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5 Most Common Pitfalls faced by founders looking to grow revenue.

CEO selling is a requirement for early stage startups, but continuing to wing it as revenues grow is a mistake. Businesses need a well documented and repeatable process, including collateral, metrics and a deep understanding of their ideal customer. CEOs do a great job closing deals, however, the CEO selling process cannot be scaled by AEs – the process simply isn’t the same.

2. Hiring a VP of Sales as a Savior

Your new VP of Sales can’t fix the errors created by winging it for as long as you had to. There are often too many holes in process, bespoke & legacy clients that don’t fit the model being used as testimonials, a lack of documentation and typically a few not-so-great hires in the AE department. Unicorn VPs will come with playbooks, but most will look to the CEO for guidance continuing to compound the challenges if you don’t have the answers.

3. Misunderstanding Tenure

Continuing with #2, the average tenure of a VP of Sales at a startup is 18 months in the US. Without a fully documented blueprint, model, and process the business will stumble every single time this seat turns itself over and the reigns are handed to a new VP.

4. Failing to Plan

Building a revenue machine is intricate work and requires long term vision, alignment and deep knowledge of the pitfalls of scale – from processes, to tech stack, to documentation – it all matters. As cliché as it is, failing to plan is a plan to fail and unfortunately your runway evaporates with every mistake.

5. Not Getting the Right Help.

Asking for help is a virtue – no one can do everything on their own. Getting the right help from the beginning/early stages of your business can save you hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost salaries and mistakes. Hire a Revenue Architect and ensure you have the backbone of your business built on stable foundation – your Board will thank you.

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