Ollie Whitfield

The 0 To 5 Million Podcast

Business EN ↓ 147 episodes

Trying to grow your business from the ground up? Shawn Finder and Ollie Whitfield interview Founders, CEOs and revenue leaders from businesses between 0 and 5 Million in ARR (Annual Recurring Revenue) to find out how they did it. Subscribe and listen if you want to learn how the best in the business did it, so you can too.

Author

Ollie Whitfield

Category

Business

Latest episode

Oct 19, 2023

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Episodes

Samantha McKenna: Cold Emails, Scaling Services & Personal Brand 04.05.2021

Want to win more customers? Most people turn to emailing their prospects. Why? Because it's what all of us use for communication. But why isn't it so easy? Prospects are swamped by outreach these days and it's hard to attain their attention. Samantha McKenna KNOWS how to grab their attention in a cold email. Standby for a masterclass... Want to hear more conversations with Founders, CEOs and Reven...

David Dulany: Large Conferences, Contracts & Just Going For It 29.04.2021

If you have sales reps or are selling yourself, there's no better place to be than the Sales Development Conference if you want to learn. Today's guest run that show and a host of other content projects to help the vendors and people in this space win.  Want to hear more conversations with Founders, CEOs and Revenue Leaders who are growing their business? Make sure you Subscribe to the podcas...

The Humble Pie Episode: Shawn & Ollie's Biggest Mistakes 27.04.2021

Every week, we ask leaders to eat a slice of humble pie and to share some of their mistakes. It's time we had a taste of our own medicine.  Want to hear more conversations with Founders, CEOs and Revenue Leaders who are growing their business? Make sure you Subscribe to the podcast and leave us a review! Connect with Shawn: www.linkedin.com/in/shawnfinder/ Connect with Ollie: www.linkedin.com...

Shawn Finder: Top Tier Tennis, Winning Your First Clients & Key Hires 22.04.2021

What fun is a podcast if you don't get to put your Co-Host in the hot-seat every now and then? This time out, Shawn Finder gets his turn in the saddle and shares how he built Autoklose from the ground up. We're talking about the early days where Shawn had to win those first few clients and hire to develop the software, manage the clients and scale.  Want to hear more conversations with Founde...

Doug Kessler: Ogilvy, Lifestyle Companies & Great Marketing 20.04.2021

Fun story: Ollie's first day of work was the first time he met Doug. 20 minutes into that Monday morning, he edited a YouTube video interview his client conducted with Doug Kessler. Years later, here we are doing this podcast episode together. Doug talks about his "suit" background in arguably THE marketing agency, Ogilvy & Mather. He left the agency to start his own and never looked back.&nbs...

Tukan Das: Pivoting The Business, Focusing On The Customer & Early Stage Sales 15.04.2021

Want to hear more conversations with Founders, CEOs and Revenue Leaders who are growing their business? Make sure you Subscribe to the podcast and leave us a review! Connect with Tukan: www.linkedin.com/in/tapajyotidas More about LeadSift: leadsift.com Connect with Shawn: www.linkedin.com/in/shawnfinder/ Connect with Ollie: www.linkedin.com/in/olliewhitfield Autoklose: www.autoklose.com

Dale Dupree: Back To Basics With Hiring & Winning Early Clients 13.04.2021

Dale is a friend of ours and is pushing to bring sales people out of the bad habits that limit their success. We subscribe to that and interviewed him on how TSR, The Sales Rebellion was born to do that.  Want to hear more conversations with Founders, CEOs and Revenue Leaders who are growing their business? Make sure you Subscribe to the podcast and leave us a review! Connect with Dale: https...

Matt Green: Pre-Selling, Positioning & Going Digital 08.04.2021

Working with some of the biggest companies in North America ✅ Gone completely digital without a hiccup ✅ One of the best CRO's out there ✅ This was a blast! Want to hear more conversations with Founders, CEOs and Revenue Leaders who are growing their business? Make sure you Subscribe to the podcast and leave us a review! Connect with Matt: www.linkedin.com/in/matthewcorneliusgreen More about Sa...

Steve Richard: Pioneering An Industry, HUGE Competitors & Your Talent Pipeline 06.04.2021

This was a good one😎 Did you know that Steve once worked with one of his (now) biggest competitors? Listen for the full story, but Steve had a client who is shall we say... quite important... at Gong😮 Want to hear more conversations with Founders, CEOs and Revenue Leaders who are growing their business? Make sure you Subscribe to the podcast and leave us a review! Connect with Steve: www.linkedi...

Darin Dawson: Winning 300 Customers In 1 Day, Key Hires & The Future of Video 01.04.2021

We love every one of these podcasts, but this was one of our favorites. What a pleasure to chat with Darin, the President of BombBomb. So picture this... Have you ever been in a meeting that could have been a 90 second video?  Ever sent a cold email that was way too long, that could have been a quick video? Ever wanted to get your personality across to prospects? Ever wanted to checkin with client...

Scott Smith: Managing 4M Users Of Your Platform, Growth & Key Hires 30.03.2021

Want to know how you can get 4 million users of your software platform? Scott knows how to do this because he's done it. But nobody says it was easy. Along the way, there were key hires who changed the game. There were opportunities to build new features to win markets.  Safe to say, this was a fun podcast episode to record :)  Want to hear more conversations with Founders, CEOs and Reve...

Nancy Kelly: Delivering Quality Service At Scale & Community 25.03.2021

Nancy runs one of the most interesting businesses Shawn and I have ever explored. If you don't know Nancy, by the end of this episode you're gonna want to work for her. Have a listen :)  Want to hear more conversations with Founders, CEOs and Revenue Leaders who are growing their business? Make sure you Subscribe to the podcast and leave us a review! Connect with Nancy: www.linkedin.com/in/nancy-k...

Greg Segall: Going Viral, Coding in 6 Weeks & Enterprise Clients 23.03.2021

Ever sent your prospects a personalized gift? If you have, you might have used Alyce to do it.  Greg Segall is the CEO of Alyce and shares the story of coding the platform in 6 weeks and growing the business through viral marketing.  Want to hear more conversations with Founders, CEOs and Revenue Leaders who are growing their business? Make sure you Subscribe to the podcast and leave us...

Kyle Lacy: VC Funding, Product-Market Fit & Weighted Blankets 18.03.2021

Where else will you hear about weighted blankets, growing in double quick time and taking your BDR team under Marketing's wing? Kyle Lacy, CMO of Lessonly joins us to talk about all of the above.  Want to hear more conversations with Founders, CEOs and Revenue Leaders who are growing their business? Make sure you Subscribe to the podcast and leave us a review! Connect with Kyle: https://www.l...

Chris Walker: Inbound Marketing, Choosing Channels, Fine-Tuning Your Services 16.03.2021

We're proud to have sat down with Chris Walker, CEO of Refine Labs for a frank conversation about how he grows his business and has taken a different route to many of his competitors.   ------------------------- Want to hear more conversations with Founders, CEOs and Revenue Leaders who are growing their business? Make sure you Subscribe to the podcast and leave us a review!  Connect wit...

Jeroen Corthout: Winning Your First Customers, When To Get A CRM & Automating Manual Processes 11.03.2021

When do you need to get a CRM while growing your startup in the early days? How do you grow in a crowded market? How can you stand out amongst tons of other vendors? Jeroen, CEO of our partners SalesFlare stood up to all of these questions on this episode of the podcast.  Want to hear more conversations with Founders, CEOs and Revenue Leaders who are growing their business? Make sure you Subs...

Richard Smith: Day 1 At Refract, Getting Acquired, Becoming An Author 09.03.2021

Read the title of this episode and imagine getting acquired as well as writing a book all in the middle of a pandemic.  That's Richard Smith's past 12 months, or so.  He joins us to share what the journey from day 1 to acquisition has been like, the 3am drinks with his Co Founders after the paperwork went through, and what's next post-acquisition.  Want to hear more conversations wi...

Alex Olley: Viral Marketing, The Keys To Hiring & Those First Clients 01.03.2021

Has your company gone viral? Alex's has, and it has been a huge source of awareness and income for Reachdesk ever since he started the company up. Alex tells us all about walking through conference halls trying to sell his software, winning those first few clients, his keys to successful hires and how he scaled Reachdesk.  We got through a lot :)  Want to hear more conversations with Fou...

Dave Kennett: Selling To Grow, Building Scalable Revenue Streams & Wearing Many Hats 01.03.2021

Today's guest once called me at 9:30PM for some help and kindly offered me his feedback on how I was able to help him at the end of the call. And when that feedback comes from a world renowned sales coach and trainer, you take notice. Introducing Dave Kennett, CEO of Replayz. And as you might have noticed from the title, he's growing his company through selling, selling and selling.  Want to...

Christine Rogers: Making GREAT Hires, Cultural Fit & Women In Sales 01.03.2021

One of the HARDEST things in business is to hire. Well, to hire well. Anybody can hire anybody, but finding those diamonds and keeping them is key.  Want to know how the top SaaS companies repeatedly find their diamond hires for their sales team? Look no further than today's guest... Want to hear more conversations with Founders, CEOs and Revenue Leaders who are growing their business? Make s...

Peter Caputa: Staying Lean, Doubling Down On Channels & Investing In The Product 01.03.2021

How else do you start a new podcast, than with a guest you've admired for years? Introducing episode 1 of the 0 To 5 Million Podcast, with Peter Caputa.  Peter left Hubspot for Databox and has never looked back. He has a very lean and efficient team who are crushing organic traffic and SEO, driving freemium users to their product and converting them to paying customers.  Want to hear mor...

Is This Podcast For You? Shawn Finder & Ollie Whitfield Explain 🙌🏻 01.02.2021

Another podcast? Yup, we launched one. Listen to this episode if you want to get the low-down on what we'll be talking about and who we'll be interviewing so you can decide if you need to subscribe or not.  Connect with Shawn: www.linkedin.com/in/shawnfinder/ Connect with Ollie: www.linkedin.com/in/olliewhitfield/ Autoklose: www.autoklose.com

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