Chris Cicconi

Paying it Forward 👉 One Day at a Time

Salesperson 💸 --> Coach ✍️ --> Leader 🙋‍♂️
Sometimes a content creator 🎥 - always a goofball 【ツ】

I love building things, but not physical things.

I have a passion for building teams, networks, processes, procedures and revenue but most importantly people. 

This had led me to helping founders pivot from founder led sales to a sustainable and scalable sales engine.

Hit me up if you want to talk sales, fractional leadership, 👟or ☕️.
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I was once given an opportunity that has allowed me to build my wonderful career.
I want to make sure others have the same chance.
#payitforward

Content Creator

Host of "The War Room: The Kards Pre-Game Show" by 983 Media (a game by 1939 games)
Host for all Kards Official eSports events, including the World Championship Series
Host of "The Frontline" The Official Kards Podcast by 983 Media
Gwent Qualifier Caster and Gwent Partner (a game by CD Projekt RED)

Chris 🦄 Cicconi

I've lost 40 lbs eating ice cream 5 days a week.

A sub 250 calorie pint of ice cream (and 20+ grams of protein)

Because the Ninja Creami is funking magic.

(No, not sponsored, but not opposed to it SharkNinja 👀)

This is my go to recipe for a macro friendly Oreo McFlurry rip off. 
Shout to FitnessProductFinder on Instagram for the base recipe. 

400ml of 0% Fairlife Milk (or any other ultra filtered high protein milk)
45g of Monkfruit sweetner
15g of Vanilla Extract
1g of salt
1g of xantham gum 

3 Oreo Thins - these are your mix ins, save them for later 
(some people scrape the cream out to save like 8 calories or something but that's way too much work)

Freeze it for 18-24 hours.  

When you're ready to eat it, leave it on the counter for 30 minutes. Then run the sides and bottom under hot water for 30 seconds. 

This makes it softer, more like a Blizzard or McFlurry, if you like something harder, don't leave it out that long.

Spin it on light ice cream. Scrape down the sides with a knife when it's done, throw your 3 Oreo thins in and run it on the mix in setting and you're golden.

242 calories. 22g of protein. 5g of fat. 30g of carbs.

If you dig this and want my Rocky Road or Reese's Peanut Butter Ice Cream recipe drop a comment for which one you want to see next!

Building Sales @ KnowledgeNow | Still Fixing GTM. Still Roasting Bad Takes.

Fiverr Pro isn’t cheap, but it’s expensive to get it wrong.

When we launched ARC Roasters, we were running on a non-existent budget.

So we tried saving money on branding and web.

What did we actually buy with the nickels and dimes we found in our couch cushions? 
Revisions.
Broken builds.
Lost momentum.

When your company’s brand is on the line, mistakes don’t just cost money.

They cost credibility.

And for a small business, credibility is your strongest currency. 

Here’s what I’ve learned:
The most expensive hire isn’t the expensive one.
It’s the wrong one.
That’s why Fiverr Pro makes sense for high-stakes business projects.

Vetted professionals.
Proven expertise.
Even managed support when the project demands it.

If the outcome matters, hire like it does.

Brand partnership • Building Sales @ KnowledgeNow | Still Fixing GTM. Still Roasting Bad Takes.

Most AI tools are great at sounding smart.

They'll draft a beautiful email.

To the wrong person.
At the wrong company.
At the wrong time.

Because the AI doesn't actually know what's actually happening in your accounts. 

It's working off whatever you tell it, not unified buyer intelligence, not identity-resolved signals, not complete account context across your CRM, product, and engagement data

You have a choice, spend an hour researching your account, feed that information into AI, saving you no time OR check out Common Room's new Claude integration.

With Common Room connected to Claude, it’s no longer guessing from a prompt.

It’s reasoning over unified, continuously updated buyer intelligence.

Based on which accounts are heating up. Who just engaged. What signals matter.

Not vibes. Not guesses. Not a LinkedIn stalk that took 45 minutes.

For a solo seller like me with no RevOps team and no massive marketing budget behind me?

This is the closest thing I've found to having a full team in my corner.

Claude becomes the interface. 
Common Room powers the intelligence behind it.

69,613 people saw my Oreo cake recipe.

That's about 69,000 more than my professional posts.

Nice.

I've been quietly going through a pretty big health journey over the last year,  losing weight, running, training for Hyrox and making lots and lots of ice cream along the way.

I started posting about it on weekends on a whim.

But 3 posts. 100k impressions. 50+ new followers. Lots of DMs.

Apparently Oreo and running hit different than cold outreach tips. 

So I have a question for the people who just followed me:
What do you actually want to see?

More health/fitness content? Recipes, training updates, the whole journey?
Or was this just a fun detour and you just want me to go back to mocking Grant Cardone and Andy Elliott? 

Please drop a comment! I'm genuinely curious.
(seriously, asking you to drop a comment isn't actually me trying to hack my engagement...this time 🙃)

I finally got a treadmill this winter.

I was convinced I’d hate it.

Turns out, it wasn’t so bad.

While I don’t miss how soggy my feet currently are, I am happy that it’s 6 degrees and I can get back outside.

And it was also an excellent reminder that I do, in fact, hate the treadmill.

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How to make a million dollars.

The easy way.

Ask Dad. 

But seriously, she goes on to explain how she plans on making a million dollars before she turns 20, but when the plan starts with:

"I work for my Dad's company" you start to lose a bit of credibility. 

It's just another reminder that generic advice on social media is almost always 🐴  💩 

Because unless you have a rich pops who can give you a job, this probably isn't relevant to you.

Or maybe I'm just jealous 🤷

I’ve seen some wacky 💩 in sponsored content contracts lately.

Not sure if it’s because the LinkedIn influencer space is still maturing…

Or because some companies are testing how much they can get away with.

I try to live by: “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”

But these two from the past week made me pause.

1️⃣ “We own the content you produce for us.”

Hard no.
If the content lives on my account, it’s mine.
You’re paying for distribution and audience access.
Want usage rights?
Great. Let’s price a license.
But ownership of something published on my platform? Not happening.

2️⃣ “We’ll pay you after all 3 posts go live.”

Why is the creator financing the campaign?

I’ve seen too many brands:
Delay payment
Renegotiate after performance
Or decide a post “didn’t go viral enough”
Meanwhile the creator has already delivered the asset and the reach.

Ideally: paid upfront.
At minimum: paid per post.
Anything else shifts all the risk to one side.

If you’re a creator navigating a contract, I’m happy to take a look.

And if you’re a brand… structure deals like a partnership, not a gamble.

Any experience creators see other wild clauses in creator contracts?

Is LinkedIn using AI too much to enforce their policy?

Or are they thinking about my mental health?

Because the a-🕳️ I was referring to in the comment that they took down?

Me. Full self deprecating. 

Apparently they decided I'm not allowed to harass myself! 

...not sure why they think they can kink shame me like that.

What's with all the pizza party hate?! 🍕 

Pizza is great.

Sure, as a reward from corporate it kind of blows, but why would we take the pizza away?

This should be an AND situation, not an OR situation.

Give me pizza AND a bonus.

#bringbackthepizzaparty

PS: Pizza from one of the best spots in Montreal and no, not just because I'm related to the owners 😅  Forno Pizza Frankie's

I used to brag about size.

Pipeline size that is, get your mind out of the gutter.

Felt like a large pipeline was a guarantee that I'd hit my number.

Until I realized, pipeline is made up.

All the "happy ears" in the world won't help you hit quota when you're avoiding what really needs to be done.

Qualification. 

That means asking the tough questions.
That means disqualifying prospects. 
That means your boss might ask you "what's wrong with your pipeline>!"

So we avoid it.
And we pad the list, instead of dealing with our poopy pipeline.

Jon Foreman ⚡️

Dash Social

Working with Revenue Leadership to build an Enablement function that will accelerate scaling Dash Social’s growth and bring the best in Social Analytics to businesses around the world.

Manager, Sales Enablement

Workleap

•Spearheaded the development of a scalable revenue enablement program setting the foundation for long-term growth; achieved $100M+ annually from SaaS subscriptions.
•Reduced the time for new hires to develop success by 15% through the implementation of structured onboarding and training programs.
•Implemented the MEDDPICC methodology in the development of sales processes, improving deal qualification accuracy and increasing close rates by 10%.
•Partnered with Product and Marketing teams to drive go-to-market strategies for new products, generating $10M+ in annual sales through optimized sales enablement.

Revenue Enablement Manager

Bell

•Optimized sales processes for 40+ retail locations, boosting revenue by 5% through leadership coaching and customer engagement strategies.
•Generated $1M+ in annual recurring revenue by coaching 40+ sales teams (approx. 300 sales reps) on story-driven sales techniques, increasing customer engagement and conversion.
•Exceeded sales targets of 110%+ through data-driven customer segmentation and personalized sales strategies.
•Elevated cross-sales to Residential Services from 5% to 15% in three months by implementing trust-based selling techniques for sales teams.
•Trained Sales Managers on internal coaching frameworks, seller certification processes, and data-driven decision-making, streamlining sales approaches and improving performance.

Regional Team Lead - Small Business and Residential Services Sales (Sales Enablement Manager)

•Provided oversight for an annual $3M staffing/inventory budget.
•Yielded over 250 monthly client acquisitions covering three core lines of business and 100+ total KPIs, by training and coaching a new sales team.
•Grew sales beyond 115% of target, by developing sales and customer experience strategies that focused on customer outreach, pipeline generation, and referral business.
•Consistently bested 10% target threshold for up-sell to additional lines of business to existing customers, by training the sales team on a value-focused and customer-centric sales process.
•Promoted to Store Manager, overseeing top volume stores for Bell Mobility and Virgin Mobile brands.

Retail Store Manager - Bell Mobility Corporate Stores

•Built $20K in recurring sales for the SMB pipeline.
•Exceeded sales target by 110 - 115%.
•Surpassed standards for cross product sales (25%+) and multi-line sales (10%+) consistently.
•Represented team at SMB sales training events, subsequently training the team in newly learned best practices.
•Promoted to 2nd in charge, adding the responsibility of managing and coaching the sales team, while still meeting or exceeding sales quotas.

Sales Consultant - Consumer, Small Business and Residential Services Sales

Fort William Historical Park

•Managed a program which welcomed 200 - 300 visitors per day.
•Hired, onboarded, trained and performance managed a staff of 30.
•Managed an annual staffing budget in excess of $100K.
•Developed guidelines and wrote training materials for all program staff.
•Planned and executed large-scale special events that brought in up to 3000 visitors.

Program Specialist - Historical Program

Supported the tourism and education programs at a provincial tourism and education leader.  Provided bespoke tour and banquet experiences to international tourists, domestic and foreign dignitaries, and VIPs.

Historical Interpreter/Tour Guide - Historical Program

Generator Advertising

Designed, developed, and maintained high-quality, visually attractive presentations as well as administered multiple, ongoing advertising and marketing projects as per clients’ requirements by partnering with a team of highly skilled design leads.

Graphic Designer and Web Developer 

Disrupting L&D bite by bite.

As Revenue Enablement Manager at Workleap, I am founding the enablement function for 7 product lines, supporting Business Development, Account Executive, Account Management, Channel Sales, and Sales Leadership teams. I develop modern sales skills, enhance all GTM launches, and create adaptive sales training and onboarding plans to ensure sales teams ramp and grow effectively.

With over 10 years of experience in sales and leadership roles, I have a passion for coaching, enabling, and empowering others to do their best work. I have led multiple sales teams, run university seminars, and supported more than 40 teams as a Senior Leader and Enablement Leader. I have also earned Agile and Google Project Management certificates to enhance my skills and knowledge in managing complex and dynamic projects. I believe in focusing on the locus of control and helping people unblock themselves and reach their potential.

Sales Enablement Manager

Building out the enablement function at GSoft.  Supporting Business Development, Account Executive, Account Management, Channel Sales, and Sales Leadership teams across 4 product lines.

I develop modern sales skills, enhance all GTM launches within the sales organization, and develop adaptive sales training and on-boarding plans to ensure sales teams ramp and grow effectively.

Developing an enablement framework that will drive 200% growth in revenue in 5 years. Focused on growing common sales frameworks, up-skilling the whole sales organization, and improving coaching.

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