Sardar Azimov

Founder and CEO at Skief Labs (Growth & Outbound Agency)

Saint Tropez, France (+01:00 UTC) English, Frenchfrom Lyon / Paris / Miami, France
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Free
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30 min
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Bio

My name is Sardar AZIMOV and I've been living in Miami, Florida since 2017. Prior to that, I worked in Paris, France, where I held various sales and business development positions. At Skief Labs we help businesses of all sizes scale their growth through outbound campaigns, mostly with cold emailing and social outreach. Our expertise areas include defining growth strategies, data acquisition and, finally, managing tech stack & automation. Currently, I’m also heading the growth hacking session of a soft landing program run by Cambridge Innovation Center in Miami. This program is dedicated to international companies looking to launch their operations in the US. Thanks to my past experiences, I have an extensive knowledge of prospecting and generating leads across all industries and regions, including Europe, Americas and APAC. I’d be happy to help you and share my experience on topics like: - Defining go-to-market/growth strategies - Implementation of growth campaigns - Cold outreach and email marketing - Data acquisition and data privacy - Growth tools and automation

Expertise


  • Email marketing

    - Cold email marketing (B2B & B2C) - Tech stack management (choice of tools, infra) and scaling - Deliverability, domain reputation - Content advisory (develop content-market-fit)

  • Go to market strategy

    - Define the growth strategies based on the PMF, ICP - Define growth levers (marketing led, sales led vs product led) - Define and implement growth experiments (inbound vs outbound)

  • Growth marketing

    - Defining growth strategies (validate PMF, ICP, channels, audiences) - Implementing outbound marketing - Cold emailing (data, tech stack, content) - Social outreach (data, tech)

  • Marketing automation

    - Cold email tools set-up (Outreach, Lemlist, Quickmail, etc) - Sales & marketing automation for outbound marketing (cold emailing) - Multichannel custom workflow building (email, LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, etc)

  • Product market fit

    - Help validating Product Market Fit through a series of market testing campaigns (outbound marketing) - Identify the ICP based on the product analysis + competitive benchmark

  • Technology and tools

    Expertise in sales and marketing related tools: - Select the right tech stack - Implementation and training - Builduing custiom growth engines and automation workflows

Toolkit


  • HubSpot logo

    HubSpot

    - Working with clients Hubspot environment - Integration with cold outreach tools - Defining the KPIs and dashboards to track sales - Data standardization / cleansing

  • LinkedIn Ads logo

    LinkedIn Ads

    We specialize in helping B2B companies launch social outreach campaigns (including LinkedIn). We define custom workflow to scale outbound outreach. Other experiences include data extraction, cleansing, enrichlment, lead pre-scoring (based on keywords, title, seniority, etc).

Industries


  • SaaS

    Worked with over 20 SaaS vendors over the past 12 years throughout my various expreiences (sales and business development, project management, growth marketing related positoins). Experience with both B2B and B2C type of SaaS within various verticals (finance, real estate, insurance, healthcare, services, etc.)

  • B2B

    12 years of experience working with B2B vendors grow their sales pipeline, launch their customer acquisition and brand awaraness campaigns. Experience working with tech vendors (SaaS, software, hardware), service providers and physical good vendors.

  • Lead Generation

    12 years of B2B lead generation and outbound marketing in various industries: Software & tech, services, construction, real estate, pharma, industry & manufacturing, etc.

  • Business Intelligence

    Strong acumen in data research and business intelligence related to market analysis, competitive benchmark, data acquisition for lead generation, defining go-to-market strategies.

  • Marketing

    I'm the founder and CEO of Skief Labsn, a digital innovation lab (agency with specialty in Data, Tech and Growth). We work with both business leaders (owners, sales and marketing headsà as well as inbound marketing agencies looking for a trustworthy partner speciliazed in outbound marketing.

  • Marketing Automation

    Extensive experience with MarTech tools both as a power user and as a business development manager for a CPD + marketing automation vendors. Implementing marketing and sales automation tools, implementing cold emailing campaigns, etc.

  • FinTech

    Helped software vendors launch cold emailing campaigns to generate new leads within financial industry: - Banking (corporate and retail) - Investment management (asset and wealth managers) - Insurance (P&C, life, reinsurance)

Experience

  • Expogage

    Founder

    ExpoGage turns the B2B trade show ecosystem into queryable data. Over 30k events across 157 countries, 11,500 organizers, 6,100 venues, and close to 2 million exhibitor records, updated continuously. We map the world's B2B trade shows. Who exhibits, who speaks, who organises, and where. We help: - event organisers find their ideal exhibitors and speakers - exhibitors find the events where their competition goes - vendors find the exhibitors that match their ICP - venues find the best events to host in their location

  • Chameleon Collective

    Outbound Marketing Strategist

    We Blend In. You Stand Out We are a dynamic team of high-performing independent thinkers, each a veteran in specific verticals of expertise. We bring knowledge to drive meaningful transformations across our five expertise pillars - Branding, Marketing, Experience, Commerce, and Sales. Our core mission is clear: To Transform Business. We exist to create lasting transformations grounded in excellence and exceptional talent. Our holistic approach transcends traditional norms, as transformation is not just a buzzword but ingrained in our DNA, from our name and mascot to our daily work. At the heart of our transformative mantra are three cornerstones: Lead, Deliver, and Recruit. We infuse your organization with visionary leadership, equip you with unparalleled expertise, and fortify your ranks with transformative talent, ensuring that change isn't fleeting—it's foundational.

  • Skief Labs

    Founder & CEO

    Skief Labs specializes in Marketing and Sales strategies to generate revenue and profits. We help companies achieve sustainable growth by aligning sales and marketing strategies. - Growth Data-driven marketing is the future of modern marketing. Our team helps you implement and execute effective lead generation campaigns to get more leads without the guesswork. With decades of experience in both customer data and marketing, we can help strategize your next growth campaign and provide the tools needed to execute it. - Data Whatever data you need for your customer acquisition campaign, we’ve got you covered. We help companies and their agencies find the data they need for growth with our Data Acquisition and Activation services - Tech Leave it to the experts to get the most out of your marketing and sales efforts. We build and implement the right tools to scale your growth. No matter what you’re looking for – customer acquisition, marketing automation, or social outreach - we’ve got you covered. We will design and engineer custom workflows and automation that work for you and keep it running smoothly, so you can focus on closing more customers.

  • S2M-group (Services-Data-Software)

    BU Manager

    S2M-group is a specialized Consulting and Lead Generation boutique firm, delivering Premium Sales and Marketing services since 2009 to Software, IT & Financial Services industries across Europe, Asia and Americas. Our affiliates provide the following high value services: - Outbound Marketing: Lead Generation, Nurturing, B2B appointment setting - Inbound Marketing: Webinars/events, Social media, Lead tracking & scoring - Advisory and Sales: Audit/due diligence, Go-to-market strategy, Market research, Market entry These proven services leverage on: - the respective field experience in B-to-B Sales, Marketing and IT Engineering of our Directors - a profound expertise on some verticals & niche markets (ex: Business Software, FinTech,...) - an understanding of (each) local markets and extensive contacts database - optimized tools & processes with proven methodologies: solution selling, cold-calling 2.0, marketing 2.0 - internally trained employees

  • Scal-e

    Business Development Manager

    Scal-e provides a fully integrated, yet modular cloud-based MarTech (marketing technology) suite for creatives, marketers or sales who are seeking to drive sophisticated B2B or B2C marketing strategies to drive more profit and maximize customer lifetime value. Our organic development path has led to a highly unified and consistent offering, organized around a central CDP (Customer Data Platform) module which unifies & integrates customer data, content & analytics. Additionally 4 complementary, natively integrated modules (multichannel marketing campaign management, customer loyalty, event management and referral marketing) share and enrich the data to serve the full customer lifecycle across all channels, devices, and touchpoints, both online and offline. By moving beyond the limitations of integrating several marketing solutions, Scal-e’s suite aligns its offering with the customer dynamics. This over time, allows it to develop incredible personalization capabilities without the requirement to build and maintain costly bespoke data or IT infrastructure. Scal-e is a true business partner to the world’s best brands, including Société Générale (Finance), Bouygues (Telco) or Loxam (B2B services), whilst offering a global geographic and industry reach with employees in 5 offices across EMEA, US and APAC regions.

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