Table of Contents
1. Introduction: What is Revenue Acceleration?
2. The Revenue Acceleration Model for Commercial Services
3. How Do You Accelerate Revenue Growth?
4. Key Revenue Acceleration Strategies for Engagement and Customer Retention
5. Practical Steps to Implement a Revenue Acceleration Framework
6. Real-World Revenue Acceleration Examples, Revenue Streams, and Benefits
7. Conclusion: Driving Revenue Growth and Customer Lifetime Value Long-term
What is Revenue Acceleration?
More than anything, revenue acceleration is about alignment—alignment between management, sales, marketing, and field service teams.
On a car or truck, “alignment” means the wheels all face the same direction, reducing friction, increasing stability, and boosting the vehicle’s efficiency.
In business, organizational alignment works the same way. When your entire team is moving toward unified goals; events, outreach efforts, content, ads, partnerships, and marketing strategies all move in sync. This reduces friction and the whole business gains momentum.
For commercial services businesses—HVAC, electrical and lighting, roofing and solar, cleaning and janitorial, fire life and safety (FLS), and landscaping and grounds—this kind of alignment fuels growth. This happens because revenue acceleration frameworks focus heavily on top-of-funnel strategies that fill the sales pipeline faster, bringing in higher-quality leads and setting the stage for a sales cycle that converts total strangers into buyers.
But it takes team alignment, a few great tools, and the right approach.
In this article, we’re going to cover how to build a well-structured revenue acceleration model in your business. We’ll discuss the key tips, tricks, tactics, and tools that you’ll need to align your team and drive revenue growth.
The Revenue Acceleration Model for Commercial Services
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The revenue acceleration model offers a structured way to maximize each stage of the sales process by optimizing every revenue stream. In commercial services, this model can mean the difference between talking to cold, unqualified leads and warm prospects who’ve already shown an interest in your services.
Revenue acceleration is all about creating a structured, repeatable process for closing deals. This model (ambivalent of industry) generally consists of three main components:
Attract: This is the top-of-funnel stage where you’ll focus on attracting high-quality leads through various marketing efforts such as outbound lead generation, content creation, SEO, advertising, and partnerships.
Engage: Once you have attracted leads, the next step is to engage with them through personalized interactions and targeted messaging. This stage includes activities like email marketing, lead nurturing and social media engagement.
Convert: The final piece of the puzzle is converting leads into customers. This involves an effective sales process that addresses pain points, builds trust, and ultimately closes the deal.
The fastest and most efficient way to do this is with the right tools. Traditional prospecting and lead generation in commercial services have always been a challenge. If you’re like many businesses in the space, prospecting looks something like this:
Cold calling and cold emailing
Canvassing and Driving for dollars
Purchasing leads from third-party providers
Hiring outsourced lead generation and sales development teams
The problem is, this approach is time-consuming, expensive and often yields low-quality results. In contrast, a revenue acceleration model leverages technologies like sales intelligence, property data, customer relationship management (CRM) systems, marketing automation tools, and data analytics like buying signals to streamline the process and improve lead quality.
Tools like Convex provide the ability to find qualified leads, use buying signals and intent data to understand the services that they’re already trying to find, and use that data to create personalized outreach messaging directly to key decision-makers. This solution was custom-built for commercial services and includes all of the relevant property data you’d need to start a sales conversation.
How Do You Accelerate Revenue Growth?
Implementing a few focused top-of-funnel strategies that resonate with your target audience can accelerate revenue growth, keeping your pipeline flowing with quality leads. Here’s how to get started:
1. Events: Attend or host industry events, whether in person or online. CRE Conferences, trade shows, association meetings, and webinars targeted toward commercial property stakeholders allow you to connect with decision-makers directly and showcase your expertise.
2. Outbound Lead Generation: By far the most effective way of generating leads – however it does take a willingness to handle a bit of rejection and the use of special tools. Combine traditional prospecting with Convex for sales outreach. Using our Generative AI to draft scripts and Loom to create personalized video messages can make your outreach stand out, helping you engage key roles like property managers and facilities directors.
3. Content and Retargeting Ads: Blog posts, social media, and retargeting ads drive brand awareness. Retarget past visitors with ads that showcase your services, keeping you at the top of their minds when they’re ready to buy.
4. Strategic Partnerships: Building partnerships with complementary services can open doors to new client segments. Score your partners based on mutual value and set shared goals for lead generation.
This combination of short and long-term strategies will help you fill the sales funnel faster and create a more efficient sales process. The key is to align all these efforts with your revenue acceleration model, making sure each step of the customer journey is optimized for maximum results.
Key Revenue Acceleration Strategies for Mid-Funnel Engagement
As leads move through the funnel, maintaining momentum through effective customer relationship management is key to closing deals. Here’s how to keep engagement strong:
Buying Signals: Convex’s buying signals are based on buyer intent data. Strong signal strength correlates to hot leads, helping you prioritize outreach efforts based on who is actively searching for your services.
Lead Nurturing: Nurture leads with automated email campaigns and personalized messaging using tools like MailChimp or HubSpot. Use the data from Convex to personalize emails—and email marketing tools to segment your audience by interest, channel, or even the intent topics they’re interested in—increasing engagement and conversions.
Personalized Sales Conversations: Once a lead has shown interest in your services, it’s time to engage them in personalized sales conversations. Use the data collected by Convex to understand their needs and pain points, tailoring your pitch accordingly.
Pipeline Management: An organized pipeline helps your team focus on leads that are most likely to convert. With Convex’s tools like kanban boards, sales route planning, and territory mapping, sales teams can easily track their progress and prep for meetings, making pipeline management simple and effective.
Market Share Tactics: Targeting the right verticals allows you to maximize revenue in areas where your services excel. For instance, HVAC companies might focus on property types with high maintenance needs, like hospitals or airports.
Leadership, sales, and marketing alignment are crucial for accelerating revenue. A close working relationship between these teams ensures effective customer avatar development, prospecting, lead generation and ultimately informs that sales cycle; driving revenue for the business.
Practical Steps to Implement a Revenue Acceleration Framework
Accelerating revenue growth is about adopting the right framework and tools. Here’s a step-by-step approach for commercial services companies:
1. Assess Current Sales Processes: Pinpoint bottlenecks in your current process. Are there areas where your team spends too much time on research instead of outreach?
2. Incorporate Data-Driven Insights: Use data such as permit history, building attributes, and service history to tailor your approach. Convex’s Atlas property data includes these key metrics, giving your team the information they need to prioritize leads and refine your pricing strategy.
3. Leverage Technology: Use platforms like Convex to integrate CRM data, automate workflows, and enhance lead generation. Convex’s platform reduces research time, allowing sales reps to reach the right contact in just a few minutes instead of hours.
Set specific revenue targets that align with overall business goals to ensure strategic financial planning and encourage collaboration between marketing and sales teams.
With these steps, you create a revenue acceleration framework that keeps your team moving efficiently from prospecting to closing.
Real-World Revenue Acceleration Examples and Benefits
Let’s look at an example of revenue acceleration in action. For commercial services businesses, reducing the sales cycle means more opportunities to close high-value contracts and enhance customer lifetime value. HVAC companies can quickly target facilities with maintenance needs, while janitorial services can reach property managers based on their building service history.
Case Study: Comfort Systems USA
In 2017, Comfort Systems sales reps were using LinkedIn for prospecting. This isn’t unusual, but their team was spending an average of two days (per week) to find enough leads to fill the pipeline.
When they saw Convex, they were immediately blown away by the ability to search by the age of the building, whether it was owner-occupied, the building size, permit history, and other factors that allowed them to define and find their best customers.
Over the next four years, Convex was their primary revenue acceleration and prospecting tool, and it delivered. Comfort Systems doubled revenue in that same period of time, with reps spending only 2-3 hours per week (on average) prospecting.
Before Convex, new representatives typically took 6 to 9 months to become fully “ramped.” Today, with Convex, that ramp-up time has been cut by 60- 70%, now only requiring 2 to 3 months.
For more details, check the full case study here.
Conclusion: Driving Revenue Growth with Convex
Revenue acceleration isn’t just a strategy; it’s a way to build efficiency into every part of your sales process. Commercial services companies can accelerate revenue growth and reach their goals by focusing on the right prospects, maintaining momentum through pipeline management, and using data to inform every step of their sales cycle, from prospecting and outreach to nurturing and closing the deal.
Convex offers a powerful solution for commercial service providers, combining property-level insights with easy-to-use sales tools. If you’re ready to see how Convex can help you drive growth and close more deals, Schedule a free demo today to see how it could accelerate your business.
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