Hands-on revenue consulting

Find what drives growth.
Then make it happen.

Tillerstone helps companies identify what will drive their next stage of growth, then builds and leads the work needed to make it happen.

Let’s talk about your business

Eric Holly · Founder, Tillerstone

The whole revenue picture

How you find, win, onboard,
and keep customers.

How Tillerstone helps

Start with the business.
Then decide what the work is.

Every growth challenge is different. The work begins by understanding the whole revenue picture, setting priorities, and choosing the support that fits.

01Understand what growth needs

Find the
opportunity

See how the business finds, wins, onboards, and keeps customers, then determine where attention will create the most value.

  • Examine acquisition, sales, onboarding, and retention
  • Review the team, process, technology, and economics
  • Set priorities and define practical next steps
Focused revenue diagnostic
02Build what is needed

Build the
capability

Create what the business needs to produce growth, from customer targeting and the sales motion to roles, technology, and execution.

  • Design how opportunities become customers
  • Set up roles, workflows, CRM, and reporting
  • Hire, train, and prepare teams to execute
Hands-on implementation
03Keep the work moving

Lead the
execution

Bring experienced, hands-on leadership into the business to turn priorities into action and keep growth work moving forward.

  • Lead and develop the people doing the work
  • Manage pipeline, forecasting, and performance
  • Adjust the approach as the business learns and grows
Embedded operating leadership

What the work produced

Different businesses.
Measurable growth.

Examples from past operating roles. The work looked different in each company because the business needed something different. The outcome was measurable growth built from within.

Zenplace

Property management startup

~220new rental units added in 12 months

Created organic growth without acquiring another property manager.

Built the revenue operation that enabled the company to win new customers and add approximately 220 doors under management in 12 months.

What made the growth possible

Started with Google Docs and personal phones. Built the sales team, CRM, data-sourcing capacity, and inbound, outbound, and referral motions needed to acquire customers across a national market.

Direct Surety

Surety underwriting startup

$5–6Min total premium built from the ground up

Built a premium book through new business, not acquisition.

Built the revenue operation that helped grow a startup surety underwriter to approximately $5 million to $6 million in total premium without purchasing a book of business.

What made the growth possible

Joined as the first sales employee and built the account executive and SDR organization, qualification process, Salesforce and Five9 workflows, pipeline discipline, forecasting, and underwriting handoffs.

Frain Industries

Industrial equipment company

$20Mannualized revenue run rate

Changed how complex equipment opportunities were created and closed.

Helped increase same-quarter revenue from $3.5 million to $5 million, moving the business from approximately $14 million to a $20 million annualized run rate.

What made the growth possible

Built a 10-person SDR team to create opportunities, moved ownership of the close from sales engineers to account executives, and introduced a more structured approach to complex selling.

Eric HollyFounder, Tillerstone

Why Tillerstone

The answer is rarely
just one function.

Growth is shaped by the entire path from opportunity to customer and from customer to renewal. That is why I look across the business rather than beginning with a predetermined role or solution.

I’ve led sales teams, run operations, built customer-acquisition programs, hired and trained people, implemented CRMs, managed marketing, and worked deals myself. That range helps me determine what the business actually needs and stay close enough to the work to make it real.

The answer might involve targeting, pricing, process, technology, team structure, leadership, or several of them together. The recommendation follows the opportunity.

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Let’s talk

What will drive
your next stage?

Tell me where you want the business to go. We can talk through what growth may require.

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