B2B growth blog

My thinking on building growth machines, organised around six core topics that form my methodology. Each article connects theory to practice, showing not just what works, but why it works and how to adapt it to your context. Written for consultants and course creators who are serious about systematic growth.

B2B growth blog

Assess your current state

Honest assessment of where you are now, what's working, what's broken, and what resources you have.

Visitor identification

See which companies visit your website, even if they don't fill out a form. Prioritise outreach based on buying signals.

How to write engaging LinkedIn posts

Likes mean nothing if they don't convert into business. Break down winning formats, hooks, and structures that attract your ideal buyer and drive action.

Who to interview

Identify your best customers, recent churned accounts, and lost prospects. Build a list of 8-12 people who can tell you what really drives buying decisions.

Confirmation and reminders

Send confirmation immediately with what to expect. Remind at 24 hours and 1 hour. Each touchpoint reduces no-shows.

For heads of growth

See the full funnel from first touch to closed revenue, identify where leads leak between marketing and sales, and track the metrics that connect activity to outcomes.

Run experiments and analyse results properly

Follow your test plan without peeking early or changing mid-test. Monitor for implementation issues. Segment results to understand which audiences responded. Extract qualitative insights, not just numbers.

Improve your visuals

Images and videos determine whether ads get noticed in feed. Test formats systematically: single images versus carousels versus videos, and match visual type to segment and awareness stage.

Lead magnets that work

Match your offer to where prospects are in their buying journey. Problem aware, solution aware, and product aware buyers need different things.

Build automations systematically

Choose the right tool for the job. Handle edge cases before they cause problems. Test thoroughly on sample data before going live. Monitor for failures after launch.

Dominate one channel before adding the next

Focus beats diversification. Scale one channel until it stops working efficiently, then add one more. Always have a backup channel started, but put 80% of effort into your primary channel.

How to plan your week like a pro

Manage your time like your ad budget. Get the highest ROI from your hours with personal audits, ideal-week calendars, and timeboxing.

How to design customer onboarding

Map the first 30-90 days to deliver quick wins, set expectations, and prove value before customers question their decision to buy from you.

Why traffic experts hit a plateau

Deep channel expertise doubles revenue but still hits a ceiling. Mastering one engine isn't enough. See why system thinking beats specialisation.

Weekly planning sessions

Weekly planning sessions turn monthly plans into weekly execution. Set the top 3 priorities, assign owners, and ensure everyone knows what to work on.

Website CMS

Build and manage your website content. Choose a platform that balances flexibility, ease of use, and integration with your growth stack.

Users and permissions

Set up users with the right access levels before they start working in HubSpot. Understand how seats work, create teams that match your organisation, and configure permissions so people see what they need without accessing what they shouldn't.

How to write a go-to-market strategy for B2B growth

Learn how to write a go-to-market strategy that defines your ICP, positioning, pricing, and channels. Includes real examples from service and product businesses.

When to post on LinkedIn for maximum reach

Stop leaving reach to chance with random timing. Use a pre-posting checklist, well-timed publishing, and first-hour engagement to multiply impressions.

Pop-ups and remarketing

Capture visitors before they leave with exit intent, scroll triggers, and timed pop-ups. Use LinkedIn and Meta lead forms to recapture those who did not convert.

How to decide what to track

Track what matters for growth decisions. Map key conversions, name events with clear conventions, and document tracking specifications.

Sales reporting

Build pipeline dashboards that show deal health at a glance, track your personal performance against targets, set up revenue forecasting, and monitor forecast accuracy over time.

How to create high-quality content

Write content that educates, engages, and converts with clear transformation. Create for one reader with proof, optimise for search, drive qualified traffic.

How to warm up your LinkedIn profile

Boost LinkedIn reach in the week before you post. Warm the algorithm with daily chats, meaningful comments, a cleaner network, and new recommendations.

New connection - inbound

Convert people who reached out to you into qualified conversations while their interest is still warm.

How to handle expansion conversations

Position upgrades and cross-sells as solving customer problems, not hitting your sales targets, so offers feel helpful instead of pushy.

How to build customer feedback loops

Create systematic processes to gather customer input, surface issues early, and act on feedback before problems become churn events.

Often forgotten lead sources

Find leads leaking through gaps most companies ignore. Google Business, support emails, phone enquiries, and high-traffic pages without CTAs.

Lead routing

Set up notification workflows that alert your team when leads take important actions, configure lead assignment automation that distributes leads fairly, and create data quality workflows that keep your database clean.

How to protect your focus

Remove distractions and control your digital environment. Create conditions for high-quality focused work without constant interruptions.

How to plan your LinkedIn content calendar

Stop scrambling for ideas the night before you post. Set up a simple Notion calendar, balance value and sales, and stay three weeks ahead consistently.

Find bottlenecks through research and data

Look at your dashboard to identify where conversion drops, then use customer research to understand why. Bottlenecks are where the most impact lives.

How to choose the right metrics

Focus on metrics that drive decisions and reveal bottlenecks. Avoid vanity metrics that look good but don't help you grow.

Nurture to booking

Move warm leads toward a discovery call. Share case studies, answer objections, drop booking links at the right moment. Fast track for hot leads, slower for warm.

How to price expansion and growth

Structure pricing tiers, usage-based fees, and add-ons that enable customers to grow with you whilst capturing more value as they scale.

Collaboration tools

Design together, record walkthroughs, whiteboard ideas, and share passwords securely across your team.

VoIP and calling

Make and receive calls directly from your CRM, automatically log conversations, and record calls for training and compliance.

Why shiny objects kill growth

Random tactics scatter your focus and burn you out. Systems compound effort into sustainable growth. See why working without structure leads to chaos.

How to monitor customer health

Track engagement, usage, and sentiment to identify at-risk customers before they churn so you can intervene early with targeted outreach.

Handover to customer success

Create a smooth transition from sales to customer success that builds trust from day one.

Documentation

Build your internal knowledge base, document processes, and create SOPs your team will actually use.

Calculate how many leads you need and what you can afford

Work backwards from revenue to figure out how much traffic you actually need, then calculate the maximum you can spend per lead whilst staying profitable. This tells you which channels are even possible before you waste budget testing everything.

How to prevent and reduce churn

Identify churn patterns, build early warning systems, and create win-back campaigns for customers considering leaving to salvage relationships.

How to structure cross-sell offers

Identify complementary products or services that solve related problems and present them at the right moment in the customer journey.

Content download follow-up

Move content subscribers from passive readers to active prospects ready to talk.

How to track key conversion events

Set up conversion tracking for real business actions. Track meetings booked, sign-ups completed, key pages visited, and payments made.

Build your 90-day plan

The roadmap from where you are to where you want to be. Three parallel tracks working together: big initiative, 10% improvements, and buffer capacity.

Start right, work left through the awareness stages

The hottest traffic (people comparing you to competitors) is expensive but easiest to convert. Start there, dominate it, then work backwards to warmer traffic, then cold traffic as you hit channel limits.

How compound growth beats hard work

Sarah runs fewer experiments but wins anyway. She aligns 12 metrics across 4 engines. See how systematic leverage creates exponential results.

How to manage tasks with clarity

Create a trusted task system so you never forget anything. Always know what to work on next with capture, prioritisation, and timeboxing.

How to set up cold outreach tools

Lock in domain, DNS, inbox warm-up, and sending volumes before writing a single email. Protect deliverability from day one with proper setup.

How to choose proposal software

Compare PandaDoc, Proposify, and other tools based on your sales complexity, CRM integration needs, and pricing workflow requirements.

How to design your outreach strategy

Map the right prospects, message, and channels before sending a single email. Make every touch land in the inbox of someone ready to talk.

Improve your calls-to-action

Match CTA to segment readiness. Hot traffic wants "Book demo now", cold traffic wants "Get the guide". Asking for too much too soon kills conversion. Asking for too little from ready buyers wastes opportunities.

Cold outreach - value add

Start conversations with cold leads by leading with value instead of a meeting request.

How to identify expansion opportunities

Spot upsell and cross-sell opportunities from usage patterns, customer feedback, and lifecycle signals before customers even ask for more.

Reconnect dormant connections

Revive your existing LinkedIn network and surface opportunities hidden in connections you've ignored.

Account foundations

Configure the core settings that affect everything else in HubSpot: timezone, currency, and default properties. Then connect your website and advertising platforms so data starts flowing into your CRM from day one.

Improve your body copy

Test message angles (pain, outcome, proof, comparison), positive versus negative framing, and platform-specific copy structures. Different segments respond to different angles, and you won't know which until you test.

Create reusable templates

Proposal templates speed up sales. Use PandaDoc or DocuSign to create master templates with merge fields, pricing tables, e-signature and approval workflows.

Meeting setup

Choose meeting types, set durations and buffers, place links where intent is highest. Make booking frictionless so ready leads do not drop off.

How to run better meetings

Change your approach to meetings so they stop wasting time. Drive progress with agendas, preparation, best practices, and clear follow-up.

How to define your SEO content strategy

Set a traffic goal, group keywords by intent, and build a strategic content pillar map that scales with clear launch plans ready to execute.

How to track proposal performance

Monitor which sections get read, how long prospects spend reviewing, and which pricing options convert best so you can optimise proposals.

New lead sequences

Deliver what they asked for, then introduce yourself. Build trust over 3-5 emails before asking for anything. Different flows for different entry points.

Meeting notes

Automatically record, transcribe, and summarise your calls. Share insights with your team without manual note-taking.

Lead scoring

Configure scoring criteria that balance demographic fit with behavioural engagement, implement point values for actions that predict conversions, and create score-based workflow triggers that route hot leads immediately.

How to run monthly performance reviews

Analyse what worked and what didn't. Assess experiments, identify patterns, and decide what to double down on or cut completely.

How to repurpose content efficiently

Convert every long-form guide into LinkedIn posts, carousels, videos, and podcast snippets in minutes with AI prompts and reusable templates.

Forms that convert

Place forms where intent is highest. Choose fields that balance data quality against conversion rate. Make every form work harder.

For sales managers

Monitor your sales team's activities, track pipeline health across all reps, identify deals that need attention, and coach based on real data instead of gut feeling.

How to promote content for organic reach

Launch your repurposed assets with a step-by-step plan. Time email blasts, social drops, community posts, and engage for 60 minutes per launch.

Brand kit

Upload your visual identity so every email, quote, and document that leaves HubSpot looks consistent. Set default colours, fonts, and logo placement once, then let templates do the work.

New connection - outbound

Turn accepted LinkedIn requests into engaged prospects without coming across as pushy or salesy.

How to design multi-touch sequences

Structure your campaign across multiple touchpoints using email, LinkedIn, or both channels for maximum reach and response rates.

Project management

Track tasks, deadlines, and team workload. Keep projects moving without losing visibility into who's doing what.

Improve your hooks

The first line determines whether anyone reads your ad. Test different hook types (questions, stats, pain statements, outcome promises) to find what stops the scroll for each segment.

Prospecting

Find and verify contact data, enrich leads with company information, and build targeted lists for outreach.

Map the customer journey and required beliefs

Every purchase requires customers to believe certain things are true. They need to believe the problem exists, that a solution works, that you're the right choice, and that buying now makes sense. Different people get stuck at different stages.

Lifecycle stages

Define the stages a contact moves through from subscriber to customer, map the exact handover points where marketing passes leads to sales, and configure automation that updates lifecycle stages without manual work.

Post-meeting nurture

Keep deals moving forward when prospects need time to think or consult their team.

No-show reschedule

Recover missed meetings without burning the relationship or sounding frustrated.

Monitor and optimise automations

Track performance over time. Identify bottlenecks and failures. A/B test workflows like you test landing pages. Compound automations by connecting them into complete systems.

Set your 90-day goal

One clear outcome you want to achieve in the next 90 days. Ambitious yet realistic.

Account setup for sales reps

Configure your personal workspace so HubSpot works for how you sell. Set working hours, notification preferences, connect your email and calendar, and set up snippets and templates you'll use daily.

How to build your weekly scorecard

Design a dashboard that tracks core metrics, shows trends, highlights problems, and keeps the team focused on what matters.

How to build a content production workflow

Turn your organic-growth strategy into a production system. Track ideas, score by impact, move through workflow, and publish on time consistently.

Sales enablement tools

Build your product library with accurate pricing, create quote templates that look professional, configure payment integration, and set up e-signature workflows that eliminate printing and scanning.

How to build reports in GA4

Build useful GA4 reports once your events are tracked. Understand what's working with funnels, segmentation, and automated reporting.

How to build your target lead list

Find and qualify leads with precision so you can spend less time prospecting. Focus more time on closing actual conversations that matter.

How to design renewal processes

Make renewing frictionless and proactive so customers don't have to think about it whilst you spot risks early enough to address them.

Test systematically and apply learnings

A/B test one element at a time on highest-traffic pages. Start with headlines (biggest impact), then proof, then CTA. Apply winning patterns across similar pages without re-testing everything.

For leadership

Build board-ready reports that show revenue forecasting, pipeline coverage, and progress against company targets without getting lost in operational detail.

AI tools

Use AI for research, writing, analysis, and automation. Pick the right tool for different tasks in your workflow.

How to design upsell paths

Create clear progression from entry tier to premium offering so customers see the natural next step as they grow and need more value.

Re-engage stale lead

Bring cold leads back to life when they've stopped responding to your messages.

How to double revenue without doubling the work

Small improvements across 12 metrics multiply into exponential growth. Learn how engines connect, why improvements compound, and where leverage lives.

Write hypotheses and design proper experiments

Don't just "try something". Write a hypothesis predicting what will happen and why. Design the experiment with proper controls so you actually learn whether your hypothesis was right.

How to run quarterly business reviews

Deep strategic reset with full performance analysis. Identify system-level bottlenecks, validate strategy, and set the next roadmap.

Live chat and chatbots

Engage website visitors in real-time, qualify leads automatically, and route conversations to the right team member.

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