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I think most companies leave some of their best marketing buried inside delivery. A customer buys for one reason, but once the work actually starts, you usually learn a lot more about what they value. Sometimes the thing they cared about in the sales process ends up being secondary. Sometimes they get the most value from something you barely mentioned. Sometimes the same onboarding issue keeps coming up, or a result you didn’t expect becomes the thing they talk about most. That information should probably change how you market the business. But in a lot of companies, it never really makes it back upstream. Marketing is focused on getting the next customer. Sales is focused on closing the next deal. Delivery is focused on doing the work. Everyone is doing what they’re supposed to be doing, but the information that comes out of delivery often just stays there. That means the company keeps marketing based on what it thinks customers value instead of what actual customers are showing them they value. I think that’s where a lot of good proof gets wasted. A customer result can become a case study. A problem your team solved can become a useful story. Something a client says during onboarding can change the way you explain the offer. If the same outcome keeps coming up across different customers, that probably deserves to show up in the positioning somewhere. Even the bad parts are useful. If customers keep getting confused at the same point, that tells you something. If expectations keep getting set wrong, that tells you something. If people consistently love a part of the service you barely talk about, that definitely tells you something. The weird part is that companies will spend money on new campaigns, research, content, and positioning while sitting on a pile of real customer experience they’ve already paid to create. I’m not saying every client interaction needs to become a marketing asset. I just think good delivery should make future marketing easier. The more customers you serve, the better your proof should get, the sharper your language should get, and the easier it should become to explain why someone should work with you. Curious how other founders handle this. Does what you learn after the sale actually make its way back into marketing and sales, or does most of it stay inside delivery?   submitted by   /u/grady-teske [link]   [comments]

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  • 发布时间：2026/9/22 02:55:18