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Go-to-Market Playbook

Quantum's reference and workbook guide for sales, marketing, and execution. The complete framework — flywheel, funnel, ICP, personas, RevEfficiency Model, and the 5 steps that get the wheel spinning. Steps

70%

Of Sales Tasks Automatable

10

Stakeholders Per B2B Deal

Strategy Playbook

Understand the Buyer's Journey

The Three Pillars

The List

Accurate, prioritized, refreshed quarterly

The Message

Non-supplicative, confident, value-led

The Delivery

Disciplined, coached, consistent

The Quantum Growth Model

Designed as a flywheel — a cyclical sales and marketing process that builds momentum over time. Begin with generating leads. End with happy customers. In between: attract, qualify, nurture, sell. Once spinning, it keeps going.

“Done correctly, your existing customers become a key component of driving new business and accelerating the flywheel. Customers who you wowed with the right messages at the right time, who are satisfied with the results, become an extension of your sales team — generating referrals and creating cross-sell and upsell opportunities.”

The Framework

The 5 Steps to Get the Flywheel Spinning

Assess

Understand the market, your competition, and your target.

Systemize

Build the marketing & sales plans, processes, and infrastructure.

Optimize

Track KPIs, refine workflows, manage pipeline, optimize content.

Automate

70% of what sellers do today can be automated. Free reps to focus on relationships.

Execute & Improve

Test, measure CAC/ROI, A/B test, retain & WOW customers, refine.

Automate

"70% of what sellers do today can be automated."— Tony Hughes, Tech Powered Sales

Automate Across Every Stage

🎯 Target

  • Data enrichment (ZoomInfo)
  • Lead identification
  • Lead lists by ICP & intent data
  • Loading leads into CRM/dialer

🧲 Attract

  • Content creation (Jasper)
  • Email campaigns (HubSpot)
  • Social media outreach (Kennected)
  • Lead capture forms
  • Lead scoring
  • Dialing (ConnectAndSell, Kixie)
  • Texts & voicemail drops (Drop Cowboy)

💬 Nurture

  • Scheduling links
  • Meeting reminders
  • Recordings & transcripts
  • Forms
  • Personalized video (Vidyard)

💰 Convert

  • Pipeline management
  • Quotes & payment links (HubSpot Payments)
  • Auto-routing high-quality leads

✨ WOW

  • Ongoing nurturing campaigns
  • Automated gifting (Sendoso)
  • Tasks & follow-up reminders

⚙️ Operations

  • Cross-stage workflows
  • KPIs / dashboards / reporting
  • Internal notifications

Video Sells

58%

Sales teams freed from administrative tasks focus on relationships and value. Automation also creates the data managers need to allocate resources and improve results.

of viewers watch a business video to completion if it's under 60 seconds

of sales pros report video email outperforms text-based email

say video has increased their response rates

say custom-recorded videos shorten their deal cycle

Optimize

KPIs to Track

Quantum requires all clients to start tracking standard KPIs from day one. Monitoring closely produces a more efficient process and faster adjustments. Start with these:

7 Workflows to Implement Today

Workflows are HubSpot's automation engine. Start with these seven trigger events:

Call Outcome Trigger

Deal Stage Change Trigger

Lead Status Change Trigger

List Enrollment Trigger

Engagement Level Trigger

Lead Score Trigger

Time-Based Trigger

Pipeline Management & Free Billboard Space

A well-managed pipeline keeps you focused on the most promising leads. "Free Billboard Space" is the visibility you can earn without paid spend — social posts, thought-leader content, tradeshows, SEO, your website. Use every available surface.

Execute & Improve

Constantly improve, adjust, and enhance. Test new ideas regularly. Make changes to existing setup. Study the data. Fine-tune.

CAC & ROI Math

Customer Acquisition Cost

CAC = Total Marketing Spend ÷ New Customers Acquired

Return on Investment

ROI = Revenue Generated ÷ CAC

Retain & WOW Your Customers

Studies show it can cost 5x more to attract a new customer than to keep an existing one. Five practical ways to keep customers coming back:

Show Appreciation

Calls, emails, handwritten notes, gifts, events.

Make It Easy

Easy navigation. Easy checkout. Easy support.

Offer Incentives

Exclusive discounts, free shipping, special offers.

Keep Promises

Deliver on time. Communicate any delays ASAP.

Stay In Touch

Nurturing campaigns. New products. Special offers.

Renewals · Cross-Sell · Upsell · Referrals

Renewals

Send a reminder of benefits. Include a renewal incentive or discount.

Cross-Sell

Targeted lists of customers who fit additional products. Free Billboard Space + nurturing campaigns to educate.

Upsell

Offer higher-tier or premium versions. Increases profits while still adding value.

Referrals

Don't forget to ask. Make it easy. Reward referrers with discounts or financial incentives.

Includes advertising, sales salaries, anything tied to acquiring new customers in a defined period.

If revenue generated > CAC, you have positive ROI. If less, rethink the strategy.

This playbook is updated regularly

Bookmark this page — we revise the framework as the market shifts and our clients teach us new things.

Quantum's team helps you implement every step — from defining your ICP to building the workflows to running the playbook with you. Make the leap from theory to results.

Frequently Asked Questions

What's the difference between a HubSpot sequence and a workflow?
Sequences are designed for one-to-one outreach from a sales rep — personalized email cadences with embedded manual tasks, intended to feel like the rep wrote and sent each message. Workflows are designed for one-to-many automation — sending the same template to many contacts simultaneously without rep involvement. Use sequences for outbound prospecting and personalized follow-up; use workflows for marketing nurture, lifecycle automation, and operational triggers.
How many emails should a sales sequence have?
Most effective sequences run 5 to 8 touches over 2 to 4 weeks. Shorter sequences (3-4 emails) are too easy to ignore — there's not enough surface area for multiple value propositions to land. Longer sequences (10+ emails) start feeling like spam to the prospect and are easy for them to filter and tune out. The exact length depends on deal size and sales cycle length: enterprise sequences can run longer; transactional sales should run shorter.
When should a contact be removed from a sequence automatically?
Always remove contacts when they reply to any email in the sequence — this is HubSpot's default behavior and should never be disabled. Also remove contacts when they book a meeting via your scheduling link, click a key conversion link (like a pricing page), or change to a stage where the sequence's intent no longer applies (e.g., they become a customer, they enter a different sales cycle stage). Anything beyond a reply-based unenroll requires explicit configuration.
What kinds of sequences work best for office equipment dealers?
Three patterns work consistently: a fleet-assessment outreach sequence targeting Office Managers at companies with aging equipment, a contract-renewal sequence for prospects approaching the end of their current lease, and a multi-stakeholder buying-committee sequence that engages the IT, Finance, and Operations stakeholders separately with role-appropriate messaging. Each requires different list-building, different messaging, and different timing — but all three exploit specific patterns in dealer sales motion.
Can sales sequences be A/B tested in HubSpot?
HubSpot doesn't have native A/B testing for sequences the way it does for marketing emails — but you can effectively run sequence tests by creating two versions of a sequence, splitting your enrollment list, comparing reply and meeting-book rates, and standardizing on the winner. Test one variable at a time (subject line, opening, CTA, timing) so you actually learn what's driving results. We help clients structure these tests rigorously rather than chasing every small change.

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