whether you're an agency, an ISV, or just figuring out ELG for the first time.

DM is always open. 👋


#partnerships #hubspot #ELG #GTM #community

Most outbound fails before it even starts.

Not because the list was bad. Because the contact data was. 📉

Wrong mobile. Bounced email. Ghost LinkedIn.

You did the hard work, signals, site visitors, job changes, and still came up empty.

That's the gap Warmly + LeadIQ closes.

Warmly identifies your warmest prospects the moment they raise their hand.
LeadIQ verifies exactly how to reach them, mobile, email, LinkedIn, before you ever hit send.

The right lead. The right data. The right time.

See it in action 👉 https://bit.ly/3MFYFzT

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