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I help businesses grow through qualified prospects, generating sales opportunities, and making informed decisions through targeted lead generation and market research. With experience in both B2B and B2C environments, I specialize in identifying high-quality leads, building targeted prospect lists, researching key decision-makers, and delivering accurate data to support sales and marketing efforts. My work helps businesses improve pipeline quality, optimize outreach campaigns, and focus on the highest-potential opportunities. I have worked with international clients across the US, Europe, and South Africa, giving me strong exposure to different markets and business environments. Here’s how I can help you:🙂 *Identify and research high-quality leads based on your ideal customer profile (ICP) *Analyse market trends and competitor activity *Identify new potential target segments *Support sales strategy with research insights *Cold email & Linkedin outreach *CRM management (e.g., HubSpot) *Organize clean, structured data in Excel or Google Sheets for easy use *Help improve pipeline quality through better targeting *Market research & online data collection I am reliable, detail-oriented, and focused on delivering quality results that help businesses make better decisions and grow revenue.

Sales is evolving, and today’s businesses need more than someone who can generate leads, set appointments, or close deals. They need a commercial partner who understands people, strategy, technology, and performance, and knows how to turn those elements into measurable business results. My approach combines sales psychology, commercial strategy, AI-enabled workflows, data-driven decision-making, and meaningful communication to create sales processes that are efficient, scalable, and built for long-term success. I believe great sales is about more than closing deals. It’s about understanding businesses, communicating value effectively, and building genuine relationships that create sustainable commercial growth. With 7+ years of professional experience, I’ve partnered with high-growth businesses and established international organisations across SaaS, technology, recruitment, manufacturing, consulting, real estate, and professional services. My experience spans business development, enterprise sales, account management, customer success, strategic partnerships, entrepreneurship, and legal studies, giving me a well-rounded commercial perspective. What sets me apart is the way I think. Before recommending a solution, I take the time to understand your business, your market, your customers, and your commercial objectives. I’m constantly asking: • How can we strengthen your value proposition? • How can we position your business more competitively? • What sales framework best supports your objectives? • How can we build or refine a sales process that continues delivering value long after our engagement ends? I don’t aim to simply generate revenue. I aim to leave your commercial function stronger, more scalable, and better positioned for long-term success than when I joined. Whether I’m developing new business opportunities, managing strategic accounts, generating qualified leads, building partnerships, refining commercial processes, or supporting customer success, I represent every client with professionalism, credibility, and genuine care. I believe in becoming an extension of your team, not simply another freelancer. If you’re looking for a commercially minded business development professional who combines strategic thinking, modern technology, and hands-on execution to deliver meaningful business outcomes, I’d love to discuss how I can contribute to your commercial success.

🥇Top Rated Freelancer across 6 platforms 🥇70x 5-star 100% jobs completed across America and Europe 🥇Google SEO and PPC Certified, along with Scada Engineering and AZ-900 and SC-900 Cloud 🥇Award Winning Writer for Amazon Prime TV Shows (The Boys) Ive performed various Business Growth and Digital Marketing efforts, both as an external resource and internal resource for major corporations and SME's. This need usually arises when teams have newer or less skilled permanent staff who need guidance, or current marketing and outbound efforts are not bringing in enough ROI. Teams need to have a Cinderella shoe-to-foot CMO/Lead Generation Expert to ensure that their business objectives are understood, upheld, and reached. I would love to assist you with: 🎯Paid Digital Marketing - META/PPC/LSA/DRIP/EM/SMM 🎯Digital Marketing Strategy to be seen more and get more ROI around Conversions. 🎯 High-Level Content that strokes SEO/AEO/GEO/REO algorithms 🎯Advanced brownfielding strategies through existing clients, to be used to garner new clients 🎯Lead Generation and Email Sequencing Activities (I have my own Seamless.AI license)

✨Turning leads into lasting partnerships. Sales Development, Key Accounts, Business Development, and Lead Generation are my superpowers.✨: As a dynamic sales professional with a proven track record of success, I specialize in creating and nurturing long-term relationships with clients to drive business growth. With extensive experience in sales, business development, and customer service, I excel at identifying opportunities, managing accounts, and closing deals. My expertise extends to appointment setting, lead generation, cold calling, and chat support, ensuring a comprehensive approach to customer engagement. I am committed to delivering exceptional customer experiences and achieving outstanding sales results through strategic leadership, analytical thinking, and effective problem-solving.

A full pipeline starts with the right prospects, not more random outreach. I’m a South African Business Development Representative with 3 years of international sales experience, helping SaaS businesses, technology companies and growing organisations identify the right prospects, start conversations with decision-makers and generate qualified sales opportunities. I support clients with the front end of the sales process, from target account research and prospecting to personalised outreach, lead qualification, appointment setting and follow-up. I’ve consistently worked against sales targets, achieving 105% average monthly quota attainment, while maintaining a structured outbound process across multiple channels. My core BDR skills include: • Outbound prospecting • Lead generation • Cold calling • LinkedIn outreach • Sales email outreach • Lead qualification • Appointment setting • Account and decision-maker research • Pipeline management • Sales follow-up I use Salesforce, LinkedIn, Aircall and Google Sheets to organise prospect research, manage outreach activity, track follow-ups and keep sales data organised. If you need a BDR who can find relevant prospects, start quality conversations and consistently create qualified opportunities, send me a message and let’s discuss your sales goals.

Need a reliable B2B appointment setter to introduce your solution to the right decision-makers? I am a results-driven sales professional with more than 20 years of commercial sales experience and six years of freelance work in appointment setting, cold outreach, lead generation, and sales development. I help forward-thinking businesses create qualified sales conversations through focused prospecting, thoughtful qualification, consistent follow-up, and professional communication. You are not hiring someone who simply reads a script and dials numbers. You get someone who understands how to move from a prospect list to a real business conversation, identify whether there is a genuine opportunity, and give your sales team a clear next step. 🎯 WHAT I CAN HELP YOU WITH 📞 B2B Cold Calling and Appointment Setting I make outbound calls, speak with business owners and decision-makers, handle initial objections, qualify interest, and book appointments against the criteria we agree on. 🎯 CEO and CTO Outreach I have worked on technology-company campaigns focused on reaching CEOs, CTOs, and other decision-makers. I understand the importance of being concise, relevant, and respectful of senior executives’ time. 🔍 Lead Qualification and Follow-Up I work with provided lead lists, contact information, scripts, and campaign instructions while also applying judgment to identify genuine opportunities and improve follow-up quality. 📊 Sales Process and Script Improvement I can help review call openings, qualification questions, follow-up timing, lead handoffs, appointment confirmation, and customer-relationship-management processes to identify where opportunities are being lost. 🧠 Sales Development and Team Coaching I can support internal sales representatives with practical guidance on call openings, discovery questions, active listening, objection handling, qualification, and follow-up. 📈 PROVEN UPWORK EXPERIENCE 🔹 Completed 23 Upwork jobs with approximately 2.9K hours on the platform. 🔹 Maintained a 100% Job Success Score and a 4.7/5 average rating from 15 reviews. 🔹 As a freelancer over the past six years, booked 2,000+ qualified B2B meetings with a 73% show rate on the relevant campaigns. 🔹 Supported a music-technology campaign by calling software prospects in the church market. 🔹 Booked appointments for technology companies by reaching CEOs and CTOs. 🔹 Worked on outbound campaigns for multiple companies using provided lead lists, contact information, scripts, and qualification instructions. 🔹 Supported a conversion-focused agency with outbound business development, lead generation, cold calling, appointment setting, and account-management activities. 🔹 Handled cold outreach for a marketing agency and supported warm-lead reception, customer communication, and lead management. 💼 COMMERCIAL SALES BACKGROUND Before freelancing, I spent 13 years in office-automation sales, managing my own territory from prospecting and door knocking through qualification, presentations, negotiation, and closing. I also spent six years in long-term and short-term insurance, including roles where businesses recruited me directly for my sales ability. This combination gives me practical experience in both sides of the sales process: creating the opportunity and understanding what is required to move a qualified prospect toward a commercial decision. 🌍 COMMUNICATION AND WORKING PREFERENCES I speak and understand both English and Afrikaans, prefer working with USA-based teams and USA time zones, and communicate through the Upwork platform. 💬 CLIENT FEEDBACK “Mark is a one-of-a-kind SDR! Couldn’t recommend him more. He’s loyal, hard-working, and a brilliant man. Couldn’t be a bigger fan.” "Anyone at Curb Chalk or Axll who had the privilege of working with Mark thoroughly enjoyed it. We've asked him to cold call for appointments on every new campaign: From women's clothing boutiques, floral shops, Southern Baptist churches, European tech companies, and laundry departments of hospitals. No matter what he was calling on, he was quick to lean into feedback and offer a helping hand to any team member struggling. Mark brought the best attitude every day. It's rare to have a coworker halfway around the world that many of us felt so close to." A previous client also described my work over a three-year relationship as dependable, adaptable, supportive of team members, and consistently committed to every call and booking. 🤝 LET’S DISCUSS YOUR SALES GOALS If you need help with appointment setting, CEO or CTO outreach, lead qualification, cold calling, warm-lead handling, or sales-process improvement, send me: 🎯 Your target customer 💡 Your offer and the problem it solves ✅ Your definition of a qualified meeting 📊 The result you want to improve first Tell me where your sales process is currently getting stuck, and I will explain how I can help you create better conversations and a stronger pipeline.