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K-12 Specialist vs. Generalist Fractional CMO: What Actually Changes
Read more: K-12 Specialist vs. Generalist Fractional CMO: What Actually ChangesMost education companies comparing fractional CMOs are really comparing two different products wearing the same title. One has sold into K-12 before. One hasn’t. The title on the contract looks identical. The first ninety days do not. I’ve watched founders hire a generalist fractional CMO who ran three excellent SaaS go-to-market motions, sat down with…
Why K-12 Buyers Stop Responding — And When They’ll Start Again
Read more: Why K-12 Buyers Stop Responding — And When They’ll Start AgainThe lead went cold. Three follow-ups. No response. Your rep marks it unresponsive and moves on. Six weeks later, the curriculum director emails asking if you’re still taking demos. Your rep has already recycled the opportunity. Someone else gets the deal. This happens constantly in K-12 sales — and it’s almost never about your product,…
Why K-12 District Buyers Don’t Trust Vendors — And What Education Companies Should Do Instead
Read more: Why K-12 District Buyers Don’t Trust Vendors — And What Education Companies Should Do InsteadThere is a number that should bother every education company with a sales team. B2B buyer research consistently shows that buyers trust their peers at a rate of 73 percent. They trust vendors at 12 percent. Not 12 percent less than peers — 12 percent, full stop. Your K-12 district buyers trust a stranger on…
The Seniority Trap: Why Senior Leaders Are Always Last to Know What’s Happening in the Market
Read more: The Seniority Trap: Why Senior Leaders Are Always Last to Know What’s Happening in the MarketThere’s a specific moment when a senior leader realizes their picture of the market is wrong. Usually it comes from a conversation they weren’t supposed to be in. A founder sits in on a sales call and hears an objection nobody raised in the pipeline review. A VP joins a discovery call and hears a…
Why K-12 Sales Teams Ignore Marketing Leads — And What to Do About It
Read more: Why K-12 Sales Teams Ignore Marketing Leads — And What to Do About ItHere’s a conversation that happens in education companies and nonprofits every quarter. The VP of Marketing walks into the pipeline review with a number: “We generated 340 MQLs last quarter.” The VP of Sales nods. Later, in private, the sales leader says, “We looked at those leads. They’re not real.” Both are telling the truth.…
Why the K-12 Political Environment Changed Who Approves Your Deal
Read more: Why the K-12 Political Environment Changed Who Approves Your DealThe K-12 political environment has changed. Vendors still running a 2021 playbook keep getting surprised. A product that used to sail through a district now stalls in a room that didn’t exist three years ago. The changes aren’t subtle. Federal funding that districts built programs around is now in question. Programs that were priorities two…
What “Built for the K-12 Market” Actually Means in Practice
Read more: What “Built for the K-12 Market” Actually Means in PracticeEvery education company says they understand K-12. Most of them mean they’ve worked with K-12 clients before. That’s not the same thing. The claim is so common it has stopped meaning anything to the people it’s aimed at. District leaders hear “built for K-12” from nearly every vendor who walks in, which is exactly why…
