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You're in the Business of Selling Promotions by @ttunguz


Focus
joincolossus.comWe are unlikely to be able to sell “a group chat system” very well: there are just not enough people shopping for group chat system (and, as pointed out elsewhere, our current fax machine works fine). That’s why what we’re selling is organizational transformation. What we are selling is not the software product — the set of all the feat... See more
Stewart Butterfield • We Don’t Sell Saddles Here

For medium and established companies, we've focused more on the sales motion, in particular the bottoms-up product-led motion. What happens is you get inside a company, and the success team over there says, "Well, that's pretty cool." Then some sales leader says, "It'd be cool to have this one tool across the whole journey." And then the support te... See more
Jan-Erik Asplund • Thomas Schiavone, co-founder and CEO of Calixa, on the PLG data pipeline
I've seen many internal “sales decks” of internal advocates selling their leadership team on why expensive new software should be purchased—it's not always the rep doing that selling.