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Storytelling Pitch Framework

A framework for building pitches that lead with the customer's story instead of the seller's product. Teaches a method, not a script.

  • Role: Author
  • Year: 2023

Background

The problem

When you give a seller a pitch deck, they give it back to the customer almost verbatim — and the customer tunes out. The deck becomes the constraint instead of the tool.

The approach

Reframed the deliverable from “the pitch” to “the framework.” Sellers learn how to construct a customer-centric pitch from primitives: the customer’s current state, the cost of inaction, the proposed shift, and proof. They build their own deck for each conversation.

What changes

Reps stop sounding like the company and start sounding like themselves talking about the customer’s problem. Win rates on the calls where they actually use the framework go up materially.

Artifact

The deliverable from this engagement is publicly viewable.

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