2025 AXIOM Business Book Awards Bronze - Business Technology
2024 North American Book Award Silver - Business Entrepreneurial
2024 Goody Business Book Awards - Gamechanger
2024 Goody Business Book Awards - Technology
2024 Best Book Award - Finalist

For CEOs and investors in small to midsize B2B software companies, this book provides a clear blueprint for transforming your marketing to unleash hidden value, especially leading up to a transaction or exit event.

Based on over thirty years of experience leading major technology company transformations, the author outlines a strategic approach to marketing using the Power of SURGE--Strategy, Unity, Reputation, Gains, and Efficiency. Learn how to develop a customer-centric strategy tailored to your unique business situation, achieve radical alignment across sales, marketing, and customer success, establish a compelling competitive market position and brand reputation with customers, unlock hidden revenue streams, and build a modern marketing engine for scale and ROI.

The book covers common disconnects between CEOs and CMOs that undermine execution, along with advice for finding and keeping the right marketing leader in a competitive talent market. You'll discover proven methods for driving growth, lowering customer acquisition costs, shortening sales cycles, and boosting valuation. With practical advice from other industry leaders, this playbook provides the key steps to transform your marketing for a competitive advantage and transaction success.