Sales Hacker

APRIL 1, 2025

And the Microsoft sellers, they were really there for connecting, helping with the paperwork, how to process things through the complicated backend in Microsoft. They were a little bit more kind of on the transactional processing side. And you built totally different systems, processes, even teams to go and, um.

GTM 63

GTM Up-sell Start-ups Gaming 63

Hubspot

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

So, we decided to create a tool that could scan individuals Twitter (now X) profiles and generate content tailored to the individual. When we launched, we simply shared the link on X, hoping a few dozen users might try it out. The process requires intense computational resources. The data often involves millions of tokens.

Minimum Viable Product 36

Minimum Viable Product X-functional Healthcare Territory 36

Partners in Excellence

JULY 15, 2015

Each of these things impact the buying formula Jeff establishes: CD x CF > C + F (If you want to know what it means, read Jeff’s article ). So what drives the CIO in making the decision is different than those in the finance function. For the Controller: CD CTLR x FP CTLR > C CTLR + F CTLR.

B2B 102

B2B X-functional Finance Drivers/motivators 102

SaaStr

JANUARY 24, 2022

Anita Kutlesa is a senior financial executive with nearly two decades of expertise driving performance through cash management, process improvement and strategic planning in start-up, high growth and restructuring environments. I’ve contracted accounting help. Anita Kutlesa. NanoGram Devices Inc., Coverity Inc., Buongiorno USA Inc.,

Finance 133

Finance Contract X-functional Start-ups 133

Hubspot

APRIL 2, 2018

Do you have any questions about the contract?". We’d already agreed on X price. If we can come down to X price, would you sign today?”. You might be interested in our newest Feature X. ". Contract questions. Never comment on a contract or proposal over email. Do you have any questions about the contract?”.

Prospecting 101

Prospecting X-functional Contract Cross-sell 101

Sales Hacker

APRIL 10, 2018

However, SkyStream was able to sustain itself as it had diversified with a $10M contract with Disney on a new product, a $5M 3-year contract with the Department of Defense, and a $2Mrevenue stream from both the EMEA and APAC region. Distribution of B2B deals as a function of price (a product of discount and list price).

Go To Market 96

Go To Market GTM X-functional Territory 96

Martech

MARCH 21, 2023

If you’re not an expert in your company’s tech stack, you won’t know how to use existing tools to boost results or maximize new functionality that could replace apps you no longer need. To keep up, you must continually read product updates, beta launches and more to learn how your tech stack functionality is expanding.

X-functional 107

X-functional Negotiate Contract Technology 107

Search Engine Land

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

With structured operational processes, you ensure that you have the maximum impact with minimum time and resources. Instead, what takes so long is the operations behind SEO and the process of aligning everyone. which immensely elongates the entire process. Average contract value is then the same as in AOV for ecommerce.

CTR 123

CTR X-functional Profit margin Contract 123

Hubspot

AUGUST 8, 2019

Percentage of revenue from existing customers (cross-selling, upselling, repeat orders, expanded contracts, etc.). They help you understand what’s working and what’s not regarding your holistic sales process. Average contract value (ACV). Ramp-up = amount of time spent in training + average sales cycle length + X.

X-functional 101

X-functional Quota Cross-sell Contract 101

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Today on the show, we’ve got Vishal Sunak, CEO and co-founder of LinkSquares, a company that applies AI to your contract. Vishal and I talk about what it’s like to start a company from nothing and how his experience at Backupify and InsightSquared helped inform the process. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

Contract 117

Contract X-functional Objectives and Key Results Legal 117

Sales Hacker

JULY 21, 2021

Before you include these buzzwords in your job descriptions and hiring processes, make sure you know what you’re talking about. Unfortunately, optimize is not a magic word that you wave like a wand over complicated systems, hoping that they start functioning perfectly. By mapping out the steps, you can optimize any function.

X-functional 132

X-functional Sales Strategize Cold Call 132

Martech

JUNE 6, 2023

Outline cross-functional teams’ involvement and get their buy-in and commitment The most successful implementations are integrated into how marketers do business. We all hear about incredible transformations that “ only took X number of weeks/months,” but those usually only happen in a vacuum. Get MarTech! In your inbox.

X-functional 114

X-functional Cross-sell Contract Up-sell 114

SaaStr

APRIL 2, 2023

Mistake: On the other hand… not betting on the team that got me there “Everything will be fine once we get a new head of [X]” -every startup CEO ever (also me, frequently) When you launch a company, the initial team is usually whoever you can get. For this one deal, we just need to do X. Every client uses you a little differently.

X-functional 131

X-functional Clients Growth Start-ups 131

Sales Hacker

JULY 10, 2020

Again, we were new to our relationship, so he sought to understand everything I was doing (he already had some idea) and understand my process. It also serves as a great troubleshooting tool to identify gaps or weaknesses in your current deals and in your process. You want to meet this person early in the process.

Legal 128

Legal X-functional Contract Presentation 128

SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2024

2023 saw the team grow from 6-10 reps, which is pretty modest, and they built an SDR function. At the end of ‘22, they started a small pilot and grew that function from one and two BDRs to a team of 10 and then 12. For Owner, they hired these two leaders on contract from their networks. Every function gets a stack rank.

Go To Market 120

Go To Market GTM X-functional Objectives and Key Results 120

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 3, 2020

Your final math is 2 x $110K + $50K for fractional manager + $40K in tools = $310K. That means that for our $50K ACV (Annual Contract Value) product, you can spend up to $67K to acquire a customer, and you’d be fine. Any more than that, and get ready to grow your SDR function. How Can SDRs be justified? Final Thoughts.

Pipeline 124

Pipeline X-functional Commission Clients 124

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 13, 2021

The licensee embeds the third-party software into its application to improve it by adding new functionality or features, or enhancing existing functionality or features. One OEM contract can give thousands or tens of thousands of end-users access to the licensor’s software. Licensing OEM software. OEM deal structure.

GTM 88

GTM Negotiate Profit margin Contract 88

Salesforce

JANUARY 22, 2024

And if you work in the legal or healthcare fields, AI can help analyze and research contracts or help interpret MRIs and X-rays, respectively. You can spend more focused time on strategic thinking or creative projects. Not all new AI jobs will be as obvious as those in engineering or data-related fields.

Healthcare 122

Healthcare X-functional Engineering Technology 122

Heinz Marketing

DECEMBER 18, 2020

If you add a 5+ minute wait step, your campaign’s priority is now considered low , and the action will be deprioritized for the system-wide CRM sync that happens every 5 minutes (and almost every other process Marketo runs). As mentioned above, Marketo fees are based on the number of Known leads in your database.

CRM 137

CRM Campaign X-functional Clients 137

Hubspot

MAY 17, 2018

With the right plan in place and an understanding of your company’s needs, finding the right freelancer for the job can be a largely painless process. Follow these steps to make the process smoother for both you and your new freelance partner. Before you jump into the hiring process, make sure you can define everything up front.

Contract 78

Contract X-functional Negotiate Start-ups 78

ConversionXL

AUGUST 27, 2019

Be careful about contracts you sign and team training you invest in. It does not process or translate data, nor does it help you work with the output. They can now deliver a lot of the same functionality, and your main decision-making factor could be the pricing model. And its data-layer functionality is versatile.

GTM 124

GTM X-functional CRM Technology 124

Search Engine Land

DECEMBER 28, 2023

In fact, it took two months for the tool to finally stop processing data. The decline of X Following Elon Musk’s takeover in 2022, Twitter’s ad revenue steeply declined. The following month, the platform changed its name to X and tried to lure back advertisers by slashing the price of video ads.

Retail 116

Retail X-functional Launch Non-Profits 116

Sales Hacker

JULY 2, 2019

If your CRM doesn’t have this reporting functionality, you can export the data into an excel file and quickly get the average sales price from there. 2,000 x 10% = $200/lead. Other business initiatives might change your conversion rates such as improvements in the sales process, price changes or discounts, etc.

Price 100

Price X-functional Sales CRM 100

InsightSquared

JANUARY 12, 2018

While sales leadership may sign on the dotted line for new vendor contracts, the responsibility of onboarding, implementation and training falls on the sales ops team. It’s important to be involved in every step of the process so you can effectively manage your organization’s sales technology. Lesson 3: Tool Does Not Fix Bad Process.

Transportation 75

Transportation X-functional Sales Consult 75

Sales Hacker

MAY 9, 2019

The Process for Creating a Sales Compensation Plan. Create a 2-Page Contract and Get Mutual Commitment [TEMPLATE PROVIDED]. Here’s a simple example to begin with that covers the SDR, AE and Customer Success Manager (CSM) functions: Table 1. Step 8: Create a 2-page Contract and Get Mutual Commitment [Template].

SQL 110

SQL Commission Customers Non-Profits 110

Hubspot

AUGUST 17, 2021

Sometimes, it means they’re selling a lot of Product X when the company is pushing for sales of Product Y. In these examples, maybe Product X is a lot easier to sell and comes with a higher commission rate than Product Y. Maybe, that means they’re selling one-year deals when the company wants two-year deals.

Commission 91

Commission Quota X-functional Finance 91

Sales Hacker

APRIL 14, 2020

She helps growth-oriented B2B, SaaS companies design, implement, and optimize their data strategies, business processes and existing tool stacks to support their customers. Today, Jessica helps companies find ways they can optimize their current business processes. Every sales org feels the pressure to close deals faster.

Contract 84

Contract CRM Consult Cross-sell 84

SaaStr

JULY 13, 2023

Startups come in all shapes and sizes on various stages of a timeline, yet it’s not surprising how many have the same questions and concerns about how to scale from x to y to z, the right time to hire and fire, and how to keep a team motivated during hard times. But it wasn’t ok in 2018, and it isn’t ok today. That other founder failed.

X-functional 96

X-functional Closing Growth Contract 96

SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

This is basically designed around there being an intensive human interaction and human process to convince businesses to adopt your tools. Just to say a little bit more about this, if you look at the sales functions are structured. It depends on the length of the contract, if there’s a contract.

Price 98

Price Launch X-functional Contract 98

PandaDoc

APRIL 24, 2020

This collection of plans is intended for individuals, freelancers, and small business owners with limited usage requirements and a simplified signing process. While reusable templates can help to automate and streamline your document creation process, that may not be vital since you can only send five documents per month.

Price 59

Price X-functional CRM Follow-up 59

InsightSquared

JANUARY 12, 2018

While sales leadership may sign on the dotted line for new vendor contracts, the responsibility of onboarding, implementation and training falls on the sales ops team. It’s important to be involved in every step of the process so you can effectively manage your organization’s sales technology.

Transportation 54

Transportation X-functional Contract Sales 54

SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2020

When you start growing above 50 employees, and certainly get to 100, things change, you now have teams, which means you have functional leaders. Rather than having this feeling of disconnected functional areas, everyone in the company knows what to work on. You can get there by process of elimination.

Finance 117

Finance X-functional Launch Objectives and Key Results 117

SaaStr

JANUARY 21, 2020

My velocity lane, PatientPop’s SMB SaaS, eight units a month, $13,500 contract. I talked to so many people and say, “Do you ask your salespeople to go through role-plays during your interview process?” Calls, emails, connect rate, demos, performs, wins, average contract value. They came from medicine, right?

Quota 133

Quota Sales Territory Healthcare 133

Hubspot

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Effective sales prospecting is a multistep process that requires systematic prospect discovery, qualification, and outreach. In 2022, 29% of salespeople reported that improving sales process efficiency was their top goal, according to HubSpot research. You can automate parts of the search process to save time and resources.

Prospecting 90

Prospecting Contact X-functional CRM 90

Hubspot

AUGUST 4, 2015

But not all couples are functioning like a belt and suspenders. If Montana was your marketer firing qualified leads your way, Do you have a documented sales process to follow? Paranormal phenomena aside, Dana Scully’s skepticism to Fox Mulder’s “I Want to Believe” dogmatism is what made The X-Files compelling TV every week.

X-functional 78

X-functional Sales Teamwork Follow-up 78

Hubspot

MAY 12, 2023

They should be process-oriented, digitally literate, and comfortable handling logistics. Hiring managers can use EA interview questions to design a better interview process and find the best fit to work with them. Showcase your soft skills by walking them through your thinking process for a situation or sharing an accomplishment.

X-functional 90

X-functional Pitch Follow-up Clients 90

Sales Hacker

JUNE 20, 2019

I learned their primary goals (personal and professional) to refine my value language… studied org charts and power dynamics to map out procurement process… learned about organizational misalignment to help create healthy tension… You get the idea. Engineered as much automation as we could in our sales process.

Quota 86

Quota X-functional Strategize Start-ups 86