3Stage 03 of 06 · Sales strategy & structure
We help you get in front of the buyers you want, and spend your time on the deals you can win.
Where this sits in the model
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A full pipeline is not the same as a good one. Many teams fill the funnel with deals that were never going to close, while the buyers they most want never answer a cold approach. Deals stall because the people who really decide were never involved.
We start by agreeing what a good opportunity looks like. Then we work out where your buyers already spend their attention, and who they already trust to be there: a partner already in their workflow, research they cannot get anywhere else, or a room worth their afternoon. Finally, we design how your team engages buyers at each stage, built around the decision the buyer is making rather than what the CRM wants.
The question
How do we get in front of the right buyers?
Signs you need this
What it covers
Agree what a good opportunity looks like, including whether the people who really decide are involved, so time goes on the deals you can win.
You get
Shared qualification criteria and the questions that test them.
Choose the routes to market that reach your ideal customers most effectively: partnerships, channels, events or research that put you where the buyer already is. We help build and run the first one, rather than handing over a recommendation.
You get
A route-to-buyer analysis, a shortlist of initiatives and the first one launched.
Design how you engage buyers at each stage, from first contact to signature, so each step is built around what the buyer needs next, with an honest test for whether you have earned the next meeting.
You get
Your sales motion mapped stage by stage, with a manager coaching guide.
How it runs
Research
Persona and market research into where your buyers already are, and who they already trust.
Review
We sit in on live calls and review recent won and lost deals to find where buyers quietly disengage.
Choose
Qualification criteria agreed, and route-to-market options developed and costed with your commercial team.
Redesign
The sales motion rebuilt stage by stage with your sales leadership in the room.
Launch
We help run the first initiative and coach the new motion for a quarter, then review what it returned.
Who’s involved
Every engagement is shaped around your business. We agree the scope, timing and people with you at the start.
What you get
What changes
You reach buyers through something they already trust, and deals move because the buyer wants the next conversation, not because someone chased a stage gate.
In short
A focused route to market: shared qualification criteria, the right mix of channels and partners, and a sales motion matched to how your customers buy.
In practice
The persona did not just reveal a buyer. It revealed a channel already in the room.
Read the full case studyTwenty target authorities, each with a name and a renewal date, contacted a year early.
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Where it fits
Each stage of the model builds on the one before it, and the figure of eight means what you learn at the end feeds straight back into the start.
Bring us one live deal and we will look at it together. No pitch, no obligation.
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