Leadhaste

LeadHaste is a B2B Lead Generation Agency that specializes at sending hyper-personalized cold emails at scale.

Founder & CEO

Smartlead

Smartlead Certified Partner

Podder

Podder is the podcast growth acceleration platform. We equip show creators to rapidly boost audience reach without extra manual effort by translating listening data into personalized marketing strategies.

Our unfair advantage? Access to rich consumption analytics across every imaginable podcast category. This intelligence fuels an AI Growth Strategist that reverse engineers niche-specific success frameworks for exponential expansion tailored to each show.

Co-Founder & CMO

HYPCCCYCL

HYPCCCYCL is an invite-only, professional community where top B2B revenue leaders cross-train their GTM skills with VCs.

Member

Masters Academy

Startup Masters is a leading digital marketing agency  and online learning platform (Masters Academy) for marketing in Europe. I’m responsible for: 

- Breaking down big marketing projects into smaller tasks. 
- Assigning and reviewing the quality of completed marketing tasks for projects. 
- Ensuring our digital marketing services are delivered on time with uncompromising quality.
- Client acquisition with cold email marketing.

Marketing Project Manager

Startup Masters is a leading digital marketing agency  and online learning platform (Masters Academy) for marketing in Europe. I’m responsible for:

- Creating strategies & building funnels for new digital products.
- Facebook Ads - B2B and B2C
- Landing pages - structure, optimization, and copywriting.
- Email Marketing - B2C. (Automated flows, campaigns with Klaviyo)
- CRO

Digital Marketing Specialist

Stay U-nique

- Ensuring our product is adapted and well spread across various sales channels.
- Measuring, analyzing and optimizing sales across channels
- Constantly integrating new channels
- Solving technical difficulties with our API connections

Sales Channel Specialist

- Creating, analyzing Facebook Ads on monthly basis
- B2B content marketing on weekly basis
- Producing digital & printed content on daily basis
- Website and blog analytics on weekly basics
- Reporting on weekly basis
- Social Media Calendar planning, execution and analysis on daily basis

Digital Marketing Intern

Co-Founder & CEO at LeadHaste - a world-class B2B lead-gen agency that sends you ready-to-buy prospects so your team can spend time on what matters most: closing deals.

Dimitar Petkov📨

The world’s first Clay table that reads your WHOOP recovery and becomes your personal workout coach.

It also checks the weather to decide if you should train indoors or outdoors, and sends everything to your phone.

I made it for Clay World Records because the ideas people are posting are too fun to ignore.

The setup was simple.
- I pulled my WHOOP data.
- I grabbed the day’s weather in my city.
- If the weather at 10am is under 15°C, it plans an indoor workout. Otherwise, it plans an outdoor one.
- I let Clay decide my workout based on recovery, strain, and conditions.
Then I wired it to message me each morning.

Now my WHOOP, the weather, and Clay decide what I should do before I even think about it.

Would you like to see v2 where it also checks my sleep score, last 7 days of data, scans new research on best practices, checks their legitimacy and creates the workout plan for me?

What would you add to make this workflow even smarter?

P.S. The WHOOP app is deleted, so no worries about any API keys shown in the video.

Co-Founder & CEO at LeadHaste | Clay & Smartlead Certified Partner

BLACK FRIDAY FOR OUTBOUND.

3 months of done-for-you cold email.
$0 service fee.

We're giving away 3 months of free cold email outreach from Leadhaste (Smartlead & Clay Certified Partner) to one company.

You only cover software costs in your own accounts.
We handle strategy, scraping, copy, targeting and running the campaigns.

This ties into the session I just did on Smartlead Office Hours.
“From Replies to Revenue: Fixing the Post Reply Gap.”

We talked about how to:
- Turn positive replies into booked calls
- Split responsibilities between agency and in-house sales
- Use reply scripts and pre-call flows to increase show and close rates
- Borrow GTM ideas from top outbound operators

Now I want to put it into practice for someone.

How to get the application link
- Comment “REVENUE” on this post
- Tag a founder or sales leader who should see this

I will reply in your DMs with link to a short form. (We must be connected)

It asks for:
- Name and company
- Your average LTV
- Why you think your offer is a strong fit for cold email

We will pick 1 winner based on last question.
Not on who has the biggest team or LTV.

Deadline to submit is 30 Nov 2025.

I send all form links manually.

If you do not get it within a day or two, feel free to bump me in DMs.

Dimitar Petkov

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Talks about #podcasts, #startups, #coldemail, #marketing, and #podcasting

Clay

Christian Sørensen

So now that Cloudflare is toasted, does that mean mandatory nap time?

Jokes aside, it's crazy how reliable we are on one piece of internet infrastructure, and how everything can crumble like a house of cards.

APIs love to say "200 OK" even when things are not really OK.

Here is the situation:
- You get a positive reply
- You push that lead into Clay
- Clay creates a Company in HubSpot
- Then creates a Contact
- Then creates a Deal

Then tries to associate all of them

On paper, this looks perfect.

In reality, HubSpot needs a bit of time to catch up.

So Clay gets a successful response for "create contact" and immediately triggers the next column.

That next column tries to associate the Deal with the Contact and Company.
But HubSpot has not fully propagated the contact yet, so the contact ID is not available.

Result: the association column errors out even though the previous step "worked."

In the video I walk through a simple way to fix this by adding a delay between column runs in Clay so that:

HubSpot has time to fully create and populate the records

The next columns can reliably find the IDs they need

You stop chasing random, flaky errors in your workflow. Automate a fix.

Curious if you have other uses cases for column delays in Clay?

Going live with Smartlead in 1 hour. 

Big BLACK FRIDAY surprise at the end. 

See you there.

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From Replies to Revenue: Why Replies Aren’t Enough · Zoom · Luma

Replies aren’t revenue.

What happens after the reply is.

Most teams obsess over the opening line.
Almost no one optimizes the first reply.

At LeadHaste we call it the Post-Reply Gap.
It’s the leak between “sounds interesting” and “on the calendar.”

Here’s the simple math I show clients:

100 positives → 20 booked → 16 shows → 3–4 deals.
Drop booking to 10% booked and you get 1–2 deals from the same replies.
At 5% it can be zero.

The fix is not fancy. It’s operational.

Fix 1: Respond fast.
Aim for claim in 5 minutes and first reply in 15 during business hours.

Fix 2: Stop sending calendar-only.
Mirror their question. Add one line of value.
Offer two or three manual times and include your calendar as a fallback.

Fix 3: Follow up twice.
+24h with a small value add.
+48h to pause or pick a time.

Fix 4: Make showing up easy.
Confirmation same day. T-24h, T-2h, T-10m reminders.
Short agenda. Access link above the fold.

That's why at LeadHaste we don’t sell replies.
We build a revenue system.
Both sides drive their half.

What do you track after the reply right now?
And what’s your median time to first response during business hours?

I’m joining Smartlead’s Office Hours as a guest!

We’ll clean up those follow-ups and turn replies into revenue.

Join us live with 400+ attendees, see you there!

Most outbound teams celebrate replies — even when nothing closes.

In this Office Hour, Dimitar Petkov📨, Co-Founder of Leadhaste, shows you how to fix the Post-Reply Gap — the leak between “someone replied” and “someone bought.”

When
🗓️ Thursday, 13th November
⏰ 11 AM EST | 8:30 PM IST | 3 PM GMT

Here's what you'll learn:
✅ Fix the “Post-Reply Gap” that costs 80% of deals
✅ Learn the Smartlead + Clay workflow that turns replies into revenue
✅ Get practical SLAs and benchmarks for faster responses
✅ Walk away with templates and a scorecard to measure outbound health

Save your spot now 👉 https://luma.com/5btur0ug

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From Replies to Revenue: Why Replies Aren’t Enough

tentwentytwo projects

Chief Creative Officer

Entercom

Morning Show Host at Star 94.1

CUMULUS MEDIA

Morning Show Co Host and Executive Producer - The Bert Show

iHeartMedia

Morning Show Executive Producer - WIOQ

iHeartRadio

Morning Show Executive Producer and Personality - KRQQ

You're likely here because ...

>  You're thinking about launching a podcast.
>  You have a podcast you're not totally proud of.
>  Your company needs a podcast and you're doing the research.

I can help with all of it!

I've always created groundbreaking audio content. I've been doing it for a long time (I have over 45,000 of hours producing podcast and podcast-style content in my career) and I do it really well.

📻  My radio career has always been with personality-based morning drive shows. I started in 1992 and that's all I did until I left radio in 2019. Local, syndicated, typical programming, specialty programming, recorded, live ... I've done it all with great success.

Fact:  Morning radio was podcasting before podcasting exisited.  

1️⃣  I launched my first 'proper' podcast in 2015. 

🎙  In 2019, I launched "THE UPSIDE" with my wife Callie. It made a stunning debut: Top 10 on both Apple and Spotify. We released over 1500 episodes, consistently top-ranked, and won several awards. Currently on hiatus.

💼  The success of that lead us to create a podcast development company: tentwentytwo Podcasts.  Our company launches (and relaunches) successful podcasts and offers consulting services as well. 

🥇  In 2022, our innovative approach to podcasting earned us an invitation to speak to the US Olympic teams about podcasting as a brand builder and revenue source. I've been on stage at countless other conferences and events, talking about radio, audio, and podcasting. Oympics was the coolest ... by far.

Also worth noting:  

📽  I was appointed by the Governor of Georgia to a committee in the early years of bringing TV and film productions to the state. (It's now over a $4 billion industry. Georgia has the fastest growing film industry in the country!)

🎤 I've sold out shows as a stand-up comedian, sharing the stage with icons like Jeff Foxworthy and Joel McHale, and headlining my own tours. 

🏊‍♂️ In 2012, I trained for and completed a triathlon alongside CNN's Sanjay Gupta.

🎶 I served as a board member of the Atlanta Chapter of The Recording Academy. (The Grammy's.)

👨‍👩‍👧‍👧 I live in Atlanta with my wife Callie, our daughters Ellie and Olivia (Girl Dad!) and dog Sadie.

Nothing makes me happier than clients who love working with me and tentwentytwo:

-  “I could have never accomplished this without you. From the bottom of my heart: thank you so much.”

-  "Rare to engage with a 3rd party who is as passionate and driven about a project as you guys have been. Thank you.”

-  "We sound so GOOD. I didn't think it was possible. THANK YOU."

Jeff Dauler

Podcast Architect: High-impact podcasts that deliver results. •• Top 10 Podcast Host / Award-Winning Producer / 40+ Launches •• A great podcast is a growth engine for revenue, your authority, and your network.

Podcast Strategist | Creator of high-impact podcasts that drive business results

We're hiring freelance podcast producers/audio engineers! 

A lot of incredibly talented producers lost their corporate jobs this year and WE WANT TO WORK WITH YOU!

Jeff Dauler and I started developing business podcasts after we both lost our jobs. We've built a team of mega-talented layoff victims who decided to go out on their own and it's pretty great around here.

Our producers resumes include: Netflix, Wondery, Audacy, NPR, CNN, Ryan Seacrest Productions and more.

*Enter radio announcer voice here* if you've been a victim of corporate layoffs, we may have something for you. Call the number on your screen now.

Kidding. Please don't call me, but let's connect.

You’ll make a better podcast the moment you give it an end date.

Every week I talk to people who launched their podcast with goals and expectations. The definition of “success” varies, but the pattern is always the same: big hopes, big pressure, and no built-in way to pause or rethink the plan.

That’s where things break.

When you launch a podcast without an end point, your brain defaults to forever. Release one episode on Tuesday at noon and suddenly it feels like every Tuesday at noon, for the rest of your life, you owe the world another one. 
Miss a week and you start questioning whether you’ve already blown it.
That mindset leads to creating content just to fill the calendar. Not content with intention. Not content that moves your audience or your business forward.

The solution is simple: treat your podcast as an experiment.

When you choose your launch date, choose your end date, too.

Twelve episodes. Three months. One clear checkpoint.

That structure gives your mind permission to breathe. It reduces pressure, reduces resistance, and dramatically increases your ability to learn. You know a pivot point is coming, so you stop clinging to a rigid plan and start paying attention to what’s working, what’s not, and what your audience is actually responding to.

If you’re planning to launch in 2026, or you’re trying to squeeze one in before the year ends, do this differently.

If you want help designing a season that sets you up to learn and not burn out, send me a message. We’re taking on one new client before 2026.

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