Marketing
The channel was cheap because you weren’t buying much of it
Doubling spend in your lowest-cost acquisition channel rarely doubles customers, and the reason usually has nothing to do with execution.
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Pricing
You standardised the delivery. The variance was in the diagnosis.
Fixed-scope offers that keep drifting over budget and still need your best person usually have a variance problem one step…
Pricing
The tier nobody buys is doing most of the pricing work
The top of your price list may sell almost nothing and still be the most commercially productive line on the…
Pricing
Your buyers learned your quarter-end before your new reps did
Period-end discounting rarely buys revenue that wouldn't have arrived. It buys timing, and it teaches the other side exactly when…
Operations
Your utilisation is high because you did the job twice
Rework consumes the same hours as first-time delivery and records itself exactly the same way: which is why it sets…
Pricing
The customers who took your annual discount were never going to leave
Prepayment looks like cheap capital and free retention. The arithmetic, and who actually accepts the offer, usually tell a different…
Growth strategy
The proof you can only spend a few times
Pipeline is a number most businesses can grow on demand. The stock of customers willing to vouch for you is…
Operations
The forecast that has to do three jobs
One revenue number is asked to motivate the sales team, size the delivery rota and plan the bank balance. It…
Growth strategy
The objection you got at the end was built at the start
Late-stage objections are usually not new information. They are the first visible symptom of something the sales process skipped weeks…
Operations
The days between done and invoiced belong to nobody
Debtor days get reviewed every month. The stretch before an invoice exists rarely appears in any report, and it is…
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