Bot Mitigation Selling to the Head of E-Commerce and CISO — 60-Min Training

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### Direct Answer

> **Bot Mitigation Selling to the Head of E-Commerce and CISO** is a 60-minute training for AEs, SEs, and channel managers running $90K–$750K ACV cycles against incumbents like **HUMAN Security**, **DataDome**, **Cloudflare Bot Management**, **Akamai Bot Manager**, **Imperva Advanced Bot Protection**, **F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense**, **PerimeterX** (now HUMAN), **Kasada**, **Radware Bot Manager**, and **Netacea**. The session teaches sellers to qualify against the **three-buyer reality (Head of E-Commerce, CISO, Head of Fraud)**, run a structured discovery on **scraping-and-credential-stuffing economics**, demo against the customer's actual traffic, and trap-set the multi-year renewal at month 12. Built on **MEDDPICC**, **Force Management's Command of the Message**, and **Andy Paul's "Sell Without Selling Out"** discovery cadence.

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## Section 1 — Why Bot Mitigation Selling Is Different (5 min)

Open the room by killing the SaaS-seller default. Bot mitigation is **revenue-driven** — the Head of E-Commerce owns the revenue impact. The CISO is secondary; the Head of Fraud is the technical co-pilot. Three buyers, one revenue number.

Set the frame on the whiteboard.

- **Three buyers, one revenue lever.** Head of E-Commerce funds; CISO defends; Head of Fraud operationalizes. **HUMAN Security's 2026 customer survey** shows 64% of decisions decided by Head of E-Commerce.
- **Bot traffic is 35–50% of total web traffic.** **HUMAN's 2026 Bot Report** put aggregate bot traffic at 47% globally; **20% is malicious**. Conversion lifts of 8–14% are typical when malicious bots are blocked.
- **Customer-experience friction is the renewal killer.** A bot mitigator that adds CAPTCHA friction triggers e-commerce conversion drops. **Best-in-class** runs invisible challenges 95%+ of the time.

End the segment with **Mark Roberge's** rule: *"Sell the conversion lift, not the bot block count."*

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## Section 2 — The 60-Minute Discovery Block (15 min)

> 1. **Opening (3 min):** "Walk me through your traffic patterns — bot share, attack pattern, conversion baseline."
> 2. **Bot-share baseline (10 min):** "What percentage of your traffic is bot-driven today? **47% is the global average**; e-commerce is often higher."
> 3. **Credential-stuffing baseline (10 min):** "How many credential-stuffing attempts per month? **DataDome** publishes benchmarks of 1M+ per mid-market e-commerce site."
> 4. **CAPTCHA friction (10 min):** "What's your current CAPTCHA-friction rate on legitimate users? **Under 5%** is best-in-class."
> 5. **Conversion impact (8 min):** "What's your current cart-abandonment rate and conversion baseline? Bot mitigation lifts conversion **8–14%** on average."
> 6. **Scraping posture (7 min):** "Are competitors scraping your pricing? **Kasada** and **DataDome** lead on scraping detection."
> 7. **Renewal posture (5 min):** "When is your current bot-mitigation contract up? What contractual extraction friction would we navigate?"

```mermaid
flowchart TD
    A[AE Schedules 60-Min Discovery] --> B[Send Pre-Brief 24 hrs Prior]
    B --> C{E-Commerce + CISO + Fraud?}
    C -->|No| D[Reschedule No Exceptions]
    C -->|Yes| E[Bot Share + Credential Stuffing 20 min]
    E --> F[CAPTCHA Friction + Conversion 18 min]
    F --> G[Scraping + Renewal 12 min]
    G --> H[Confirm POC Scope Workshop]
    H --> I[Mirror Traffic Connected Within 7 Days]
    I --> J[Joint E-Commerce Review at Day 30]
    J --> K[Bind Decision at Day 60]
```

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## Section 3 — The POC That Wins (15 min)

**Failure modes to ban.** **Sample-traffic POCs.** **No-conversion-baseline POCs.** **30-day POCs.**

**Wins to coach.** **Mirror traffic with conversion baseline.** Walk through **HUMAN's and DataDome's published POC agendas** — both ingest mirror traffic and capture a 30-day conversion baseline. **Invisible-challenge demo live.** Show **95%+ challenges passed silently**. **Conversion-lift scorecard mid-pilot.** Deliver the conversion-lift number at day 30.

End with **Andy Paul's** rule: *"Show the customer their conversion lifted, not your bot count expanded."*

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## Section 4 — Handling the Incumbent Trap (10 min)

The room will face **Cloudflare Bot Management**, **Akamai Bot Manager**, and **DataDome** in eight of ten enterprise deals. Coach the room on three counter-moves.

**Counter-move 1 — The conversion-lift wedge.** Ask Head of E-Commerce: *"What conversion lift did your incumbent deliver? **8–14% is best-in-class**."*

**Counter-move 2 — The CAPTCHA-friction wedge.** Ask: *"What's your incumbent's CAPTCHA-friction rate on legitimate users? **Under 5%** is best-in-class; legacy is 15–25%."*

**Counter-move 3 — The advanced-bot wedge.** Ask Head of Fraud: *"Does your incumbent catch headless-browser and AI-driven bots, not just simple scripts? **HUMAN** and **Kasada** lead here."*

Show **Force Management's command-of-the-message** rule: *"Displace on conversion lift, not on bot count."*

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Bot Mitigation Selling to the Head of E-Commerce and CISO — 60-Min Training

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Section 1 — Why Bot Mitigation Selling Is Different (5 min)

Section 2 — The 60-Minute Discovery Block (15 min)

Section 3 — The POC That Wins (15 min)

Section 4 — Handling the Incumbent Trap (10 min)

Section 5 — Pricing Conversation and Procurement (10 min)

Section 6 — The Trap-Set for Renewal at Month 12 (5 min)

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Bot Mitigation Selling to the Head of E-Commerce and CISO — 60-Min Training

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Section 1 — Why Bot Mitigation Selling Is Different (5 min)

Section 2 — The 60-Minute Discovery Block (15 min)

Section 3 — The POC That Wins (15 min)

Section 4 — Handling the Incumbent Trap (10 min)

Section 5 — Pricing Conversation and Procurement (10 min)

Section 6 — The Trap-Set for Renewal at Month 12 (5 min)

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