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Deal Rescue Playbook · $29

A complete operating guide for stalled B2B deals — from “what broke?” to “move it, move it back, or close it.”

Not six mini reports. One reusable deal operating system for the moments that usually trigger random follow-ups: ghosting, weak authority, missing urgency, vague value, unclear decisions and deals that should never have advanced.

Get the Deal Rescue Playbook · $29

Use it on the current deal, then keep it as the decision manual for the next one.

The operating mapDIAGNOSE → RECOVER → STOP
01
Business Case

Build a reason the buyer can defend internally.

02
Priority

Separate preference from a real reason to act now.

03
Authority

Create access without turning the current contact into a messenger.

04
Decision Path

Map how the company actually gets from interest to approval.

05
Qualification

Undo stage progress the evidence never earned.

06
Inactivity

Decide when recovery is still rational and when to close.

What you actually use

A decision system, not a collection of follow-up scripts.

Each section connects buyer evidence to the next move, the message that should create that evidence, and the stop rule that keeps dead deals out of the pipeline.

01
Check

What evidence is actually missing?

02
Requalify

Did the deal advance farther than buyer commitment supports?

03
Create movement

What buyer-owned action has to happen before the deal moves again?

04
Communicate

What should the next message try to create instead of “checking in”?

05
Escalate or move back

When does the constraint require new access, a new sequence or a lower stage?

06
Stop rule

When should the deal close instead of consuming more seller time?

Field patterns

The playbook is for the recurring situations that usually turn into random seller activity.

“We kept sending useful follow-ups because the deal looked alive. The buyer had not owned a next step in weeks.”
Head of Sales · B2B services
“Price looked like the problem until we realised nobody on the buyer side could defend why this had to happen now.”
Agency founder · 14-person team
“The proposal was not late. We had advanced the deal before we had access to the people who could actually approve it.”
Founder · software services
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