A productized sales agency turns LinkedIn attention and targeted outbound into recurring B2B revenue.
They turned LinkedIn posts into an owned email list, then paired it with one focused hour of personal outreach each day.
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Workflows.io is a sales agency started by Dan Rosenthal and Fivos after they had worked inside ColdIQ, another agency. Dan says he worked there for free for three months; during that period, ColdIQ grew from $25,000 to $240,000 a month. Workflows started with zero revenue but with direct experience selling agency services. It builds prospect lists, email systems, and outreach campaigns for clients whose own teams take sales calls. Its client Lexroom, an AI software company for lawyers, is the clearest example: Workflows says a country-by-country campaign produced 4,500 leads and more than €1.2 million in new annual revenue for Lexroom over nine months. Workflows sells LinkedIn content and cold outreach on monthly retainers, plus projects, courses, referrals, and affiliate offers. The creator reports the founders' claim of about $3 million in annual recurring revenue within 12 months. LinkedIn reportedly supplies about 80% of the business, with posts and videos bringing about 80 meetings a month.
For a new agency selling outbound and content, start with a narrow buyer list and do the work by hand before automating. Workflows reserved one hour a day for manual outreach to 150 dream companies, personalizing notes around a prospect's product, hiring, or public posts.
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Data credibility: Dig the Hype reports founder claims about Workflows.io, including approximately $3M in annual recurring revenue; no audited accounts are cited. Client results and affiliate/referral profit are also reported by the agency and are not independently verified.
For an agency like Workflows, the first invoice should come from a defined implementation that fixes one sales bottleneck: a usable prospect list, an email setup, or a tested message sequence for a specific buyer group.
The strongest loop in Workflows' model links public expertise to an owned audience and then to direct sales. A useful LinkedIn post gives a prospect a reason to exchange a work email for a guide; Tuesday's newsletter asks readers to book a call, while Friday's message teaches without a hard pitch.
Workflows started at zero revenue, but its founders were not learning sales from scratch. Dan and Fivos had worked at ColdIQ, where they saw an agency grow and learned how prospecting, growth, and client delivery fit together.
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