Highspot

APRIL 2, 2020

Modern sales ops professionals play a vital role in the success of a sales organization by staying ahead of problems and enabling the sales team to focus on selling. Sales ops frees up bandwidth for sellers to then use these resources to improve their performance. Growth forecasts of sales territories. Communication tools.

Non-Profits 75

Non-Profits CRM Territory Cross-sell 75

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

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. Low CLV and high churn rates indicate that you are selling to the wrong people.

Customers 59

Customers Cross-sell Represent Contract 59

SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2022

So for the audience, cloud giants are turbocharging startup sales, and the predominant reason for this is because they’re fundamentally changing IT budgets at the customers that we’re all selling to. Rico Mallozzi: So marketplaces are fundamentally changing, go to market motions for a lot of enterprise technology companies.

Cross-sell 78

Cross-sell Finance Strategize Technology 78

SalesLoft

JUNE 20, 2019

In this properly dubbed “sales nerd explosion,” Pete and Jeremey discuss everything from the concept of “selling ice to an Eskimo” to a hiring pipeline to the necessity of sales math in modern sales. Topics include: Do you have to have a deep belief in what you’re selling in order to be successful? John: Right?

Territory 63

Territory Sales Construction Manufacturing 63

Heinz Marketing

MARCH 29, 2021

A lot of that was in-person or semi in-person rituals, whether it was the weekly stand up or people in a large inside sales floor, or you meet up with a manager a “x” number of times per month for lunch or whatever. I got reps that are used to going to someone’s office with a box of samples. I need more output from you.

Pipeline 123

Pipeline Sales Gaming Up-sell 123

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

If you missed episode 76, check it out here: PODCAST 76: Bottom-up Approach for Sales Rep Productivity Model w/ Kevin Egan of Slack. I started my career as a developer and I quickly realized that I was going to be a good developer, but I was never going to be a great developer. What You’ll Learn. Outreach has your back.

Engineering 50

Engineering Negotiate Technology Technology 50

SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

In terms of replacement, what does Bob believe will be the emerging trends in SaaS Go To Market that will replace it? * Where do most startups go wrong both in hiring for partnerships and in the engagements themselves? You’re selling capital and I think it was a really transformative experience for me.

X-functional 52

X-functional Start-ups Drivers/motivators Go To Market 52

InsightSquared

JULY 1, 2021

Guided Selling. The average dollar value of an annual contract. Average Annual Contract Value. The dollar amount indicated in the contract (excluding any one-time fees) divided by the length of the contract (in years). . A sales leader’s persona is going to be very different from a CRO’s, for example. .

Cross-sell 62

Cross-sell Contract Objectives and Key Results Quota 62

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. As the kids like to say: What’s up with that? High-tech innovation and marketing expertise are two cornerstones of the U.S.

Cross-sell 52

Cross-sell Niche Objectives and Key Results Price 52

Gong.io

JUNE 11, 2021

Rapidly evolved into a strategic, go-to-market function. They continue, “What was once the responsibility of product marketing, sales operations, or of a single sales trainer, sales enablement is now supported by dedicated teams founded within the sales organization” (bold is mine). A best-in-class onboarding program.

Objectives and Key Results 103

Objectives and Key Results GTM Price Territory 103

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 54

Territory Contract Cross-sell Drivers/motivators 54

Sales Hacker

APRIL 21, 2021

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. On Linkedin alone, a search for “revenue operations” in the US brings up almost 20,000 results. Remind me again – what is RevOps?

Finance 101

Finance GTM Cross-sell SQL 101

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

With the rise of AI, new sales technology and automation at the forefront of the sales echo chamber these days, we thought we’d take a moment to bring it back to BASICS – that’s why we’ve rounded up this complete glossary of sales terms and definitions to help you remember where it all started. Account-Based Marketing.

B2B 99

B2B E-commerce Cold Call Represent 99

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Doug Landis, Growth Partner at Emergence Capital shares his expertise on the art of business conversations and how your customers should inform your go-to-market messaging. Because when we have it as a stage, because what we do, we set ourselves up just to do a checklist of questions. And why are gas prices going up right now?

Pitch 92

Pitch Conversion Sales Territory 92

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

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 territory. Revenue by market. Year-over-year growth.

X-functional 96

X-functional Quota Cross-sell Contract 96

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. As for Erica, under her CRO role, she leads all go to market functions including marketing, sales, operations, customer success, services, and support.

Contract 66

Contract Sports Cross-sell Start-ups 66

SaaStr

JULY 28, 2021

In the run-up to 2021 SaaStr Annual, we’re looking back at some of the top all-time sessions. One of the most popular sessions at SaaStr Annual, Busting the Myths About Startup Success with BlackLine CEO and Founder Therese Tucker is up at the top of our must-watch list. Then, they would call up and go, “Guess what?

Start-ups 110

Start-ups Gaming Up-sell Contract 110

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

He has built and led AE and SDR sales teams, achieved individual revenue quotas, developed go to market strategies, managed regional sales, and recently has been a hiring machine. You need to be organized so that you can keep up with your tasks. You need a lot of experience to sell into those kinds of accounts.

Drivers/motivators 81

Drivers/motivators Engineering Promote Up-sell 81

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

How the numbers add up. CASE IN POINT: Many SaaS companies can demonstrate the ability to get to $1M in ARR by pursuing 10,000 prospects with the “hack” of high-frequency email chains to set up demos. EXECUTE THE GO TO MARKET PLAN. To meet the growth potential a Go To Market (GTM) plan is imperative.

Growth 88

Growth GTM SQL Strategic partnership 88

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. That’s the week that the CARES Act was signed into law and created some market stability that drove the Dow Jones back up. So we’ll know tomorrow, the extent to which that goes up. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

Finance 79

Finance Government Price Contract 79

SaaStr

AUGUST 28, 2020

If that was not enough, Hilary is also a Limited Partner in Stage 2 Capital, the venture firm focused purely on go-to-market. Where do many go wrong here? Where can you pick up small wins? And ended up reaching out to a gentleman that I knew and said, “Hey, is this really for real?” Harry Stebbings.

Sales 65

Sales Start-ups Meeting Follow-up 65

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? Missed the session?

Price 47

Price Cross-sell Up-sell Start-ups 47

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Having founded his first company at age 15, Luke Rogers, now VP: sales at Instabase, is determined to turn the world of technology upside down in more ways than one, a passionate believer that experiences is the least important quality when building an elite go-to-market team. I grew up there and was there at school.

Sales 100

Sales E-commerce Technology Technology 100

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?

Cross-sell 63

Cross-sell Sales Support Growth Up-sell 63

SaaStr

JULY 29, 2022

Jason recently opened up an AMA on Twitter Spaces to answer questions about how to scale faster. Let’s get it going. If we want to queue up the conversation, we did a blog post on SaaStr last week, about how everyone from Salesloft, to Zendesk, to Salesforce, Workday said they’re really seeing no slow down.

Price 85

Price Product Start-ups Niche 85

SaaStr

AUGUST 8, 2019

So, you’ve got to split your territory between pools of 2,000, 3,000 prospect per person. How you decide on this model and go-to market strategy? What I told you that a success factor for sales for us is not just signing the contract. The first option is that the wrong person is selling your product, people problem.

Appointment 43

Appointment Hospitality Sales Inside sales 43

SaaStr

AUGUST 8, 2019

So, you’ve got to split your territory between pools of 2,000, 3,000 prospect per person. How you decide on this model and go-to market strategy? What I told you that a success factor for sales for us is not just signing the contract. The first option is that the wrong person is selling your product, people problem.

Appointment 43

Appointment Hospitality Sales Inside sales 43

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Series A money is to fund the growth energy and the Series B money and C the expansion and the scale up. To build the initial team, to build the product, to build the initial go to market, to build the first customers and to build the ARR, the starting. It’s known that you can probably sell those first couple of contracts.

B2C 60

B2C B2B Start-ups Growth 60

Salesforce

MAY 2, 2022

This year, we’re adding 13 new names to our top-tier cohort, featuring experts in go-to-market strategies, diversity and inclusion, mental health, productivity, and revenue growth in our digital-first world. Think about folks from different industries, regions, and educational backgrounds. Sign up now. Ali Powell.

Gaming 98

Gaming GTM Consult Sales 98

SBI

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Seismic, the market leader for sales enablement platforms, today announced the acquisition of Percolate, a leading marketing campaign orchestration and content management platform. The selling landscape has changed. The world is moving to a peer-to-peer selling environment that also now includes the sharing of experiences.

Customers 20

Customers Tradeshows Technology Technology 20

SaaStr

AUGUST 19, 2020

Portag3 Ventures Partner Chris O’Neill discusses leadership and teamwork lessons he’s picked up in his career through a hobby and a metaphor of sailing. I grew up in a really small town in Canada on the shores of Lake Huron and in that community, sailing was a really big part of the community and the way of life.

E-commerce 101

E-commerce Price Start-ups Growth 101

SaaStr

JULY 19, 2019

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How did Peter make his way into the world of enterprise SaaS with the founding and selling of 6 companies and how did InCountry come about? Why is it no longer to come into large enterprises with a small contract and expand? When is the right time to sell a startup? Do they really mean anything?

Cross-sell 54

Cross-sell Up-sell Start-ups Engineering 54