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Introducing the Seller-Doer Effectiveness Study, a clinical study of growth across 20 firms.

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Sales Team Not Producing Results? Here's Why
You hired sellers, they're working hard, and the pipeline still isn't converting. Before you replace anyone, here's why the cause almost always sits upstream of the sales team itself.

Gord Smith
6 days ago6 min read


Your Revenue Engine Only Amplifies the Message You Feed It
Your revenue engine can only amplify the message you give it. If that message is generic, more campaigns, content, and sales activity simply scale the noise. The real growth opportunity is to sharpen your buyer-focused positioning first, then build the systems that help it travel further.
Jimena Calderon
Aug 115 min read


Can You Scale a Firm Without a Sales Team?
Conventional wisdom says every growing firm eventually needs a sales team. One firm in ALTA's research, at two billion dollars in revenue, proves otherwise. Here's what actually determines whether you need one.

Gord Smith
Aug 66 min read


The AI Model Matters Less Than the Strategy Behind It
Before comparing LLMs, professional services firms need to define the business outcome, fix the underlying workflow, and only then choose the model that fits the work. Here's the framework.

Manan Sharma
Aug 46 min read


Insight Selling: Turn Technical Experts Into Sellers
Technical buyers don't want rapport, they want someone who can diagnose their problem in real time. Here's what insight selling actually is, and how firms teach it to the experts who already hold the relationships.

Gord Smith
Jul 286 min read


How to Grow Beyond Founder-Led Sales (Without Just Hiring a Salesperson)
If every new client still has to come through you, your firm's growth ceiling is your calendar. Here's why hiring a salesperson rarely fixes founder-led sales, and what actually gets a firm past it.

Gord Smith
Jul 236 min read
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