Employment Hero

UK SDR Manager

MySalesCoach

MySalesCoach match SDRs who need coaching with SDR leaders who are willing to share their knowledge and deliver expert 1-1 coaching on-demand.

Over the course of 2024, I've coached 19 SDRs at 15 different SaaS businesses.

As of 2025, I'm regularly coaching 5 SDRs and 2 SDR Managers at different stages of their journey in:

- Cold Calling
- Cold Emailing
- LinkedIn Outreach
- Objection Handling
- Account Based Sales
- Outbound Prospecting
- Confidence & Direction
- Personal Growth & Mindset
- Conflict management & resolution

SDR Coach

Sales Development Leaders (SDL)

Member

Flexprts

Too many SDR teams are failing because their organisation lacks the expertise to build and scale them right, stunting growth for everyone involved.

With a trusted trio of flexible sales development experts (AKA “flexperts”) - Chris Ritson, Laurence Langstone and Gabs Bojilova - Flexprts provides SaaS founders and sales leaders with the expertise they need to build a high-performing SDR team, how and when they need it.

We offer:
- Bootcamps for SDRs and SDR Leaders
- SDR Training Programme
- Fractional Management
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Worked on Flexprts full-time after quitting Hook in Aug 2023 until my next full-time role at Employment Hero in Jan 2024.

In those 6 months, I built my own pipeline of companies to work with - the highlight being building out and selling my own 8-week outbound selling progam. As a result, I trained 15 SDRs at two different companies over the course of my program, and consulted those companies on GTM strategies for sales development.

Co-Founder

Hook

Joined as the first SDR leader at Seed-stage:

- Hired, onboarded and trained team of 4 SDRs
- Built frameworks for outreach & experimented with messaging
- Built SDR <> AE rules of engagement, HubSpot processes & data hygiene
- Built SDR playbook on Notion for scalability and benefit of SDRs & AEs
- Prospected and cold called with the team to lead by example
- Promoted 1 SDR; built development plans & career progress paths for SDRs
- Tech stack = HubSpot, SalesLoft, Gong, Apollo, Cognism, Lavender, Sales Nav

Awarded Top 50 SDR Managers 2022 by Sales Confidence.

SDR Team Lead

SaaSLeads.io

This was an Academy for SDRs - we hired & trained SDRs for top start-ups.

Company went into insolvency, but before it did:

- I was one of the first CSMs, advising Founders & VPs of Sales on building & scaling their SDR process, strategy & team.

- Transitioned into training SDRs over a 12-week programme.

- Coached SDRs at companies like Talkwalker, Papirfly & Lokalise.

Sales Development Coach

Tessian

Gave being an IC a go - it was great exposure & experience - but an opportunity to go back into the SDR world came along, and I wholeheartedly wanted to do it!

Account Manager

- Took on more leadership opportunities
- Mentoring new SDRs
- Hosting upskill workshops

Senior SDR

Full year attainment after ramp = 113%.

I won't lie though - I had a sub 100% quarter and learned how to not get myself in that position again!

Reflect > Adapt > Grow :)

Sales Development Representative

DSJ Global

- Completed a 2-week intensive sales academy.
- Closed my first deal just 8 weeks after starting for £17,500.
- My candidate then wanted to pull out due to personal reasons so I had to manage that process and make sure that both her and the client were pleased with the outcome - she still went through with it and even bagged her a 19k increase on her previous salary!

A big first win and a high to ride, however, I decided that recruitment was not for me and wanted to progress my career in SaaS.

Recruitment Consultant

Became an SDR in 2019.

5 years later:

- Promoted 5 times
- Moved into leadership
- Coached 30+ SDRs in a year
- Generated over $3m in pipeline
- Quit my job to become an SDR Coach & Trainer
- Realised that solopreneurship wasn't for me in the end
- Joined a fast-growth scale-up, Employment Hero, as SDR Manager

Enter 2024.

Follow me for free content on outbound prospecting, cold outreach & all things SDR! :)

Gabs Bojilova

**hiring alert**

🇺🇸 We’re growing our NYC team - and I’m hiring 5 ambitious BDRs.

You’ll work alongside our first 5 awesome hires Reece, Anastasia, Emma, Raja, Bennett, and they’ll be the first to tell you how special this ride is.

Which also means…

I’m hiring a BDR Manager to lead the next chapter of our NYC growth.

You’ll be working closely with me, Julien Lesaicherre (our Chief Growth Officer), and our unreal GTM function.

If you want a front-row seat to building something that’s scaling fast - this is it.

I genuinely can’t begin to tell you how big of an opportunity this will be for you.

Because Maki isn’t just “another HR tech company.”

We exist to reimagine the hiring journey -
for global brands,
for HR & TA teams,
and for today's candidates.

And our customers are all the proof you need that we’re building something lasting and impactful:
H&M, Foundever, FIFA, Capgemini, Nespresso...

So if you’re a BDR who wants to:
 ✅ sell a category-defining product
 ✅ join a team that wins together
 ✅ grow fast with serious support
 ✅ help shape the US GTM story from the inside

…or a BDR leader ready to build and coach an elite squad -
let’s talk.

Drop a comment, DM me, or apply directly ⬇️

BDRs - https://lnkd.in/gzdts7EM 
BDR Manager - https://lnkd.in/gSDedsvw

Mohan ‎Muthoo 💬 🇬🇧 🌍

Spring Drive

Founder

Instantly.ai

Instantly Certified Expert 🏅

Smartlead

Smartlead Certified Expert 🏅

Clay

Certified Clay Expert 🏅

Apollo.io

Official Partner 🏅

automate rev.ops.

Program Mentor

Timely

Full-cycle outbound account executive, selling CRM SaaS to small businesses.

Outbound Account Executive

INFUSEmedia

- Managed a team of BDRs across the EMEA region.
- Built and led training and development for individual reps 
- Built cold outbound strategies and tactics to execute effective campaigns across the team

EMEA BDR Team Lead (Manager)

- Refined and executed cold outbound sales development focusing more heavily on Enterprise accounts.
- Fastest ever firm promotion from BDR to Senior BDR
- Only BDR published on company website

Senior Business Development Representative

- Managed and executed cold outbound campaigns across a range of industries in the EMEA region, from SMB to Enterprise accounts.
- Focus on cold calling, emailing and social selling
- Broke the firm record for most meetings booked in a first month as a BDR

Business Development Representative

doovice

- Wrote copy for cold outbound social sales messages landing a 50%+ conversion rate for UGC
- Recruited and led a team of 10+ volunteer marketing and sales reps at universities across the UK
- Used outbound selling strategies and tactics to generate organic promotion that led to 5,000+ unique monthly visitors within 4 months (no paid marketing)
- Managed back-end CMS and content editing

Founder @ Spring Drive | Driving Growth for B2B SaaS/AI | Multi-Award Nominated | 4th Ever Official UK Clay Expert | 👉 springdrive.co

Hey there 👋 

I'm the Founder at Spring Drive - we Book You B2B Sales Meetings so you can Scale your Business without Hiring More Reps 🛠️

We've worked with B2B service agencies, Y-Combinator backed startups, globally recognized SaaS brands featured in Forbes and the Apple Store, B2B ecommerce companies, and everything in between.

We have a ton of case studies and accolades, having been nominated twice for our work (Finalist in the Standout Use of AI category at the UK Digital Excellence Awards, and for the GTM10 Awards), plus been recognized as Official Expert Partners by numerous top companies in GTM and Outbound.

Head to 👉 springdrive.co 

OR

DM me, I will reply 💬

Mohan ‎Muthoo 🇬🇧

I am looking for a GTM Engineer to join Spring Drive. 

Could that be you?!


You'll be trained by me personally getting the inside scoop on how to create successful campaigns as a Smartlead, Instantly.ai, & Clay Official Expert.

If you have experience using Clay, are meticulous and organized with an eye for detail, and are looking to build a career as a GTM Engineer, this could be for you.



Interested?

Find the application link in the comments.

Mohan Muthoo

Oh this is a BIG one for multi-channel outreach.

Smartlead + HeyReach.io just teamed up.


Smartlead and Heyreach are both leaders in their space (email and linkedin outreach respectively).

Part of what I like about them is they niched and got really granular on those channels, rather than staying general.

But it also meant that if you wanted to run outreach on both, it could be messy managing leads across both tools.

Super finnicky lol.

Anyway, you can now build email and LinkedIn campaigns inside ONE SINGLE sequence using the Heyreach and Smartlead integration.

If someone replies via one channel you can now automatically route them through the other, so no accidental crossovers that shouldn't happen.

No duct-taped automations to try and see where the lead is across both tools.

This is a massive timesaver and also makes multi-channel campaigns so much easier to manage.

At Spring Drive we run both email and linkedIn for clients so this is a great feature for our back-end operations.

Great work teams Vaibhav Namburi Nick V.

I had a chat with Kellen Casebeer, Founder at The Deal Lab, a few weeks ago to discuss the future of personalization in outbound.

When it comes to this subject, Kellen is one of those people I just listen to really carefully.

He thinks about this in a deeper way than most who are following 'classic' structures.

He made some really interesting points I think everyone can learn from:


- Markets cluster themselves around beliefs and its always easier to sell someone what they already believe in.

- Thinking not just about using personalization but WHAT personalization you're using


There's a few more v interesting insights from him in the video below.

I think real operators who want to stand out need to think in a more sophisticated way about messaging and Kellen is one of those people to follow for exactly that.

Thanks Kellen was great to talk as always.

B2B SaaS companies - listen up.

Here's how Spring Drive is different to Apollo/Zoominfo/Clay/Lemlist.


I get this question a lot and it's actually quite concerning because it reveals something deeply interesting about the market.


Apollo, Zoominfo, Clay, Lemlist etc - these are TOOLS.

They provide YOU with the ability via a platform to DO certain tasks.

They're superb.

But they can't do those tasks for you.

They aren't actually *building* campaigns and delivering you real pipeline.


Apollo and Zoominfo provide data.

Clay allows you to work data (enriching etc)

Lemlist allows you to send emails.


But these tools cannot:

Find the right leads, pull them, do the segmenting, come up with creative outreach strategies, write the copy, manage the inbox, reply to queries, book onto your calendar, strategically iterate on the A/Z tests, etc etc


Spring Drive is an agency offering an end to end service where we do the work of delivering you pipeline, using such tools in the process.

I get companies complaining that these tools 'aren't delivering results'.

Like what...they are tools, you have to deliver the results with them.


This is like buying a frying pan and a kitchen knife and then being shocked when you come home that evening to find they haven't cooked you a fried egg.

You good?


You need a chef.

We are the chef.

Anyone tested out SmartProspect yet?

With data sourcing changing all the time, this is interesting.


Smartlead just released SmartProspect which basically means we could get tons of verified leads already in our sequencer without having to pay for the usual databases.


I'm looking at it now and it's very promising, but wanted to test coverage given that ultimately we want to ensure we aren't going to miss any part of our TAM if we use it.


I did a test of CEO:

SmartProspect - 2.1M people

Apollo - 1.9M people


Then I did a test of HR Director:

SmartProspect - 225,753 people

Apollo - 203,156


Then I did a final test of Head of Sales:

SmartProspect - 152,147

Apollo - 174,555



This is not to say that SP is *better* than Apollo - Apollo is a great database.


But I'm very pleasantly surprised at the coverage SmartProspect has - and of course the added benefit that it's right inside the sequencer is pretty neat.

Great work Vaibhav and team.

Booking meetings every day for a B2B SaaS at Spring Drive

And it's cold outreachhhhhh


Yes that's right, it's not dead - despite what you might hear on the radio!

If anyone got that joke i'd love to know.


Anyway, the right Resonance Strategy can mean massive pipeline value - daily, weekly, monthly.

Just pick the right partner and give it time to cook.

Your lead magnets suck - if they're not getting tons of positive replies.

Here's the 4 tenets to transform them into ones that people love.

In a lil video.

Just a lil vid.

We 'compel' prospects to book meetings with our B2B SaaS clients.

Their words, not mine. Here's how:


Balance theory.

You need to assess your assets in the context of your market to understand how to become compelling.

Assets
- Social proof
- Lead magnets
- Offers
- Pain data
- Personalization

You need to cross reference these and ask yourself, do any of our assets here STAND OUT in the CONTEXT of our market?

Genuinely though.

If you think your ebook on how to improve ad performance is stand out to ecom founders in the US, you don't understand your market at all.

Most people do not build stand out assets at all.

They simply do what they think LinkedIn is telling them will work.

"let's use this trigger and add pErSoNaLiZaTiOn'

seriously...?

If have genuinely intelligent personalization that hardly anyone else is likely to be using and its relevant...

Then yes, hammer it son.

9/10 - this is not the case.

At Spring Drive we use our messaging strategy framework and experience to spend a lot of time ideating insanely stand out ideas for our clients that we can A/Z test heavily.

That's how we get results whilst everyone else is testing personalization and triggers and getting confused as to why nobody cares.

Don't believe the hype.

Balance theory.

Screenshot below from a client campaign at Spring Drive.

To convert a lead to a booked meeting, you need a Pipeline Variant.

Here how to do it in 3 steps:


When a lead replies positively, there's still work to be done to book them to a meeting.

But most companies just follow up asking them for a meeting.

Hounding them like, like a, a, hOUnd dog.


The issue with this is you're not making them *want* a meeting.

Which should be your goal.


Nobody wants to give you their time - you have to convince them.

The prospect will think: 'well i'll just check them out online and gauge if I care based on that'


So you need a distinct strategy in place for why they should attend a meeting.

I call this the Pipeline Variant.

And I expect royalties.


Ask yourself:

'What can you give/show them in a virtual meeting that they cannot reasonably expect to find online?'


This dramatically increases booked meeting numbers.


The concept is maintain some balance - don't give everything away in the email, precisely so you can hold something back to book the meeting.


Ideas include:
- audits (have to be framed correctly)
- building their custom setup together on a call
- showing them proprietary data unavailable anywhere publicly

Get creative and you can really get people wanting to put time aside for you.

Okay guys I'm going to share this one because it's very decent even though I don't normally do these posts.

Smartlead are doing a Black Friday Flash Sale for both Smartlead and Non-Smartlead users:

 - 100% free Admin Google & Outlook mailboxes for the first month.

- No Minimum order size

- The email infrastructure setup is done for you.

- US IP Mailboxes

Doing outbound properly means a robust infrastructure and that can add up, so this is pretty neat.

Also btw, this is absolutely the time to stock up on a ton of inboxes too because everybody should be warming up infra over december to launch hard at the start of Q1.

Cart time.

Don't write that pain statement in your cold email.

It's not going to work - because pain statements are dead.


IT PAINS ME TO SAY THIS.

Sorry had to make that joke.


Okay but basically, most pain statements today are so generic that not only does it not help your message, it's actually counterproductive.

You immediately set the frame that you are another sales pitch, and people click out.

Part of the problem is that most teams are writing generic problem statement - not pain statements.


Problem statements:

'Need better ROI?'

'Want to scale faster?'

'Spending 8 hours a week on admin?'


These are so vague and generic that you're failing to actually visceralize anything for that prospect.


Pain statements:

'Are you still manually entering financial data across multiple Google sheets?'

'Many {role} find they have to book extra appraisal meetings with managers because their performance improvement plans only get met 60 per cent of the time'.


The difference is 2 things.

1. These are hyperspecific in a way that VISCERALIZES the actual annoying af activity you can solve


2. Problem statements are general things the company needs to solve. Pain statements are the day to day frustrations the prospect has in trying to solve those problems.



The first just don't hit anymore - and MOST messages I see are still writing them, rather than true modern pain statements.


Questions?

Comment below.

Booking sales meetings for B2B SaaS daily at Spring Drive.

With Resonance Strategy.



Want to know how? DM me.

(screenshot chat with a client of ours below)

You should not use cold email to grow your B2B SaaS/AI.

IF this is true:


Cold email is still in my opinion of the most powerful ways to scale revenue fast.

For many companies, cold email is the difference between 5 closed deals a month and nothing.



But if any of the following are true, you might not be a good match:


1. Your ICP is IT focused

IT generally hate sales outreach - we turn down companies that mostly target them.


2. Your TAM is small.

It's just harder to create sustainable pipeline from.

Fancy workflows you see getting 20 leads from 280 contacts looks great - but these campaigns usually do not replicate at scale month over month.

You might have a great month or two - then you're lost.

We like to work with companies that have at least 80k prospects minimum in their TAM.



3. You're afraid of rejection

Being told 'don't contact me again' in sales is like getting a bruise in sport.

If you're scared of getting a bruise, sport isn't for you.

Giants like Salesforce built billion dollar companies off the back of sales teams getting rejected constantly.

They just built systems to close the deals that did come through...

And didn't get shaken when someone said no.



4. You're not committed to A/Z test and be creative

If you haven't tested something in the market, you don't know what will happen.

The best results are usually the most recent - because you only getting better from a/z testing and iterating over time.

Companies that want to see amazing stuff from day 1 usually suffer because they never give themselves the opportunity to reach pipeline momentum.


But, if these don't apply, you could be getting 10-30 meetings every month and closing deals, scaling your B2B SaaS easily just with cold email.

Leads vs Meetings - do you know the difference?

A warning to B2B SaaS companies:


If you're considering hiring an agency to deliver you 'leads' - be sure you know what that means.


I once told a company I'd expect we'd deliver around 10-15 meetings a month for them, and they replied:

"But the other agency said they would deliver 30 at around the same cost?!"


I asked them...'Meetings? Or leads?'

Them: 'what do you mean? They said 30 leads.'

Me: 'A lead is someone who has replied with interest - they haven't yet agreed to a date and time to meet with you. They may not agree at all. How many meetings are people agreeing to from those leads?'

Them: 'Oh right yeah, I think its positive replies. Leads.'


Nothing wrong with leads as value btw - but you should always ask an agency you're considering working with: 

'what do you mean by a lead?'

Different agencies use the word leads in different contexts, but the value can be massively different.

Just a gentle notice.

Very gentle.

Here's how Spring Drive helps B2B SaaS & AI companies drive growth.

In a nutshell:


We run outbound email and LinkedIn campaigns for you that drive growth, either via sales pipeline or PLG motions.

We do this with best-in-class GTM Engineering and our own Resonance Strategy framework that we constantly iterate on.


We've got a ton of case studies, reviews & testimonials, expert badges, award nominations, and global recognition for our work.


We work on a retainer but you can start with us on a pilot first.


We work with both Founder-led teams as well as sales and marketing teams, supporting Founders, reps, and AEs, by delivering pipeline for them to close.


If you're a B2B SaaS or AI company that wants to drive revenue without spending more on ads or hiring and managing more reps, you can find out more at springdrive(dot)co.

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