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Leads are easy. Sales Team Training is the hard part.

Generating the lead is the easy half. The revenue is won on the phone. Scripts, objection handling, weekly role-plays, call scoring, and a documented handoff between marketing and sales. The sales layer most agencies will not touch because it means sitting next to your closers and telling them what is and is not working.

Scripts
Real scripts written for your business, tested against recorded calls, and rolled out one section at a time so the team actually uses them.
Role-plays
Weekly practice sessions on real objections. Recorded, scored, and revisited until the language becomes muscle memory.
SLAs
Marketing-to-sales service levels. Speed-to-lead, disposition rules, and handoff checklist so the blame game ends.
Sales training surfaces we build end to end
  • Call Framework Opening, discovery, qualification, close
  • Objection Library Top 15-25 objections with tested responses
  • Follow-up Cadence Call, text, email sequencing
  • Weekly Role-plays Live sessions scored and recorded
  • Call Scoring 10-20 real calls reviewed per week
  • Marketing ↔ Sales SLA Speed-to-lead and disposition rules
  • Call Framework Opening, discovery, qualification, close
  • Objection Library Top 15-25 objections with tested responses
  • Follow-up Cadence Call, text, email sequencing
  • Weekly Role-plays Live sessions scored and recorded
  • Call Scoring 10-20 real calls reviewed per week
  • Marketing ↔ Sales SLA Speed-to-lead and disposition rules
  • Call Framework Opening, discovery, qualification, close
  • Objection Library Top 15-25 objections with tested responses
  • Follow-up Cadence Call, text, email sequencing
  • Weekly Role-plays Live sessions scored and recorded
  • Call Scoring 10-20 real calls reviewed per week
  • Marketing ↔ Sales SLA Speed-to-lead and disposition rules
  • Call Framework Opening, discovery, qualification, close
  • Objection Library Top 15-25 objections with tested responses
  • Follow-up Cadence Call, text, email sequencing
  • Weekly Role-plays Live sessions scored and recorded
  • Call Scoring 10-20 real calls reviewed per week
  • Marketing ↔ Sales SLA Speed-to-lead and disposition rules
Why hire us on sales training specifically

The four things most trainers refuse to touch.

Real scripts. Tested. Written down.

Most sales teams run on folklore. "Talking points" that each rep interprets differently and none of them actually use. We write the scripts out section by section, test them on real calls with one or two reps first, then roll them out to the team with the recordings as proof of concept.

Weekly role-plays that stick.

Training without reps is a one-day workshop that wears off by Friday. We run weekly sessions on real objections pulled from last week's calls, score the runs, and revisit the same scenarios until the language becomes muscle memory.

Audit on your desk.

Within one business day.

24h
Audit response window, every time

Call review as a weekly ritual.

Platforms change offers, seasons shift urgency, new objections show up every quarter. We listen to 10 to 20 real recorded calls per week, score them against the rubric, and flag the ones that need to go into next week's role-play. The coaching loop closes in days. Never quarters.

Most sales floors are running on folklore the owner picked up a decade ago.

The top rep closes at 55% because he trained himself. The new hire closes at 22% because nobody wrote any of it down. Callers hear a different pitch depending on who picks up. Voicemail eats the after-hours calls. Follow-up is "when I get to it." Marketing keeps spending harder while the lead-to-booked-job rate sits where it was two years ago.

Our sales training engagement starts with a forensic audit of 30 to 50 recent inbound calls, then rebuilds the framework around what the top closers actually do. Real scripts, an objection library, a follow-up cadence, weekly role-plays, and call scoring. Then a documented SLA between marketing and sales so the handoff stops being a negotiation. And we stay on it weekly so the next seasonal shift or new-hire wave doesn't quietly undo the work.

Three principles

What actually moves close rate.

01

Real scripts over talking points.

"Be friendly and listen" is not a script. It is a suggestion every rep interprets differently. A script is the exact language for each section of the call, with branches for the objections that actually come up on your line. Written, tested on real calls, and rolled out one section at a time so the team adopts it instead of rejecting it.

  • Opening, discovery, qualification, offer, close, follow-up
  • Branches for the 15 to 25 objections your team hears most
  • Tested with one or two reps before full rollout
Before
  • "Talking points" each rep interprets differently
  • Top rep closes at 55%, new hire at 22%
  • No written response for price-on-the-phone
  • Every call starts with a different opening
  • Voicemails triaged by whoever is free
After rollout
  • One written framework everyone runs
  • Objection library with tested responses
  • Same opening, same close, across the team
  • Voicemail flow scripted and owned by a role
  • New hires ramp on the framework instead of folklore
Illustrative. Written scripts are the cheapest close-rate fix on the board.
Weekly role-play · grid of one session
Scenario
Price on phone
Spouse stall
Urgent leak
Won an estimate
Rep
Marcus
Dana
Jamie
New hire
Coach feedback
Clean reframe, book it
Get a next-step commit
Tighten discovery
Run it again Thursday
Shipped behavior
In script v3
Objection library
Role-play queue
Next session
Every session ends with one behavior change pushed back into the script or the objection library.
02

Weekly role-plays.

One-day sales workshops fade by Friday. Weekly role-plays build muscle memory. We pull scenarios from the actual calls your team took last week, run them live or on Zoom, score the reps against the rubric, and feed the learning right back into the script and objection library. The loop closes in days.

  • Scenarios pulled from last week's real calls
  • Rep runs scored against the rubric, recorded, revisited
  • Behavior changes shipped into the scripts and library
03

Marketing-to-sales SLAs.

If marketing and sales are blaming each other, neither side is accountable. We document the handoff. Speed-to-lead target. Who picks up which source. What qualifies a lead. What dispositions go back into the CRM and on what timer. One doc, signed by both sides, so the argument ends and the work starts.

  • Speed-to-lead target documented and measured
  • Qualification rubric and disposition requirements
  • Weekly alignment meeting with both teams present
Lead source
Channel tagged at capture
Speed-to-lead
60s target · rep assigned
Qualification
Rubric scored on the call
Disposition
Booked · reset · lost reason
Illustrative. Every lead moves through one handoff with one set of rules, tagged at every step.
Back of the envelope

Rough math on a close-rate lift.

Three inputs, three numbers. Useful for framing what a trained sales floor looks like against the same weekly inbound volume you already have. Directional only. Your real lift depends on team size, how much muscle memory sticks, offer strength, and the quality of the inbound itself.

/ wk
All inbound across the main line, GBP, paid ads, and referral. Exclude robocalls and returning customers.
%
Inbound calls that turn into booked jobs or signed proposals. Most untrained home-service floors sit between 20% and 40%.
%
Relative lift, applied to the current rate. A 30% rate with a 20% lift becomes 36%. Conservative range for documented-script rollouts sits between 15% and 40%.
Directional only
Current closed per week
~24
After training, closed per week
~29
Incremental closed per week
~5

The incremental number is extra booked jobs per week against the same inbound volume you already have. It is not a promise and it assumes the scripts stick, the role-plays run, and the SLA holds. When any of those slip, the lift slips with it. The point of the engagement is keeping all three running so the lift compounds instead of fading.

What you get

Six deliverables inside every sales training engagement.

Every sales training engagement ships with these six as the baseline. Additional scope layers on top depending on team size, number of inbound channels, and how much of the framework has to be built from scratch versus refined.

Sales coaching scorecards and call review notes
Every deliverable scoped before kickoff. Nothing billed that was not named.
01

Call recording audit + remediation

Two-week audit across 30 to 50 recent inbound calls. Scorecard on opening, discovery, qualification, objection handling, close, and follow-up. Deliverable is a prioritized gap list with where deals are being lost.

02

Call framework + scripts

Real scripts written for your business. Not vague talking points everyone reinterprets. Opening, discovery, qualification, offer presentation, close, and objection handling. Tested with one or two reps before the full rollout.

03

Objection library

The 15 to 25 objections your team actually hears on the phone, with tested responses for each. Living document your reps contribute to as new objections come up.

04

Weekly role-plays

Live or Zoom sessions with your reps. We run real scenarios, they practice, we coach. Recorded so specific misses can be reviewed, scored, and revisited.

05

Follow-up cadence

When to call, when to text, when to email. What to say on each touch. Automated in the CRM where sensible, handled live where the deal needs a human.

06

Marketing ↔ sales SLA

Speed-to-lead target, disposition rules, handoff checklist, dispute-resolution process, and weekly alignment meeting structure. Documented so the blame game ends.

Process

How the first 90 days of sales training go.

Phase 01 Week 1-2

Call audit

We listen to 30 to 50 recent inbound calls. We identify where deals are being lost and what the top closers do differently.

Phase 02 Week 3

Script development

Scripts written from the audit, tested with one or two reps, refined, then rolled out to the team.

Phase 03 Week 4-6

Training rollout

Four weeks of intensive training. Role-plays daily in week 1, weekly thereafter. Reinforced with call reviews.

What good looks like

A sales floor that holds its shape.

Specific numbers depend on team size, offer strength, and inbound quality. What we commit to is the method and the cadence. Here is what operators feel, quarter over quarter, when the training is working.

Predictable.
Every rep runs the same framework. New hires ramp on the playbook instead of on folklore. Close rate stops swinging with whoever is on shift.
Weekly cadence · role-plays + call review
Owned.
Your scripts, your objection library, your SLA, your disposition rubric. All documented in a playbook your team keeps and updates.
Day one and every day after
Defensible.
Marketing and sales stop arguing about lead quality. The disposition rubric settles it. Both sides know what they are responsible for and what they are not.
Signed SLA · weekly alignment meeting
Illustrative engagement

What a typical sales training quarter can look like.

This is a generalized example to show the shape of the work. Every engagement starts with a forensic call audit, and the audit tells us what is actually realistic for your team, your offer, and how the inbound is currently being handled.

What a two-week audit covers
  • Call recording audit across 30 to 50 inbound calls
  • Script gap audit against the top closer's calls
  • Role-play schedule scoped to team size and cadence
  • Marketing-to-sales SLA design with both teams in the room
Scripts
Informal Documented and versioned
Role-plays
None Weekly
Call review
Ad-hoc 10-20 per week scored
Call review and sales playbook on a laptop
Investment

Sales team training pricing that makes sense.

Monthly retainer sized to team size and training cadence. Typically paired with our CRM engagement since the two feed each other.

Fixed-fee audit. Scoped in advance. Credited against the training rollout if you proceed.
Fixed-scope rollout. Every deliverable named before kickoff. Framework, objection library, cadence, role-play schedule, SLA.
Monthly retainer sized to team size and training cadence. A straight fee tied to the weekly role-play and call-review load, with no markup on third-party tools.
You own everything. The scripts, the library, the SLA, the playbook. Day one.
Frequently asked

Questions we get asked every week.

  • Do I need to have a call-recording system before we start?

    Yes. We install CallRail or an equivalent if it is not already in place. Training without call recordings is training blind.

  • Will my team resist training from an outside firm?

    Some will. We work alongside your sales lead. The scripts and role-plays are co-developed with them. Teams that see the close-rate data stop resisting fast.

  • Can this work for a one-person sales operation?

    Yes. A lot of our home-service clients have an owner-closer plus one or two reps. One-person ops actually see the fastest lift because there is no change-management drag.

  • How long until we see a close-rate lift?

    The audit alone often surfaces quick wins in week 2. Script-driven lift shows up by week 6. Sustained compounding improvement from month 3 onward.

Reviews

In their words.

Pulled from strategy calls, Slack threads, and end-of-quarter recaps. Names and companies anonymized, voice unchanged.

D
Derrick M.
Owner, Atlas Climate Solutions
2 months ago

We'd been hiring closers for six years. Nobody had ever written down how a good call is supposed to go. They sat on 40 of our calls, pulled apart what the top guy was doing, and turned it into a five-page framework. The quarter after that was the smoothest call floor we've ever run.

S
Sienna R.
GM, Brookvale Plumbing & Drain
5 weeks ago

Weekly role-plays sound soft until you sit through one. Our dispatchers were losing emergency calls to voicemail because nobody had trained them to handle the price-on-the-phone objection. Four sessions in, they stopped cracking. Booked jobs per week started walking up.

M
Marcus T.
VP Growth, Redwell Roofing
3 weeks ago

The SLA doc alone was worth the retainer. Marketing kept sending leads and sales kept saying the leads were trash. They built a disposition rubric, wired it into the CRM, and the argument ended the same week. Now we're debating what to fix next. That's a different conversation.

P
Priya V.
Managing Partner, Everhart Restoration
a month ago

I was skeptical of outside firms coaching my reps. They worked with my sales lead the whole time, never around him. The objection library is co-owned and kept updating. My people actually ask when the next role-play is. That tells you something.

Next step

Train the team that closes.

A 30-minute call. We'll walk your actual numbers and tell you the three things we'd change first.