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REMOVE
BARRIERS TO GROWTH
Get the six barriers to revenue growth out of the way so you can accelerate.
DESIGN
YOUR ENGINE
2-day Revenue Growth Engine Design Workshop
ACCELERATE
YOUR GROWTH
Mentorship program to implement a high-performance growth engine.
Like there is a glass ceiling of revenue that you just can't seem to break through
Privately-held companies
Track record of generous giving
Part of a peer group or community of excellence.
Owner, Founder, President, CEO
Funding Partner
Private Equity, Venture Capital
A Powerful Revenue Flywheel that creates unstoppable momentum
Intense Focus on the types of clients or customers that can propel your business forward faster
High-Octane Fuel for your engine in the form of a message that gets attention
Scalable Processes for marketing and sales that drive net-new and cross-sell revenue that allow you to grow
The three biggest obstacles to revenue growth and how to remove them.
How other companies are creating Revenue Growth Engines.
Our vision to help purpose-driven companies scale their revenue and impact.
REMOVE
BARRIERS TO GROWTH
Get the six barriers to revenue growth out of the way so you can accelerate
DESIGN
YOUR ENGINE
2-day Revenue Growth Engine Design Workshop
ACCELERATE
YOUR GROWTH
Mentorship program to implement a high-performance growth engine
As the co-founder of the non-profit Kingdom Missions Fund, Darrell Amy noticed that the largest donations came from business owners, and he wondered how he could help generous business owners quickly grow revenue so they could give even more.
Darrell’s experience as a leader in sales and marketing has given him a unique perspective on what it takes to grow revenue. Distilling 27 years of experience, Darrell authored Revenue Growth Engine: How To Align Sales & Marketing To Accelerate Growth.
He is a member of the Forbes Business Council and he helps companies maximize growth through sales and marketing alignment. Darrell hosts the Revenue Growth Podcast and co-hosts the Selling From the Heart Podcast. He also volunteers as the executive director of the ManAlive EXPEDITION, an organization that helps men find healing and identity.
When he isn’t helping generous business owners grow their revenue in order to give more, he enjoys the outdoors including sailing, canoeing, and hiking. Darrell, along with his wife Leslie, enjoy spending time with their children and four grandchildren.
My BHAG
Help 10,000 businesses double revenue to generate $10 billion in new giving.
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The great business guru, Jim Collins, teaches us that businesses need a flywheel to drive growth. Ideal Clients leverage the consistent application of force to build enough momentum to create a flywheel.
The factories of the 19th and early 20th century were powered by flywheels. According to Wikipedia, “ A flywheel is a mechanical device which uses the conservation of angular momentum to store rotational energy; a form of kinetic energy proportional to the product of its moment of inertia and the square of its rotational speed.”
Once a flywheel is in motion, it only requires a little bit of effort to keep it going. It’s kind of like driving your car on the freeway. Getting up to speed takes a lot of energy. However, once you are cruising, it doesn’t take as much energy to keep rolling. The inertia of the momentum keeps it in motion.
We need flywheels in our business. Specifically, we need flywheels of revenue.
How do you create a revenue flywheel? You do it by bringing in clients that can buy multiple things over a period of time.
An Ideal Client is one who needs everything that you offer and fits with your corporate culture. They have the revenue potential to buy multiple products and services. And they have the “fit” to value what you do, like doing business with your company, and thus stick around.
Ideal Clients are at the core of a Revenue Growth Engine® because they have both net-new and cross-sell revenue potential. They don’t just buy once, they buy more over time. Combining net-new and cross-sell revenue allows you to shift from straight-line growth to exponential revenue growth.
This generates momentum for your revenue flywheel in three ways:
If you drive a gas-powered vehicle your engine likely has fuel injectors. These spray bursts of gasoline into the cylinders as each piston fires. These tiny spurts of energy are what create the motion. If you just dumped a gallon of gas into the engine you wouldn’t get the same effect. You might get an explosion, but you wouldn’t get forward momentum.
Similarly, to create a revenue flywheel businesses need Ideal Clients that inject bursts of revenue over a sustained period of time. This could be a recurring revenue stream that increases over time. Or, this could be a path of additional products and services they can buy over time. These bursts of revenue add force to the flywheel.
To create momentum we need to keep our clients engaged. When we engage in one-and-done transactions we easily become out of sight and out of mind. To create a flywheel we need Ideal Clients who value an intentional cadence of consistent touch points with our business.
In Revenue Growth Engine® I share several ways that sales and marketing can work together to create this momentum. Since Ideal Clients need everything you sell, it makes sense to lead them on a journey of increasing value. Sales can have touchpoints with value-added periodic business reviews. Marketing can engage with clients to educate them and provide additional value over time.
Birds of a feather flock together. Ideal Clients hang out with Ideal Prospects. As we engage consistently with our Ideal Clients we have the opportunity to get introduced to new prospects.
Ask any salesperson about their favorite type of prospect and 99 out of 100 will say “referrals.” How do you get referrals? You ask. But in order to ask, you have to be engaged. You have to earn the right. When you are engaged with consistent touchpoints and a progressive ladder of value, asking for referrals is easy. In many cases, these types of clients will offer referrals before you ask.
Ideal Clients create a revenue flywheel for your business. To build this flywheel you need to know who they are and what they are worth. It begins with a clear Ideal Client Profile. As you get clear on your ideal Client Profile you can fuel your engine with a message focused on the outcomes they want to achieve. You can build sales and marketing processes to drive the flywheel.
All of this works together to create the exponential growth that will propel your business forward faster.
Darrell Amy
Darrell helps generous entrepreneurs build engines to grow revenue so they can give more. He is the author of Revenue Growth Engine: How To Align Sales & Marketing To Accelerate Growth. In addition to serving as a Forbes Business Council Advisor, Darrell is a keynote speaker and regular podcaster.
Are you looking for ways to scale your business? Welcome to the Revenue Growth Podcast with Darrell Amy. This is the place for business owners, sales leaders, and marketing professionals to get ideas an inspiration to drive exponential revenue growth. Each week you’ll get actionable insights from the world