SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

I look at my experience through those companies, and I learned a lot about enterprise software sales, about buying patterns, about functions like product management and product marketing, and how they fit into a well functioning and operating company. If you’re CRM, boom, Salesforce. So if you’re ERP, boom, Workday.

E-commerce 105

E-commerce Manufacturing X-functional Retail 105

SaaStr

MAY 14, 2023

That’s why for us, it’s so important to build that function of the company in the Bay Area. ” It’s difficult to keep all the little pieces of your revenue pipeline exactly perfectly in sync, right? How do you think about what leads you’re using, what quality to determine how your pipeline is growing?

Price 97

Price Start-ups Up-sell X-functional 97

Sales Hacker

JUNE 20, 2019

That tech served purposes like capturing leads directly from a website, automatically routing those leads to reps, increasing the volume of emails a human could send, enabling reps to make phone calls with a single click, and easily creating clean and crisp contracts for signature. Do you review the forecast and make sure pipeline is clean ?

Quota 70

Quota X-functional Strategize Contract 70

SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2020

When you start growing above 50 employees, and certainly get to 100, things change, you now have teams, which means you have functional leaders. Rather than having this feeling of disconnected functional areas, everyone in the company knows what to work on. So, sales in my view is best run on a quarterly plan.

Finance 110

Finance X-functional Launch Objectives and Key Results 110

SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

Awesome revenue growth on the X axis, awesome revenue retention on the Y. It was all about getting the contract. Once you had the contract, all the servers were set up, you flew in your professional services people, it took six months to set it up, it took six months to train people, and the product sucked, but it didn’t matter.

Growth 86

Growth Cross-sell Contract X-functional 86

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

If you can get your customers to do that lead gen and pipeline generation for you, that’s goodness. Because it’s not so much focused around X, Y, Z NPS score. If you sat and you said, “Okay, we sign a customer, we process their contract, we have to get them provisioned. Second or third is referrals.

Prospecting 86

Prospecting Customers Promote X-functional 86

SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

Prior to Kustomer, Vikas spent over 20 years implementing, consulting, marketing, and selling CRM and ContactCenter solutions with companies like LivePerson and Oracle. I got approached around this startup within Oracle called the CRM on Demand group. I thought CRM, in the cloud, et cetera, was never going to be anything.

Finance 52

Finance X-functional CRM Engineering 52

SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

” They will be able to point to measurable value X amount saved, or X user adoption, or X spend categories and a management, or X improvement in operational efficiency, whatever that may be. I think at Salesforce, depending on how you look at it, CRM is either their fourth or third largest category now.

Price 60

Price Retail X-functional Healthcare 60

Hubspot

AUGUST 8, 2019

Percentage of revenue from existing customers (cross-selling, upselling, repeat orders, expanded contracts, etc.). Pipeline Sales Metrics. Gauge the health of your sales pipeline with these metrics. Weighted value of pipeline by month/quarter (by team and by individual). Average contract value (ACV).

X-functional 95

X-functional Quota Cross-sell Contract 95

Salesforce

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Before 2020, sales teams hummed on leads in pipe, one-off sales (digital and in-person), and pipeline velocity. Different measures track different models, but all depend on a simple formula: [Recurring revenue = Active accounts in a period X Cost of good/service]. X 100 = 10% customer churn rate. It caused a seismic shift.

X-functional 98

X-functional Sales Growth Contract 98

Sales Hacker

JULY 28, 2020

Conga is changing the way the world works by modernizing, streamlining and automating your documents, contracts, and processes to make it easier to do business. If you don’t f**k up, you can stay on board and then you go and finish the pipeline.” Salesforce, CRM, Google Enterprise and Bevy. The first is Conga.

Sell 61

Sell Presentation Start-ups X-functional 61

SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

And a lot of that was just the mechanics of in a licensed maintenance world, maintenance is a real thing and A, there’s a big dollar amount that gets shelled out when an initial purchase happens, which makes buying a big services contract at the same time feel like less of a financial impact.

X-functional 53

X-functional Start-ups Drivers/motivators Go To Market 53

SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2022

X this year. You need your CRM, you need your ERP, you need your human capital management. You don’t have to do every single function to still get a customer. For all these types of categories, I know it’s trite, but you just have to find your 10 X feature that someone will buy. When did you start the company?”

Quota 86

Quota Growth Product Closing 86