SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2024

It’s challenging to find super high-quality folks unless you’re in B2C, where customer support is sales. As a founder, you need to be more involved in functional areas like sales support and success. App contraction is still happening, and AI is absorbing all of the energy in the industry. Is SaaS dead right now?

Price 94

Price X-functional Growth B2B 94

Sales Pop!

OCTOBER 18, 2021

We’ve broken them down by functionality: Lead generation tools ; Internal communication tools; Engagement and outreach; Analytics and automation tools; Document management; Marketing sales support. What Is a Sales Setup? Creating a sales setup is a little more complicated than simply buying a toolkit.

Prospecting 97

Prospecting Price CRM Lead generation 97

Highspot

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

What Is a Digital Sales Room? Why Is a Digital Sales Room Necessary How Digital Sales Room Aligns With the Buyer Journey Key Features of a Digital Sales Room Digital Sales Room Best Practices Close Deals Faster With Digital Sales Rooms From Highspot What Is a Digital Sales Room (DSR)?

Objectives and Key Results 59

Objectives and Key Results Objection handling Teamwork Sales 59

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Technical selling of SaaS, on-premise software, and hardware solutions has relied on sales proofs of concept (POCs) that require pre-sales professionals to lead, manage, and drive to a ‘technical win” outcome so that account executives can close the deal. Tip: Read more about these evaluation attributes. Guided trial.

Objectives and Key Results 74

Objectives and Key Results Technical Sales Engineering Sales 74

PandaDoc

MARCH 7, 2023

Close the sale If all of a lead’s objections have been dealt with, there should be nothing left to do but close the sale. What needs to happen to close deals will depend on the nature of your business. Sales automation software or other solutions with eSignature functionality will help you close deals more quickly.

Process 52

Process Objectives and Key Results Pitch Legal 52

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Account-Based Selling / Sales Development. Average Contract Value. Average Sale/Selling Price. Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) is the value of contracted, often subscription-based revenues normalized for one calendar year. Challenger Sales Model. Channel Sales. Closed Won. Complex Sale.

B2B 99

B2B E-commerce Cold Call Represent 99

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2023

The sales motion may also look more like a Land and Expand which also requires a bit of diff skillset (although could have an account management team on that). Needs more pre sales support. You’ll focus at first on targeting, messaging and positioning, and understanding how to prepare for introductory Enterprise sales calls.

GTM 68

GTM Up-sell Price Start-ups 68

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 7, 2020

Enterprise sales organizations usually have well-established procedures , workflows, customer relationship management , and forecasting systems. They also have well-developed workflows for lead-processing and drafting and revising of contracts. Sales Support. Remember, your sales skills are transferable.

Start-ups 77

Start-ups Non-Profits Territory Sales 77

SaaStr

AUGUST 13, 2019

And let’s say your average sales price for the opportunity that you’re closing is $10,000. And because of that our overall sales and marketing spin, when we compare it to our next competitor, is about 50%. So myth number three is worry about sales support later. So let’s say that’s 10%.

Cross-sell 60

Cross-sell Sales Support Growth Up-sell 60

SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2022

During this time of remote workforce, budgets are tightening and a lot of our enterprise customers are using their pre committed cloud security contracts to buy enterprise software and software from ISVs. It requires support from marketing, support from sales, support from the technology team, from your ops team.

Cross-sell 80

Cross-sell Finance Strategize Technology 80

The Lost Book of Sales

JULY 12, 2021

The visionaries’ idea is to be able to stay very close to the development train to make sure it is going in the right direction and to be able to get off if they discover it is not going where they thought. The goal in either case is to work as close as possible to where decisions that affect the customer actually get made.

Cross-sell 52

Cross-sell Niche Objectives and Key Results Price 52

Hubspot

AUGUST 21, 2023

Negotiation: Both sales reps and decision-makers discuss pricing details and feature needs. Close: A deal is agreed upon and your prospect turns into a customer. Renewal (Optional): Your customer renews their contract or subscription. Those entering demos will make contact with a direct sales/support person.

Go To Market 69

Go To Market Process GTM Launch 69

Hubspot

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Once an SDR has determined the lead is qualified, they pass the opportunity to a sales rep. Unlike a closing sales rep, SDRs don’t carry a traditional quota. If the idea of closing a big deal or winning a low-probability opportunity thrills you, this position is right up your alley. Sales Engineer.

Territory 93

Territory Commission Outside Sales Account management 93