Write faster.
Use AI to draft emails, proposals, and follow-ups in minutes—not hours—with your team reviewing the final message.
Your sales & marketing growth partner
A clearer
sales system.
A partner to build it.
I help business owners connect sales, marketing, CRM, and practical AI—from figuring out what needs to change to getting it working.
Request a strategy callbackWork directly with Rick. Bring in Know’s specialists when needed.
How I can help
Practical AI.
Put to work.
Find better prospects.
Combine CRM data, multiple research sources, and contextual web research to spot buying signals and focus on better-fit opportunities.
Make outreach personal.
Tailor messages to each prospect’s company, role, and likely needs—so your team can personalize at scale without starting from scratch.
20+
Years helping businesses
turn ideas into useful work.
Rick Van House
Founder of Know Advertising
Built alongside your team
I don’t hand you a plan
and disappear.
I work with your team to turn the strategy into the everyday work: clearer CRM pipelines, useful marketing, and practical AI that helps people prepare and follow through.
That means building the workflow together, documenting it, and helping people use it. When more hands are needed, I bring in the right Know specialists.
See what that looks like in practice
Client work / Great Lakes Landscape Design
CRM pipeline redesign for Great Lakes Landscape Design.
Great Lakes Landscape Design had outgrown the way its CRM was organized. We rebuilt the pipelines around the sales process, helped train the team, and created a CRM and pipeline handbook.
The new process is helping support sales-team growth and the founder’s shift from doing the selling to leading the business.
Rebuilt CRM pipelinesTeam training & implementationA practical pipeline handbook
Work directly with Rick
Advice is useful.
Getting it working
is better.
I’m Rick Van House, founder of Know Advertising. I’m a Detroit-based sales and marketing consultant helping businesses improve CRM processes, integrate practical AI, and equip their sales teams. For more than two decades, I’ve helped businesses clarify their story, find growth opportunities, and turn strong ideas into useful work.
I work alongside your team from the first conversation through implementation. When a project calls for additional creative, media, or technical support, I bring in the right Know Advertising specialists.
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Backed by Know Advertising.
Work directly with Rick. When the project needs more hands, Know Advertising brings the creative, marketing, and technical support.
A practical way to begin
Start with one
useful improvement.
A specific project. A few hours of help. An ongoing working relationship. We can shape the engagement around what your business needs—not a package you have to fit into.
Let’s talk about your team
What would help
your sales team
move forward?
Tell me where things feel disconnected. We’ll start with a real conversation about your process, your team, and what might make the biggest difference.
Prefer to reach out directly?
rick.vanhouse@knowad.com(313) 395-8404Request a callback
Let’s start a conversation.
Leave your details, and I’ll call you personally to talk through what would help your sales team.