Highspot

MAY 9, 2023

Amidst a backdrop of hybrid work, economic uncertainty, reduced budgets, and boards that are asking companies to do more with less, leaders are dialed in on increasing sales productivity. With sales expenses typically being the largest line item on any company’s profit and loss statement, improving sales productivity is paramount.

Cross-sell 98

Cross-sell Strategize Sales Entertainment 98

Salesforce

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

CROs work to connect different revenue-related functions, from marketing to sales, customer success, pricing, and revenue operations ( RevOps ). Trait 2: Data-obsessed CROs own the go-to-market strategy. They drive pricing and product structure, and they set the buyer journey. Rising business complexity.

Gaming 59

Gaming Cross-sell Price Customer Relationship Management 59

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

They offer all the features you need to sell to Enterprise customers. Single sign-on SAML authentication SCIM provisioning for user management You can sell to 20-30-40-person companies all day, but if you want to sell to hundreds of people in a company, you will need this stuff, and WorkOS helps you do it fast. And you should.

Cross-sell 89

Cross-sell Growth Up-sell Launch 89

SaaStr

MARCH 22, 2023

The commercial market you choose to build and offer your customers defines you, yes. You need to marry your go-to-market strategy to specific commercial structures that you, as a SaaS company, decide to offer your customers. Instead of selling products, they were selling aspirational concepts and business value.

Growth 79

Growth Cross-sell GTM Up-sell 79

Heinz Marketing

OCTOBER 4, 2021

This week’s show is called “ A New Go To Market Framework to Get You MOVE-ing “ My guest is Sangram Vajre , Author, Co-Founder & Chief Evangelist at Terminus. We’re going to talk a little bit about that today as well, in terms of better go-to-market strategies. The bait and switch.

Pipeline 117

Pipeline Go To Market Cross-sell Sales 117

Hubspot

APRIL 1, 2024

It means sales and go-to-market motions are going to have to evolve. Marketing is going to have to evolve, too, but that's a whole other topic.) They have access to a wealth of information online, from product reviews and customer feedback to detailed product specifications and pricing information.

Cross-sell 60

Cross-sell CRM Referrals Up-sell 60

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. We have worked inside organizations that have successfully transitioned from selling into mid-market to selling into Enterprises. Get Aligned Before Moving Upmarket.

Product 58

Product Contract Cross-sell Account management 58

Highspot

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

By defining specific goals and identifying key performance indicators (KPIs), a sales and marketing plan provides a structured framework for marketing and sales to align their go-to-market efforts. And when teams are aligned, companies can generate up to 208% more revenue from their marketing efforts.

Objectives and Key Results 52

Objectives and Key Results Cross-sell Click Through Rate Lead generation 52

Highspot

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

By defining specific goals and identifying key performance indicators (KPIs), a sales and marketing plan provides a structured framework for marketing and sales to align their go-to-market efforts. And when teams are aligned, companies can generate up to 208% more revenue from their marketing efforts.

Objectives and Key Results 52

Objectives and Key Results Cross-sell Click Through Rate Lead generation 52

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

The best sales teams don’t just sell — they keep customers happy and drive serious upsell, cross-sell, and expansion revenue. They do this by first identifying and focusing on the sales motions that are best for their product, team, and customer. Companies with complex or custom-tailored products.

Inside sales 109

Inside sales Cold Call Contract Price 109

Martech

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Marketing management is a process that helps you plan, develop and implement promotional strategies and campaigns with the right team members and teams. With the best people executing the right marketing plans, you can promote your company’s services and products, adjust pricing, and increase your profits while reducing costs.

Objectives and Key Results 99

Objectives and Key Results Teamwork Cross-sell Customer Relationship Management 99

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. Tips on whole product management. R&D decisions: From products to whole products. A war analogy. Choosing the beachhead segment. Conclusion.

Cross-sell 52

Cross-sell Niche Objectives and Key Results Price 52

Sales Hacker

APRIL 21, 2022

In the early days, most SaaS companies sell to other startups for a number of reasons. Startups are more willing to be early adopters of a new product. Startups are less demanding than a big company both from a services and product perspective. But as SaaS startups mature, they usually start moving up-market.

Legal 86

Legal Cross-sell Contract Price 86

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

This post details the freemium and free-trial models and considers the key questions—about your business, your market, and your product—that guide you toward the best option. If your onboarding experience is terrible or your product uninspiring, you’re wasting time with the “freemium vs. free trial” debate. Loss aversion.

Customers 119

Customers Cross-sell Referrals Networking 119

The Lost Book of Sales

AUGUST 15, 2021

🌪 Book summary #1 (long): Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey Moore Outtake: -> What is the “Chasm”? We have enough high-tech marketing history now to see where our model has gone wrong and how to fix it. If so, ask to see the go-to-market strategy. Work only with people you enjoy.

Cross-sell 98

Cross-sell Gambling GTM Territory 98

SalesLoft

DECEMBER 19, 2023

That makes it so much easier to coach sellers to success, increase team productivity, and make more informed decisions and forecasts. And that’s just the sell side. Technologies come and go. And the entire company pays the price in a million tiny inefficiencies that add up to major losses. Territories change.

Objectives and Key Results 52

Objectives and Key Results Cross-sell Territory Legal 52

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

We remain optimistic about the prospects of cross-border SaaS. Companies, especially those with an undifferentiated product, may want to think strategically about the evolution of their respective category and the path towards building a platform. . Org Building Ideas for Cross-Border Companies. Learnings on GTM.

GTM 85

GTM Cross-sell Niche Strategize 85

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

Salesforce

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

“Their contract was originally in our mid-market segment, but they outgrew our segment lines, which brought them into our enterprise team. This could allow us to get more creative with pricing.”. Slack would pull in a larger ACV (annual contract value), and Coinbase would get better pricing per user. see what's new.

Closing 98

Closing Contract Legal Cross-sell 98

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

Gong.io

JULY 21, 2021

They know a ton about your product before your reps even speak to them (because internet). That’s why m odern go-to-market teams started aligning those teams a while back. That’s why m odern go-to-market teams started aligning those teams a while back. Is your goal selling to more customers?

Growth 62

Growth GTM Cross-sell Pipeline 62

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.

Sell 78

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

Sales Hacker

JUNE 14, 2021

That means you will get smaller deal sizes as you will face pre-defined buying needs and price pressures. You can get larger sizes with the 60% of the market that is stuck in the status quo if only sales and marketing would create the buying vision the “stuck” accounts need.

GTM 81

GTM E-commerce B2B Profit margin 81

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

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

They provide an overview of a specific competitor’s company, products, and services, and provide guidelines on how to win deals against that competitor. They’re also the ammo you give your sales reps to go into battle against your competitors. Understand HOW to tactically sell against specific competitors. Win/loss insights.

Objection handling 73

Objection handling GTM Cross-sell Sales 73

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 2, 2020

No, that’s not the setup for some obscure go-to-market joke. A Sales Engagement platform is a technology platform that brings sales (and often customer success) activities under a single roof, allowing sales professionals to efficiently and effectively focus on selling. Empowering, Cross-Functional Content.

Objectives and Key Results 133

Objectives and Key Results Cross-sell Sales Technology 133

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

As for Andy, prior to UserTesting, he was the Chairman and CEO @ Act On Software and before that held several positions at Salesforce, including COO – Products Group. Before Salesforce Andy spent close to 5 years at Oracle as VP Product Management. How did he come to be CEO at the market leader, UserTesting? *

Pipeline 78

Pipeline Territory Price Product 78

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Amanda Kleha is the Chief Customer Officer @ Figma, the startup that allows you to turn ideas into products faster through design, prototyping and feedback gathering, all in one place. What does Amanda mean when she says “pricing is made up of 3 components?” Where does Amanda believe most people go wrong with pricing?

Customers 42

Customers Price Cross-sell Start-ups 42

SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

The three stages are product-market fit, then go-to-market fit and lastly growth and moat. So that’s what I wanna throw out there today, is a framework on how to think about it deeper than just, hey let’s get product market fit and then lets add 20 reps. You haven’t checked the boxes.

Growth 84

Growth Cross-sell Contract X-functional 84

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. The product’s $20 to $30 a month. Jason Lemkin: Well, look.

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. We had way too many bugs, latency had grown to too long and crashes were a problem with the product.

E-commerce 73

E-commerce Price Start-ups Growth 73

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

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

What is new in today’s B2B software world is that products sold against an OpEx (SaaS) model experience an exponential growth due to a variety of factors; An increase in Online Spend – B2B customers are increasing their online spend. In 2015 Randy had kept pace with the growth in the market. FIND PRODUCT MARKET FIT.

Growth 87

Growth GTM SQL Strategic partnership 87

SBI

MARCH 8, 2018

This week I interview Chris Tratar , VP of Product of SAVO. Chris: SAVO is a game changer for our customers because instead of just focusing on solving tactical pains like helping sellers find content easier, we focus on helping organizations align the sales organization to strategic corporate initiatives and changing market conditions.

Gaming 55

Gaming Strategize Government Cross-sell 55

Pointclear

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Account Based Marketing (ABM) is not a new concept or idea. In fact, B2B sales teams have deployed versions of this go-to-market approach for years using target account-based selling to focus on specific companies they believe match their companies’ product or service value proposition. You have to bear hug sales.

Lead generation 95

Lead generation Cross-sell B2B Technique 95

Lead Fuze

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The push tactics we’ve been using are not working, so here’s why: Sales and marketing teams are more aware of who they’re selling to, rather than just focusing on revenue growth. They have also seen success from increasing margin growth by creating new products.

E-commerce 52

E-commerce B2B Healthcare Profit margin 52

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 7, 2022

This calculation goes beyond marketing costs and advertising dollars to include product costs, labor costs, shipping costs, and any other expenses that contribute to attracting and securing customers. Effectively, “spend” includes everything that goes towards getting your product into the customer’s hands.

Cross-sell 22

Cross-sell Customers Referrals Drivers/motivators 22