Nicholas Verity

CEO at Cleverly | Advisor at Axe Automation

🗣️ B2B service businesses, Saas Founders, agencies, consultants:

I scale leads and sales for 1,500+ B2B business owners with 1,000+ 5-star reviews to prove it.

And our clients get results like this:
→ "My optins have EXPLODED and I'm getting 2 to 3x more upsells" —  Jay, CEO Copy Agency
→ "Since launching yesterday I have 20 leads to follow up on already…" —  Ali, Consultant for Oil & Gas
→ "Cleverly's our #1 acquisition partner, delivering a lower CPA than Google." — Jake, VP Sales, HR SaaS
→ “Estimated revenue: $3,250,000. Meetings booked: 65” — Sebastian, AE @ Development Shop

If you’re like most B2B business owners, you’ve tried: 
❌ “Proven” cold outreach strategies that result in…crickets
❌ Expensive Google and Facebook Ads 
❌ Hiring expensive consultants that don't do anything or using cheap, spammy tools

But none of that works… especially in today’s economy, where everyone’s tightening their budgets and no one wants to invest in new products or services. That’s why we help our clients shortcut their B2B lead gen. And we work fast. Within the first 7 days, a 1:1 dedicated outbound lead gen expert: 

✅ Builds tightly qualified targeting lists of your ideal clients
✅ Strategizes your entire LinkedIn sales funnel with you
✅ Writes you personalized and proven cold messages people actually respond to (no spam)
✅ Launches campaigns for you (with proactive, ongoing management + real-time reporting)
✅ Places a trained appointment setter to handle the leads we win you

All that’s left for you to do is close those leads. 
☕  Our clients land 5-20 qualified conversations with their ideal clients *within the first 30 days of working with us*

...Ready to build a long-lasting B2B Lead Generation strategy?  Book your 15-minute consultation and we’ll show you how: https://www.cleverly.co/cleverly-free-consultation

The only B2B Lead Generation Service in the world with 1,000+ 5-star reviews.

I spent ~$20k on a sales program, including ad spend...

Then, nothing happened.

I took it seriously, followed the process, did the assignments, and for 2 months we went all in.

We were still short of breakeven at the end of it.

So I did what I always do in these situations: 

I treated it like a framework, pulled out the parts that were working, and rebuilt the parts that needed to match our product, our audience, our sales motion.

I went back and re-did the offer.
I re-did the funnel.

And I re-did the work properly (the part that actually moves the needle):

1. Research + positioning
2. Scripts + angles
3. Ads + creatives
4. Landing pages
5. Sales calls + material
6. Iteration, until it started converting predictably

Then it clicked.

Next month we did ~$100k on ~$10k Meta ad spend.

The lesson for me is simple:

DFY / DWY / education only- it’s all leverage, and leverage only works when you bring ownership, taste, and iteration.

CEO at Cleverly | Advisor @ Axe Automation - Make.com Partner Of The Year 2025

Intent-triggers have a volume, cost and effort problem.


I see a lot of teams talk about “signals” like they are a cheat code, but when you actually map the workflow end-to-end, you realize very quickly why most companies abandon it after a month.

Let’s take the most common ones.

👉 1/ Anonymous website visitors

You pay for the data.

Then you pay to validate it (and you lose ~60% right there, because a lot of “matches” are guesses).

Then you pay to qualify what’s left ( CRM + criteria + someone defining what “qualified” even means) and you lose another ~25%.

Then you pay to outreach to the last ~15%.
Then you work those leads and try to book a call.

So the “signal” itself is only a small part of the system, the rest is cost + ops + follow-through.

👉 2/ Content engagers

This one sounds great until you do it at scale.

You either need a semi full-time SDR to do it properly, or you need two automation tools (one to scrape + send outreach, one to qualify), and you still need someone to keep it clean.

And then you look at who likes your posts:

Competitors, vendors, people out of country, people who will never buy.

So the question becomes simple: are the few qualified accounts worth DM’ing, or is it more important to focus on creating more (and better) content that drives organic demand anyway.

Some of you have 3 likes per post, so “engagers outreach” is not a strategy, it’s a hobby.

👉 3/ Funding round

Only relevant if you sell to SaaS, and even then it works better when you have a clear POV on “why now” for that buyer (not just “congrats on the round”).

👉 4/ Hiring

This one can work when the job title is popular, directly relates to what you sell, and you sell an excellent alternative to a full-time hire.

Hiring is a real budget signal, but it still needs a strong angle to convert.

So yes, intent triggers can work, but they are not “free pipeline”.

They are a system that needs volume + tooling + process + follow-through, and most teams underestimate that part.

I thought we may be losing sales to AI hype in our space.

So I asked my sales team a simple question:

“Are leads asking about AI?”

They said: not really.

What surprised me even more..

Many leads actually say they prefer a solution that is human-first.

Why I think this is happening:

1. Buyers are tired of the buzzwords
2. “AI” now often translates to: risk, unpredictability, and support tickets
3. In some categories, people don’t want speed- they want control and trust

So we’re adjusting the messaging.

Less “look, we use AI”.

More: 

- Here is the outcome you get
- Here is exactly how it will work
- Here is what we’ll never automate
- Here is what stays in human hands

The funny part:

The best way to win right now might be to stop selling the hype… and start selling clarity.

As simple as that.

Paolo Remo Poli

Have case studies? Want to know the secret of how we book 20-50+ calls for high-ticket B2B offer owners in 12 weeks? Read this 👇👇

I've helped 30+ B2B company founders just like you fix their inbound personal brand funnel.

And that's everyone..

From $250k/m Ads & email agency owners to Coaches selling biz opp.

Now...

Because you're on my profile, there's 4 things I already know about you:

1. You're looking for inbound leads on LinkedIn.
2. You know building a niche personal brand is the way to do it.
3. You don't want to spend 5+ hours hours a day doing it.
4. You want qualified customers to speak to you. 

I get it.

I had the same realisations not too long ago.

When I was running my first marketing agency.

All my top competitors were dominating the market.

Then I made 1 simple change and I went from 0 calls booked a month...

To 25 calls booked every single month only from LinkedIn.

That all happened without pushing on any other channel .

Once I realised the power of it, and the current state of the B2B market.

I started doing it for other B2B founders.

And now they're also saying:

"I can't believe we have 3 leads from your first post."
"We're gunna have to stop, too many leads"
"Yeah Reddit CMO just booked on sales teams cal"

Why is this happening and what am I doing?

I'll show you my system.

Just DM me 'System' or 'Masterclass' or 'Paolo I actually read your about section and want to learn more'

Head Of Sending Emails

We help DTC, e-commerce and fast growing online shops sell more with email.

Paolo Poli

The worst LinkedIn scam right now?

I'll go first:

"CLAUDE has replaced my entire $20k/m SDR team" 

If you speak to any actual GTM tech person, they'll tell you in about 5 seconds that all of these posts are click bait.

DFY LinkedIn Authority (200+ LinkedIn accounts managed, 5,000+ inbound calls booked with companies like; AG1, Reddit, Mckinsey & 50M+ impressions yearly)

LinkedIn could be the source of all your leads.

Are you doing this?

In year 1 of our LinkedIn content agency, me and Aman Ghataura posted daily content.

This allowed us to blow past $1M in closed contracts.

Hire 90% of our team (the remaining few came from Upwork).

And build a waitlist of new clients any time we had churn (agency game is the agency game, client’s left).

Fast forward to 2026, we both still post and still have a waitlist for our agency.

Here’s how to duplicate the strategy:

1. Your current ‘hero’ account finds winning topics. Drives main impression share and has the highest posting volume. (This was my account before Aman Ghataura started posting) 

2. You add +1 account that posts at least 3x a week that takes winners from the ‘hero account’ then adds a different spin on them.

3. Once the second account builds momentum, you start testing new ideas and new angles on it. Until it becomes it's own ‘hero account’.

You repeat the cycle with every new exec team member.

This could look like:

1. Main Founder posting daily.
2. CMO/Head Of Growth posting 3x a week.
3. COO/Head of fulfilment posting 3x a week.

Over time, each of the individual accounts under your brand name become ‘hero accounts’.

Then you are able to double down across all the connected accounts on winners.

And your learning speed compounds.

Think now - who on your team could you duplicate winning angles to?

Start there, make it super low lift - then double down when traction hits.

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