I've spent 15+ years inside growth-stage companies watching this pattern repeat. That experience led to two bodies of work—one for professionals building independent practices, one for revenue operators navigating what comes next.

The Fractional Institute — for professionals building expertise-based practices

Going fractional sounds simple: you have expertise, companies need it, you connect the two. But most people who make this leap aren't failing because they lack skill. They're trapped by outdated expectations and roles that no longer fit how companies buy.

Three books address different parts of the journey:
→ The Fractional Operator — the reality of executive-level work without a safety net
→ The Fractional Practice — the complete operational playbook (positioning through exits)
→ The Fractional Trap — why revenue specialists are losing ground, and what replaces them

The Fractional Practice Course turns those frameworks into a 90-day launch plan with templates, scripts, and artifacts.

More at TheFractionalInstitute.com

Chief Revenue Architect — for revenue operators evolving past execution

The Fractional Trap names a problem. Chief Revenue Architect is the solution, specifically for fractional CMOs, CROs, and RevOps leaders feeling the hard edges of their roles fade as AI absorbs execution.

Most companies don't have a marketing problem. They have a systems problem. The Rise of the Chief Revenue Architect defines the role emerging as execution automates and system design becomes the real leverage.

The CRA Course (coming soon) is for operators ready to move into work AI can't replace: designing systems, governing decisions, creating leverage across revenue.

AA+OS is the operating system I built for founder-led companies that need their revenue engine to run without constant oversight.

More at ChiefRevenueArchitect.com

The throughline:

If you're considering going fractional, start with the practice.
If you're already fractional in revenue and feeling the ground shift, the architecture work is where this is heading.

Different starting points. Same destination: building leverage that compounds.

Will G.

I stopped calling myself a fractional CMO.

Not because the work I did changed. But, because the title stopped describing what I actually do.

When I started fractional work, I did marketing. Campaigns, content, demand gen, brand. I stayed in my lane because that's what the title implied.

But the engagements that worked, the ones where I actually moved the needle, were never just marketing.

They were untangling the handoff between marketing and sales. Fixing a CRM that no one trusted. Rebuilding a pipeline that leaked at every stage. Facilitating conversations the exec team had been avoiding.

The work kept crossing boundaries. So I stopped pretending it wouldn't.

I call myself a Chief Revenue Architect now. Not because it's a better title. Because it's a more honest description of the skill set required.

Revenue architecture isn't really a title. It's the ability to see across functions and diagnose where the system breaks.

It means understanding: 
→ How marketing generates pipeline 
→ How sales converts it 
→ How ops keeps the data clean 
→ How CS protects the revenue you already won 
→ Where the handoffs fail and why

Most fractional CMOs I know are already doing this work. They just haven't named it yet.

The title you carry shapes the expectations you walk into. "Fractional CMO" puts you in a box. "Revenue architect" signals you're not staying in one lane.

I'm not saying everyone needs to change their title. I'm saying the skill set has to expand — whether the title does or not.

The fractionals who thrive in 2026 and beyond won't be the ones who do marketing really well.

They'll be the ones who see the whole system and know how to fix it.

What do you call the work you actually do?

Will Gould

Helping fractionals own revenue: From first touch to lifetime value | Author, Coach, fCMO | Human+AI+Automation Org Evolution

Five product lines. Zero alignment. And they thought the problem was messaging.

Last week I got on a discovery call. Referral. Good company.

They wanted to refresh their messaging framework. The way they talked about their products wasn't landing. Could I help them find better words?

Sure. I started asking questions.

"Walk me through the product lines." 
"Which ones are you investing in for 2026?" 
"Where do you see the growth coming from?"

The answers got slower. The pauses got longer.

Turns out the executive team couldn't agree on which of their five product and service lines to advance. Sales wanted to double down on one. Product wanted to sunset another. The CEO was stuck in the middle.

They weren't talking about it wrong. They had a fundamental disagreement about the direction of the company.

No messaging framework was going to fix that.

When I named it, "this isn't a messaging problem, this is a strategic alignment problem," the relief in the room was visible.

They knew the problem. They just didn't have language for it.

Companies post for a fractional CMO. They write a recycled job description. But underneath it, the real problem is rarely just marketing.

The CRM is a mess — but that's ops. 
Leads aren't converting — but that's sales. 
Churn is climbing — but that's CS. The exec team can't agree on direction — but that's strategy.

The lines have blurred. The problems don't fit neatly into functions anymore.

But what happens when the real problem is outside your skill set?

You have four options:
1. Name it and refer it out.
"This isn't a marketing problem, this is executive alignment. That's not my lane, but I know someone who does this well."

You stay credible. You become the person who diagnoses accurately, even when the answer isn't you.

2. Name it and partner.
"I can lead the marketing piece, but we need someone to facilitate the strategy conversation. I'd like to bring in a partner."

You stay on the engagement. You expand your network. You deliver a better outcome than you could alone.

3. Name it and let them decide.
"I can take a run at this, but I want to be honest, this is adjacent to my core expertise. We can try it together, or I can help you find someone who's done this exact thing before."

Transparency builds trust. Some clients will want you anyway. Some won't. Both are fine.

4. Name it and walk away.
"This isn't something I can help with. Here's what I think you need instead."

Hardest to do. But sometimes the right call. Better to leave money on the table than damage your reputation with mediocre work.

The wrong move:
Take it, fake it, figure it out as you go, without telling them.

That's where credibility dies. Not because you failed, but because you weren't honest about the risk.

Every option starts with "name it."

The skill isn't knowing everything. It's seeing clearly and being honest about what you see, including your own limits.

I've been in revenue leadership long enough to know what I believe. Here's where I've planted my flags.

AI won’t replace marketers.
IT will replace marketers who refuse to redesign their role.

More leads will not fix your growth problem.
If your funnel leaks, you’re just pouring faster.

A fractional CMO who only “does marketing” is already obsolete.
Revenue doesn’t respect departmental boundaries.

Most marketing problems are leadership problems.
Slow decisions kill revenue more than bad ads ever will.

Weekly reporting is a false sense of control.
If you’re not changing behavior, you’re just producing slides.

Sales and marketing alignment is a myth.
Shared incentives and shared data are what matter.

Your website is not your growth engine.
It’s infrastructure. Treat it like plumbing.

“We need a rebrand” usually means “we have no idea why it’s not working.”
Confusion isn’t solved with new colors.

Speed is a revenue lever.
The slower your internal decisions, the lower your ceiling.

Most RevOps stacks are expensive junk drawers.
Tools don’t create systems. Architecture does.

Brand awareness is not a strategy.
If you can’t trace it to revenue architecture, it’s theater.

Agree with all of them? Probably not. That's the point. Which one made you flinch?

Before: I help B2B companies from $5-15M grow revenue.
After: I help healthcare systems fix their patient acquisition funnel and stop referral leakage. (this isn't a positioning post)

Same skills. Completely different results.

Before: 5 clients max. Always blowing through my projected hours. Capped financially and drowning in context-switching.

After: 9 clients. Systems that repeat. Computer off by Friday afternoon.

Here's what changed.

When I started fractional work, I cast a wide net. B2B companies. $5-15M. Any industry.

My thinking: I have broad marketing skills. They transfer anywhere. Why limit myself?

And technically, that was true. I could work with anyone.

But "anyone" is a terrible market.

Here's what I didn't understand:

Every new vertical costs you time.
New industry. New language. New buyer psychology. New competitors. New objections. Every engagement started from scratch.

I was reinventing the wheel with every client.

When you narrow, everything compounds.
One vertical means: 
→ Systems you've already built 
→ Campaigns you've already tested 
→ Language you already speak 
→ Credibility you've already earned 
→ Case studies that actually transfer

The second client in a vertical takes half the ramp time. The fifth takes almost none.

Every referral or testimonial matches your problem>solution>benefit.

Scaling becomes possible.

When your market is "B2B companies $5-15M," your outreach sounds like everyone else's. You're competing with every fractional CMO on LinkedIn.

When your market is "B2B manufacturing companies with broken sales handoffs," you're the only one in the room.

I know some of you are flinching right now.

"But I don't want to be known for just one thing."

"My skills are broader than that."

"What if I pick wrong?"

I get it. I felt the same way.

But here's the reality:
You're not an employee anymore. You're a business.

And your business needs: 
→ Speed to revenue 
→ Repeatable systems 
→ Scalable positioning

Saying "I work with anyone" feels like freedom. 

It's actually a trap.

You end up spending twice the hours for half the impact, competing with everyone, and wondering why your pipeline is empty.

Quit working on your brand. 

Before you get the luxury of working on your brand you have three problems that need solving first. Pipeline, conversion, and A "nobody knows we exist" problem.

And you're spending money on logo refreshes, brand guidelines, and "visual identity systems" because a consultant, a new hire, or an agency told you that's what serious companies do.

It's not. It's what companies with money to burn do.

Here's the truth no one who makes a living doing logo refreshes, brand guidelines, and visual identity systems will tell you.

Your brand is a luxury of scale.

At $1-5M, every dollar needs to come back. You need leads. You need conversions. You need revenue. You need marketing that you can measure and hold accountable.

Brand awareness campaigns don't pay rent.

"But we need to look professional."

Fine. Get a clean logo. Pick two fonts. Choose three colors. Write a clear message. That's brand hygiene. Ping me and I can help you find a good designer on Upwork. This takes a weekend and a few hundred dollars.

That's not "brand building."

Brand building is what Coca-Cola does. It's what Nike does. It's a long-term play to shape perception across millions of people over years.
You're not Coca-Cola. You're trying to make payroll and close three more deals this quarter.

Here's what I've seen too many times:

A founder gets sold on "brand strategy" by an agency. They spend $30K on a brand book no one reads or uses. Meanwhile, their website doesn't convert, their outbound is nonexistent, and their sales process leaks at every stage.

Brand doesn't build pipeline. Real marketing operations do. Sales does. 

Customer experience does.

Brand emerges from those things. It's not a substitute for them.

The time for brand investment is when: 
→ Your pipeline is healthy 
→ Your conversion rates are solid 
→ Your customers are happy and referring 
→ You have money that isn't earmarked for survival

Until then, spend your dollars on marketing ops that moves the needle.

Brand is what people say about you when you're not in the room. You earn that by delivering results, not by hiring a brand agency.

Disagree? Tell me why. I'm ready for the high heat.

"Can you do it for less?"

Every fractional hears this eventually. Here's how I handle it.

First, every great fractional needs to remember what they are selling. Not hours. Not activities. Outcomes.

A client isn't paying for 10 hours a week of my time. They're paying for a pipeline that works, a sales process that converts, a revenue system that doesn't leak.

When someone asks me to lower my price, I don't get defensive. I start asking questions.  They are the same questions every time. 

"Help me understand,  is it the budget, or is it the scope?"

Because here's what I've learned:
As a fractional executive you can't just remove parts of your services and expect you can deliver the same outcomes. You will deliver a product or outcome that is subpar, disappoints the client, and likely flat out doesn’t work.

If a client wants to pay less, something has to give. And there are only two levers:
 
Timeline.
"I can work at a reduced rate. But it will take longer to reach the outcome we discussed. Instead of 90 days, we're looking at 6 months. Are you okay with that?"

Outcome expectation.
"At this investment level, we need to adjust what success looks like. Instead of rebuilding the full revenue system, we focus on one piece, maybe just the pipeline. The rest waits."

Both are honest conversations. Both protect the integrity of the work.
What I won't do is pretend I can deliver the same outcome for less money in the same timeframe. That's a lie. And it sets us both up for failure.

Sometimes the client adjusts. They find the budget, or they accept the tradeoff.

Sometimes they don't. And that's when I walk away.

Not every client is your client. The ones who want full outcomes at half the investment aren't looking for a partner. They're looking for someone to blame when it doesn't work.

Protect your pricing by protecting your outcomes.

The best clients understand this. The rest weren't going to work out anyway.

How do you handle the "can you do it for less" conversation?

"Go back to CA."

That was the note on my car at the end of my first week.

I was in the Midwest (a crazy note for such nice people). Hired to unwind sales and marketing operations that had been off track for a couple of years. Everyone at the company knew that the problems had been metastasizing and needed correction.  

Yet, everyone feared what was coming.

I hadn't even started the real work yet.

My first thought was "what did I do?" But I hadn't done anything. I was just the outsider. And that was enough.

I never found out who left it. Which meant I spent the rest of the engagement working alongside someone who felt viscerally about my presence to put thought to paper, and paper to my car.

Having an outside consultant, come into to fix problems can be very threatening to people. Are they going to have a job? Is this person here to make them look bad? They don't know your intentions. They only see the risk.

Here's what I learned:

It's rarely my job to stay long-term. I'm not there to build relationships that ease the anxiety. I'm there to do a job and leave.

So I adjusted.
→ I documented everything: every step, every milestone, every decision 
→ I got signatures and approvals at every stage 
→ I made sure no one could say I operated in the shadows

Not because I needed to cover myself. Because transparency was the only card I had.

The engagement ended when I hired my permanent replacement. I handed off the work and moved on.

That note stayed with me though. It was a reminder: you're always walking into someone else's story. And in their story, you might be the threat.

Have you ever felt that resistance walking into a new engagement? How did you handle it?

Marketing leaders are expanding into sales. But sales leaders are expanding into marketing. Who is winning?

I'll be honest, this question keeps me up at night.

Several months ago I started noticing something. Fractional sales leaders and ops leaders reaching out, asking me how to learn marketing. How to position themselves. How to use the AI and automation tools that make marketing more accessible than it's ever been.

They're not dabbling. They're serious.

And the tools are letting them in. AI can write copy. Automation can run campaigns. The execution layer that used to require years of marketing experience? It's compressing fast.

Meanwhile, I've (we've all) been doing the same thing in reverse, learning sales process, pipeline management, RevOps, retention. Expanding because I had to.

But I thought I was expanding into their territory.

I didn't realize they were expanding into mine.

Here's the uncomfortable truth:

Marketing as a standalone discipline is disappearing.

Not because marketing doesn't matter. It does and it will.  But because the walls around it are gone. The tools have democratized execution. The org charts haven't caught up, but the work has.

Sales leaders are running demand gen. RevOps leaders are building campaigns. CS leaders are owning retention marketing.

And marketing leaders? We're doing sales enablement, CRM architecture, forecasting.

Everyone is in everyone else's lane now.

So who wins?

Not the person who protects their territory. There is no territory left to protect.

The winners are the ones who stop asking "how do I stay a marketing expert?" and start asking "how do I become a revenue expert?"

The ones who learn fastest. Who see across the system. Who can diagnose problems that don't fit neatly into one function.

I'm not going to pretend I'm not threatened by this. I am.

But I'd rather be threatened and adapting than comfortable and irrelevant.

The fractional CMO title is already losing meaning. Not because we failed, but because the work outgrew the label.

The question isn't how do I protect what I know.

The question is: who am I when marketing as a standalone discipline disappears?

I'm still perfecting my answer.

What's yours?

ENLEXIS - Behavioural Consultancy, working with clients worldwide

Expert advice with specific focus on how to influence decisions and choices and to drive behaviour in customers, employees, citizens, users or patients. In other words, how to make people take a specific action easily, by creating a tailored environment that makes the desired action happen now. 

HOW WE HELP:

By mending the gaps in the way, using Science, so the other party doesn't drop out and takes the action you want. You’ll stop loosing time and money trying to convince someone who may have already left, not because they wanted to, but because you make it difficult for them without your knowing. 


📍LASER-FOCUS BEHAVIOURAL STRATEGY SESSIONS - Use the winning sequence

Let’s discard what you don’t need that blocks your persuasion efforts and delays results. I'll take off 80% of your current effort and actions, only to focus on the few essential things that, according to scientific findings, enable desired behaviour to happen.
You’ll have a PLAN: You'll know what to do to unblock influence, why, and in what order. You'll be able to check instantly whether your actions are able to convince and how to replace the ineffective ones by others that work for your specific issue. 

📍BEHAVIOURAL AUDITS – Know the hidden enemy 

I'll assess your current way of doing to influence, step by step, to uncover the hidden obstacles that make your customers, users, employees or patients drop out while you believe they are still onboard. I'll tell you at WHAT exact points, in your process, persuasion is close to zero and WHY, using neuroscience findings. This is rarely what you think it is and you'll know why and what to do about it. I'll remove the frustration of not getting results and wondering why, despite the quality of your product or service.

I'll make your process danger-proof by using science-backed techniques that take care of the obstacles (biases) in the way.  The path to “YES” will be seamless – and behaviourally effective.

BEHAVIOURAL SCIENTIST - Founder of ENLEXIS, The Behavioural Consultancy

European Commission

Assessment/expert advice for international/multi-partner projects related to individual/group decision-making and behaviour change - worth up to 6 Million €/project.

EXPERT/ADVISOR IN BEHAVIOUR CHANGE

Market Research Companies

I. QUALITATIVE CUSTOMER RESEARCH

Analysis of customer perceptions, motivations, behaviours 
Brand Awareness, Product development, Concept testing.


II. QUALITATIVE EMPLOYEE RESEARCH

Qualitative employee research on key HR issues aiming at exploring perceptions and at modifying behaviour: Learning & development, Performance management & career development, Work Culture/Climate, Rewards & Recognition, Corporate Image & Reputation, Corporate Values, Work/life balance, Leaver Research, Diversity & inclusion, Solution oriented workshops.

CUSTOMER/EMPLOYEE BEHAVIOUR EXPERT

Ernst & Young

RESPONSIBLE FOR THE MANAGEMENT AND THE COORDINATION OF TRANSVERSAL PROJECTS - 23 COUNTRIES
Qualitative research to explore perceptions and to modify behaviours in the workplace.


EMPLOYEE RESEARCH - perceptions and behaviours

Unique Employee Research Expert/Behaviour Change Specialist for E&Y France

- Fully responsible for the design and the implementation of employee research projects related to key HR topics: Learning & development, Performance management & career development, Work Culture/Climate, Rewards & Recognition, Corporate Image & Reputation, Work/life balance, Leaver Research, Diversity & inclusion – 1200 employees 

- Global Supervisor of employee surveys to explore perceptions, implemented in the EY offices worldwide. Responsible for the survey coordination of the second (out of 7) largest geographic zone – 23 countries

•	Qualitative analysis of results and recommendations by business unit/region
•	Design and implementation of survey follow up actions according to specific and /or local needs
•	Design and implementation of training sessions for EY survey managers across Europe – 10 countries 

DIVERSITY - perceptions and behaviours

-	Design, implementation and follow up of an international  Diversity/inclusiveness project aiming at managing perceptions in the workplace – 10 countries
-	Definition of specific indicators to measure diversity in the workplace, used, for the first time, to measure workplace diversity in 10 countries.
-	Design and implementation of specific actions aiming at establishing and enhancing diversity at the workplace. Analysis of specific cultural factors weighing on diversity dimensions and initiatives selection locally. 
-	Design and implementation of specific women’s leadership initiatives to promote career advancement of female talent
-	Coordination of an international diversity group, working on the implementation of “diversity” initiatives - Selected over 10 peers.

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR - EMPLOYEE BEHAVIOUR EXPERT

- QUALITATIVE RESEARCH ON EMPLOYEE PERCEPTIONS AND BEHAVIOUR

- QUALITATIVE RESEARCH ON CUSTOMER PERCEPTIONS AND BEHAVIOUR

CUSTOMER BEHAVIOUR SPECIALIST

UNESCO

MANAGEMENT AND COORDINATION OF INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS AIMING AT CHANGING BEHAVIOUR AT THE WORKPLACE

Fully responsible for the design, the implementation and the evaluation of the following qualitative research projects:

•	Diversity and gender equality in the workplace:  international projects on women’s career advancement in organizations across world regions
•	Change management following the findings of the “Diversity” projects: Expert advice to organizations, across regions, on ways to implement specific actions leading to gender-related behaviour change and structural corporate change
•	Organization and moderating of International workshops and seminars on diversity and behaviour change in the workplace 
     •	Coordination of an international gender diversity network

BEHAVIOUR CHANGE CONSULTANT

BEHAVIOURAL SCIENTIST🔸 I'll inject a dose of Science and Psychology in your process that'll maximise the reach of your product or service. You'll get to Yes faster with methods that are designed to do exactly that.

I INJECT A DOSE OF SCIENCE IN WHAT YOU DO, TO MAKE IT WORK FASTER. 

WHO I HELP:

Entrepreneurs and teams who find it difficult to make a specific action happen, that is crucial to move their project forward.

If you’ve used various methods to convince a customer, a user, or a patient to take a specific action you have in mind, and results are not what you want them to be, please get in touch.

HOW I HELP:

Not by improving your product or service
Not by reviewing your rational arguments
Not by analysing opinions about your product

Instead,

I insert science-backed tweaks into what you are already doing, to make action taking easier.
I rely on scientific findings on how the brain works when we make decisions, we choose between options or we take action. You'll know how to overcome resistance with science-backed techniques, when you want someone, or a group of people, to do something specific so you can move forward faster.

At the crossroads of Neuroscience, Cognitive and Social Psychology and Behavioural Science, I zero in on what’s scientifically proven, yet hidden and therefore frequently neglected and more dangerous than we think: the unconscious rules of thumb we all use that drive 95% of our decisions and actions.

I’m confident you take good care of the visible 5% : it's your project, within your expertise. For the invisible 95% remaining, I’ll help you see through with science-backed, cost-effective, easy to apply techniques so you can convince faster (I make them easy to apply for my clients, even if they don’t know anything about Behavioural Science or how the brain works.)

I have helped a number of profit and non-profit organisations solve complex issues related to perceptions and to conditions for shaping behaviour. I make them “see” what the other party “sees” that prevents them from taking action. I’ve had a hand in projects dealing with customers’ behaviour, citizen’s behaviour, employees's behaviour, users’ behaviour, online behaviour and gender-related behaviour to name a few.

DO YOU NEED TO MAKE THEM TAKE THE ACTION YOU WANT BUT UNSURE OF HOW TO DO IT? 
I'LL GIVE YOU A PLAN 🗝

DM me here, 
or visit my website for ways to shape your customer's behaviour a lot easier: https://www.enlexis.com



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EXPERT/ADVISOR with the European Commission for projects on decision-making and individual/group behaviour change.

Specialties: Decision-Making, Behaviour Change, Customer Behaviour, Employee Behaviour, User Behaviour, Patient behaviour, Citizen Behaviour, Behavioural Science, Behavioural Economics, perceptions analysis, UX.

Dr. Theodora ZIAMOU

THIS MISTAKE 
DECREASES YOUR CHANCES TO GET A YES
NO MATTER YOUR OFFER’S HIGH QUALITY AND PRICE.


You want you client to engage promptly, regularly,(preferably now), with what you created.

And you are right, of course.


📍Buying that course you created that got you only 4 buyers in the last 5 months, despite the fact that you were aiming at “recurrent” customers
📍Registering for your paying workshop you put 3.5 months to polish, even if you didn’t have the time to get/serve new clients while polishing it
📍Engaging regularly on this new platform you created for multiple actors, even if up to now engagement is 67% down from what you expected as a minimum
📍Paying for your high ticket offer without endless price negotiations, especially with those who can afford you but they need months to be convinced.
 📍Etc.


The list goes on.

Did you notice all the above are BEHAVIOURS you want them to do?


🔻You focus on how to polish further your offering so it seems, sounds, is brilliant.
🔻You focus on all they have to gain, and some more, thanks to your smart services.
🔻You focus on increasing attractiveness through number of features.
🔻You already included all the latest shiny objects, FOMO being your permanent associate.



STOP.

Research has shown, to maximise the number of YESes you get, your focus needs to be FIRST, NOT on what you want them to DO,

…BUT on what THEY ARE DOING NOW (= the behaviour you don’t want and you wish to change: they don’t buy, the don’t register, they don’t engage…)


Because:

🔥Current behaviour can PREDICT the obstacles you’ll encounter when you try to make them take the action you desire.

If you are focusing on:

…what you want them to do “from now on”, later today, tomorrow, this month, as soon as possible…

…it means they do, right now, SOMETHING ELSE. Something you don’t want. And that’s where your focus needs to be.


❌ Don’t focus on how to make your offering better, in a vacuum.

✅ It’s their “now” (=current behaviour) that delays the result you want.

➡️ It’s their “now” that will uncover the exact points you need to pay attention to, to get a Yes faster.



How much do you know about their “now”, the real reasons they don’t do what you want right now, despite the perfect match between their needs and your offering?

How much do you know about WHAT and HOW to change it, with methods that actually work?


Not immediately obvious, right? Because you have tried more than a couple of things already.


☀️ Here’s where I help.
Tiny, smart changes, in strategically chosen points of your offering will change client behaviour beyond belief. Because they are backed by testing and science. Nothing else.

Two ways, in the comments, to work with me to make your offering trigger more Yeses than it triggers for some time now.
Let’s go!

BEHAVIOURAL SCIENTIST🔸 I’ll inject a dose of Customer Psychology in your current service or product, that is known to maximise reach and impact. You’ll get more Yeses, faster, with science-backed tactics that work.

THIS TRICKY THING 
YOUR CUSTOMER’S BRAIN DOES
CAN HELP YOU TRIGGER A YES FASTER.

When your customer’s brain finds itself in front of…

…Your product. Your service. Your request. Your process. Your platform. 


❌ It won’t take the necessary time to carefully weigh pro and cons.

❌ It won’t say Yes immediately and in awe and mean it (most of the times).

❌ It won’t focus on the tremendous value and the usefulness of your product, no matter how dearly you desire it and how passionately you present it.


Why is that?

➡️ Because its main role is NOT to see the good, the expert, the beautiful, the valuable, the effortless, the rewarding, the amazing and the efficient FIRST (= the positives of your product.)

Its role is, instead, to scan, FIRST, for *perceived* RISK and/or any kind of DIFFICULTY:


⚠️ Too much (perceived) effort
⚠️ Embarrassment
⚠️ Confusion
⚠️ Anxiety
⚠️ Difficulty to proceed
⚠️ Uneasiness
⚠️ Too much (perceived) time
…

It scans your offer to find whether the COST of it all, is TOO HIGH, for your customer, in their GIVEN CONTEXT. ANY kind of cost.

And what does it do when it finds, in your product, one or more of the above?

➡️ It tries to PROTECT your customer BY STOPPING them from making a decision - the very one you so dearly desire.


⬇️
 
Take a hard look at your existing offers:

🔻Do you know what exact points in them trigger one or more of the above? (“No point triggers anxiety” is the bad answer, but this is for another post.)

🔻Do you know upon what points you need to act IMMEDIATELY to get a Yes?

🔻Do you know upon what points you need to act STRATEGICALLY to get a Yes?

🔻Do you know what points need to remain the SAME to get a Yes?


I know. 
 But worry not.

There IS a (research-backed) way out. Not assumptions, not the same old, not the latest shiny object. Thankfully.

✅ This is exactly how I help. I’ll remove the obstacles, in your offer, that trigger customer anxiety and STOP your customer from making a DECISION about your product or service.

✅ Exclusively with science-backed methods. Nothing else.


✅ Two ways, in the comments, to get the techniques that fit your specific business issue the best, to PROTECT what you already have + to hear MORE YESES, now.

(Unless you already hear the number of Yeses you want.)

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