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.

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Cross-sell Finance Strategize Technology 85

SalesLoft

OCTOBER 21, 2016

From the OG, Account Based Marketing, to the new front man Account Based Sales Development , the lift in annual contract values alone is proof that the targeted approach to customer acquisition is working.As the model evolves into an Account-Based Everything approach, Craig Rosenberg is guiding us all through the process, step by step.

Cross-sell 52

Cross-sell GTM Referrals Contract 52

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.”.

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Sell Minimum Viable Product Objectives and Key Results Cross-sell 78

Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2021

Everything is backed up by data pulled from Outreach processes and their customer base. onoutreach to see what they have going on. 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.

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Referrals Contract Cross-sell Sales 59

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 86

Growth Cross-sell Contract X-functional 86

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. A sales operations team also streamlines processes in order to improve sales productivity and give reps more time to engage with customers. Sales communication.

Non-Profits 75

Non-Profits CRM Territory Cross-sell 75

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 55

Territory Contract Cross-sell Drivers/motivators 55

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

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. Finding and attracting new customers is a costly process from the start to the end.

Customers 59

Customers Cross-sell Represent Contract 59

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

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 23, 2018

In this post, I am going to highlight the seven hidden traps in the B2B sales process that might be holding you back. 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.

B2B 55

B2B Cross-sell Negotiate Pitch 55

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 97

Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

But what is a sales pipeline and why is it so instrumental to selling success? A sales pipeline encompasses every stage of your sales process. Because sales processes differ from company to company (and even product to product), your sales pipeline should be unique and reflect the typical buyer's journey. Sales Pipeline Stages.

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Pipeline Negotiate Objectives and Key Results Sales 101

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.

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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

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 73

Cross-sell Contract Start-ups Up-sell 73

SaaStr

JULY 30, 2020

Finally, before TalentBin, Pete founded Honestly.com building the world’s first professional reputation clearinghouse and raising funding from CRV and First Round in the process. Why do founders have to sell the product themselves at the start? So nowadays I’m all go to market all the time.

Cross-sell 84

Cross-sell Up-sell Start-ups Sell 84

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

How does Amanda like to run the interview process? 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.

Customers 43

Customers Price Cross-sell Start-ups 43

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. Myth number three.

Cross-sell 63

Cross-sell Sales Support Growth Up-sell 63

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 49

Engineering Launch Contract Start-ups 49

SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2020

At what stage does culture and process really start to break? * 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.

Sales 81

Sales Price Quota Start-ups 81

SaaStr

MAY 27, 2020

So people were paying people to take their futures contracts. That means specifically they’re going to cancel contracts. And that means they’re going to renegotiate prices for tools that they deem essential. I think most SaaS startups haven’t seen the full effects of what you’re going to see.

Finance 81

Finance Government Price Contract 81

SaaStr

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Why was joining Okta the most challenging interview process he has experienced? When do they align and when do they separate? * What should the first marketing hire look like? Why does Ryan believe you should hire two in marketing to start? How does Ryan think about measuring success when it comes to product marketing?

Pipeline 69

Pipeline Cross-sell Launch Start-ups 69

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

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. If ACV increase is a core focus for our startup, should we hire a sales rep solely selling to enterprise? Missed the session?

Price 47

Price Cross-sell Up-sell Start-ups 47

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 92

Price Product Start-ups Niche 92

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 107

E-commerce Price Start-ups Growth 107

Sales Hacker

APRIL 21, 2021

In essence, RevOps is a hybrid job function that combines components of sales, marketing, and customer success roles all wrapped into one, with a goal of helping to eliminate silos that are naturally weaved into the sales process. It may take days before the rep can actually send a contract for signature. Alisa Goldschmidt ).

Finance 100

Finance GTM Cross-sell SQL 100

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

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. It also means switching the focus from the sales process to the buyer’s journey: It’s not about you , it’s about them. Make sense?

Growth 62

Growth GTM Cross-sell Pipeline 62

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 pretty sure all those deals were in process before the crash. At best, it’s concentrated in overfunded unicorns and some parts of consumer.

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Quota Growth Product Closing 86

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.

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Inside sales Cold Call Contract Price 108

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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X-functional Quota Cross-sell Contract 96

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. Today, Jessica helps companies find ways they can optimize their current business processes. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

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Contract CRM Consult Cross-sell 70

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

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?

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