Break Your Growth Barriers -
While Ramping Up Your Margins and - Having Fun!
We work with you to design and install an aggressive growth system that aligns your marketing, sales, operations and finance around a growth mentality - and builds measurable KPIs - so you can scale with confidence instead of guesswork.
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Turn scattered tactics into one coherent, repeatable growth system
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Feed sales with the right leads - and a process that closes them faster
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Grow revenue and profitability together, instead of trading one for the other
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​Free yourself from being the necessary linchpin in every major decision
Imagine this...
Your marketing doesn't just generate leads - it feeds your sales team the right leads every time because it has reversed engineered your perfect customer or client.
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Sales doesn't just close more deals - it does it faster while capturing intelligence that makes your marketing smarter and operations more efficient.
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Operations doesn't just deliver - it lives in a process that allows your growth to scale with better efficiency, higher margins and greater customer satisfaction.
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That's just some of the benefits of scaling.
Versus what you are probably facing today...
If you're running a business you've probably hit at least one of these uphill, big bolder struggles. You're not alone - and you're not crazy. You're just trying to scale a business on tactics that were never designed for growth at your level.
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Revenue ceilings that just won't break - no matter how many new tactics you try
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A business that feel like it's running you, instead of the other way around
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Marketing that generates activity, but not enough of the right opportunities
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Sales that closes deals, but too slowly and without feeding back real market insight
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Operations that deliver, but strain under growth and quietly erode your margins
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A nagging sense that you could achieve more - but you're too close to see how
If any of this sounds like your world, you don't need another campaign or quick fix. You need a growth system.
What's wrong?
Most try to fix growth by tweaking one thing at a time. With 30 years in the trenches we've learned that sustainable, scalable growth only happens when all core aspects of your business work well together as a single system. This isn't software. It's a practical, proven system for how your business lays out, wins, profits and delivers what you sell as you scale.
Scalable Growth - The Holistic Process That Works
We start by pulling together your key people - because an aligned team can learn from each member, and together it can move in a unified direction faster. Proper team alignment alone, on average, provides 18% more sales and 23% greater profitability --- and forms a Growth Mindset composed of what really moves your needle:
Delivered in 3 Steps
STEP 1 - Align the team around the proper concept of "growth"; assess what was and what should be; Develop performance potential, including financials.
First 6 Weeks
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STEP 2 - Set a goal that stretches and imagines your company beating industry trends but with forecasts and provable key performance indicators; invite innovation company wide to beat the competition and stay ahead of the pack while assessing the 'ripple effect' before problems arise.
Months 2 thru 4
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STEP 3 - Implement, monitor and measure performance across the entire business; provide feedback from and across teams; assess and align per performance.
Months 5 thru 6
You don't need a 200-page strategy deck. You need a clear path from where you are to where you want to be - and a partner who's walked it before. With The Written Sale you get a quick proven process and a team that is as obsessed with your next level as much as you are.
Ready to Start?
Take a 3-minute assessment and let us prepare a custom report for your business that details:
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​Your starting point
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3 important levers to pull first
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Your anticipated financial "room to run" if you pull them.
Prefer a conversation? Book 30 minutes with our founder, Carl Olson.
Not a sales pitch - just a conversation about your growth goal and what is possible.
Scaled growth is what we do -
Too Many Sales
A financial software and education company had spent months developing a new software and education series to go with it - but sales were flat. Through our holistic process we discovered a major assumption about the software that was a roadblock for buyers. Once fixed, sales came in so fast that marketing had be be shut off while operations changed the process for delivery and accompanying education.
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"Nice problem to have - too many sales. The Written Sale hung with us the whole time and guided us through from day one until we were able to stand on our own feet."
A 10x Increase, No Added Cost
An industrial machine manufacturer, despite having a very robust marketing budget, struggles to get leads and subsequent sales.
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Within six months their marketing and sales teams had optimized spend, messaging and market positioning. They suddenly saw a huge increase in RFPs and sales soon followed without any increase in spend.
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"We knew something was wrong, but we couldn't figure out what it was. Carl pinpointed the problem right away and we were off to the races10-fold."
Proving Growth Happens in Any Economy
During an economic downturn, a commercial builder specializing in factory spaces faced excess capacity and few new projects.
Unexpectedly, we found opportunity in Change Management: local factories used the slowdown to retool, requiring teams of engineers, fabricators, and occasional structural changes for new equipment. This kept both their staff and subcontractors busy.
Through innovative process changes and strong communication, the builder’s new service thrived—helping them exit the construction slump ahead of competitors and making this offering a permanent part of their business.