Fractional Sales Leadership for B2B Founders

Build the sales engine before you make the expensive hire.

Rice Revenue gives growing B2B companies experienced fractional sales leadership to build the process, pipeline, messaging, coaching rhythm and commercial discipline that make a future full-time sales leader more likely to succeed.

Does this sound familiar?

Sales still depends too much on the founder.

Fractional leadership becomes valuable when the company has momentum, but the commercial system has not yet caught up.

Important deals still come back to the founder.
Pipeline exists, but forecasting is unreliable.
Reps are working, but coaching is inconsistent.
There is no repeatable sales operating rhythm.
A full-time VP feels early, expensive, or risky.
Why fractional?

More ownership than a consultant. Less risk than hiring too early.

A fractional sales leader works inside the business: building the system, coaching the team, creating operating discipline and helping leadership make better commercial decisions—without requiring the company to make the full-time executive hire before the foundation is ready.

Explore Fractional Leadership
Consultant
Fractional
Full-Time VP
Provides strategic guidance
Yes
Yes
Yes
Builds alongside the team
Sometimes
Yes
Yes
Coaches and leads sellers
Rarely
Yes
Yes
Full-time executive commitment
No
No
Yes
Start with what the business needs now

Several ways in. One commercial system.

Fractional Sales Leadership is Rice Revenue's core engagement. The other offers help founders diagnose, prepare, develop or begin with a focused need.

01 · LEAD
Core engagement

Fractional Sales Leadership

“We need experienced sales leadership, but we're not ready for the full-time hire.”

Build the revenue engine, coach the team, establish operating discipline and prepare the business for its next stage of commercial leadership.

02 · DIAGNOSE & BUILD

Revenue Diagnostic + Foundation Sprint

“We know sales needs work, but we need to understand where to start.”

Expose the most important revenue leaks, then build the core process, pipeline, qualification and messaging foundation.

03 · DEVELOP

Founder + Team Development

“The commercial capability needs to get stronger.”

Founder Leadership develops the founder. The Sales Team Performance Accelerator develops an existing team of 1–3 sellers.

04 · START

Founder Tools

“I'm not ready for an engagement yet.”

Start with practical tools for ICP, process, pipeline, outreach, onboarding, commissions, sales readiness and more.

Operator. Leader. Teacher.

Mark brings executive commercial leadership from complex industrial and technical markets—and experience building the people and operating systems behind the number.

$103M · 400+ accounts North American revenue scope · U.S., Canada & Mexico
13 states · 8 business units GTM organization delivering 5–7% annual growth
14 years · U.S. Navy Large-team leadership · instructor & sales-course creator
New · September 2026

Before you train your team, find out what actually needs work.

The Sales Team Performance Accelerator is a four-week engagement for small B2B sales teams. Mark first understands the business and evaluates the team, then targets development around what he actually finds.

See the September Program
4 Weeks
1–3 Salespeople
$1,997 Per Team
01

Discover

Understand the business, goals and leadership perspective.

02

Evaluate

See what's actually happening with the team.

03

Develop

Work the highest-priority capability uncovered.

04

Deploy

Apply the work and establish what should happen next.

A real library, not a token download

Use the full Founder Tools collection.

Rice Revenue already has a substantial library of practical sales tools. Start with sales readiness, ICP, process, outreach, objections, pipeline reviews, onboarding, commissions and more.

Explore All Founder Tools
Sales Readiness
Ideal Customer Profile
Pipeline Review
Sales Process Builder
First 90 Days
Commission Planning
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Not sure which path fits?

Tell Mark where the business is, what's happening with sales, and what you're trying to accomplish. You'll determine whether Rice Revenue is the right fit and which approach makes sense.

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