Over a three-year engagement, The Deal Zone rebuilt the entire revenue motion: discovery, deal size, sales leadership, and operations. The result turned a promising product into a market leader.
In 2014, the company had real technology and roughly $6M in revenue, but growth had plateaued. The pipeline depended on just one or two discovery calls a week, deals averaged around $50K, and the founder was still the company's primary closer. There was no repeatable system to move larger, more complex deals through a predictable cycle.
To break through, the business needed three things at once: far more qualified discoveries, a dramatically larger average deal size, and the sales leadership and operational capacity to deliver on the growth without breaking.
We deployed our full model, covering lead generation, CRM customization, sales methodology, and operational scaling, and embedded a sales leadership layer the company never had before.
Weekly discoveries climbed from 1 to 2 a week up to over 30, supported by three full-time sales VPs. We moved the company up-market, lifting the average deal from $50K toward $750K, while scaling digital marketing and lowering the cost of discovery, which improved profitability even as the team grew.
Grew from $6M in 2014 to over $70M by the end of the assignment in 2017.
From 1 to 2 discoveries a week to over 30, across three full-time sales VPs.
Moved the company up-market from an average deal of roughly $50K.
Headcount growth driven directly by increased sales and operations.
Improved by lowering the cost of discovery and scaling digital marketing.
A sustained partnership from 2014 through 2017, start to exit-scale.
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