Hubspot

AUGUST 17, 2021

With so much room for confusion and error, it's easy for any company to drop the ball and frustrate its salespeople, making poorly-constructed compensation plans one of the main reasons why people leave sales roles. Sometimes, it means they’re selling a lot of Product X when the company is pushing for sales of Product Y.

Commission 91

Commission Quota X-functional Finance 91

Search Engine Land

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Facebook, LinkedIn, TikTok, X, Pinterest): “I want to know” searches (through acquaintances and friends). Functioning as a source of business intelligence. How consumers connect with their environment, mental constructs and worldviews shapes their perception and use of products and services. Ecommerce platforms (e.g.,

Objectives and Key Results 101

Objectives and Key Results X-functional Intrinsic Construction 101

Hubspot

APRIL 4, 2023

Explain your thought process and decision-making. I enjoy the process of analyzing complex data, identifying patterns and trends, and using that data to make informed recommendations. I did this by [Describe Process]. This will help the interviewer understand your problem-solving process. What obstacles did you face?

Consult 83

Consult Objectives and Key Results X-functional Construction 83

Hubspot

JUNE 14, 2022

The most successful products and services have some kind of edge — a defining, compelling x-factor that captures and capitalizes on potential customers' attention. The market for virtually every product or service is flooded with a variety of options — all serving the same fundamental function. Apple and Samsung both make smartphones.

X-functional 78

X-functional Entertainment Territory Price 78

ConversionXL

JULY 29, 2020

Yes, Google and Amazon’s search functions are not the same. In the example above, separate bullets cover aspects like construction materials, battery life, and microphone capabilities. Of course, not everything requires reworking. What doesn’t change. No, not everything is different: Keywords still matter. Backend keywords.

Click Through Rate 113

Click Through Rate Objectives and Key Results Retail Engineering 113

Hubspot

JUNE 22, 2022

Still, some underlying principles can be applied in the context of almost any kind of business relationship to make the process of establishing one a bit more straightforward. Sound customer relationships are the foundation of any viable, productive business — having direct sway over how your business functions and grows.

Legal 91

Legal Relationship building Contact X-functional 91

ConversionXL

MARCH 28, 2019

These early supporters form a base of users and provide valuable feedback regarding your product’s functionality. This means that you’ve applied feedback from alpha testers and that your product has no major bugs for its core functionality. Feedback is honest and constructive. Your product is not going to be perfect.

Campaign 127

Campaign Product Launch Referrals 127

Heinz Marketing

JANUARY 9, 2018

Millennials are taking their seats at the buying table, seated among their Generation X and Baby Boomer colleagues, and that disruption is happening, and will continue to happen, whether B2B sales and marketing teams are ready for it or not. The process was completely collaborative – they weren’t just some vendor agency that executed.

B2B 74

B2B Objectives and Key Results B2C Promote 74

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 13, 2021

The licensee embeds the third-party software into its application to improve it by adding new functionality or features, or enhancing existing functionality or features. Product management, engineering, customer success, sales, and marketing groups will weigh in on the decision-making process. Pricing models.

GTM 86

GTM Negotiate Profit margin Contract 86

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

We have 1,000 employees across three locations, San Francisco, Denver, and New York, and everything in the past four years has grown by more than 10 X. You’ll be on your company team, your functional team, an agile cross functional working group. How do you challenge directly X-axis? So how do you do that?

Drivers/motivators 89

Drivers/motivators X-functional Trust Cross-sell 89

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Because it’s not so much focused around X, Y, Z NPS score. If you sat and you said, “Okay, we sign a customer, we process their contract, we have to get them provisioned. Are we processing a renewal? And that’s how you start to drive that culture of customer success. Maybe, maybe not.

Prospecting 92

Prospecting Customers Promote X-functional 92

Heinz Marketing

MARCH 11, 2019

There was a great rebrand that the folks at Asana drove where they had a wonderful blog where they talked about the process they went through that was super helpful. And agencies come in and they typically want to run through a fairly laborious process, for good reasons, that we just felt like we didn’t necessarily need.

Pipeline 68

Pipeline Sales B2B X-functional 68

ConversionXL

APRIL 28, 2016

As Gershoff put it, personalization is fundamentally the “process of assigning users to experiences.” How do you decide to assign X experience to Y segment? With a targeted marketing system, what they experienced is now a function of both their ‘data’ and the targeting logic that were both active AT THE TIME of the experience.

A/B testing 69

A/B testing User Experience Technique X-functional 69

Hubspot

JANUARY 6, 2016

To hire well, you need to have an effective process full of checks and balances in place. Notice I used the word “process," as hiring consists of many more components than just the classic face-to-face interview. So to help set you up for success, we've detailed our process below. If yes, move them forward in the process.

Referrals 53

Referrals X-functional Follow-up Construction 53

SaaStr

DECEMBER 31, 2019

How do we get the functionality of Salesforce out there in the field and on the phone? It Has really, really deep functionality. ” And so we broke it down into a very basic set of functionality, and then used that momentum to sort of bring us towards really our core product, which was the desktop product. Does it matter?

Product 59

Product B2B X-functional Growth 59

Heinz Marketing

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Melissa: Yeah, so I’d say that sales enablement, I fell into it, I think like a lot of folks do, they fall into sales enablement through a function of necessity and accident, happy accident. Melissa: My strong opinion is that the sales enablement function should report up into sales. Essentially, the entire customer life cycle.

Pipeline 68

Pipeline X-functional Sales Up-sell 68

SaaStr

APRIL 24, 2020

And going through the process of selling boxed software in stores to selling online delivery of the application, it’s crazy. Harry Stebbings: Can I dive in and ask, in terms of kind of the connection of that strategy, how do you create that connection cross-functionally across the company? I’m super intrigued by that.

X-functional 90

X-functional Strategize Retail Technology 90

SaaStr

MARCH 5, 2019

He couldn’t physically, mentally process too much. Those things actually should be constructed and collaborated and changed in dynamic where everybody can see them. So what’s the thought process there? How do you process, especially in an open culture, how do you surface the best idea out of 3,500?

Objectives and Key Results 70

Objectives and Key Results Cross-sell Trust Product 70

Lead Fuze

JANUARY 2, 2024

But don’t let the term ‘strategy’ intimidate you; think of it like plotting out a treasure map where X marks the spot for achieving greater visibility and connection with customers who are already searching for what you have up your sleeve. Think digital Swiss Army knife: all function, no fluff. Picking a CMS?

Sales 52

Sales Strategize Niche Lead generation 52

SaaStr

MARCH 5, 2019

He couldn’t physically, mentally process too much. Those things actually should be constructed and collaborated and changed in dynamic where everybody can see them. So what’s the thought process there? How do you process, especially in an open culture, how do you surface the best idea out of 3,500?

Objectives and Key Results 59

Objectives and Key Results Cross-sell Trust Product 59

SaaStr

MAY 7, 2019

Like building the plan as it’s taking off and helping put processes in place, but then after that you need to hire people that you can actually trust to get things done. When there’s no processes in place and everything’s manual, I’m like spreadsheet woman. Alyson F. : Alyson, how do you put this together?”

Trust 46

Trust Start-ups Engineering Legal 46

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

What is the process to do it efficiently? How does your customer success and customer support functions change with the move to enterprise? So the previous one saying carefully constructed very different things, staying in the same segments, [inaudible 00:09:38]. How does he think about the mortality rate of SMBs?

Price 57

Price GTM Up-sell Product 57

SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2019

What one question must all founders be asking in the sales process? * How does Tom think about constructing comp plans the right way today? Called Appian that went public two or three years ago, and we were building business process management software. How does the impact of a salesperson change the conversion rate?

Contract 61

Contract Price Commission Conversion 61

SaaStr

JUNE 21, 2019

What questions does Sara find most revealing in the interview process? And I’ve heard so many wonderful things about the V2MOM process. Is there commonalities in where you see some people go wrong in their presentation construction and really displaying of customer stories? Harry Stebbings: Yeah, absolutely.

Start-ups 62

Start-ups X-functional Drivers/motivators Up-sell 62

SaaStr

JANUARY 3, 2020

What one question must all founders be asking in the sales process? * How does Tom think about constructing comp plans the right way today? Called Appian that went public two or three years ago, and we were building business process management software. How does the impact of a salesperson change the conversion rate?

Contract 11

Contract Price Commission Conversion 11

SaaStr

JUNE 14, 2019

How should execs think about making exciting enough go-forward plans for it to be attractive to buyers but also realistic enough that they can hit it in the acquisition process? * How do they set up the process from there? How do they set up the process from there? * How many meetings is normal to have in this process?

Strategize 61

Strategize Quota Non-Profits Price 61

Salesforce

OCTOBER 28, 2024

While we can’t scale human intuition, we can approximate it with through a ranking function. This ranking function is a neural network that learns from past experiences regarding which types of neural networks look promising and which are likely to be useless. How do the architecture process information differently?

X-functional 52

X-functional Represent Construction Networking 52

SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

It’s that you should constructively build a team that’s going to be like assembling the Avengers where any one of them by themselves has amazing superpowers, but it’s the entire squad together that is going to save the world. Bob Moore: At that 50 plus era, there’s a function for this. In that regard, yes.

X-functional 59

X-functional Start-ups Drivers/motivators Go To Market 59

Sales Hacker

APRIL 29, 2025

It’s a core function of product marketing. 00:11:00] We do a lot to integrate those people directly into the product development process. The customer focused teams, the ones that are really out there, sense those things so that the nervous system can process it. It is user research, right?

GTM 86

GTM Product X-functional Start-ups 86

ConversionXL

JANUARY 28, 2020

No hiring process in the world is designed to hire the best and brightest. They say that their specific process has led to their success, and they would never change it. The truth is that, while you may have a “process” and current people, you’ve done little to maximize the effectiveness of the process.

Growth 70

Growth X-functional SQL UX 70

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

18:13 The role of cross-functional communication. 18:13 The role of cross-functional communication. And when you think about that role, it’s cross functional. I’m getting a little out there, but it’s in charge of its function. Prior to Landing, he served as the Global Head of Strategic Finance at WeWork.

GTM 83

GTM Finance Cross-sell X-functional 83

ConversionXL

APRIL 6, 2016

Dual Process Theory – the brain is made up of two “systems.” Perhaps because they require effort (to X). Emotional targeting is a four step process, which takes 30-60 days: Emotional Competitor Analysis (grade according to message, color, image, and emotion triggers instead of features and product). Automation.

A/B testing 77

A/B testing Non-Profits E-commerce X-functional 77