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unlock
growth
guide

This guide is a dynamic resource that reflects the latest information as of June 28, 2023.
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Hi! I am
Tae Hea Nahm
Founding CEO

Co-Founder

12 Storm Unicorns

Please feel free to contact me on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/tnahm


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Everyone wants to
be a high growth
company
Customers want to back the winner

Investors chasing high growth

Great employees want to join

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Everyone wants to
be a high growth
company
HOW TO BECOME A HIGH GROWTH
Customers want to back the winner

COMPANY?
Investors chasing high growth SURF

Scale Growth
Great employees want to join

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Many companies are stuck


at PMF with slow growth
Founders can sell,
but others can’t

SURF

Scale Growth

1 PADDLE

Founder Growth
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Common answer is
“Just Scale Growth”

But, scale what


and how??
SURF THE WAVE
2 & MOMENTUM
SURF

Scale Growth
Just hire more sales reps

Just spend more on marketing

Just need to raise more $$$


1 PADDLE
or, PMF and great GTM people are
enough for high growth
Founder Growth
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But, need to Unlock Growth


before Scaling Growth
Feels like catching
the wave

3 SURF

Scale Growth

CATCH
2 THE WAVE

Unlock Growth

1 PADDLE

Founder Growth

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How to unlock growth?


Combine what customers want
(customer journey) with what
teams do (playbook)

3 SURF

Scale Growth

CATCH
2 THE WAVE

Unlock Growth

I Read the Wave II Right Surfboard III Tune Your Surfboard


1 PADDLE
Customer Journey
Founder Growth Hero Customer Journey Tune your CJ Playbook
Playbook
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READ THE WAVE

HERO
CUSTOMER
JOURNEY
II CJ PLAYBOOK

III TUNING YOUR CJ PLAYBOOK

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Want Why the Hero Customer Journey important? How

CHAMPION’S
CUSTOMER CHAMPION HERO CUSTOMER
EMPATHY
(which customer JOURNEY
persona to focus on) (9 step journey defines
customer empathy)

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Customer empathy:
customer centric GTM

Frustrated founder
customers just don’t
get it

How founders view customers.


when the customer doesn’t buy

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Customer empathy:
customer centric GTM

Normally,
customers should not
buy from startups

How customers view startups.


Do you want to be their very first patient?

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Customer empathy:
customer centric GTM CAN BECOME HAVE AN
PLG, SLG, MLG, Inbound
A HERO URGENT PAIN

Get promoted, become Must do something


Exception, industry celebrity Common reason to buy
why buy from a startup? The brave, the few
Why buy NOW vs 6 months from now? If
not, just wait for the safe and easy
“Early customer thinking decision. “In vendor selection, there is
like a cofounder.” more downside
risk than upside.”
Ashwin Ballal, CIO Medallia.
JJ Juergensen, MD of
S2T podcast.
CyberRisk at Barclays.

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The rationale for


the 2 reasons CAN BECOME HAVE AN
My model of a A HERO URGENT PAIN
B2B buyer
Get promoted, become Must do something
industry celebrity Common reason to buy

SMART The brave, the few


Why buy NOW vs 6 months from now? If
not, just wait for the safe and easy

LAZY
“Early customer thinks decision. “In vendor selection, there is
like a cofounder.” more downside
risk than upside.”
Ashwin Ballal, CIO Medallia.

LOOK GOOD
JJ Juergensen, MD of
S2T podcast.
CyberRisk at Barclays.

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Urgent Pain starts the


Customer Journey with you
Customer Journey will not start without an Urgent Pain

Customer Journey outlines the customers’ perspective of you:


“outside-in” view. Customer journey is not the internal GTM
stages (from your CRM). The “inside-out” view
#visitor #lead #opp #win #reveal&expand
#upsell #happycustomer
WAVE = Customer Journey

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How to find the Urgent


Pain? Curiosity
April Koh, Spring Health CEO, on
How She Found the Urgent Pain

“Another pitch to healthcare executives was


just flopping, and no one was listening.

At the end of the pitch, one executive says to


me, ‘You should talk to our HR department,
because our employees, physicians and
nurses are really struggling with burnout and
serious issues like suicide, and so maybe your
tool can help them.’

I was desperate. So, I asked and took the


intro.
April Koh, founder and CEO of
My pitch to HR was the first time anyone ever Spring Health, read Survival to
listened to my entire pitch without looking at
Thrival around $1m in revenues.
their phones, even though it was a very early,
rough unpolished pitch. We knew that we In 4 years she was able to bring
were onto something at that point.” the company to a “healthy 9
figure” revenue.

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3 Step Process to find


the Urgent Pain
How to find the
1. Cast a wider net outside the
Urgent Pain?
founding idea (feels like heresy)
Visualizing how April Koh found Spring Health’s Urgent Pain,
2. Find the spot with the most Urgent
think about drilling for oil…
Pain

- Easy to Measure the Urgent Pain: time


from awareness to 1st meeting (not the : AI for Mental Health
same as closing!)
Who?
- Drilling Method: deal by deal grind,
(Latitude)
best content, best search term, best
social, how SDR gets the 1st meeting
primary health care FOUNDING IDEA
3. Identify map coordinates of the
providers
Urgent Pain

- Latitude (Ideal Customer Profile)


employers URGENT PAIN
- Longitude (Ideal Use Case)

How Use?
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(Longitude)
support tool,
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After “why buy now,” the


customer asks “why you?”
After Urgent Pain, need a simple and
compelling wow

Wow changes their body language. “Leans in. Tell me


more!” Wow causes prospect to engage & invite boss and
colleagues. Can be a feature, demo, slide, report, customer
quote. You don’t decide the wows. Your customers do.
Ideally, have a new wow for each major meeting.

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After “why buy now,” the


customer asks “why you?”
After Urgent Pain, need a simple and
compelling wow
Easy to use: SOC 2 compliance Easy to use: Transparent
interface + dashboard with pricing, Short-term contracts,
Wow changes their body language. “Leans in. Tell me automatic daily updates Ready to run in 24 hours
more!” Wow causes prospect to engage & invite boss and
colleagues. Can be a feature, demo, slide, report, customer
quote. You don’t decide the wows. Your customers do.
Ideally, have a new wow for each major meeting.
Save time: selective wipe feature Shocking insight: Show in 24
Strategic Future: Enterprise hours, which employees had
App Store - private app store for nuclear keys capable of
companies destroying all data

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Need two different wow’s!


Date wow and Marry wow

Date Wow helps you get Marry Wow helps you


a date (ie 2nd meeting get married (ie win the
Advice: Have product team focus after the blind date) deal)
on the date wow and marry wow
● Helps champion build
(most ignore the date wow) ● Helps convert prospect into
internal consensus.
a champion (excites the
● Usually addresses being
champion)
the right long term
● Usually addresses the
solution (ie strategic)
urgent pain.
● Help bottom of the funnel.
● Help top of the funnel.

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st
1 contract: when your
champion gets anxious
The company celebrates the win!!!

BUT, your champion has a different reaction:


Company Champion
“When we made the decision to adopt a startup at my
company, the stakes were high. The product had to work. If
there was even one small blip [with my internal users,] it would
have been curtains for me.” JJ Juergensen, MD of CyberRisk at
Barclays and Former MD of IT at Morgan Stanley.

Advice: Have empathy for the customer

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1st value: when your


champion feels relieved
This is when the company should actually celebrate the
win!!! Champion receives social affirmation: peers/boss say
-- “you made the right decision”
Company Champion
Advice:
● Completing onboarding is not the same as 1st value
● Find what usage milestone reflects 1st value (to drive team)
● Minimize time to 1st value
● Reduces sales cycle
● Reduces churn risk
● Enables Product Led Growth
● Reduces stress on Date/Marry wows

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Three key milestones


to drive customer adoption
Standard workflow means at least x New use cases may require different
core users actively use the product. core users (and different champions).
Requires defining core user and Ideally, the new use case has same
active usage. Must achieve standard champion (ie in an adjacent and
workflow before your champion complementary category, which
leaves. results in a “mega category”)

Full deployment means at least 80% Advice: have the right


of the potential core users actively
usage metric (discussed later
use the product. Ideal goal is to
in growth)
become the workflow and data
platform for the core user.

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Customer journey ends with your


champion becoming a hero
Champion became a hero: promotion and/or industry celebrity

Manager Director/VP CMO


Email Marketing Demand Generation Generating Pipeline

Advice: Connect champion’s metrics to those the


CEO or board cares about. That is the hero report.

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The power of
Hero Stories
Hero stories drive thought leadership and community

Showcase Thought Leadership = Community =


Hero Stories Path to Hero Current & Want-to-be Heroes

Not just customer case studies. “Not about “Marketo successfully built a massive “Community is a tribe of customers,
showcasing success with your product. community with educational marketing that prospects, partners and influencers. Every
Instead, these stories should showcase your drove the company’s growth. At Marketo, member benefits from the community’s
champions’ success as crusaders of change the first line of blog was written before the collective knowledge and transformative
in their companies. Make your champion first line of code. The seed of “teaching” to crusader stories. The next member is
(not your offering) the central hero of the create a tribe was planted early and smarter than the previous.”
story.” Chandar Pattabhiram, CMO Coupa germinated the larger concept of the
& Marketo Marketing Nation, which became a
community of thousands of passionate
marketers.”

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Hero Customer Journey


is the foundation to
Unlocking Growth
Acquire new customers
Advice: Many times the root cause of
● Must address an urgent pain
a GTM problem is a poor Hero with its ICP and ideal use case
● Need clear and compelling
Customer Journey milestone Date and Marry wow’s
● Have fast time to 1st value
● Need hero stories

Grow existing customers


● Have fast time to 1st value
(gain champion’s confidence)
● Become standard workflow
(before champion leaves)
● Drive key usage metric
● Make champion a hero (share hero
report)

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Hero Customer Journey


is easy to measure
Advice: Must measure the Hero
Customer Journey milestones

Active Committee
Aware st
1 Engage 1st Contract Onboard
Engage Approval

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Hero Customer Journey


defines customer empathy

Impact:
● Builds customer empathy by understanding your
champion’s challenges, fears, sentiments and goals

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Hero Customer Journey


becomes the common
framework and vocabulary
Impact:

● Get everyone to agree on the same customer journey


● Necessary foundation for GTM execution

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Hero Customer Journey


becomes the common
framework and vocabulary
Impact:

● Get everyone to agree on the same customer journey


● Necessary foundation for GTM execution

But, how do you use the HCJ


to drive company
execution?

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I HERO CUSTOMER JOURNEY

II

RIGHT SURFBOARD

CUSTOMER
JOURNEY
PLAYBOOK
III TUNING YOUR CJ PLAYBOOK

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What is the
Customer Journey Playbook
Want How

CUSTOMER CHAMPION’S HERO


CHAMPION
EMPATHY CUSTOMER JOURNEY

+
GTM EXECUTION REPEATABILITY PLAYBOOK

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What is the
Customer Journey Playbook
Customer Journey Playbook combines your Hero
Customer Journey with your GTM playbook

+ =

HERO CUSTOMER JOURNEY DIFFERENT PLAYBOOKS CUSTOMER JOURNEY PLAYBOOK

What customers want? What the team does? Right Playbook


outlines the customers’ journey Documents your internal GTM Surfboard optimized for the wave
with you: “outside-in” view processes (in the CRM): “inside-out”
Advance champion in their journey view. Repeatable actions

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Why a GTM Playbook by itself


(ie without the CJ) is insufficient?
Great playbooks fail if the customer journey changes

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HERO CUSTOMER JOURNEY PLAYBOOK WHAT IF THE HERO CUSTOMER


JOURNEY CHANGES?

What customers want? What the team does? ● Urgent Pain disappears due to
outlines the customers’ journey Documents your internal GTM changing market (eg Zoom/Covid)
with you: “outside-in” view processes (in the CRM): “inside-out” ● Date Wow no longer effective due to
Advance champion in their journey view. Repeatable actions competition (eg Zoom/Google)
● Resembles surfboard with no fins

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Why Customer Journey playbook is so important?


Hero Customer Journey + Playbook = Magic. It repeatedly works!

+ =

HERO CUSTOMER JOURNEY PLAYBOOK CUSTOMER JOURNEY PLAYBOOK

What customers want? What the team does?


outlines the customers’ journey Documents your internal GTM
with you: “outside-in” view processes (in the CRM): “inside-out”
Advance champion in their journey view. Repeatable actions

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How to build a
Customer Journey
Playbook?

1. Layout the hero customer


journey of the champion

2. Match the Customer Journey to


the GTM stages from your CRM
(GTM stages depend on your GTM strategy)

3. Identify the advancers/blockers


for each stage of the Customer
Journey
(Using Deal-by-Deal grind to identify them)

4. Document in the playbook

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1. Layout the hero customer


journey of the champion

(social
(Gets boss’s or affirmation)
(Converts prospect committee’s fast time to
Ideal (remember
to Champion) fast approval) why 1V
Customer Profile (Gets meeting immediately) anxiety!)
relief of UP; show strategic; safe choice
fast time to 1v
Enterprises Execs or
Date Wow#1: employees
Champion UP#1: Execs replace BB with
Secure native email help champion get use secure
iPhone UP#2: Pressure to do anxious native email
Date Wow#2: approval
Mobile IT Manager Bring Your Own Device on their
Selective wipe
iPhone
Boss & Committee
Marry Wow#1:
Enterprise App Store
Marry Wow#2:
Ideal Use Case
full BYOD tool kit
prepared by CS
secure work email on iPhone

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2. Match the Hero Customer Journey


to the GTM stages from your CRM

Hero Customer
Journey

Active
CRM Stages Aware 1st Engage Eval Oral Win 1st Contract Onboard
Engage

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Advice: GTM stages depend on your


GTM strategy

Hero Customer
Journey

Active
CRM Stages Aware 1st Engage Eval Oral Win 1st Contract Onboard
Engage

GTM Strategy #1: Sales Led Growth GTM Strategy #2: Product Led Growth
1. Urgent Pain (aware/interest) 1. Urgent Pain (aware/interest)
2. Date Wow (1st Meeting) 2. (sign up)
3. Marry Wow (Engagement/Meet others) 3. (trial/eval)
4. (trial/eval) 4. 1st Value (achieve 1st value)
5. (decide/verbal ok) 5. 1st Contract (sign contract)
6. 1st Contract (sign contract)
7. 1st Value (achieve 1st value)
II Sample Sales Led GTM Land Playbook: MobileIron
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2. Match the Customer Journey to the


GTM stages from your CRM Example
Urgent Pain Date WoW Marry WoW 1st Contract 1st Value

Aware 1st Engage Active Engage Eval Oral Win 1st Contract Onboard

UP#1: Execs
replace BB with Execs or
iPhone UP#2: employees use
Date Wow#1: Secure native email Date Wow#2: Selective
help champion get approval anxious secure native
Champion Pressure to do wipe
email on their
Bring Your Own iPhone
Device

Marry Wow#1: Enterprise App Store


Boss & Committee Marry Wow#2: full BYOD tool kit prepared by
CS

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3. Identify the advancers/blockers for each stage of the Customer


Journey (Using Deal-by-Deal grind to identify the advancers/blockers)
Urgent Pain Date WoW Marry WoW 1st Contract 1st Value

Aware 1st Engage Active Engage Eval Oral Win 1st Contract Onboard

UP#1: Execs
replace BB with Execs or
iPhone UP#2: employees use
Date Wow#1: Secure native email Date Wow#2: Selective
help champion get approval anxious secure native
Champion Pressure to do wipe
email on their
Bring Your Own iPhone
Device

Marry Wow#1: Enterprise App Store


Boss & Committee Marry Wow#2: full BYOD tool kit prepared by
CS

Channel referral
(AT&T and Smooth
Apple) / handoff from
Known executive reference SE to CS (cust
Advancement Plays Leverage Hero
Demo Date Wow / Customer reference on Date Wow expectations)
Stories / SDR to confirm safe choice
script/SEO/M re
UP & wow

Quality Lead Complete


Ask for boss
Exit Gate Quality Lead Ask for 2nd Ask for eval
to table
Ask for order Sign contract implementation
meeting plan

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4. Document in the playbook


(ideally one page)
Urgent Pain Date WoW Marry WoW 1st Contract 1st Value

Aware 1st Engage Active Engage Eval Oral Win 1st Contract Onboard

UP#1: Execs
replace BB with Execs or
iPhone UP#2: employees use
Date Wow#1: Secure native email Date Wow#2: Selective
help champion get approval anxious secure native
Champion Pressure to do wipe
email on their
Bring Your Own iPhone
Device

Marry Wow#1: Enterprise App Store


Boss & Committee Marry Wow#2: full BYOD tool kit prepared by
CS

Channel referral
(AT&T and Smooth
Apple) / handoff from
Known executive reference SE to CS (cust
Advancement Plays Leverage Hero
Demo Date Wow / Customer reference on Date Wow expectations)
Stories / SDR to confirm safe choice
script/SEO/M re
UP & wow

Quality Lead Complete


Ask for boss
Exit Gate Quality Lead Ask for 2nd Ask for eval
to table
Ask for order Sign contract implementation
meeting plan

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Customer Journey playbook


helps unlock growth

April Koh, founder and CEO of Spring Health:

“I cannot understate the importance of Survival to


Thrival to our ultimate GTM Fit and our huge
acceleration…. Two suggestions [from Survival to
Thrival] helped me find GTM Fit.

1) Map out the GTM playbook in a very


scientific way.
2) Really find the wow moments [to drive
conversion in the playbook].”

Listen to April Koh podcast:


How we unlocked growth and became a unicorn.

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Impact of CJ driven Playbook on entire company


More than just unlocking growth

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What customers want? What the team does? ● Creates customer centric culture by
it works Repeatable actions aligning the entire company behind
helping customers advance along their
journey and become heroes
● Provides a way to fix GTM problems with a
cross-functional approach – next section

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I HERO CUSTOMER JOURNEY

II CUSTOMER JOURNEY PLAYBOOK

III

TUNE YOUR SURFBOARD

TUNING YOUR
CJ PLAYBOOK

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Want How

CUSTOMER CHAMPION’S HERO


CHAMPION
EMPATHY CUSTOMER JOURNEY

+
GTM EXECUTION REPEATABILITY PLAYBOOK

ASSIGN TO CJ Playbook GUIDES the


FIX GTM PROBLEMS RESPONSIBLE PARTY CROSS FUNCTIONAL team
(Wrong answer -- individual solution) to FIX GTM problem

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How to fix your GTM problem with the CJ Playbook?


2 Examples: poor conversion after 1st meeting and poor onboarding
Marketing
Sales
Customer Success

Committee
Aware 1st Engage Active Engage 1st Contract Onboard
Approval

poor conversion after 1st engagement poor onboarding

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Poor conversion after 1st meeting


Common approach: Assign GTM problem to the Responsible party
Marketing
Sales
Customer Success

Committee
Aware 1st Engage Active Engage 1st Contract Onboard
Approval

Assume GTM problem is poor


conversion after 1st engagement

Who’s responsible for that stage? Sales.


Sales owns the fix. Sales to revise 1st
meeting plays.

Other teams assume this is a sales


problem and work on their priorities .

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Poor conversion after 1st meeting


Cross functional teams often fail to work in coordinated manner
Marketing
Sales
Customer Success

Committee
Aware 1st Engage Active Engage 1st Contract Onboard
Approval

Assume GTM problem is poor


conversion after 1st engagement

Each team has their own opinions and


pursue own solution as silo’s

Need guidance on how to work in a Sales Product


cross-functional team

Customer
Marketing Success
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Poor conversion after 1st meeting


Cross Functional addressing relevant Customer Journey milestones
Marketing
Sales
Customer Success

Committee
Aware 1st Engage Active Engage 1st Contract Onboard
Approval

Is product team working on a date wow?


many don’t, because very hard to get
customer feedback

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Poor conversion after 1st meeting


Cross Functional addressing relevant Customer Journey milestones
Marketing
Sales
Customer Success

Committee
Aware 1st Engage Active Engage 1st Contract Onboard
Approval

Is marketing generating right leads for sales?


Are the leads’ urgent pain aligned with date wow?

Marketing Sales Marketing looks good!


New pipe growing
New Pipe Cumulative % won by quarter
Cohort
0Q 1Q 2Q 3Q But, sales can’t close
the new pipe.
Q2 $1.0m 10% 13% 17% 20%
Marketing pushed new use
Q3 $2.0m 9% 14% 17% 21%
case, and sales wasn’t ready.
Q4 $5.0m 2% 7% 8%
Marketing’s urgent pain not
match Sale’s date wow
Q1 21 $6.0m 1% 7%
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Poor conversion after 1st meeting


Cross Functional addressing relevant Customer Journey milestones
Marketing
Sales
Customer Success

Committee
Aware 1st Engage Active Engage 1st Contract Onboard
Approval

Are Product and Customer Success reducing time to 1st Value?

1 Fast time to 1V drive Product Led Growth # paying self-


serve customers

Self-serve exploded because


product got easy enough
Time to 1st Value
(minutes)

2 Fast time to 1V applies to Sales Led Growth too.


individuals try, companies buy
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Poor conversion after 1st meeting


Cross Functional addressing relevant Customer Journey milestones
Marketing
Sales
Customer Success

Committee
Aware 1st Engage Active Engage 1st Contract Onboard
Approval

Are Product and Customer Success working on hero stories?

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Poor conversion after 1st meeting


Cross Functional addressing relevant Customer Journey milestones
Marketing
Sales
Customer Success

Committee
Aware 1st Engage Active Engage 1st Contract Onboard
Approval

Cross-functional team to solve 1st meeting conversion:

● Led by sales
● Solve underlying problems in the Hero Customer Journey:
○ Date wow by product
○ Urgent Pain (leads) by marketing
○ Time to 1st value and Hero Stories by product and
customer success

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Another example: Poor onboarding


Cross Functional addressing relevant Customer Journey milestones
Marketing
Sales
Customer Success

Committee
Aware 1st Engage Active Engage 1st Contract Onboard
Approval

Cross-functional team to solve 1st value:

● Must agree on what is 1st value (not onboarding)


● Led by customer success
● Solve underlying problems in the Hero Customer Journey:
○ Time to 1st value and Hero Stories by Product and
Customer Success
○ Setting right expectations for 1st Value by Sales and
Marketing

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Tuning your CJ
Playbook:
Tune your
Surfboard
CJ Playbook GUIDES the
cross-functional team on how
to fix the GTM problem

Assign responsible party to fix


the GTM problem (solution is
outside the responsible party’s
control)

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Unlock Growth with


Customer Journey Playbook
3 SURF

Scale Growth

CATCH
1 PADDLE
2 THE WAVE
Founder Growth

I Read the Wave II Right Surfboard III Tuning Your Surfboard


Unlock Growth
Hero Customer Journey Customer Journey Playbook Tuning your CJ Playbook

● Defines Customer empathy ● Makes Hero Customer Journey ● CJ Playbook guides cross functional
● Is easily Measurable executable team on how to fix GTM problems

● Creates common framework & ● Creates customer centric culture ● Breaks silos by aligning entire
vocabulary for customer empathy by aligning entire company around company around making champion 57
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Another
SUMMARY …

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Many startups hit a wall in their


journey to becoming a unicorn!
SCALE GROWTH
Category Leader
$100m ARR and doubling

GO-TO-MARKET
Unlock growth
>$2.5m/Q

PRODUCT MARKET
Happy Customers
$1m ARR and 10-20 customers Most startups find PMF, but
struggle to unlock growth

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Understand the Customer Journey with


Empathy for Your Customer
SCALE GROWTH
Category Leader
$100m ARR and doubling

GO-TO-MARKET
Unlock growth
Why buy now? Why you?
Understand the Urgent pain with its map Why OK? Why strategic?
1 Date &
1st Value Hero stories
Hero Customer Journey coordinates: ICP and IUC Marry Wow

PRODUCT MARKET
with an Urgent Pain Happy Customers
$1m ARR and 10-20 customers Most startups find PMF, but
struggle to unlock growth

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Understand the Customer Journey with


Empathy for Your Customer
SCALE GROWTH
Category Leader
$100m ARR and doubling

2 Build Customer Journey Playbook

GO-TO-MARKET
Unlock growth
Why buy now? Why you?
Understand the Urgent pain with its map Why OK? Why strategic?
1 Date &
1st Value Hero stories
Hero Customer Journey coordinates: ICP and IUC Marry Wow

PRODUCT MARKET
with an Urgent Pain Happy Customers
$1m ARR and 10-20 customers Most startups find PMF, but
struggle to unlock growth

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Get Ready to Scale Growth: know


“What and How to Scale”
SCALE GROWTH
Category Leader
$100m ARR and doubling

3 Tune CJ Playbook with cross functional effort

2 Build Customer Journey Playbook

GO-TO-MARKET
Unlock growth
Why buy now? Why you?
Understand the Urgent pain with its map Why OK? Why strategic?
1 Date &
1st Value Hero stories
Hero Customer Journey coordinates: ICP and IUC Marry Wow

PRODUCT MARKET
with an Urgent Pain Happy Customers
$1m ARR and 10-20 customers Most startups find PMF, but
struggle to unlock growth

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Thank you!

Please feel free to contact me on


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