Steve Schmidt 🧲

Content Strategy and Revenue Architecture - Creator of SOS (Sales Operating System), for top of funnel

I’m all about direct, data-driven lead generation. By that, I mean I turn cold emails into serious revenue machines for my clients.

With access to our database of over 280 million verified leads, I mix Firmographic, Technographic, and Persona data to create highly focused playbooks that hit the right people at the right time. My goal? Equip sales teams with a clear view of their Total Addressable Market (TAM) and a blueprint for finding the companies that need their solution the most.

It’s all in the details: open job data, employee growth (or lack thereof), social media spikes, web traffic, product launches, and tech stack investments—these indicators reveal who’s ready for a solution and set you up with messaging that resonates. When sales teams embrace this approach, it changes the game. You’re not just emailing—you’re connecting with people already facing the pain points you can solve.

I train teams to work smarter with tech that multiplies output and turns potential into predictable results. Let's make those numbers work.

With over 25+ years of experience in B2B sales, I have worked with world-class organizations such as Outreach, AT&T, and T-Mobile, and successfully founded and exited TIDAL, the leading worldwide sales development company.

The mission - to empower B2B leaders to grow their revenue and influence through content strategy and outbound, together!

I look forward to seeing you become MAGNETIC!

CRO, Owner and Content Led Selling Evangelist

MAGNETIC is the global leader in Content Led Selling, guiding the B2B world into the new method of generating revenue.

Steve Schmidt

I got my start sales living under a friend‘s kitchen table.

Started from the bottom, literally, now we’re here.

Stay the course.

Steve Schmidt 

Magnetic - Content to Cashflow | Chief Revenue Officer @Magnetic and SpotLight (Sioux Falls)

Sales is less about being great at “selling”, and more about being resilient to handle the losses with grace in order to hang on for the wins.

i’m not always been great at that and I’ve taken the loss - at times -  pretty hard over the last 26 years.

But, over time, I’ve learned that 

- Follow Up Matters 

- Persistence can’t turn a no into yes. 

- Unqualifying is great and necessary for fast growth venture backed SaaS companies. In Service companies, you are literally there to serve.  No’s do become yes’s in time, but not if your are an asshole and disregard them quickly. 

- It is always an average. Refine, repeat. This loss doesn’t define you just like the next win doesn’t define you.

I used to put my weight in how many impressions a post would get, or how people would react to something I posted…., waiting for leads to pour in. 

About a year ago  I realized how silly that was and how damaging it can be.  

What goes up must come down and that goes for the ego as well.

Now, I rely on the quality of the work to do the talking.  

And it works, extremely well. 

Give it a shot.  Happy selling, and even happier living!

No pressure, no progress.

It’s hard to argue that pressure doesn’t motivate people in a positive way.

Balance is important.

Rest is imortant.

But pressure is the great motivator.

Qonto

Qonto is the leading European business finance solution helping SMBs to simplify everything from everyday banking and financing to bookkeeping and spend management. 

My responsibilities includes but are not limited to the following: 

→ Building dashboards in Metabase for outbound and inbound including funnel stage conversion rates, bookings, contract signed, ARR and KYB.

→ Owning the Demand Generation tech stack across 14 tools including budget preparation, selection, set up integrations, training, documentation of best practices and renewal.

→ Setting and driving the roadmap with stakeholders from partnership, legal, Sales, Teck, product, business intelligence, IT, and finance.

→ Serving as the primary POC across sales, marketing, and CS teams.

Demand Generation Ops manager

Country Lead France

Aptivio

Aptivio helps sellers by uncovering anonymous buyers, understanding their behavior, and directing you to engage the ones most likely to buy ↓


https://www.aptiv.io/

Strategic Advisor

SHIELD INTELLIGENCE

→ Took it from 0 to $2M ARR without funding.

→ Led global revenue strategy reporting directly to the CEO.

→ Directed & trained a team of 5 for sales, Sales Ops, Ops, CS ops.

→ Administered Hubspot including automations, sequences, workflows, reports and dashboards.

→ Owned the pricing strategy, reporting and tooling across sales and CSM.

→ Set and scaled quota setting, commissions, forecasting, pipeline management and invoicing.

→ Created and managed short and long-term Sales and Customer Success targets, reports, and metrics, including bookings, funnel stage conversion rate, ARR/ACV/TCV, churn, net $ expansion

→ Collaborated with cross-functional teams, including Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, Engineering, and Operations, to analyze and develop revenue strategies.

Head of revenue operations

1nfluencers

1nfluencers marketing is The B2B SaaS Influencer Marketing solution where brands and influencers unite at scale

1nfluencers marketing is a B2B SaaS Influencer Marketing solution.

→ Closed 220K ARR: $120K from my own pipeline and $100K inbound.

→ Hired, trained and onboarded 3 SDRs and an AE.

Head of sales

Queue-it

Queue-it is the leading  B2B SaaS virtual waiting room platform for managing online traffic peaks.

→ Closed $180K ARR from my own pipeline in the Italian market.

→ Trained new joiners in prospecting outbound activities and managing the full sales cycle.

Business Development Associate

We Own It ApS

COLLAGE is an online community dedicated to fashion.

→ Responsible for setting up tracking through Google Analytics & Tag Manager.

→ Performed ongoing keyword research to be used for blog post and paid campaigns.

→ Involved in SEO weekly update with the CMO and Growth Marketing manager.

→ increased App downloads by 400% & Sign-ups by 350%.

Growth Hacker

Supervisual

The platform connects brands with a community of creators for digital content for clients' SoMe channels. 

→ Performed market research on competitive landscape and industry trends.

→ Responsible for account development, cold calling, email marketing, assessing client needs, and customer service Tasks.

Business Development Representative

RevOps strategies for B2B SaaS companies

Ciao a tutti 👋

I'm an Italian who moved abroad at 19. At 30, I lived already in 5 different countries. 

I spent the first 6 years of my career in sales and Revenue Operations, mostly in the B2B software industry.

Two key principles have shaped me in becoming a better professional:

1️⃣ Learn and execute in order to gain data, insights, and optimize. 
2️⃣ Do extra and share your learnings with your team to make people around you better.

What are my interests? 😍

🍜 Food
🎧 Turntables and viniyls
🏃‍♂️ Fitness and hiking
🏝 Travelling

Shot me a funny DM and let's talk over a digital coffee ☕️

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