💜 Will Allred

Lavender

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Sorter

Sorter’s internal AI, CATIE( Creative Algorithms for Text and Image Enhancement) blends behavioral sciences with cutting edge data science and natural language processing enabling you to easily apply an objective science to the art of communication. 

We help create better content faster.

Fueling the backend of our platforms for healthcare,  marketing, sales, and HR, CATIE analyzes and determines  what distinguishes top-performing campaigns from baseline and under-performing content within your audiences.

Sorter (sorter.com): 1:Many Communications
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TopRight

TopRight is a strategic marketing firm based in Atlanta practicing Transformational Marketing. Our work puts the customer first through TopRight’s 3S Methodology. We help companies; define a Story that motivates customers to care, buy and stay, develop a Strategy that gets the right message to the right customers at the right time, and enable the Systems needed to execute on those winning Strategies.

In my time at TopRight, I have served as support and run several internal, partnership and client projects. Below, I have outlined a few highlights from my time as a Senior Associate and the head of HR at TopRight:

I currently lead all technology-focused initiatives and projects within TopRight. This includes: 
• Helping clients assess the best possible marketing systems. This includes technology sets, the people running those systems and the processes that enable them.
• Currently managing TopRight’s technology partnerships. 
• Running day-to-day execution of our clients' digital marketing needs.

I am also on a TopRight's team of three working on the launch of a client's groundbreaking ICO and future blockchain application that is set to redefine the private equity market. My role on the project is focused on the creation of the client's whitepaper, buzz-creation (aka marketing the launch), and general support. 

As a core member of TopRight’s internal marketing team, I assist in TopRight’s inbound marketing strategy execution including campaign ideation, content creation, influencer outreach, and funnel conversion strategy and tactics.

As part of a larger initiative to improve internal processes, in addition to my role as a Senior Associate, I am serving as the HR Coordinator. This role has required:
• The creation of an employee handbook to help define and shape company culture
• Improved meeting processes
• Improved recruiting processes
• An initiative to improve team dynamics through the better analytical management of skillsets, capacity, and personality.

Senior Associate

As an Associate at TopRight, I served as support and run several internal, partnership and client projects. Below, I have outlined a few highlights from my time as an Associate at TopRight:

• Led a grassroots, multi-channel campaign for a non-profit to support free speech from ideation, through research, to creation.
• Managed the relaunch of the TopRight website. 
• Helped in the brand relaunch of a Marketing Technology Operations Company in ~30 days. Our teams are also currently leading a multi-channel, co-branded campaign.
• Helped multiple clients assess the best possible marketing systems. This included technology sets, the people running those systems and the processes that enabling them.
• Assisted a multi-billion dollar Telco in establishing a partnership alliance program for the software industry.
• Currently leading an initiative to improve internal operations and efficiencies.

Associate

In my time as an Analyst at TopRight, I served as support and run several internal, partnership and client projects. Below, I have outlined a few highlights from my time as an analyst at TopRight:

• On a team of two, my team helped rebrand a supply chain management software company. With a new brand narrative and a revised corporate sales deck, the company saw three consecutive record-breaking quarters of sales growth.
• Helped multiple clients assess the best possible marketing systems. This included technology sets, the people running those systems and the processes that enabling them.
• As a core member of TopRight’s internal marketing team, I assist in TopRight’s inbound marketing strategy execution including campaign ideation, content creation, influencer outreach, and funnel conversion strategy and tactics.

Analyst

YoVo

I was working on Yovo in the background for a while. I learned loads about entrepreneurship working on this project, but ultimately I could never get it off the ground. The idea was simple: 
- resumes are ineffective at screening 
- recruiting calls are filled with human error/bias

Using voice analytics, the plan was to help hiring mangers make smarter decisions by giving an objective look at conversations.

I was able to spin up exciting conversations in the enterprise, but eventually, I decided to focus my time and energy into Sorter.

First Founder Attempt

Healthgrades

Worked with Healthgrades as an initial member of their Elective Provider Solutions team. After building out the initial pipeline for Healthgrades direct sales model. We consulted with heads of marketing for enterprise level specialty practices to help design digital marketing solutions to best utilize Healthgrades.com. 

Tweaking and building upon market insights for our products- we were able to design action oriented campaigns for practices and their physicians. The challenge was not only to create campaigns that would succeed, but to create campaign designs that would sell in a market adverse to change. Through our work we found it was important to help providers:

 1. Make practices and providers more discoverable, 
 2. Increase new patient acquisition, 
 3. Enhance practices and providers' online reputations.

These were the three things we could do most effectively for our clients. 

At Healthgrades, there is a "healthy obsession" with driving a ROI for clients. So by working in concert with our clients, we help maximize their ROI by learning from our current marketing efforts, and making the proper adjustments as needed.

In my tenure there, I was:

•a top revenue producer on my team
•able to uncover optimization strategies not only in product design, but also sales and marketing strategy for both Healthgrades and clients
•built out entirety of the direct sales pipeline
•cultivated relationships with agencies and practices

Healthgrades is backed by Vestar Capital Partners, as is the top site for rating doctors and hospitals. Truly on the cutting edge, it is where America goes to find a doctor.

Manager: Elective Provider Solutions

As a summer sales intern, I served as CEB's first interaction with HR executives. Cold calling on a territory of 100 HR executives, based in firms with annual revenues ranging from 50-750 million dollars, I was able to effectively introduce C-suite executives to CEB's valuable advisory resources. 

As an intern team, we were tasked with helping recruiting with their outreach to prospective employee's. We designed potent marketing material driving the impactful value of one's work at CEB, and the advantages of being a member of CEB's motivated workforce. 

CEB is the leading member-based advisory company. By combining the best practices of thousands of member companies with our advanced research methodologies and human capital analytics, we equip senior leaders and their teams with insight and actionable solutions to transform operations.

CEB offers comprehensive data analysis, research and advisory services that align to executive leadership roles and empower clients to focus efforts, move quickly, and address emerging and recurring business challenges with confidence.

CEB trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: CEB).

HR Leadership Council

Northwestern Mutual

After working to attain my North Carolina Life, Health, and Disability Insurance, I worked with potential clients to develop financial solutions to achieve their desired long-term success. 

This is where I learned my love of sales and marketing, as I saw the impact I was able to have by effectively showing the benefits of Northwestern's Life Insurance products. Through this valuable experience, I was able to drive many never would be customers into the sales pipeline at Northwestern.

Financial Representative

Carrboro Capital

As a summer intern, I evaluated small, rapid-growth businesses in North Carolina for acquisition. I would forecast potential risks for the companies and report a pro/con analysis to my senior managers. 

Also as a summer intern, I was tasked with analyzing financial statements for potential acquisitions. My timing when joining Carrboro Capital was especially advantageous, as I witnessed the acquisition of the local retailer Southern Season.

Private Equity Summer Analyst

Kidder Properties

Working for the four employee (including myself) start up Kidder Properties, I was able to effectively work cross-functionally with a litany of responsibilities that wouldn't have otherwise been given to a person of my age and experience. 

In my first summer with Kidder, I assisted in the analysis and acquisition of approximately 50 foreclosure homes. Comparing acquisition costs and renovation costs with the projected income from renting and ultimately selling the home, I was able to produce ROI reports. After openly discussing the tangibles and intangibles of these potential assets with my supervisor and the CEO, we would come up with a judgment for the perspective home. 

In my second summer, my focus shifted to the operational side of the business helping to reduce costs and improve the overall quality of the rental properties we provided. After analyzing the past performances of different purchased assets, I would determine if budget changes needed to be made to improve the long-term quality and therefore profitability of the home. Also in my final summer with Kidder, I helped train and coach a successor to take my place.

Real Estate Acquisitions & Renovation Operations

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💜 🔮 Will Allred

Cofounder @ Lavender | Cold Email Agents Powered by Deep Research, Reasoning, and Billions of Analyzed Sales Emails

"Outbound is dead during the holidays. We'll launch this in January" Hope my competitors aren't reading this. 😉 Here's how I use data (and my perspective as a buyer) to respond to this predictable seasonable complaint 

1.The Data: Reply Rates
The holidays are not the worst season for getting replies. That would be July. Did you stop emailing then? ;) 

2. More data & perspective 

Holidays are actually an opportunity. Send volumes go down BIGLY during the holiday season. This increases mental bandwidth to evaluate your message.

BUT, this new bandwidth doesn't mean ship spam templates. If you're not getting replies? You're probably not going deep enough to trigger reciprocity during the season of giving.

More depth. More personalization.

Tiz the season for thoughtfulness.

So... do you scale thinly prompted workflows? ship templates? labor over writing 1:1 emails while your family misses you dearly? 

No... you just buy Ora the only AI sales agent that actually writes emails like a human.

Sellers, your competitors' cold emails use psychology to open the doors you can't. Here's 12 principles to help you catch up  (+ 1 bonus)

1) Cognitive overload: 
--> too much, I'm out

2) Heuristic substitution:
--> hard question? what does this say?
--> easy question? what does this look like?

3) Loss aversion
--> Missing out on > What I'll gain
--> Competition is doing X > 69% more X

4) Reciprocity:
--> "They put effort in. I should give back."

5) Cognitive Miser:
--> Mental Shortcuts
--> "Oh, this is a sales email. Skip."

6) Confirmation Bias:
--> "Oh, it's an AISDR. I know what this means."

7) Ambiguity Aversion
--> Unclear = No Action
--> Concrete Understanding = Action

8) Friction Avoidance
--> Big Ask = Little Action
--> Little Ask = More Action

9) The Von Restorff Effect
--> The most different item gets remembered
--> Word choice can make you memorable

10) Attentional Bias
--> We selectively focus on what priority *now*

11) The Mum Effect
--> We don't want bad news shared w/ our boss.

12) Reactance
--> You push, they pull away

BONUS: Power Conservation Theory
--> Status quo maintenance by those in charge

Pop these into the chatgpt modal in your Lavender Email coach. Use them to critique your current emails, brain storm some new ideas. 

Also... thinking this could make a great longer form blog post - should I do it?

Realization from the lil weekly office hours Kellen, Samantha and I run.

GTM Engineers, marketers, sellers... call the role whatever you want.

Folks are just looking to figure out how to create conversation. The principles that create connection are the same. The tools used vary.

You're not "learning clay".

You're learning how to show strangers you understand their world view and might have solutions for them.

If you want to join our Wednesday "masterclass" (2pm EST) - just lemmekno

Anthony Natoli

LinkedIn

I work and partner with LinkedIn’s fastest growing tech companies, Enterprises and global brands as part of the New Business Marketing Solutions team.

Accomplishments thus far:

Responsible for 8+ figures of revenue generated since being off ramp in January 2024:

FY25: 112% to goal (8 figure quota)
FY24: 103% to goal (multi 7 figure quota)

Won a 1 million dollar customer in Q2 2025

Senior Account Executive

QA Wolf

Recruited to QA Wolf, a Series A Startup, to rebuild their entire outbound GTM motion for the SDR team.

Hired & lead a team of 7 rockstar SDRs.

Accomplishments prior to leaving:

→ Hired new team members, re-wrote outbound playbook and re-built tech stack infrastructure 
→ Built out lead-routing, qualification and SFDC account mapping & ownership
→ Increased meeting booked to SAO conversion rate from 30% to 80%
→ The team drove $2m in SAO qualified pipeline over 2 quarters 
→ Personally sourced $250k in pipeline

This helped QA Wolf hit their 2023 annual ARR goal, leading to a Series B round in 2024.

In addition to leading a team of SDRs, I reported directly to the co-founder / head of growth and worked cross-functionality with RevOps, Marketing, and Sales Leadership to optimize SAO & Pipeline production and efficiency.

Head of Sales Development

Lattice

Accomplishments before leaving for my first ever pursuit & opportunity into leadership:

→ FY23 Ramp: 102% quota attainment

Enterprise Account Executive

Outreach

Accomplishments before leaving:

→ FY22: 105% attainment | Closed 6 net-new logos in 9-months of ramp 
→ FY22: AVC $90k | $540k closed/won ARR
→ Built $1.2m in AE sourced pipeline in 9-months of ramp

New Logo Account Executive focused on companies with 500-10,000 employees

Demandbase

Promoted from AE to Sr AE after 1 year to work with Demandbase’s most innovative and strategic mid-market prospects & customers including Sprinklr, Braze, Accolade, Docebo, Fullstory, Checkout.com, D2L, Movable Inc, Axway, and many more.

→ Q1 2021 323% quota attainment 
→ Top rep globally for Q1

→ FY20 144% quota attainment | $2.5m in ARR closed/won
→ Top Mid-Market Rep in attainment & revenue globally 
→ FY20 Presidents Club

Senior Account Executive | Mid-Market

-FY18 130% Pipeline Attainment  
-Sourced over $2,000,000 in Closed/Won Opportunities
-Mid-market record for most meetings turned to pipeline in 1 month (22)
-Top SDR for Mid-Market Segment & rookie of the year
-Supported two AEs in our most strategic Mid-Market segment, San Francisco, CA
-Promoted to AE after 9 months in the role

Senior Sales Development Representative

Ethos Lending LLC

Full Cycle AE

150% quota attainment FY17 
125% quota attainment FY16

Presidents club FY16 & FY17

Business Development Representative

Senior Account Executive @ LinkedIn | AntNat Coaching | I post about sales, growth mindset and personal development based on my real-life experience

Senior Account Executive at LinkedIn | 10+ years in SaaS | In my role at LinkedIn, I work with high-growth tech companies, enterprises, and global brands to help them grow revenue.--~6 years ago, I almost quit sales...During the last week of Q4 in December 2019, I lost 3 deals in a single day and put up a 0 in my first Q4 as a SaaS AE. This was only a few weeks after I had hit a personal rock bottom, too. Just at the age of 26.Instead of throwing in the towel, I doubled down on feedback, learning, self development and skill building. 3 months later, I closed my first 6 figure ACV deal and never looked back. That same year (2020), I made President's Club and closed over $2.5m in ARR.Since then, my journey has lead me to where I am now.. As a result of my experiences, I now also share content that helps SDRs and AEs build and close more pipeline without sacrificing their personal development and mindset; all based on lessons from my real life experience.TLDR:  I am a normal guy with big goals who has been through some hard stuff and adversity. My mission is to use my real-life experience to help others crush it in sales &amp; life.In my free time, you will find me with my family, hanging down by the Jersey Shore, running, lifting, working out, hanging w/ my dogs, enjoying New York Sports, golf, trying new coffee shops and restaurants, and traveling.All content, thoughts and opinions are my own.For brand sponsorship opps please email anthony@natolisnuggets.com

Strategic Account Executive

Building a personal brand on LinkedIn changed my life. And no I’m not being dramatic. 

Here’s why you should consider it.. 4.5 years later and from 2k connections to nearly 60k:

-It helped me build thousands of connections, brand deal opps, network opportunities, & referrals
-It’s helped me tell my personal story and impact thousands
-It helped me land my current role! 

Most importantly, some of my content has helped others land new roles, hit their quota, earn more money and change their habits/behaviors, etc to live a better life. How damn cool?

& so much more.

All of this helped change the trajectory of my career & life.

The most common objections people tell themselves:

1. I don’t have the time
2. People will judge me

For “I don’t have the time” - I call BS. Show me your screen time and I bet we can find 30 minutes a day to post or comment. More tactical examples to help with this below.

For “people will judge me” - welcome to the club. Anything worth doing in life will A.) Put you out of your comfort zone and B.) Draw attention from people who are just sitting on the sidelines. That’s ok. Life is too short to take criticism from those not on the same path

Tactical:
-You don’t need to post every single day to start
-Stop scrolling TikTok/IG for 30 minutes and post instead
-Find content inspiration from others in your network. Reframe into your own story
-Tell YOUR story. Everyone has a journey to share
-Start with sharing lessons from your real life experience
-Share customer wins and how you are helping them
-Post content you genuinely enjoy
-Use DMs to actually connect with people you see posting on LinkedIn
-Comment your POV on posts! Another way to get into the mix! One of my comments had 50k impressions last week.

There’s a lot more here to share but I wanted to keep it simple.

At the very least, you build yourself career insurance, meet some great people and get your work out into the world. Who knows, you might end up landing some new clients, build that business or land that next dream role you’ve been wanting.

Happy Friday!

Senior Account Executive @ LinkedIn | Sharing lessons from my real-life experience to help sales reps win in sales & life | Sales Professional, Creator & Speaker

Soft skills in sales are what separate top performers. Here are 19 soft skills that you rarely will learn in a traditional sales training that can make all the difference:

→ Knowing how to get to friction fast
→ Balancing confidence with humility
→ Project Managing & Uncovering risk
→ Knowing what questions to ask & when
→ Listening for what’s not being said directly
→ Reading power dynamics inside an account
→ Knowing when to push vs when to pull back
→ Knowing how to influence & test champions
→ Navigating internal politics to get deal support
→ Remaining patient while still driving momentum
→ Turning complex problems into simple language
→ Conflict management when stakeholders disagree
→ Building trust without over-explaining or overselling
→ Framing conversations so customers feel ownership
→ Managing your own emotions and ego when you lose
→ Emotional regulation when deals slip or urgency drops
→ Executive presence on calls without being performative
→ Having good energy & not needy so prospects open up
→ Asking uncomfortable questions without sounding combative

Here's how you learn soft skills:
-Sometimes they come naturally to people (intangibles)
-9 out of 10 times you need to put in the reps and learn from losses
-Overcoming hard things in your personal life or past helps you build EQ
-Having a fun, interesting and joyful life out of work helps you remain centered

For me personally, I learned these things from getting burned in deals (learning the hard way) and overcoming hard things in life.

I try to learn from losses the best I can and constantly seek feedback.

I no longer put 'deals' on a pedestal or let them impact my self-worth. This works for me because it drives the energy in which I operate. This is how you 'detach'.

What did I miss?

Sunday: 

-Football
-Lots of coffee 
-Little bit of work
-Diner for breakfast 
-Recovery / rest day 
-HomeGoods, TJMaxx, PetCo

Feeling like Frank The Tank in this scene of Old School. 

Ready for a short week and Thanksgiving with the family. 

New puppy comes home next week. 

Excited for week 2 of my new running journey. 

Lots of good momentum at work with clients. 

Feeling grateful for everything. 

Let’s go.

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