SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2019

Then on the go to market side just over 40% of new ARR comes indirectly around the world through partners. I’m happy to talk about both of those as we go through this session. We look at things like do we, the net new logos versus upsells or cross-sells coming from channel versus direct.

Engineering 46

Engineering Launch Contract Start-ups 46

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

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

Sales Hacker

APRIL 21, 2021

It may take days before the rep can actually send a contract for signature. The marketing team ran a super successful campaign and generated hot leads. The director of customer success brings her Salesforce report to a cross-functional meeting with sales and marketing leadership. Career Advice from 6 RevOps Pros.

Finance 101

Finance GTM Cross-sell SQL 101

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 25, 2023

We’ll continue on our mission to provide real stories/strategies/insights from the best go-to-market operators on the planet, spanning sales, marketing, customer success, operations/enablement, product and hiring. Creating these roles and structuring it this way was how we continued to fuel the growth engine. Very simple.

GTM 52

GTM Contract Cross-sell Account management 52

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 51

Territory Contract Cross-sell Drivers/motivators 51

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 84

Growth Cross-sell Contract X-functional 84

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

If you have a product that is absolutely crushing it in SMB/mid-market, you may be tempted to dive straight into the Enterprise market. Who could avoid dreaming of those seven-figure deal sizes, 3-year contracts, and trophy logos? Related: The SaaS Executive’s Guide To Building A Winning Go-To Market Strategy.

Product 58

Product Contract Cross-sell Account management 58

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. That sounds good.

Cross-sell 77

Cross-sell Up-sell Start-ups Sell 77

SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

As for Erica, under her CRO role, she leads all go-to-market functions including Marketing, Sales, Operations, Customer Success, Services, and Support. How does this move impact the relationship between sales and marketing? How should compensation plans be altered with the move? It was really an incredible experience.

Contract 67

Contract Sports Cross-sell Start-ups 67

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

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

OCTOBER 22, 2020

* What should the first marketing hire look like? Why does Ryan believe you should hire two in marketing to start? How does Ryan ensure cross-function working seamlessly from the very beginning with marketing? * How does Ryan think about measuring success when it comes to product marketing?

Pipeline 65

Pipeline Cross-sell Launch Start-ups 65

SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2020

Kyle Parrish: In that time, before I was even really focused on the impact of UI/UX or the design world at large, I started to realize we were selling against companies like Google and Microsoft and Box, and a lot of our sales pitch was around how intuitive the product was. It wasn’t just engineering, product, and design roles.

Sales 75

Sales Price Quota Start-ups 75

SaaStr

AUGUST 13, 2019

When organizations actually go from starting up to selling to SMBs and going up market, the pool up market is undeniable. You’re trying to figure out how to sell to them. Also selling up market actually means that you can very easily have predictable revenue streams. Solution engineers.

Cross-sell 59

Cross-sell Sales Support Growth Up-sell 59

SaaStr

JULY 29, 2022

So you’re really asking how do you get a business going, like selling to restaurants that not only is hard to penetrate but has a hardware component. So maybe it was a crummy time to sell as they were coming up on 20 million US dollars in revenue. Jason Lemkin: Well, look. It might take a few times.

Price 86

Price Product Start-ups Niche 86

SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2022

Sometimes we’re not as founders, sometimes founders sell their company because they don’t end up being deeply passionate about what it does. So sell your product. I’m not great at it, but most folks they’re aggressive without crossing the line. It’s like recruiting for a VP today. Maverick.

Quota 83

Quota Growth Product Closing 83

SaaStr

JULY 19, 2019

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How did Peter make his way into the world of enterprise SaaS with the founding and selling of 6 companies and how did InCountry come about? Why is it no longer to come into large enterprises with a small contract and expand? When is the right time to sell a startup? Do they really mean anything?

Cross-sell 51

Cross-sell Up-sell Start-ups Engineering 51

SaaStr

AUGUST 19, 2020

We shut down something called the Evernote market which was selling physical goods, sunset some nice products like Evernote food which had nice followings, but I felt were distracting from the larger priorities. So if you haven’t experimented with an ROI calculator in your go-to-market motion, I’d highly encourage it.

E-commerce 100

E-commerce Price Start-ups Growth 100

SaaStr

JULY 10, 2020

We shut down something called the Evernote Market, which was selling physical goods, sunset some niche products like Evernote Food which had nice followings, but I felt were distracting from the larger priorities. So if you haven’t experimented with an ROI calculator in your go-to-market motion, I’d highly encourage it.

E-commerce 73

E-commerce Price Start-ups Growth 73