• 3PL and Logistics Services
• 401K services for businesses
• accounting, bookkeeping, and payroll services
• banking and lending services
• cloud hosting services
• digital marketing services
• electronic health records software (EHR/EMR)
• email marketing software
• financial advisory services
• financial services
• franchise business for people that want to start a business
• Gym Membership
• HR and payroll outsourcing
• inbound marketing solutions
• infrastructure hardware and software sales
• IT Consulting Services
• IT Outsourcing
• IT Professional Services
• MLM (entrepreneurial business opportunity)
• mortgage lending services
• project management consulting
• promotional products
• real estate (commercial) targeting office tenants
• real estate (residential) targeting home sellers
• real estate advisory services targeting
• real estate investors
• real estate investors targeting property sellers
• recruiting services
• sales training
• SEO services
• server and application hosting
• software development services
• web design services
PRODUCT
IT CONSULTING
FEATURES
• IT needs assessment
• Network consulting
• Network health assessment
• IT security consulting
• Fractional CIO or CTO
• Strategy consulting
• Project management
DIFFERENTIATION
• We only work with oil and gas businesses and have
deep industry expertise
• IT needs assessment
• Network consulting
• Network health assessment
• IT security consulting
• Fractional CIO or CTO
• Strategy consulting
• Project management
PRODUCT
IT CONSULTING
FEATURES
DIFFERENTIATION
TARGET
IT DEPARTMENTS IMPROVEMENTS
• Complete and improve IT-related projects and
tasks
• Improve decisions around IT strategy and
infrastructure management
• Augment their existing IT knowledge and skills
with top-tier expertise
• Align the IT strategy with business goals and
revenue targets
• Decrease the amount of backlog of IT projects
• Maximize the return on investment for dollars
spent on IT
• Improve the delivery of their IT and business
services
• Make something work better
• Make something easier
• Decrease the time it takes to
do something
• Increase revenue or income
• Decrease costs or expenses
• Improve the customer’s
product
• Decrease the risk of
something bad happening
• Improve visibility or access to
information
VALUE
• We only work with oil and gas businesses
and have deep industry expertise
PRODUCT
IT CONSULTING
IMPROVEMENTS
TARGET
IT DEPARTMENTS CHALLENGES/CONCERNS
• Need help with IT-related projects and tasks
• Difficult making decisions regarding IT strategy
and infrastructure
• Do not have the needed IT knowledge and skills
in the internal IT organization
• Could be more alignment between IT and the
business strategies
• Backlog of IT projects and not enough resources
to complete the work
• Need to show a positive return on dollars that are
spent on IT
• Quality of IT services will directly impact the
delivery of business services
• What is the opposite of the
improvement?
• What problem goes away with
the improvement?
• What problem starts to
happen if this improvement is
not provided?
VALUE PAIN
• Complete and improve IT-related projects and
tasks
• Improve decisions around IT strategy and
infrastructure management
• Augment their existing IT knowledge and skills
with top-tier expertise
• Align the IT strategy with business goals and
revenue targets
• Decrease the amount of backlog of IT projects
• Maximize the return on investment for dollars
spent on
• Improve the delivery of their IT and business
services
PRODUCT
IT CONSULTING
CHALLENGES/CONCERNS
TARGET
IT DEPARTMENTS PAIN QUESTIONS
• How do you feel about having the people and skills
you need to complete your projects and tasks?
• How helpful would it be to get more help and outside
advice with making IT-related decisions?
• How do you feel about needing outside IT expertise,
skills, or people?
• How well do you think IT and the business are
aligned in terms of strategy?
• What type of impact does the backlog of IT projects
have on your business?
• How important is it to improve the ROI for dollars
spent on IT projects?
• How concerned are you about how IT is impacting
the delivery of business services?
• What question could we ask to
see if the prospect has each
challenge or concern?
• For each pain point the
product fixes is a question
that could be asked.
VALUE PAIN QUESTIONS
• Need help with IT-related projects and tasks
• Difficult making decisions regarding IT strategy
and infrastructure
• Do not have the needed IT knowledge and skills
in the internal IT organization
• There could be more alignment between IT and
the business strategies
• Backlog of IT projects and not enough resources
to complete the work
• Need to show a positive return on dollars that are
spent on IT
• Quality of IT services will directly impact the
delivery of business services
PRODUCT
IT CONSULTING
TARGET
IT DEPARTMENTS CURRENT STATE QUESTIONS
• Are you currently working with a consulting firm?
• How long have you been with them? How is
everything going?
• What are some of the things you like about what they
provide?
• What are some things that you think could be better?
• Do you currently outsource any IT services or is it all
kept in-house?
• When was the last time you considered hiring an IT
consulting firm?
• (Sizing Question) How many _____ do you currently
have?
• What is the current performance of your______?
• Currently have what you sell?
• Current vendor/provider
• Current systems and
processes
• People in the organization
• Current contracts and
expiration dates
• Size details – number of sites,
people, systems, etc.
• Current performance/stats
(technical, marketing,
financial, etc.)
• Last time evaluated other
options
VALUE PAIN QUESTIONS
PRODUCT
IT CONSULTING
TARGET
IT DEPARTMENTS CUSTOMER EXAMPLE
• We worked with an IT department for an
oil and gas company.
• They had challenges decreasing the IT
project backlog.
• We were able to help with project
management and staff augmentation
services.
• This not only helped them decrease the
backlog, but we also helped to improve
the quality of service delivery for the IT
department.
• Who have we helped that is
similar to the target buyer?
• What problem did they have?
• What did we sell to solve that
problem?
• What are two improvements
we helped to influence?
VALUE PAIN QUESTIONS
CUSTOMER
EXAMPLE