Finding Your Next Million
Your next million probably isn’t in your outbound, it’s probably in your existing customers.
Steve Johnson
Pains, Gains and Jobs to Be Done
Customers, clients, and prospects rarely tell us what they actually want. When I led sales at Ctuit Software, time after time restaurant clients would tell us that they needed an inventory system. Or they needed better reporting.Or they needed better labor scheduling.
They would list features and solutions without
Three Questions to Change Your Pipeline
Ask your AE:
1-In one sentence, what is the customer's business or commercial problem in one sentence?
2-What are the names and titles of the people who influence, approve and can kill the deal?
3-What solutions do each of these people need evidence for so
Complete the Buying Team
Who is your ICP?
Who is the buying team that surrounds your ICP that they have to navigate in order to buy your solution?
Does your product or solution solve enough pain for each member of the buying team, not just your ICP?
Your ICP Isn't
ICPs are traditionally defined by age, sex, title, etc. and often they are window dressing that don't produce results.
People don't buy your B2B solution because they are a title of a certain gender, age or industry.
They buy your B2B solution because they have a
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I'm Steve Johnson. You can find me across the web and platforms like YouTube, LinkedIn and other most often with the handle /stevejohnsonactual.
I'm the founder of ScalingSales.com and my mission is to help founders, CEOs and their executive teams get control of revenue.
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Creating Customers
This week at https://soundstartups.org/ hosted by https://www.surfincubator.com/ I taught Value Proposition, it's week 4, to the first class of the Founder Discovery Lab.
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