Funky Flywheels Show – Your Ultimate Podcast for Scaling B2B Startups
Scaling a B2B startup from 1 million to 10 million in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) can be very similar to managing a band of rock stars. When Marketing, Sales, Customer Success, and Product teams work together seamlessly, accelerating growth becomes effortless. However, if they are out of sync, you will inevitably encounter significant challenges—sooner or later, it's guaranteed.
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Funky Flywheels Show – Your Ultimate Podcast for Scaling B2B Startups
Sales playbooks are dead. Long Live the GTM Playbook. - EP 89 🇬🇧 | Classics
Sales Playbooks Are Dead – Long Live the GTM Playbook!
For decades, every exceptional sales leader has created and honed a sales playbook—a structured, repeatable system designed to drive revenue growth. And here’s the truth: Sales playbooks are still effective in 2025.
But here’s the real question: Is a sales playbook enough?
✅ Does it align all key stakeholders?
✅ Does it cover the entire customer journey?
✅ Does it go beyond sales to ensure sustainable, scalable growth?
Why Sales Playbooks Alone Are Not Enough.
A modern Go-To-Market (GTM) playbook does more than guide sales—it connects the dots across all growth-driving teams:
1️⃣ Marketing – Ensuring demand generation aligns with sales motions
2️⃣ Sales – Structuring an efficient, repeatable pipeline
3️⃣ Customer Success – Driving expansion, retention & long-term revenue
4️⃣ Product – Creating customer-driven product iterations
5️⃣ Finance – Ensuring unit economics make scaling profitable
What You’ll Learn in This Episode:
🎯 Why traditional sales playbooks often miss the bigger GTM picture
🎯 How a GTM playbook aligns marketing, sales, product & CS for exponential growth
🎯 The hidden gaps in classic sales playbooks—and how to fix them
🎯 Practical strategies to evolve from sales-driven to customer-driven GTM
This episode is a must-listen for Revenue Leaders, GTM Executives, Sales Managers, Founders, and B2B Growth Strategists who want to scale sustainably.
🔥 Tune in now to build a GTM playbook that drives long-term revenue success!
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