InsightSquared

JANUARY 12, 2018

As a strategic member of the sales team, ops plays a critical role in owning the sales tech stack. 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.

Transportation 75

Transportation X-functional Sales Contract 75

InsightSquared

JANUARY 12, 2018

As a strategic member of the sales team, ops plays a critical role in owning the sales tech stack. 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.

Transportation 54

Transportation X-functional Sales Contract 54

SaaStr

JULY 24, 2019

This is pretty simple, but when I look at this industry, a lot of times what I see is organizations crafting pricing packages that would enable, for example, an enterprise-wide license, where an organization pays you X amount of money, and they have unlimited seats, unlimited usage. We’ve added a technical account manager function.

X-functional 54

X-functional Engineering Clients Start-ups 54

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 1, 2020

He talks about the journey of a marketer leading the entire revenue function on the path to CEO. Because what we found is that one of the low points of any customer experiences, the moment after the contract is signed, all the good will and momentum that you create in the sales cycle is lost. As everyone suddenly forgets your name.

Growth 63

Growth Contract Pipeline B2B 63

SaaStr

JUNE 14, 2019

Dave Kellogg: Yeah, the two types of sale to me, and for most people, I’d say, is the strategic exit to a strategic acquire, i.e. another software company, or you have an exit to a private equity firm. For example, you may have strategic outreach to your company that may trigger you to hire a banker to run a PE process.

Strategize 56

Strategize Quota Non-Profits Price 56

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 74

GTM Profit margin Negotiate Contract 74

SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

Bob Moore: Yeah, I think there is a lot of the strategic and the tactical definitely mixed with each other. Bob Moore: At that 50 plus era, there’s a function for this. And in that world, you better believe that the partnerships function was a very first function.

X-functional 53

X-functional Start-ups Drivers/motivators Go To Market 53

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

First, at a strategic level, the founder/CEO has to see the future, a positive future, that is 100x bigger than today. There are two reasons to kill your competition, one strategic, one tactical. But in a rich workflow, high functionality space, the market can really generally only support 2 leaders, and maybe 1 follower.

Real Estate 134

Real Estate X-functional Contract Healthcare 134

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. So, sales in my view is best run on a quarterly plan.

Finance 111

Finance X-functional Launch Objectives and Key Results 111

Sales Hacker

MAY 9, 2019

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. For example, within the FedTech space, sales contracts can be established with 3 years of commitment. Set Targets.

SQL 102

SQL Commission Customers Non-Profits 102

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 80

Commission Quota X-functional Finance 80

Heinz Marketing

DECEMBER 18, 2020

At some point or another in your usage of the tool, you’ll likely be faced with needing to cleanse your database to stay in compliance with your contract. Here you can decide for each campaign how often you want a person to qualify for the campaign: Once; once every X number of hours, days, weeks, or months; or every time. #10

CRM 134

CRM Campaign X-functional Clients 134

SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2019

Annual contracts: To what extent do annual contracts dominate today? Why does Tom think in the early days one should be wary of signing too many multi-year contracts? How does Tom think about calculating churn when it comes to multi-year contracts? And the first one as you said, Harry, is around annual contracts.

Contract 46

Contract Price Commission Conversion 46

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 73

X-functional Closing Growth Contract 73

PandaDoc

MARCH 7, 2023

This means your sales managers can spend less time micromanaging and more time strategizing. Typical actions that close a sale include final quotes, agreed negotiations, deposits, and the signing of contracts and other legal documents. For example, you could aim for a new process to increase conversion or decrease loss by X%.

Process 52

Process Objectives and Key Results Pitch Legal 52

SaaStr

JANUARY 21, 2020

My velocity lane, PatientPop’s SMB SaaS, eight units a month, $13,500 contract. Calls, emails, connect rate, demos, performs, wins, average contract value. You moved into closing roles and you moved up to closing roles to getting support and getting strategic partnerships. They came from medicine, right?

Quota 104

Quota Sales Healthcare Territory 104

Heinz Marketing

AUGUST 17, 2018

At some point or another in your usage of the tool, you’ll likely be faced with needing to cleanse your database to stay in compliance with your contract. Here you can decide for each campaign how often you want a person to qualify for the campaign: Once; once every X number of hours, days, weeks, or months; or every time.

CRM 70

CRM Campaign X-functional Clients 70

SaaStr

MAY 10, 2019

Currently growing 100% year over year, working with companies to un-silo their operations and create one strategic revenue ops team to support their Go To Market strategy. They work with customers to unsilo their operations and create one strategic revenue Ops team to support their go to market strategy.

X-functional 52

X-functional SQL Pipeline GTM 52

SaaStr

JANUARY 3, 2020

Annual contracts: To what extent do annual contracts dominate today? Why does Tom think in the early days one should be wary of signing too many multi-year contracts? How does Tom think about calculating churn when it comes to multi-year contracts? And the first one as you said, Harry, is around annual contracts.

Contract 10

Contract Price Commission Conversion 10

SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2022

X this year. You don’t have to do every single function to still get a customer. For all these types of categories, I know it’s trite, but you just have to find your 10 X feature that someone will buy. First is strategic, and then the tactical. That’s the strategic. When did you start the company?”

Quota 83

Quota Growth Product Closing 83

SaaStr

OCTOBER 30, 2020

And so what we’ll see people come in and do is they’ll say, Hey, we want to acquire name, email, company size, function, or department, and then the consent and all these fields, right? The salesperson now isn’t just getting a name and email and this guy or girl wants to talk at X time. And so their ability to prep.

A/B testing 78

A/B testing X-functional Launch Start-ups 78

Salesforce

JANUARY 22, 2024

You can spend more focused time on strategic thinking or creative projects. 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. People will now have time to, well, be people. In marketing?

Healthcare 122

Healthcare X-functional Engineering Technology 122

SaaStr

JULY 2, 2020

You’re telling me mathematically the answer is going to be X, but I can’t understand why. And is there ever a case for too small a contract to start? Kurt Muehmel: But indeed, the first question is zero to one, and that’s just what do we need to accomplish? Where are we going to show value? Help me out.

Customers 112

Customers Contract Price Education 112

Sales Hacker

JUNE 20, 2019

3) Sales Ops has grown from tactical to strategic. That tech served purposes like capturing leads directly from a website, automatically routing those leads to reps, increasing the volume of emails a human could send, enabling reps to make phone calls with a single click, and easily creating clean and crisp contracts for signature.

Quota 69

Quota X-functional Strategize Contract 69