Frame the “why” and connect to personal relevance. Builds intrinsic motivation to engage.
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Why It Works
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Teams choose their own capability projects
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Coaches guide learning by doing
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Progress tracked and reported in 90-day sprints
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Value-Based Pricing
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Go-To-Market Planning
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Commercial Playbook Adoption
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Growth Platform
A structured, 90-day, project-based learning sprint that helps commercial teams solve a specific challenge while building practical capabilities in real time.
Growth Projects
A structured, 90-day, project-based learning sprint that helps commercial teams solve a specific challenge while building practical capabilities in real time.
Growth Partnership
A structured, 90-day, project-based learning sprint that helps commercial teams solve a specific challenge while building practical capabilities in real time.
Coaches + Tools
Growth Platfom
What it is
A structured, 90-day, project-based learning sprint that helps commercial teams solve a specific challenge while building practical capabilities in real time.
Who it’s for
Sales, marketing, pricing, and strategy teams ready to accelerate performance in areas like key account growth, pipeline health, pricing optimization, or new product launch.
How it works
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Pick one of 10 Growth Project themes (aligned to core Commercial Excellence capabilities)
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Use our tools, templates, and playbooks to solve a live business problem
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Receive support through built-in coaching prompts and expert office hours
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Share outcomes and lessons learned through final reviews and dashboards
Outcome
Measurable improvement in one capability area, embedded learning, and momentum toward Commercial Excellence maturity.
Coaches + Tools
Growth Projects
What it is
A structured, 90-day, project-based learning sprint that helps commercial teams solve a specific challenge while building practical capabilities in real time.
Who it’s for
Sales, marketing, pricing, and strategy teams ready to accelerate performance in areas like key account growth, pipeline health, pricing optimization, or new product launch.
How it works
01
Pick one of 10 Growth Project themes (aligned to core Commercial Excellence capabilities)
02
Use our tools, templates, and playbooks to solve a live business problem
03
Receive support through built-in coaching prompts and expert office hours
04
Share outcomes and lessons learned through final reviews and dashboards
Outcome
Measurable improvement in one capability area, embedded learning, and momentum toward Commercial Excellence maturity.
Coaches + Tools
Growth Partnership
What it is
A structured, 90-day, project-based learning sprint that helps commercial teams solve a specific challenge while building practical capabilities in real time.
Who it’s for
Sales, marketing, pricing, and strategy teams ready to accelerate performance in areas like key account growth, pipeline health, pricing optimization, or new product launch.
How it works
01
Pick one of 10 Growth Project themes (aligned to core Commercial Excellence capabilities)
02
Use our tools, templates, and playbooks to solve a live business problem
03
Receive support through built-in coaching prompts and expert office hours
04
Share outcomes and lessons learned through final reviews and dashboards
Outcome
Measurable improvement in one capability area, embedded learning, and momentum toward Commercial Excellence maturity.
Training is forgotten. A-players are over-relied on. B-players aren’t progressing.
We equip your teams to execute your commercial strategy with confidence—through structured growth projects and embedded coaching.
Identify Strengths and Opportunities for Improvement
Gain access to 50+ Maturity Models and Maturity Assessments to quickly benchmark your current capabilities and identify gaps.
Deep-dive into specific functional areas like Growth Readiness, Product Management, CRM, Sales Enablement, Content Marketing, Strategy Development, Social Media, Customer Experience, Video Marketing, and many more.
Have an Experienced Expert Facilitate the Process
If you want some help, we can pair you up with an expert to guide your team and provide objective feedback.
Imagine if the big consulting firms gave you the same tools and methodologiesthey equip their consultants with - that is essentially what these are. Our Playbooks & Toolkits are designed to help you quickly implement best practices that drive growth.
Re-tool your growth engine with our customizable Frameworks that break down complex processes into simple one-page overviews that link to analytical tools to facilitate execution of the work. Customize and and re-brand with your company logo and color-scheme.
Simplify Complex Processes to Add 'Structure'
If you want some help, we can pair you up with an expert to guide your team and provide objective feedback.
Equip Your Team with Tools the Big Consulting Firms use
Look brilliant to your senior management team with the world's most comprehensive set of analytical tools and templates for Strategy, Marketing, Product Management, Sales, and Project Management. We've built these over the past 18+ years based on customer needs.
Our tools have become the 'industry standard' through our partnerships with the American Marketing Association (AMA) and the Association of National Advertisers (ANA), and battle-tested and refined by 6,589 customers in 108 countries globally. Get immediate access to our library of checklists, process diagrams, budgets, ROI calculators, RFP templates, vendor evaluation tools, prioritizations, calendars, business cases, dashboards, skills assessments - all in Microsoft Office so you can easily customize them.
Equip Your Team with Tools the Big Consulting Firms use
If you want some help, we can pair you up with an expert to guide your team and provide objective feedback.
Our analysts are constantly doing research to identify trends and share what's working. If you need some benchmark data to build the business case for an investment or justify an increase to your budget, download our benchmark reports, full of objective data.
We also convert the insights from our research into action-oriented How-To Guides that link to our analytical tools to help your team implement best practices gleaned from analyzing how leading organizations are evolving to grow above industry growth rates.
Learn How Top Performing Organizations Operate
If you want some help, we can pair you up with an expert to guide your team and provide objective feedback.
Work with our team to prepare your next workshop. We can provide you with support on crafting the agenda, and equip you with tools to facilitate break-out sessions that engage your team and hone their critical thinking and analysis skills. We conducted hundreds of workshops and can either set you up for success, or step in and facilitate them for you - remotely, or on-site.
If you need to knock out some more complex work that will take more than a couple of days to complete - such as preparing for a product launch, developing a growth strategy & GTM plan, or optimizing your sales process - we can help you structure an Accelerator program over several weeks to get a critical project done.
Align and Energize Your Team to Attack the Market
If you want some help, we can pair you up with an expert to guide your team and provide objective feedback.
The Commercial Excellence Podcast
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What Our Community is Saying
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Jesse and Demand Metric have been a great partner in helping us to retool our growth engine.
In addition to their useful templates, I have worked closely with them to conduct workshops, develop custom documents, provide coaching and other essential tasks and I have been extremely pleased with the results. Their service level is top-notch and they really commit as a business partner to help you improve. I highly recommend them.
Ron Denoo
Senior Director Market Strategy Development - Global
I've used Demand Metrics for several projects, since 2008. Jesse and his team are always responsive, creative and solutions-oriented.
The analysts are great to work with and offer a plethora of ideas and information! I've used several of the product and marketing tool sets and find them to be essential in defining a solid product management methodology that fits in with any corporate audit and compliance framework.
Myra Caldwell, CDE
CEO, Caldwell Consulting - LLC
The execution of a business plan developed by Jesse Hopps at Demand Metric is guaranteed to place brands, products, services, and the company in an enviable position in the marketplace.
Jesse has helped me and the team at Empire Media Partners take a new approach to assisting our clients and solving problems.
Thomas Ward Lynch
Executive Sales, IT Analyst Relations Advisor
I've worked with Jesse and the crew at Demand Metric for over five years now and have nothing but great things to say about the value and quality of what they do.
The value is huge - real tools that help keep you aligned with best practices beyond what most many "experts" and consultants provide at a fraction of the price. What is not to love about that!
Eric Albertson
Strategic Execution Expert and Facilitator
Empowering the next generation of problem solvers.
Training is forgotten. A-players are over-relied on. B-players aren’t progressing.
We equip your teams to execute your commercial strategy with confidence—through structured growth projects and embedded coaching.
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Key Account Management
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Go-To-Market Planning
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Value-Based Pricing
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Commercial Playbook Adoption
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Training is forgotten. A-players are over-relied on. B-players aren’t progressing.
We equip your teams to execute your commercial strategy with confidence—through structured growth projects and embedded coaching.
Training is forgotten. A-players are over-relied on. B-players aren’t progressing.
We equip your teams to execute your commercial strategy with confidence—through structured growth projects and embedded coaching.