What if your reps have 1,400 sales assets to choose from – but no core message? According to Forrester, this really is how many sales assets the average company has. (Not to mention who-knows-how-many different marketing assets.) Even if you’re a mid-market B2B company, you probably have more sales decks, one-pagers, playbooks, and online content than your teams know what to do with. So, it’s hard to imagine anything could possibly be missing in your … [Continue reading]
About John Reed
John is Co-founder and Managing Partner of PitchMaps. A veteran ad guy, John has helped numerous companies, both large and small, find their message. John writes and speaks about brand positioning and messaging. Connect with John: LinkedIn
How to gently tell a prospect their existing solution needs to go
You look at your prospect’s current solution. It may not be very efficient or competitive, but it’s theirs. They invested in it. They understand it. And, some of the people you’ll be presenting to were probably responsible for creating it – or at least choosing it. Now what? You know it isn’t a great solution, but how do you tell them that? For starters, don’t make this about their solution. Yes, it’s an inadequate solution. … [Continue reading]
A simple presentation hack you should’ve learned in high school math
It was my first job after college, and I was working as a writer for a British ad agency. I’d been asked to come up with a new campaign idea for one of our B2B clients and had developed something I was pretty excited about. However, when I presented My Big Idea to the decision-maker on the account – a smart marketing guy that I admired immensely – he wasn’t impressed. Instead, he just made … [Continue reading]
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