This course teaches you how to uncover the real forces driving B2B buyer decisions—by zeroing in on the Struggling Moment, understanding Customer Progress, and decoding the Switching Behavior that determines whether a buyer fires their current solution and hires a new one.
Using 30+ interactive ChatGPT prompts and an applied B2B case study, you’ll learn to “shine a light” on the parts of the buying journey that normally stay hidden in the dark funnel—where progress, motivation, hesitation, and language truly take shape.
By the end, you’ll know how to turn these deep insights into high-precision GTM strategy, sharper positioning, and messaging that resonates because it’s anchored in how buyers actually think, feel, and decide.
Learn customer JTBD principles & methods via an interactive B2B ChatGPT case study (30+ prompts) using The Wheel of Progress framework.
Pinpoint the real triggers, frustrations, and situations that push buyers out of the status quo and into the market.
Recognize early emotional and functional signals that shape how buyers define their problem and begin their search.
Use the Wheel of Progress® to understand how buyers move from first thought to hiring—and what creates momentum or stalls it.
Understand what reduces switching friction and increases confidence at each stage of the decision-making process.
Reveal the pushes, pulls, habits, and anxieties that influence whether buyers switch solutions, delay decisions, or stay put.
Understand what reduces switching friction and increases confidence at each stage of the decision-making process.
Turn causal insights into sharper messaging, clearer value propositions, and a GTM strategy aligned with how buyers actually buy.
Align your GTM motions to the buyer’s real progress, motivations, and criteria—not assumptions or personas.
Learn to speak in the buyer’s own words—capturing their struggles, desired progress, and decision language to build trust quickly.
Craft headlines, narratives, and proof points that resonate instantly because they mirror the way buyers talk, think, and evaluate options.
The Early Stage Founder seeking to sharpen GTM strategy and positioning with confidence—not guesswork.
The GTM Leader who wants to understand the real forces behind switching behavior to improve conversion and accelerate deals.
The Product Marketer seeking to craft value propositions & positioning rooted in what buyers are actually trying to accomplish.
Live sessions
Learn directly from JOHN GUSIFF in a real-time, interactive format.
Lifetime access
Go back to course content and recordings whenever you need to.
Community of peers
Stay accountable and share insights with like-minded professionals.
Certificate of completion
Share your new skills with your employer or on LinkedIn.
Maven Guarantee
This course is backed by the Maven Guarantee. Students are eligible for a full refund up until the halfway point of the course.
4 live sessions • 25 lessons
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Understand how synthetic (right-to-left) & organic (left-to-right) research differ, and how they complement each other.
Learn to extract actionable buyer needs & struggles from AI-powered research, and translate into sharp GTM positioning.
Examples from Ramp, ClickUp, and Narrio AI using synthetic user research to study buyer journeys and customer progress.
Walk away with a clear framework for running a Customer Intelligence Sprint that goes from interviews → patterns → GTM.
Live sessions
4 hrs / week
Four LIVE Cohort Sessions - All Sessions Recorded
Tue, Dec 2
9:00 PM—11:00 PM (UTC)
Thu, Dec 4
9:00 PM—11:00 PM (UTC)
Tue, Dec 9
9:00 PM—11:00 PM (UTC)
Thu, Dec 11
9:00 PM—11:00 PM (UTC)
Projects
1 hr / week
Async content
1 hr / week
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$625
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