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The exact walkthroughs I hand to clients—screenshots, checklists, and examples that take you from zero to live.

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Introduction

B2B growth rarely stalls for lack of ideas; it stalls because teams cannot translate theory into a working funnel fast enough. The guides on this page remove that friction. Each walkthrough captures the exact sequence I use with clients—screenshots, check-lists, and real data—so you can move from blank page to live campaign without second-guessing the next click.

Every guide is tied to a core theme of the growth engine: Working Smarter, Growth Foundations, Demand Generation, Marketing Funnels, Sales Pipeline, or Contract Value. Pick the area that is blocking revenue, follow the checklist, and you will find the right tool settings, field mappings, or copy swipe ready to paste. No fluff, no vendor bias, just proven steps documented in the order they need to happen.

Bookmark the page before you dive in. I update each guide after every project debrief, adding fresh screenshots when platforms change UI and noting shortcuts learned the hard way. If your stack differs slightly, the principles still hold; adapt the specifics and ship. The sooner the system runs, the sooner you can measure real lift.

Must-read guides

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Pre-growth audit

Expose the three hidden leaks that will swallow next quarter’s ad budget—then patch them in a week while it’s cheap, not next year when it’s catastrophic.

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Pre-growth audit

Working smarter guides

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Master your workweek

Finish Thursday with the week’s real wins locked, walk away Friday at 4 p.m. guilt-free, and still rack up 7 ½ extra focus-hours for the projects that move your career.

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Master your workweek

Growth foundations guides

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Pre-growth audit

Expose the three hidden leaks that will swallow next quarter’s ad budget—then patch them in a week while it’s cheap, not next year when it’s catastrophic.

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Pre-growth audit
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Tracking

Know—don’t guess. Walk away with a clean, single-source tracking stack that tells you exactly where revenue comes from and flags leaks before they burn budget—so you scale with confidence, not crossed fingers.

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Tracking
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Customer research

Turn five 30-minute calls into copy that converts, ads that click, and tests that win—without lighting money on “guess and check” media spend.

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Customer research

Demand generation guides

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Decide on traffic channels

Stop “spray-and-pray” channel tests and pick one pipeline-filling play you can actually afford, scale, and prove—so every euro in ad spend (or cold-outreach hour) lands where intent and volume meet.

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Decide on traffic channels
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LinkedIn lead generation

Build a 90-day LinkedIn engine that turns profile lurkers into booked calls—no ads, no spam, no posting ten times a day.

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LinkedIn lead generation
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Cold outreach

Build an outbound machine that books sales-ready meetings on autopilot—without spamming, blacklisting, or burning brand goodwill.

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Cold outreach
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B2B advertising

Turn ad spend into pipeline—not vanity clicks—by matching the right hook to the buyer’s awareness stage, structuring campaigns for insight, and scaling only what proves profit.

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B2B advertising

Marketing funnel guides

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B2B conversion optimisation

Turn random website tweaks into a repeatable test-and-learn engine that lifts booked-meeting rates (and your confidence) every single sprint.

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B2B conversion optimisation
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Lead nurture

Turn cold addresses into warm conversations—guiding prospects from “who are you?” to “let’s talk” with value-packed, stage-matched emails that book meetings while you sleep.

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Lead nurture

Sales pipeline guides

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Sales pipeline setup

Turn a spaghetti CRM into a buyer-verified pipeline that speeds deals, drives predictable forecasts, and keeps marketing and sales rowing in the same direction.

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Sales pipeline setup
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Close B2B deals

Close confident “yes” deals—on time and at full value—by running a buyer-centred close process that turns qualified pipeline into booked revenue without resorting to pushy tricks.

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Close B2B deals

Contract value guides

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B2B retention

Turn fresh contracts into long-term, high-margin relationships by proving ROI in the first 30 days and engineering “why would we ever leave?” moments that slash churn and open painless upsell paths.

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B2B offers

Shape an “of-course we’ll buy” B2B offer—laser-matched to one ideal customer, priced for premium value, and documented so every touchpoint (sales call, ad, email, AI prompt) sells the same irresistible promise.

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B2B offers

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B2B advertising

Turn ad spend into pipeline—not vanity clicks—by matching the right hook to the buyer’s awareness stage, structuring campaigns for insight, and scaling only what proves profit.

See guide
B2B advertising
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B2B conversion optimisation

Turn random website tweaks into a repeatable test-and-learn engine that lifts booked-meeting rates (and your confidence) every single sprint.

See guide
B2B conversion optimisation
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B2B offers

Shape an “of-course we’ll buy” B2B offer—laser-matched to one ideal customer, priced for premium value, and documented so every touchpoint (sales call, ad, email, AI prompt) sells the same irresistible promise.

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B2B offers
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B2B retention

Turn fresh contracts into long-term, high-margin relationships by proving ROI in the first 30 days and engineering “why would we ever leave?” moments that slash churn and open painless upsell paths.

See guide
B2B retention
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Close B2B deals

Close confident “yes” deals—on time and at full value—by running a buyer-centred close process that turns qualified pipeline into booked revenue without resorting to pushy tricks.

See guide
Close B2B deals
Guide

Cold outreach

Build an outbound machine that books sales-ready meetings on autopilot—without spamming, blacklisting, or burning brand goodwill.

See guide
Cold outreach
Guide

Customer research

Turn five 30-minute calls into copy that converts, ads that click, and tests that win—without lighting money on “guess and check” media spend.

See guide
Customer research
Guide

Decide on traffic channels

Stop “spray-and-pray” channel tests and pick one pipeline-filling play you can actually afford, scale, and prove—so every euro in ad spend (or cold-outreach hour) lands where intent and volume meet.

See guide
Decide on traffic channels
Guide

Lead nurture

Turn cold addresses into warm conversations—guiding prospects from “who are you?” to “let’s talk” with value-packed, stage-matched emails that book meetings while you sleep.

See guide
Lead nurture
Guide

LinkedIn lead generation

Build a 90-day LinkedIn engine that turns profile lurkers into booked calls—no ads, no spam, no posting ten times a day.

See guide
LinkedIn lead generation
Guide

Master your workweek

Finish Thursday with the week’s real wins locked, walk away Friday at 4 p.m. guilt-free, and still rack up 7 ½ extra focus-hours for the projects that move your career.

See guide
Master your workweek
Guide

Pre-growth audit

Expose the three hidden leaks that will swallow next quarter’s ad budget—then patch them in a week while it’s cheap, not next year when it’s catastrophic.

See guide
Pre-growth audit
Guide

Sales pipeline setup

Turn a spaghetti CRM into a buyer-verified pipeline that speeds deals, drives predictable forecasts, and keeps marketing and sales rowing in the same direction.

See guide
Sales pipeline setup
Guide

Tracking

Know—don’t guess. Walk away with a clean, single-source tracking stack that tells you exactly where revenue comes from and flags leaks before they burn budget—so you scale with confidence, not crossed fingers.

See guide
Tracking

Further reading

B2B marketing guides

Effective B2B marketing hinges on clarity of objective, speed of delivery, and discipline in measurement. The marketing guides here start by defining the single business outcome—pipeline contribution, opportunity velocity, or expansion revenue—then trace the reverse path to the smallest executable test. You will see how to structure campaign briefs, map buyer journeys, and align enablement assets with decision stages. Screenshots walk through channel set-ups in platforms such as LinkedIn Campaign Manager, Google Ads, and web-form automation, ensuring that budget, targeting, and conversion tracking line up from day one. Each guide ends with a scorecard template so you can compare early results against industry benchmarks and iterate before spend scales. By following the sequence you bypass common pitfalls: under-defined personas, disconnected goals, and reporting that lags reality. The aim is momentum—ship a minimum viable campaign, gather signal, and compound learnings into the next sprint.

Lead generation guides

Lead generation collapses when acquisition and qualification live in separate silos. The lead generation guides therefore pair traffic tactics with lead-scoring rules and hand-off procedures. You will learn how to build intent-based audiences, craft offer hooks that signal buying stage, and set automated enrichment for firmographic data so sales never receives a blank record. Detailed checklists cover channel alignment—why paid social for awareness, search for capture, and outbound sequences for account penetration—and show how to string them together in a single dashboard for cost-per-qualified-lead tracking. To keep quality high the guides include scoring matrices calibrated on historic win rates, ensuring that only prospects with sufficient buying signals route to human follow-up. Finally, examples demonstrate how to feed rejection reasons back into audience exclusions, closing the loop and lifting efficiency over time. Follow the playbook and you move from sporadic enquiry spikes to a predictable, scalable lead engine.

Sales funnel guides

A funnel is only as strong as its weakest stage. The sales funnel guides focus on removing friction between marketing qualified lead, opportunity, and closed-won. They outline how to design pipeline stages in the CRM, embed service-level agreements for speed-to-first-touch, and automate task assignments so no deal stalls in limbo. Screen-by-screen walkthroughs show how to build multi-threaded email sequences, call queues, and calendar links that respect buyer preferences while maintaining momentum. You will also find templates for discovery questions rooted in proven frameworks, ensuring that need, urgency, and budget surface early. For revenue leaders the guides offer cohort analysis dashboards that visualise stage-by-stage conversion and uncover bottlenecks in real time. When applied together, these steps raise forecast accuracy and shorten the sales cycle, turning pipeline meetings into forward-looking strategy sessions rather than backward-looking post-mortems.

I revisit every guide quarterly, folding in platform updates and lessons from new client sprints. If you spot a gap or need a walkthrough that is not yet live, send a note via the contact page; the fastest way to have a problem solved is to surface it. Continuous feedback keeps the library sharp, relevant, and relentlessly practical.