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Growth Strategy and Execution across the full GTM stack
Everything you need to win your market
Marketing, Sales, and Revenue Operations
A true partner to GTM: Lead routing & scoring, territories, CRM / MAP setup & management, segmenting & targeting, forms & workflows, reporting, and attribution.
GTM Engineering
Leverage AI tooling and strategy: Clay, AI & automation, signals-based campaigns, enrichment & validation, email deliverability & domain setup, and bespoke AI solutions.
Web Dev and Web Analytics
Optimize web performance: Web development in WordPress, Webflow, HubSpot CMS, and others, plus analytics & tracking, tags & scripts, and ongoing optimization and guidance.
Growth Marketing
Grow faster: SEO & AEO, paid social & search, automated outbound, growth hacking & growth loops, and integrating product-led growth with enterprise sales motions.
Lifecycle Marketing
Maximize your NRR: Drive the most efficient growth by optimizing customer relationships and end-user utilization.
Full-Service Agency Solutions
End-to-end campaign execution: Design, copywriting, email marketing, landing pages, and analytics.
Matt Avero-Sturm
Matt founded Next Stage Consulting to help companies conquer early and growth-stage GTM challenges. While building sales, marketing, and ops functions at Illustria, EverFi, and Sprig, he experienced first-hand the need for expert support on GTM strategy and execution.
Next Stage Consulting solves that problem.
Matt loves collaborating with founders and sales and marketing leaders. He enjoys strategizing on GTM motions, including PLG, ABM, inbound, outbound, traditional enterprise sales, as well as innovative and non-traditional business models.
The Team Powering Your Growth
Experts with a proven track record of building market leaders.
Nicole Nestel
Revenue Operations and GTM Engineer
Admined one of the 100 largest Hubspot instances globally
Margy Shomaker
Rev Ops & GTM Strategy and Operations
Built and led the Hubspot team at her last agency. 4x founding GTM/RevOps hire
Devin O’Brien
SEO, AEO, and Growth Marketing
Drove growth from 0 to 50 million annual users at his last startup
Liz Vudhiwat
Marketing Operations and Email Marketing
Migrated 1,000,000+ record Customer.io instance into Hubspot, while migrating a website and rebuilding attribution
Lorisa Harrell
Design
Built design systems for everyone from Series A startups to the Fortune 500
Jean-Marc Dinghin
Web Engineering
Wrote code that has powered over 100 million page views
Maura FitzGibbon
Customer and Partner Marketing
Built client marketing strategy and programs for partner brands like Amazon, Microsoft, Fidelity, Citadel, and MassMutual
Nicole Hunt
Lifecycle Marketing and Operations Manager
Built the voice and messaging for more than 100 brands
Cody Gillund
Growth Marketing
Turning clear positioning into demand that fuels long-term growth
Rahul Ravulapati
Marketing Operations
Senior Marketing Ops Leader driving results from early-stage through post-IPO
Next Stage clients also have access to our network of expert contributors for SEO & AEO, growth marketing, web dev, web analytics, design, email deliverability, and more.
Powering High-Growth Technology Startups
Matt is the best ops mind I’ve ever met. Working with the Next Stage Consulting team gave us the operational foundation most GTM teams don’t build until it’s too late. That early investment shaped how we run GTM at UserEvidence today.
Mark Huber
VP of Marketing, UserEvidence
Next Stage flexes easily to become an extension of your team - or the ops hire you wish you could afford in-house. They helped us quickly clean up & prioritize conflicting data that caused workflow errors, while also serving as our day-to-day GTM ops team and saving us in-house resources. With broad experience across diverse GTM motions, companies, and tech stacks, plus being communicative, friendly, and detail-oriented, they're exactly the partners you need in a fast-changing environment.
Colleen Duggan
Sr Director of Demand Generation, HelioCampus
Working with Next Stage Consulting has been a game-changer for GTM at AirOps. We have ambitious growth goals and terrific market momentum, and thus we need to build a lot of GTM ops all at once. We are constantly bringing big, hairy, audacious questions to Next Stage, and every time, Ben has a clear, straightforward answer and plan forward. It's great to have confidence that the work is getting done and getting done right! Next Stage is a valued partner to the AirOps team.
Eoin Clancy
Head of Growth, AirOps
Working with Next Stage Consulting was a great experience. A network of highly skilled marketing ops professionals made a serious pain-point for us feel easy. When choosing attribution models and how to best display data, their expertise was very valuable.
Cameron Putty
Head of Digital Operations, Smarter Technologies
The team at Next Stage have been instrumental in making our business scalable. Their world class Hubspot expertise and intimate understanding of our sales and operations made them consistently effective partners as we experimented our way toward product market fit.
Jimmy Douglas
Founder and CEO, Plug.vin
When your company scales and you need to scale ops with it, Matt and Next Stage are an invaluable partner. Supporting our Hubspot migration, attribution and lifecycle stage rebuild, website migration, impact framework for ABM and more, Matt enabled our team to emerge with more rigorous data, more reliable and effective systems, and stronger processes and capabilities. He also supported us as we grew our team, providing invaluable insight and referrals.
Robin Sykes
former SVP Marketing, NoRedlink
The AppOmni website needed several updates including maintaining the site while also auditing the code base, creating a stable baseline to facilitate easy content additions, and new templates for enhancements. Jean-Marc Dinghin from NSC created a systematic work plan to prioritize the changes and communicate weekly status updates while remaining sensitive to our budget needs and timelines. NSC's experience and methodical process brought much needed repeatability, stability, and speed to our web changes.
Chandra Sekar
Chief Marketing Officer, AppOmni
We've loved working with Matt & Next Stage! Matt has improved our GTM processes exponentially and been a joy to work with. I've tried many, many consultants in the past and usually end up frustrated and overpaying—working with Matt was the complete opposite. He’s sharp, collaborative, and genuinely fun to work with.
Kritika Oberoi
Co-Founder, Looppanel
At Sprig, we have a product-led growth and enterprise sales motion. Matt and the Next Stage team helped us bring more focus and organization to our growth marketing efforts. They made it possible for our small team to launch smart, ongoing campaigns including things like in-app meeting booking and reverse trials. What sets them apart is that they’re not just great at getting things done, they also help you think differently about how to grow.
Chipper Nicodemus
Head of Marketing, Sprig
Working with Next Stage has been a huge help for our operations. They made sense of some really complex workflows and helped us move a lot faster and cleaner on the ops side. Beyond just executing, they brought a thoughtful, strategic approach that made a real difference in how we work. Super easy to collaborate with and always thinking a few steps ahead. I highly recommend them!
Jared Jost
VP Marketing, DeepScribe
Next Stage has been a true strategic partner in sharpening our voice on LinkedIn and email. Thanks to them, we’re more confident in our marketing presence. Their work helps us look sharp, sound professional, and show up consistently to the right people. Our partnership has deepened relationships across our network with thoughtful, targeted content and a tailored, effective approach.
Satchel Park
Principal, Research and Strategy, Trinity Hunt Partners
Collaborating with Next Stage as a strategic marketing advisor to my client has been seamless—they’re highly adaptable, responsive to strategic direction, and bring strong execution to evolving priorities. Their flexibility and insight have made them an essential partner in fueling and optimizing our marketing efforts.
Clark Newby
Strategic Marketing Advisor, JCN Advisory