Mike Koenigs explains a sales tactic called "weaponized marketing video": create short, shareable videos capturing a prospect's 'wow' or 'yes' moment so that if decision-makers or blockers (described via animal metaphors) weren't present, they still receive the intended persuasive message. This protects deals from being derailed by internal skepticism or a contact's inability to tell the story.
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Lets say you've had a sales conversation, everything's going great, there's excitement. That person has a wow moment. Then you get to the end for whatever reason, no deal. Takes a long time to figure this out. But you find out that the pain of change, the fear of doubt prevents them from saying yes. In the sales world, they call this alligators versus Mermaids. What I'm about to share with you is weaponized marketing video does this. This is how you capture the yes and the wow moment and protect yourself after you get a yes. It's a way to create a video that can be shared, addressed to the eel or the people who don't have the creative vision to see the promised land and to make certain that if a decision maker isn't with you while you're making your presentation, you're not dependent on your connection or contact to tell a flawed story and get shot down. When's the last time a vendor or a partner did this for you?