GTMcraft Plays · The Team Selling Play

Single-threaded reps lose deals; team selling gets talked about and never actually run.

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The 90-second read

Presence is not influence. You put the AE, the SE, and the VP on the call and still lose. The deal breaks because one rep carries one thread into a buying group of ten. Team selling names who on your side owns which stakeholder, and runs it like a system.

• Most enterprise deals are still run single-threaded by one rep.
• Single-threaded deals close at roughly half the multi-threaded rate.
• Buying groups now run six to ten people across departments.
• The invisible half closes deals: deal desk, legal, implementation.
• Multi-thread by Week 2, with an owner named on each contact.

Read time: about 5 minutes. First step runnable Monday morning.

The #1 move this week

Pull your five biggest open deals and count the threads on each.

Team selling starts by seeing where you are single-threaded. Open each deal and count how many buyer contacts have a real relationship, and who on your side owns them. Most deals show one name to one name. That is the risk you fix.

Start here: export your top five open deals, and for each list the buyer contacts and your side's owner. You need your CRM and ten minutes.

Ignore this week: do not roll out a team-selling framework across the whole team. Fix your own five deals by hand first.