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.

Marc Mac

Guidebook Inc.

Partner

Caret

Caret, a company born out of frustration and necessity.

Three successful companies, dozens of failed attempts at partnering with vendors to help facilitate our revenue growth.

They failed to get their team to understand what problem we solved and who we solved it for, so we ended up with a calendar full of meetings with tire kickers.

After enough carrots, we started to gain vision: revenue generation is holistic.

All of the pieces must work in harmony with each other to have success, and it's an iterative ever-evolving process; this is why we have teams for all four of the key areas of the revenue-producing value chain:

(1) Market Research: How do we segment the market? Who do we target? How do we position ourselves in an impactful way?

(2) Lead Generation: Outbound calling, account-based-marketing, digital marketing, and traditional marketing all working hand-in-hand to deliver quality leads on the calendar.

(3) Sales Playbook: Once we get the quality lead on the calendar, what process, talk track, and collateral do we leverage to increase conversion rates and close for the highest $ value possible?

(4) Revenue Operations: What technology should I use to facilitate the process & garner actionable insights for growth? How do I set it up? How do I manage it?

We're revenue-isticians. Not magicians.

Took company from $0-$500K in ARR in less than 18months

Co-Founder

SDR Insider

Started as a Thursday Morning Linkedin Live Talk Show with two guys doing the deed, holding it down in the trenches of Top of Funnel Business Development every day and cracking open the nuts and bolts of how to maybe do it better or differently. 

Then we wanted to bring a sole discussion and demo around products BDRs can use in their efforts so we launched #TUESDAYNITETECH. Once a month we invite a not so well known software vendor whose product can have an impact on the sales professional or leaders of growth oriented companies. This show is more of an event with prizes and giveaways, and various audience participation segments. Check it out

Founder

RevGenius

RevGenius is a group of revenue generating sales and marketing professionals brought together to learn, share, support, and grow with each other. You can consider us your alt work family!


Interested in joining? Fill out the application form below and enter "Marc Mac" in the mandatory "referred by" field.

https://revgenius.typeform.com/to/tIYoaGw7

AMBASSADOR

RevLeague

Outbound Sales is hard. Even harder when you are Remote. RevLeague is a community of motivated and competitive sales professionals looking to level up their game thru actively participating in coaching and competition. Access to some of the best sales tools in the business. ConnectandSell, Outplay, Sendoso, Dooly and many more. Come join some of the best in the business and get that feeling of comraderie like it was when you worked in office!!  
Hosting Open Office Hours Mondays and Wednesdays 5pm - 6pm EST Register in the slack channel

Founding Member & Coach 

HYPCCCYCL

HYPCCCYCL is an invite-only, professional community where top B2B revenue leaders cross-train their GTM skills with VCs.

Brand Ambassador

Originally formed on Patreon as the Sales Avengers; Justin Michael was Iron Man of course, and I was Hawkeye, however a ceast and desist order was issued by Disney and we became the SalesBorgs; JM was the only B2B Professional with a partial robot on his profile pic face, so it seemed fitting at the time. 

As a founding member, I've adopted The JMM, Justin Michael Method on cold-outreach and closing B2B sales. THIS WORKS! No BS. Supercharges Daily Results. Get Conversations going. Don't waste time getting ghosted! BE PROACTIVE!!!

Active member supporting and coaching B2B sales reps on cold outreach, i.e. email sequence breakdown, Cold Calling Scripts, etc.

Community Manager

SellX

SellX joined Tidal in Feb 2022, but the platform was not ready for full integration with Tidal Legacy tech stack. So official merger did not occur till June 16, 2022. SellX did not originally plan on inheriting a w2 BDR team, but that was the deal. I resigned on July 15th, a week before SellX went totally 1099. 

SellX enables companies to acquire customers by launching customizable campaigns to a network of top-performing sales reps to generate and qualify leads. The data-optimized platform is complete with integrated sales and marketing tools that track performance, automate workflows and manage payments. Platform features include AI-matching, targeted customer segments, multiple campaign types, defined sales rep criteria, personalized sequences, multi-channel outreach, and real-time analytics.

Business Development Representative

TIDAL

Building SNIPER ABM strategies; Developing world-class Cold Call coaching program; Cracking TOF on Enterprise Accounts

Clients:
Smartek21 - www.smartek21.com - Intelligent Technology Transformation as a Service

Rezi - www.rentrezi.com - Real Estate Rental Optimization Platform

Interactions - www.interactions.com - Customer Experience Platform

Amplifi - www.amplificap.com - Finance as a Service

Tech Stack Proficiencies: Orum, SalesLoft, SalesForce, ZoomInfo, Chorus.ai, Gong, MS Suite, Linkedin Sales Nav, GSuite, Vidyard, Canva, Slack, Phoneburner, Koncert,

VP Tidal Labs

Responsible for the Management and Development of the BDR team; Retention of existing clients; New Biz Dev for Tidal Consulting clients

VP, Business Development

Clients: 
Comstar - www.comstar-usa.com - Managed Services/Info Security

Idelic - www.idelic.com - Fleet Safety Management System

RingLogix - www.ringlogix.com - White-Label UCaaS and VOIP Solution for Managed Services

Quisitive - Payment Processing integrated Loyalty Program

Sr. Director, Business Development

LincWare

Responsible for all outbound sales strategies, i.e. cold calling, emails for newly launched SaaS product, Admit + and other doc mgmt SaaS solutions provided by Lincware

Cracked 4 of the top 20 high value Prospects in first month

LincWare (Rochester, NY)  is a leading developer of e-document solutions, including Admit+for streamlining residents’ admission process into long-term care; EOS, an employee onboarding solution, and LincDoc, an eForms application that simplifies paper-based processes where compliance and efficiency are critical.

Sales Development Representative

ZEV Media

Running strictly cold calling outbound motions with goal of setting up discovery meetings for Zev Media, a NYC Based Digital Marketing Agency focused on digital advertising and social media campaign management

Concentrating on Home Health Care Agencies and Service-Based Companies, i.e. Corporate Janitorial Service Companies, HVAC Contractors, and Duct Cleaning Specialists.

The solutions I provide, to make money to support my family, is "what I sell", it is certainly NOT who I am!

Spent 25 years as windshield warrior full-cycle sales rep in NYC! No Road Rage here!

Didnt use the words tech stack or top-of-funnel before 2019. 

Spent the last two years mastering both.

Currently, building a new kind of outsourced Sales Development firm called Caret, still trying to help as many salespeople as I can be better than they were yesterday through 1:1 Coaching, aka www.livecoldcalls.com, sharing content about Sales, and hosting and participating in LI live events .

You can count on me. I will be there for you in any way necessary, whether you are a customer, friend,  or both. 

Grew up Jewish, but Music is my religion. Concerts are my temple, and Sugar Magnolia is my favorite song. 

I believe in the power of one's network. If I can't help you personally, I believe there is someone out there I can connect you with that might. 

I support change and have a growth mindset. 

Let’s keep moving forward, together.

If you like what I have said so far and want to connect with me, send the request!

Or call me at 908-878-7705 I would love to talk shop!

Marc Mac ☎️

40yo but your Experience section dates back to only 2021?


I don't know about any of you out there, but I use Linkedin profiles to gage whether or not I want to connect with someone, learn from someone, ..HECK... Trust someone!

If you appear to be over 30 and your Experience section in your profile only gives me history back 5 years, 

And you want me to trust your business experience, your ability to Executive Coach me, or show me how to scale my business, 

I would like to see some history of that in your background. 

Maybe your greatest wealth of experience was acquired over the last 5 years, but show me where you came from before...(𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘧 𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 "𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘧𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘴𝘢𝘣𝘣𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭", 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘴 𝘮𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘶𝘨𝘩)

AM I CRAZY?
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I am a Sales Coach. My niche is cold calling. I have been cold calling, essentially for 30 years. A lot of it was face to face for some time. But the last 5 years have been primarily on the phone. The phone is my weapon of choice. I make cold calls every day. I post about it. Youve probably read some of it. But I came from so many other places. All of which you get when you hire me to coach you. 
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If you want to get better at having conversations with cold prospects then maybe I can help. DM me 
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#conversationconverters #coldcaller4L #outcomes #activations
#abh #livecoldcalls #chillycalls #sdrinsider #brand30 #salesdevelopment

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