Online course  ·  8 modules

Revenue Is a Behavior

Build one revenue system your whole team can run

Missed targets, teams blaming each other, clients who leave almost as fast as they arrive. Those are symptoms. This course shows founder-led businesses how to find the behavior underneath them, then build the strategy, process, and execution that fixes it at the cause.

The idea this course rests on

Revenue is a behavioral problem, not a process problem.

Your business runs on one connected system: strategy, process, and execution. Execution is the behavioral pillar. When the strategy isn’t landing, you look at what people actually do, not the process map on the wall.

Sound familiar?

The headache is never the diagnosis

  • Marketing hits its lead number and sales still misses the target.
  • Revenue goals are set on what you want the business to be, not what it can reach from here.
  • You’re on your third or fourth sales leader, and each one was hired into a broken system.
  • Clients churn soon after signing, and customer success inherits deals that were never a fit.
  • Nobody trusts the dashboard, because every team reports a different number.

Most founders treat these urgently, because they feel urgent. But every symptom sits on a behavior, and every behavior sits on a belief or an incentive. That’s the only level where anything changes.

“We have a sales problem.”

“Our sales team skips discovery because close speed is what gets rewarded, so we’re selling to people who churn.”

One of those is a symptom. The other is something you can change.

How the course is built

One system, three pillars

Modules 1–3

Strategy

Diagnose what’s really broken, set a vision and goals built on your actual numbers, and get precise about who you serve and why you win.

Modules 4–6

Process

Connect marketing, sales, and customer success into one journey, gate every hand-off on data, and put the right people in the right seats.

Modules 7–8

Execution

Measure the behaviors that predict results, then make execution consistent and recalibrate as conditions change, without starting over.

The curriculum

8 modules, 37 lessons

Work them in order. Each module feeds the next, and each one ends with something concrete your team can use.

01Find Out What’s Really Broken4 lessons

Diagnose where revenue is actually leaking by talking to the right people and reading the right data, then separate the symptoms everyone sees from the behavioral root underneath.

You’ll produce: Your Summary of Findings

  1. Lesson 1How to Interview Your Leadership Team to Find Hidden Problems
  2. Lesson 2How to Get Honest Answers From Your Frontline Team
  3. Lesson 3How to Audit Your Revenue Data Without Getting Overwhelmed
  4. Lesson 4How to Tell a Symptom From the Real Cause
02Set the Vision and Goals That Match Reality5 lessons

Start from a clear vision of what the business will be, then turn it into revenue goals built on your actual numbers rather than founder optimism.

You’ll produce: Milestones tied to the behaviors that drive them

  1. Lesson 1How to Turn Your Vision Into Measurable Milestones
  2. Lesson 2Why Your Current Revenue Targets Are Probably Wrong
  3. Lesson 3How to Build Revenue Goals From Your Actual Numbers
  4. Lesson 4How to Break Big Goals Into Milestones and the Behaviors Behind Them
  5. Lesson 5How to Get Your Whole Team to Agree on the Same Goals
03Get Clear on Who You Serve and Why You Win5 lessons

Rank your first, second, and third best-fit customers, understand how they buy, choose your market and the routes to reach it, and sharpen what makes you different.

You’ll produce: Ranked best-fit customer segments

  1. Lesson 1How to Check Whether You’re Going After the Right Customers
  2. Lesson 2How to Understand What Your Best Buyers Actually Care About
  3. Lesson 3How to Choose Your Market and the Routes to Reach It
  4. Lesson 4How to Win on Difference, Not Just Showing Up
  5. Lesson 5How to Match Your Message to Each Buyer and Stop Wasting Spend
04Build One Plan the Whole Team Can Follow4 lessons

Stop running three separate playbooks. Map the customer journey as one connected system with overlapping steps, continuous feedback loops, and clear, sometimes shared, ownership.

You’ll produce: A connected customer journey map

  1. Lesson 1Why Function Silos Wreck Lead Quality
  2. Lesson 2How to Map the Connected Journey: Overlaps and Feedback Loops
  3. Lesson 3How to Invest in Quality First, Then Scale on the Data
  4. Lesson 4How to Assign Ownership of Every Stage, Including Shared Steps
05Design Processes That Work Across Teams5 lessons

Lay out each function’s stages as a funnel, define the few data points that must be true before anyone advances, and run a discovery-first sales motion.

You’ll produce: Funnels, a shared data map, and data gates

  1. Lesson 1How to Build Each Function’s Funnel and a Shared Data Map
  2. Lesson 2How to Set the Data Gates That Make Hand-offs Automatic
  3. Lesson 3How to Run a Discovery-First Sales Process
  4. Lesson 4How to Choose the Selling Approach That Fits How and Why People Buy
  5. Lesson 5How to Stop Losing Customers as Fast as You Win Them
06Build the Right Team and Set Them Up to Win5 lessons

Define the skills your process needs, put the right people in the right seats, and hire a revenue leader into a working system instead of expecting a savior.

You’ll produce: Skills-based roles and a 30-60-90 onboarding plan

  1. Lesson 1How to Define the Skills Your Process Needs, Then Build Roles Around Them
  2. Lesson 2How to Put the Right Person in the Right Seat
  3. Lesson 3How to Hire for Skills and Onboard for Success
  4. Lesson 4How to Reward the Behaviors That Drive Growth
  5. Lesson 5How to Hire a Sales Leader Into a System, Not as a Savior
07Connect Your Tools and Set Up the Measurement That Predicts Results4 lessons

Bring your tools into one source of truth, choose the few numbers that matter, and measure the behavior that predicts results as well as the outcomes.

You’ll produce: A behavioral scorecard and a shared dashboard

  1. Lesson 1How to Connect Your Tools Into One Source of Truth
  2. Lesson 2How to Pick the Few Numbers That Matter
  3. Lesson 3How to Measure Behavior, Not Just Activity
  4. Lesson 4How to Build Dashboards That Tell the Story
08Make Execution Consistent, Then Troubleshoot and Recalibrate5 lessons

The payoff: reinforce the behaviors that drive revenue, run an execution rhythm, fix problems at the cause, and recalibrate as conditions change, without starting over.

You’ll produce: An execution rhythm and a Keep, Add, Modify, Eliminate review

  1. Lesson 1Why Your Team Knows the Plan but Still Doesn’t Follow It
  2. Lesson 2How to Reinforce Behavior, Not Just Track It
  3. Lesson 3How to Run an Execution Rhythm That Keeps Everyone on Track
  4. Lesson 4How to Create Real Accountability Without Micromanaging
  5. Lesson 5How to Troubleshoot at the Cause and Recalibrate as Conditions Change

Who it’s for

Built for founder-led businesses

Founders still carrying growth

You’ve outgrown doing it all yourself, but revenue still runs through your instinct, your relationships, and your judgment.

Teams pulling three ways

Marketing, sales, and customer success each chase their own number, and lead quality, close rates, and retention suffer for it.

Professional services firms

Referral- and relationship-led growth that depends on a few rainmakers. Notes throughout adapt each step to how your clients buy.

JDA

Your instructor

Jon D. Anderson

Fractional CRO, The Sidehill Group

Jon works with founder-led companies on the gap between the plan leadership believes in and what the team actually does every day. His approach starts with diagnosis, not prescription, and treats consistent behavior as the engine of revenue growth.

This course is that approach, start to finish: the assessment, the goal foundation, the connected journey, the measurement, and the execution rhythm he uses with clients.

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Revenue Is a Behavior

Everything you need to diagnose, rebuild, and run your revenue system.

  • 8 modules and 37 lessons
  • Participant workbooks with fieldwork pages
  • Discovery Questions guide for leadership interviews
  • Templates for your Summary of Findings, data map, and behavioral scorecard
  • Professional-services notes throughout

Full course

$497

One-time payment

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Questions

Before you enroll

Who is this course for?

Founders, CEOs, and revenue leaders at founder-led businesses who want growth that doesn’t depend on one person, and a team that works from one plan instead of three.

Does it work for professional services firms?

Yes. Where the approach differs, the lessons include professional-services notes on referral-led routes to market, delivery and renewals, and spreading business development beyond a few rainmakers.

Do I need a CRM or specific tools?

No. Module 7 has you catalogue whatever you use today, spreadsheets included, then decide what to keep, replace, or connect.

How should I pace the course?

Each module includes fieldwork between lessons, like leadership interviews, frontline conversations, and data pulls. Do it while it’s fresh, and carry your notes forward. Every module builds on the one before it.

Stop treating the headache

Find the behavior underneath your revenue problems, and build the system that changes it.

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