B2B Marketing
Demand Generation

Scaling a GTM Org From 3 AEs to 20+ Reps in Three Months

My Role(s)
Project Lead
Hands-on Execution
Timeline
Dec. 2021–2022

The Challenge

Adwerx had committed six figures and a year of planning to a Marketo build that was meant to support expansion into new verticals — but the plan's owner left mid-flight, right as the company tripled its go-to-market org from 3 AEs to 20+ AEs and 30+ SDRs. I inherited the responsibility, with RevOps, for making that investment work: no tracked pipeline process existed even for the core vertical, only content pillars and half-built templates existed for the new ones, and every SDR needed enough qualified volume, daily, to hit 100 dials without the operation reading as spam.

What I Built

I built a contact-allocation model that balanced list size, sending throttles, and an AGOGE-style cadence to determine how many prospects each rep could work per day without triggering spam filters or burning the list. On the other side of the funnel, I built an overflow calendar system — shared booking calendars that opened 15 minutes after standard demo slots, with a Slack alert and claim process so no-shows converted into performed demos instead of lost ones and we truly optimized our AE's capacity.

I wrote the SOPs for the full demo lifecycle across Salesforce, Outreach, and Chili Piper — booking, confirmation, objection handling, no-show and overbook processes — in collaboration with the SDR manager.

The Result

  • Scaled from 3 AEs and a handful of outsourced SDRs to 20+ AEs and 30+ SDRs within three months
  • Streamlined lead operations in Marketo, doubling enterprise MQLs in two months and driving $725K in enterprise deal revenue within six months
  • Gave sales leadership a reliable, data-backed view of expected demos per rep, which set commission targets and let each new vertical be evaluated on its own show and close rates