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How to Double Your Magic Number and Increase Your Go-to-Market Efficiency with Sapphire Ventures

SaaStr

Go-to-market (GTM) design and efficiency are sometimes overlooked, but they’re a critical driver of any SaaS business. Rajeev Dham and Karan Singh, Partners at Sapphire Ventures, and Jane Lee, Vice President at Sapphire walk us through how to double your “Magic Number,” a shorthand for your sales and marketing efficiency.

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Sales Pipeline Radio, Episode 318: Q & A with Alan Gonsenhauser @agonsenhauser

Heinz Marketing

I also believe that many organizations, over time, have over rotated on demand, on getting new logos, where it’s a lot more productive and profitable to focus on your existing customers, growing them and turning them into advocates and promoters of your brand. I’m a big believer in cross-functional alignment.

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How to Build a Product Launch Strategy

ConversionXL

In this article, we’ll explain how to build a resilient product launch strategy that survives a non-linear journey. You’re adding new product features and looking to capture more market share from your competitors. Maturity: The height of your product’s adoption and profitability. Growth: A sharp increase in users and sales.

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What Is Enterprise OEM Software Licensing?

Sales Hacker

The licensee embeds the third-party software into its application to improve it by adding new functionality or features, or enhancing existing functionality or features. Depending on the software, implementation, and go-to-market (GTM) strategy, considerable costs and internal resources could be needed for a successful deployment.

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Sales Hacker Recommends: 97 Best Sales Books for Peak Performance (2020 Update)

Sales Hacker

High-Profit Prospecting. Hire Right, Higher Profits. It uses the formula PPVVC=S (Pain x Power x Vision x Value x Control = Sale) to help salespeople accurately gauge the probability of closing a deal. High-Profit Prospecting: Powerful Strategies to Find the Best Leads and Drive Breakthrough Sales Results.

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The Ultimate Guide to Sales Metrics: What to Track, How to Track It, & Why

Hubspot

That’s why successful companies obsessively measure everything about their go-to-market model, sales strategy, and salespeople. Ramp-up = amount of time spent in training + average sales cycle length + X. X is based on the salesperson’s experience: The more they have, the smaller this number is. X months or years).

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Six Lessons on How to Build a Platform that Fuels an Ecosystem with Plaid (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Lending Club was an early customer of ours and Lending Club was directly competitive with the banks and the banks didn’t love the fact that we were enabling Lending Club to make loans, enabling Lending Club to steal their profit. That allows us to have a very different go to market strategy. Zach : Sure.

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