Romain Cournol

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450 clients, one rep, and the tools built to keep up.

Role
Sales Manager · HubSpot Key User · AI Lead
Year
2025 –
Stack
Sales Management · HubSpot · IA
Status
Current role

Result

CHF 700Kgenerated · +18% revenue on the portfolio

  • PK-Calculator: a production cost goes from half a day of waiting to two minutes, in the meeting
  • An agent backed by the internal HubSpot documentation, 50+ salespeople, still in service

Tamedia Advertising is the advertising arm of Tamedia’s Swiss media brands. I grow a portfolio of 450 clients and 1,650 prospects across Vaud and Geneva, and I build the tools the team uses.

01 The problem

Managing a portfolio this size solo means constant trade-offs: who deserves an hour of prep, who gets an automated follow-up, how not to lose track of 1,650 prospects.

The teams said it plainly: the production cost of a piece of content was never clear. In a meeting, you could not name a price. You had to deflect, dig through the catalogue, email the Commercial Content team, then wait for a quote. Half a day.

02 What I built

PK-Calculator works that cost out from catalogue and custom pricing. The rep has the number in two minutes, during the meeting. 50+ salespeople use it.

Same logic upstream of the sale. A brief, an email or a meeting write-up goes in; a prospecting plan comes out, with the follow-up email, the script and the quote. Built by hand, that plan could take half a day depending on the size of the project.

As Key User, I set up automatic follow-up on deals with no activity for fifteen days, and built an agent that answers users’ HubSpot questions from the internal documentation. 50+ salespeople use it, it is still running and I keep it up to date.

03 What I take from it

There was resistance at first. What unlocked it was a demo in a team meeting: the more technically curious picked it up immediately, once they saw the time it saved. The rest followed in ones and twos.

The test I apply to an internal tool: is anyone still using it three months after rollout? The answer is decided after the launch.

01

Spot

Friction observed with the salespeople, not assumed from a desk.

02

Build

The tool that removes the wait: a quote in two minutes instead of half a day.

03

Drive adoption

A demo in a team meeting, then follow-through. 50+ salespeople use the tools.

Result

CHF 700Kgenerated · +18% revenue on the portfolio

  • PK-Calculator: a production cost goes from half a day of waiting to two minutes, in the meeting
  • An agent backed by the internal HubSpot documentation, 50+ salespeople, still in service
  • Automatic follow-up on deals idle for fifteen days: fewer things forgotten, a cleaner pipeline