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GTM in The Age of AI: The Top 10 Learnings from ICONIQ’s 2025 B2B SaaS Report

SaaStr

ICONIQ’s latest report, surveying 205 GTM executives in April 2025 , reveals a market splitting in two: AI-forward companies pulling dramatically ahead while traditional SaaS companies struggle with flat growth, longer sales cycles, and declining conversion rates. vs $8.7K), and dramatically leaner operations.

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Free trial vs. demo: What’s more effective in B2B SaaS ads?

Martech

Demos, for example, are typically the gateway to a traditional sales-led GTM strategy. The experiment The Obility team looked at 11,286 responsive paid search ads that ran between January 2023 and August 2024. Demos: See the software in action, usually with a product specialist and a seller present. But which message is more effective?

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How marketing fuels the shift from problem-market fit to product-market fit

Martech

As Emma’s company navigates from problem-market fit to product-market fit, understanding the differences between marketing and go-to-market (GTM) strategy becomes vital. While marketing focuses on developing awareness and customer preference, GTM aims to shorten the distance between the product or service and the customer.

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Your GTM spend isn’t just an expense — it’s an asset

Martech

For as long as most of us can remember, go-to-market (GTM) operations — especially marketing and sales — have been treated almost entirely as operating expenses. The logic was simple: GTM costs are short-term, their benefits too uncertain and their ties to financial outcomes too tenuous to justify anything but immediate expensing.

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Enablement and AI: Why GTM success demands more than innovation

Highspot

In today’s high-stakes go-to-market (GTM) environment, success isn’t defined by having the best product or service. Yet, this is exactly where many GTM teams fall short. Done poorly , GTM enablement is just another support function. When GTM enablement is done right, the results speak for themselves.

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GTM 153: Building Technical Growth Machines & Signal-Based Selling with Austin Hughes

Sales Hacker

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Austin Hughes is the founder and CEO of Unify, a platform helping high-growth teams turn buying signals into pipeline. That’s TriNet, T-R-I-N-E t.com/gtm NOW. Navigating payroll, benefits, and compliance shouldn’t slow you down.

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GTMfund’s 3 Areas of Focus for Investing

Sales Hacker

Hello and welcome to The GTM Newsletter by GTMnow – read by 50,000+ revenue professionals weekly to stay up-to-date and scale their companies and careers. That’s why HG Insights created The Next Generation of Sales AI report — to calm the FOMO and help you bring AI to your GTM teams. Read the free and ungated report.

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