Senior B2B Sales & Marketing Leader | Driving Predictable Revenue Growth in Start-Ups | Account-Based Growth & B2B Saas & MarTech Sales Strategy Expert

I believe trust, growth, and predictable revenue don’t happen by accident — they happen when you have the right system.

After 30+ years in B2B sales, GTM, and revenue orchestration, I’ve seen the same pattern repeat:

Scattered tactics that never stick

Shiny new tools that collect dust

Great ideas that never become everyday behaviors

Good people forced to guess instead of perform like superheroes

That’s why I build SYSTEMS that make the best mindsets, mantras, skills, and processes repeatable — by design.

🚀 Through SMC Sales:
I help B2B CEOs and CROs win against the 95/5 Rule and the chaos that keeps only 20% of their team producing at peak.

With my Choose Your Own Adventure™ Sales System and Compelevant™ Selling, I turn tactics into a formal, dynamic, always-on sales engine. I systematize your highest-performing channels — like the Compelevant™ Referral Revenue System™ — and unify your CRM, AI, and coaching so trust becomes your greatest pipeline asset.

🌐 Through Boundless Markets:
As Chief Strategy Officer, I help large member associations and nonprofits transform the Voice of the Member into an always-on Boundless Revenue System™.
We capture real stories, fuel retention and referrals, and align sponsors with authentic member outcomes — using low-code tools, data, and AI-powered personalization to make it all scalable, predictable, and trust-driven.

⚡️ Who I serve:

CEOs, CROs, and RevOps leaders who want SYSTEMS as a Service™ — not random acts of selling.

Association Membership & Sponsorship leaders who want to amplify trust, not erode it with one-and-done campaigns.

When your system works, your people fly.

Good sellers become B2B Sales Superheroes. Members become your best marketers. Sponsors become real partners.

If you’re ready to turn trust into your unstoppable growth engine — let’s talk.

🔗 www.B2BSalesSuperheroes.com
🔗 www.boundlessmarkets.com

Shawn Cook

Sales excellence isn’t about tactics.

It’s about who you consistently choose to be under pressure.

For too long, sales has been trained around activity and closing mechanics.

But modern B2B buyers don’t move forward because they feel persuaded.

They move forward because they feel confident.

That’s the standard behind The ABC’s of Sales.

Not scripts.

Not shortcuts.

A disciplined way of operating as a Strategic Contributor in every interaction.
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Turning deal chaos & pipeline uncertainty into predictable, profitable, verifiable growth for B2B revenue teams.

February 22.

The ABCs of Sales _ The B2B Sales Champions Playbook of Mindsets, Mantras Skills and Behaviors is officially live.

6x9 Paperback (276 Pages) is available today.
7x10 Hardcover (249 Pages ) is in final approval.
Kindle and Audible follow this / next week.

But this isn’t about formats.

This book exists because the standard in sales is rising.

Win rates are declining.
Buyer confidence is fragile.
Pressure is up.

And tactics aren’t enough anymore.

This is not a book about closing harder.

It’s about becoming stronger.

Stronger in identity.
Stronger in clarity.
Stronger in execution under pressure.

I’m grateful for every conversation, every leader, every rep who shaped these pages.

If you’re in sales, leadership, or revenue — this book was written with you in mind.

The standard is rising.

Let’s rise with it.

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Every buyer is asking questions you never hear.

Not about your product.

About you.

Do you actually understand my world?

Do you grasp what this decision means inside our reality?

Will this be easier to justify because of you?

Can you align the room — not just run the demo?

Will you steady us when pressure rises?

Most sales training teaches sellers what to say.

Very little teaches them who they must consistently be.

That’s the shift.

Modern B2B sales isn’t about better techniques.

It’s about operating at a level where buyers feel safe thinking with you.

That’s why The ABC’s of Sales is structured differently.

Each chapter begins with the buyer’s question.

Because sales excellence today is defined by how you are experienced repeatedly.

The book releases February 22.

The standard is rising.

Jared Robin ⏭

Helping Founders & GTM Leaders Go-to-Market Collaboratively | Founder of RevGenius community of 40k+ GTM leaders | Startup Advisor | “The most important thing you can do in sales and life is be a homie” - Bloomberg

The loudest don't win. The most resonant do.

I help founders turn audiences into movements - not through marketing noise, but through authentic connection that compounds.

I've built this playbook firsthand:
- Grew RevGenius from 0 to 55,000 members and 7-figure revenue in 3 years
- Scaled multiple startups from zero to 7 figures, including 2 exits
- Now advising 12+ SaaS startups on audience-led growth

Here's what I've learned: The companies that create new categories don't compete for attention - they create their own gravity. They build audiences that become movements. That's The Resonance.

I work with founders and GTM leaders to:
- Clarify their POV so it cuts through the noise
- Build audiences and communities that compound over time
- Create category-defining movements, not just marketing campaigns

If you're ready to build through resonance instead of noise, let's connect.

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Launched a newsletter helping Founders, Fractionals and GTM Leaders go-to-market collaboratively.

After 5 years of posting consistently on LinkedIn I finally was recognized as a Legend.

It only took me 2847 posts.

Great hanging with Katie Penner and Nick Bennett at B2BMX.

This is my first year doing the marketing conference circuit and it rocks. 

Best swag and most creative folks in b2b.

Excited to see Leslie Venetz and Devin Reed speak and hang with the homie Aneesh Lal.

Amped for meeting all friends and new.

Thank you Influ2 for the honor :)

Jared Robin

I help founders create markets, not fight for them 🏴‍☠️

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This table of creators is far more than just influencers. 

They are people of influence. They drive revenue.

Sitting with 🐐s last night at a close to day 1 of b2bmx.

Elfried Samba , Devin Reed , Shali Rana Reed , Katie Penner , Jen Allen-Knuth , and Aneesh Lal.

Aneesh was the first head of community of RevGenius. 

Watching him take that and build the most powerful Influencer agency has been exciting.

There are dozens of influencer agencies.

They’re tactical, transactional, paid-ad like motions. 

Aneesh is out here building the most powerful agency representing people with influence. 

Strategic, growth focused, partners and evangelists. 

The revenue results are the difference.

Proud of him. 

Grateful to be in the room.

March is the worst in NYC, so I'm leaving:

Going to B2BMX in San Diego next week.
Going to Wynter's Spryng conference in Austin in 3 weeks.

RevGenius partnered with B2BMX and is sponsoring the conference.

Amped to hang with friends like Kris who's been absolutely crushing with Sendoso next week.

And then Peep Laja, who's been growing Wynter steadily since we met IRL at SaaStr (and before digitally) a few years ago. 

Texted Ding Zheng and will be visiting his new office in Austin while there and hanging with new friends like Lauren Thompson who's working with David Walker and {Jon} Studham to build a powerhouse with Spara.

I've done the SaaStr and Dreamforce thing and they're great.

But there's something that just hits differently with these marketing focused events for me.

I have a feeling I'm going to love the intimacy of Spryng.

March doesn't have to suck. 

Anyone else going to either?

Met with George Vlasyev yesterday at my new 'co-creating' space The Lighthouse.

Been getting so much life from the space and had the opportunity to use one of their podcast studios to be interviewed on a range of AI GTM topics.

The future of search, Audience Engineering, ads in llms (OpenAI 👀), video and so much more.

George is bullish on video in funnels and has mastered it. 

Even more importantly, he's going to be moving to NYC (putting it out there), to double down on his startup and aspirations.

Video episode dropping soon. 

Thank you for your time homie.

Follow him, he's going to do massive things.

Most reps see a signal and think buying intent. And it's absolutely killing their reply rates.

Leslie Venetz calls it what it actually is: noise you're creating for yourself.

She's been doing signal-based outreach since 2009. Her take: every signal puts your prospect in one of three buckets. And most reps treat them all the same.

Problem Unaware: they just changed jobs. They don't know what's about to hit them. Don't pitch. Deposit value. Leslie waited two weeks after a new CPO trigger, then sent a 3-page guide on how to nail the first 100-day internal roadshow. No ask. Just relevance.

Option Unaware: they're attending webinars, downloading content, figuring out what "good" even looks like. Stop pushing them to a demo. Keep educating. Become the resource they trust before the decision is made.

Vendor Aware: they're on your pricing page. Now get out of the way. Answer the question. Use video. Remove barriers. Stop forcing a 45-minute demo on someone who asked one thing.

The shift: from "what's my in?" to "what do they actually need right now?"

Companies she's seen making this shift went from 0.02% to 20-30% open and reply rates.

Not by sending more. By sending what actually earns the next email.

Read the full drop: https://lnkd.in/gEp589zN

Yesterday got 172 responses in a couple hours in RevGenius. This is a hot topic and I'm opinionated, but would love to hear your POV-  Who's going to own the future of CRM?

 👍 Salesforce
 👏 Hubspot
 🫴 New AI Player
 ☠️ CRM as we know it will evolve
 👷‍♀️ Teams will build CRM in-house

 🧵 your thoughts.

What crm do you use today? 

And what are the biggest needs you have for any crm or crm-like instance to have for you to switch?

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In a world full of ai, taste is still in short supply.

About a year ago I met Mike. 

I can't tell you the positive impact he had on my journey. (and he probably doesn't even realize it)

I was burning out fast and felt like I was all alone. Burning out and feeling alone is a really difficult combo.

Even running a 60k+ person community, it's possible to feel alone.

We were speaking about collaborating on a project at the time.

We'd have conversations I'd yearned to have with somebody who's been in my situation. Has been successful.  He gave me space to open up and to not feel so alone.

He became a guide for me over a relatively short period of time. 

Following, I made some tough decisions and placed some bets. Not all of them panned out. 

But that's ok, my sleepless nights became fewer and further between. 

I felt more in control - even with failed bets and through tough times.

The tough times made me a stronger operator. More seasoned.

My love for growing our community grew stronger than ever in the process.

And today, I'm exactly where I need to be.

We caught up last week and snapped this picture. I'm sure he could sense a shift in me.

All because he was a friend before business.

If you're just repeating 'congrats on raising a round of funding' you're driving zero connection. And they probably don't even know they have a problem

The problem unaware bucket is where you can drive the most impact to revenue by changing your mindset.

Interviewed Leslie Venetz for our newsletter.

She's been doing signal-based outreach since 2009. Her take: every signal puts your prospect in one of three buckets. And most reps treat them all the same.

In this clip, she discusses the problem unaware one.

They just changed jobs and don't know what's about to hit them. 🤣

Her suggestion is to not pitch and deposit value. Leslie would wait two weeks after a new CPO trigger, then sent a 3-page guide on how to nail the first 100-day internal roadshow. 

Just straight value. 

How are you leveraging nuance with signal-led outreach?

Have you checked out what Relevance AI is building?

Excited about partnering with them at RevGenius. Have some great programming in the community we are rolling out.

They’re crushing it from down under (Australia) and establishing a bigger presence in the states.

Relevance AI allows Ops and Growth teams to build and manage an entire AI workforce in one powerful visual platform. 

This allows you to build custom agents in seconds and manage complex workflows with full context.

More importantly, they’re going to be helping GTM leaders learn how through some killer programming.

Stay tuned!

🤯

THE GTM ENGINE JUST FOUND ITS TURBO. 🚀

The gap between "having AI" and "scaling AI" is where most GTM teams are getting stuck. We're officially closing that gap today by welcoming Relevance AI to the RevGenius partner ecosystem.

Relevance AI allows Ops and Growth teams to build and manage an entire AI workforce in one powerful visual platform. While most tools give you a single assistant, they provide a team of autonomous agents that deliver human-quality work across your entire engine. This allows you to build custom agents in seconds and manage complex workflows with full context.

We’re obsessed with bringing you the tools that actually move the needle. Relevance AI is a massive addition to how we’ll build the future of GTM together.

 Link in comments!

#GTM #AI #RevOps #Growth #FutureOfWork

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