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“Why I’m So Interested In Selling,” Bill Butler

Partners in Excellence

When these large, strategic deals closed, our team and the company celebrated the success. I thoroughly enjoyed my time as a strategic account manager, but the upside was limited, and I was looking for new challenges. We also have companies with just OK products but great go-to-market teams, and they’re doing well.”

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From $0 to $400+M: 10 Mistakes the CEO of ZoomInfo Made on His Journey to IPO with Henry Schuck (Video)

SaaStr

Mistake #3: Not Appreciating Go-to-Market as a Strategic Advantage. The more efficient you make you go-to-market, the more dollars you have to spend across the company.”. Mistake #4: Hesitation Stopped Us From Going Even Faster and Adding More Fuel to the Fire. Key Takeaways.

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The Difference Between a VP of Sales and a CRO

Sales Hacker

Recruiting and interviewing strategic candidates and attending case-study interviews for individual contributors. With all of this in mind, the CRO is in charge of developing the go-to-market strategy and keeping everyone in the organization apprised of their role in that plan. Ownership of the entire revenue lifecycle.

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$1M to $100M in 20 Months, The Hard Part: How Everything Breaks in Hypergrowth with Deel Co-Founder & CRO Shuo Wang (Video)

SaaStr

Deel scaled the sales team from two to 250 account executives, but issues with productivity and enablement of the account executives cropped up. Deel solved this by scaling the revenue operations team in conjunction to support sales, design quotas, and go-to-market strategies, and leverage data to identify the best strategies.

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The Three Attributes of Good Messaging and Positioning

Sales Hacker

As an incredible go-to-market leader expresses: “since adding Roam, I’ve eliminated 90% of my recurring meetings and my average meeting is roughly 7 minutes. In this episode, you’ll hear a recap of 2023 at GTMfund and Max’s predictions for 2024 – from M&A, to remote work, to the role of the SDR. That’s it, that’s all.

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The New Sales Channel

Partners in Excellence

We train them, we provide marketing programs, content. We drive marketing programs to keep these partners supplied with leads. Many organizations go to market exclusively through channel partners. Channels are a critical part of any organization’s growth and go to market/customer strategies.

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90% of Sales Leaders Do Planning Wrong. Here Are 5 Tips to Fix It.

Sales Hacker

Changing territories too frequently will frustrate salespeople trying to build relationships and can even frustrate customers who don’t want to constantly deal with new account managers. Many organizations start with simple rules and definitions – geography-based territories (east, central, west) or account-based territories.