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How to blend Product Led Growth with Enterprise Sales
Product Led Growth is excellent as driving individual and small team purchases. At some point human sellers are required to support Enterprise usecases. In this post I look at two deep dives on the topic from Atlassian and Amplitude.
3 ways to drive customer loyalty
Loyalty programs can extend your customer lifetime and increase customer spend and referrals. In this post I look at Access, Priority and Kudos as three big drivers of loyalty to put at the heart of your program.
CFOs. Use money as a strategic weapon
Payment tech gives CFOs the opportunity to open new channels, new products and use money as a strategic weapon against their competitors. Here are some ideas to get you started.
Adding virality to Enterprise products
Virality is not just a Product Led Growth Strategy. Enterprise products can encourage happy users to promote, share and bring in new users. In this article I give you five ideas to get started.
How EDF used data to incentivise customers to reduce consumption
EDF used Snowflake to baseline customer’s energy usage, and incentivise them to reduce usage during peak periods. Your data can drive changes in customer behaviour in extremely short timeframes.
Buyers know more than your sellers
Today buyers are likely to know more than your seller at each step of their buying process. It causes frustration and further drives buyers to want to self-serve.
How Airtable use their website to enable buyers
Airtable provide resources that enable their buyers to understand the problem, map out the solution, and start to implement their first use cases - all without any involvement from a seller.
How to build a SaaS Partner Program
40% of software is now bought through partner channels, and yet very few SaaS vendors have a visible partner program.
Here I provide simple strategies to help you get started with a reseller or referral model.
How System Integrators can drive pipeline from Tech Vendor sales teams
Tech Vendors can be the primary source of pipeline for consultants and system integrators. Here are some simple strategies to manage and grow that channel into your business.
Create credible content that buyers trust
Four out of five reasons why buyers slow decisions relate to content. Here are some easy suggestions to generate buyer-centric and trusted content that gets deals moving.
Don’t overuse a few customer stories
When customers see the same references over and over again they subsconsciously reduce the likelihood you have many other references to choose from.
Welcome to the Mark and Recapture method of population estimation!
How to create testimonials at scale
Peer testimonials are the highest rated sources of information for buyers, and yet most companies are poor at delivering them at scale. In this article I help you build a strategic testimonial process.
Lessons from Uber’s CEO as he becomes a driver
Uber’s CEO Dara Khosrowshahi wanted to understand why drivers weren’t returning to the platform after the pandemic. So he bought a secondhand car, signed up, and started driving. A lesson for every CRO in learning about your own buyer’s experience.
What’s the difference between Revenue Operations and RevOps?
Revenue Operations and RevOps are easily confused - one focuses on the overarching strategy to accelerate scalable and sustainable revenue, and one focuses on the data, processes and systems that support that strategy.
Use a data matrix to create revenue insights
Turn your revenue data into actionable insights by following this simple 90 minute workshop format. Learn from your call recordings, contracts, and product usage and grow your revenue.
How Gong mobilises their users to reduce churn
Gong ensures the individual contributors that use their platform are engaged, getting value and advocating for their product through a range of end user focused programmes.
How to build a diagnostic tool to help buyers identify a problem.
Diagnostic tools help your buyer to solve their first challenge, understanding the problem.
In this guide you’ll learn the five steps I go through to develop a compelling diagnostic tool that drives customers to engage.
Two CEOs enabling buyers on LinkedIn
CEOs can be a critical part of buyer enablement - sharing the discussions they are having with the peers of your buyers.
Here are two examples of CEOs delivering on LinkedIn today.
How Snowflake use their leaders to enable their buyers
Snowflake use their senior executives to enable their buyers - providing profiles and featured expertise in a website directory.
Designing your RevOps Tech Stack
Your RevOps tech stack might include more than 20 overlapping technologies. Mapping your buyers and sellers’ journeys through them can help you strip out complexity and cost.