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Ep. 44: Fluint Customer Story featuring Greg Crisci Selling with Narrative and Numbers

Ep. 44: Fluint Customer Story featuring Greg Crisci Selling with Narrative and Numbers

Update: 2024-06-17
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Greg Crisci discusses his unique approach to selling childcare benefits to enterprises, emphasizing the importance of storytelling and business cases. He shares a notable deal that took over 400 days to close, highlighting the challenges and key learnings from the process.


Background:



  • Greg is an entrepreneur at heart with a history in startups and a focus on selling products and services that make the world a better place.

  • The deal involved selling a childcare benefit solution to a mid-market company, primarily driven by employee resource groups and the CEO.


Challenges:



  • Overcoming HR's perception that childcare wasn't a problem due to lack of direct complaints.

  • Educating the employee resource group champion on how to present the business case effectively to executives.


Key learnings:



  • Building a strong narrative and concise business case can drive decisions from the top.

  • Engaging and educating champions within the organization can be crucial for influencing decision-makers.


Timestamps:



  • (0:01:12 ) Greg’s background and entrepreneurial journey

  • (0:04:25 ) Current role and responsibilities

  • (0:06:46 ) Explanation of the deal and the solution provided

  • (0:08:54 ) Challenges faced during the deal process

  • (0:12:38 ) Importance of a strong narrative and business case

  • (0:17:48 ) The final steps to closing the deal


Resources:


Greg's LinkedIn


Greg’s podcast


Fluint's top five frameworks


Thank you to Fluint for Sponsoring this episode. Fluint helps sellers build a business case that can sell for them when they aren’t in the room. fluint.io/dealpod


Questions, comments, ideas - reach out to Andrew Kappel on LinkedIn

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Ep. 44: Fluint Customer Story featuring Greg Crisci Selling with Narrative and Numbers

Ep. 44: Fluint Customer Story featuring Greg Crisci Selling with Narrative and Numbers

Andrew Kappel