The vocabulary

Glossary.

Fifty terms defining how revenue actually compounds in B2B. Each carries TGRC's take, not Wikipedia's.

N° 01 — 10

Foundation

10 terms
ICP (Ideal Customer Profile)

ICP isn't a persona doc. It's a buying-pattern.

Positioning

Positioning isn't messaging. It's the category claim.

Category Design

Not for everyone. Most B2B should compete in existing categories.

Revenue Strategy

It's the diagnostic, not the plan.

Go-to-Market (GTM)

GTM is a system, not a launch.

Buyer Journey

Linear journey is a myth. Engines model loops.

Total Addressable Market (TAM)

TAM math is usually motivated reasoning.

Engine Architecture

How the ten systems connect into one revenue engine.

System Gap

Where one system feeds another but the handoff is broken.

Connectivity Audit

A handoff map. The diagnostic that names the breaks.

N° 11 — 20

Attention

10 terms
Paid Media

Paid spends against Strategy's targets, not its own KPIs.

Demand Generation

Most "demand gen" is actually demand capture.

Demand Capture

Capturing existing intent vs. creating new intent.

SEO

SEO is funnel entry points, not traffic.

Topical Authority

How AI search engines weigh source credibility.

AI Search Optimization (GEO)

This is the new SEO. Structure for AI parsing.

LinkedIn Engagement

Comments warm prospects. Posts don't.

Content Engine

Content without distribution is decoration.

Brand vs Demand

False dichotomy. Brand IS demand at scale.

Attention Stack

Channels engineered as a sequence, not assembled as a list.

N° 21 — 30

Conversion

10 terms
Sales Funnel

Funnels translate clicks to intent. Misalignment wastes the click.

Sales Pipeline

Stages with criteria, not labels.

MQL (Marketing Qualified Lead)

MQL is a fragmentation symptom, not a useful metric.

SQL (Sales Qualified Lead)

SQL stage gate criteria matter more than the label.

Lead Scoring

Scoring should reflect engine signals, not arbitrary points.

Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO)

CRO is mechanism work, not button color.

Sales Velocity

Volume × value × win rate ÷ length.

Win Rate

Win rate is a downstream signal of engine health upstream.

Pipeline Coverage

3x coverage is folk wisdom. Real number depends on velocity.

Conversion Architecture

The two conversion systems compounding.

N° 31 — 40

Outbound

10 terms
Cold Email

Cold email is a list problem, not a copy problem.

Email Deliverability

Deliverability is the foundation. Wrong list burns the domain.

Sender Reputation

How mailbox providers score your domain.

Email Cadence

Cadence is sequence design. Spacing matters more than copy.

Outbound Outreach

Outreach earns replies. Volume burns trust.

Account-Based Marketing (ABM)

ABM is targeting + sequencing, not a tool category.

Personalization

Real personalization is research. Tokens are theater.

Reply Rate

Reply rate measures list quality more than copy quality.

Domain Warming

How to scale outbound without burning sender reputation.

Outbound Engine

Email + outreach connected as one circulatory system.

N° 41 — 50

Operations

10 terms
CRM (Customer Relationship Management)

CRM is the engine's nervous system, not a database.

Marketing Automation

Automation routes signal. Bad routing makes everything worse.

Attribution

Attribution models are arguments, not facts.

Multi-Touch Attribution

More honest than last-click. Still a model.

Revenue Operations (RevOps)

RevOps is the engine maintenance team.

Sales Operations

SalesOps is one node of RevOps, not a separate function.

Marketing Operations

MarketingOps without RevOps creates fragmentation.

Pipeline Forecasting

Forecast accuracy reflects engine health, not rep skill.

Revenue Analytics

Every dashboard ages. The question is which signal to trust today.

Operations Layer

CRM + Analytics as the substrate that makes everything else legible.