Every go to market problem lives in one of five places

When a founder or revenue leader asks me how I quickly get to the root cause of their go to market challenges, the answer is always the same. I look at five areas. That is it. Five.

Not fifteen. Not some sprawling audit that takes months. Five areas that tell you exactly where the problem sits.

Here is how I diagnose every go to market strategy.

This is where it starts. Are you talking to the right people? Is your ICP actually validated by demand, or is it a best guess from a strategy day eighteen months ago?

If your target market is off, everything downstream breaks. Your messaging misses. Your pipeline feels forced. Your close rates drop.

You have got to get this right first.

Once you know who you are going after, the question becomes how. What does your sales process actually look like? Is there a repeatable motion, or is every deal a one off?

Are marketing and sales aligned on what a qualified lead looks like?

Most of the time, when revenue stalls, it is not a people problem. It is a process problem hiding in plain sight.

Then you look at the people. Have you got the right team in the right seats? Are they enabled properly? Do they understand the playbook, or are they winging it?

A brilliant salesperson in the wrong structure will underperform every time. And hiring more heads will not fix a broken system.

Fourth is the technology those people have available to them. Your CRM, your automation tools, your data enrichment stack.

Are they actually helping your team move faster, or are they creating more admin than value?

Technology should serve the process, not the other way around.

Finally, and this is the one most companies skip, is the reporting layer. How do you hold your team meetings? How does information flow through the company?

Do you have a genuine feedback loop that tells you what is working, what is not, and how to course correct on the journey?

Without this, you are flying blind. You might have the right market, the right process, the right people, and the right tools. But if nobody is reviewing the data and adjusting, you will drift off course without even realising it.

So that is how I normally diagnose. Five areas. Target market, processes, team, technology, and reporting.

Within each of those, there are layers of data points you can dig into. But the framework stays the same.

If your go to market is not working, the answer is almost certainly sitting in one of these five places. You just need to know where to look.

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