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Michael Venman

Founder, The Sales Nerd

Venman has partnered with Sales and Marketing leadership at companies ranging from pre-revenue startups to $300M+ enterprises. Originally from Boston, he moved to Austin, TX, where he built his first Sales Team at Talroo before serving as Director of Revenue Operations at Hearth.

From 2019 to 2022, he led the Sales and Marketing Practices at SaaS Consulting Group, working with Private Equity portfolio companies under Vista, ST6, and TA Associates. There, he developed the consulting methodologies for large-scale GTM transformations, later integrated into The Sales Nerd App, across platforms like Salesforce, Marketo, and NetSuite.

In 2022, he founded The Sales Nerd and now operates remotely from Barcelona, helping companies worldwide. His strategic approach—focusing on planning and alignment before system architecture—ensures that businesses not only build the right solutions but gain full team consensus along the way.

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Michael Kraus

The Marketing Nerd

Kraus brings over 13 years of experience implementing marketing automation platforms like HubSpot, Marketo, Eloqua, and Pardot. He specializes in aligning business strategy with results-driven marketing programs, ensuring seamless engagement across the entire customer lifecycle.

With experience in leading agencies as well as mid and large-scale enterprises, he understands both the flexibility needed in a marketing partner and the complex internal dynamics of enterprise systems and cross-functional teams. His ability to navigate these challenges allows him to drive effective marketing alignment and operational efficiency.

Beyond automation, Michael has deep expertise in the broader MarTech stack, including Customer Data Platforms (CDPs), product analytics, web analytics, and in-app messaging strategies—helping businesses create data-driven, personalized customer experiences at scale.

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Previous clients

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Stanley Chang

Head of Revenue Marketing
November, 2024
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As the Head of Revenue Marketing, I sought to enhance our systems and processes to improve scalability and efficiency. Michael and his team conducted a thorough Marketing Funnel and System Audit, which offered clear insights and practical recommendations to optimize our HubSpot setup and refine handoffs across teams.

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Rex Galbraith

CRO
April, 2024
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Our system had a complex set of existing and outdated automation. We needed to streamline our processes and systems before expanding our team and our marketing spend. The Sales Nerd, through collaborative planning sessions, defined our Marketing Attribution and Funnel Design, then executed flawlessly the change management required to maintain the system.

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Chris Walker

VP of Revenue Strategy and Operations
September, 2024
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They worked with us to do a deep dive into our existing funnel, helped us understand where the gaps were, and gave us the tools to design a funnel that’s aligned with best practices. Their discovery process was thorough, insightful, and immediately actionable.

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Ruben Mier

Operating Partner
February, 2024
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Perhaps what sets them apart the most is their ability to bring teams along on the journey. They don’t just deliver solutions—they upskill internal teams, build alignment among stakeholders, and focus on enablement to ensure the changes last well beyond go-live.

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Effective Lead Disqualification: Driving Better Sales and Marketing

Optimize lead disqualification to align Sales and Marketing, enhance lead quality, and drive revenue growth.

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Purposeful Duplicates in Salesforce

A Sales Process object, or Purposeful Duplicate Leads, is a great solution for transactional teams, but you better not need to switch...

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Get a Business Systems Ticketing System

In Sales Operations you’re hit from a bunch of different angles, everyday, and it can be exhausting. One moment you’re talking about...

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The value of a Business Analyst

Making the jump from a Business Leader (whether it's the Director of Customer Success, VP of Finance, CRO, etc...) to concise...

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Your Path to Smarter Business System Project Management from Startups to 500MM in ARR

How does your project management strategy change for a GTM Business System...

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Stage Gating and How to Play Offense with your Data

We address the pro's and con's of stage gating from a Revenue Operations perspective and the options you have to drive results.

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Gone Bad - Lead Status' and Opportunity Stages

The most important work you can do as a team is decide on how you manage the definitions of a company's progression through your Sales...

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Don't send all your MQL's to SDR's

Not all Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs) are created equal, and their downstream conversion rates vary wildly.

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How to Help Salespeople Decrease Churn at the Salesforce POS

Start the relationship with your customer on the right foot by making sure the communication to your Customer Success team is TOP NOTCH.

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Don't let your Salesforce look like Sagrada Familia

Building in Salesforce can get out of hand fast with intricate customizations make everything else harder.

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Don't hate your Deal Desk Process

A more technical how-to for taking your Deal Desk Process in Salesforce to the next level!

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Partner and Channel Sales in Salesforce

Hopefully at this point, you've had some experience with Channel Sales and tracking the ownership, alternative sales process, and Invoice...

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Top 5 things I wish someone told me about forecasting...

After 10 years of experience and days of researching what's online - the Top 5 things I wish someone told me about Sales Forecasting.

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Building an Ecosystem of Sales CRM Communication

CRM fields and strategies can you use to ensure your Marketing to SDR to Sales to Success communication is lock solid.

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Make Sales People Love your Salesforce Implementations

User Adoption... without a team using your tool the way you plan for them to use it no implementation inside of a CRM will be successful....

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Have you heard of "Stage - 0?"

Tech stacks are becoming more complicated and the tools we use to set up and qualify leads then pass them to another team in a different...

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Solve your MQL Problems

When there is a user on your site, and they engage with your content/site/brand, when do you send them to your SDR team? How are they...

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What to Expect From a GTM Business Transformation Project

Realizing that your Marketing Automation and CRM systems need to change is one of those "Keyser Söze" moments from Usual Suspects. ...

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Trying to Communicate?

When I was younger, I was a songwriter. (You can still google my name and find videos of a younger Mike playing guitar in Vermont.) I...

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Training Salesforce End Users

When you do a big project and it goes well, everything works great and you built a beautiful solution, the project can still go face...

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