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▶ Active · Since Jan 2025
Smart Sellers Academy

From a blank slate to $1.5M, and still running.

Smart Sellers Academy had a product, an audience, and nothing connecting one to the other. I installed the complete growth system in January 2025, and I still run growth there today.

TOTAL GENERATED
$1.5M
ENGAGED
Jan 2025
STARTING POINT
Zero infra
STATUS
Active
THE SITUATION

Engaged with nothing in place.

January 2025. Smart Sellers Academy had a product and an audience and zero infrastructure to convert one into the other. No defined lead system. No structured sales process. No visibility into what was working, because nothing was being tracked. Revenue was coming in by accident.

Counter-intuitively, the clean blank slate made the install faster. There was nothing to untangle first.

THE INSTALL

The complete system, refined.

By this point my team and I had built and refined this same install across two previous partnerships. Smart Sellers got the cleaned-up version.

  • Lead generation system: funnel architecture, capture flow, qualification
  • Sales process: discovery call to application to close, fully scripted
  • CRM pipeline: every stage, every automation, every SMS and email cadence
  • KPI warehouse: a live dashboard the team runs weekly decisions against
  • Team handoff: built for Smart Sellers, then handed to them to run
THE OUTCOME

$1.5M and counting.

Total generated so far: $1.5M, with the engagement still active. The ramp came faster than the earlier installs, not by luck: the system was more refined by then, and Smart Sellers was a cleaner slate to install it onto.

The team owns the system. My job now is the weekly operating cadence: reading the KPI warehouse, deciding what scales and what gets cut.

"You didn't start your company to become its funnel. Stop being the funnel."
RYAN FROST · 3× FOUNDER · FRACTIONAL HEAD OF GROWTH
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A brochure site becoming a transacting marketplace
STATUS
In build
MODEL
Multi-vendor

Heavy equipment rental moving online for a Phoenix operator: listings, deposits, e-signature, and an order pipeline architected to open to more vendors.

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▶ Active build · 2026
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From brochure site to signed, paid orders
STATUS
In build
SCOPE
Storefront

A Phoenix crane and heavy equipment operator moving off a WordPress brochure: quote capture, insurance upload, e-signature, deposits held on card, and owner approval before any charge fires.

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▶ Founding Partner · 2024 to 2026
Acquisition Network
From $0 to $2.9M, installed from scratch
TOTAL
$2.9M
STARTED
$0

Built the entire engine from nothing, offer to CRM to reporting, plus the company application. Exited June 2026 to focus on my own ventures.

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▶ 2.5-year partnership · 2022 to 2024
All Done Consulting
$4.6M across an embedded partnership
TOTAL
$4.6M
TENURE
2.5yr

A multi-year embedded relationship: webinar funnels, launch systems, email automation, all handed to a team that now runs it without me.

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▶ Growth Marketing · 2023 to 2024
Malik Consolidated
$1.6M by connecting the pieces
TOTAL
$1.6M
SPAN
2yr

Partial infrastructure that never talked to itself. The work was connection: one flow, automated handoffs, and the leaks between systems closed.

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▶ Growth Ops Lead · 2020 to 2021
Big Little Gyms
15 → 189 clients in 11 months
REVENUE
$989K
CLIENTS
15 → 189

Led growth operations through a COVID-era scale-up, building acquisition, fulfillment, and client experience systems that absorbed it without breaking.

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