SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2022

So for the audience, cloud giants are turbocharging startup sales, and the predominant reason for this is because they’re fundamentally changing IT budgets at the customers that we’re all selling to. Rico Mallozzi: So marketplaces are fundamentally changing, go to market motions for a lot of enterprise technology companies.

Cross-sell 76

Cross-sell Finance Strategize Technology 76

Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2021

That’s when I felt really bad selling people that, even though they were signing up for it themselves. I left print media because it was an industry that was contracting. A lot of really big fashion brands and jewelers and watch brands, that was a lot of relationship selling, which I like, but it’s not my favorite.

Referrals 59

Referrals Contract Cross-sell Sales 59

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Imagine having the opportunity to sell into a company like Lyft in 2011. Imagine growing with them on their journey to becoming a publicly-traded company with an $11+ billion market cap. The total addressable market continues to grow and is ripe for selling to, but very few startups reach unicorn status. And so on.”.

Sell 77

Sell Minimum Viable Product Objectives and Key Results Cross-sell 77

SalesLoft

JANUARY 19, 2017

At this time I was tasked with developing & executing sales account strategy and managing the training of all go-to-market teams. Reps have a tendency to make excuses for the prospects they spend time trying to convert and less time being highly exclusive with whom to sell to. Your ICP could include 20 or more criteria.

Cross-sell 52

Cross-sell Sales Contract Prospecting 52

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. Planning and strategizing go-to-market plans. Automating any possible selling or non-selling tasks. Contract lifecycle management.

Non-Profits 75

Non-Profits CRM Territory Cross-sell 75

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.

Customers 59

Customers Cross-sell Represent Contract 59

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Take control with the DocuSign agreement cloud, a suite of tools that automates sales contracts and quotes ,all right in your CRM. Create custom contracts in a click, sign them digitally, and automatically pull data back into your opportunities. Most recently she worked at Crayon, which is an early-stage market intelligence platform.

Strategize 52

Strategize Contract Strategic planning Drivers/motivators 52

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. Renewal rates are certainly important, but a customer advocate is worth multiples of their annual contract value.

Customers 49

Customers Strategize Cross-sell B2B 49

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 23, 2018

There’s a general tendency among most frontline sales teams to sell to enterprises and become the next Salesforce. The other advantages of selling to SMBs is that over time businesses can gain experience in developing enterprise-grade software while beefing up their go-to-market strategy for SMBs.

B2B 55

B2B Cross-sell Negotiate Pitch 55

SaaStr

MAY 8, 2020

How have you seen the best engage with offering pilots, and what’s the structure of the pilots that you tend to advise when selling to enterprise? So, our company, Arthur, an explainable AI company, realized that the regulated industries they sell into also want their solution on prem, even during a pilot phase.

Cross-sell 70

Cross-sell Contract Start-ups Up-sell 70

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. The answer depends on your product, prospect base, and marketing resources. Proposal sent: The buyer reviews your proposal or contract.

Pipeline 100

Pipeline Negotiate Objectives and Key Results Sales 100

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 93

Go To Market Process GTM Education 93

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. But, Let’s go to the beginning: How’d you get into sales?

Product 52

Product Pipeline Engineering Cross-sell 52

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 48

Engineering Launch Contract Start-ups 48

SaaStr

MARCH 22, 2023

You need to marry your go-to-market strategy to specific commercial structures that you, as a SaaS company, decide to offer your customers. They asked themselves, “what if we moved to some motion of licensing contracts?” Instead of selling products, they were selling aspirational concepts and business value.

Growth 75

Growth Cross-sell GTM Up-sell 75

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. .

Cross-sell 62

Cross-sell Contract Objectives and Key Results Quota 62

Salesforce

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Add to that, the company had previously signed a three-year contract with Slack for several thousand users, and five months later, it had blown past that allotment. Their contract was originally in our mid-market segment, but they outgrew our segment lines, which brought them into our enterprise team. see what's new.

Closing 98

Closing Contract Legal Cross-sell 98

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. Manager, Revenue Operations.

Finance 100

Finance GTM Cross-sell SQL 100

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. Oh, and remember that 92% of the lifetime value comes after they commit and sign the contract!

GTM 52

GTM Contract Cross-sell Account management 52

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. This is where a sales rep physically meets a potential customer to discuss needs, budgets, volumes, prices, requirements, timelines, and other contract details.

Inside sales 108

Inside sales Cold Call Contract Price 108

Gong.io

JULY 21, 2021

That’s why m odern go-to-market teams started aligning those teams a while back. Done well, RevOps means higher revenue and a smoother go-to-market (GTM) process. Once you’ve moved your org beyond ‘ What is revenue operations ”, they’ll know that it’s more than hosting a few cross-functional meetings. .

Growth 62

Growth GTM Cross-sell Pipeline 62

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 52

Territory Contract Cross-sell Drivers/motivators 52

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).

X-functional 91

X-functional Cross-sell Quota Contract 91

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 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

Gong.io

AUGUST 10, 2020

Which selling skills should account managers focus on building? Selling skills matter just as much for account management, just in a more subtle way. Selling Skills and Account Management. Because renewing, especially in SaaS, is pretty much selling. At the end of that contract, you’ve got to sell it again.

Customers 62

Customers Cross-sell Account management Drivers/motivators 62

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

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. You experienced so many different founders and companies and go to market motions.

Cross-sell 52

Cross-sell Contract Pharmaceutical Quota 52

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 82

Growth Cross-sell Contract X-functional 82

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

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 64

Contract Sports Cross-sell Start-ups 64

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.

GTM 98

GTM CRM Cross-sell Cold Call 98

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

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 77

Cross-sell Up-sell Start-ups Sell 77

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

CASE IN POINT: Common mistakes we find that can lead you to believe you are in a launch window: Not distinguishing outliers: One of our client’s database showed a single $200,000 annual contract (ACV) Enterprise deal with a 270-day sales cycle among dozens of $12,000 ACV deals with 28 days sales cycles. EXECUTE THE GO TO MARKET PLAN.

Growth 86

Growth GTM SQL Strategic partnership 86

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 66

Pipeline Cross-sell Launch Start-ups 66