Jamie Shanks

CEO

Toronto, Ontario, Canada24 yrs 7 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Pioneered social selling with over 600 global customers.
  • Built and scaled three successful sales agencies.
  • Authored best-selling sales training books.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS sales enablement expert with a focus on social selling and pipeline development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Sales EnablementSales Management

Other Skills

Business DevelopmentCRMChannel Partner DevelopmentChannel PartnersCold CallingCommunity ManagementCompensationCrowdsourcingDirect MarketingEloquaEnterprise SoftwareGoogle+Inside SalesInsideViewLead Generation

About

I have built and scaled 3 agencies. I have a long-term goal of owning a portfolio of agencies: Get Levrg: 2023 - Present: We are a 'Done For You' sales & marketing agency that 'buys-back' $5/hr tasks from sales & marketing, so they can focus on $500/hr value creation. We have an offshore delivery operations in Dhaka, Bangladesh filled with amazing sales & marketing talent. Currently we are +30 agents. Pipeline Signals: 2021 - 2024: We help customers 'Get More At Bats' as we are a 0-1 sales pipeline training & certification business for any size sales organization. We merged Sales for Life (Social Selling Mastery & SPEAR Selling training certification) into Pipeline Signals. Sales for Life: 2012 - 2023: We pioneered #SocialSelling and built the leading Social Selling Training company - Sales for Life. We scaled Sales for Life to enable +600 global customers, and enabled 250,000 sellers worldwide. We license two (2) programs 'Social Selling Mastery' and "SPEAR Selling' as global licensing deals to the enterprise / mid-market companies globally. Get Levrg: Ready for Social | Tuxy | Limelight Platform | Lavvi | Factor AE | Smartling | Stori NetCo Electric | Guerrero Media | Agency Alliance | Encor Advisors | W Energy Software | TDH Signs | Corporate Insight | Service Channel | Maven | Vivun | Screen Engine ASI | Learnit | Innovative Rates | EmpellorCRM | Consume Media | Potomac Capital | Weinberg Gonser LLP | Novel Biome | Rapid | Euler App Pipeline Signals / Sales for Life: Snowflake, Teradata, Mediafly, Corsearch, PandaDoc, UserTesting, HUB International, UserTesting, AlayaCare, Microsoft, Thermo Fisher, Absolute Software, Radware, Lionbridge, Rimini Street, Dassault Systemes, Refinitiv, Schott AG, SailPoint, Rockwell Automation, Sprint, Intel, Telus, Rodan + Fields, Workfront, Xerox, Hu-Friedy, Juniper Networks, GE Capital, SAS, CA Technologies, Thomson Reuters, Oracle, ADP, Kronos, HUB International, MarketSource, Humana, Concentra, HireRight, TIBCO, Spotfire, American Express, XO Communications, New Horizons, SagePay, D&B, Direct Energy, EDC, Vision Critical, Cision, uSamp, Tata Communications, SilkRoad, Kofax, ReadyTalk, Entrust, Deltek, InContact, Direct Energy, ON24, Code42, AceUp Contact Me: Email | jamie@getlevrg.com | jamie@pipelinesignals.com Phone | 416-409-4999 Pipeline Creation | Pipeline Development | Prospecting | Social Selling | Sales Performance | Sales Enablement | Sales Effectiveness | Sales Training | Sales Methodology | Sales Leadership | Sales Management Training | Offshoring | Outsourcing | Talent Acquisition

Experience

Zoomer media

Advisor

Oct 2024Sep 2025 · 11 mos · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  • ZoomerMedia focuses on Canada’s most powerful audiences — the 17.2 million Baby Boomers and Gen Xers over the age of 45 (which we coined Zoomers) and the 13.2 million Millennials and Gen Zs under 45 (which in the US have recently also been coined Zoomers). The term Zoomer now represents the whole family, from old to young.
  • These audiences control the marketplace. They control the ballot box.
  • Wherever our audience is in Canada they’re local and wherever they turn there’s Zoomer.

Get levrg

2 roles

Best Selling Author - Outsource To Profits

Oct 2023Oct 2023 · 0 mo · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  • For Founders and CEO's that want to create more profits in their business.
  • Are you facing challenges such as:
  • Struggling with profitability?
  • Suffering from margin erosion?
  • Dealing with frustrated teammates stuck on low-value tasks?
  • Join fellow founders and CEOs who are revolutionizing their businesses with a different approach.
  • Your talent costs are your main operational expense, and you might be paying five to ten times more per role than necessary for desired outcomes.
  • Discover the six essential steps to offshore success:
  • Mindset-operating competitive advantage: change your mindset for a competitive edge.
  • Operating leverage benchmarking: maximize operational efficiency.
  • Infrastructure for talent acquisition strategies: build the foundation for success.
  • Talent acquisition strategies: source top talent cost-effectively.
  • Talent onboarding strategies: efficiently integrate offshore talent into your team.
  • Scaling teams: go bigger, bolder, faster.
  • Supercharge your growth. Outsource to Profits is your prescriptive guide to boosting profitability by harnessing offshore talent, giving you more options for your business.

CEO

Jan 2023Present · 3 yrs 2 mos · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  • Founders / CEO's - Stop doing $5/hr sales & marketing tasks.
  • Focus on $500/hr value creation.
  • We have built the ultimate "Talent-as-a-Service" for sales & marketing tasks. Our TAM is 1-500 employee B2B or B2C companies that are resource constrained.
  • We have a team of +50 and growing rapidly to 'buy back' all the sales & marketing bottlenecks your onshore team can't, won't and shouldn't be doing.
  • Customers turn on the talent like a lightswitch.
  • Focus on growing your business while reducing costs and improving margins.
Sales & MarketingTalent AcquisitionOffshoringOutsourcingSales EnablementSales Management

Pipeline signals

CEO

Jul 2021Dec 2024 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  • We began as a tech-enabled platform to identify sales 'Signals'. We executed against a specific set of Social Selling plays - such has monitoring Job Change Alerts (Customers on the Move) on LinkedIn at scale.
  • We then acquired Sales for Life's sales training methodology to make the offering more robust, and focus on helping Account-based Sellers 'Self-Source' sales pipeline. The problem we were solving for was "Getting More At Bats" for Account-based Sellers as the definitive "0 to 1" sales methodology for pipeline creation.
  • My business partner Amar Sheth has carried the torch of this business going forward.
Sales Pipeline DevelopmentSocial SellingSales Enablement

Sales for life

3 roles

Best Selling Author - SPEAR Selling

Jan 2019Jan 2019 · 0 mo

  • SPEAR Selling is the ultimate Account-based guide for the modern, digital seller and sales leader. We've implemented the S.P.E.A.R. process into 100's of companies to help them create incremental sales pipeline in key accounts.

Best-Selling Author – Social Selling Mastery

Sep 2016Sep 2016 · 0 mo

  • Book: Social Selling Mastery – Scaling Up Your Sales And Marketing Machine For The Digital Buyer
  • #1 Amazon Hot New Release in Sales
  • Today's buyers are engaging sales professionals much later in the buying process, but 74 percent of deals go to the sales professional who was first to engage the buyer and provide helpful insight. This book presents a concrete Social Selling curriculum that teaches you everything you need to know in order to leverage the new business environment into top sales figures.
  • http://www.getsocialselling.com

CEO - acquired by Pipeline Signals.

Feb 2012Sep 2023 · 11 yrs 7 mos

  • My first "First Base Hit" as an entrepreneur. We invented and pioneered #SocialSelling. We created Social Selling Mastery & SPEAR Selling certification programs that sold to +600 global customers in +40 countries. We sold over $15,000,000 in training certifications before merging the training IP into Pipeline Signals.
  • Our Social Selling and Account-based Sales programs helped our customers increase sales pipeline by +20% within 6-12 months.
Social SellingSales TrainingSales Enablement

American association of inside sales professionals - toronto chapter

President

Dec 2010Oct 2014 · 3 yrs 10 mos · Greater Toronto Area, Canada

  • We are the Toronto Chapter of The American Association of Inside Sales Professionals ("AA-ISP") - dedicated exclusively to advancing the profession of Inside Sales. Check us out!
  • Our mission is accomplished through an industry-specific focus on leadership and individual development, member forums and networking, best practice sharing, individual training, career development, sales accreditation and annual conferences.

Shanks group inc.

President

Jan 2010Feb 2012 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Greater Toronto Area, Canada

  • Shanks Group Inc. was founded by Jamie Shanks after providing success on inside sales projects, delivered via (JPS Strategies & Triathleads - their original project names). Shanks Group is a full-service inside sales agency - helping companies in three areas:
  • People - attract, train & develop inside sales talent;
  • Process - improve the inside sales model step-by-step;
  • Technology - Sales 2.0 tools that help sell more, faster.
  • Industry Experience: Media, PR & Agency, SaaS, Enterprise ERP, E Commerce, Mobile Device Management

Firmex inc.

Director, Business Development

Sep 2008Jan 2010 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Firmex is a world leading Virtual Data Room provider to Investment Banks, Private Equity, Legal firms and Corporations to facilitate M&A, Capital Raises and document collaboration between parties.
  • I was responsible for managing sales of the Firmex Data Room to Investment Banks throughout North America and Europe.

Captive channel corporation

Director, Business Development

Dec 2005Sep 2008 · 2 yrs 9 mos

  • Captive Channel is Canada's largest in-store digital communication network at the point-of-purchase dedicated to the grocery environment.
  • I was responsible for the engagement of 300+ clients throughout Canada and the management of the entire sales staff nationally.

Cresa partners

Consultant

Jan 2004Dec 2005 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • CRESA Partners Toronto is a member of the world's largest commercial real estate organization representing tenants. CRESA offers full-service advisory and project management for all commercial leasing within the GTA.
  • I was responsible for building a book of business to manage. I had the pleasure of advising over 30+ projects during my tenure.

Bmo nesbitt burns

Investment Sales Representative

May 2000Sep 2002 · 2 yrs 4 mos

  • Worked as and ISR while completing my Commerce Degree at the University of Ottawa.

Education

University of South Australia

MBA — International Marketing

Jan 2002Jan 2003

University of Ottawa

B. Commerce — Marketing

Jan 1997Jan 2001

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