InsightSquared

MARCH 6, 2018

It’s where you’ll track leads to opportunities to closed deals and everything in between. They’ll ensure guidelines are properly adhered to and contracts are being executed, all while simultaneously working to eliminate barriers that slow down the contracting process. Quota and compensation planning. Renewals management.

Contract 119

Contract CRM Territory Sales 119

Capterra Sales & Marketing Software

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

According to a recent report by Hubspot , 34% of B2B marketers say generating more leads is their top priority for 2021, while only 14% are concerned with closing more deals. Before diving deeper into how outbound sales can help you close more deals, let’s first understand who makes the best customer for your business.

Customers 94

Customers B2B Sales Pipeline 94

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Contract Lifecycle Management. To achieve that, sales operations people help streamline process to speed up the sales cycle and enable sellers to close more deals. Contract Management. Contract Lifecycle Management. Customer contract life cycle management. Allocation of Accounts and Sales Territories. Automation.

Territory 88

Territory Non-Profits Contract Quota 88

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2019

What you need to know about go-to-market models in SaaS. B2B SaaS go-to-market (GTM) models range from no-touch, transactional approaches to highly specialized, consultative strategies. Average Selling Price is defined as the average value of your closed won deals. Target Addressable Market (TAM).

GTM 68

GTM Education Sales Contract 68

Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

While a pipeline includes every opportunity a salesperson is handling, no matter how new or mature it is, a sales forecast is an estimate of the opportunities likely to close in a given time period. Meanwhile, a forecast shows salespeople and sales managers how closely they’re trending to goal and how to prepare.

Pipeline 101

Pipeline Negotiate Objectives and Key Results Sales 101

SaaStr

AUGUST 27, 2019

I’ll start because I’m living this right now, and where we’re contract value. Michaela Lehr: So mine says to learn ballpark contract value and figure out the pricing that the market can bear. But also what is my go to market motion? Either work or not work. Sanj Sanampudi: Great. So Michaela?

Territory 54

Territory Contract Cross-sell Drivers/motivators 54

Highspot

APRIL 2, 2020

Planning and strategizing go-to-market plans. Modern sales operations teams improve sales performance by speeding up the sales cycle and enabling reps to close deals faster. Top performance metrics include: Sales Quota Achievement Rate: The percentage of sellers who have completely hit their quota during a set time period.

Non-Profits 75

Non-Profits CRM Territory Cross-sell 75

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Every sales org feels the pressure to close deals faster. Take control with the DocuSign agreement cloud, a suite of tools that automates sales contracts and quotes ,all right in your CRM. Create custom contracts in a click, sign them digitally, and automatically pull data back into your opportunities.

Strategize 52

Strategize Contract Strategic planning Drivers/motivators 52

SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

The three stages are product-market fit, then go-to-market fit and lastly growth and moat. And so I just want to throw in a framework around product market fit measured by customer value creation, then go to market fit measured by economics, then we scale fast. It was all about getting the contract.

Growth 83

Growth Cross-sell Contract X-functional 83

SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2022

As SaaStr Europa 2022 drew to a close, attendees took one more opportunity to ask Jason questions about topics like how to navigate the current market, the future of work, playing in a crowded space, and hiring your first VP of Sales. You will never, in SF classic SaaS, be able to get anybody to go back to the office.

Quota 79

Quota Growth Product Closing 79

Lead Fuze

JANUARY 1, 2022

When I began hiring salespeople, it was difficult to know which outsourcing company would be able to help my business meet its quota. As it turns out, there are a lot of outside services that can be contracted to do your marketing. Finding a product/market fit. Closing the sale or sales execution.

Commission 52

Commission Territory Sales Objectives and Key Results 52

Heinz Marketing

MARCH 29, 2021

From a personal, from a dad with young kids’ standpoint, from having to close offices and figure out all of that, it certainly felt long. But also I remember a lot of explicit conversations from 12 months ago talking to go-to-market leaders, especially in some of our manufacturing industrial clients saying like, what am I going to do?

Pipeline 119

Pipeline Sales Gaming Up-sell 119

SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2019

Annual contracts: To what extent do annual contracts dominate today? Why does Tom think in the early days one should be wary of signing too many multi-year contracts? How does Tom think about calculating churn when it comes to multi-year contracts? What time frame from SAL to closed lead suggests product market fit?

Contract 46

Contract Price Commission Conversion 46

SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2020

Before Figma, Kyle spent close to 3 years as an Account Executive at ADP. Before Figma, Kyle spent close to three years in AE at ADP. We had so many inbound referrals, and in terms of recruiting and hiring, people knew that there were a lot more roles on the go-to-market and business side.

Sales 79

Sales Price Quota Start-ups 79

SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

Matt Garratt: All of our mid-market business and we are going to be talking about how our portfolio companies and how Salesforce ventures, and how Salesforce is shifting our go to market strategies during these very uncertain times and really excited to have Adnan here, one of the best sales leaders I’ve ever had the privilege of working with.

GTM 65

GTM Healthcare Pipeline Sales 65

Sales Hacker

JUNE 2, 2020

With chorus.ai, get your reps to hit quota consistently, ramp your new hires faster and replicate your unicorns through coaching initiatives, all while together or fully remote. Go to Chorus.ai/saleshacker Suddenly you’ll go perhaps onto first name terms and you might not have been before then.

Pharmaceutical 67

Pharmaceutical Territory Cold Call Networking 67

SaaStr

JULY 2, 2019

We’re here to talk for the next 25 minutes or so about our experience going from freemium to enterprise. Kevin : We kept it fairly vague, if you will, but we’re going to be really focused on the go-to-market elements of the freemium to enterprise model. Dannie : It made for a really nice go-to market model.

Follow-up 60

Follow-up Go To Market Technology Technology 60

Sales Hacker

JUNE 16, 2021

The mandate for sales enablement is to increase the effectiveness of their go-to-market (GTM) strategy by providing coaching, training, and introducing sales enablement platforms and tools. Businesses that implement a sales enablement function see increased quota achievement at the rep and team level. What is sales enablement?

GTM 100

GTM Contract Quota CRM 100

SaaStr

JULY 10, 2020

In a B2B context, you can imagine overlaying the concept of go-to-market fit which really outlines your approach and your playbook at every step of the way, from awareness to evaluation, purchase, and then pricing and renewals. A close cousin of this is cohort analysis. So that’s one example of many.

E-commerce 75

E-commerce Price Start-ups Growth 75

SaaStr

AUGUST 13, 2019

And let’s say your average sales price for the opportunity that you’re closing is $10,000. And when you divide the pool of opportunities with more and more AEs, they don’t make their quota. And if they don’t make quota, AEs just leave. Local contracts support, which we didn’t have.

Cross-sell 63

Cross-sell Sales Support Growth Up-sell 63

InsightSquared

JULY 1, 2021

Revenue operations is a methodology that drives cross-functional collaboration in order to close gaps in the customer experience and maximize revenue for the business. It aligns the organization by combining the functions of sales, marketing, and customer success into a single team that drives strategy based on revenue impact. .

Cross-sell 62

Cross-sell Contract Objectives and Key Results Quota 62

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

It’s a go-to-market strategy that leads with the product, so you can experience its value firsthand. In 2019, 40% of Slack’s revenue came from their sales team closing deals with larger organizations (companies making more than $100,000 in annual recurring revenue). What does it mean to be product-led? Avoid this at all costs.

Product 94

Product SQL Contract Sales 94

Hubspot

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

With this feature, you can keep track of how close you are to hitting your target for the month, quarter, or year. WinScore Insights," which predicts the probability of successfully closing a deal and suggests levers that could influence deal success. Custom quota metrics. Assign revenue goals for your team. What We Like.

Pipeline 75

Pipeline Price CRM Quota 75

Hubspot

AUGUST 8, 2019

That’s why successful companies obsessively measure everything about their go-to-market model, sales strategy, and salespeople. Percentage of revenue from existing customers (cross-selling, upselling, repeat orders, expanded contracts, etc.). Percentage of sales reps attaining 100% quota. Revenue by market.

X-functional 96

X-functional Quota Cross-sell Contract 96

SaaStr

JUNE 28, 2019

Common go-to-market myths and lessons. Harry Stebbings: So first I want to start on the matter and if we hear ACV so much, average contract value, just how important is it and is it the most important metric? Did they, did they all achieve quotas as appropriate? Missed the session? Jason Lemkin.

Price 47

Price Cross-sell Up-sell Start-ups 47

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Average Contract Value. AB Testing (or Split Testing) is an experiment involving two variants, usually for measuring and comparing market response to each. Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) is the value of contracted, often subscription-based revenues normalized for one calendar year. Closed Won. Deal Closing.

B2B 99

B2B E-commerce Cold Call Represent 99

SaaStr

JANUARY 3, 2020

Annual contracts: To what extent do annual contracts dominate today? Why does Tom think in the early days one should be wary of signing too many multi-year contracts? How does Tom think about calculating churn when it comes to multi-year contracts? What time frame from SAL to closed lead suggests product market fit?

Contract 10

Contract Price Commission Conversion 10

Gong.io

JULY 21, 2021

That’s why m odern go-to-market teams started aligning those teams a while back. Done well, RevOps means higher revenue and a smoother go-to-market (GTM) process. Boosting annual contract values? Targeting new markets? How can we rationalize our use of tools across different go-to-market teams?

Growth 62

Growth GTM Cross-sell Pipeline 62

SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

You have to put something in to get something out of it, and I think that obviously sounds biased coming from a marketer, but that is just the case. Maria : It’s like saying, “Hey, you want a sales rep to carry 10 times the quota they do today. Every retail shop was closed by 2000. I mean, literally. We were wrong.

Growth 84

Growth Promote Engineering Up-sell 84

Sales Hacker

APRIL 29, 2021

This is often the biggest thorn in their shoes, even above unrealistic quotas. This likely isn’t due to a power struggle or a culture war within their organizations, but it’s instead because sales content is fundamentally different from marketing content. Content Lifecycle. Content supply chain roadblocks and interim solutions.

A/B testing 102

A/B testing Sales Quota GTM 102

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 30, 2019

It’s all about how to build a great culture, how to think about incentivizing a team, how to help pull out a quota if you’re going to miss the number, and some creative things you can do to get there. Every sales org feels the pressure to close deals faster. Mistakes Companies Make [17:42]. Tell me about it.”

Cross-sell 52

Cross-sell Contract Pharmaceutical Quota 52

SalesLoft

JUNE 21, 2022

Most of the teams I talk with need technology to help create, close, and keep business. Your legal and finance teams are likely reviewing and negotiating vendor contracts. Multiple contracts to negotiate and manage. Add missed monthly pipeline and closed/won revenue to your cost analysis. Points of Failure.

Negotiate 52

Negotiate Legal Finance Technology 52

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

He has built and led AE and SDR sales teams, achieved individual revenue quotas, developed go to market strategies, managed regional sales, and recently has been a hiring machine. Appy Choudhary: 12 months on the lowest end and 18 months is the max, depending on what market you’re selling in.

Drivers/motivators 80

Drivers/motivators Engineering Promote Up-sell 80

Salesforce

MAY 2, 2022

This year, we’re adding 13 new names to our top-tier cohort, featuring experts in go-to-market strategies, diversity and inclusion, mental health, productivity, and revenue growth in our digital-first world. He is also the author of “Sell It Like A Mango: A New Seller’s Guide to Closing More Deals.” Belal Batrawy.

Gaming 98

Gaming GTM Consult Sales 98

SBI

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

ZoomInfo powered by DiscoverOrg is a powerful sales prospecting and go-to-market solution for salespeople, marketing, and even C-Level execs. DiscoverOrg and ZoomInfo Merge Brands to Launch Innovative B2B Data Platform To Power Go-To-Market Success. more likely to hit quota. Prospect Intelligence.

Customers 20

Customers Tradeshows Technology Technology 20