After working with a particular client for more than six years, we’ve had a front-row seat to their growth and to the consistent discipline that made that growth possible.
Over just the past few years, they've raised over $500 million directly from email-based sales sequences in HubSpot.
That kind of success isn’t about finding the perfect subject line or obsessing over whether your segmentation criteria are too broad. It’s about execution, and doing it consistently.
One of the most interesting points from our recent call with this client was around the concept of "fear of execution." It’s a real challenge, especially for seasoned sales professionals who shine when they’re actually talking to a prospect.
Their highest and best use is on sales calls:, discovery, relationship building, and closing. But they often get bogged down in the top and middle of the funnel: overthinking messaging, hesitating to press send, waiting to perfect a list or email sequence before doing anything.
And in that hesitation, momentum dies.
What this client realized, and what many successful managers and fundraisers eventually understand, is that you don’t need to be perfect to be effective.
The simple act of launching more top-of-funnel outreach, more often, is the difference-maker. Not every prospect will respond. Not every conversation will lead to capital. But if you're not consistently getting into inboxes, you're not even giving yourself the chance.
That’s why this client leaned hard into HubSpot sales automation—sequencing educational emails that introduce their firm, explain their value proposition, and open the door for a conversation.
And that’s the real goal: conversations. Because conversations lead to opportunities, and opportunities lead to clients.
Here’s what we’ve learned from our client’s success:
It’s not about automation vs. relationships. The automation starts the conversation; the relationship is built in the reply.
This client’s journey is a reminder that execution isn’t about complexity — it’s about commitment. You don’t need a hundred workflows or a four-layer lead score. You need a clear message, a tool like HubSpot, and the discipline to keep pressing “send.”
If you’re not using sales sequences in HubSpot to generate consistent conversations, you’re missing one of the most scalable levers in your fundraising toolkit.
Because behind every great sales sequence is someone who finally stopped fiddling with the filters...and called Goodwood.
We’ll build the system that gets you more of them.