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Steve Kaplan

BAG THE ELEPHANT!

Land giant clients and transform your company into a market leader—one bold strategy at a time.
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Land and keep huge customers that transform your business – Bag the Elephant! by Kaplan reveals big-customer strategies. This comprehensive enterprise sales summary and elephant-hunting methods explain: • Elephant Identification - Find right giant customers for your business • Navigation Skills - Move through huge company bureaucracy • Champion Building - Create internal advocates who fight for you • Culture Alignment - Match your approach to their values 2025 application: One elephant customer can equal 100 small ones—if you keep them happy. Your Click.Apply.Grow™ elephant: Target one ideal elephant. Map their organization. Build relationships patiently. Elephant hunters achieve 10x revenue growth from single accounts. Mice nibble. Elephants feast.

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About the Author

Steve Kaplan is Hollywood's secret weapon who trained the writers behind 10 Emmys, 1 Oscar, and comedy's biggest successes.

Created HBO Workspace and HBO New Writers Program, launching careers of Sex and the City's Michael Patrick King and Big Love's Will Scheffer. Co-founded Manhattan Punch Line Theatre, discovering Lewis Black, Nathan Lane, and John Leguizamo. Taught at UCLA, NYU, Yale. Consulted for DreamWorks, Disney, Aardman Animation. His students wrote Friends, Larry Sanders Show, Everybody Loves Raymond.

2025 relevance: As AI threatens writers' rooms, Kaplan's human-centered comedy techniques become essential for creators differentiating from algorithmic content.

Author of The Hidden Tools of Comedy, comedy's definitive textbook. Writers using Kaplan's methodologies achieve 4x higher script sale rates. Workshops in 20+ countries.

The guru who teaches what makes humans laugh, not algorithms.

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