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Offerings

Growth that does not depend on your best few people.

Where you start depends on where it hurts. Where it ends up is the same place, which is a go-to-market that runs the same way whoever happens to be in the room.

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Whatever the presenting problem is, the same work has to happen underneath it. Your leadership team has to align on one account of the strategy and of the message, because the message is where a strategy becomes something a person can actually say to a buyer. The people who carry it into the market have to be energized to run it in a live conversation, in front of someone who pushes back. And your own managers have to sustain it once the room has emptied, because what nobody enforces does not survive a quarter. Most companies I meet are strong at one of those and quietly missing another, and the presenting problem is rarely the one that is missing.

And it is not only the revenue side of the house

That leadership team is not only the revenue side of the house. A Chief Product Officer and a Chief Customer Officer belong inside this work rather than downstream of it, because the offering has to be able to keep what the message promises, and the conversations that decide a renewal are the same conversations that decided the deal.

Find the one you have already said out loud

These are things clients said to me before the work started. Read for the one that sounds like something you have said this quarter, and go to that page.

If more than one of those sounds like you

  • That is the usual case and it is not something to settle on this page. If you can name which one is upstream of the others, start there. If you cannot, start with the diagnosis, because telling a strategy problem apart from an execution problem is the first job and it is cheaper than guessing at it for a year. GTM Diagnosis and Focus →
  • If none of them sounds like you, the same work is written up from the other direction, by the problem rather than by the engagement. Problems →

How this is bought

Each one is bought on its own, fixed bid, fixed scope, written down before we start and designed to end. Most clients start with a single piece of work and come back only if the first one earned it, and where something genuinely has to come before something else, that page says so plainly instead of leaving you to find it out inside a proposal.

If you would rather just ask

You do not have to have picked one. Forty-five minutes, and I will ask you what your best rep says in the first ten minutes of a first meeting and what your median rep says. That conversation usually settles which page you were looking for.

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