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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

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𝐇𝐢, 𝐈’𝐦 𝐍𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐝 👋

𝐈 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩 𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐥𝐞 𝐄𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐍𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚 (𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐀) 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐈𝐓 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧-𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐛𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬.

𝐀𝐬 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐟 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐭 𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭, I focus on guaranteed B2B meetings that deliver measurable results.

Over the years, I’ve worked with companies across a wide spectrum of IT and tech services, including:
💻 𝐄𝐑𝐏 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬: SAP, Oracle, Odoo, Zoho, TallyPrime
📊 𝐂𝐑𝐌 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐬: Salesforce, Zoho CRM, Microsoft Dynamics
☁️ 𝐂𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐝 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐬: AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud
🔗 𝐈𝐓 𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 & 𝐍𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠: Servers, Storage, Cisco, Aruba, Fortinet
🔒 𝐂𝐲𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 & 𝐁𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐮𝐩: Firewalls, Endpoint Security, SOC, Disaster Recovery
🛠️ 𝐈𝐓 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 & 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠: Helpdesk, Data Center, Business Continuity
📡 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞 & 𝐀𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐥: Laptops, Printers, CCTV, Biometric Systems
🌍 𝐕𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 & 𝐕𝐏𝐍 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬

𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒂𝒄𝒉 𝒅𝒊𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒕?
✨ 𝐃𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 – We study your portfolio to target the right decision-makers.
🤝 𝐐𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐦𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 – 8–10 verified meetings per month with IT Managers, Heads of IT, or CXOs.
💳 𝐏𝐚𝐲-𝐩𝐞𝐫-𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 – You pay only for meetings that actually happen.
🌐 𝐅𝐥𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 –  Virtual or in-person, across any region or industry.

𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒖𝒍𝒕? 𝑵𝒐 𝒘𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒆𝒇𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒕, 𝒏𝒐 𝒊𝒓𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒗𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒔—𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆.

Being authentically me, I focus on 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐬-𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐞𝐬, 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐞𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 clients. What energizes me most is turning complex tech offerings into meaningful business growth opportunities for our partners.

📧 𝐧𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐝@𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭.𝐚𝐞
🌐 𝐰𝐰𝐰.𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭-𝐥𝐥𝐜.𝐜𝐨𝐦

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