Revenue Rascals | Sales Strategies for Business Growth
Ready to ditch average and build revenue with more profit, more fun, and zero fluff? The Revenue Rascals Podcast is where sales-leaders, founders, entrepreneurs, and business-owners come to fuel their growth. Each week, you’ll get unfiltered insights and proven sales-playbooks designed to help you scale smarter and faster. Whether you’re a CRO chasing big targets, a startup-sales rascal pre-revenue, or a CMO looking for fresh strategies that actually work. Hosted with a mix of energy, execution, and “you can do this” confidence, this isn’t another generic business show. You’ll hear the same strategies paying clients get: personal-brand building, revenue-growth strategy, local-business growth, profit-strategy, and podcast-marketing—delivered with the boldness and joy you need to act today. Rascals don’t gatekeep. We share actionable-sales-tips and no-fluff-sales-advice so you can sell smarter, empower your team, and build a thriving business that makes an impact. This podcast is more than strategy. It’s a community-of-rascals redefining what it means to scale revenue. From sales leadership for women and small (to large) business revenue wins. From pre-revenue startup breakthroughs and our local Utah based sales success stories, you’ll find confidence, empowerment, and practical sales steps to grow your brand without burning out. If you’re ready to sell, scale, and have a blast doing it. Welcome to Revenue Rascals.
Episodes
Michelle dives in with the new reality of today’s customer mindset. People have stopped Googling and have started asking AI for the best companies near them to fix all their problems. And AI hands them the most recommended name it can find. Today, Michelle shares her ti...
Michelle walks through her whitewater rafting trip and shows exactly how her fractional CRO brain works in the wild. She introduces us to Reverse Engineering Revenue, where she experiences a business the same way a customer does, then breaks down what's working, or what's not. This m...
Michelle sits down with Haplin Milgrom-Hills from GoHighLevel to break down exactly how small businesses can evolve their current strategies. They talk about everything from capturing more leads and closing more sales to how to stop losing money due to slow follow-up. And you can do this all ...
Michelle breaks down her four pilla...
Michelle breaks down how the world's biggest companies spend less energy chasing new customers and more energy giving them a reason to keep buying. Using real-world examples, she shows how membership models and recurring revenue systems create predictable income. This method is vastly different than the "start from zero every m...
In this second installment of Michelle’s four-part series on building a local business from the ground up, she lays out a practical framework for landing your first 10 customers. Her step-by-step layout is perfect for anyone who needs to know where to start building their local customer base. She chal...
In part one of this four-part series, Michelle runs a live experiment of building a brand new local business from scratch, so you can follow every decision in real time. She uses the example of a senior concierge service; a relationship-based support business that helps older adults stay independent while giving their families peace of mind. Michelle breaks down exactly what this b...
Michelle sits down with business lawyer and longtime friend, Keren de Zwart, to look at the legal side of running a business, making it feel approachable instead of intimidating. They dig into the most common risk areas that founders overlo...
Michelle sits down with Carmine Del Sordi, founder of Pure & Easy Tea, to talk about how he started over in life at 50 years old. Carmine shares his journey from corporate leadership to entrepreneurship, and how a personal passion evolved into a growing tea brand. For Carmine, building a business was all about purpos...
Michelle sits down with Lee Smith, a business acquisition professional. Lee has bought, sold, and invested in over 27 companies across his career, building a portfolio of seven businesses doing $40 million in revenue, all without putting a penny of his own ca...
Michelle Terpstra sits down with Bruno Cignacco, an international business consultant, researcher, university professor, and author with over 30 years of experience. Bruno introduces the concept of the prosperity mindset: a framework for how bu...
Michelle Terpstra tackles one of the most common frustrations for local business owners: team members who are excellent at their jobs, but totally allergic to selling. The issue isn’t your team. It’s the system they’re operating in. Instead of pushing scripts or forcing behavior,
Mich...
Michelle opens with that exact scenario to highlight and talk about what it actually costs when your system breaks down at the worst possible moment. Not because your team isn’t capable. Not because your work isn't excellent. But because you built your entire opera...
Michelle sits down with Ali Raymer of Picture This Travel, a former high school English teacher who went from organizing student trips to Europe to becoming the sole breadwinner for her family after selling $2.5 million in travel in a single year. Ali breaks down how the modern travel advisory model works—and why most peopl...
In this episode, Michelle sits down with Kurt Uhlir to discuss what’s really holding companies back from scaling their revenue. Kurt argues that one of the biggest and most common problems in companies today is leadership misalignment. As generations grow older, the disconnect between people also scales. He explains what TAM is and how teams are un...
Michelle runs two live roleplays around the most common AI-skeptic objections coaches, consultants, and service providers face right now. Scenario one: the founder who thinks AI outreach replaces sales strategy. Scenario two: the CEO who thinks a churn dashboard replaces a retention system. Watch what happens w...
Michelle takes on the challenge of facing other people’s sales objections head-on with some sales roleplay. Michelle breaks down real situations, using AI voices to demonstrate different scenarios in real-time and showcase what founders and sellers should do differently to increase revenue and retention. L...
Michelle Terpstra sits down with Garrett Campbell, founder of Objectionly, for a conversation about sales, AI, and what it takes to build a high-performing revenue engine. Garrett shares the origin story behind Objectionly and the insight that sparked it: the difference between high-performing and underperforming sales tea...
Michelle Terpstra sits down with Aurora Winter, serial entrepreneur, author, and founder of Same Page Publishing, to unpack what it really takes to stand out in a world flooded with AI-generated content. Aurora challenges one of the most common assumptions in modern marketing: that more content equal...
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