SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2024

In 2020, we transitioned from a physical selling universe to a virtual selling universe. 6: AI Has No Noticeable Impact on ARR Growth Next question the survey asked of startups was, ‘if you use AI, is your growth rate meaningfully faster than you thought it would be year-over-year?’ at the height of 2022 to 6.7.

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Understanding the Sales Force

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The update for October 19, 2020, is shown below: As always, if you can hang in through some of the preliminary analysis, I'll make the pivot to sales and business. Each day, the Boston Globe sends an update with metrics that the state of Massachusetts is monitoring with regard to the Pandemic.

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Anthony Cole Training

MARCH 25, 2020

If you are not in the acquisition business, then you must develop your talent in order to increase sales in 2020 and beyond. One of the keys to doing that is to understand how to drive sales improvement.

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Anthony Cole Training

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

The most successful salespeople are always challenging and adapting their personal sales process to be more effective. However, they don’t challenge the notion of the importance of making prospecting their "A" priority every week.

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Martech

JULY 16, 2024

That is a 16% increase over last year and more than twice the $26 billion in 2020. That’s why there is so much growth across short-form, long-form, creator-drive and immersive content formats. Digital video ad spending is expected to be more than $62 billion this year, the IAB predicts.

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Martech

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Maybe digital won’t grow again like it did in 2020 and 2021, but it’s also not going back. Salesforce’s own research shows more than 50% of revenue for small businesses coming from digital channels in 2025, up from the current 42%. That genie is out of the bottle. Processing.

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Anthony Cole Training

JANUARY 7, 2020

Welcome to our newest blog series titled, "2020: The Year For Sales Growth". These blog posts will specifically focus on helping you drive (and increase) sales in the new year.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 29, 2024

From Stripe to Canva to Databricks to Dialpad and more, they are plenty at $300m-$3B ARR with strong enough growth to IPO. And plenty more at $200m+ ARR with maybe less strong growth, that still want to IPO. Others will have to accept much lower returns, at least for folks that invested in 2020-early 2022. It’s just time.

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Martech

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Originally set for 2022, the plan faced multiple delays since its announcement in January 2020, leading to doubts about Google’s commitment. It is a critical business imperative for the continued growth and sustainability of the industry. The road ahead may be challenging, but it also offers many opportunities.

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Martech

AUGUST 6, 2024

In 2020, privacy concerns prompted Google to plan to remove cookies in Chrome with a deadline that was continually moved back, regularly sending panic waves through the marketing world. Delivering what consumers want establishes the trust that supercharges long-term conversions and revenue growth.

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Anthony Cole Training

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

In this blog, we discuss why prospects object when it comes down to buying time, and why we can't always blame the prospects in these situations. Overall, salespeople must ask better questions to help increase sales, build better relationships, and help uncover their prospect's compelling reasons to buy.

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Martech

AUGUST 13, 2021

We know that with the successful launch of new streaming apps, as well as the growth among platforms like live sports channel fuboTV, that viewers are flocking to the medium to watch live as well as on-demand content. Across the industry, overall CTV impressions are up 3X over Q2 2020. CTV impressions and share.

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Martech

JULY 14, 2022

For instance, in 2020, the Prime Day promotion was pushed back to October. In 2021, there were many more high-spending e-commerce days in November than in 2020. The post Prime Day contributed to significant e-commerce growth this year appeared first on MarTech. Why we care. Holiday seasonality is trending earlier and earlier.

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Sales Pop!

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The year 2020 was the most successful in the history of eCommerce. ECommerce revenue for 2020 exceeded $4.13 Even companies that hadn’t had a website until 2020, suddenly went online. 8 Must-Have Ecommerce Tools for Rapid Retail Growth. Experts say that 2020 and 2021 are the best years to enter the eCommerce market.

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ConversionXL

JULY 8, 2021

According to data sourced from Statista , 16% of ecommerce companies spent between $20-$150,000/month and 14% spent over $150,000/month in ad spend in 2020. But what about investing more in SEO and organic growth? Conversion rate insights also help you prioritize new growth and optimization opportunities. Here’s how to do it.

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Sales Pop!

AUGUST 26, 2023

The Quest for Growth in the DTC Sphere As the DTC realm continues to evolve, the pursuit of growth emerges as a timeless anthem. The narrative commences with the inception in 2020. A Glimpse of the Future: Growth and Lessons As the conversation unfurls, Kyle offers a glimpse into the future.

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Martech

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

.” Dig deeper: Netflix leans into ad-supported tier as subscriber growth surges Why we care. The growth in CTV ad revenue assumes that increased viewership makes the investment worthwhile. In 2020, during the most stringent lockdowns, CTV viewing hours were far from their highs.

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Force Management

JUNE 22, 2023

By 2020, there were over 600. But once they've reached the coveted Unicorn status, how do companies maintain performance and continue their steep growth trajectory? In 2013, a venture capitalist coined the term “Unicorn” to refer to privately owned firms valued at over $1B. Back then, only 39 companies fit the criteria.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

In this article we dive into a playbook for pricing across different stages of company growth, inspired by Geoffrey Moore’s Crossing the Chasm. Each growth stage demands its own pricing approach, and getting it right can mean the difference between stagnation and explosive growth.

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Martech

AUGUST 29, 2024

Based on global statistics, around 66% of shoppers plan to buy based on price this year, an increase of 20% since 2020. The forecast in figures Here are the highlights of Salesforce’s predictions: YoY online sales growth is expected to be more sluggish than 2023, which itself showed only 3% growth YoY.

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Martech

OCTOBER 17, 2022

average increase since 2020. The post B2B martech spending growth slows, may hit $8.5 By 2024 the spend is expected to hit $8.5 billion, up from this year’s $6.5 billion, according to a report from Insider Intelligence. This would mean an average annual spending increase of 13.5%, down significantly from the 17.4% Get MarTech!

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SaaStr

MAY 10, 2022

Doug has done it all, from being the first seed investor in Marketo all the way to being a growth investor in Calendly, Loom, Braze, Lattice, and much more: My key take-aways: #1. You need to be growing fast at $20m ARR for a growth deal (100%+), but if you are, deals are and will still be getting done routinely at <$1B valuations.

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Martech

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

This followed huge growth between 2018 and 2020 when martech spending nearly doubled. . The post US martech spending set to break $20 billion this year; growth slowing appeared first on MarTech. Spending increased 20.9% in 2021, according to the report. B2B firms will increase martech spending less this year and next as well.

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Search Engine Land

JULY 25, 2024

In 2024, it is estimated that overall advertising spending growth in the U.S. Compare this to an average growth of 23.3% prior to 2020. Despite its limitations, TAM can be a helpful metric for investors to assess a company’s growth potential. will increase by approximately 10%.

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Martech

DECEMBER 18, 2024

zettabytes in 2020 to 181 zettabytes by 2025. This approach transforms marketing analytics from a reactive reporting function into a proactive driver of business growth. Which markets offer untapped growth potential? The data explosion and its challenges The amount of data created globally is staggering. trillion USB sticks.

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Martech

AUGUST 1, 2024

In 2020, a report by experience management firm Walker predicted customer experience would overtake price and product as the key brand differentiator. These are essential to growth in this modern, fast-paced/low budget era. Chick-fil-A dominates over McDonald’s with average store sales of $9.3

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SaaStr

JULY 24, 2023

Some SaaS and Cloud leaders have seen big impacts from the post-2020 hangover, but others keep accelerating. Instead of looking at those who are struggling, let’s take a look at the epic growth story of MongoDB, a company crushing it in 2023. in ARR, 29% overall growth, and is worth $29B. Revenue growth.

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Martech

MAY 13, 2024

Building and nurturing an active user community can be a game-changer for B2B SaaS companies looking to drive sustainable growth. This is also foundational for product-led growth initiatives and for companies with multiple product offerings that span varying use cases by industry or vertical.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 21, 2023

If you look at the period on the chart, between April 2020 and the start of 2022, you can see how anomalous that was when it comes to public valuations relative to the history of software valuations since a lot of software valuations are tied to interest rates, and at that time they went to nearly net zero. Why is that?

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Anthony Cole Training

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

In this blog post, we present a question that may force you to look yourself in the mirror and ask, "What can I do better as a salesperson to increase my sales in 2020 and beyond?".

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Search Engine Land

APRIL 24, 2024

What that means is our growth in this new operating reality has to be hard earned.” Slowing growth: The number of new devices coming into the world “is not what it used to be.” Raghavan was promoted to his position in June 2020. ” “It’s not like life is going to be hunky-dory, forever.” ” Challenges.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

While Zoom Enterprise is growing at a healthy clip, churn is over 3% a month for its SMB customers As a result, it’s now predicting 1% growth next year 1% pic.twitter.com/i2k2W9QbVX — Jason Be Kind Lemkin  (@jasonlk) February 27, 2023 So Zoom has just been the craziest story of all time in SaaS.

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Martech

MAY 7, 2025

The 2025 Martech Landscape signals a deceptively calm return to normal a steady 9% growth but beneath that is a market undergoing seismic shifts. More than 84% simply shut down; most were founded before 2020 and beloved by users (52% had G2 scores above 4.5). Martech is evolving in the market and in your stack.

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SaaStr

APRIL 14, 2022

Enterprise software spending globally was $529B in 2020, per Gartner. growth from 9.8% But the growth rate in 2022 (9.8%) is down from 2021 (15.9%), and down from earlier estimates (11.5%). for the growth rate for 2022. Software and SaaS is the fastest-growing segment in IT, where the most growth is.

Growth 28

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SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2024

So there’s a curious thing anyone close in venture capital fundraising and rounds today: Valuations for Hot VC Deals remain far higher than pre-March 2020 … even though growth for the overall public SaaS and Cloud companies has slowed to … all time lows. And growth rates have fallen to all-time lows. Billion in ARR.

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SaaStr

MAY 25, 2023

The crazy growth of the 2020-2021 period peaked in Q1’21, and then just started falling right after that. 100% growth from $1m-$30m or so ARR is sort of the bar for venture funding. Have we reached a bottom in SaaS growth? Like a rock. At least, not for now. And that’s the question of the day. The majority.

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SaaStr

MARCH 10, 2023

Product-led growth is a hot topic. At SaaStr APAC 2023, Matt Vethuis, the VP, APJ at Amplitude, shared his take on how to bring power to your products through a hybrid blend of product and sales-led growth called product-led sales. Product-led growth is a GTM strategy where the product is the main driver for growth.

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