PropertyTek

Private Equity Holding Company in Property Management. Anything that can drive revenue... I'm on it!

EVP of Sales

Kim Cram Consulting

Build the Funnel. Create Revenue. Retain Customers.

When you are a start up you have the blue ocean ahead of you. Success is around the corner... just depends on which road you take and how fast you want to get to that corner.

Having best practices at your finger tips can be the difference of fast growth or running out of runway. Anything from Outbound sales to CRM setup for both organization and being data driven, hiring the right talent and helping them develop in the right way.

Founder  ~ GTM Strategies that Drive Pipeline & Sales Process that Closes Deals

CaptureMyMeeting

Advisor

Northstar Financial Consulting Group

GTM Advisor

IsoTalent

Optimum Foods

Novarad

VP of Enterprise Sales 

Paystand

VP of Sales

Turning the world that still pays transaction fees upside down and still providing a way for instant payments. Add the automated reconciliation and you have a dream come true for every finance team. More money on the bottom line and less time with the manual processes!

Rebooting commercial finance by delivering seamless, simple, and intuitive ways to drive cash flow with the convenience of instant payments without all the fees associated with credit cards. Allowing the world of finance to be digital like the rest of the business.

Head of Business Development

SmartShyp

Fractional: Head of Business Development

Wooly

Taking the power of customer's voice to the next level to drive more revenue and customer engagement. Helping manage, organize and measure influencers, advocates, and fans. Everything you need to manage your influencer strategies in 1 place to help you see more, be more, and do more.

Fractional: Head of Sales

As a founder and fractional CRO, I help start-ups and new product launches build the funnel, create revenue, and retain customers. I have 20 years of sales experience in leading teams, closing deals, and creating go-to-market strategies and processes from scratch.

My mission is to help sales leaders and reps achieve their goals and grow their businesses. I offer consulting, training, and coaching services tailored to each client's needs and challenges. I also share tips and tricks about all things sales and prospecting on my weekly newsletter and online boot camp. Whether you need to review your processes, train your team, or boost your pipeline, I can help you turn your sales from a rollercoaster to a rocket ship.

🚀 Kim Cram

My son's latest for Axomo. They make it so easy when there is so much to talk about.

Axomo makes it so employees can pick exactly what they want instead of the "paint shirt" or something that goes right into the garbage. 

Minimum is 1... which means each person can get EXACTLY what they want. 

If your SWAG is still bought in bulk and everyone gets the same thing, it's time... 

🛑 stop wasting 
✅  start having your employees start  😍 LOVING 😍  your SWAG

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🏁 Left PE for Fractional CRO to drive BIG Exits | Helping $3M - $10M Founders Build 🚀 Revenue and Maximize Valuation | GTM ~ Revenue ~ Sales

Your sales process is over complicated... 

We bounce prospects between SDR → AE → SE → Onboarding → CSM like an assembly line.

The most frustrating...   every handoff loses context, momentum, and trust.

So what happens?
-A new person shows up and starts from ground zero.
 --Prospect repeats the same answers.
  ---It feels generic. Cold. Impersonal.

Literally… makes buying HARDER than it should be.

Here’s what to do instead 👇

1. ONE point person owns the relationship.
 The AE does the discovery. The AE leads the demo.
 The AE is the constant face of the process.

2. If an SE joins, the AE still leads.
 The rep drives the flow, asks the questions, and keeps the prospect engaged.
 The SE supports — they don’t take over.

3. Warm, detailed handoff to CS.
 AE introduces them.
 Shares the pain points, goals, where the prospect got stuck, and why they bought.
 This protects momentum and builds continuity.

4. Make the experience feel personal — because it should be.
 
People buy because they feel understood.
 
They stay because they feel supported.

When sales feels like an assembly line, trust disappears.
 
When sales feels like an actual relationship, buying gets easier — way easier.

If you want faster closes, higher show rates, and smoother onboarding…
 🛑 Stop complicating the process.
 🟢 Start simplifying the experience.

This is what NOT to do when sales are going well and you want growth.

Don't fall into the trap of doing only one thing... 

MORE
- More reps
-- More activity
--- More spend
---- More pressure

Don't get me wrong... doing more of what's working can help

BUT... it's rearely the thing that gets you to the next level. 

WHY... because "MORE" usually scales the problems along with the wins. Or produces new ones that you didn't see when it was at a smaller scale. 

✅ What you should be doing for next level growth...

💰 Improve close rate
- Find pain, understand impact, connect dots between them and solution, create sense of urgency and find objections. 

💰 Increase Deal Size
- Stop discounting or giving away what you don't need to. Have confidence in solution. PLUS the more you connect their impact to your solution, you shouldn't need to 

💰 Additional Channels or Segments
- finding other options gives you ability for true growth instead of a typical STALL or plateau that most companies go through.  

❌ Examples of what not to do... 

🙅‍♂️  Just hire more people... 
--- If you don't have enough pipeline to feed the team you already have... adding headcount doesn't increase revenue. (It only increases payroll AND frustration)

🙅‍♂️  Double Activity...
--- If you are only playing a numbers game with OK messaging, you'll burn through leads FASTER and burn your market. 

🙅‍♂️  Throw more money at marketing...
--- More money doesn't always mean more Qualified leads. It has to be dialed in and you have to be strategic or could end up being a bonfire of cash

🙅‍♂️ Think what go you here is what is going to get you 👉  THERE
--- MORE is something that can help, but true growth to take you to the next level is never just more of the same thing. 

Again... what you really want. 

👉  BETTER 👈 

Better processes. Better attack. Better strategies. 

Think outside the box and don't be afraid to keep what you are doing and try something new. 

Think big to win big!!!

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