The RevHeat system · from strategy to execution

Most sales strategies stall between the plan and the call.

Who you target, what you say, how your reps sell and how you lead the team all shape the number. We connect those decisions to what buyers say on your calls, so what you improve in one area can inform the next.

See which deals you can still close → A 25-minute call. Then the next move on every deal.

From strategy to execution

  1. StrategyWho you target. What you say.
  2. TeamWho you hire. How you lead them.
  3. ExecutionEvery rep, coached on every call.
  4. Back to strategyWhat buyers said, into next month’s plan.
$1.5Bin client sales
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Why growth stalls

One leak, and you lose all the pressure.

Revenue works like water pressure. One leak anywhere and the whole thing goes soft, however strong the rest is. And the leak is rarely where you’re looking.

The convert leak

“We get leads. We just can’t close them.”

Plenty at the top. It drains out in the middle: pitches all over the place, no real coaching, deals dying quietly.

The attract leak

“We close like beasts. We just don’t have enough leads.”

Great closers, starved pipeline. Marketing and prospecting aren’t aimed at the buyers you actually win.

The scale leak

“We can hire reps. Nobody has time to make them good.”

One hire crushes it, the next three wash out. No repeatable way to pick them or ramp them.

A stronger pitch will not fix the wrong target list. More leads will not fix a team that cannot move the right deals forward. We find the part holding growth back, work on it with your team, and make the next piece support it.

Proof: the slide reversed
Big Nerd Ranch, a $10M technology consulting firm more than two years into a revenue slide: $2.5M in new sales in 90 days. Then $12.2M added over the next 18 months, to $22.2M.
Stacy HenryStacy Henry · CEO, Big Nerd Ranch
The big picture

From strategy to ongoing execution.

A plan pays off only when your reps run it on live deals. And what buyers say on those deals should change the plan. Each part below is a service you can start with. Together they work as one system.

The way inSales Fact or Fiction: which deals in your number are real, from the calls you already record

StrategyDecided from what your buyers say

  1. 01

    Who you target

    The buyers you win, and where your marketing and prospecting aim.

  2. 02

    What you say

    Your message and sales approach, built from what buyers say on your calls.

  3. 03

    How you build and lead the team

    Who you hire, how they ramp, and who runs the pipeline review.

Ongoing executionRun on live deals, every week

  1. 04

    How your reps sell

    Your team learns the RevHeat Sales Methodology and practices it on its own deals.

  2. 05

    Every call, coached

    Each rep gets a next move. Each manager gets a weekly priority. The next call shows what changed.

  3. 06

    Back into the plan

    Every month, what buyers said goes back into targeting, messaging, coaching and hiring.

Then back to 01. Each month starts from what buyers said in the last one. That return is The Enforcement Loop.

On your deals

What each part looks like in practice.

Examples from a fictional company, Harbor Analytics, so you can see the shape of the work.

  1. Strategy

    Aim at the buyers you win.

    We sharpen who you target and how you show up: positioning, marketing, social posts, prospecting. All of it aimed at the buyers you actually win. Stop starving the pipeline.

    Where buyers’ words get used
    On the callsUsed in
    The CFO asked about payback twiceMarketing
    The buyer needs sign-off from aboveProspecting
  2. Team

    Same winning play, every hire.

    Every rep runs what actually works: one set of moves, one standard. You hire on a screening method with 100,000+ rep hires behind it, and give each hire the right onboarding. Nothing breaks because a piece was missing.

    One standard, every rep
    The moveBest repNew hire
    Opens with what the buyer said last call
    Asks what waiting costs them
    Gets the person who signs on the call
  3. Execution

    Get each rep to run it on the next call.

    We read every call, find exactly where deals slip, and tell each rep what to ask on the next one. Every call, not the three anyone has time to review by hand.

    Harbor Analytics · call 3
    Where it slippedOn the next call
    “Let’s revisit after Q1.”Ask what waiting costs them.
    Only the analytics lead has joined.Get the person who signs on the call.
Ken Lundin, RevHeat's founder, leading a sales training session in front of a team.
A RevHeat sales training session, led by our founder, Ken Lundin.
RevHeat Platform: a call scored part by part, Opening Questions 80 percent and Discovery Depth 80 percent.
Your rep’s call, scored part by part against one standard, with what the rep and the buyer said beside each score.
Where we start

A fast win first. Then all of it.

We start with your calls because they show how your selling approach meets a real buyer. What made them lean in? Where did the deal slow down? What should the rep do next? We use that evidence to coach the team and sharpen decisions about who to target, what to say and how to prepare the next hire.

01One call

Harbor AnalyticsCall 3 of 3 · coaching for the rep

Keep doing this

  • You opened with what they told you last call, in their words. They added to it.

Run the next call in this order

  1. Ask what waiting costs them.They said “let’s revisit after Q1” and you moved on.
  2. Get the person who signs on the next call.Only the analytics lead has joined. Ask who else has to say yes.
  3. Hold pricing until they name a problem worth paying to fix.You sent numbers before anyone at Harbor said what is broken.

02The whole deal

Harbor Analytics · $95KStalling

In the CRM Commit, closes Nov 15

How it got here

  1. Call 1Where it startedThe analytics lead asks about reporting. No cost named.
  2. Call 2Edged downPricing goes out. Nobody else from Harbor joins.
  3. Call 3Moved down“Let’s revisit after Q1.” The rep agrees and moves on.

What kills this deal

Decision maker not engaged
Three calls, and the person who signs has never joined one.
Urgency fading
Nobody at Harbor has said what waiting costs them.

The move that changes this deal

Ask the analytics lead to bring whoever signs to the next call. Open with what waiting until after Q1 costs them.

Then we take it from there

We build your sales method with you, coach your reps and help your managers carry the changes through. As the engagement grows, we sharpen who you target and how you hire. You decide the changes to your strategy.

See the build step by step →

Unsure where to start? Sales Fact or Fiction shows you which of the deals in your number are real, which keep getting pushed, and the next move on each. Free, from the sales calls you already record.

See which deals you can still close →

A 25-minute call. Then the next move on every deal.
The Enforcement Loop

It gets sharper every month.

Here’s the part you keep: your strategy, your sales method and the changes we agree with you, written down. Each month we bring the buyer evidence into the work on targeting, messaging, coaching and hiring. Your team can use what it has learned across the business.

What your team builds on

Your strategy and sales method, kept current with your team

  1. Strategy

    Aim at the buyers you win, with the message they respond to.

  2. Team

    Hire and lead on the moves that win, so every new rep runs them.

  3. Execution

    Coach every rep on every call, so the plan shows up on live deals.

How it sharpens

We review what buyers said and what the team tried. You choose the changes worth making. The next month builds on what you learned.

How you come to own it

Yours to keep. Worth more every year.

The strategy, sales method and habits belong to your team. The work stays useful as your people put it into practice.

  1. Prove it

    Start with a build

    One working piece of the system, on your own data, in days. Watch it read calls, coach reps, and move numbers, before you commit to anything bigger.

  2. Make it yours

    It becomes how you sell

    Layer in the rest. Coaching turns routine, targeting sharpens, The Enforcement Loop closes. Your reps stop thinking about it. It’s just how they sell now.

  3. Keep building on it

    It compounds

    Your sales method and agreed changes stay with your team. We keep helping you apply what buyers teach you, so each month builds on the last.

The people behind the work

You lead the business. We help carry the work through.

Building this in-house takes people with time to develop the strategy, coach the team and keep improving how you sell. RevHeat brings experience, delivery and the platform together, working alongside the leaders you already have.

Experience in the room.

We work with you on the decisions that shape growth. Your market, your constraints and your team determine what we build.

A team to put it to work.

We turn those decisions into a sales method, coaching priorities and the next moves on real deals. We stay involved as your team puts them into practice.

Evidence your managers can use.

The RevHeat Platform helps us review calls and deal progress. Managers get a weekly brief that makes the coaching meeting specific.

Work your company keeps.

Your sales method and agreed changes stay with your team. We use the monthly review to improve the words you sell with and the decisions behind them.

RevHeat Platform: the team page with this week's coaching brief, won and lost deal patterns and the team's focus areas.
What your managers see each week before the coaching meeting.
Next step

Is this quarter’s number real?

Sales Fact or Fiction shows you which of the deals in your number are real, which keep getting pushed, and the next move on each. Free, from the sales calls you already record.

See which deals you can still close → A 25-minute call. Then the next move on every deal.