Bruce Martin

Ahoy there!

Welcome to Bruce’s LinkedIn Profile. 

Bruce Martin went to Stellenbosch University to pursue a degree in Microbiology and Biotechnology. Alongside 100's of courses and a true spirit of learning, he has also pursued a B.Comm in Law from the University of South Africa and a Diploma in Business Analysis from the Faculty Training Institute.

After interning as a Business Analyst, Bruce felt that entrepreneurial urge to start his own business. He founded a company in the automative industry, Speedline Mags, and grew this company to a sizeable staff complement.

With a penchant for digital marketing Bruce made the decision to park the automotive business and accepted a position as a marketing consultant at SharpSpring, a SAAS company with a focus on marketing automation. Bruce managed close to 100 agency accounts and assisted with implementation support. 

After SharpSpring, Bruce accepted a position as Senior Marketing Operations Specialist for Symantec Corporation in their Website Security division. Bruce was responsible for marketing automation campaign execution, infrastructure, data mining and reporting.

Bruce then worked as an agency founder at Growth Strategy and assisted small and medium business with lead generation and the creation of their own systematised marketing and sales funnels to establish predictable revenue systems. 
After which Kurtosys Systems and APO Group called on Bruce as Demand Generation Manager and Head of Digital Marketing, respectively to head up lead generation efforts across all the necessary channels.

Bruce also took up positions at 2 fledgling startups, Realsmart and Severus to drive leads for both fintech companies during their launch phases. 

Currently, Bruce still services Cybersecurity clients sales requirements through Growth Strategy, now fully focused on only Cybersecurity

Bruce aspires to continue in the digital marketing space adopting and implementing new technologies that would help businesses drive profitability. 

Entrepreneurial and marketing Leader by nature and a Growth Hacker long before the term was coined. Marketing and Product Consultant and Fractional CRO for StartUps and Enterprise looking for explosive growth all while helping businesses explode their growth through the strategic development and implementation of effective Product Strategy and Development, Brand Building, Growth Marketing, Lead Generation, Global Integrated Marketing, and Marketing Operations and strategic sales operations and strategies that produce results. 

Contact: info@growthstrategy.co.za

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“The French hate the English.”

That’s what people kept telling me before I moved to Nice.

One older mate said I’d hate it and be back within a week lol. 

Hearing this did get in my head a bit, dampened the excitement of moving, made everything feel heavier and more stressful. 

But it was so unnecessary, cos i’m almost 4 years in, and have no plans to ever leave this place. 

From day one, it’s been nothing but pure bliss. The place is paradise and everyone’s properly sound. 

The postman comes in for a chat on the weekend.

People stop you when you’re walking the dog.

Our closest neighbour comes around with bottles of wine.

And the dude who planted the olive trees on our hill stops by with cases of fresh oil. 

Even when I’m on my own, butchering this beautiful language, everyone’s patient and always up for a laugh. 

(The vibe reminds me very much of London in the summer (iykyk). Except here, it’s like that all the time.) 

Funny though, innit? How people just decide something’s true because they’ve heard it a few times. They've never experienced said hatred, never actually tested it, just heard it so it HAS to be true. 

That’s what this was.
 
“The French hate the English.”... said by people who’ve never lived here, never visited and think Calais is the capital. 

Anyway.

If someone says this to you, tell them this from an English bloke who’s lived here for almost 4 years:

It’s b*llocks.

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Every weekend, I go to the car wash my in-laws own and watch someone ruin up the paintwork on a Ferrari.

It’s a tiny village car wash, just off the motorway, 30 mins from Monaco. Ten euros a pop to put your car through those spinny, grit-ridden brushes.

One Saturday, I got talking to an old guy with a 488 Pista.

“Why do you put that through the rollers?" I said. "They leave swirl marks all over the paint”.

“It’s quicker than cleaning it at home,” he shrugged.

“Sure. But why not get a detailer to come to your house and do it on your drive?”

“Yeah… I guess. I just never think about it.”

I nodded, and started heading back to my car.

Then he shouted after me:

“Hey! Isn’t that the same with LinkedIn? People hammer away at their own posts instead of just getting someone like you to do it properly?”

I laughed.

“Exactly.”

…

Tired of LinkedIn doing nothing for your business? Drop me a DM.

I’ve finally met someone wittier than me. 

My son. 

Yesterday I bought him a new lunch box for his snacks as he’s going to the Alps for the weekend. 

Naturally, he had to test it out, so he started filling it with stuff: 

- two compotes
- bear-shaped cake thing
- yoghurt 

Then he ruins the vibe by throwing a sock in there. 

But the best bit… he comes running over to me and goes: 

“Not a lunch box, daddy. Lunch socks.” 

Looks like my way with words runs in the family. 

Proud dad moment.

There’s some weird entitlement going around these days. 

You’re not owed anything. 

People acting like they’re automatically entitled to:

– instant replies to texts
– responses to shite cold DMs
– someone else’s time just because they were “polite”

Nah. Doesn’t work like that. 

If you’ve not:

 – earned trust
 – built a relationship
 – delivered results before

then no one owes you a reply, an explanation or their time.

Keep seeing people saying crap like, "I reached out nicely so the least they can do is reply"... erm... not if what you reached out with stinks. 

Give your head a wobble ffs.

Last month I had a sales call with someone who’s been following me for 4 years. 

Yeah, 4 years!

And now we’re very close to starting a big email project together. 

Now I ain’t saying this to brag — you know that’s not my vibe — more cos it’s a good reminder of how decent-sized projects can actually work.

(Before I go on, let me say that 4 years is a long time and you deffo don’t want your content taking this long to generate results. But the reality is, for some projects, it just can, and there’s nothing you can do about it. Plus, I think I’ve proven enough [check my featured section] that results do and should also come sooner.) 

What’s funny about this one is that other than a quick hello when we connected 4 years ago, I haven’t ever spoken to this person. But they’d been reading, watching, clocking what I post and forming an opinion all this time.

Until… they had a project come up where they needed someone they could trust. That last part is key… they trusted me… without ever speaking to me. 

How do I know that? Cos on the call, she said (and I quote): “I’m not even gonna bother talking to anyone else! I want you and only you to work on it.” 

That right there is when you know your content is doing its job. 

Yeah. 

Some deals move quickly, others sit in the background for a while. But if you get your messaging and strategy right, the outcome is the same, you gain a great new client. 

Sound.

Stop marketing yourself to your peers.

It’s dumb as f*ck. 

The amount of founders I see doing this is wild.

If your goal is lead gen:

1) Why are you basing your entire content strategy around people who do the exact same thing as you?

2) Why are you teaching people how to do your f*cking job?

For 98% of people, peers aren’t ever gonna buy. And serious buyers don’t want to learn the ins and outs of what you do, that’s literally what they’re paying you for.

I know why this happens… 

It’s the LinkedIn kings and queens who’ve never sold anything in their lives telling people to “add value”. It sounds smart, looks generous, but it’s meaningless.

“Add value” basically means: Teach people what you know through free tips, frameworks and checklists. 

Erm, okay, so all stuff that’s gonna attract people who do the exact same thing as you? Hmmm. Dead smart that 🙄 

If your goal is likes and thumbs and influencer status, carry on adding value. 

But if your goal is clients, stop trying to be everyone’s free f*cking teacher, cos it’s about as useful as wiping your arse with 1-ply toilet roll the morning after a vindaloo.

Clients don’t care how “valuable” your content is. They care whether you actually get them, understand their pain, their goals and their business.

The people who love your tutorials and comment “🔥 so valuable” aren’t buying from you. Soz. 

There are ways to educate your audience without teaching them how to do your job. 

A better alternative if you want buyers is to focus on:

- Sharing your process and why it’s different\better than others
- Showing you understand their problems better than they do
- Proving you can solve said problem(s) (testimonials etc)

Otherwise, forget making LinkedIn a predictable lead gen channel for your business.

Sound.

You don’t need to “master” LinkedIn's algorithm. 

🤦‍♂️ 

If you want LinkedIn to do anything useful for your business — build trust, generate enquiries, shorten sales cycles, etc — the same rules apply as any other marketing or business development activity. 

And it's that you need to: 

- know who you’re talking to 
- understand what they need help with 
- have proof you can solve their problems 

and then create consistent, engaging content that communicates clearly that you know what you are talking about, and are the right fit for that audience. 

That’s it. Dead simple. You don’t need to trick, hack or master anything that's out of your control. 

Just do the basics well, over a period of time. 

Yet so many of you are on here, listening to numpties telling you to "just post", guessing what your audience wants to see, hoping stuff resonates, and then acting surprised or in denial when nothing converts. 

Bonkers. 

Would you “just post a few ads”? 
Would you “just send a few emails?” 
Would you hire a sales person and tell them to “just do stuff”?

Unless you like wasting time and money, no you wouldn’t.  

If you want results, you do stuff properly. Why is LinkedIn any different? 

Talking of doing stuff properly... 

There are two ways we can help you with that: 

1/ Done for you 

For founders who want to use LinkedIn to build a personal brand and generate leads without living on the platform. We handle the content and strategy, you schedule it and execute it following a tried, tested and simple process. 

Cost: £1,750 per month. 

2/ Training 

For businesses that don’t want to outsource, but need their people using LinkedIn in a way that produces something tangible. We teach your team how to generate real results from content, conversations and visibility. 

Cost: £3k. 

…

If you want LinkedIn to start pulling its weight commercially in 2026, we should probably talk.

DMs are open. 

Sound.

The thought of staying in one place would’ve freaked me tf out 10 years ago. 

But right now, you couldn’t pay me to travel the world again. 

Some people’ll call me mad. But I genuinely have no desire to get on a plane unless it’s to go home and visit my family. 

That’s a stark contrast to back in my music days, where I was constantly on the move. I had a home, but was never in it. I had a schedule, but never stuck to it. 

It wasn’t by choice at first, it’s just what the industry demanded of us as an “up and coming” band. But after a year or two, it became my whole personality. 

(THE PART OF MY LIFE WHERE I DID A LOT OF SILLY STUFF GOES HERE.)

Yeah… lol… 

After I quit the band, I struggled because I had this constant itch to be out and about, which made working from home properly difficult. There was a phase where I’d go to 4 different coffee shops back to back just because I wanted to be out and about.  

I’d do this 3-4 days a week, for months on end. 

Moving to France has properly calmed me down. I feel so content here, so much calmer. I’m still out a lot, but it’s because I’m doing stuff I really really want to, not because I really really HAVE to. 

It’s jokes y’know, cos when I chat with people who are into music and my old band comes up, they always ask if I miss “the buzz.” And yeah, I miss being on stage so much. 

But the constant movement, the chaos, people everywhere, always needing to be on top form… nah, not a chance. 

Maybe it’s cos I’ve done so much travelling in the past. Maybe it’s cos I’ve forgotten what the ‘buzz’ feels like. Maybe it’s cos where I am is enough. Or maybe, just maybe, it’s cos I’m slowly turning into an old, boring git.

Them: I need to do something different this year. LinkedIn didn’t generate a single penny for me last year.

Me: Got it. So what’s the new plan?

Them: I’m going to stop caring so much.

Me: Interesting start.

Them: And I’m done overthinking everything.

Me: Okay… but what are you actually changing?

Them: I’ll just post.

Me: Erm… I’m not su—

Them: Yeah, whatever comes to mind.

Me: Didn’t you just say LinkedIn didn’t work for you last year?

Them: Yeah.

Me: And last year you were also… just posting?

Them: Correct.

Me: So what’s different now? Audience research? Positioning? A strategy?

Them: Nah.

Me: Content pillars?

Them: Don’t need them.

Me: New offer?

Them: Nah. Just posting and going with the flow. 

Me: Going with the flow? 

Them: Yeah, everyone I know does it.

Me: So, you’re doing the same as you did last year, and expecting different results? 

Them: Exactly. 

Me: 

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