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Build a Sales Engine

Turn selling from founder heroics into a system that closes.

  1. Understandings, beliefs, and readiness gates for a Revenue Zone

    I get a structured definition of my Revenue Zone for one product: exactly three understandings and three beliefs (each mapped to demand or trust) plus the budget and impending-event readiness questions, so my team and partners share one bar for 'ready to buy'.

    20 credits
  2. Revenue Zone Matrix prospect classification grid

    I get a structured grid that plots each of my prospects on demand (awareness/interest/demand) and trust (know/like/trust) and derives which of the three zones they sit in, with no prospect left unplaced.

    20 credits
  3. Build a Buyer Persona x Buyer Journey matrix

    I get a complete buyer-persona by buyer-journey matrix where every persona and stage combination has exactly one populated cell, so no segment or stage falls through a gap.

    20 credits
  4. Demand-gen lead-stage definition register

    The buyer gets a register where each required lead stage (e.g. MCL, MEL, MQL, SQL) has a definition, a funnel phase, an owning team, an entry criterion, and a lead-score threshold, with thresholds increasing down the funnel.

    20 credits
  5. Prospect purchase-readiness register on budget and impending event

    I get a structured readiness register: for each prospect already in the Revenue Zone, whether they clear the budget gate and have a named impending event, and a derived purchase-ready verdict that requires both, so reps stop forecasting deals with no trigger.

    20 credits
  6. Verified prospect list sized to your goal

    A validated, deduplicated prospect list that stays inside your ICP (industry / role / location / size), carries a reachable contact per row, and is large enough to hit your meeting target.

    30 credits
  7. Design a repeatable sales funnel (generate, qualify, close)

    I get a repeatable sales funnel whose stages cover the generate, qualify, and close phases, each with a clear exit criterion and a conversion metric, so the process is measurable end to end.

    20 credits
  8. Build a bidirectional Sales and Marketing SLA (SMarketing)

    I get a two-way Sales and Marketing SLA where marketing commits to a qualified-lead volume and definition and sales commits to a follow-up speed and cadence, so both obligations are explicit.

    20 credits
  9. Build a Sales Objection Handling Register

    A register of recurring sales objections surfaced from a fixed document set, each categorized, counted by occurrence, and paired with a suggested rebuttal, so a rep can prep before the next meeting.

    20 credits
  10. Build a Sales Enablement Asset Register

    A sales enablement asset register that, for each asset (one-sheet, case study, battlecard, demo video, ROI calculator, etc.), records the buyer question it answers, the funnel stage to send it, its format, and a valid link, so sellers know exactly which asset to send and when.

    20 credits
  11. Weighted sales forecast from your pipeline

    A weighted, discount-adjusted forecast: each deal weighted by its stage probability and rolled up by month.

    20 credits
  12. Customer lifetime value (simple and discounted)

    The customer lifetime in years, the simple LTV, and the discount-adjusted LTV you can put against CAC.

    20 credits
  13. SaaS magic number

    Your SaaS magic number (annualized new revenue over prior-quarter sales-and-marketing spend) with an efficiency band telling you whether to scale acquisition.

    15 credits
  14. Design SDR and AE specialization with ramp

    I get an SDR and AE role split where each role owns distinct responsibilities, carries a ramp period and a full-ramp quota, and hands off leads on explicit criteria.

    20 credits
  15. Build a weighted sales-hire interview scorecard

    I get a weighted interview scorecard whose total is the exact sum of its weighted criteria, plus a sales hiring decision that follows deterministically from that total against my threshold.

    20 credits
  16. Design a stage-appropriate sales compensation plan

    I get a sales compensation plan whose base and variable split sums to one hundred percent, whose components each tie to a metric, and that stays simple when my company is early stage.

    20 credits
  17. V3 post-sale revenue-expansion plan per customer

    I get a structured post-sale expansion plan for each new customer: concrete velocity/value/validation actions, expansion opportunities tagged by the three types, and a defined ambassador path, so revenue expansion is planned not left to chance.

    20 credits
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