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The Partnership Playbook

Stop selling. Start partnering.

The operating system I used to close partnerships with brands you watch every Sunday, across sports, entertainment, and media. Now it's a playbook you can run starting Monday morning.

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Partnerships for the LA Dodgers, Therabody, Velocity Black (Capital One) & OneTeam Partners  ·  EMBA, Chicago Booth
The problem

Most people think sales is a numbers game. That's why most people are broke at it.

Your buyers don't need more information, they have the internet. They don't need a demo, it's on YouTube. They don't need another pitch, they've heard a thousand this month. What almost nobody offers them is a partner who understands their world from the inside. That's the only edge left in modern selling. And it's wide open.

The framework

Three postures of revenue. Only one scales.

Posture 1

The Vendor

Competes on price. Gets RFP'd. Squeezed at every renewal. Interchangeable, and knows it.

Posture 2

The Consultant

Competes on expertise. Earns respect, but gets hired for projects. The clock starts, the clock stops.

Posture 3

The Partner

Competes on outcomes. Gets introduced. Renewed without RFPs. Called before the budget is even announced.

The method

The P.A.C.T. Method.

Four moves that turn a transaction into a partnership. It's the spine of everything in the playbook.

P · Point

Aim your unfair advantage at the one buyer who can actually use it.

A · Align

Tie your offer to the outcome they're measured on, never to your price.

C · Co-create

Build the proposal so it mirrors their win, not your feature list.

T · Tend

Work the relationship so one signature compounds into a decade.

The product ladder

Three ways in. Start with the free Brief.

What people are saying

Results from the other side of the table.

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About

I've spent 15 years on the other side of the table.

Partnerships for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Detroit Pistons, Therabody, Velocity Black (acquired by Capital One), and OneTeam Partners, with deals across Apple, Porsche, the NFL, and American Express. Somewhere in those hundreds of conversations I learned the one shift that changed everything: I stopped selling and started partnering. Read the story →