Stef Curcio

Growth Marketing Manager

LinkedIn client acquisition in <​15 mins/day | Trusted by the top 1% of LinkedIn’s Creators

“We don't have time to send DMs and create content”

This is the #1 LinkedIn lead generation problem for founders and teams.

- Some companies we’ve worked with have seen revenue boosts of up to 327% in <90 days -

⭐Some people who trust our services:
- Jasmin Alic (290k+ followers)
- Richard Van Der Blom (220k+ followers)
- Okoye Chinelo (150k+ followers)

… and many others.

Most businesses know they should have a DM strategy in place…

But let’s be real...

most people do not have time for this!

(And everyone hates DMs)

But LinkedIn lead generation comes hard for many for mainly 3 reasons:

1) Don’t know how to start a conversation
2) You are used to annoying pitch slaps
3) Have better things to do

We simply do this for you.

**Scale LinkedIn**:

A system of AI agents that generates clients on autopilot

**Including**

✅Content Agent
✅Lead validator Agent
✅DMs Generator Agent
✅Appointment setter Agent

🔒**Safe:**
Avoid being restricted by LinkedIn.

👬**Don’t burn through leads:**
Avoid the pray and spray approach.

⏱️**Timeline from start to results:**
Start to see 20%-50% reply rate in 14 days.


📈Case studies:

- Trevor Longino, Founder - Crowd Tamers, GTM agency: +$44k in revenue in 30 days
- Gal Agadi, Founder - Gravity, Content agency: +$90k in sales in 40 days
- Beatrice Vladut, Founder - B Branded, Branding: Doubled sales calls in 30 days
- Justin Fowler-Lindner, Founder - The Rose Garden, Lead generation agency: +12 clients in 90 days


✍️How to start:

Copy and paste the URL below to get your personalized LinkedIn outreach campaign - For free:

https://www.scalelkdn.com/campaign-builder

Founder

The FREE community for entrepreneurs that want to master Elegant Lead Generation

Join at: 

stefcurcio.com

My parents were here for 2 weeks in Okinawa.

We spent time together. Real time.

Threw ninja stars. Ate meals. Walked the beaches.

I took some time off.

And besides clients' work...

I paused most of my other tasks.

But here's what didn't stop.

My system.

While I was with them, my DM agent was working.

Finding leads. Sending messages. Booking calls.

I wasn't checking my phone every 5 minutes.

I wasn't stressed about pipeline.

I was just... there with them.

And the conversations kept flowing.

That's the whole point.

Most people think you have to choose.

Either you're grinding. 

Or you're living.

But that's a false choice.

If your business depends on you showing up every day...

You don't have a business.

You have a job.

Having something that would run without me was vital...

Because that is how I want to live my life.

Even if I have a one person business.

So...
While I'm throwing ninja stars with my dad...

My LinkedIn machine is working.

(yes, we actually did that 🤣)

While I'm eating dinner with my mom...

Leads are being validated.

While I'm sleeping, replies are coming in.

This is what automation actually means.

Not cutting corners.

Not sounding like spam.

It means building once so you never have to grind again.

It means being with the people you want to be with.

And still having your pipeline full.

That's the life I wanted.

And that's the life I'm living now.

P.S. Does your system runs without you?

71% reply and 3 interested leads.

How these 2 clients did it in 21 days.

Client A started from zero on LinkedIn.

No followers. 
No content. 
No clue.

👉 Three weeks in, he had three interested leads.

(founders in fintech)

From no business to interested leads.

Client B ran his first cold outreach campaign.

71% reply rate.

Not 7%. Not 17%. 

Seventy-one percent.

Here's what I did for both of them.

1) I optimized their profiles.

Not the vanity stuff. 

Positioning that made buyers stop scrolling and start reading.

Messaging that made them feel seen, not sold to.

2) I had them create at least two pieces of content.

Not daily posting marathons. 

Two thoughtful pieces.

Content that showed their thinking. 

Their experience. 

Their perspective.

Not "here's how to do X." 

More like "here's what I learned when I tried X."

Real. Honest. Human.

Then came the part that changed everything.
3) We focused on relationships over selling.

No aggressive DMs. 

No "let's hop on a call" openers.

Instead: genuine comments. 

Real observations. 

Actual interest in the people they were reaching out to.

Warm them up first. 

Build the bridge. 

Then, only then, mention what you do.

Client A's three leads came because he showed up as a real person.

Not a salesperson. 

Client B's 71% reply rate came because his DMs felt like they were from a person.

Not a bot. 

Not a template. 

A human who actually read their profile.

Here's the thing nobody talks about.

LinkedIn isn't broken. 

Most approaches are.

Most people optimize their profile...

Post once... 

Then DM like they're running a telemarketing operation.

Then they wonder why nobody replies.

But when you do the work:
- Profile
- Content 
-Relationships

...the system works.

Both clients proved it in their first month.

You can too.

Start with your profile. 

Make it professional.

Add two pieces of real content. 

Show your thinking.

Then reach out to 50 people this week. 

Not to sell. To connect.

Watch what happens.

The pipeline builds itself when you build it right.

P.S> Human first. Sales later.

I get 53.1% reply from my DMs.

Here is what I do (daily):

Research 35-40 prospects.
Validate about 24 leads.
Research all of them.
Send 30+ DMs.
Reply to DMs.

That is about 90-160 minutes a day.

In reality, I do not do any of this.

AI and VAs do this for me.

Here's the system:

My VA uses Kondo: Superhuman for LinkedIn DMs to manage the inbox.

-She splits conversations into tags

- Quickly closes low-priority threads.

- Uses keyboard shortcuts to reply faster.

What used to take 1 hour+/ now takes 20 mins for my VA.

Meanwhile, my AI agent validates leads.

Researches them.

Sends personalized DMs in my voice.

And tags me when needed.

(I typically clear my inbox in 5 mins/d)

No spam. No templates. Just context.

Then Extrovert comes in.

I curate feeds of my prospect's posts.

The AI summarizes them.

Suggests thoughtful comments.

My VAs reviews. I approves. I engages.

Two comments before a connection.

(15-20%+ acceptance and reply on average)

Top-of-mind without the daily grind.

The numbers you see above require 5 minutes of my time per day on average.

P.S. How much time do you spend in the DMs every day?

Hello LinkedIn people in Tokyo,

We are meeting on Thursday the 20th of November 2025, at Fáilte at 7 pm for a networking event. 

Leviリーバイ Pells

Venue name:

Fáilte

Address:

〒150-0043 Tokyo, Shibuya, Dogenzaka, 1 Chome−5−2 SEDEビル 5F

View event: Tokyio LinkedIn In-Person Meetup

Matteo Lombardi

Stratega

Stratega is a company that provides Digital Marketing Solutions for SMB's and Start-ups.
Within such a competitive environment in the Digital World, our Mission is to help our Clients Succeeding with a Strategic approach that involves a Deep Examination of all the relevant aspect involved Digital Marketing related to Your Company.
Our analytical approach starts with a detailed Company Assessment followed by an extensive Data Analysis phase that would design the right path towards your Business Goals.

Founder & Digital Strategist

PickEat

Responsible for defining the company's strategic sales and marketing 'vision' and for guiding the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO)

Chief Strategy Officer (CSO)

it's campus | startup accelerator

Start-up mentorship on Facebook Ads & Digital Strategy. My role is to support the Start-ups involved in the acceleration program by providing them recommendations on "how to implement a fast and scalable digital strategy" according to the KPIs set for the Demo Day.

Start-up Mentor

Italia's Growth Talent

The first Italian conference on the company's growth, 100% online.

More info at www.italiasgrowthtalent.it

Marketing Manager

Accenture

Italian Market - October 2018 - February 2019
UKI Market - February 2019- currently employed

Job Description:

•	Manage a portfolio of SMB clients with responsibility for growing revenue
•	Uplift revenue by providing consultative advice to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to help them grow their businesses across multiple channels - chat, email and phone
•	Demonstrate the value of our SMB advertising solutions 
•	Provide pre and post-sales support for all self-service products
•	Take responsibility for helping SMB clients drive results via their marketing campaigns through consultation, education, and support
•	Provide vital product insights and feedback from our customers to engineering.

Social Media Account Executive

Centre of English Studies (CES)

An Activity Leader works with students on guided tours, sports, afternoon/evening activities and parties. 

Job Description:

- This figure is responsible for looking after the students and ensuring they have a fun and interesting time.
- It’s a varied role: in the mornings the Activity Leaders are responsible for helping students get to class on time, testing and explaining new students about their new academic life; managing relationships with previously present students and helping to promote the social activities by making informational material and going around to classrooms making announcements. 
- Every afternoon and during the weekend the students have tours to various attractions around Dublin, guided by an Activity Leader.

Activity Leader

Move Your Inspiration srl

Development of my dissertation project: Strategic analysis of the company
Main points:
Resources and competences analysis
Competitive environment and competition analysis

Internship Student

Zamira Fashion Limited

Coordinator of the project for the development of a female collection (20 pieces).
The job was related to the team management and customer relationship. 
Also detailed translations of the fashion schedules from Italian to English

Team Coordinator

Founder @Stratega | CSO @Pickeat | B2B Tech Growth Marketer - sharing all my knowledge for free 🚀

Pickeat.it 👉 signed 4 partnerships with 10k+ companies in 2 months with NO BUDGET

Klondike.ai 👉 13 sales meetings worth 150.000€ booked in 2 months with NO BUDGET

vtenext.com 👉 37 MQL generated and positive ROI in 2 months with NO BUDGET

Redrays.io 👉 prototyped their app and saved 60% of the development costs

Duomodesign.it 👉 generated positive ROI with Facebook ads for 3 years straight

Would you like to achieve the same results for your business?
Email me: matteo@stratega.co

At Stratega our passion is your growth and we achieve it by partnering with you on digital marketing activities.
We do it as your business would be our business, following step by step your path towards your goal.

My academic career

☣︎2014 BSc in Management & Economics at the University of Florence

☣︎2014 PAL-INT Entrepreneurship course at the University of Florence

☣︎2017 MSc in Strategic Management at the University of Pisa

☣︎2018 Italia - USA foundation prize winner for Academic achievements (top 1000 in Italy)

☣︎2019 Scholarship & Master in Global Marketing & Communication at Centro Studi per l'impresa

& extra CV

☣︎ 2019 - Partner with The Start-up Training through Stratega for Digital Strategy

☣︎ 2020 - Moderator and Host for Growth Hacking Italia

☣︎ 2020 - Marketing Manager @ Italia's Growth Talent the biggest online marketing event in italy

☣︎ 2020 to date - Start-up Mentor for It's campus for Facebook ads & Digital Strategy

☣︎ 2020 Growth Hacking graduate at Growth Tribe

Running a startup could be overwhelming

That's why I built Basilio!

Basilio is my new AI assistant, trained on our data (Drive, Hubspot, Notion), so he can help me be more efficient for PickEat. He manages 5 employees:

- Sales manager
- Operations manager
- Report manager
- Project Manager
- Archivista (archive manager)

And he's about to hire 3 more!

All I did was follow this video:  https://lnkd.in/ebr5c4iH

How it works
It will help you run AI on your terminal with access to your tools via api or MCP servers. This way can generate agents able to manage multiple tasks simultaneously (Claude's agent function).
Best of all? It's so smart that it builds itself.

For the past couple of days, it produced reports, prepared a CRM list of prospects, prepared my meetings, created an updated task list, and  documented each step (it also updates itself if you make it smart with documentation)

I am mindblown.

All you need is a Claude subscription (but you can also use Gemini for free to begin with or add more AIs with smaller models for heavy lifting)

I have no coding experience and was able to build it. 

Chuck Keith you are a hero, sir

PS: worried about company permissions and sensitive data? Can be handled ;)

Gemini 3?

Wait until you take a look at Antigravity.

Released by Google, it’s like if Lovable had a baby with Cursor’s code view. The feature set is wild:

• Distinct Plan / Code / Review modes.
• Generates and edits images internally with "nano banana" (yes, really).
• Runs multiple AI agents on different tasks simultaneously (like editing w/ comments à la Notion).
• Has a built-in browser agent debugger that actually tests the platform.

I can’t wait to test this over the weekend.

What about you?

Gemini 3, OpenAI 5.1, improved Claude, new Deepseek (OCR), but also KIMI thinking… It’s going lightning fast. No wonder talent is moving around.

Meanwhile, the LinkedIn post scheduler deleted my post ....

[pic generated with Nanobanana - just gave my post as reference :) ]

PS: Do we call this a tool Friday Alex Roggero⚡️?

I've been dreaming about AI agents....

Then I woke up and found an AI GTM platform 🪄 

Today, our sales game changes forever, and so does yours.

We've been using Crono for prospecting and outbound; now it'll become our orchestra director.

Don't believe me? See for yourself!


Congrats, you guys, for this massive release, outstanding work 🚀

Last week I risked it with animal protection.

I pushed a Llama into my Mac. The result? Free AI.

Ollama is a tool that lets you run AI models directly on your computer. No cloud, no subscriptions, no data leaving your laptop.

🦙 Why do I care?

 → Test and iterate with no limits
 → Works offline
 → My data stays mine
 → Completely free and open source

🤖  It won't replace ChatGPT or Claude for complex tasks.

But for everyday work—drafts, data cleaning, quick research—it gets the job done 🦙

And it makes you realize: AI isn't magic. It's software. You can run it wherever you want.

Want to try? brew install ollama — you're live in 5 minutes.
🦙 Anyone here running local models except for Lorenzo?


Alex I am writing this only because you made me feel guilty.. so ye, it’s a TOOL FRIDAY! 


No Llamas were hurt while creating that image with Nanobanana pro

FOMO is everything on LinkedIn nowadays

I already see people seeking for templates for Gemini 3

The model came out 6 days ago.

Unless is your only job I doubt you’d be fine tuned a model in 5 days.

YouTubers are only coming out now and that is their job.

I wonder… how is this possible?


Going back to my Reddit hole

Reddit, Inc.  is outstanding

I always used it but now I am active and my life changed for the better

I’m trying to build and improve agents while sharpening my automation skills and everything I need is there.

Really deep tech answers (documented), reliable sources, friendly people and lots of free stuff.

I got outstanding n8n templates out there which I’m playing with right now..

Have a deep question you always wanted an answer to?

Try “site: Reddit-yourquestion”

You can also find amusing stuff like the guy that makes incredible headphones (see pic in comment)

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