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    Field Notes: Real Campaign Playbooks from RevenueFlow

    Every note here comes out of a campaign we ran ourselves. Real send volumes, real reply rates, the experiments that worked and the ones we killed at day 14. Written by the RevenueFlow founders, with the numbers left in.

    cold email case studiesoutbound experimentsreal campaign datacold email playbooksB2B outbound results

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    August 10, 20265 min read
    Field Notes

    Three Buyer States, Three Plays: Demand Creation, Capture, and Conversion

    Every B2B buyer sits in one of three states: not aware, shortlisting, or ready to buy. Each needs a different play, a different stack, and a different metric.

    Field Notes · Demand Generation · GTM Strategy

    August 10, 20266 min read
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    429 Inbound Leads, 13 Calls, 12 Closed Deals in 10 Days: What Changed

    429 inbound leads, 13 sales calls, 12 closed deals and $15,267 in ten days. The full arithmetic, including the 3 percent lead-to-call rate the headline hides.

    Field Notes · Inbound Marketing · Content Strategy

    August 10, 20266 min read
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    1.4K to 32K Followers in 5.5 Months: The Distribution Playbook Behind 36.5M Impressions

    A client went from 1.4K to 32K+ followers in 5.5 months and 36.5M impressions. The three-phase distribution playbook, the cadence, and what the numbers omit.

    Field Notes · Content Marketing · LinkedIn

    August 10, 20267 min read
    Field Notes

    ZoomInfo Renamed Its Ticker to GTM. Fourteen Months Later It Trades Under $1B.

    ZoomInfo took the ticker GTM in May 2025. By late July 2026 it traded under $1B. Here is what the GTM software category is actually worth, with dates attached.

    Field Notes · GTM Strategy · Market Analysis

    August 10, 20266 min read
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    The Hire More Reps Playbook Is the Most Expensive Mistake in B2B

    Hiring plans price an SDR at salary plus commission. Ramp, tenure and failed hires are the costs that never make the spreadsheet, and they change the answer.

    Field Notes · SDR · Sales Automation

    August 10, 20264 min read
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    The European GTM Tool Map: 33 Tools by the City That Built Them

    HeyReach hit $10M with 23 people in Skopje. lemlist reached $53M with no primary VC. Here is the European GTM tooling map and what it changes for buyers.

    Field Notes · GTM Software · Market Analysis

    August 10, 20265 min read
    Field Notes

    Smartlead Hit $20M ARR Bootstrapped After 11 Failed Businesses

    Smartlead crossed $20M ARR in 2025 with no outside funding. Here is the five-part go-to-market playbook behind it, and the caveat that decides if you can copy it.

    Field Notes · GTM Strategy · Cold Email

    August 10, 20266 min read
    Field Notes

    I Built 99 Claude Code Skills for RevenueFlow. Only 24 Touch Revenue.

    Of 99 Claude Code skills I built for RevenueFlow, 24 touch revenue. Here are those 24, grouped by GTM stage, and the three ways this approach breaks.

    Field Notes · Claude Code · AI Agents

    August 10, 20266 min read
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    Prospects Ignore Your Cold Emails and It Is Rarely the Copy

    Copy tweaks move cold email results a little. The offer moves them 10 to 20x. Six rules for fixing the offer, the audience and the proof before the wording.

    Field Notes · Cold Email · Offer Design

    August 10, 20265 min read
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    ARR Became a Marketing Metric: How to Vet a Vendor's Revenue Claim

    Cluely retracted $7M and admitted to $5.2M. Decagon is valued at 128 times revenue. Here are the six questions that separate real revenue from a headline.

    Field Notes · Vendor Selection · AI Sales Tools

    August 10, 20266 min read
    Field Notes

    We Burned $430K Testing Go-To-Market in One Year. Here Is What Survived.

    In 2025 we spent more than $430K testing go-to-market plays. Six survived. Here is what the money bought, what it did not, and what I would do differently.

    Field Notes · GTM Strategy · Lead Generation

    August 10, 20266 min read
    Field Notes

    27 Intent Signal APIs, Grouped by How You Actually Connect Them

    Twenty-seven intent signal providers, grouped by how you actually connect them: MCP servers, REST APIs, webhooks, and orchestration. Plus what each one is for.

    Field Notes · Intent Data · APIs

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