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How to Align Sales & Legal to Close More Deals Faster with G2

SaaStr

For many organizations, friction can arise between the GTM engine and the legal team. Their mindset can devolve into thinking they would have an easier time achieving this goal if the legal team stopped interfering. On the other hand, the legal team may feel that the sales team is taking risks that put the company in jeopardy.

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15 Mistakes GTM Teams Make When Moving Upmarket (and how to avoid them)

Sales Hacker

The Sales Hacker Newsletter has now merged with The GTM Newsletter to make one of the largest newsletters in the space. Thanks for reading The GTM Newsletter! On top of this, the sale cycle is longer, more bureaucracy and more legal scrutiny up there. You can’t ctrl-c / ctrl-v a GTM motion). It’s official.

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Doubling Down: Rebecca Lynn, Co-Founder & General Partner at Canvas Ventures

SaaStr

We are laser-focused on supporting our companies with GTM services and expertise. My most recent exit, Casetext, the AI-powered legal research company that recently sold to Thomson Reuters for $650M in cash. All of our partners have deep backgrounds in go-to-market, whether in sales, channel strategy, or BD.

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

SaaStr

You don’t want to end up in The Valley of Death, where you can’t get the big dollar contracts. Miro was trying to make the shift to more of a hybrid GTM. You also need dedicated resources across your organization — marketing, customer success, product, legal, and finance. The warning — You have to be patient. The lesson learned?

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Your 2021 Sales Enablement Platform Buyer’s Guide (+10 Tools to Consider)

Sales Hacker

Here’s my guess: you’d see a GTM organization working together like a well-oiled machine. The mandate for sales enablement is to increase the effectiveness of their go-to-market (GTM) strategy by providing coaching, training, and introducing sales enablement platforms and tools. What is sales enablement? Training platforms.

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How to close more 6-figure deals, according to data

Gong.io

Those who dwell in due diligence: Budget approvers, legal/contract reviewers, and procurement analysts . Each person on your GTM team has unique skills that can add value to the sales cycle, especially if uncertainty pops up in the buyer’s journey. Each of those groups can easily include five or more people.

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What Is Enterprise OEM Software Licensing?

Sales Hacker

OEM licenses are significantly larger deal sizes than direct to end-user contracts because the licensee is usually pushing out the software to their entire customer base or a large portion of their customer base. One OEM contract can give thousands or tens of thousands of end-users access to the licensor’s software. Exclusivity.

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