SalesLoft

JUNE 3, 2019

It’s so, so hard, but upon reflection, and I had been thinking about this lately, I think the sales book that had the most enduring impact would have been Geoffrey Moore’s Crossing the Chasm. And for those aspirin people he articulated a way to go to market, that was very simplistic. I can sell to anyone.’.

Conversion 81

Conversion Real Estate Cross-sell Niche 81

Sales Hacker

JUNE 14, 2021

An e-commerce tech firm learned that there should not be a hand-off between sales and marketing once selling conversations begin. There’s also a huge gap when it comes to penetrating new business units or in cross-selling/upselling. Even though revenue derived from existing customers account for 70.1%

GTM 80

GTM E-commerce B2B Profit margin 80

Hubspot

JUNE 8, 2021

Nearly half of their time is spent selling remotely (i.e. Their main goal is to help customers increase the ROI on a purchase, so they'll often connect with a salesperson if an opportunity to cross-sell or upsell arises. This role is also known as "systems engineer," "pre-sales support," or "field consultants."

Commission 76

Commission Territory Finance Inside sales 76

Heinz Marketing

MAY 16, 2022

If I’m ever in market, I won’t buy from them because of how they treated me, because of how they pushed me.” And you want the CFO to understand what modern marketing can do, not only to demand function, but again, customer experience, the impact on retention, lifetime value, valuation multiples over time.

Pipeline 85

Pipeline Referrals X-functional Cross-sell 85

Veloxy

MAY 3, 2022

Helps your sales team spend more time on the selling activities that produce revenue. Helps perfect your sales process in order to sell more. In addition to helping sales team’s accelerate sales, Veloxy also helps optimize sales enablement by maximizing selling efficiency. Helps perfect your sales process in order to sell more.

Sell 182

Sell Cold Call Tradeshows Cross-sell 182

ConversionXL

JUNE 30, 2019

Companies do it for a wide variety of reasons—SEO, branding, go-to-market strategy, pricing, etc.—and Karl Gilis , a web usability consultant, is a big fan of comparative user testing: Karl Gilis: For me, it’s incredibly interesting to see what the users like and dislike about the sites of my client’s competitors.

UX 126

UX X-functional A/B testing User Experience 126

SBI

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Beta or early-adopter customers logically represent the tip of the arrow of your go-to-market efforts, but only if that’s been planned. acquired a company and wants to ramp up cross-sell opportunities. Your company: is launching a new product/service offering. has identified a new segment ripe for growth.

Customers 49

Customers Strategize Cross-sell B2B 49

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

We hear his best practices on developing a sales team, measuring rep productivity, why companies should lead with their product first, and what the sales team’s responsibility is inside of a product-led go-to-market strategy. He went to Holy Cross. What You’ll Learn. Outreach has your back. He’s a father of two.

Product 52

Product Pipeline Engineering Cross-sell 52

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 2, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Mary Rogul , a VP Sales Consultant, who’s currently an Enterprise Sales Advisor at Crayon. She’s now a consultant helping VPs of Sales scale and build their sales teams. Mary is one of the leaders in the go-to-market and sales space and sales community in the Boston area.

Strategize 52

Strategize Contract Strategic planning Drivers/motivators 52

Heinz Marketing

JUNE 1, 2020

Best Practices from Lisa McLe od” Lisa is the founder of McLeod & More as well as the Author of Selling with Noble Purpose. We know what we want to get done, sometimes we happen to think about what the prospect wants out of this as well, but that’s different than having a noble selling purpose. And I believe it is.

Pipeline 61

Pipeline Sales Up-sell Cross-sell 61

Lead Fuze

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The push tactics we’ve been using are not working, so here’s why: Sales and marketing teams are more aware of who they’re selling to, rather than just focusing on revenue growth. It’s also tough to penetrate new business units or cross-sellingupselling.

E-commerce 52

E-commerce B2B Healthcare Profit margin 52

SaaStr

JULY 17, 2020

But that’s more the exception than the rull of the go to market for many companies. And so obviously the people that need consumers to spend money for their revenue and then their contribution margin just had no shot of selling things. People are buying and selling houses. Look at Model T sales or something.

E-commerce 69

E-commerce Retail Real Estate Growth 69

SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2020

How does this change when selling to SMBs vs enterprise? * How does Sam think about the relationship between sales and marketing? Are marketing becoming the new sales team with their content being used more and more in the sales funnel? So I was doing environmental consulting. Should you hire 2 at a time?

Sales 69

Sales Cross-sell Start-ups Growth 69

SaaStr

JUNE 27, 2019

Fast forward to today, we’ve crossed the $400 million revenue mark. We announced tomorrow, but we’ve crossed that line and now we’re at about 55% of our revenues coming from the enterprise. So we’ve gone through a pretty massive transformation as we’ve taken on the enterprise market. That was it.

Cross-sell 71

Cross-sell Technology Technology Pitch 71

Martech

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The growing impact of B2B internal disconnects is limiting our customer relationships, affecting our revenue results and hamstringing our go-to-market (GTM) teams’ productivity. This disconnect challenge is made more complicated when every organization, region, team or business unit is doing their own thing in how they go to market.

B2B 116

B2B GTM Customers Cross-sell 116

Highspot

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Suddenly, your business has gone from a single salesperson to a team of hundreds, each of whom has a different approach to selling — and not all of them right for your business. But to succeed, you’ll need your team to execute your go-to-market strategy in a single, unified motion. Transactional Selling.

Cross-sell 85

Cross-sell Consult Sales Strategize 85

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

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. Always seek to understand, seek more input, and consult your own tribe to decide what’s for you and what is not. Anita Nielsen.

Sales 130

Sales Start-ups Up-sell Cross-sell 130

Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

The New Solution Selling. The Little Red Book of Selling. Unbreakable Laws of Selling. The New Strategic Selling. Agile Selling. Spin Selling. Insight Selling. Spear Selling. The Psychology of Selling. Buyer-Centered Selling. Integrity Selling for the 21st Century.

Sales 141

Sales Technique Objectives and Key Results Non-Profits 141

Martech

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Product-led growth (PLG) is all the rage as a go-to-market (GTM) strategy for B2B software companies looking to increase adoption and grow revenue. Profitability, efficiency and precision are today’s expectations for both vendors and the organizations they sell to. So, why PLG now?

GTM 98

GTM Growth Product Cross-sell 98

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

and before that spent 10 years as the Founder and CEO @ Raw Engineering, building a leading digital transformation consultancy. And before that, spent 10 years as the founder and CEO at Raw Engineering, building a leading digital transformation consultancy. We were not spending a ton of money on marketing.

Non-Profits 84

Non-Profits Teamwork Start-ups Engineering 84

PandaDoc

MAY 13, 2024

Inside sales For agents who engage in remote selling; on the phone, via video call, social media, or email. Training focuses on winning the trust of customers and providing an effective sell. Looks at the best tactics for increasing LTV, such as consultative selling (an approach that focuses on building relationships with customers).

Objectives and Key Results 52

Objectives and Key Results Legal Cross-sell Sales 52

SaaStr

JULY 30, 2020

Why do founders have to sell the product themselves at the start? Peter Kazanjy: So at TalentBin, that was kind of like my first training wheels, SaaS business, and also the place where I started to learn and appreciate go to market. So nowadays I’m all go to market all the time.

Cross-sell 81

Cross-sell Up-sell Start-ups Sell 81

SaaStr

JULY 15, 2020

But that’s more the exception than the role of the go to market for many companies. And so obviously the people that need consumers to spend money for their revenue and then their contribution margin just had no shot of selling things, look at model T-shirts or something. People are buying and selling houses.

X-functional 60

X-functional E-commerce Growth Retail 60

Sales Hacker

APRIL 14, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Jessica Wilkeyson , Co-Founder and Principal at Alternate Route , a go-to market strategy and revenue operations consultancy based in New York. Reps working from home need to be willing to converse without selling. Data integrity is more important than you thought.

Contract 70

Contract CRM Consult Cross-sell 70

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 2, 2020

No, that’s not the setup for some obscure go-to-market joke. A Sales Engagement platform is a technology platform that brings sales (and often customer success) activities under a single roof, allowing sales professionals to efficiently and effectively focus on selling. Empowering, Cross-Functional Content.

Objectives and Key Results 132

Objectives and Key Results Cross-sell Sales Technology 132

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 53

Growth Engineering Launch Commission 53

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

The best sales teams don’t just sell — they keep customers happy and drive serious upsell, cross-sell, and expansion revenue. Rifiniti used field sales to turn an old Lenovo consulting relationship into their first SaaS customer. Rifiniti: $150k ACV and $3M ARR. PipelineEquity: $360k ACV and $1.1M No-Touch Sales.

Inside sales 108

Inside sales Cold Call Contract Price 108

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 30, 2019

He then went on to help build PatientPop to over 60 million in recurring revenue and now he’s consulting to SMB businesses. 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.

Cross-sell 52

Cross-sell Contract Pharmaceutical Quota 52

The Lost Book of Sales

JULY 12, 2021

Starting to cross the chasm. How does the "D-Day" strategy help companies cross the chasm? Being sales vs. market driven when crossing the chasm. In both cases, the reason we have separate markets is that the customers could not have referenced each other. What is the "Chasm"? A war analogy.

Cross-sell 52

Cross-sell Niche Objectives and Key Results Price 52

Sales Hacker

APRIL 21, 2022

SaaS companies tend to follow a typical path, and it almost always leads to moving up-market and enterprise sales. In the early days, most SaaS companies sell to other startups for a number of reasons. But as SaaS startups mature, they usually start moving up-market. We started by selling to other startups, mainly YC companies.

Legal 85

Legal Cross-sell Contract Price 85

SaaStr

JULY 15, 2022

How, if no one’s heard of you, do you sell to big companies? Ash Bhoopathy (@ashbhoopathy): Probably more around go-to-market and sales. First of all, on go-to-market and sales and marketing, be very, very wary of folks that want to outsource your core. Jason Lemkin: Well, let’s break it up.

Growth 100

Growth Cross-sell Start-ups X-functional 100

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. This is go to market fit.

Growth 86

Growth Cross-sell Contract X-functional 86

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Growth of Omni-Channel Sales Strategies & Social Selling. The Continued Emphasis on Alignment of Sales & Marketing. Amazon is your new competitor – They now sell everything and dominate every product category. – Jeffrey Gitomer , Best-Selling Author, The Little Red Book of Selling.

Sales 96

Sales Cross-sell Up-sell Pipeline 96

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

We have worked inside organizations that have successfully transitioned from selling into mid-market to selling into Enterprises. This guide will arm you with the three most important things to address with your executive team before committing to the Enterprise market. Get Aligned Before Moving Upmarket.

Product 58

Product Contract Cross-sell Account management 58

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

How does Amanda think the go-to-market has to change with every stage of development? What can be done to ensure seamless cross-functional communication across the org? And now here I am at Figma, in charge of all go-to-market, which is super exciting for me. So it was very cross-functional.

Customers 42

Customers Price Cross-sell Start-ups 42

SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2020

I started my career at Bain and Company in consulting and unexpectedly spent over the course of 17 years staying at Bain mainly because when I would get comfortable, I would always have the next opportunity for the next promotion or the next client, et cetera, so I felt like I was always learning and growing. Lara Caimi: Yes.

Customers 71

Customers Strategize Start-ups Growth 71

Salesforce

AUGUST 24, 2021

Not by a long shot, according to The State of CRM, research conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Salesforce. The research surveyed executives, team managers, and individual contributors across marketing, sales, commerce, service, finance, and IT. Security and work-from-anywhere connectivity are paramount.

CRM 98

CRM Finance Customer Relationship Management Technology 98