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Austin Mullins
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Solo Founder · SEOmatic
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Growth Marketing Consultant · nicorubino
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Co-Founder · Bagmaya
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Digital Marketing Manager · magier
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The mentors, in their own words.
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Austin Mullins
Enterprise SEO & Content Marketer With a Passion for SaaS, eLearning, eCommerce | Founder @ Conversion Media
Prior to running my own agency, I was the head of sales for a demand gen agency. I've also helped build the sales process of companies like BAMF Media.
Daniel Johnson
GTM & Growth Operator | AI & B2B SaaS | Fractional CMO | £18M+ Revenue Driven
Growth and sales are the same game played on different boards. I work with founders to identify their ideal customers with precision, build repeatable outbound systems, and create acquisition loops they can hand off and scale. If your pipeline feels unpredictable, this is where we start.
Zev Asch
Empathetic Listener. Strategic & Intuitive Creative Problem-Solver. Business Coach|Mentor
Automation continuously tempts us but, it is essential to have an efficient and highly personalized sales process with a talented and driven team. Even if you're bootstrapping or have a limited budget, "humanizing" sales is a must in order to differentiate your business; it enables us to create a genuine connection with prospective customers, which leads to increased conversions. I have hired and trained many sales representatives using a tested & proven sales hiring and execution process.
I've built and scaled the ops (CRM, prospecting tools, etc) and strategy of sales at multiple companies. I'll help you divide sales into outbound and inbound activities, set up email tools (Apollo, etc.), CRM (Salesforce, etc), analytics, campaigns, copy, and best practices
Daniil Kopilevych
B2B SaaS Sales Mentor and Cold Calling Partner. I help Pre-PMF Startups and Scaleups Book More Meetings with their ICPs.
I performed hundreds of outbound campaigns to close dozens of $10K+ deals. I can help you: - choose the optimal target audience - get your target audience's data quickly - create the best message - advise on outreach software to use
Peter Murphy Lewis
🕸️Fractional Chief Marketing Officer | 📺 TV Host | 🎧 Podcaster |🐒 CSO Zoo | Founder 🚲 | 👠Ultra-Marathoner
Outbound strategy from 0 to 100? Let's chat B2B in financial and healthcare Saas, or B2C in travel and leisure, or eCommerce and PPC. Cold calls, cold emailing, go-to-market, build a sales team, I'd love to help.
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"Demos landed, deals stalled."
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"Stalled deals die from silence, not price."
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What a sales mentor does
A sales mentor has already built the outbound motion you are about to build. You get a 1:1 call with someone who has sold a product like yours, run cold outreach that worked, and knows why most of it fails.
It is a second set of eyes on your sales motion, not a script to copy. Most calls do some version of five things:
- Name the cause. "Sales is hard" becomes a named cause: the wrong list, the wrong message, the wrong buyer. You leave knowing which one it is.
- Fix who you target. Half of failing outreach is aimed at the wrong people. A mentor helps you sharpen your ICP and find the buyer who says yes.
- Find the real champion. The decision-maker is often not the person who feels your pain. A mentor helps you reach the one who will fight for you internally.
- Diagnose the structure. The highest-value moves are structural. The problem is rarely your subject line. It is usually who, what, and where underneath it.
- Build the plan. You leave with a concrete weekly outreach plan: who to contact, what to send, and how to follow up.
The value is direction: who to target, what to say, and what to stop doing.
You also leave with a record. After each call, the takeaways are written down for you, ready to keep or skip:
Scott CowleyFounder-led sales reviewPick one buyer type and send 30 tailored emails before you touch the pitch again, a mixed list hides what is wrong.
Lead with a problem the buyer has already said out loud, the clever opener is what gets you archived.
KeepSkipEnd every call with the next step on the calendar, an open “I’ll follow up” is where deals stall.
KeepSkipCount replies and booked calls, not emails sent, so one change at a time tells you what moved.
KeepSkipWhere sales gets stuck
Most people book a sales call stuck on something specific:
- Referrals dried up. you got your first customers through your network and word of mouth, that well is running dry, and you have never built a deliberate channel to replace it.
- Outreach gets silence. you are sending cold email and LinkedIn messages, and almost nothing comes back. You cannot tell whether it is the list, the message, or the targeting.
- No process or CRM. deals close by luck, not by system. There is no pipeline, no CRM, no repeatable motion you can count on next quarter.
- The technical founder wall. you built the product and now you have to sell it, with no sales background and no one senior to learn from.
- Stalled enterprise deals. you have strong ROI proof, but big deals sit in nurture for months and will not close.
- About to hire reps. you are past founder-led selling and want to build a real sales function, but you have never managed one.
Most people here were never salespeople
The reader on this page is usually a founder or services operator who has to sell but was never trained to. You do not need a sales title to get value from a call. You need a specific problem and a willingness to change the approach.
Why outreach gets no replies
"I'm sending hundreds of messages and getting total silence" is the single most common thing people bring to a sales call. The volume of effort is rarely the problem. Something earlier in the chain is broken.
A mentor walks your outreach with you and finds the cause, usually one of these:
- The ICP is wrong. you are reaching people who were never going to buy, so no message would have landed.
- The message is generic. your copy reads like every other cold email, so it gets archived in two seconds.
- The list is bad. stale data, wrong titles, or contacts who do not own the problem you solve.
- The channel is wrong. your buyer does not live in cold email, or does not live on LinkedIn, and you are pushing on the closed door.
- Deliverability is broken. your domain setup is wrong and your emails never reach the inbox in the first place.
Fixing the right one is worth more than rewriting all of them at once.
The reply rate moves when you fix who the list targets and whether the email lands, well before the tenth rewrite of the copy.
Cold email that gets replies
Cold email still works, but the bar is higher than it was. Most founders break it in one of two places: the technical setup, or the message itself.
A mentor who has run cold email at scale can tell you where yours is leaking:
- Deliverability and setup. Domains, warmup, and sending limits so your email reaches the inbox instead of spam.
- The opening line. A first sentence that proves you did your homework, instead of a mail-merge that screams automation.
- The ask. A small, specific next step that is easy to say yes to, not a pitch for a 45-minute demo.
- Realistic benchmarks. What reply rate and meeting rate to expect, so you stop measuring yourself against a screenshot you saw online.
Who you send to and whether the email reaches the inbox move the reply rate more than the words do. Fix the list and your deliverability first, then sharpening the copy starts to pay off.
LinkedIn that builds pipeline
For a lot of B2B founders, LinkedIn is the channel that fits best, because the buyer is already there. But a dormant profile and a few connection requests is not a pipeline.
A mentor helps you turn LinkedIn into a channel that books calls:
- From dormant to active. a profile and a posting rhythm that makes you worth replying to before you ever send a DM.
- DMs that convert. an outreach message that starts a conversation instead of pitching a stranger in the first line.
- Sales Navigator and lists. how to find and build a list of the right people without paying for tools you do not need yet.
- Automation without the ban. where automation helps, where it gets your account flagged, and how to scale safely.
- Connections to pipeline. the step most people miss: turning accepted connections into booked calls instead of a dead contact list.
two moves, in order
Wake the profile up
a dormant profile and a burst of connection requests
a weekly post that earns a reply before you ask
Rewrite the first DM
pitching a stranger in the opening line
a question about their world they want to answer
Connections that turn into calls
Accepted requests become booked conversations instead of a dead contact list. It compounds.
The order matters: earn the reply before you send the DM.
Finding your ICP
The most common reason outreach fails is also the least obvious: you are selling to everyone. "Should I niche down or stay broad" is one of the most asked questions on a sales call, and the answer is almost always narrower than founders want to hear.
A mentor helps you get specific about who you are for:
- Niche down vs stay broad. Why a sharp, smaller target almost always outperforms casting wide, especially early.
- SMB vs enterprise. Which segment to start with, given your price, your sales cycle, and how much time you have.
- Decision-maker vs champion. The person who signs is often not the person who feels the pain. A mentor helps you reach both.
- Higher-value segments. When to move up-market to a segment that pays more and churns less, instead of grinding on low-value deals.
Building a sales process
If your deals close by luck, you cannot forecast, scale, or hand any of it off. Plenty of founders reach real revenue with no CRM and no process at all, and then hit the ceiling of what they can hold in their head.
A mentor helps you build the machine, not just send the messages:
- A CRM that fits. the right tool for your stage, set up so it helps you instead of becoming another chore you abandon.
- A list and a stack. where to source leads, and the small set of tools that make manual prospecting scalable.
- A weekly action plan. a concrete rhythm of outreach, follow-up, and review, so progress stops depending on motivation.
- A repeatable motion. the stages a deal moves through, so you can see what is stuck and why, instead of guessing.
The goal is a system you trust next quarter, not a heroic month you cannot repeat.
Mentors start diagnosing before the call. A typical first exchange after you book:
Daniil KopilevychEnterprise and long cycles
Selling into enterprise is a different game. The deals are bigger, the cycles are longer, and strong ROI proof is not enough to get a signature on its own.
A mentor who has closed enterprise can help you move stalled deals forward:
- Treat the segments differently. mid-market and enterprise need different motions. Running one playbook for both is why deals stall.
- Find the champion. long cycles are won by someone selling for you internally. A mentor helps you find and arm them.
- Map the buying group. enterprise deals have many stakeholders. Knowing who blocks and who buys keeps the deal moving.
- Unstick the nurture trap. pipeline that sits in nurture for months usually needs a concrete next step, not another follow-up email.
A second opinion from someone who has run these cycles is faster than learning each one the hard way.
a discovery call, x-rayed
Ten minutes on their current process and what it costs them1. Then the one outcome they are measured on this year2. Who else touches the decision, and who actually signs3. A next meeting booked before the call ends, not a proposal sent into silence4.
Open on their world
Their process and what the problem costs, before a word about the product.
The outcome that matters
One result they answer for. Everything you pitch ties back to it.
Map the room
Who influences, who blocks, who signs. Enterprise deals stall when you miss one.
Set the next step
A specific meeting on the calendar beats an open-ended proposal every time.
A strong discovery call is mostly questions. A mentor who has closed enterprise can tell you which one to lead with.
When to book a call
You do not need a giant question. Bring the one deal or outreach problem stuck on your desk this week. The most useful moments to book:
- Referrals are running dry. the warm network that carried you is thinning, and you need a deliberate channel to replace it.
- Outreach is getting silence. you are sending a lot and hearing nothing, and you cannot tell which part is broken.
- Before you hire your first rep. you want the motion to work and be documented before you pay someone to run it.
- Revenue happens by luck. deals close, but you cannot say why, and you have no process to repeat it on demand.
- You just became the seller. you built the product or just took over sales, with no playbook to inherit.
A focused 30 minutes with the right mentor moves a stuck deal faster than another quarter of trial and error.
The cheapest time to book is the week a deal first stalls, while there is still a quarter left to save.
What a mentor helps with
Sales is broader than outreach, and so is the network. You are not limited to a cold-email specialist. You can find someone who has done the specific thing you are stuck on:
- Cold outreach. Cold email, LinkedIn, list-building and the messaging that gets replies.
- Go-to-market. Who you sell to, why you win, and the channel motion that fits your product.
- ICP and positioning. Narrowing your target and sharpening the pitch so the right buyers lean in.
- Sales process and CRM. A pipeline, a stack, and a repeatable motion that does not depend on luck.
- Enterprise and B2B. Long cycles, multiple stakeholders, and the champion who carries the deal.
- Conversion and demos. The path from first reply to closed deal, including a demo that gets commitment.
- Pricing and the offer. How you package and present what you sell so price stops being the blocker.
- Building a sales team. Hiring your first reps and structuring a function once founder-led selling runs out of road.
Whether you are stuck on a cold inbox or a stalled enterprise deal, there is a mentor who has solved that exact problem.
You can also run it in reverse: post what you are stuck on as a help request, and mentors raise their hands to take it.
What people book sales calls about
Rarely what they end up solving. The ask on the booking form is usually a symptom, and a mentor who has built the motion before recognizes the pattern underneath it. Three that come up again and again:
walked in as, walked out as
Walked in as
A talent problem
I’m just not a salesperson.
Walked out as
A process problem
No system, so every call improvises.
Walked in as
An outreach problem
The emails get no replies.
Walked out as
A targeting problem
Right message, wrong list of people.
Walked in as
A closing problem
Deals stall before they sign.
Walked out as
A follow-up problem
No next step, so momentum dies.
Three calls, one mechanic. The problem that leaves the room is never the one that walked in.
Why GrowthMentor
Every mentor on GrowthMentor is vetted before they are accepted. Fewer than 5% of applicants get in. They are founders, operators, and sales leaders who have built real outbound, not influencers selling a course.
Because the network is deep in go-to-market and growth, not just raw outreach scripting, you can get help with the whole motion: who to target, what to say, how the funnel converts, and how to build the team and tools that scale it. Find the right person for this question, then a different one for the next.
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Hamel Shah · Co-Founder
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Read Lena's storyI like to set my own strategies and then get help from experts to improve on them and check if I'm on the right track.
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Read Minh's storyIt gave me fast access to expert-level insights that I couldn't get from academic research or user surveys alone.
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Read Nicola's storySometimes I'm stuck at one step and all I need is someone who can share experiences of what they did when they were in my situation.
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What people ask before their first call.
The volume is rarely the problem. It is usually the wrong ICP, a generic message, a bad list, the wrong channel, or broken deliverability. A mentor can walk your outreach with you and find the one cause worth fixing first, instead of rewriting everything at once.
Most cold email fails on who you sent it to and whether it reached the inbox, not on the copy. Fix your list and your deliverability first, then write an opener that proves you did your homework and an ask that is easy to say yes to. A mentor who runs cold email can show you where yours is leaking.
Usually the profile is dormant, the DM pitches a stranger in the first line, or accepted connections never turn into booked calls. A mentor can help you build a posting rhythm, write messages that start a conversation, and turn connections into pipeline instead of a dead contact list.
It depends on where your buyer spends time and which channel fits your product and price. For many B2B founders the buyer is already on LinkedIn. A mentor can give you a straight read on which channel to go deep on first, instead of running both at half effort.
Start from who already gets the most value from your product and is easiest to reach, not from who you wish would buy. The most common mistake is selling to everyone. A mentor can help you narrow to a target sharp enough that your message, list, and outreach all work harder.
Almost always narrower than feels comfortable, especially early. A sharp, smaller target lets you write better messages and build cleaner lists, which beats casting wide and converting no one. A mentor can help you pick the niche worth winning first and expand from there.
It depends on your price, your sales cycle, and how much time you can spend per deal. Enterprise pays more but takes longer and needs a champion. A mentor who has sold into both can tell you which segment to start with given your stage.
This is exactly who most people on this page are. The fix is building your first deliberate channel to replace the warm network. A mentor can help you pick that channel, sharpen your target, and set up a weekly outreach rhythm so growth stops depending on who happens to refer you.
Yes. You built the product and now you have to sell it, and most people on this page are in the same spot. A mentor gives you the senior second opinion you do not have in-house: someone to reframe the approach, prioritize your week, and tell you what to ignore.
If deals close by luck, you cannot forecast or scale. A mentor can help you choose a CRM that fits your stage, set up a lead source and a lean tool stack, and build a weekly motion with clear deal stages, so progress stops depending on memory and motivation.
Big deals are won by a champion selling for you internally, not by another follow-up email. A mentor who has closed enterprise can help you treat mid-market and enterprise differently, map the buying group, and give a stalled deal the concrete next step it needs to move.
One specific problem and any context that helps: your outreach numbers, your messages, the deal you are stuck on, or the decision you are weighing. GrowthMentor is a membership, and once you are a member, calls are included and most mentors offer their time for free. Browse the mentors above, read their reviews, and book a 30-minute video call directly on their calendar.
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