Hubspot

JANUARY 14, 2025

Theyre someone who takes initiative, inspires their fellow salespeople, and drives revenue growth through an innovative approach to prospecting and selling. And, just as I mentioned, thats exactly where sales champions shine theyre not just deal-closers but dynamic professionals who go far beyond the basics of selling. You know this.

Negotiate

Highspot

JUNE 19, 2025

They sense that they are part of something more than a contract. Uncover new upsell and cross-sell opportunities Staying engaged with customers as their business evolves helps you understand their changing needs. It’s where customers start to feel your brand gets them (or doesn’t).

GTM

PandaDoc

MARCH 25, 2025

If youre selling a cup of coffee, the options are relatively simple. Identifying upsell and cross-sell opportunities to drive continued revenue growth. Buyers sense this drop in energy, and they start doubting the commitment or value of your solution. The sales process varies greatly depending on the purchase.

Objectives and Key Results

RingDNA

MARCH 26, 2025

How to Use LinkedIn to Find and Engage B2B Sales Prospects While the cold call has hardly disappeared from inside sales, social media tools such as LinkedIn give you the ability to warm up cold calls with research. Start with Your Profile When someone looks at your LinkedIn profile, this is often their first impression of you.

Closing

Hubspot

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Five years into my B2B marketing career, I noticed a pattern: The clients who said yes were the ones whom I understood not just their stated needs but their underlying motivations through conceptual selling. Table of Contents What is conceptual selling? While traditional selling asks, What do you need? Heres how it works.

Sell

Salesforce

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

You’re not selling tools or closing contracts; you’re offering solutions and building partnerships. Whether you’re just getting started in sales or you’re onboarding new sales team members , I’ll share the best and most common sales terms used today.

Objectives and Key Results

PandaDoc

JUNE 6, 2025

It’s all about empowering your reps to sell more effectively—and you can’t improve what you don’t measure. Keeping up with regular reviews will help you catch red flags early on while staying agile in your enablement strategy. The goal is to have your metrics build a feedback loop so you can stop guessing and start optimizing.

Objectives and Key Results

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 7, 2025

But since I started using Superhuman last quarter, I was able to get back to inbox zero within minutes. I dont know how I didnt start on Superhuman sooner. So if I look at a month or a quarter, you start and you say, okay, do we have enough pipeline? So I think I’m going to start with what is the same.

GTM

Salesforce

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Once you have determined a prospective location, start marketing in the area to measure interest and generate enthusiasm. This can help you get a jump on sales and sign up potential customers even before breaking ground. Without those capabilities, you end up with general messaging that doesnt appeal to each potential audience.

Contract

Sales Hacker

MARCH 25, 2025

I think I got to start by maybe putting you on the spot a little bit. Getting entire work done or processes done in the background and only bubbling up to a human when it has an exception. Previously to that, it was the global VP of product for SAP, focused on the CRM and sales cloud. I mean, moonshot projects sound pretty fun.

GTM

Sales Hacker

JUNE 17, 2025

Not to start off with an AI question. Dennis Lyandres: Okay, so Sophie Buonassisi: when it comes to cross vertical software and ai, [00:04:00] what are you really advising founders on today? So you know, Procore, we started selling to the general contractor. We [00:09:00] called out, we wanted to sell to owners.

GTM

Hubspot

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Desperate for a solution, I turned to target account selling a method Ive since refined into a system thats helped me land six SaaS clients in under four months. Table of Contents What is target account selling? How does target account selling work? What is target account selling? How does target account selling work?

Clients

Salesforce

JULY 17, 2025

The B2B buying experience is no longer about email blasts, PDF pitch decks, and a one-size-fits-all follow-up from sales. It must account for buying groups, cross-functional decisions, longer sales cycles, and the rise of AI agents brokering information on your buyer’s behalf. What to do instead: Start with unification, not AI.

B2B

SaaStr

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Pricing is more than just a number on a contract — when used thoughtfully, it can become a strategic tool for your SaaS product that can drive product adoption, customer satisfaction, and business growth. As Miro grew and we were scaling up, they wanted the product to be once again available to everyone.

Price

Hubspot

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Balances Consultative and Provocative Selling SPICED encourages sales professionals to engage in consultative conversations that prioritize understanding the customers needs while incorporating a provocative edge to challenge their current perspectives. When approaching a sale, always start by doing your homework.

Sales

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

This isn’t just theory – it’s showing up in the public filings. The “Golf Course Era” – Selling to CIOs over lunch GTM 2.0: The “Golf Course Era” – Selling to CIOs over lunch GTM 2.0: Salesforce started with 2.0 Who doesn’t want that?

GTM

SaaStr

JUNE 25, 2025

Company Snapshot: Founded : January 2014 (11 years) Current ARR : $1.09B+ (Q1 FY2025) Growth Rate : 39% YoY ARR growth, 47% revenue growth NPS Score : 80 (exceptionally high for enterprise software) Net Revenue Retention : 133% (as of Jan 2024) Customers : 2,246 customers with $100K+ ARR contracts IPO : April 2024 on NYSE (RBRK) at $5.6B

Legal

Salesforce

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Every groundbreaking business starts with a single spark — just one idea. Whether you’re an aspiring entrepreneur looking for inspiration or a seasoned business owner exploring new opportunities, starting a new business is a big deal. Why start a small business? Why start a small business? Is there demand?

Minimum Viable Product

Salesforce

MAY 12, 2025

It does this by accounting for three components: Expansion revenue: Revenue gained through upselling or cross-selling to existing customers. Contraction revenue: Revenue lost due to existing customers’ downgrades or reduced usage. Sign up now Thanks, you’re subscribed! A positive NRR must meet or exceed 100%.

Cross-sell

Salesforce

APRIL 28, 2025

With over 2 billion monthly active users , its where trends start, communities grow, and businesses thrive. Successful SMBs on Instagram dont just sell their products they create immersive brand experiences that keep followers coming back. In fact, 90% of Instagram users follow at least one brand, making it a goldmine for SMBs.

Follow-up

Hubspot

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

We didnt have that sort of money, but we didnt want to give up either. Instead of training the tool to pick up billions of data points, we restricted it to pick the data from the users X profile only. Use Microsoft Azure, HubSpot , Google Cloud, and AWS for speeding up deployment, scaling growth, and unlocking actionable insights.

Minimum Viable Product

SaaStr

JUNE 23, 2025

months is reshaping how software gets built TL;DR: The New Dev Platform Reality In June 2025, Replit CEO Amjad Masad dropped a bombshell on X: his company had crossed $100M ARR, up from just $10M at the end of 2024. You need to set up a dev environment, install packages, configure DB, and, if lucky, deploy.

X-functional

Salesforce

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Whether you’re upgrading your current process or looking for fresh techniques, these are the best methods to set you up for a successful year. Let’s explore the most effective sales tactics that help you sell smarter and grow faster. Get to know your customers better Start by analyzing sales call transcripts.

Territory

Salesforce

MARCH 3, 2025

A Deal Desk is a cross-functional team that streamlines the closing of sales complex and non-standard deals, handling everything from quote to cash. This includes everything from securing approvals and ensuring every contract is compliant. This includes setting prices, drafting custom contracts, and keeping service delivery on track.

Legal

Sales Hacker

MAY 30, 2025

Start with a shared revenue mindset Alignment begins with language. At Carta , alignment started with early trust-building. Lisa Horner (CMO) and Marcy Campbell (CRO) created a cross-functional framework: UCE brings together marketing, sales, customer success, and services. Planning becomes cross-functional by default.

GTM

Tibor Shanto

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

They not only do things differently and better, but start with a different vision, view if you will. While one looks at buyer’s state of readiness to buy, you can cross-reference with length of relationship with incumbent provider. At this point they may consider contracting a duct cleaner, or go ductless, (geese only).

Cross-sell

Salesforce

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

That’s the beauty of effective cross-selling. It increases the customer’s overall satisfaction, while driving up sales. What you’ll learn: What is cross-selling? See how it works What is cross-selling? What’s the difference between cross-selling and upselling?

Cross-sell

Salesmate

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

It’s a no-brainer that sales methodologies help businesses sell better and choose better customers for life. In the Sandler sales model, the seller and buyer both will be equally invested in the selling process. Basically, the sales rep will communicate to build a relationship, not to sell a product. Up-front contracts.

Cross-sell

Veloxy

AUGUST 17, 2022

Price: $49/month for Salesforce users, corporate plans available Automations: Non-selling activities, lead prioritization, lead capture Veloxy has several features to help you automate Salesforce, no matter how long you’ve been using the CRM platform. Visit Veloxy’s Salesforce AppExchange store to start your free trial today.

Appointment

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

This is trending to 50/50 now that Asana has crossed $400m in ARR, but still a reminder a self-serve motion combined with sales jumping on the bigger deals can scale very, very far. 60% of Expensify’s Customers started off in the Free edition, even at IPO. Sprout Social doesn’t only sell a low-end edition.

Contract

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Why is it that companies have a sales process they follow rigorously to win business, yet avoid the same discipline in managing those customers throughout the lifecycle of their contracts? Today we can start to change that. Too often contract cancellation (or non-renewal) comes as a surprise, but it never should.

Customers

Martech

MAY 6, 2024

While the focus of lead scoring is typically on identifying and prioritizing new leads, it can also be applied to existing customers to determine their level of engagement, satisfaction, and potential for upselling or cross-selling opportunities. Email: Business email address Sign up now Processing.

Cross-sell

SaaStr

DECEMBER 27, 2020

CEO Lew Cirne, after regretting selling his first startup in the space to CA for $375m, tries again with New Relic. But New Relic has continued to scale, crossing $650,000,000 in ARR (or so) and a $4B market cap. That’s up from 70% 5 quarters ago — a big change. 10x the sign-ups with new Free tier.

Contract

Salesforce

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Field service can help drive revenue growth by selling to your existing customers, also called upselling or cross-selling. We’ve found that 65% of mobile workers are successfully selling to existing customers. Let’s dig into each of these best practices for upselling and cross-selling in field service.

Service

Salesforce

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Trending Articles 3 Ways Generative AI Will Help Marketers Connect With Customers 3 min read Skill Up on AI with Trailhead 6 min read What are the most important sales KPIs? Annual contract value (ACV) What it measures: The average sales amount of a customer contract over the course of a year. Typically measured yearly.

Cross-sell

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.

Inside sales

Martech

JULY 14, 2022

It changes depending on the type of product you’re selling and the market you are pursuing. Canare says that while there are elements common to all campaigns, there are significant differences depending on what you sell and who you’re selling it to. You have to sell to them differently. They buy differently.”.

E-commerce