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.

Fox Red Outbound

Email deliverability will be the biggest challenge for businesses in 2025. 

The only things that matter with an email:

- Is it in their inbox?
- Is it worth opening?
- Is it worth reading?
- Is it worth a response?

4 key areas, but all are irrelevant when emails go to the spam folder to die.

Founder

LIMIVEX Sales & Marketing Consultants

Ownership of the entire client relationship, from onboarding to campaign creation and management.

Built out and adapted the outreach function for clients as first outbound hire, including CRM management, account management, and outreach process across multiple channels (Email, Social Media, Phone).

I then turned this into a repeatable process comprising content marketing, high-volume marketing outreach, audience segmentation, and bespoke messaging to relevant prospects and scaled across 15+ clients in 2 years.

Coaching and working with Account Managers to continually refine the manual outreach and nurture prospects identified by higher-level outreach.

Head of Client Success

Senior Marketing Engineer

Account Coordinator

Hot Dog Solutions

Tasked with growing our client's revenue streams and partner base through multiple channels including  social media, email, phone, affiliate marketing and face to face.  

Management of client accounts across UK & Canada, including finding new business and developing the existing relationships to drive revenue across the portfolios.

Development Coordinator

Fishnet Fishbar

Responsible for Day-to-Day running of the Shop, encompassing all aspects of service, cooking and 
preparation. Management and maintenance of Stock levels, including coordinating deliveries in line with business trends to minimise stock loss.

Outside of general operations, responsible for Food Hygiene/Health and Safety Implementation and ensuring the Owner’s standards are met in all areas, including staff performance.

Coordination and execution of large orders for groups/events, including liaison with organisers and staff to ensure completion.

Restaurant Manager

STORM GLOBAL INC. 

Responsible for the recruitment, training, development and performance management of 8 distributors directly and a further 15 Indirectly.

Tasked with acquiring customers on a B2C basis for our Client with my team turning over 50-60 new customers weekly, grossing ~£125 per customer for the client.

Personal ‘Go Live’ rate for new customers of 98% 8 weeks after sale.

Awarded ‘Rising Star’ award at the Credico 2018 Awards ceremony ‘In Recognition of the immediate impact made on the organisation’

Strong knowledge of Daily KPI’s and one-to-one coaching, as well as Team Meetings and Impact Meetings to drive performance.

Strong networking skills utilising the CEO’s of sister companies to further develop my team and myself, both on one-to-one and a group basis.

Given the opportunity on several occasions to run a ‘satellite office’ of 6-8 people on trip out to cities with no previous representation of the client, dealing with all aspects of management, both personnel and administrative.

Senior Sales Manager

Nando's UK & IRE

Responsible for assisting the General Manager in the Operation and Management of a restaurant with an annual turnover of £2.5m.

Solo shifts managing up to 20 Staff during peak business hours. Duties include simultaneously managing customer experience and expectations, stock levels, staffing levels as per business needs, and merchandising of restaurant to ensure maximisation of profit by driving sales and controlling costs whilst ensuring the customer feels like the primary focus.

Where necessary, sent to cover other restaurants in the region with different demands and trends. This is usually with a new team I have no experience of, with the same expectations and success as my home restaurant, demanding extreme flexibility and adaptability as well as a need to create a rapport quickly and easily.

Away from day to day running of the restaurant, high emphasis on Operational standards, staff training and development including reviews/disciplinary meetings, stock orders and networking with local organisations.

Good knowledge of Profit & Loss reports, and identifying trends within the business quickly to improve efficiency and profit margins.

Attendance of meetings with Regional Directors and Managing Directors representing my restaurant to share best practice, and network with other regions to ensure our ideas are at the cutting edge of the company.

Assistant Manager

hmv Ireland & Xtra-vision Ltd

Management of customer service team, including recruitment and performance management. Responsible to the MD, oversaw escalations of concerns and rectifications.

Customer Service Manager

National Amusements

Responsible for the training, schedules and performance of staff across multiple departments with a strong emphasis on superior guest service whilst meeting and exceeding sales targets.
Responsible for merchandising of the bar and restaurant.

Key holder and shift runner, with a strong operational knowledge and ability to prioritise staff distribution to maximise efficiency and revenue within the Company’s 2nd highest turnover site in the UK.

Dealing with guest concerns/queries, advanced bookings, special events and individual requests on a guest by guest basis

Daily operations: cash management, monitoring staffing levels as per business requirements, health and safety inspections, stock management.

Trained to run all aspects of the projection booth in the Technical Managers absence, including lens changes and playlist building

ODEON Cinemas Group

Team Leader

Email Deliverability Specialist | Outsourced Email Marketing | Consultancy

Imagine – you find the perfect gift for that special someone. 
You make sure it’s their favourite colour, with a matching gift box and ribbon.

You find the perfect label, with a message so bespoke they would know who sent it before they even read the name.

Now imagine, after all that, you give it to the courier to deliver it directly…

But it ends up in the bushes down the street.
Never to be seen again.

 
Unthinkable, right?

 
Yet this is happening to 52% of B2B emails as of November 2024:

- Tighter restrictions from the likes of Google and Microsoft.
- More sophisticated software screening and removing anything that poses a risk.
- Bad data, poor domain reputation, and inconsistent activity crippling outreach efforts.

All leading to highly researched, bespoke messages never being read by your prospects.

Fox Red Outbound was created to support businesses using email outreach as part of their go-to-market strategy. From small consultancy projects and audits to fully managed outbound campaigns as experts in getting you in front of your ideal customer.

You deserve their attention.
Outfox the competition.

scot@foxredoutbound.co.uk
https://calendly.com/foxredoutbound

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