Sales Hacker

AUGUST 23, 2018

And no matter how much it’s drummed up about, I don’t believe there are any shortcuts to accelerating your sales funnel. There’s a general tendency among most frontline sales teams to sell to enterprises and become the next Salesforce. Trying to sell to everyone and anyone is tempting, but it’s a fool’s errand.

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B2B Cross-sell Negotiate Pitch 55

Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

But what is a sales pipeline and why is it so instrumental to selling success? If your forecast anticipates you’re going to miss your quota, you should double down on selling activities. A sales manager following this philosophy would ask his rep to connect with 300 buyers to close 100 deals. Sales Pipeline Stages.

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Highspot

APRIL 2, 2020

Modern sales ops professionals play a vital role in the success of a sales organization by staying ahead of problems and enabling the sales team to focus on selling. Sales ops frees up bandwidth for sellers to then use these resources to improve their performance. Planning and strategizing go-to-market plans.

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SalesHandy

JULY 12, 2022

is a common misconception amongst many salespeople and marketers believing they should serve everyone. If you are selling to the wrong individuals, then your sales team will most likely struggle to connect with them and their pain points. Low CLV and high churn rates indicate that you are selling to the wrong people.

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Customers Cross-sell Represent Contract 59

SaaStr

MAY 8, 2020

If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin. Jessica Lin: Yeah, and this is so much of what even we do at Work-Bench as we build up the corporate network, it really is about how do you provide value to those executives? Harry Stebbings. Jessica Lin.

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Cross-sell Contract Start-ups Up-sell 73

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?

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Go To Market Process GTM Education 95

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. .

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Cross-sell Contract Objectives and Key Results Quota 62

Sales Hacker

APRIL 21, 2021

Revenue operations (RevOps) is a centralized org within a company that supports all revenue-generating business operations including Sales Ops, Marketing Ops, Customer Success Ops, and systems management. On Linkedin alone, a search for “revenue operations” in the US brings up almost 20,000 results. Remind me again – what is RevOps?

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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.). Revenue by market. Average contract value (ACV).

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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. Foundations for moving up-market.

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Legal Cross-sell Contract Price 85

SaaStr

AUGUST 27, 2019

In addition to sales comps go to super power is a mean karaoke rendition of, Since You’ve Been Gone. Jessica Lin: Next up we have Michaela Lairs, senior director of finance at Movable Ink, a digital marketing platform, and also a veteran of top enterprise startups in New York City. But also what is my go to market motion?

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Territory Contract Cross-sell Drivers/motivators 55

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Take control with the DocuSign agreement cloud, a suite of tools that automates sales contracts and quote, all right in your CRM. Create custom contracts in a click, sign them digitally, and automatically pull data back into your opportunities. Tell us a little bit about your career and what you’re up to now.

Cross-sell 52

Cross-sell Contract Pharmaceutical Quota 52

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? ou can also take your SaaStr to go: Listen on iTunes. Listen on Google Play Music.

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Contract Sports Cross-sell Start-ups 74

SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

The three stages are product-market fit, then go-to-market fit and lastly growth and moat. What are you doing up so early? What’s the failure rate for a Series A start up? What’s the failure rate of a Series C start up? We are screwing up the scale. It was all about getting the contract.

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Growth Cross-sell Contract X-functional 88

SaaStr

JULY 30, 2020

Why do founders have to sell the product themselves at the start? If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin. After TalentBin was acquired, I ended up writing a book on startup sales and sales for founders called Founding Sales. Harry Stebbings.

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Cross-sell Up-sell Start-ups Sell 87

The Lost Book of Sales

JULY 12, 2021

If you enjoy what you read and would like to receive a very occasional, hand-crafted update from me into your inbox, feel free to sign up below. Basics: Markets and segmentation. Starting to cross the chasm. How does the "D-Day" strategy help companies cross the chasm? Table of Contents. What's happening?

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Cross-sell Niche Objectives and Key Results Price 52

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.

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Product Contract Cross-sell Account management 58

ConversionXL

APRIL 7, 2021

Account-Based Marketing has in fact been around since the 1940s. When sales made a list of logos they wanted to sell, or the list of ‘dream customers’ to close. The concept remains the same today with modern ABM—we want to sell to a list of ‘dream customers’ more commonly referred to as target accounts.

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GTM CRM Cross-sell Cold Call 98

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

How the numbers add up. To achieve growth, you have to identify the following during Product/Market Fit: WHAT is the value proposition that prioritizes the solution offered. Not entering the data correctly: An untrained sales manager gets a lead (SQL) and following a discovery call disqualifies it.

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Growth GTM SQL Strategic partnership 86

SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2020

If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin. So we were really selling on the intuitiveness of the design, and in tandem with that, we were hiring these kind of rockstar designers. Harry Stebbings. Kyle Parrish. That made a ton of sense to me.

Sales 82

Sales Price Quota Start-ups 82

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? Harry Stebbings.

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Pipeline Cross-sell Launch Start-ups 70

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

What does Amanda mean when she says “pricing is made up of 3 components?” Where does Amanda believe most people go wrong with pricing? 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? Transcript.

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Customers Price Cross-sell Start-ups 43

SaaStr

MAY 27, 2020

We woke up February 2020 with a shock to the system and no idea what it would mean for our business. That’s the week that the CARES Act was signed into law and created some market stability that drove the Dow Jones back up. So we’ll know tomorrow, the extent to which that goes up. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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Finance Government Price Contract 82

SaaStr

JUNE 28, 2019

In his most recent role, Dave was the CEO @ Host Analytics where he quintupled ARR, halved customer acquisition costs and increased net retention rates before selling the company to a private equity sponsor. Is it best to start at enterprise and work down to SMB or does SMB and work up to enterprise work best? Jason Lemkin. David Skok.

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Price Cross-sell Up-sell Start-ups 47

SaaStr

JULY 29, 2022

Jason recently opened up an AMA on Twitter Spaces to answer questions about how to scale faster. Let’s get it going. If we want to queue up the conversation, we did a blog post on SaaStr last week, about how everyone from Salesloft, to Zendesk, to Salesforce, Workday said they’re really seeing no slow down.

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Price Product Start-ups Niche 96

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 17, 2019

As a serial founder, Pete has built up an impressive library of knowledge on scaling businesses and optimizing sales motions. How selling as a founder will help you understand your sales motions. And he has indoctrinated that it cross a wide range of functions and content so that the rest of us can learn. What You’ll Learn.

Contract 52

Contract Cross-sell Sales Up-sell 52

SaaStr

AUGUST 19, 2020

Portag3 Ventures Partner Chris O’Neill discusses leadership and teamwork lessons he’s picked up in his career through a hobby and a metaphor of sailing. I grew up in a really small town in Canada on the shores of Lake Huron and in that community, sailing was a really big part of the community and the way of life.

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E-commerce Price Start-ups Growth 109

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 55

Cross-sell Up-sell Start-ups Engineering 55

SaaStr

JULY 10, 2020

If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin. I grew up in a really small town in Canada on the shores of Lake Huron and in that community, sailing was a really big part of the community and the way of life. Chris O’Neill.

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E-commerce Price Start-ups Growth 81