There are real reasons
the alternatives haven't worked.

Sales consultants give you a deck. Recruiters give you a candidate. Fractional VPs give you a few hours a week. The DIY path gives you nothing and asks you to figure it out. Each of those is a piece of what you need. None of them is the whole thing.

Your Sales Energy is built on a different premise: the foundation, the Producer, and the daily coaching all have to be built and delivered together by the same person. Anything less is the version that fails by month four.

01
COMPARISON

YSE vs. Sales Consultant

THE SALES CONSULTANT
Strategy on paper

A sales consultant assesses your sales motion, writes a strategy deck, and recommends what you should change. The work product is a document. Implementation is your problem.

  • Delivers a sales strategy document
  • Recommends process and tooling changes
  • Hands the deck back and steps away
  • You implement everything yourself
  • No accountability for results
YOUR SALES ENERGY
Foundation built and operated

We don't write a deck and walk away. We build the foundation. We configure the CRM. We hire the Producer. We coach them every day until the system runs without us.

  • Builds the actual sales infrastructure
  • Implements every recommendation directly
  • Owns the engagement through to first deals
  • Daily coaching is built into the work
  • Accountable for the Producer's development
02
COMPARISON

YSE vs. Sales Recruiter

THE SALES RECRUITER
A candidate, then goodbye

A recruiter finds you a candidate, collects their fee, and moves on. The placement is the deliverable. Whether the candidate actually succeeds is somebody else's problem.

  • Sources sales candidates from a network
  • Screens and presents finalists
  • Charges 15 to 25% of base salary as a fee
  • Disappears after the hire is made
  • No process, no playbooks, no foundation
YOUR SALES ENERGY
A Producer dropped into a real system

We find the right person too, but with DISC, TopGrading style interviews, and deep reference checks. Then we drop them into a foundation that's already built, with playbooks, scripts, and a CRM configured for them.

  • Recruits using a methodology built for MSP sales
  • Validates with DISC and TopGrading style interviews
  • Producer walks into a complete sales function
  • Coaches them daily through onboarding and ramp
  • Stays engaged for 6 months, not 6 days
03
COMPARISON

YSE vs. Fractional VP of Sales

THE FRACTIONAL VP
A few hours a week, indefinitely

A fractional VP shows up a few hours per week to advise the founder and oversee a sales team that may or may not exist yet. They're a part time leader, not a builder. The engagement often becomes permanent because nothing ever finishes.

  • 5 to 10 hours per week, ongoing
  • Strategic oversight and reporting
  • Best fit for MSPs with an existing team
  • Often becomes a permanent expense
  • Not built to do the construction work
YOUR SALES ENERGY
A defined 6 month buildout, then done

This is an engagement with a beginning and an end. Six months. Defined scope. Clear handoff. By month seven, the foundation is in place, the Producer is self sustaining, and we're out. No retainer creep.

  • 6 month engagement with a defined scope
  • Builds the system from scratch
  • Daily coaching, not weekly oversight
  • Clean handoff at month six
  • You own what's built when we're done
04
COMPARISON

YSE vs. Doing It Yourself

THE DIY PATH
Leadership does it all

You read the books. You hire the rep yourself. You configure the CRM in your spare time. You try to coach when you can. The pieces never quite come together because there's never enough time for any of them to be done right.

  • 200 to 300 hours of leadership time consumed
  • $200K to $333K in year one costs
  • $135K to $215K at risk if the rep fails
  • The rep fails because the foundation doesn't exist
  • You conclude outside sales doesn't work for MSPs
YOUR SALES ENERGY
An operator who's already done this

Hiring us is not buying advice. It's buying execution. The foundation gets built because someone whose only job is building it is doing it. The Producer succeeds because daily coaching is delivered by someone who has done this before.

  • Leadership gets back 200+ hours of time
  • $54,000 total engagement cost
  • Foundation removes the failure exposure
  • The Producer walks into a working system
  • Outside sales works because it was built right
WHAT MAKES THIS DIFFERENT

Three things
nobody else does all together.

Across all four alternatives, the same three pieces are always missing. Each option delivers one piece, sometimes two. Your Sales Energy is the only engagement that delivers all three under one roof, by the same operator.

01 · BUILDER

Build the foundation

Process, playbooks, infrastructure, and pipeline built from scratch and configured around how your MSP actually sells. Not advice. Not a deck. Actual construction of the system the Producer drops into.

02 · RECRUITER

Find and vet the Producer

DISC assessment for behavioral fit. TopGrading style chronological interviews to validate the actual track record. Deep reference checks. The hiring methodology built specifically for MSP outside sales.

03 · COACH

Daily coaching for 6 months

Not weekly check ins. Daily calls. Written call reviews after every meaningful conversation. The recognition reflex that turns a green rep into a Producer who runs the motion on their own.

YOU'VE SEEN THE COMPARISON

You don't need another pitch.
You need the build.

Every alternative on this page does part of what you need. None of them does all of it. If you've been here before with the others and ended up back where you started, it's because what you really need wasn't on the table. It is now.

Book a Call 30 minutes. Bring your questions. No pitch.
Take the Diagnostic 4 minutes. Get your MSP's real number.

A rep is a rep until the foundation turns them into a Producer.