The company is new.
The person behind it is not.

Sales-Led Marketing is young. I am not going to dress that up with borrowed logos or a stock photo of a team that doesn't exist. So here is the honest version: what you can check today, what you can't check yet, and the deal for the first five companies who help me put the missing proof on this page.

Matt Pinckley

The same test I run on you, run on me.

I score every site on whether a stranger can confirm the claims without taking the company's word for it. Here is where mine stands today, split into the part you can check and the part I am still building. Nothing in the right column is hidden. It is just honest.

What you can verify right now

  • A real, findable person. One accountable human, named, photographed, on LinkedIn, reachable directly. No account manager, no team you never meet.
  • Fourteen years of dated endorsements. Every recommendation below is a real person with a real title you can message today.
  • The tool, run on any site. Score your own site, a competitor's, or this one. It asks for nothing and nobody follows up.
  • The exact deliverable. A full sample report and a working calculator, both open, no email gate.
  • The price and the disqualifier. Both published. I tell you who this is wrong for, in writing, before you pay.

What I can't show you yet

  • A company case study with a dated number. The proof below is about my sales coaching, not about a Diagnosis or a Training I have run under this company. That work is happening now.
  • Before-and-after results of the product itself. A trust score that moved from 44 to 71, a win rate that lifted. Real, specific, checkable. I will not invent one to fill the gap.
  • An independent footprint off this site. Reviews on a third-party directory, an outside mention. Early, and being earned.

A company that papers over that right column with a fake testimonial is failing the exact test it wants to sell you. I would rather show you the gap and tell you how I am closing it.

The first five clients close that gap with me.

The fastest honest way to get real case studies is to run real engagements and let the results be checked. So the first five companies get half price, in exchange for becoming one of those checkable results.

Founding clients · first 5
The Diagnosis and Prescription
$5,000
$2,500The full examination and the ranked prescription. Yours to keep.
The Training
$6,000
$3,000Per person. The full program, the follow-up, and the video email app.

Five companies. When they are taken, the price is the price.

What I ask in return.

One thing, agreed up front and in writing: you let me publish the result as a named case study, with a real before-and-after number, once the work is done. A trust score that moved, a win rate that lifted, a cycle that shortened. Whatever the honest number turns out to be.

If you will give thirty seconds on camera about it, better still. If the engagement doesn't move your number, there is nothing to publish and nothing owed. I only get the case study if the work earns it, which is the same bet I am asking you to make on me.

Being an early client is meant to be low-risk, not a leap of faith.

A young company should de-risk you with reversibility, not a guarantee it might not be able to honor. Here is what protects you, on the page, not left to the call.

  • ✓
    You keep the report no matter whatThe Diagnosis is yours whether or not we ever speak again. You leave with the deliverable, not just an experience.
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    You can test me with the small step firstStart with the Diagnosis. Only take the Training if the first step earned your trust. The two are independent.
  • ✓
    Nothing renews by itselfNo retainer, no auto-renew, no invoice you forgot was coming. Paid up front, flat, done.
  • ✓
    I'd rather lose the deal than sell one that failsIf I think an engagement will not earn its number, I say so before you pay. My own risk is on the page too.

There is no money-back guarantee here, on purpose. For a service business a blanket guarantee is a liability, not a signal, and it contradicts the whole product. Trust is precisely what lets you move forward without one.

The record the company is built on.

Every one of these is a real person you can find and ask. They are endorsements of my sales-training and coaching work over the years, the craft the Training is built on, and each is dated so you can see it for exactly what it is. Not company results. The record of the person who will do the work.

Every deal that Matt has touched has resulted in a win, and positioned our relationships with clients for more predictable profits. What sets Matt apart is not his tool set. It's him. He re-teaches the lesson we always forget: your clients are buying you.

Michael Liskow, Founder · 2012

Matt was an utmost help to the Itransition salesforce. Every single student claimed improvement in personal and professional performance, as well as better understanding of the decision making and negotiation processes.

Denis Kostusev, Itransition · 2016

To describe Matt as just a sales trainer doesn't do him justice. He intuitively understands the part each person needs, then tailors it. I'm a better salesperson because of him, and a better person as well.

Greg Steinig, VP of Sales · 2012

Matt is a true professional with a flexible and unconventional mindset. The willingness to dive into the problem and evaluate it from different angles, as well as the ability to understand the psychology of people, has saved many situations.

Oleg Grimashevich, Oxagile · 2023

If sales training, sales coaching, or having him help you hire salespeople is what you need, Matt is worth every penny.

Andrew Hollamon, D'Mention Systems · 2012

He has completely changed my vision of sales and relationship nurturing and helped me lay the ground for my new approach.

Kate Pioryshkina, Account Manager · 2016

His technique truly develops the whole person, and his background in human psychology makes him uniquely qualified. He does for us. He can for you.

John Fox, Fractional CTO · 2012

Matt is personable and gets the best results out of you, based on your character and strengths. He is humble and will help you understand what goals are realistic and achievable.

Jamar Jordan, Enrolled Agent · 2012

What Matt teaches is not only about sales, it's about self-improvement, self-motivation and self-discipline.

Anastasia Barysenkava, Client · 2015

Don't take my word for the method. Run it.

The clearest proof I can offer a stranger is the work itself, open and free. Watch what it does before you believe a claim about it.

Score any site free

The automated Trust Diagnostic reads your primary pages and returns the read, the score, the pillars, and every leak ranked by what it costs. No email.

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Read a real deliverable

A full sample report for an anonymized company, scored 46. The exact document a paying client receives.

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Price your own leak

A working calculator that puts a dollar figure on the selling time you are losing, from your own payroll.

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Take the founding deal, or just check my work.

Forty-five minutes, no qualifier. If you are one of the five, we start at half price. If you're not sure yet, score your site first and see whether any of this is even worth a conversation.

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