Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

If you have a product that is absolutely crushing it in SMB/mid-market, you may be tempted to dive straight into the Enterprise market. Who could avoid dreaming of those seven-figure deal sizes, 3-year contracts, and trophy logos? Related: The SaaS Executive’s Guide To Building A Winning Go-To Market Strategy.

Product 58

Product Contract Cross-sell Account management 58

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Imagine having the opportunity to sell into a company like Lyft in 2011. Imagine growing with them on their journey to becoming a publicly-traded company with an $11+ billion market cap. The total addressable market continues to grow and is ripe for selling to, but very few startups reach unicorn status. And so on.”.

Sell 78

Sell Minimum Viable Product Objectives and Key Results Cross-sell 78

The Lost Book of Sales

JULY 12, 2021

Starting to cross the chasm. How does the "D-Day" strategy help companies cross the chasm? Being sales vs. market driven when crossing the chasm. High-tech innovation and marketing expertise are two cornerstones of the U.S. What is the "Chasm"? Technology Adoption Lifecycle. A war analogy.

Cross-sell 52

Cross-sell Niche Objectives and Key Results Price 52

SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2022

So for the audience, cloud giants are turbocharging startup sales, and the predominant reason for this is because they’re fundamentally changing IT budgets at the customers that we’re all selling to. Rico Mallozzi: So marketplaces are fundamentally changing, go to market motions for a lot of enterprise technology companies.

Cross-sell 80

Cross-sell Finance Strategize Technology 80

ConversionXL

APRIL 7, 2021

Account-Based Marketing has in fact been around since the 1940s. When sales made a list of logos they wanted to sell, or the list of ‘dream customers’ to close. The concept remains the same today with modern ABM—we want to sell to a list of ‘dream customers’ more commonly referred to as target accounts.

GTM 98

GTM CRM Cross-sell Cold Call 98

SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

The three stages are product-market fit, then go-to-market fit and lastly growth and moat. And so I just want to throw in a framework around product market fit measured by customer value creation, then go to market fit measured by economics, then we scale fast. It was all about getting the contract.

Growth 84

Growth Cross-sell Contract X-functional 84

Hubspot

AUGUST 21, 2023

To have a successful product launch, you need to craft a thoughtful, actionable, effective go-to-market (GTM) strategy framework. Without proper planning, it’s impossible to know if you’re chasing the wrong audience, are too early or too late to a given market, or targeting a market that's too saturated with similar solutions.

Go To Market 69

Go To Market Process GTM Launch 69

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

There are three clear tell-tale signs; INCREASE IN PRICE – Instead of $24,000 in ARR you start winning clients at $48,000 ARR. EXECUTE THE GO TO MARKET PLAN. To meet the growth potential a Go To Market (GTM) plan is imperative. Pursue new accounts for example from SMB to Mid Market to Enterprise.

Growth 87

Growth GTM SQL Strategic partnership 87

SaaStr

AUGUST 27, 2019

I’ll start because I’m living this right now, and where we’re contract value. Michaela Lehr: So mine says to learn ballpark contract value and figure out the pricing that the market can bear. But also what is my go to market motion? Either work or not work. Sanj Sanampudi: Great.

Territory 52

Territory Contract Cross-sell Drivers/motivators 52

SaaStr

MAY 27, 2020

Anyone who studied economics will know when supply greatly exceeds demand, prices drop. This is an example just of the oil market compared just from April 2019 to April 2020. Many of you may have noticed this past week, actually oil future prices went negative. So people were paying people to take their futures contracts.

Finance 76

Finance Government Price Contract 76

SBI

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

80% of B2B buying decisions are based on a buyer’s direct or indirect customer experience, and only 20% is based on the price or the actual offering. One-to-one peer recommendations, original research, and product reviews are the most influential content in affecting purchase decisions (Content Marketing Institute and SmartBrief).

Customers 49

Customers Strategize Cross-sell B2B 49

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

What does Amanda mean when she says “pricing is made up of 3 components?” Where does Amanda believe most people go wrong with pricing? Is there such thing as no man’s land in SaaS pricing? How does Amanda think the go-to-market has to change with every stage of development? What are the challenges with this?

Customers 42

Customers Price Cross-sell Start-ups 42

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 23, 2018

You might optimize your prices and meet compliance regulations or you might have the best sales tools at your disposal. There’s a general tendency among most frontline sales teams to sell to enterprises and become the next Salesforce. Trying to sell to everyone and anyone is tempting, but it’s a fool’s errand.

B2B 55

B2B Cross-sell Negotiate Pitch 55

SaaStr

JULY 29, 2022

So you’re really asking how do you get a business going, like selling to restaurants that not only is hard to penetrate but has a hardware component. So maybe it was a crummy time to sell as they were coming up on 20 million US dollars in revenue. Jason Lemkin: Well, look. It might take a few times.

Price 86

Price Product Start-ups Niche 86

SaaStr

JULY 10, 2020

We shut down something called the Evernote Market, which was selling physical goods, sunset some niche products like Evernote Food which had nice followings, but I felt were distracting from the larger priorities. So if you haven’t experimented with an ROI calculator in your go-to-market motion, I’d highly encourage it.

E-commerce 73

E-commerce Price Start-ups Growth 73

SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2020

Kyle Parrish: In that time, before I was even really focused on the impact of UI/UX or the design world at large, I started to realize we were selling against companies like Google and Microsoft and Box, and a lot of our sales pitch was around how intuitive the product was. It wasn’t just engineering, product, and design roles.

Sales 76

Sales Price Quota Start-ups 76

SaaStr

JUNE 28, 2019

In his most recent role, Dave was the CEO @ Host Analytics where he quintupled ARR, halved customer acquisition costs and increased net retention rates before selling the company to a private equity sponsor. What can founders do to their pricing model to extract as much value from each customer? Common go-to-market myths and lessons.

Price 45

Price Cross-sell Up-sell Start-ups 45

SaaStr

AUGUST 13, 2019

When organizations actually go from starting up to selling to SMBs and going up market, the pool up market is undeniable. You’re trying to figure out how to sell to them. Also selling up market actually means that you can very easily have predictable revenue streams. The first one.

Cross-sell 60

Cross-sell Sales Support Growth Up-sell 60

SaaStr

AUGUST 19, 2020

We shut down something called the Evernote market which was selling physical goods, sunset some nice products like Evernote food which had nice followings, but I felt were distracting from the larger priorities. So if you haven’t experimented with an ROI calculator in your go-to-market motion, I’d highly encourage it.

E-commerce 100

E-commerce Price Start-ups Growth 100

SaaStr

MAY 8, 2020

How have you seen the best engage with offering pilots, and what’s the structure of the pilots that you tend to advise when selling to enterprise? So, our company, Arthur, an explainable AI company, realized that the regulated industries they sell into also want their solution on prem, even during a pilot phase.

Cross-sell 69

Cross-sell Contract Start-ups Up-sell 69

Hubspot

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

So, here’s my step-by-step guide to building your own go-to-market strategy using the strategies I’ve implemented to build multiple companies throughout the years. But first, what is a go-to-market strategy? What is a go-to-market (GTM) strategy? But first, what is a go-to-market strategy?

Go To Market 96

Go To Market Process GTM Education 96

SaaStr

JULY 30, 2020

Why do founders have to sell the product themselves at the start? Peter Kazanjy: So at TalentBin, that was kind of like my first training wheels, SaaS business, and also the place where I started to learn and appreciate go to market. So nowadays I’m all go to market all the time.

Cross-sell 78

Cross-sell Up-sell Start-ups Sell 78

SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2019

Then on the go to market side just over 40% of new ARR comes indirectly around the world through partners. I’m happy to talk about both of those as we go through this session. We look at things like do we, the net new logos versus upsells or cross-sells coming from channel versus direct.

Engineering 47

Engineering Launch Contract Start-ups 47

SaaStr

OCTOBER 22, 2020

* What should the first marketing hire look like? Why does Ryan believe you should hire two in marketing to start? How does Ryan ensure cross-function working seamlessly from the very beginning with marketing? * How does Ryan think about measuring success when it comes to product marketing?

Pipeline 66

Pipeline Cross-sell Launch Start-ups 66

SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2022

Sometimes we’re not as founders, sometimes founders sell their company because they don’t end up being deeply passionate about what it does. So sell your product. I’m not great at it, but most folks they’re aggressive without crossing the line. It’s like recruiting for a VP today. Maverick.

Quota 82

Quota Growth Product Closing 82