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What Is a Fractional Sales Consultant?
A fractional sales consultant is an experienced sales leader who works with your business part-time — usually a few days a month — instead of as a full-time hire. They build your sales process, pipeline, and follow-up systems and coach you or your team, giving you VP-of-Sales-level expertise at a fraction of the cost.
What a fractional sales consultant actually does
The role is hands-on, not advisory. A good fractional consultant builds and installs the parts of your sales operation that are missing:
Documents your sales process
Turns the selling that lives in your head into a written process anyone on your team can run.
Fixes pipeline and follow-up
Sets up deal tracking and trigger-based follow-up so quotes stop going quiet and no deal goes cold unnoticed.
Right-sizes your tools
Recommends and sets up a CRM and automation sized to your team — not enterprise software you'll never fully use.
Coaches the founder or team
Enables whoever is selling so the process keeps running after the engagement ends.
How much does a fractional sales consultant cost?
A full-time sales leader typically costs $200,000 or more per year once you add salary, bonus, and benefits. A fractional engagement is a fraction of that — usually a monthly retainer or a defined project scope — so you pay for the senior leadership you need without carrying the full-time overhead. You get the expertise at the stage when you need the expertise, not a payroll commitment you have to grow into.
Fractional consultant vs. the alternatives
vs. a full-time VP of Sales
Same strategic work — process, pipeline, enablement — but part-time and without the salary, equity, and benefits. The right choice when you need the leadership but can't yet justify the full-time hire.
vs. a sales trainer
A trainer teaches techniques in a workshop and leaves. A fractional consultant installs a system and stays to make it work. You end up with an operating process, not a class.
vs. a sales agency
An agency runs outreach for you, often as a black box. A fractional consultant builds a process your own team owns and can run without them.
When should you hire one?
You're likely ready for a fractional sales consultant if you recognize any of these:
Sales depend on you
Revenue rides on your memory and your calendar. When you're heads-down building or delivering, pipeline stalls.
There's no process to hand off
You couldn't onboard a salesperson tomorrow because nothing is written down.
Deals go cold quietly
Follow-ups slip and quotes go silent, and no one notices until the deal is gone.
You're not ready for a full-time hire
You need senior sales leadership, but a $200K executive is too much for where the business is right now.
How ENG Sales Solutions works
I'm David Roy — a fractional sales consultant with 15+ years of B2B sales leadership, working with technical founders and small business owners across Dallas-Fort Worth and remotely. My engagements are built on the Revenue Flywheel System and start value-first: a free Revenue Flywheel Diagnostic that maps where your revenue is leaking before any paid conversation. See how an engagement works or read more about my background.
Frequently asked questions
What is a fractional sales consultant?
An experienced sales leader who works with your business part-time — usually a few days a month — instead of as a full-time hire. They build your sales process, pipeline, and follow-up systems and coach the founder or team, giving you VP-of-Sales-level expertise at a fraction of the cost.
How much does one cost?
A fraction of a full-time sales leader, who typically runs $200K+ per year. Fractional consultants usually work on a monthly retainer or a defined project scope, so you pay for the leadership you need without the full-time overhead.
How is it different from a VP of Sales?
Same strategic work — process design, pipeline management, team enablement — but part-time and without the salary, equity, and benefits of a full-time executive. It's the right fit when you need senior leadership but can't yet justify a full-time hire.
Is it the same as a sales trainer?
No. A trainer teaches techniques and leaves. A fractional consultant installs a documented process, follow-up cadences, and tools your team can run — and stays involved to make sure it works.
When should a founder hire one?
When sales depend on the founder's memory and calendar, when there's no process a new hire could follow, when deals go cold without anyone noticing, or when growth has stalled because you can't build, deliver, and sell at once.
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