A LinkedIn bridge for founder-led firms
Referrals got you this far. We take you the rest of the way.
Your best clients probably came from people who already knew you. That supply runs thin for every growing firm. CloseBridge starts conversations on LinkedIn with buyers who have never heard your name, then coaches each sales call that follows.
85% of our clients land a signed deal before their 90th day with us.
When the referrals slow
Why the referral line goes quiet
Referrals are the easiest sales a founder ever makes. The buyer arrives trusting you and the deal moves fast. The catch is timing. Someone else decides when the next one shows up, and nobody can plan payroll around a favor.
Your circle is finite
Everyone who knows your work has heard what you do. The people inclined to send business your way mostly already have.
There is no dial to turn
When a big client leaves, you can't ask your network for twice as many introductions next month. Referrals keep their own schedule.
Prospecting drops to last place
You deliver the work, lead the team and watch the cash. Reaching strangers who need you slips down the list every single week.
The fix is a second source of new clients, one that you control. That second source is the bridge we build.
Built for owner-run firms
Small firms are the whole point here
At a large agency, a business your size is a small account. Here, it is exactly the business we built this service around.
Our team has spent more than ten years building pipelines for small businesses. The typical firm we serve is an owner plus a few trusted hands, and the owner does the selling.
Ten people or fewer: the size of every firm behind our results
We become your prospecting department
Most of our clients have no sales team at all. We fill that gap: finding the buyers, writing to them and sorting through the replies.
Your share of the work stays small
You approve messages, answer interested replies using the wording we suggest, take the sales calls and join a short call each week. Your time goes to the conversations that pay.
Your money has to come back
So you begin with a four-month pilot backed by a guarantee. There is no year-long contract to sign.
The bridge, span by span
Building your bridge to new buyers
Every crossing we build rests on four supports: a buyer worth reaching, a message worth reading, timing that lands, and a fresh round of improvements each week. Below is the work our team puts into each span.
- Span 1 · Targeting
Survey the far bank
The kickoff call is our survey of the ground: which of your current clients are the strongest, and what they have in common. Your own Sales Navigator expert then charts the matching buyers on the other side and keeps redrawing that chart as the campaign runs.
- Span 2 · Messaging
Write the way you talk
A human writer on our team studies how you speak and drafts each note to match. Nothing ships until you sign off. After that, connection invitations and follow-ups start crossing every day, sent from your LinkedIn account under your name.
- Span 3 · Optimizing
Retune it each week
Replies show us which buyers are stepping onto the bridge. Each week we steer the list and rework the copy toward the people answering, and the rewrites have no limit.
- Span 4 · Closing
Coach you across the last span
Only buyers who want to talk make it across to you. Each one arrives with a short brief: who is on the other end, the words they actually sent and a draft response ready for you. Once a week your strategist gets on a call with you, and that coaching carries into every sales conversation that comes next.
The messages go out under your name, so every relationship belongs to you from the first hello to the signed agreement. Our job is to get you into the right conversations and make you sharper in each one.
Four people on your account
All real people, all based in the US.
- Launch specialistGets your campaign running about a week after kickoff.
- Sales Navigator expertCharts the buyers on the far bank and redraws the map as you go.
- WriterDrafts every message to sound like you.
- StrategistYour weekly coach for every sales call you take.
Across the bridge
Six firms that made the crossing
Six small businesses in six different fields. We keep client names private. The figures are the clients' own.
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An $18,000 contract from one reconnection
We ran a campaign to this small ad agency's extended network, and it put the owner back in touch with a former boss. He signed on at $1,500 a month for a year. Six more prospects entered the pipeline behind him, and the agency later had a $28,000-a-month deal close to signing.
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Two nonprofit clients signed, four more deciding
This small studio makes video for nonprofits and purpose-driven companies. It opened the year with its first close from our outreach and about 20 more meetings lined up from three months of campaigns. Within four months two nonprofits had signed, with four more getting ready to commit.
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First major client signed, with a billion-dollar company next in line
Nine weeks after launch this CEO roundtable had a sale and four hot leads. A few smaller deals followed, then its first major client. It is now in the process of signing a company that generates $1 billion in revenue.
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A gym franchise signed across several locations
Our outreach landed this cleaning company a gym franchise in its area. Several locations are now set up on an annual agreement.
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Two executive placements at about $35,000 each
This legal search firm helps law firms and companies hire top legal talent. Through our campaign it placed two new executives, earning around $35,000 on each placement.
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Two proposal requests, plus inquiries from outside the campaign
This practice handles long-running construction disputes. The campaign produced two requests for proposals, and the partner began receiving additional requests from outside the campaign that he credits to his new visibility on LinkedIn.
Who is waiting on the far side of your bridge?
Book your strategy callOur side of the deal
Four months to prove it, with our fee on the line
Small budgets deserve a short commitment. You get a fixed pilot to see deals close, and a guarantee that puts part of the risk on us.
Backed by a guarantee
If your pilot ends and you haven't closed a deal, we absorb the hit on our fee. You are not left carrying it alone.
Ask us on your call how the guarantee works.
Four months, then month to monthLong enough to launch, tune the campaign and close business. No long-term contract after that.
Live in about a weekYour campaign starts going out roughly a week after the kickoff call.
Where the bridge holds best
- Your contracts get signed by companies, or by high-net-worth individuals.
- A fresh client is a $5,000-or-larger win for your firm.
- Once a buyer crosses over, the sales call is yours to take.
- Customers already pay you, and the bridge is how you reach the next ones.
Ten years of crossings
A route our team has run for over a decade
More than ten years, more than 2,000 small businesses, more than 25 industries: that is how much ground our team has already bridged. The numbers we hold ourselves to are about signed deals, not activity.
Our team
- years running outreach campaigns
- 10+
- small businesses served
- 2,000+
- industries served
- 25+
Our clients
- new deals closed by clients each month
- 1 to 3
- of clients have a deal signed by day 90
- 85%
Where the crossing begins
Start your crossing with a 30-minute call
Walk us through the clients you have now. We'll sketch the bridge we would build toward strangers who match them, then give you a straight answer on whether it is worth building.
- Bring one favorite client to mind before we talk. That client becomes the blueprint for who we look for.
- Hear how your campaign would run, from the first message to the weekly coaching.
- Ask how the guarantee works and what the pilot looks like for your business.
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