I write about sales, leadership & productivity to help you become a top sales performer. RSM at Lonestar Forklift | AIB MBA

I’m Chris Crane, and my mission is simple:

Transforming industrial sales reps & teams into formidable professionals.

Over my 15-year sales career, I’ve closed over $100 million in industrial equipment deals, trained more than 150 reps, and led industrial sales teams across Canada and the U.S.

I built the Scaling Success System™ to give industrial sales teams what no one else offers: a sales operating system specifically engineered for industrial sales.

This system has taught over 150+ industrial sales reps & teams to operate as formidable professionals, and it can do the same for your team.

DM "sales" to learn more.

Chris Crane

Nathan Hirsch

5k to $12M ARR in 4 yrs (w/ Exit) 🔥 Scaling my 4+ B2B companies in the same way 🚀 Daily advice for entrepreneurs.

Over the past 10 years, I’ve built five businesses to 6, 7, and even 8 figures in annual revenue.  Now I buy businesses

In 2019, I exited one of them — FreeeUp — after scaling it from a $5K investment to $12M+ in ARR in just four years. It was acquired by The HOTH, and that journey changed everything for me.

Unique About the FreeeUp sale:
- No office
- No Us Employees
- Bootstrapped (No outside funding)
- Zero Money spent on Paid ads
- An internal team of 30+ All-Star Virtual Assistants from PH

These days, I’m focused on growing Hirsch Gillivan LLC — the holding company Connor Gillivan and I started. We're building a portfolio of 5-star businesses, each run by amazing operators who truly care about our clients. It’s been a blast supporting great people, growing cool companies, and enjoying life after our first exit.

Here are a few we own:

→ EcomBalance: Monthly bookkeeping for eCommerce sellers
→ AccountsBalance: Monthly bookkeeping for agencies, SAAS, and b2b businesses
→ TrioSEO: Helping SaaS and B2B brands drive high-intent organic traffic and revenue growth
→ HG Media: Growing Connor and my brand online + helping sponsors reach our audience
→ CFO Expertise: Reach financial clarity, optimize growth, and scale profits with an Ecommerce CFO that’s seen it all. Built for brands on Shopify & Amazon.

I’ve had the chance to be a guest on 900+ podcasts over the years — including shows like Perpetual Traffic, Mixergy, BiggerPockets, and Leveling Up.

Outside of building businesses, I'm a proud dad to Carter and husband to Quynh. I get in a daily hour of HIIT, run marathons, and play way too much softball. Always learning, always investing — whether it’s stocks, real estate, or new business ideas.

Want to learn more? Check out NathanHirsch.com, follow me here on LinkedIn or subscribe to https://nathanhirsch.com/newsletter for daily tips on entrepreneurship and growth.

For LinkedIn Sponsorship queries, please reach out to me at media@hirschgillivan.com

Co-Founder

🔥🔥Big News 🔥🔥

Really Excited to launch our new venture TrioSEO October 17th

TrioSEO(dot)com

For years we have ben putting out high quality blog SEO optimized articles for our different businesses leading to highly ranked websites

After years of getting asked if we can offer this for other businesses we now will be

Here's how it will work 👇

1. SEO Audit
We'll conduct a free audit on your site, share results, and let you know if we think its a good fit to work together. 

2. Keyword Research & Planning
We'll get to work finding the best possible keywords for you to be targeting where you have a good chance of driving traffic and leads. We'll put together a full strategy that we'll present to you.

3. Content Creation & Optimization
We'll start creating content for your site. We'll publish it directly on your site as we finish it. If there's pages or articles you already have that we think could move up in search rankings, we'll propose those as well and improve them.

4. Analytics & Reporting
We'll provide you with a monthtly report showing all key SEO data so you can track progress and stay involved in the process.

Interested in being one of our first clients (we have already landed a few)?  Lets chat

11 Things That Require Zero Talent

But Show a lot of Character.

Talent is optional.

Character is not.

Master these, and you’ll outwork, outlast, and outclass the competition.  

1. Punctuality
→ Respect others’ time. Builds trust and reliability.  

2. Work Ethic 
→ Consistency beats brilliance. Mundane tasks matter most.  

3. Positive Attitude
→ Turn obstacles into stepping stones. Stress dissolves.  

4. Effort  
→ Small actions compound. Pride fuels progress.  

5. Passion 
→ Care deeply. Ignite others. Align with purpose.  

6. Coachability  
→ Swap defensiveness for curiosity. Grow through feedback.  

7. Doing Extra 
→ Volunteer. Anticipate. Reputation is earned, not given.  

8. Preparedness  
→ Plan ahead. Confidence silences chaos.  

9. Kindness 
→ Listen. Lift. Loyalty follows empathy.  

10. Gratitude  
→ Say “thank you.” Teams thrive on acknowledgment.  

11. Integrity  
→ Do right, even in the dark. Legacy > shortcuts.  

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The secret?
 
These cost nothing but change everything.  

Which habit will you own today?

♻️ Repost to remind your network: greatness is a choice.

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7x Founder sharing daily posts on business growth | I help scale companies with my systems (Exit in 2019)

11 Things That Require Zero Talent.pdf

Most people think growth comes from posting more.

It doesn’t.

It comes from staying visible after you post.

That is where almost everyone drops the ball.

You publish once.
You disappear.
The conversation dies.

The real leverage is in follow up comments and threads.

The problem?
You cannot schedule comments natively.
And manually tracking them across platforms is a mess.

This is why Publer quietly became one of my most used tools.

Here is how their new update changed my workflow:

1. Schedule follow up comments.
→ Turn one post into multiple touchpoints
→ Schedule once across LinkedIn, Instagram, and Facebook

2. Condition based comments.
→ Comments only publish if engagement hits a threshold
→ Makes everything feel human, not automated

3. Real Thread previews for X.
→ Create threads with Publer’s new Threads composer
→ Automatically create a wrap-up post summarizing the thread

4. Cross posting threads everywhere.
→ Add and schedule once
→ Publish to X, Threads, Bluesky, and Mastodon

5. Condition based threads.
→ Delay replies based on time, views or engagement
→ Threads unfold naturally instead of all at once

This is how you stay present without being glued to your phone.

One post.
Multiple moments.
Across every platform.

Publer makes that possible from one dashboard.

If you care about distribution as much as creation,
this is worth testing.

Thanks to Publer for partnering on this post.

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