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April Dunford

April Dunford was on this podcast and she has this book that she put out recently called the sales pitch

2 episodes · 2 sourced appearances

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Marketing5 steps

April Dunford's Five-Step Positioning Framework

Position a product by starting from what you must beat, not from a market category.

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Sales3 steps

Arming the Champion

Win the champion first, then pre-load them to defeat every other stakeholder's objection

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Marketing4 steps

Assessing Whether SEO Is Right for Your Product

Judge SEO fit by two signals — a large addressable market and existing domain authority.

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Strategy4 steps

Bowling Pin Market Entry

Dominate one underserved niche, then knock over adjacent segments until you can challenge the leader

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Strategy3 steps

Eigenquestions (Finding the Question That Drives the Answer)

Find the one or two questions whose answers collapse a complex decision into clear quadrants.

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Marketing5 steps

Freemium Decision Framework (What to Make Free)

Make a feature free if it drives your growth model; gate it if it creates friction for growth.

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Productivity5 steps

LNO Framework

Match your effort to each task's leverage, neutrality, or overhead

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Strategy4 steps

Measurements Are Not Insights (Instrumentation for Analytics)

Turn raw metrics into segmented, causal insights you actually act on.

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Communication4 steps

Mochary's Script for Difficult Conversations

Defuse the amygdala by warning first, delivering the message, then letting the person release emotion.

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Leadership4 steps

PSHE Career Growth Framework

Evaluate talent by how far up the Problem-Solution-How-Execution ladder they operate.

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Sales4 steps

Teaching the Customer How to Buy

Beat indecision by de-risking the buyer's decision, not by piling on FOMO

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Sales5 steps

The Best-Rep Pitch Pilot

Roll out a new sales pitch by piloting it with your best rep, then let sales sell sales

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Leadership4 steps

The Four Things a Product Manager Brings to the Team

Prepare to contribute by mastering users, data, the business, and the competitive landscape.

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Sales5 steps

The Setup-and-Follow-Through Sales Pitch

Structure a sales pitch as market setup then differentiated value, not a feature walk-through

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Marketing4 steps

The 'So What?' Ladder to Differentiated Value

Ladder a differentiated feature up through repeated 'so what?' until you reach value rivals can't match

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Innovation3 steps

The Three B's of Behavior Change

Change user behavior by picking a specific Behavior, removing Barriers, and adding immediate Benefits.

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