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Former Growth Hacker
@ 500 Startups
Using JTBD for 5+ years
Startup Core Strengths:
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Seed & Series A companies who
are ready to focus on growth.
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5. • How to create messaging that
connects with prospects
• How JTBD will supercharge your
• Acquisitions
• SEO
• Content Strategy
• What questions to ask and
what to listen for
• The top 3 Mistakes
JTBD for Marketers
TODAY’S
TAKE
AWAYS
6. How is this going to help us?
Marketing & Sales
• Find more customers
• Convert more customers
• Spot Churn
Product Teams
• Build better products
• Convert & retain more
customers
Founders
• All of the previous
• Create alignment around
true north star metric
13. Supply vs. Demand Perspective
?
COMPANY,
BRAND &
PRODUCTS
“THE
WALL”
PRODUCT
-
MARKET
DISCONNECT
14. Supply vs. Demand Perspective
? SUPPLIERS
INPUTS
“THE
WALL”
PRODUCT
-
MARKET
DISCONNECT
BUSINESS
SYSTEM
STRATEGY
SPECS
SUPPLY-SIDE
PRODUCTS
BENEFITS
FEATURES
EXPERIENCES
ATTRIBUTES
DESIGN
&
DEVELOPMENT
|
SALES
&
MARKETING
WHAT THE COMPANY
CAN DELIVER — PUSH
22. The Timeline
Unaware
of need
Aware /
passive looking
Actively
researching
Enjoying
solution
Comparing
solutions
First thought Trigger Trigger Trigger
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40. • Create copy that cuts
through and resonates
with your prospects
• Understand what you
prospect is ultimately
trying to achieve
How will
we use
this?
41. • You will understand why
customers are or are not
attracted to your product,
helping more customers buy
your product, and creating
copy that connects with
customers.
How will
we use
this?
43. The Timeline
Unaware
of need
Aware /
passive looking
Actively
researching
Enjoying
solution
Comparing
solutions
First thought Trigger Trigger Purchase
/ switch
44. The Timeline
Unaware
of need
Aware /
passive looking
Actively
researching
Enjoying
solution
Comparing
solutions
First thought Trigger Trigger Purchase
/ switch
45.
46. The Timeline
Unaware
of need
Aware /
passive looking
Actively
researching
Enjoying
solution
Comparing
solutions
First thought Trigger Trigger Purchase
/ switch
52. Promise of the new
Anxiety of the new
Pull
Anxiety
Pain of the current situation
Push
Habit of the present
Habit
Forces Driving Demand
1 2
3
4
53. Pain of the present
• What do prospects
struggle with?
• What pain is causing them
to
search for a new way of
doing thing?
Push
Forces driving demand
1
Motivation
Creates demand
54. Promise of a new future
• What do they think they
are trying to achieve?
• What is their ultimate
goal?
• What will you allow them
to do?
Pull
Forces driving demand
2
Motivation
Creates demand
55. “Habit and Anxiety are your
silent competitors… These forces
are just as much competitors as
any product produced by a
competing business.”
—Alan Klement
56. “How does it work?”
Anxiety of the new
• Exist when prospects
have never used a
particular product
• Unfamiliar Product or
Category
Reduces demand
Anxiety Friction
Forces hindering demand
“Looks complicated”
“What is this?”
“How does this help?”
3
57. “We’ll need to get buy in from X,Y,Z…”
Habit of the present
• What habits do they
have to break to use you?
• What is making it really
hard functionally,
emotionally, or socially to
change
Reduces demand
Habit Friction
Forces hindering demand
“We’ll have to migrate from
solution x”
4
58. Habit of the present
• Inability to Try
• (Gemist, Warby Parker)
• Multiple Stakeholders
• (Technical stakeholder
etc.)
• Switching Cost
• (excel vs lotus)
• Requires a Change in
Behaviour
• change in sales process
Habit
Forces hindering demand
4
Reduces demand
Friction
59. Pull/promise
Anxiety
Push/pain
Habit
The Four Forces
1 2
3
4
A) “Meeting Ping
Pong”
B) “Slowing down my
deals!”
A) “Close more Sales”
B) “Look more
professional”
A) “Does it integrate
with my calendar?
B) “Will it work with
my CRM?”
C) “I’m not technical”
A) “We’ll need buy in
for this”
B) “What will my
SDRs do?”
C) “We’ll have to get
rid of our chat app”
Factors that cause inertia
• Habit
• Inability to try
• Cost of switching
• Change in behaviour
• Multiple stakeholders
69. • Imagine I was shooting a documentary
• Take them back in their mind to that
first moment. (Who were you with?
What were you wearing?)
• Unpack vague terms or generalities
• It’s not a list of questions (more on that)
• Record them & Buddy Up
Best practices
70. • It’s a skill
• Practice
• You’ll need to do several
• Patterns will emerge
A quick note
71. Let’s make this real: Getting insights
Pain of the present
• What do prospects
struggle with?
• What are their unmet
needs?
Push
What to ask /
What to listen for
• Take me back to when you
first thought of buying
something like this?
• Listen for obvious
JTBD and needs
• What made you buy at this
moment?
• Listen for the
trigger, what
changed in their
situation?
Motivation
1
72. Let’s make this real: Getting insights
Promise of a new future
• What do they think they
are trying to achieve?
• What will you allow them
to do?
Pull
What to ask /
What to listen for
• What were you trying to
achieve? (through buying
this product)
• Listen for the
ultimate goal (social
or emotional) Hint:
it’s not about your
product, features or
benefits
• Describe the
transformation you expect
from this product
• Listen for outcomes/
success criteria
Motivation
2
73. Let’s make this real: Getting insights
Anxiety of the year
• What mental tradeoffs are
they making?
• What about you/your
product give creates
uncertainty?
Anxiety
What to ask /
What to listen for
• Tell me the story of buying
this product?
• Listen for anxieties,
comprehension
issues, emotional
decisions
• What worried you about
the other solutions or ours?
• Listen for the success
criteria and anxieties
Friction
3
74. Let’s make this real: Getting insights
Habit of the present
• What allegiances to the
old way do they have?
• What’s keeping them
from progressing?
Habit
What to ask /
What to listen for
• How long had you been
thinking about this
purchase?/What took so
long?
• Listen for factors of
inertia, what
complicating issues
were there?
• Describe how hard it was
replacing the old way of
doing things?
• Listen for Social/
Emotional inertia what
was hard to deal with?
Friction
4
75. B2B Specific Questions
How is this project viewed
inside the organisation?
How did this project affect
your business?
Who cared about the
outcomes of this project?
Sample questions What to listen for
• Find out if your prospect
undertook this project to gain
wider recognition, social or
emotional jobs.
• We're listening for the
outcomes that were expected
from this project.
• We're listening for other
stakeholders who are involved
in the decision making. this will
tell us who inside the business
owns the project and its results
76. B2B Specific Questions
What did success look like?
What did you need from
your supplier?
How could you have
achieved the same outcome?
Sample questions What to listen for
• What does success look like
from the business with a client's
perspective? Listen for
emotional jobs.
• Listen for functional emotional
or social needs. Avoid
discussions of price or
convenience. Ask why.
• We are listening for alternative
solutions. Look beyond obvious
suppliers to the job to be done.
77. • Stop your Supply Side thinking
• Don’t Ignore your customers
Habits & Anxieties
• Talk to Prospects and ask the
right questions
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