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The Whale Hunting Playbook

Most firms market with a net and sort through what it drags up. This is the spear: name the hundred accounts you actually want, surround them with search and paid air cover, then reach the people inside them one human message at a time.

100
Accounts on the list, chosen deliberately
30%
Connection acceptance, with a relevant note and a visible profile
20%
Of connections reply to the insight message
The
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13-page PDFUpdated September 2026 · Advanced level

What's inside

10 chapters · 13 pages · ~10 minutes to read

01

Stop fishing with a net

02

Building the Dream 100

03

The people inside the account

04

Air cover, part one: search

05

Air cover, part two: paid to a list of one hundred

06

The spear: connect, then go quiet

07

The spear: give something, then ask

08

The first meeting, and the long not yet

09

Running the programme

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Worksheet: the account plan

Built for

Written for teams that own Strategy.

  • Firms with a small number of very large potential clients
  • Sales and marketing pairs who have to run account-based work without a dedicated team
  • Teams whose old outreach playbook has stopped being legal or effective
  • Founders who would rather win ten accounts than a thousand leads

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