Who you sell to, and why they care
Who you sell to
Picking a customer worth chasing, and knowing early when a deal is not one.
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We have about fifteen customers and they are all different. How do I find an ICP out of that?
Do not look at who bought, look at who is happy. Rank the fifteen by usage and by whether they would be annoyed if you disappeared, then take the t...
How do I get the team to actually use the ICP instead of nodding at a slide and then doing what they want?
An ICP that lives in a deck is decoration. Make it operational: turn it into fields in the CRM, into the lead scoring, into the list an SDR is allo...
How do the best companies keep their ICP sharp as they grow instead of letting it blur into everyone?
They re-derive it on a schedule from data they already have: which segments renew, which expand, which churn, which cost the most to serve. Then th...
When is it right to move upmarket, and how do the companies that pull it off actually do it?
Move when the demand is systematic, not when two large logos email you. The signal is a pattern of bigger accounts arriving on their own and hittin...
The person who uses our product every day is not the person who pays for it. Which one is the ICP?
Neither, on their own. The ICP is the company you want, and inside it you have to name two people: the user who feels the pain and the buyer who ow...
Our CRM says we lose on price. I do not believe it. How do I find the real reason, and what does it say about who we should be selling to?
Price is what a buyer says when they do not want to explain the real reason, and reps write it down because it is not their fault. The fix is ungla...
We are winning in one segment. When is it right to add a second ICP, and how do I know we are not just bored?
The honest signal is not excitement, it is repeatability. You have earned a second ICP when a rep who is not the founder can predictably find, win ...
We are opening a new market, the US or Southeast Asia or the Gulf. Do we carry the same ICP across or start again?
Carry the problem, redo the profile. The job your product does usually travels, but company sizes, who owns the budget, what counts as expensive, h...
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