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Auto-Fill Your MEDDICC Roles: Champion and Economic Buyer
Every team says it runs MEDDICC, but the Champion and Economic Buyer fields are half empty and half wrong. Here is why hand-entered roles fail, and how populating them from evidence makes qualification honest.

Lolita Trachtengerts
Sep 83 min read


Why Value Dies After the Sale
We got good at selling value and never learned to prove it. Here is why the post-sale value gap exists, why unproven value reads as no value at renewal, and how to make proof scale across every account.

Lolita Trachtengerts
Sep 83 min read


Promised Value vs. Proven Value: The Shared Value Plan
Most value selling stops at signature, and a year later nobody can say whether the value was real. Here is how a shared value plan carries value from promise to proof, and why keeping it alive wins renewals.

Lolita Trachtengerts
Sep 83 min read


Connect Your Knowledge Graph to Any AI With an MCP Server
Your AI assistant is only as good as what it can see. Here is how an MCP server connects your Knowledge Graph to any AI, so it answers about your deals from evidence instead of guessing.

Lolita Trachtengerts
Sep 83 min read


Why AI-Generated CRM Automation Breaks on Day Two
AI writes a CRM automation in seconds and the demo dazzles. Then day two arrives and it breaks. Here is why generated automation fails on cross-object context, auditability, and maintenance, and what to use instead.

Lolita Trachtengerts
Sep 83 min read


Run Your Deals From Slack
Reps live in Slack and visit the CRM under duress, so the CRM does not get used. Here is how a Slack-native AI sales agent brings deal answers, risk, and next steps to where reps already work.

Lolita Trachtengerts
Sep 83 min read


A Forecast You Can Defend, Deal by Deal
Every forecast survives until someone asks why a committed deal slipped. Here is how to build a forecast you can defend, deal by deal, with evidence under every number instead of ratios and gut feel.

Lolita Trachtengerts
Sep 83 min read


Revenue-Data Provenance: The Trust Layer AI Forecasting Needs
AI will forecast confidently on wrong data, and the output looks the same either way. Here is why provenance, knowing where each number came from, is the trust layer AI forecasting needs.

Lolita Trachtengerts
Sep 83 min read


A New CRM Won't Fix Bad Governance
When the pipeline is a mess, the CRM gets blamed and replaced, and eighteen months later the same problems return. Here is why process debt migrates with you, and what to fix instead of the platform.

Lolita Trachtengerts
Sep 83 min read


The Deals Quietly Stalling in Your Pipeline
Deals rarely die in a meeting; they die by sitting. Here is why stalled deals hide in your pipeline, why time in stage is the honest signal, and how a velocity warning catches the stall while you can still act.

Lolita Trachtengerts
Sep 84 min read


What Is a Power Map in Sales? Mapping the People Who Decide
Enterprise deals are lost by the stakeholder you never mapped. A power map shows the whole buying committee, who decides, who blocks, and who you have not met, so you can multithread before it costs the quarter.

Lolita Trachtengerts
Sep 33 min read


What Is Business Value Assessment (BVA) Software?
Every enterprise buyer eventually asks what a purchase is worth. Business value assessment (BVA) software answers with a tailored, defensible number, here is what it is and what a strong assessment includes.

Lolita Trachtengerts
Sep 33 min read


Why Half Your Deal Lives in Email, and How to Capture It
Half of every deal lives in email between meetings, and the CRM never sees it. Here is why written commitments and cooling threads belong in the deal record, and how a Gmail integration captures them.

Lolita Trachtengerts
Sep 33 min read


Turn Sales Calls Into Excel and Google Sheets Assets
The numbers a deal needs are said on the call, then trapped in the transcript. Here is how to generate Excel and Google Sheets assets, ROI models and value calculations, directly from the conversation.

Lolita Trachtengerts
Sep 33 min read


The AI Meeting Notetaker That Actually Feeds Your Deal
Most AI notetakers write a summary and drop it in a folder. Here is what a sales notetaker should do instead: capture the full call, keep the transcript available, and feed the deal record.

Lolita Trachtengerts
Sep 34 min read


More Tools, More Places for the Truth to Hide
Every tool you added promised more visibility and delivered fragments. Here is why more tools give the truth of a deal more places to hide, and how consolidating the evidence, not the stack, brings it back.

Lolita Trachtengerts
Sep 34 min read


Build vs. Buy Your GTM Brain: What to Own After the Platforms Move In
The largest platforms just settled the build-versus-buy question for the AI substrate by bundling generic sales skills into the CRM. Here is the layer that is still worth owning: the case, not the chronicle.

Lolita Trachtengerts
Sep 33 min read


85% of Your CRM Loss Reasons Are Wrong. Here's Why.
Win-loss research across 50,000+ interviews finds 85% of CRM loss reasons are wrong, not because reps are careless, but because buyers never say the real reason. Here is how to get the truth from the evidence instead of the field.

Lolita Trachtengerts
Sep 34 min read


Why 47% of GTM Teams Have Zero AI Agents in Production
Nearly half of GTM teams have zero AI agents live, not from lack of interest, but because scattered, rep-by-rep AI does not compound. Here is what the teams with agents in production do differently.

Lolita Trachtengerts
Sep 33 min read


How to Pressure-Test the Assumptions Under Your Revenue Plan
The plan always looks better in the deck. Here is how to pressure-test the assumptions under your revenue number, coverage, win rates, and the deals it leans on, from the deals up rather than the number down.

Lolita Trachtengerts
Sep 34 min read


How to Compare TCO Across Competing Software Vendors
Buyers who compare vendors on price compare the wrong number. Total cost of ownership can rank vendors completely differently. Here is how to compare TCO fairly.

Lolita Trachtengerts
Jul 243 min read


How to Train Sales Teams on Value-Based Selling (and Make It Stick)
Most value-based selling training wears off in three weeks, not because reps forget, but because the field gives them no way to apply it. Here is what makes it stick.

Lolita Trachtengerts
Jul 243 min read


How to Create a Value Map for Enterprise Software
Buyers care what your software changes, not what it does. A value map connects capabilities to the outcomes a buyer is measured on. Here is how to build one.

Lolita Trachtengerts
Jul 243 min read


Best Templates for Business Case Creation in B2B Sales
A business case template standardizes the structure, but a template is an empty form. Here is what a strong template includes, its limit, and what fills it.

Lolita Trachtengerts
Jul 243 min read
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