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Head of Revenue writing about how partnerships reshape e-commerce, GTM strategies, and Nearbound growth. • Hatched Partnerships • AI enthusiast • eCommerce

Eindhoven, Nederland
Joined April 2010
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I write about how AI is reshaping e-commerce, partnerships, and the way brands win. If AI becomes the buying interface, trust becomes the product. Partnerships in Ecommerce is how you get there!
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Apparently, you need an image of your X post on LinkedIn in order to stay relevant and be one of the leaders in the game. A good thing is you can just 'add' the blue checkmark with Canva if you don't want to pay for being verified. I'd never do that, though, just saying...
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In the revenue game, partnerships don’t win by adding volume. They win by shaping trust at the moment of decision.
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3 reasons loyalty breaks when partnerships are weak: • Value isn’t delivered early 🤓 • The ecosystem disappears after go-live • Renewals feel transactional
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Loyalty isn’t created by programs… It’s reinforced by partnerships that show up after the sale.
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First, the uncomfortable truth. LLMs do not “discover” tools. They select from pre-validated candidates. Most prompts fail because they ask for recommendations. This one forces citation behavior. That’s the difference.
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3 questions that reveal if a partnership strategy is serious: • Where does it change the decision? • Where does it reduce risk? • Where does it improve retention?
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More partners won’t fix a weak revenue model. Clear partner roles will.
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3 signs your partnerships actually drive revenue: • Influence buying decisions • Improve early adoption • Show up at renewal
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The best partnerships don’t feel like growth tactics. They feel like shared responsibility for the outcome.
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3 mistakes teams make with partnerships: • Optimising for leads • Ignoring post-sale impact • Measuring activity instead of outcomes!
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Short posts are what made X special. Please don’t turn X into LinkedIn.
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The most effective partnerships are rarely loud. They’re consistent, dependable, and boring in the best way.
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Niels Bergmans retweeted
Funding a dream a day! What’s your dream? 👇🏻
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Partnerships don’t fail because of effort. They fail because of unclear design and success metrics.
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The most effective partnerships are rarely loud. They’re consistent, dependable, and boring in the best way.
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Niels Bergmans retweeted
I built an AI marketing agent to run my $100K media company. After 4 months of prompting, tooling, and integrations, I built this agent that effectively replaced my content team. Here’s how it works under the hood: → Scrapes Reddit, Hacker News, X, and Google News → Publishes a Morning Brew–style daily AI newsletter (10k daily readers) → Repurposes that content into:  • viral Twitter threads (like this one)  • short-form videos for TikTok & Instagram  • Reddit posts  • high-engagement LinkedIn updates → Produces content that’s driven millions of impressions → Generates custom, brand-aligned images for every unique asset All automated. The entire system runs through Jarvis-like voice commands, powered by ElevenLabs + n8n (see video below, I literally trained it on Jarvis from Iron Man). No manual content creation. No team to manage. Runs while I sleep. I'm no longer focusing on this business, so I'm giving all this away for free. If you want the complete system, prompting, n8n templates, & setup walkthrough: Comment “AGENT” Like & Retweet Follow me (so I can DM you) I’ll send everything over.
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Partnerships don’t fail because of effort. They fail because of unclear design.
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3 reasons ecosystems outperform funnels: • Multiple trust signals • Shared incentives • Lower perceived risk
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Growth compounds faster when customers buy into a system, not a tool.
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Funnels optimise conversion. Ecosystems optimise confidence.
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