Sauce Agency

In January 2023, Sauce Marketing merged their Digital Marketing genius with the Sales Expertise of The Selling Agency to form a new partnership, Sauce Agency: helping businesses #GrowSmarter through RevOps Optimization. Aligning Sales, Marketing, and Service to generate systems that scale, training that transforms, and experiences that endear. Sauce rescues SMBs and MMBs from business "flailure" - guessing at what might work and pouring money and resources into patchwork tech stacks, creating friction that loses customers and frustrates employees. Sauce's Growth Driven Design model helps eliminate the guesswork to maximize growth investments by producing short term wins while building long term success that fortifies and scales.

We're called Sauce because we know your best differentiator–and ours–is to center this work around delivering a Strategically Aligned User Centric Experience so you can attract and retain your best customers and top-talent employees alike.

Here's how:

To ensure we're able to achieve quick-wins, build a future-proof foundation and deliver on long-term growth, we organize our engagements into 3 phases:

• Plan: We'll align with your key stakeholders to develop your custom Recipe for Success
• Build: We'll implement the plan for foundational deliverables and quick-win tactics 
• Fortify: We'll continue to build, test and optimize for quick-wins and long-term growth

Visit sauceagency.com to book a connect call to discuss how you can #GrowSmarter!

Chief Revenue Officer and Sales Growth Guide

The Selling Agency

Our Small Business Sales Rescue plans include: Sales Strategy. Sales Team Assessment. Recruiting/Hiring. Then Training ... but wait -

It’s NOT Training.
It’s BETTER THAN TRAINING.
Nope, not gonna be another boring training session.

Professional Development is desperately needed to keep employees and team members engaged and interested in improving their skills and thus, job performance.

Here’s the problem, though. Most training sucks. We know it. You know it.

You’ve sat through enough training that made you contemplate pulling the fire alarm to know most TRAINING does NOT produce meaningful or lasting results.

Most training is ineffective (or sucky) because . . .

It’s treated as an “event” and done once a year.
It’s product-focused or technique-based, instead of skills-focused.
It primes participants to demonstrate they know what’s important to the TRAINER, not that they’re applying the skills in real life.
It’s long and boring.

We’ve designed incredibly effective skills-building sessions around the most common and persistent issues sellers face – that prevent them from becoming top performers for your business.

And NOTHING is “off the shelf” here. Each session is customized for your team and your industry. If your training company doesn’t do that for you, you’re wasting your time and money.

And here’s another critical difference we understand when it comes to training and sales performance: growth takes practice - with intentional skills development – and success is about each performer’s incremental improvements of skill application.  

Team members who train in these areas are seeing remarkable improvement (as in 85% response rates to mid-funnel deal messages and 18% average higher deal margins).

Learning MUST be more than just educational. It’s got to move, compel, and inspire your sellers and team. When it’s entertaining and personally relevant, it leads to changed behavior, practiced habits, improved skills, and ultimately, MORE PROFITABLE SALES!

Chief Revenue Officer

Regus

Regus is the world’s largest provider of workplace solutions, offering the widest range of products and services that allow individuals and companies to work however, wherever, and whenever they need to.

Companies of all sizes use Regus solutions to reduce costs and remove the burden of property ownership and management and to have a workplace to suit however they want to work.

General Manager of the Southwind Business Centre, includes responsibility for marketing, sales, staffing and operations  through delivery of exceptional customer
service. Ultimately, the actions and services provided by the General Manager and Centre team are what
attracts clients to Regus and what makes them stay.

General Manager

OfficeMax

Identify and develop strategic pursuit plan for target accounts.  Evaluate print and document programs in national and large locally headquarted businesses by gaining executive sponsorship to identify areas to reduce overall costs.  Focus on building sustainable, repeatable programs and account margin growth through advisor and consultant capacities.  Lead resource and integrated solutions teams to create efficiencies and processes to stream line and manage total print costs for clients.

Strategic Account Manager

Comission on Missing and Exploited Children

President, Board of Directors

RETAIL ESTABLISHMENT

Optimized strong communications skills to effectively engage customers and prospects and understand factors that motivate decisions to buy. Researched, planned, organized, and executed business start-up and developed in-depth business plan with marketing, management, and financial strategies, as well as established aggressive goals. Provided frontline client service and served as primary client contact to cultivate and retain clients through thoughtful, creative marketing plans and highest levels of personalized service. Actively cultivated corporate accounts; interfaced professionally with local and international vendors to improve delivery and service of products. Merchandized store displays and designed web site campaign. Organized and implemented manager training and developed and facilitated daily and periodic administrative processes.
Key Achievements:
Successfully planned and executed creation of retail establishment on shoe string budget that quickly garnered attention from local clients, gained market share, and drove annual sales revenue above $175,000.
Supervised and trained 10 employees and developed educational program that followed timeline for service and design training.
Developed phenomenal service standards that continuously generated numerous word of mouth referrals and attracted new clients to business. 
Recruited and train employees, instilled high level of empowerment and ownership, and allowed independent decision-making and nurturing of relationships with clients.

Entrepreneur/Owner/Manager

Leadership Memphis

Recognized and leveraged relationships with community stakeholders in the promotion and sponsorship of community development programs and workshops to increase participation and awareness of brand/products.  Engaged alumni and sought corporate sponsors to support the institution through financial contributions.  Coordinated marketing and development efforts with Board of Directors to achieve maximum exposure and revenues.

Director of Marketing and Development

Clear Channel Television

Serviced local/national accounts and advertising agencies through creative presentations and execution of strategic marketing and advertising plans. Prospected, marketed, and implemented advertising and marketing initiatives. Partnered with General and Local Sales Manager, and NTR Director on administration of local sales efforts. Negotiated business contracts based on industry ratings to maximize station revenue and consistently achieve revenue and market share goals. Developed new clients by soliciting area businesses and prospecting for nontraditional advertisers to market special promotional programs. Provided regular reporting to sales manager on sales orders, rotation schedules, revenue forecasts, and competition analysis. Monitored competitive media to identify new account leads. Studied and interpreted quarterly/ daily ratings information. Supervised sales assistant in order processing and meeting client service needs.

Account Executive

Christian Brothers University

Business Manager

"You practice it until you can't get it WRONG. Not until you get it right. Practice until you can't get it WRONG. So when you get in the game, it's just natural, and normal, and confident." - Nick Saban

In January 2023, Sauce Marketing merged their Digital Marketing genius with the Sales Expertise of The Selling Agency to form a new partnership, Sauce Agency: helping businesses #GrowSmarter through RevOps Optimization. Aligning Sales, Marketing, and Service to generate systems that scale, training that transforms, and experiences that endear. Sauce rescues SMBs and MMBs from business "flailure" - guessing at what might work and pouring money and resources into patchwork tech stacks, creating friction that loses customers and frustrates employees. Sauce's Growth Driven Design model helps eliminate the guesswork to maximize growth investments by producing short term wins while building long term success that fortifies and scales.

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