Sales Hacker

MAY 6, 2021

From B2C consumer-focused tech to the next B2B enterprise cloud giants, B2B, and B2C technology companies are springing up left and right and sprinting toward multi-billion dollar valuations (whether on the private or public markets) faster than ever. And this is exactly why you hired them! Staying in their lane.

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B2C Pipeline SQL Strategize 97

SaaStr

JUNE 8, 2022

These things are fascinating to me, and probably to other marketers, but they just don’t have the “wow” factor of Doritos’ latest Super Bowl ad, or whatever new TV show Netflix is plastering on trains and buses. B2C marketers get to have all the fun! And when a business grows, more people need to collaborate and share knowledge.

Campaign 100

Campaign B2B B2C Click Through Rate 100

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Dustin Joost (CRO, Osano – Series B) shares his experience here: “What’s awesome is having a strong position in SEO can lead to a strong position in LLMs, so we’re seeing ChatGPT and similar AI search tools show up in our demo forms.” #3 3 Outbound SDR: Outbound remains effective, serving as a steady pillar of growth.

GTM 103

GTM Growth B2C Territory 103

Hubspot

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Over the past two years, we’ve talked a lot about how the pandemic has sped up the rate of digital transformation, particularly in the shift to selling online. Despite having a stronghold on the brick-and-mortar video rental business, they were quickly left behind when Netflix started selling online in the early 2000s.

B2C 63

B2C Price B2B Sales 63

Martech

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

To confirm that our perception is well-founded, we turned to John Bruno, VP strategy at PROS, the AI-powered platform that helps major brands price, configure and sell products and services. We do spend a lot of time talking to them about the dynamics in their markets, and they share with us stuff that they’re doing.”

B2B 94

B2B Customers E-commerce B2C 94

PandaDoc

AUGUST 16, 2022

In a competitive industry like sales, it’s important to continuously invest in your education and stay up to date on the latest trends taking sales by storm. A quick and easy way to stay plugged into the state of selling and where it’s headed is through LinkedIn. LinkedIn isn’t just for social selling. Follow Dale on LinkedIn.

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Cold Call B2C Sales Follow-up 52

Sales Hacker

APRIL 1, 2021

If you’re an OEM or selling physical products, this one’s for you (sorry, SaaS folks). As the world is starting to reopen, there is likely room for your products in new markets, if you understand the complexities and risks. While that can feel like a B2C trend, your B2B shoppers and targets are doing much the same thing.

E-commerce 68

E-commerce Territory Transportation B2C 68

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.

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Go To Market Process GTM Launch 69

Gong.io

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Hence, every business that wants to grow needs direction in the form of a go-to-market strategy. . A go-to-market strategy framework is a blueprint for growth. Whether it’s your first time creating a go-to-market strategy or your tenth, this article will teach you everything you need to know to be successful.

Go To Market 62

Go To Market GTM Launch Promote 62

Martech

OCTOBER 11, 2021

She has had a front-row seat for the evolution of those roles during a period when B2B go-to-market has become less transactional and more focused on long-term customer engagement. ” She then moved to a London-based start-up, Decibel, to scale their client services practice. Stepping up to customer love.

Customers 89

Customers Account management Real Estate Contract 89

Heinz Marketing

MAY 16, 2022

Why did that bubble up as a topic for you? If I’m ever in market, I won’t buy from them because of how they treated me, because of how they pushed me.” People might think this is only important in B2C emotional connection buying. You recommended we cover customer service, customer success today. Matt : Yeah.

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Pipeline Referrals X-functional Cross-sell 97

SBI

AUGUST 6, 2019

ED: Adobe recently discussed the concept “business-to-everyone” (B2E) in the cloud industry to encapsulate the convergence of the B2B and B2C buying experience. ED: The right approach to sales transformation is going to look different for every company depending where they are on the maturity curve. Eliminating the Guesswork.

B2B 37

B2B B2C Commission Consult 37

SaaStr

MARCH 8, 2019

If you’re interested in HubSpot and you’re interested in inbound marketing, I would encourage you as a next step to check up the free trial on our site and see if it works for you. Brian Halligan: Whether we all like it or not, trust in sales and marketing is at an all-time low. I kind of grew up with the funnel.

Cold Call 42

Cold Call Trust B2C Go To Market 42

Hubspot

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

So, here’s my step-by-step guide to building your own go-to-market strategy using the strategies I’ve implemented to build multiple companies throughout the years. But first, what is a go-to-market strategy? What is a go-to-market (GTM) strategy? But first, what is a go-to-market strategy?

Go To Market 96

Go To Market Process GTM Education 96

SaaStr

DECEMBER 26, 2019

I’ve worked at multiple high growth SaaS businesses as a growth leader, and the data we’re seeing right now … This is from … is that CAC is increasing both in B2B and B2C, and you’re going to see how that relates, right? I want to invite you all to go on Slido. They don’t go to marketing yet.

B2C 60

B2C CRM Product Engineering 60

Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

They are pretty much right on–and I end up buying a lot of their recommendations. Believe me, Google sees that history and can generate a great profile, and sell the lead). This isn’t outlandish thinking, many leaders in B2C sales are either doing or approaching this capability. and overall go to market strategies.

B2C 90

B2C Finance Prospecting Presentation 90

Heinz Marketing

DECEMBER 11, 2017

It’s just 30 minutes long, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. We’ve already featured some great guests and have a line up of awesome content and special guests into 2016. Data-driven Marketing Executive. What’s better than one team winning … three!

Pipeline 51

Pipeline Sales Cross-sell B2B 51

SaaStr

MARCH 8, 2019

If you’re interested in HubSpot and you’re interested in inbound marketing, I would encourage you as a next step to check up the free trial on our site and see if it works for you. Brian Halligan: Whether we all like it or not, trust in sales and marketing is at an all-time low. I kind of grew up with the funnel.

Cold Call 19

Cold Call Trust B2C Go To Market 19

Heinz Marketing

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Matt: So, there was a lot of topics that we said we might want to talk about here, and I certainly want to talk about mistakes companies make in who they choose to sell to, and how companies build out their addressable market. In a lot of cases, it is just up to the reps or up to SDRs to figure that out.

Pipeline 102

Pipeline Healthcare B2B Sales 102

Heinz Marketing

MARCH 11, 2019

Derek contends tB2B marketing is no longer a red balloon versus a blue balloon’s discussion just about lead generation; today it’s about the partnerships between sales, marketing and the CFO with the focus on revenue. So I had to get my CMO muscles tuned back up. Grab your board. Derek: Yeah.

Pipeline 64

Pipeline B2B Sales X-functional 64

SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2020

My focus is SaaS and my job is to create a defensible go-to market moat, right? When we talk of hypergrowth and I go back to Drift and Segment to give you an idea of how fast and how much growth there is, we did 3X revenue at Segment in 18 months and we made 5X revenue at Drift in 18 months. It’s not going to stop, right?

Growth 52

Growth Engineering Launch Commission 52

SaaStr

DECEMBER 5, 2019

” And planting a seed in my CEO’s speak is, “Yeah, this is going to happen.” ” We had been talking, up until that point, we’d been talking somewhat informally about potentially creating a proper ventures fund at Workday. But how does that energy and the expectations that you have match up?

Strategize 52

Strategize Strategic partnership Start-ups Up-sell 52

SaaStr

JUNE 24, 2020

And one thing I really loved about working on B2C software is that marketing could really measure what they were doing and measure the customer journey. And with the move to SaaS models, building and selling B2B software is probably more similar to B2C than it is to traditional enterprise software marketing.

Pipeline 114

Pipeline B2C Campaign Start-ups 114

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Anthony’s journey from sales to product to marketing. How to leverage lessons from the B2C world. We’ve built all these different solutions that help us be productive, be it different applications that we go to for internal collaboration or different places we store our files, or apps on our phones. What You’ll Learn.

Pitch 54

Pitch B2C Contract Up-sell 54

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

With the rise of AI, new sales technology and automation at the forefront of the sales echo chamber these days, we thought we’d take a moment to bring it back to BASICS – that’s why we’ve rounded up this complete glossary of sales terms and definitions to help you remember where it all started. Account-Based Marketing.

B2B 99

B2B E-commerce Cold Call Represent 99

Hubspot

MARCH 12, 2020

Here, let's dive into Thomson's advice for selling "on" versus "to" Amazon, how small brands can succeed in the crowded marketplace, and the biggest lesson he learned as an Amazon executive. In your book, Amazon Marketplace Dilemma , you mention this dilemma most brands face — to sell "on" or "to" Amazon.

Retail 88

Retail Price Up-sell B2C 88

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

We’re often encouraged to hide, toughen up, and bury our emotions. Your sales career project has ups and downs. You can rise within a company selling your ideas, or you can go off on your own and be your first salesperson. Anita Nielsen is a best-selling author and sales performance coach. Anita Nielsen.

Sales 130

Sales Start-ups Up-sell Cross-sell 130

ConversionXL

JUNE 25, 2021

The typical product lifecycle can be broken down into four stages: Introduction: Your product may still be in development and your marketing goals focus on generating awareness and motivating users to sign up and purchase. You’re adding new product features and looking to capture more market share from your competitors.

Launch 96

Launch Product Non-Profits GTM 96

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Series A money is to fund the growth energy and the Series B money and C the expansion and the scale up. To build the initial team, to build the product, to build the initial go to market, to build the first customers and to build the ARR, the starting. It’s known that you can probably sell those first couple of contracts.

B2C 58

B2C B2B Start-ups Growth 58

Partners in Excellence

JUNE 12, 2015

All the talk in B2C and B2B these days is “omnichannel.” ” The B2C world has actually changed profoundly, and will continue to do so. Yet none of our go to market strategies–and none of the strategies of our channel partners account for this shift.

Manufacturing 91

Manufacturing B2C Commission Inside sales 91

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

A freemium or free-trial approach impacts the micro-conversion of an unpaid product sign-up. And optimizing for micro-conversions can undermine macro-conversions, especially if your marketing team never sees what happens after a form fill. Define your go-to-market strategy. Cross-sells. So what should you do first?

Customers 119

Customers Cross-sell Referrals Networking 119

SaaStr

JUNE 3, 2020

Michael Katz: So I took over sales, after we re-orged the go-to-market teams at the end of Q3 2019. We had grown a bunch, but our market had changed, and our go-to-market really needed to change as well. Michael Katz: I’ve always been pretty hands on with go-to-market, both on sales and marketing.

Pipeline 70

Pipeline Meeting Start-ups Up-sell 70

Hubspot

APRIL 22, 2018

Buyer personas are a crucial component of successful inbound marketing, particularly for the sales and marketing departments. After all, the marketing team needs to know to whom they are marketing, and the sales team needs to know to whom they are selling. How did they end up where they are today?

Education 98

Education Hospitality Networking B2C 98

SaaStr

AUGUST 28, 2020

If that was not enough, Hilary is also a Limited Partner in Stage 2 Capital, the venture firm focused purely on go-to-market. Where do many go wrong here? Where can you pick up small wins? And ended up reaching out to a gentleman that I knew and said, “Hey, is this really for real?” Harry Stebbings.

Sales 64

Sales Start-ups Meeting Follow-up 64

Sales Hacker

JULY 16, 2020

In a recent conversation, Gainsight CEO Nick Mehta told us he’s turning his attention to his partner ecosystem as the market tightens, “ Partnerships have the lowest customer acquisition costs out there,” he said. By understanding this macro trend you can set yourself, and your company, up for amazing long-term outcomes. I would know.

Pipeline 98

Pipeline E-commerce Cross-sell Referrals 98

Heinz Marketing

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

It’s just 30 minutes long, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. We’ve already featured some great guests and have a line up of awesome content and special guests into 2016. I think if you’re not familiar, definitely go check out G2crowd.com.

Pipeline 55

Pipeline B2B Sales Pitch 55

SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2019

So basically start ups, acquiring other start ups. I used to be a CTO and operator, co-founder of a SaaS start up. We’ve been around for 20 plus years, raised over 18 billion dollars and counting and our focus is broadly software which we define mainly as B2B and enterprise software with some B2C thrown in.

Growth 42

Growth Finance Negotiate Start-ups 42