C17 Lab

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Clay

Certified Enterprise Partner

Smartlead

Instantly.ai

Square

Head | Channel & Product Partnerships

SIXT

Director

Booking.com

Head | Portfolio Acquisition

CEO at Morning Leads | We make it unreasonable for prospects to ignore you • Top Certified Clay & Smartlead Agency •

To make an ungodly amount of money, you’ve got to grow your business. 

You can only grow your business in two ways.

1. Get more customers

2. Make them worth more

To get more customers, you need to get more leads.

Getting leads is simpler and easier than you think.

1. Make really good stuff ➜ Your offer

2. Give it away for free ➜ Your lead magnet

In short, you want to increase someone’s conviction that they will receive value in the future if they respond to the message you send.

All things being equal, when you double your leads, you double your business.

C17 Lab’s whole mission is to get prospects to show interest in what you sell and double your business.

Enzo Carasso 🧲

My accountant hates when I do this, but I let certain clients run campaigns a little bit longer so they can see the ROI before clearing invoices.


Why? When you know your system works, you can afford to prove it first.

Outbound is the hardest acquisition channel - and that's precisely why it's valuable. When done right, it gives you the ability to turn your top of funnel on and off at will.

Here's the reality: prospects exist on a spectrum of awareness and trust.

𝟏 = Most Informed | 𝟓 = Least Informed

𝟏. Brand/Content: They know you. They booked a call knowing what you sell and what problem you solve.
𝟐. Warm Intro: Someone vouched for you. They booked a call because they trust the referral.
𝟑. Warm Outreach: You know them, they know you. Familiarity exists.
𝟒. Paid Media - They discovered you through enough ads exposure. They booked a call because of your offer/lead magnet caught their attention.
𝟓. Cold Outbound - They've never heard of you before receiving your 75-word message in their inbox. They booked a call because of the offer you made.

Cold outbound sits at #5. The furthest point from a sale. The longest cycle. The most friction.

But in their first 57 days, we booked 84 meetings and our client closed 2 deals. 82%+ qualification rate. 77.38% show rate. 4.5 leads per day.

The difference? An offer designed specifically for cold audiences.

Most companies try to sell the same way to cold prospects as they do to warm. It doesn't work like that.

When you design for uninformed buyers with outbound in mind, you accept that sales cycles will be longer. Prospects need more proof, more hand-holding, more work.

But if that's the price for controllable pipeline? It's worth it every time.

Founder @ C17 Lab | We Engineer Unstoppable Pipelines | c17.ai

B2B Catalyst

7 years of B2B consulting experience lead to B2B Catalyst. We build revenue engines that work.

CEO/Founder

SB Builders, LLC

Changed invoicing process to dramatically reduce AR and contributed in doubling revenue, passing 80k in monthly revenue

Implemented time tracking, invoicing, project management, basic CRM, contract creation, esigning system.

Developed SOP for all of the above & trained team in SOP.

Weekly checkins on project progress and invoices

Marketing and Operations

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-Analyzed current sales strategy, proposed changes, and implemented
-Developed and implemented channel strategies
-Managed and trained sales development team
-Developed hiring and training process
-Hired 5+ New SDRs
-Refined sales process
-Reimplemented CRM
-Managed CRM, users, and ensured CRM data quality
-Developed initiative tracking methodology to track result of sales and marketing initiatives
-Tracked sales and marketing KPIs & developed tracking tools for team use
-Set sales development team goals
-Refined team management process

Sales Strategist

Sales Development Representative

This Side Up Global

I helped develop and improve core operating processes and procedures in This Side Up Global using Scrum, JIRA, Confluence, Lastpass, and other industry standard processes and software.

I led and/or documented meetings in the company, including Sprint Planning & Review meetings, Process Retrospectives, Daily Stand-up's, and Client Meetings. I partnered with the CEO and other team members to improve operations, processes, and other business elements.

I administrated company SaaS products, adding, removing, and editing users, accounts, and other entries. I researched new software products, tested them, and if beneficial implemented them in the company. I explored existing software and found ways to use them more efficiently.

I developed, refined, and recorded company processes and procedures. I researched cutting edge business processes and concepts and worked with the CEO to implement them in the company.

I received training in content marketing, email marketing, and exposure to Facebook Ads, Google Ads, SEO, Social Marketing, and other kinds of digital marketing.

I initiated a content marketing campaign on a Facebook group, the first article of which got 25 likes, 11 comments, 1 share, and over 100 people added to a pixel.

Process Specialist

Founder | B2B GTM | Scale without headcount by mapping your playbooks into an AI revenue engine

Be honest - how many Linkedin posts have you seen this year saying that XYZ tech/playbook/widget is absolutely essential to your GTM this year?

Probably a lot

We now have thousands of sales and marketing technologies on the market

And all of them are pitching their solution as best in class

With playbooks, agencies, influencers to sell them

And yes, we have preferred tech vendors

Here's the difference

We don't throw you in canned playbook, we actually look at your Go to Market model before making recommendations

Let me tell you a funny story

I talked with an SDR team that was booking 80 meetings a month with parallel dialers and 10k emails per SDR per month

But 60% of their meetings got disqualified

Why?

They didn't qualify target accounts before doing outreach

Tech and playbooks don't save you deploy the wrong one at the wrong time

So what do we do different?

When you work with us, we start with an assessment

We look at your funnel metrics, your best customers, your messaging/copy, and get input from your team on detailed attributes that make up a great customer

That you CAN'T find in an off the shelf tool

After that we use our knowledge of best practices and tooling to identify the biggest opportunities to unlock more revenue per headcount in your team

This could look like

> Customer analysis
> Serviceable Addressable Market Mapping (because TAM is where you lose deals not win them)
> Target Account Lists
> Automated Contact Prospecting & Enrichment
> Pipeline Validation (we build out a script, test it to book meetings for you, help you take the meetings through completed discovery with next steps, then give you a completed call framework, email sequence, and discovery framework)
> Outbound Sales Team Coaching (Phone first)
> Sales Process Optimization
> Managed Cold Emails & Cold Calling
> Inbound Lead Flow Optimization
> AI Business Case Building (which we used to open a $300k+ opp at UPS)
> Implementation of Nooks, Clay, Evergrowth, and other sales tooling

Yes, we do that under one roof

Yes, it was very hard to find a team good enough to do all of this in one place

If you want to learn more, book a time here: https://calendly.com/b2bcatalyst/your-gtm-system-audit-linkedin
> Cold Email Infrastructure

Scott Martinis

So 6sense released a surprisingly great article embracing the move from intent to signals - but they missed one critical category of signal with serious consequences

Ironically, this effectively admits that their intent data didn’t actually show purchase intent... 

Buuut I won’t knock them for telling the truth even if it's late

Why this missing category matters:

Missing it...

Kills marketing / sales alignment

Makes actual intent modeling extremely hard to scale

Removes the most reliable and scalable form of signals

And is ultimately the reason why I think intent platforms failed in the first place

6sense talks about 2 paths to get signals

“Created/Received Signals come from your own digital properties and systems. Web traffic, product usage, email engagement, CRM data, and more.”

I call these first party signals because you own the data

“Acquired Signals come from outside providers. They give you visibility into activity you wouldn’t otherwise see: content syndication, review sites, publisher networks, etc.”

I call these second party signals because you can’t independently verify the data

The most important category?

Third party signals

Public signals you acquire through structured research

Job posts, news articles, new hires, social content engagement

This category is mostly driven by growth/demand teams reinventing ABM with Clay workflows

5 reasons it’s the best category

1. Anyone can verify the signals

Sales reps trust signals they can see with their own eyeballs more

2. It tends to predict behaviour better

Public content engagement shows greater commitment

News articles either force or show company action

Job posts and hiring demonstrate a willingness to spend money on a problem

3. You can personalize off public signals without being creepy

In fact, you look thoughtful when you do

4. Lack of data isn’t a problem, it’s a signal

No hire = smaller problem

5. It’s already an account-based sales best practice

Adem Manderovic was researching job posts in 2010 to identify in market companies

Christopher Curtis was helping SDR teams overattain when the rest of their company missed… 2-3 years ago

Jacob Karp uses third party signals to build account POVs that guide all of his outbound

Put simply - 3rd party signals make sales and marketing ABM alignment possible by aligning the team around visible signals you can easily act on

If I were 6sense (or Clay) I would find a way to structure 3rd party signal data to combine with 1st and 2nd party data for profile/readiness/interest signals (another great section of the article)

Build modeling against won/loss data

While also figuring out how to surface the data in a way sellers can action in prospecting and discovery calls

Get that right… you finally live up to the promise of being a GTM crystal ball

Founder | GTM Architect | We build revenue engines that work

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