Sales Hacker

MARCH 25, 2025

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Ray Smith is the VP of AI Agents at Microsoft. GTM 139 Episode Transcript Scott Barker: Hello, and welcome back to the GTM podcast. Previously, he was the Global VP of Product for SAP, CRM and Sales Cloud.

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GTM X-functional Start-ups Relationship building 65

Sales Hacker

APRIL 1, 2025

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Hayden Stafford is the President and Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) at Seismic, where he oversees the global go-to-market (GTM) organization, including pre-sales, sales, customer success, services, partners, and more.

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GTM Up-sell Start-ups Gaming 62

Partners in Excellence

MAY 29, 2025

These are the companies that sell the basic materials, components, parts that go into the products we buy (these can be physical products or software products). In our own operations (not just our GTM strategies) we must daily ask, “What are we doing to make it worth our customers staying with us?

Real Estate 89

Real Estate Healthcare GTM Construction 89

Highspot

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Product training is a structured learning process that helps team members understand, communicate, and sell a product. According to Gartner, 77% of B2B buyers say their most recent purchase felt “very complex or difficult,” highlighting the importance of thorough product knowledge for anyone selling or supporting a solution.

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Product GTM Objectives and Key Results Cross-sell 52

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Contract renewal dates. A spotlight falls on customer loyalty, an influential force on the revenue secured during contract renewals. This is something that strong operators such as Farlan Dowell (GTM / Sales Coach / Advisor) suggest. GTM Total Compensation and Rewards Manager at Vanta – more details here.

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Intrinsic GTM Customers Contract 119

SaaStr

JULY 20, 2024

It’s essential to take a step back, slow down in terms of consecutive hiring, and ensure you’re working with third-party providers to find the right talent, especially on the GTM and technical side. Aligning and Scaling the GTM Engine One of the core functions when hiring talent is engineering, product, and design. How do you do that?

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GTM X-functional Engineering Referrals 119

Gong.io

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

You have to get wide when you sell into organizations with 2,000+ employees.” . Selling is a team sport once you’re talking quarter million dollar deals. Selling is a team sport once you’re talking quarter million dollar deals. I don’t just sell — I coach and direct a go-to-market team.”. African proverb .

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Closing Sports GTM Legal 162

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

What he shared was pure gold for any SaaS founder trying to navigate the complex world of GTM motions. The Evolution of Go-To-Market (And Why It Matters) Let’s break this down into three distinct eras: GTM 1.0: The “Golf Course Era” – Selling to CIOs over lunch GTM 2.0: Salesforce started with 2.0

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GTM Cross-sell Contract Inside sales 57

Sales Hacker

JUNE 16, 2021

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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Martech

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Dig deeper: How to develop a winning B2B ideal customer profile Formula 2: The catalyst has to become integral to the way you go to market Your ICP must also be embedded in every aspect of your go-to-market (GTM) strategy. They dont serve our best interests and are certainly not suited for success. How long will it take?

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GTM B2B Drivers/motivators Manufacturing 80

Sales Hacker

APRIL 10, 2018

Where you can apply this GTM strategy. How to map your GTM strategy to different customer segments. Using CAC to model your GTM strategy. B2B segments in focus: Enterprise/Company wide – selling a platform (CRM/ERP) using multi-year contracts. Selling a $5/month Chrome plugin to a Pro-user?

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Go To Market GTM X-functional Territory 92

Martech

JUNE 28, 2022

Marketers play a large, proactive role in the buying-selling process to generate revenue across the entire buyer lifecycle – from generating a new customer, to contract renewal, to solution expansion and cross-sell/upsell. Drive the shift from push to pull marketing. It doesn’t have to be over complicated.

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B2B GTM Cross-sell Cold Call 122

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Learnings on GTM. Pricing/Packaging (PP) is a key component of GTM. PP could be a strategic enabler of GTM scale up if done well. The former CRO of a successful prosumer SaaS company shared how they gave away free annual licenses for all new users over and above the ones contracted. That’s too tactical.

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GTM Niche Cross-sell Contract 117

SaaStr

APRIL 5, 2024

How do you sell against the competition or become a market leader in a very crowded space? To sell against the competition, you have to differentiate yourself. In a way, how they scale their GTM has created a virtuous cycle that helps them keep offering the best data set, and therefore bringing in new people to buy it.

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Sell GTM Price Up-sell 94

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Imagine having the opportunity to sell into a company like Lyft in 2011. The total addressable market continues to grow and is ripe for selling to, but very few startups reach unicorn status. Why Should You Sell Into Startups? While selling to startups is an evergreen opportunity, it’s important to understand the risks as well.

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Sell Minimum Viable Product Objectives and Key Results Cross-sell 98

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

One of the keys to growth in today’s business model is to identify the most effective and efficient GTM model using a variety of sales and marketing channels. The challenge is that organizations are primarily looking at the result, not using metrics to measure effectiveness and efficiency of each GTM strategy.

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Growth GTM SQL Strategic partnership 99

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Stephanie Couzin, the VP of GTM Strategy and Ops, and Roderick De Greef, the VP of Sales and GM EMEA, share Lucid’s transition from a PLG company to a PLG and Sales-Led company. Team-based selling is at the core of alignment because it’s as much a PLG motion as a sales-led one.

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Territory GTM Price Cross-sell 122

SaaStr

MARCH 22, 2023

But it also defines your GTM efforts. They asked themselves, “what if we moved to some motion of licensing contracts?” Instead of selling products, they were selling aspirational concepts and business value. You have to sell to customers how they want to be sold to and let them buy the way they want to buy.

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Growth Cross-sell GTM Up-sell 103

Martech

MAY 28, 2024

As the world we sell in becomes more saturated and buyer journeys more complex, the right tools can significantly enhance the efficacy of your marketing efforts. I think HubSpot has outpaced any other offering in the space and will soon be the go-to player for all things GTM. Originality.ai A tool like Originality.ai

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GTM Drivers/motivators B2B Campaign 129

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 13, 2021

It includes factual information, personal experience, and interviews from successful professionals on both the buy-side and the sell-side of enterprise OEM software licensing to ensure a broad mix of experience and ideas. Enterprise software companies rarely resell agreements because they are focused on selling their software.

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GTM Negotiate Profit margin Contract 85

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Waze defines value as the deal size or amount of the contract. Since they sell ads, value also means how many recurring clients contribute to a significant chunk of their yearly revenue by assessing six-month or year-based account value. Do you have a Go-to Market (GTM) for different market opportunities?

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Objectives and Key Results Pitch GTM Cold Call 116

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Average-based metrics are misleading for modern cloud companies with access to more diverse GTM strategies and customer bases. SaaS Subscriptions as Annuities: It’s common to consider subscription contracts as annuities with an upfront cost. This is important for unit efficiency.

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Drivers/motivators GTM Contract Growth 109

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

Thanks for reading The GTM Newsletter! AI-guided selling: Drives seller effectiveness and efficiency by delivering feedback on deal-related efforts and prescriptive guidance on what actions to take next, based on AI analysis. Brian Weinberger – SVP of Sales We have re-negotiated contracts as the renewals come in.

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GTM Negotiate Pipeline Contract 95

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2019

What You Need to Know About SaaS GTM Models. B2B SaaS go-to-market (GTM) models range from no-touch, transactional approaches to highly specialized, consultative strategies. Your GTM approach determines the type of sales roles you hire, the technology you implement, and your overall approach to demand generation. Infographic).

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GTM Education Sales Contract 80

Gong.io

DECEMBER 14, 2022

It’s time to talk about target account selling, or TAS. Target account selling is a highly personalized, targeted approach to sales that sees your sales reps focus only on the very best accounts. With that in mind, let’s examine what exactly target account selling is and how you can start executing it in your sales strategy today.

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Sell Cold Call Contract Up-sell 62

SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

Leveraging survey data from 66+ enterprise SaaS companies, Matt Garratt, Managing Partner of Salesforce Ventures shares the landscape of how businesses are shifting their sales & GTM strategies to react to today’s uncertain times. Contract modifications were still so decentralized. We learned from that early on.

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GTM Pipeline Healthcare Sales 80

Sales Hacker

APRIL 21, 2021

An emerging need to support multiple GTM plans across segments and regions. It may take days before the rep can actually send a contract for signature. Be able to define and map GTM processes and workflows, identify gaps, and iterate and improve. Interned for Experian developing an international GTM strategy.

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Finance Cross-sell SQL GTM 114

Hubspot

MARCH 26, 2025

Revenue enablement focuses on selling, marketing, and customer success alignment with seamless communication at each touchpoint in the Customer Life Cycle with consistent messaging across. Source Core features: All-in-one GTM enablement platform that makes it easy for reps. Now, lets dive into the top sales enablement platforms.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Says Roberge, “We’re using a sales comp plan that was invented in the 1980s, and it’s causing our customers to utilize their licenses at a lower rate, and it’s causing revenue contraction.”. Sell it to your market for half the price. Roberge suggests trying the “Sustainable Moat Test.” If they chose to: Raise a round from Sequoia.

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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Steps for developing a GTM strategy. What is a go-to-market (GTM) strategy? A go-to-market (GTM) strategy is the way in which a company brings a product to market. Each product and market are different, therefore each GTM strategy should be thoroughly thought out; mapping a market problem and solution a product offers.

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Go To Market Process GTM Education 101

Gong.io

JUNE 11, 2021

Here at Gong, we define sales enablement as a function that helps the sales team sell better from the time each sales rep is brought on board, to the time they decide to leave the company. Reading from a script is NOT your answer to selling more. . In short, sales enablement is critical to the success of a revenue organization.

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Objectives and Key Results Price GTM Territory 103

ConversionXL

APRIL 7, 2021

When sales made a list of logos they wanted to sell, or the list of ‘dream customers’ to close. The concept remains the same today with modern ABM—we want to sell to a list of ‘dream customers’ more commonly referred to as target accounts. If you’re selling B2B, you know it’s a wide and competitive market.

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CRM Cross-sell GTM Cold Call 98

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 25, 2023

Now that we’ve officially combined The Sales Hacker newsletter with The GTM Newsletter, we’re almost 60K strong! Thanks for being part of the GTM community. As always, you can catch up on past articles, podcasts and newsletters all in one place at the new home of Sales Hacker: GTMnow.com Thanks for reading The GTM Newsletter!

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GTM Contract Cross-sell Account management 53

SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2022

So selling, marketing and supporting them should be different too. As an API-first company, WorkOS focuses on selling primarily to developers. What’s Different About Selling to Developers. So why sell to these developers? Developers act, think, and behave differently than your average customer. Bottom-up sales.

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Growth Price Contract GTM 84

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Account-Based Selling / Sales Development. Average Contract Value. Average Sale/Selling Price. Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) is the value of contracted, often subscription-based revenues normalized for one calendar year. Account-Based Everything / Revenue. Account-Based Marketing. Account Development Representative.

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B2B E-commerce Cold Call Sales 105

Partners in Excellence

MAY 10, 2024

When I was selling mainframe computers (back around the time when the wheel was invented), I could only offer a subscription payment. Customer could choose to sign contracts for several years, but they couldn’t purchase them outright. The reality is these are separate and distinct. It’s much easier to justify!”

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Service GTM Contract Up-sell 48

Highspot

AUGUST 18, 2024

Developed by Winning by Design, the SPICED framework is a five-step sales methodology that helps go-to-market (GTM) teams diagnose customer needs, recommend a compelling solution, and maintain strong, lasting relationships. It also ensures that GTM teams cover all the crucial details needed for a successful sale.

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GTM Retail Drivers/motivators Contract 52