Devin Reed

Yo! I help SaaS marketers and Founders grow their audience, brand, and pipeline with strategic content. 

My portfolio
→ 2x Head of Content at billion-dollar startups (Gong, Clari)
→ Scaled Gong’s brand and content from $20M → $200M ARR 
→ Advised some the fastest-growing startups, including Notion, Wiz, AudiencePlus, and many more.

I also share everything I've learned through via my newsletter, cohort training, and videos series:

✅ The Reeder Newsletter: www.thereeder.co/newsletter

🍿 Reed Between The Lines show: youtube.com/@TheReederCo
(also available on Spotify and Apple)


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Founder, Writer, Advisor

I create content strategies for fast-growing startups and solo creators who want to grow their audience, brand, pipeline, revenue, and income. 

-Content strategy
-LinkedIn strategy 
-Content marketing
-Outbound sales messaging
-Keynotes for industry and internal events 

✅  Website: thereeder.co
✔️ Email: devin@thereeder.co

B2B marketing is going through a brutal shift. Here's what 2026 is looking like after talking to 17 marketing leaders this year

1. "AI-first" strategy is big a** red flag
 Companies optimizing for efficiency over effectiveness will wonder why their content gets zero engagement. Turns out, when everyone uses the same AI tools, everyone sounds the same. Boring doesn't compound.

2. Paid ads are costing more and converting less and less 
This is what happens when there are no more "in-market" people left to target. So companies keep increasing ad spend, hammering the wrong message to the wrong 95%. The winners? They're investing in owned audiences.

3. LinkedIn thought leadership ads are exploding
Organic reach is cheap on LinkedIn. Thought leadership ads let you boost what's already working to the exact accounts you want. It's possibly the best underrated distribution play available.

4. Taste is the new differentiator 
When anyone can create content, who can create *different* content wins. That means hiring someone who understands strategy AND knows what makes people stop scrolling. You can't hire a VA to "do social" and expect massive growth.

5. The 95-5 split is undeniable 
CMOs are realizing that most of their budget targets the 5% actively buying. Meanwhile the 95% who aren't in-market yet are mostly ignored. They're flipping their spend and focus to earn mindshare now, knowing it'll turn into pipeline later. 

Here's the pattern: you can't buy attention anymore. You have to earn it.

The teams betting on relationships, owned audiences, and human creativity will lap everyone else.

What did I miss? What trends are you seeing?

I help B2B marketers and execs build durable content systems | Founder @ The Reeder | 12K+ newsletter readers

LinkedIn has changed a TON. Everyone's reach is down. Here's what good looks like based on an analysis of 50,000 posts in January.

Context:
I help execs launch their LinkedIn strategy and posts. 

So I study proven formats and aim for outliers every day. 

Execs usually have 5k-10k connections. So when we break 5,000 impressions, that's a win. 

When we break 10,000? That's MASSIVE.

Worth knowing how you stack up before you quit.

Check out the data 🔽

Here's what jumps out to me:

If you have 5k-10k followers and you're consistently hitting 1,000-2,000 impressions? You're in the top 25%. That's strong.

Breaking 5,000? You're in the top 10%. That's elite.

The hardest part about LinkedIn is that no one tells you if you're winning. 

The algorithm has gotten tighter, but the bar is lower than you think.

Don't quit because you're comparing yourself to influencers with 100k+ followers.

Compare yourself to your tier. Then try to move up one level.

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Source: The Shield AI Index

PS: I share tips for improving your content every Saturday in my newsletter: https://lnkd.in/eBfWYaAC

Harvest Chocolate

Harvest Chocolate, is a bean-to-bar chocolate company that handcrafts seasonal chocolate bars and Snacking Chocolate for everyday moments. We use simple, organic ingredients, source fresh cacao seasonally, using local fruits from the season to add unique flavors to our chocolate.  

We make chocolate that anyone could enjoy, regardless of allergies or dietary restrictions and support farmers locally and abroad by using only the season's best harvest—from cacao beans to local fruits.

Co-Founder and Head Dishwasher

Pros & Content Community

Community Manager

Knotch

Leading the social strategy as part of the growth team at Knotch, an early-growth customer journey intelligence software. Including strategic planning for the go-to-market, account-based marketing, paid media, email marketing, and sales development.

Growth Marketing - Social and Community

Verint

As a Customer Experience Manager with Verint, it is my responsibility to help our clients research, develop, and execute a customer experience program that will result in customer satisfaction and loyalty, insights that can be shared organization-wide, and omni channel experience strategy and measurement.

Verint as a whole has more than two decades of experience helping more than 10,000 organizations worldwide create lasting value. A global leader in customer engagement, Verint helps businesses evolve and modernize the entire customer engagement operation while protecting legacy investments.

We are built on five core values that shape the way we do business with our customers, partners, and each other: 

⇢ INTEGRITY to do what’s right
⇢ INNOVATION to create leading solutions for real-world challenges
⇢ TRANSPARENCY that fuels mutual trust and productive, collaborative working relationships
⇢ HUMILITY to view our successes as milestones in our journey and our mistakes as opportunities for improvement
⇢ PASSION for making our customers and partners successful.

Associate Account Executive

ForeSee

As a Business Development Representative, I developed and executed an account-based marketing strategy to increase sales efficiency and accelerate new business acquisition for an integrated CX intelligence platform, which helped companies prioritize CX decisions and profit from customer feedback.

⇢ Produced an accurate and high-quality sales pipeline by researching prospective customer accounts using insight tools, creating customized outreach strategies, prospecting calls through multiple channels, and conducting exploratory calls with inbound leads, leading to $3M in pipeline growth to-date.

⇢ Partnered with the marketing team to understand the campaigns and activities with the highest response rate for validation of marketing optimization efforts.

Business Development

First Federal Bank of the Midwest

Financial Sales Manager

As a Relationship Banker, I worked with individual and small business clients to complete an assessment of financial needs and consultatively sell a full range of products such as deposit accounts, loans, and credit cards to support the overall banking center sales objectives.

⇢ Secured at least $45k of new loans each month (vs. target of $25k/month), 10 customer referrals to partners (commercial loans, insurance, merchant services and wealth management), and cross-sold  50 new products per month to existing customers.

Relationship Banker

As an Account Representative, I served as a trusted advisor to small business and personal banking clients by understanding their needs and promoting the appropriate products and services. I also identified cross-selling opportunities, surpassing a personal sales goal of referring 20 new customers per month.

Account Representative

Self-Employed

As a restaurant operations consultant, I provided an operational evaluation of an emerging restaurant and streamlined the restaurant’s ordering process, reduced food cost by negotiating with suppliers, and worked with their team to create premier events to attract top-spending clients.

Freelance Restaurant Consultant

SCM Hospitality

As a Corporate Sous Chef, I provided culinary leadership, support and expertise at celebrity chef Scott Conant’s six restaurants and corporate partnerships across North America by creating dishes featured in publications under the SCM Hospitality brand. I also mentored staff at each of the restaurants on sales techniques, menu design, and marketing strategies.

Corporate Sous Chef

Torc

As a Sous Chef with Torc, I oversaw the kitchen staff while developing and maintaining relationships with vendors to acquire high-quality products. I also served as the opening management team and contributed to the restaurant’s first-year sales goal of $2MM through enforcing quality control measures, maintaining relationships with top-spending clients, and implementing daily menu changes.

Sous Chef

Quince Restaurant

As a Sous Chef with Quince Restaurant, I managed 20 kitchen staff employees in daily production, ordering, cost control and quality assurance at a 2 Michelin Star restaurant featuring California contemporary cuisine.

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