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Field notes from the table.

Thirty years of watching the same patterns. Written down.

No think-pieces. Each of these comes out of a real room — a founder stuck at the same wall, a pipeline lying to its owner, a market everyone loves that I won’t buy. If it didn’t cost someone money to learn, I don’t write it.

Latest · Jul 23, 2026

The B2B Sales Pipeline: Stages, Metrics, and Common Leaks

Your pipeline isn’t broken because reps aren’t working hard. It’s broken because you built a system that leaks.

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Deal Desk: What It Is and When Your Sales Org Needs One

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How to Build a Sales Pipeline: A Step-by-Step Framework

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The Sales Onboarding Velocity Framework

Most onboarding optimizes for the wrong outcome — six weeks on features, and still no first deal. Here’s the reorder.

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Answer-First Content Architecture: Structuring for AI Extraction

Google doesn’t read your content the way humans do. Neither does ChatGPT. Write for the way the answer gets pulled.

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The Pipeline Truth Test: Your CRM Is a Graveyard Pretending to Be a Garden

Half the deals in your forecast are already dead. Here’s the test that tells you which ones.

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Growth-Stage Business Challenges: The 3 Crises Between $3M and $20M

The company that crushed it from zero to $3M suddenly can’t get out of its own way. The pattern is predictable.

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Founder-Led to Process-Led Sales: The 4-Stage System

I’ve watched 47 founders make this leap. Thirty-one got it wrong the first time. They all waited too long.

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The Search Game Split: Why 93% of Companies Are Still Losing

Buyers stopped searching and started asking. Most companies don’t know the game already changed underneath them.

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Where else I put it in writing

The longer arguments live in the books.

An article is a single room. The books are the whole framework — how a founder becomes the bottleneck, and the system that gets them out of the way.

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