FUTURE OF SELLING · JASON LIM
What if your funnel stages showed what a merchant has actually decided, not just what they clicked? Imagine knowing, for every account, whether the buyer has agreed to a trial goal, a budget or a rollout date. It's like replacing page-view analytics with real purchase events. Even if the CRM is already full of stages, they can still be rebuilt around buyer commitments.
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Our graduates have produced 8-figure results and beyond.
Since 2016, his events have reached 100,000+ founders across Asia.
Closed $7M+ in deals by 24 and rebuilt from zero twice.
He closed over $7 million in deals, so the Hangzhou funnel stages he helps you set follow buyer decisions, not product analytics.
He started coaching basketball at 16, and a good playbook has clear stages with a purpose; a SaaS funnel needs the same.
8-figure results have come from graduates who applied the method, two of their stories are further down, and Hangzhou funnel stages borrow its structure.
He studied under Marshall Thurber (creator of Money & You®), Joel Bauer, Tony Robbins, Chet Holmes and Bob Proctor. A fast Binjiang team needs a simple system it actually follows.
Stages track merchant decisions rather than product events, so the forecast reflects what buyers have actually agreed.
SMB merchants and enterprise brands get separate tracks, which keeps each pipeline honest.
P.I.T.C.H. gives each stage a clear ask, so trials and demos lead somewhere specific.
The sales process coaching in Singapore method, applied for Hangzhou rooms.
We trace recent merchant and brand deals through your current funnel and note what the buyer had really decided at each stage.
Power, Intent, Teach, Close and Habits shape stages defined by merchant commitments, such as an agreed trial goal or a named budget owner, with separate tracks for SMB and enterprise.
The team runs the new stages on live accounts with us, and we refine them until forecasts and renewals start to match reality.
If the stages are right and reps struggle inside them, see sales training in Hangzhou. If you want a broader view of the commercial system, see B2B sales consulting in Hangzhou.
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Jason Lim's first sales job, at 21, was in luxury real estate. He later sold advertising contracts, copywriting, affiliate marketing, stocks and forex. He closed over $7 million in deals. The young man who had once feared the stage learned to stand on it.
Future of Selling, which he founded under DreaMaker Ventures, is where he teaches P.I.T.C.H. He first coached basketball at 16. At 26, he started a Facebook advertising agency. He kept learning from renowned mentors: Marshall Thurber (creator of Money & You®), Joel Bauer, Tony Robbins, Chet Holmes and Bob Proctor. His clients include Skystone Asset Management and Signarama Singapore. Enlightenment Education, Mindreader AI and 8Yolk Design Studio have trained with him too.
A merchant who logged in twice in Binjiang appears as a qualified opportunity, and nobody has asked who will pay.
Sales closes, customer success onboards, and the renewal starts from scratch because the original commitments were never written down.
A brand head office and a small store move through the same stages, so neither forecast is reliable.
Time buyers spend with suppliers
17%
When B2B buyers are considering a purchase, they spend only 17% of that time meeting with potential suppliers. When they compare several suppliers, the time with any one sales rep may be only 5% to 6%.
Most buyers prefer to research on their own first. A Hangzhou funnel that starts at the demo request misses where most of the choice is made.
Every sign-up enters the pipeline, and the forecast fills with accounts that were only browsing.
Sales, customer success and growth each define the stages differently, so handovers lose accounts between teams.
Without stages that predict revenue, the last week of each quarter goes on discounting accounts that should never have been forecast.
When the pipeline keeps missing, the next board meeting is spent explaining the gap rather than planning growth.
Hangzhou SaaS and platform teams often borrow funnel stages from growth analytics: visit, sign-up, activation, demo, paid. Those stages measure your product events, not the merchant's decisions about budget, owner and rollout, so the pipeline overstates what will close. It's like counting items added to a cart as revenue.
Most buyers prefer to research on their own first. A Hangzhou sales process has to account for that research rather than begin at the demo.
Buyers spend only 17% of their buying time with suppliers. With so little contact, every stage in a SaaS funnel should end with a buyer commitment.
Value added of digital-economy core industries in Hangzhou in 2025, 9.3% higher than in 2024 and 29.5% of the city's GDP. Merchants here can switch tools easily, so a process that tracks real commitment matters more.
Foreign capital actually used in Hangzhou in 2025. The same communiqué records 1,609 newly introduced foreign-investment projects in the year. New entrants buy differently from local merchants, and a clear process helps the team spot that early.
New foreign-invested enterprises in China
70,392
New foreign-invested enterprises established in China in 2025, 19.1% more than in 2024.
Source: Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China (MOFCOM) News Office, 23 January 2026
Foreign capital actually used in Hangzhou
US$35.0 billion
Foreign capital actually used in Hangzhou in 2025. The same communiqué records 1,609 newly introduced foreign-investment projects in the year.
Buyers who'd rather skip the rep
61%
Of B2B buyers prefer an overall rep-free buying experience, yet for tasks such as judging whether a product or service fits their company's needs, buyers prefer to seek seller input.
Source: Gartner press release, 25 June 2025: survey of 632 B2B buyers, August to September 2024
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