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Repositioning Your Brand for Growth Beyond the Familiar
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Summary
When you move from product-led growth to enterprise sales, the reflex is to tweak features and add a few compliance pages. That isn’t what’s stalling progress. Your messaging isn’t aligned to how enterprises weigh risk, outcomes and proof. The turn comes when the brand organises value, risk and evidence. Then deal velocity recovers—and pricing power with it.
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In this video, Preetum Mistry (CEO & Managing Partner) examines whether your product‑led growth message is costing you enterprise deals.Our Perspective
What this means for leaders navigating growth, change or transformation in their organisation.
The Hidden Gap
Product-led growth (PLG) messaging is brilliant at helping users see immediate value. Enterprise buying, however, is a different arena: multiple stakeholders, formal procurement, and risk scrutiny that’s measured in reputational and operational terms, not just features. When teams carry over self‑serve language into board‑level conversations, late‑stage friction rises—discount pressure, security objections, and “not yet” verdicts from legal. TechCrunch observed that enterprise sales cycles have lengthened, and pure PLG is increasingly treated as a top‑of‑funnel motion when selling into large organisations.
The gap isn’t effort; it’s orientation. Enterprise buyers are weighing outcomes, risk and proof. Your brand has to be the organising system that holds those threads together across every interaction.
Brand As Operating System
Think of brand not as a story you tell, but as the backbone for how value is defined, evidenced and de‑risked. It needs to translate product utility into enterprise credibility, and do so consistently—from website to workshop to board pack.
What to organise around:
- Outcomes by role: what the CFO, CIO and operational leads each gain.
- Risk reduction: security, resilience, regulatory alignment stated in plain terms.
- Proof standards: quantified results, credible references and independent attestations.
Message Architecture In Practice
A message architecture creates shared language across product, marketing and sales. It’s the bridge between feature depth and executive relevance. Done well, it compresses cycle time because it equips teams to pre‑empt objections and foreground metrics that matter to sponsors and approvers.
Build the spine of enterprise proof:
- Executive narrative that links to strategic priorities and cost control.
- Proof stack: before/after metrics, reference customers, verified security.
- Commercial logic: total cost over time and expected payback framed simply.
- Integration and governance story that reduces anxiety for IT and compliance.
Leadership Implications
There’s a commercial upside to getting this right: McKinsey reports that the best product‑led companies see around 10 percentage‑points higher annual recurring revenue growth and roughly 50 percent stronger valuation multiples than sales‑led peers. The route to that performance, though, is orchestration, not slogans.
From our experience this normally shows up as three shifts leaders sponsor:
- Reset the baseline: measure narrative effectiveness in late stages, not just trial volume.
- Align incentives: ensure product, marketing and sales carry the same value and risk cues.
- Raise the bar on evidence: make enterprise‑grade references and outcomes easy to access.
The organisations that cross the chasm from PLG to enterprise don’t abandon product strengths; they recast them as board‑ready value, risk clarity and proof—so every conversation moves the deal forward with intent.
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