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Book · 2020

Now Start With Who

Serving Is The New Selling

Most businesses decide what they sell and how they sell it long before they get clear about who they are for. Now Start With Who reverses the order. Jon shows why the specific person you serve should shape your message, your offer and your growth.

Print and Kindle. ISBN 9798624077942.

Now Start With Who book cover

The Who, What and How framework

Who comes before what and how.

Who

Name the specific person you serve. Not a demographic. A person your whole team can picture.

What

Get clear about what that person actually wants and the problem they need solved.

How

Design your message, your offer and your experience around that person and that problem.

Big ideas

  • Serving is the new selling.
  • Businesses that try to reach everyone connect with no one.
  • Focus creates opportunity.
  • Your customer should be able to recognize themselves in your message.

Who should read it

Entrepreneurs

Use the Who, What and How framework to get clear about who you serve and how to reach them.

Executives

Align teams around a shared picture of the customer so strategy, marketing and product pull in one direction.

Thought leaders

Spread an idea by getting specific about the people it is for.

Endorsement

Jon Morrison's book is a must read for entrepreneurs who want to understand the power of niching down and serving a specific market segment.
Chip Wilson, Founder of lululemon

Where the idea was first shared

TEDx talkStart With Who: How To Spread Your IdeasTEDxChilliwack, 2019

Related keynote

Start With Who, for your audience.

The keynote develops the book’s idea for business audiences: customer clarity that changes how companies think about marketing, sales and growth. Bulk copies can be arranged for attendees.