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Coupa CMO talks pandemic pivot, "provocation selling"

9/18/2020

Coupa Chief Marketing Officer Chandar Pattabhiram talks about pivoting messaging during the pandemic from transformational spending to helping customers develop resilience. He talks about using Geoffrey Moore's "provocation selling" concept, saying, "In a downturn, you provoke your customer and say, 'It's not the pain that you have today. Let me tell you the pain you're going to have if you don't use me.'"