Dollar deals closed, including Fortune 100 relationships.
Built by a marketer
who’s done the work.
Marketing systems that connect directly to revenue. Based in West Michigan. Operating nationally.
Tom Zandstra.
Founder & CMO, Acculead. West Michigan.
Acculead started because the same problem kept showing up: smart founders spending real money on marketing that couldn’t prove it was working. The fix is a system, from brand to pipeline to closed revenue.
Teaching marketing strategy at Calvin University keeps the work honest. Theory without practice is noise. Practice without theory is luck. Acculead sits in the middle.
What the work
has produced.
Six representative outcomes from across the client book. Different industries, same discipline: audience, value, system.
Leads on a first webinar launch.
Downloads in three months after launch.
Increase in web traffic from organic alone.
Email leads in two weeks, no ad spend.
Revenue in two years from organic systems.
How we think
about marketing.
Every engagement starts with one question: what does your pipeline need, and what’s the most direct path to fill it? We optimize for revenue, not activity.
Revenue-first.
If it doesn’t connect to pipeline, we don’t do it. Every channel, every campaign, every dollar ties back to a number on your P&L.
Tech-forward.
AI-assisted content, automated nurture, analytics that surface what matters. Modern tools, used well, run circles around bloated teams.
Embedded.
We know your business well enough to make the right calls fast. No six-week onboarding, no endless status meetings, no agency layers.
How to Grow
Any Organization.
An 85-page playbook of what Tom has learned working across 100+ clients. Sent straight to your inbox.
Let’s talk about
your business.
A full-time marketing hire costs $60K+ before they’ve shipped a single campaign. A fractional CMO brings the strategy, the systems, and the execution from day one.
Talk With Tom →No pitch deck. No pressure. Just a clear plan.