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

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

Hubspot

AUGUST 21, 2023

To have a successful product launch, you need to craft a thoughtful, actionable, effective go-to-market (GTM) strategy framework. Without proper planning, it’s impossible to know if you’re chasing the wrong audience, are too early or too late to a given market, or targeting a market that's too saturated with similar solutions.

Go To Market 69

Go To Market Process GTM Launch 69

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. 3) Adopt a top-down and bottom-up approach.

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Cross-sell Sales Contract Prospecting 52

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Fresh out of college, Mary started out in accounting, but it didn’t take long before she began a 20-year sales career that led her through Monster.com, HubSpot, and several others. Take control with the DocuSign agreement cloud, a suite of tools that automates sales contracts and quotes ,all right in your CRM. Outreach has your back.

Strategize 52

Strategize Contract Strategic planning Drivers/motivators 52

SaaStr

MAY 8, 2020

Listen to the start of the episode for a promo code to our upcoming events! But I do want to start today with a bit about you. Harry Stebbings: I do want to dive in straight though because it’s such a pressing and interesting environment right now, and I want to start on the lifeblood of any business, which is the sales.

Cross-sell 69

Cross-sell Contract Start-ups Up-sell 69

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.

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Pipeline Negotiate Objectives and Key Results Sales 101

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. Starting off with SMB sales can be an advantage. Be hyper-focused in your sales approach.

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B2B Cross-sell Negotiate Pitch 55

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. The sales team’s role in a bottom-up approach. He went to Holy Cross. What You’ll Learn.

Product 52

Product Pipeline Engineering Cross-sell 52

SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2019

Niall Wall, Box SVP of Business and Corporate Development alongside Vicki Lin, Stripe’s Head of Ecosystem and Cecilia Stallsmith, Slack’s Director of Platform Marketing discuss scaling your revenue via indirect channels and platform ecosystems. I’m going to be both moderating and participating. Vicki Lin : Great.

Engineering 47

Engineering Launch Contract Start-ups 47

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 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 83

Growth Cross-sell GTM Up-sell 83

InsightSquared

JULY 1, 2021

Whether you’re just starting your journey or on a team that’s scaling, we’ve created this comprehensive RevOps overview and glossary of revenue operations terminology and KPIs for your reference. . Guided Selling. The average dollar value of an annual contract. Average Annual Contract Value. Cross-Selling.

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Cross-sell Contract Objectives and Key Results Quota 62

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. Let’s go into innovation.

Growth 53

Growth Engineering Launch Commission 53

Sales Hacker

APRIL 21, 2021

If the answer is “yes” to all three, now is the best time to get started in a revenue operations job. 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. Asia Corbett ).

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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. If you’re trying to build a world-class sales team, this is where you should start. Companies with small customer counts (10-100) and large annual contract values ($100,000+). Field Sales.

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Inside sales Cold Call Contract Price 108

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. This is what happened at Lattice.

Legal 85

Legal Cross-sell Contract Price 85

Gong.io

JULY 21, 2021

Sales teams can’t keep up with their tech stack. 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. Done well, RevOps means higher revenue and a smoother go-to-market (GTM) process.

Growth 62

Growth GTM Cross-sell Pipeline 62

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?

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).

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X-functional Quota Cross-sell Contract 95

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. I think it sets a person up for success in any customer facing role. Because renewing, especially in SaaS, is pretty much selling.

Customers 62

Customers Cross-sell Account management Drivers/motivators 62

SaaStr

JULY 30, 2020

Start getting answers. Why do founders have to sell the product themselves at the start? Stop asking questions, start getting answers. Harry Stebbings: Now, I would love to start with a little bit of context. Stop asking questions. When is the right time to hire their first sales reps? So that’s my day job.

Cross-sell 81

Cross-sell Up-sell Start-ups Sell 81

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

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. SaaStr, good morning.

Growth 86

Growth Cross-sell Contract X-functional 86

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 71

Contract Sports Cross-sell Start-ups 71

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

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

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. A war analogy.

Cross-sell 52

Cross-sell Niche Objectives and Key Results Price 52

SaaStr

OCTOBER 22, 2020

As for Ryan, he has spent an incredible 9 years at Okta in numerous different roles starting with running the product marketing team before moving to run the marketing team, leading to his promotion to CMO close to 5 years ago now. Why does Ryan believe you should hire two in marketing to start?

Pipeline 66

Pipeline Cross-sell Launch Start-ups 66

SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2020

343: Kyle Parrish is the Head of Sales @ Figma, the company that helps teams create, test and ship better designs from start to finish. At what stage does culture and process really start to break? * For those that do not know, Figma helps teams create, test, and ship better designs from start to finish. What worked?

Sales 77

Sales Price Quota Start-ups 77

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?

Customers 42

Customers Price Cross-sell Start-ups 42

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Historically, growth of a sales team was based on the revenue starting with $0M on day 1 of the year. How the numbers add up. The sales leader starts hiring new people… and with that, the downward spiral continues. EXECUTE THE GO TO MARKET PLAN. To meet the growth potential a Go To Market (GTM) plan is imperative.

Growth 87

Growth GTM SQL Strategic partnership 87

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. If you look on the left hand side of the slide, by December 12th, we started to seek cases in Wuhan China. That’s the week that the CARES Act was signed into law and created some market stability that drove the Dow Jones back up.

Finance 77

Finance Government Price Contract 77

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.

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Price Cross-sell Up-sell Start-ups 45

SaaStr

AUGUST 13, 2019

So most of the SaaS organizations really find it pretty difficult to scale up. Why is it very difficult to actually scale up? When organizations actually go from starting up to selling to SMBs and going up market, the pool up market is undeniable. Why is that the case?

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Cross-sell Sales Support Growth Up-sell 60