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Forget inbound vs. outbound. The real game is omnipresence.

Your Ideal Value-First Audience (IVA) doesn’t buy because of one cold email. They buy because they can’t escape you. You’re in their inbox, their LinkedIn feed, their YouTube shorts, their Spotify queue. They see you, hear you, and start to believe you’re the only solution.

I’ve run this playbook with liquor brands, medical distributors, SaaS founders, and my own startups. The mechanics don’t change.

Execute it cleanly, and you’ve got a system that compounds into $1M ARR+.

The Formula:
Master List + Content Flywheel + Paid Acceleration + Conversion Loop = $1M ARR

Phase 1: Build the Master List (Your Foundation)

Your pipeline is only as good as your list. Garbage in, garbage out.

I launched an AI-powered kiosk for beauty products. If I just pulled generic lists of beauty industry contacts, we’d have wasted months. Instead, we built targeted lists of medspa owners, beauty bar operators, and similar decision-makers. That gave us context, not just contacts.

Do this:

  • Define your ICP query. Get brutally specific. Example IVA (Operator Olivia):

    • Titles: Head of Growth, Founder, CMO

    • Industries: SaaS, DTC

    • Size: 5–50 employees

    • Keywords: Growth, Marketing, AI Systems

  • Stack tools. Apollo for people data. BuiltWith for tech stack. Job postings for hiring pain. Cross-reference for sharper entry points.

  • Clean relentlessly. Every email runs through MillionVerifier. Skip this, and you’ll tank your domain reputation in a week (and please don’t cold outreach on your primary domain).

It’s a heatmap of problems you’re about to solve.

And once you have that foundation, you make the list smarter by layering in buying signals, then structuring sequences around those signals.

Here are some trigger events you can steal:

  • People: New CMO or Head of Growth in last 90 days; RevOps hire posted; layoffs followed by “do more with less” mandates.

  • Company: Funding in the last 6 months; migration to HubSpot/Salesforce; product launch; geographic expansion.

  • Signals: Job posts mentioning attribution, PLG to sales handoff, or paid media efficiency; analytics tags added/removed.

Build Messaging Clusters (Pain × Trigger × Stack)
Don’t write random one-offs. Pre-build 3‑email micro-sequences for each cluster. Each short, sharp, and conviction-building. For example:

  • Attribution chaos after HubSpot migration: Email 1 diagnostic checklist → Email 2 peer teardown → Email 3 quantified case study + free audit CTA.

  • Pipeline lag post-funding: Email 1 “30–60–90 pipeline lift” framework → Email 2 founder AMA clip → Email 3 pilot scope template.

  • Paid efficiency mandate: Email 1 60‑second creative cadence clip → Email 2 carousel of winning hooks → Email 3 ROI calculator CTA.

But here's where 90% of founders fail. They build the list, then spam it to death. The real money is in what happens next...

How Canva, Perplexity and Notion turn feedback chaos into actionable customer intelligence

Support tickets, reviews, and survey responses pile up faster than you can read.

Enterpret unifies all feedback, auto-tags themes, and ties insights to revenue, CSAT, and NPS, helping product teams find high-impact opportunities.

→ Canva: created VoC dashboards that aligned all teams on top issues.
→ Perplexity: set up an AI agent that caught revenue‑impacting issues, cutting diagnosis time by hours.
→ Notion: generated monthly user insights reports 70% faster.

Stop manually tagging feedback in spreadsheets. Keep all customer interactions in one hub and turn them into clear priorities that drive roadmap, retention, and revenue.

Phase 2: The Content Flywheel (Authority Engine)

The reality: Cold emails are cheap. Authority is the moat.

When we scaled Fireball, the difference wasn’t ads or sugary shots, it was the liquor-to-lips flywheel. We would recon cities and bartenders for possible events and buy backs. We’d set up the events, and either a brand ambassador or I would be on the ground. We captured content at every event, then atomized it into dozens of assets that created FOMO for other venues and markets. We layered in paid campaigns in other geos to collect data, which we fed directly to the sales team. That closed the loop and built authority.

You can build this flywheel today with AI doing 80% of the work.

The 4-Pillar Authority System

1. Launch a Weekly Podcast

  • Aim directly at your IVA's biggest pain point

  • Invite ICPs onto the show (warm intro disguised as value)

  • Record 4 episodes in one sitting = month of pillar content

2. Convert to Newsletter Distribution

  • Take your cold email list and shift to value-first mode

  • Distribute podcast episodes and high-signal insights

  • Train your market to open emails for what's inside

3. Atomize for Social Omnipresence

  • Drop podcast audio into Descript or MacWhisper for clean transcripts

  • Feed transcripts to Claude: "Pull 10 contrarian, tactical clips under 60 seconds"

  • Use OpusClip to create platform-specific shorts

4. Multi-Platform Reinforcement

  • LinkedIn carousels from key insights

  • X threads from contrarian takes

  • TikTok hooks from best clips

  • Create consistent "surround sound" effect

Content authority is just the setup. The magic happens when you layer in what I call 'Strategic Omnipresence'...

Phase 3: The Omnipresence Layer (The Accelerant)

Once organic authority is working, you pour gas on it with paid. But not spray-and-pray. Tight, strategic, multi-channel reinforcement.

The Echo Chamber Effect: Prospects open an email, see you on LinkedIn at lunch, get hit with a clip on Instagram that night. That recognition builds inevitable conviction (and we run this all the time at my agency).

The 3-Layer Paid Strategy

Layer 1: Custom Audience Mirroring

  • Export validated email list to LinkedIn Campaign Manager. Go to Plan > Audiences > Create audience > Contact list. Upload the CSV

  • Upload same list to Meta Ads

  • Same people see your emails AND your ads

  • Creates powerful recognition multiplier

Layer 2: Bottom-Funnel Keyword Domination

  • Target buying-intent searches only:

    • "competitor alternative"

    • "best [category] for SaaS"

    • "how to solve [specific pain point]"

  • Point to single-focus landing pages

  • One CTA: "Book Demo" or "Start Free Trial"

Layer 3: Retargeting Web

  • Build "All Website Visitors – Last 30 Days" audience

  • Serve your single best-performing content piece

  • Keep warm traffic from going cold

  • Maintain conversation momentum

Why This Works: Email primes, ads reinforce, retargeting maintains. Omnipresence turns cold prospects into warm leads who feel like they already know you before the first sales call.

You've built the attention engine. Now here's how to convert that attention into ARR without feeling like a pushy salesperson...

Phase 4: The Conversion Loop (Systematized Trust)

Now you turn attention into ARR. Not with being an annoying spammer, but with structured nurture that feels like help (because you’re actually helping).

When we built an inbound system for a B2B hardware company, we ran a multi-month sequence that generated $3.4m in sales pipeline in the first 90 days. Nurture isn’t about nagging. It’s about stacking value and proof until trust is automatic.

The 12-Week Trust Sequence

Trigger: New signup from master list
Platform: Beehiiv or Klaviyo

Week 1: The "I See You" Email

  • Agitate their primary pain point

  • Show you understand their world better than they do

Week 2: The "Framework" Email

  • Give them a new lens for solving the problem

  • No pitch. Pure value.

Week 4: The "Proof" Email

  • Case study of similar company winning with your approach

Weeks 6-12: Value/Proof Alternation

  • Frameworks, diagnostic tools, checklists

  • Customer wins, testimonials, quantified outcomes

  • Don't ask for sale until 2-3 proof hits delivered

Humanized Product Communication

Bad: "We launched v2.3 with multi-user support."

Good: "You told us running your team from one account was a nightmare. So we built this to help you scale without sharing passwords. Here's how it works."

The Bottom Line

Without omnipresence: Your single cold email competes against 100+ others in their inbox.

With omnipresence: You're the only vendor they recognize when buying time arrives.

The choice is simple. The execution is systematic. The results are inevitable.

Ready to build your omnipresence system? Start with Phase 1 tomorrow.

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