What Changes When a UK Business Starts Selling to American Buyers

Taking a UK Service Business to US Clients: Pricing, positioning and proof when the buyer has never heard of you

Francis Rodino has built sales systems for more than 300 service businesses in the UK, and is now taking the same work to American buyers. He is open about the decisions that came first: what to charge, which sectors to target, and how much of a UK track record transfers to a buyer who has never heard of you. He argues that most advice on entering the US market is written for software companies, when a founder-led service business faces a different problem, earning trust before the first call. He walks through how he is handling that, from the proof he leads with to the follow-up speed US enquiries demand. Listeners leave with a clear view of what to settle before chasing clients in a bigger market, and what it costs to get it wrong.

About Francis Rodino

Francis Rodino, podcast guest

Amazon bestselling author and AI Growth Architect for Service Businesses

20+ years Digital marketing experience300+ Service businesses supported£128M+ Revenue recovered for clients9-step system Leads Machine growth framework

Francis Rodino is an AI growth architect and author who turns messy CRM and sales processes into predictable demand-generation systems for service and operational businesses doing £1m to £20m in revenue.

He moved into this work after two decades leading digital teams and campaigns at global media and agency roles, where he became frustrated by corporate politics and the gap between enterprise tools and SME realities. That shift led him to apply enterprise-grade marketing automation and CRM discipline to smaller service businesses that lacked repeatable sales infrastructure.
His work is built on verifiable outcomes: the Leads Machine framework is published as an Amazon bestselling book and was shortlisted for the Business Book Awards 2026, and his systems have been used by over 300 service businesses to recover more than £128 million in revenue. He also draws on a corporate background managing campaigns for brands such as BBC and PlayStation and more than 20 years in digital marketing.

Day-to-day he installs revenue infrastructure using the R.E.D. Method - Roadmap, Engine, Drive - and a white-labelled AI-enabled CRM that provides instant lead response, automated 8+ touchpoint follow-up via SMS, email and WhatsApp, and dashboards leadership can trust.

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