Stop Discounting When You Should Be Differentiating
by Chad de Lisle • September 11, 2025
Let’s be real: Most companies aren’t losing deals because of product gaps. They’re losing because their vision is unclear.
When your message is soft, when your data is shaky, when your team can’t say what truly makes you different—you’re forced into the discount game.
And that? That’s death by a thousand cuts.
The winners? They’re not the loudest. They’re the clearest. They wield vision + authenticity like a weapon.
⚠️ The Trap: When Growth Feels Like Guesswork
One SaaS leader we worked with—global, ambitious, ready to scale—was stuck in the noise:
- Campaigns were running, but no clue what actually worked
- Inconsistent results across domestic vs. international markets
- No reliable attribution from ad spend → real opportunities
They were asking the question every marketing leader dreads:
👉 “Are we just wasting budget?”
Does that sound familiar?
🌟 The Shift: From Guessing To Vision
Instead of doubling down on ad spend, we hit pause and built authentic visibility by:
- Implementing full-funnel tracking (click → SQL → closed opportunity)
- Mapping CRM milestones back to campaigns
- Creating segmented reporting that cuts the noise by channel & region
- Enabling offline conversions to fill in the blind spots
This wasn’t about adding “prettier dashboards.” It was about restoring vision—giving the team one source of truth so they could lead with confidence instead of guesswork.
🚀 The Payoff: Vision Turns Into Growth
Within 6 months:
- Domestic Opportunities: 24 → 43
- International Opportunities: 8 → 21
- Brand SQLs: 6 → 14
- Even PMAX—once a campaign category they dismissed—started delivering real pipeline results
More important than the numbers? The marketing team shifted from:
- Reactive to proactive
- Fear to confidence
- Noise to signal
🔑 Why This Matters to You
If you’re a marketing leader or business owner, here’s the truth:
- Without a clear vision, your brand defaults to price competition.
- Without authenticity, your team doesn’t trust the data, and neither do your customers.
- Without differentiation, you’re one RFP away from being replaced.
👉 Vision isn’t fluff. It’s a pipeline multiplier.
👉 Authenticity isn’t soft. It’s your pricing power.
Stop discounting when you should be differentiating.
⚡ Your Move This Week: Audit Your Vision
- Can your team explain—in under 30 seconds—why you exist beyond money?
- Can they prove your differentiators with evidence that buyers actually believe?
- Can they show you one result tied directly to your values in action?
If not, that’s your work.
Because the companies that win the next 12 months won’t be the loudest. They’ll be the clearest.