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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How do I qualify a deal properly instead of just hoping the enthusiastic person can buy?
Enthusiasm is not authority. Before you invest another hour, you want four things: a named pain the buyer can quantify, the person who controls the...
Half my pipeline is outside our ICP because those are the leads that came in. Do I chase them?
Chase them to learn, close them only if they close fast. Off-ICP deals are seductive because they are there and someone said yes to a meeting, and ...
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...
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 a marketplace with buyers on one side and sellers on the other. Which side is the ICP?
Both eventually, but only one at a time, and it is whichever side is scarce. Pick the constrained side and make it your ICP for now, because the ot...
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 ...
How do the best companies replace ICP opinion with a scoring model built on their own data?
They stop arguing about who the ideal customer should be and go and measure who it turned out to be. Pull your last fifty to a hundred closed won a...