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5 Challenges in Moving Upmarket and How to Overcome Them with Salesforce Ventures

SaaStr

People start with the push to go upmarket vs. being pulled upmarket. You don’t want to end up in The Valley of Death, where you can’t get the big dollar contracts. You have to expand your focus on how you sell and make it strategic to the C-suite. Miro was trying to make the shift to more of a hybrid GTM.

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Sequoia India: 22 Things We Learned from SaaStr Annual

SaaStr

We remain optimistic about the prospects of cross-border SaaS. Many of them will get gobbled up by the large platforms. Org Building Ideas for Cross-Border Companies. US companies follow the same model when they start in India. Learnings on GTM. Pricing/Packaging (PP) is a key component of GTM.

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Lessons on Scaling Customer Success from $1M to $300M in ARR with Success Venture Partners

SaaStr

Sell to more existing customers. It’s one thing to bring the customer over the line and sell for the first time. Your selling team will 3x, and sales will become codified. When scaling from founder-led sales to another person selling the product, customers become more demanding. Being truly cross-functional.

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8 Ways to Make Your Sales Org Recession Ready

Salesforce

Elyse Archer , founder and CEO of She Sells, said this should start with the customer need: “What can you change in your processes, systems, and delivery to serve them best now?” Additionally, simple tweaks to payment options and contract terms go a long way to addressing customers’ budgetary concerns. Speed up rep success.

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Is a Sales Operations Career Right for You?

Sales Hacker

Sales ops is responsible for supporting and enabling sales reps to sell efficiently and effectively. Sales operations teams bring a system of selling and structure to a sales organization. The focus is on things like reporting, territory management and later stage tasks such as contract negotiations and finance approvals.

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Don’t Be Afraid of Account-Based Everything

SalesLoft

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 So what’s the hold up? Cross-functional orchestration. And that’s just the half that’s fully implemented.

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Selling into Startups 101: What You Need to Know to Find a Unicorn

Sales Hacker

Imagine having the opportunity to sell into a company like Lyft in 2011. The total addressable market continues to grow and is ripe for selling to, but very few startups reach unicorn status. Why Should You Sell Into Startups? While selling to startups is an evergreen opportunity, it’s important to understand the risks as well.

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