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Smarter commercial process for Professional Services

How to close high-value deals more efficiently?

We understand that Professional Services deals come with their own challenges: multiple stakeholders, tailored scopes, tailored pricing and proposals, and a critical handover to delivery. Bring us your challenge, we'll assess your sales process and design the right solution for your business model.

Bring us your challenge

The business impact

Win more deals. Close faster. Work smarter.

Higher Win Rates

Improve your chances of winning high-value deals through better deal management and stakeholder alignment.

Smoother Deal Execution

Streamline proposals, approvals and contracting to reduce friction and keep opportunities moving forward.

Better Client Experience

Create a more collaborative, transparent and professional buying experience.

Better Pricing Control

Centralize pricing rules, rates and discounts to ensure consistent proposals, reduce errors and protect margins.

Greater Sales Efficiency

Reduce manual work, connect information and give your teams more time to focus on clients.

The business model of Professional Services

Selling your expertise

Commercial operations in professional services are characterized by an integrated model in which solution selling, expertise, and delivery capacity are linked.

Selling Expertise

Instead of standardized products, organizations sell custom solutions where their people and knowledge form the core product.

Billable hours

The business model, often based on billable hours or project output, requires sales to be continuously aligned with resource availability, margin impact, and delivery feasibility.

Relationships at the core

Relationships play a role as a gateway to trust and long-term growth, but differentiation is primarily driven by expertise, value articulation, trust building, methodology, and reusable assets.

When expertise is your product, your sales process needs to connect expertise, pricing and delivery.

Professional Services businesses don't sell standard products. They sell expertise and solutions tailored to each client. Sales cycles are long and involve multiple stakeholders, custom scopes, proposals, pricing and close coordination between commercial and delivery teams.

As organizations grow, these processes often become fragmented across CRM, spreadsheets, emails, proposal tools and delivery systems.

Closing more high-value deals isn't just about adding another tool. It's about making your entire sales process work smarter.

Professional Services, a sector gathering different business models

Legal Services · Accounting & Financial Services · IT & Consulting · Architecture & Engineering · HR & Recruitment · Installation Services · Medical Services

While Professional Services organizations share similar commercial challenges, their sales process, pricing method and delivery models can differ significantly.

That’s why we always start by assessing your sales processes, before designing the right solution with tools and technologies that best fit your business.

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Where Professional Services organizations lose efficiency?

Professional Services firms manage complex sales processes built around expertise, relationships and tailored solutions.

What are the main challenges that companies selling professional services are facing?

At Elixir, we have identified 5 main pinpoints: inconsistent lead generation, low CRM adoption, inefficient deal execution, disconnected sales and delivery systems, and over-reliance on individual knowledge. Let's develop them below.

1. Weak marketing & lead generation capabilities

Professional Services firms often rely heavily on referrals and personal networks to generate business.

Structured lead generation and connected marketing and CRM data help create consistent demand and show which activities contribute to pipeline and revenue.

2. CRM systems with low adoption and limited value

When CRM doesn't reflect how sales teams work, adoption drops. Customer data remains scattered across spreadsheets and inboxes, limiting pipeline visibility and forecasting.

A well-designed CRM centralizes customer data, sales activity and opportunities into one reliable environment.

3. Fragmented and manual bid & proposal and pricing processes

Complex scopes, RFPs, rate cards, pricing and approvals can make Professional Services deals highly manual.

Connecting CRM, proposal management and CPQ helps teams manage opportunities more efficiently, accelerate deal execution and improve commercial control.

4. Disconnected systems and weak link between sales and delivery

Customer information is often split between CRM, ERP, PSA and other business systems, creating duplicated work and gaps between sales and delivery.

Connecting these systems creates a reliable flow of data from opportunity to project handover.

5. Structural reliance on tacit knowledge

Customer history, commercial knowledge and delivery experience often remain with individual employees.

Centralizing this information makes knowledge easier to access and reuse while reducing dependency on key people.

Our solution: Smarter deal execution for Professional Services

Elixir designs your commercial processes around the way Professional Services organizations actually sell: shaping the right solution, involving the right experts, validating resources and capacity, getting pricing right, and moving efficiently from opportunity to signed contract.

We configure HubSpot as your commercial platform and connect it with your PSA, proposal, contract and back-office systems to support every step of complex deal execution.

Manage high-value opportunities

Structure Professional Services deals around client needs, project scope, risks, duration, phases and resources, while giving your teams a reliable view of pipeline and deal progression.

Align Stakeholders and Experts

Map buying groups, decision-makers, competitors and external influencers, while bringing sales, delivery and subject-matter experts together throughout the deal.

Streamline Proposals and RFPs

Turn proposals into a structured, collaborative process where scope, methodology, team and client feedback can evolve throughout the sales cycle , instead of relying on static PDFs and fragmented email exchanges.

Get Pricing and Resources Right

Connect pricing, margin, resource availability and delivery feasibility to the deal, helping teams build commercially viable solutions before committing to the client. EDM for professional services EDM for professional services

Accelerate Contracting and Closing

Structure contract creation, approvals and signing to reduce manual work and maintain visibility from proposal to signed agreement.

Connect Sales with Delivery

Connect HubSpot with your PSA and back-office systems so won deals, customer context and project information flow directly into delivery. EDM for professional services

See how Professional Services organizations put this into practice.
Discover a few of our client success stories below.

The Solution Architecture

Your business model is unique. Your commercial operations should reflect it.

At Elixir, we start by assessing your business model, sales processes and commercial challenges. From opportunity management to pricing, contracting and project delivery, we identify where your operations can work smarter.We then design the right solution architecture, connecting data, systems and teams through leading technologies to make your commercial operations more efficient, connected and scalable.

Hubspot

The Commercial Hub

As a long-standing HubSpot Elite Solutions Partner, we configure and extend HubSpot around the way your business sells.

Centralize customer relationships, opportunity management and sales activities while gaining visibility into key commercial KPIs ( sales pipeline and forecasting, Deal conversion and win rates, Sales cycle length, Customer acquisition and revenue growth, Customer retention and account development)

Multi tools

The Back Office

Connect your commercial operations with the systems managing project delivery, resources, capacity and financial performance.

We integrate CRM with Professional Services Automation (PSA), ERP and accounting systems to improve data consistency, support resource planning and align sales commitments with delivery capabilities.

Partner technologies

AI Tools & AI Agents

Turn connected commercial and operational data into actionable insights.

We leverage AI capabilities to support proposal generation, customer health scoring, churn risk identification and cross-selling opportunities, helping teams make more informed decisions and prioritize the right actions.

Deal Rooms

Contract Lifecycle Management

Move efficiently from proposal to signed agreement.

We integrate Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) capabilities to structure contract creation, negotiations, approvals and electronic signatures.

Manage Statements of Work (SoWs), evolving project scopes and contractual commitments with greater consistency and visibility throughout the closing process.

What is the best solution for your business?

There's no one-size-fits-all solution. Every Professional Services organization has its own processes, challenges and goals.

That's why Elixir starts by assessing your commercial operations before designing the right solution with the right technologies.

Assess your sales process

SUCCESS STORIES

See real customer stories & results

Professional services

Datawords' HubSpot Integration Unifies Sales in 25 Countries

Datawords overcame fragmented systems across 25 countries and gained unified sales visibility with HubSpot and NetSuite integration.

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Professional services

Olyn Group's HubSpot Portal Consolidation

Olyn Group unified sic HubSpot portals into one, enabling seamless workflows and cross-company data access.

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Professional services

ATS Global's HubSpot Transformation Success

ATS Global unified sales across 25 countries, boosting lead gen and pipeline visibility to reach 10% growth.

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Assess your sales process

Bring us your Challenge. We'll design the Solution.

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