Martech

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

4 Defend marketing efficiency and effectiveness above budget In challenging times , CEOs and boards can look to scale back go-to-market efforts, leaving marketing in a defensive stance when it comes to budget. Here, in reverse order, are the top four deeper dive areas where we found direct success. #4

GTM 134

GTM Market share Growth Technology 134

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Average Contract Value. AB Testing (or Split Testing) is an experiment involving two variants, usually for measuring and comparing market response to each. Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) is the value of contracted, often subscription-based revenues normalized for one calendar year. Go-to-Market Strategy.

B2B 105

B2B E-commerce Cold Call Sales 105

Hubspot

AUGUST 8, 2019

That’s why successful companies obsessively measure everything about their go-to-market model, sales strategy, and salespeople. Market penetration. Percentage of revenue from existing customers (cross-selling, upselling, repeat orders, expanded contracts, etc.). Number of referral requests. Year-over-year growth.

X-functional 101

X-functional Quota Cross-sell Contract 101

Heinz Marketing

JANUARY 10, 2020

How about feedback on your intended go-to-market plan and/or product road map? Sales referrals? For example, if you believe analysts should (or historically) generate qualified sales referrals, how many would make the paid relationship worthwhile? Will analyst insights replace the need for primary in-market research?

Referrals 51

Referrals Negotiate Contract High impact 51

Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2021

And he really worked the referrals. He really worked his referral business so that was pretty interesting. I left print media because it was an industry that was contracting. But obviously, the media world was contracting. No one really knew how it was going to work out. Lessons Michelle learned in 2020 [20:37].

Referrals 66

Referrals Cross-sell Contract Sales 66

Gong.io

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Sales reps don’t waste time chasing low-quality leads that won’t close or whose annual contracts are barely worth their time. Achieve higher annual contract value (ACV). You’ll generate fewer deals when you use target account selling, but those deals will have a significantly higher annual contract value than previous deals.

Sell 62

Sell Cold Call Contract Up-sell 62

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 Go-to-Market alignment: segment the ICP by value and align to the GTM (organization, target list, and offers + plays).

Cross-sell 52

Cross-sell GTM Referrals Contract 52

Sales Hacker

MARCH 25, 2025

Ray breaks down why the rise of AI agents is a tectonic shift, how businesses are already seeing ROI, and what it means for SaaS, team structure, and go-to-market strategies. Conversations reveal the unshared details behind how they have grown companies, and the go-to-market strategies responsible for shaping that growth.

GTM 66

GTM X-functional Start-ups Relationship building 66

SaaStr

JULY 29, 2022

And it became a massive capital sink, as the company changed its go-to market around five million in revenue. Because it is viral, but is viral like Dropbox as you noted, it is viral like DocuSign and Adobe Sign were when we built it in the early days, when by signing a contract, someone else inherently saw the product.

Price 107

Price Product Start-ups Niche 107

SalesHandy

JULY 12, 2022

Increasing Customer Lifetime Value (CLV): When you have a go-to-market strategy that is targeting the right customers, by default, your customer lifetime value (CLV) will experience a gradual increase. Designing your ICP framework is paramount to the success of your sales and marketing efforts. Wrapping Up.

Customers 59

Customers Cross-sell Represent Up-sell 59

SalesLoft

JUNE 20, 2019

So it wasn’t even like I could negotiate on contract, my price is my price. At first, I was trying to do what every other sales rep at Xerox was doing, which was just go flip copiers. I remember walking into my boss’ office, dropping three huge contracts on this table, and saying, ‘See?

Territory 63

Territory Sales Construction Up-sell 63

Sales Hacker

MAY 13, 2025

18:00 Practical data strategies for local businesses and SaaS marketers. 22:00 Why structured data is the foundation of AI-first marketing. 31:00 Seat-based pricing is dying how to move to value-based contracts. And, the ROI is gonna be built into the contract in a way that like paying per head is not.

GTM 72

GTM Engineering Start-ups Growth 72

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 7, 2025

Fred Viet: And I would say back to the safe plan is, you need to understand that we are in tech and product is important part and you need to make sure you’ve got a strong alignment between the product and the go-to market. Fred Viet: Going to say um two um when we touch base on the first one is the um.

GTM 113

GTM Sell Customers Cold Call 113

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

So if you are in the modern world, 2021, you are going to market, as a brand manufacturer, as a retailer, as a distributor, any of these models, in a hundred different ways. So first and foremost, you want to have control of your go-to-market, and you’ve got to have the ability to sell to your customer yourself.

E-commerce 114

E-commerce Manufacturing X-functional Retail 114

SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2020

We had so many inbound referrals, and in terms of recruiting and hiring, people knew that there were a lot more roles on the go-to-market and business side. I’m really intrigued how sales works with marketing on the high ACV, heavy enterprise deals. It wasn’t just engineering, product, and design roles.

Sales 99

Sales Price Quota Start-ups 99

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

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? And now here I am at Figma, in charge of all go-to-market, which is super exciting for me. Your pricings are a reflection of your go-to-market strategy.

Customers 43

Customers Price Cross-sell Start-ups 43

SaaStr

JUNE 3, 2020

Michael Katz: So I took over sales, after we re-orged the go-to-market teams at the end of Q3 2019. We had grown a bunch, but our market had changed, and our go-to-market really needed to change as well. Michael Katz: I’ve always been pretty hands on with go-to-market, both on sales and marketing.

Pipeline 84

Pipeline Meeting Start-ups Up-sell 84