Active • Creative Production / Advertising • Small team, CEO-led sales
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The Video Production Company
The Reality
CEO doing 40 sales calls a week
Founder Dependency Process Documentation Clean Slate
⚠️ What Was Actually Happening
Revenue doubled in four months. $200K → $400K.
The CEO took over two months ago. He's doing 40 calls a week.
The sales process? It lives in his head.
HubSpot is new — 600 contacts, basic setup only.
Post-sale? All in Slack. Nothing in the CRM.
He wants to hire a salesperson but has no documented process to train them.
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I know I'm leaving money on the table. At least a dozen brands got one email and then... nothing.— CEO reflecting on missed follow-ups
📋 The Symptoms
- Missed follow-ups costing deals
- No nurture flow for qualified prospects
- Trial-to-subscription upsell is relationship-dependent
- Post-sale intelligence trapped in Slack
- Can't scale sales without documented process
📍 Where They Are Now
✓ What's Different
- → Clean slate — no legacy mess to clean up
- → Process documentation happening alongside system build
- → Unified customer view from first touch through subscription
- → Automated follow-ups being implemented
- → New salesperson can be trained on actual process
~ What's Still Messy
- → CEO still in back-to-back calls
- → Slack still holds post-sale intelligence
- → Building the plane while flying it
The Pattern
Early-stage companies have a gift: no legacy systems to fight. The challenge is building process before bad habits calcify. Document while you're small.
Quick Facts
- Industry
- Creative Production / Advertising
- Team Size
- Small team, CEO-led sales
- Status
- Active
- Patterns Identified
- 3
Universal Patterns
This story reveals patterns seen across industries:
Founder Dependency
Process Documentation
Clean Slate
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