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Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey Moore

The Lost Book of Sales

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.

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8 Tough Lessons from Closing 12,000 Customers at WebPT (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

WebPT achieved 30% market share and transformed an entire vertical with a purpose-built solution in a tech-averse industry. Learn what it takes to create your own category, achieve scale in a niche SaaS vertical and how it requires more than just discovering an unmet need. Want to see more content like this?

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Scaling Faster, Part 2: An AMA with SaaStr Founder & CEO Jason Lemkin (Pod 583)

SaaStr

And we now got to this point of one to $2 million in ARR across about 50 to 60 contracts. So the new sales leader is trying to figure out, can we go further up market? But look, if you already got to a million in ARR with your 50 or 20 customers, whatever it is, there’s no way you have 100% market share, is there?

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Scaling Faster, An AMA with SaaStr Founder & CEO Jason Lemkin (Pod 577)

SaaStr

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. All I can tell you is, it’s certainly challenging.

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Digital Analytics Simplified: The Beginner’s Guide

ConversionXL

By making predictions based on what buyers want, Amazon makes shopping easier (people don’t have to go searching for products), allowing them to sell more. And from existing customer behavior and interactions with your customer service team, you can predict popular products and make upsell and cross-sell recommendations to increase retention.