Ben Reed's Weekly B2B Growth Insights & Highlights | August 2nd, 2025

Benjamin Reed's weekly B2B sales, marketing, & revenue insights...in one simple email.

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Benjamin Aaron Reed
August 04, 2025

Hey everyone,

This week’s recap saves you time: I’ve distilled the top B2B sales, marketing, and growth insights from my podcast + LinkedIn — so you can scale smarter without the noise.

🎧 Podcast of the Week

10X Your LinkedIn Outreach Without Getting Banned

Guest: Alfie Carter – Founder of Prosp AI

Highlights:

  • How Prosp AI stands out from other LinkedIn automation tools

  • Why LinkedIn is cracking down on automation and the impact on founders

  • The key to personalized LinkedIn messaging at scale

  • The conversion rates of LinkedIn outreach vs. cold email

  • The future of AI-driven LinkedIn outreach and best practices for safety

  • How Alfie Carter’s personal LinkedIn got banned and what it means for automation tool founders

💡 LinkedIn Highlights

Managing Your GTM List Data

Your CRM Isn’t Broken. Your Data Management Is. Most GTM teams don’t need a new CRM.

They need their existing tools to work together cleanly and automatically.

Advanced Cold Email Dashboards

We just spent over $152,253 on developing RevyOps over the last 10 months so that you can run the most advanced cold email deliverability tests and campaign analysis across sequencers.

No BS Founder Stack (2025)

This is my No-BS Founder Stack (2025) built after bootstrapping multiple 7- and 8-figure GTM systems from scratch.

Startup Founder Workload (Hours)

292 hours logged. That’s 73 hours/week in July 2025. This was my last month of work. Most founders don’t actually know how they spend their time. I do...exactly.

Google New AI Agent Tool (Opal)

Just tested Google’s new AI tool called Opal, and I’m honestly impressed.

It’s designed to let you build, edit, and share lightweight AI apps using plain language.

Cold Email Campaign Analytics

Cold email agencies: It's usually impossible to steal a proprietary dashboard technology developed by a cold email agency with 41 clients and a $3.5M/ARR.

Alex Hormozi on “Haters”

This rings so true for me.

At first, haters ignore you and dismiss you.

How to Go Viral On LinkedIn

78,286 impressions, 2,179 comments, 545 likes (Top Post Last 365 Days)
78,480 impressions, 1,768 comments, 341 likes (2nd Best Post Last 365 Days).

💭 My Take of the Week

  • TLDR: Focus your time and energy. Choose your battles. Say “no” to most things.

  • In the beginning, when you’re getting started, you need to beg for scraps (beg, borrow, and steal).

    • In short, you likely will say “yes” to most opportunities.

  • But as you gain success, more opportunities will come your way.

    • More people will call for your attention, your time, and your energy.

  • Abundance seems like a good problem to have. But, if you continue to operate in the mentality that got you started (“beg, borrow, steal), you may take on too much.

  • The impact of saying “yes” to everything is that you may become overwhelmed.

    • Ultimately, you may burn out or lose your mind in the process.

  • The key insight here is that you need to “pick your lane.”

    • That is, choose what you want to spend your time doing.

    • Choose with whom you want to spend it (clients, employees, and partners).

    • Say “no” to anyone who doesn’t fit the criteria you’ve set out.

  • Being “picky” and saying “no” is especially hard when you want to help people and you know you can. But the reality is that you are human.

    • You can only do so much, and you can’t help everyone.

      • You only have so much time and energy.

    • Acknowledge and accept this reality.

    • Don’t beat yourself up. Your future self will thank you.

📣 What do you think?

👉 Hit reply and let me know what resonated most this week — or tell me what you’re struggling with in B2B sales right now. I read every response

👀 Stay tuned next week

I’ll be covering:

  • Podcast: Secret Topic

    • Guest: Secret Guest

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