SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

In the latest episode of SaaStr’s CRO Confidential Series, our host Sam Blond sits down with Ron Gabrisko, CRO of Databricks , to unpack the journey from $1M in ARR to crossing $3B ARR at the end of January 2025. These early conversations helped shape Databricks product, pricing, and go-to-market strategy.

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Technical Sales Inside sales Cross-sell Account management 72

Sales Hacker

MAY 7, 2025

Tactical tips for early-stage startups on aligning go-to-market motion with product-market fit. The importance of cross-functional stream teams for accelerating GTM initiatives. No fluffjust real strategies, candid conversations, and proven results. My career accelerated when I helped other people.

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GTM Engineering Customers Cross-sell 68

Sales Hacker

JUNE 12, 2024

Elizabeth Pemmerl currently serves as GitHub’s Chief Revenue Officer, where she oversees all facets of the company’s go-to-market strategy and customer engagement, including sales, support, and operations. Strategies for pricing new products and cross-selling within an existing customer base.

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GTM Engineering Growth Cross-sell 123

Heinz Marketing

MAY 20, 2024

Marketing plays a crucial role here, attracting attention through targeted campaigns and informative content. Consideration & Conversion: The funnel narrows at the consideration stage, where customers research different options and evaluate your brand as a potential solution. Every role is as important as the next.

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B2B Cross-sell Customers GTM 127

Salesforce

APRIL 2, 2025

Discover how to make product-led sales a part of your go-to-market strategy. Product-led sales is a sales strategy where users experience and engage with a product first often through a free trial or freemium model before sales teams leverage usage data to drive conversions and expansions. Why are product-led sales important?

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Product Territory Sales Price 86

Gong.io

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Hence, every business that wants to grow needs direction in the form of a go-to-market strategy. . A go-to-market strategy framework is a blueprint for growth. Whether it’s your first time creating a go-to-market strategy or your tenth, this article will teach you everything you need to know to be successful.

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Go To Market GTM Launch Promote 62

Highspot

JANUARY 23, 2025

Your entire go-to-market team also relies on these abilities to create seamless experiences for buyers at each stage of the buyers journey. In other words, hard skills guide what sales reps sell, and soft skills determine how they sell to prospects. Below are the top 10 skills to nurture: 1.

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Objectives and Key Results Negotiate Cross-sell Technique 52

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Guy Yalif is a seasoned B2B SaaS executive with over 20 years of go-to-market experience. 49:07) The effectiveness of small group events in go-to-market strategies. (31:55) So I guess I should do a quick bio.

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Highspot

JANUARY 22, 2024

Having a well-defined go-to-market (GTM) strategy is crucial for the success of any product or service. A successful GTM strategy involves a series of coordinated steps aimed at bringing a new product to market effectively. Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that 20% of new businesses fail during the first two years, but why?

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Go To Market GTM Promote Technique 52

Highspot

JANUARY 22, 2024

Having a well-defined go-to-market (GTM) strategy is crucial for the success of any product or service. A successful GTM strategy involves a series of coordinated steps aimed at bringing a new product to market effectively. Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that 20% of new businesses fail during the first two years, but why?

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Go To Market GTM Promote Technique 52

Sales Hacker

MARCH 8, 2024

GTMnow is the media extension of GTMfund – sharing insight on go-to-market from working with hundreds of portfolio companies backed by over 350+ of the best in the game executive operators who have been there, done that at the world’s fastest growing SaaS companies. Candid, off-the-record conversations — no recordings here.

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GTM Growth Referrals Cross-sell 121

Highspot

MARCH 12, 2024

To maximize the impact of revenue enablement, you must focus on three elements: the enablement’s position in your go-to-market (GTM) engine, its strategic role, and how you measure its impact. After you’ve gathered the list of the desired selling behaviors, it’s time for a frank conversation with sales leadership.

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Strategize GTM Cross-sell Finance 115

Sales Hacker

JULY 16, 2020

In a recent conversation, Gainsight CEO Nick Mehta told us he’s turning his attention to his partner ecosystem as the market tightens, “ Partnerships have the lowest customer acquisition costs out there,” he said. RELATED: Moving to Enterprise Sales (Part 2): 5 Go-to-Market Prerequisites You Need to Succeed.

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Pipeline E-commerce Cross-sell Referrals 122

SaaStr

MARCH 22, 2023

Your Commercial Market Will Define You Throughout Lenta’s experiences with these three journeys, he’s learned some key lessons for those looking to do similar. The commercial market you choose to build and offer your customers defines you, yes. This changed the conversations with customers. But it also defines your GTM efforts.

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Growth Cross-sell GTM Up-sell 104

Martech

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The growing impact of B2B internal disconnects is limiting our customer relationships, affecting our revenue results and hamstringing our go-to-market (GTM) teams’ productivity. This disconnect challenge is made more complicated when every organization, region, team or business unit is doing their own thing in how they go to market.

B2B 126

B2B GTM Customers Cross-sell 126

SalesLoft

JUNE 3, 2019

It’s so, so hard, but upon reflection, and I had been thinking about this lately, I think the sales book that had the most enduring impact would have been Geoffrey Moore’s Crossing the Chasm. And for those aspirin people he articulated a way to go to market, that was very simplistic. I can sell to anyone.’.

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Conversion Real Estate Cross-sell Sales 81

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

A freemium or free-trial approach impacts the micro-conversion of an unpaid product sign-up. And optimizing for micro-conversions can undermine macro-conversions, especially if your marketing team never sees what happens after a form fill. Define your go-to-market strategy. So what should you do first?

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Customers Cross-sell Referrals Networking 119

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 7, 2022

To fully optimize CAC, look closely at your sales and marketing costs. Can you lower costs by removing steps to market or sell your product (e.g., If you’re not converting customers at the volume you’d like or you’re spending more to get people over the line, go back to the drawing board. Show your expertise.

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Cross-sell Customers Referrals Drivers/motivators 22

Highspot

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Leaders quickly realize the importance of revenue operations (RevOps) and how aligning go-to-market teams under one unified approach can boost performance, improve operational efficiency, and increase revenue. Focusing on the most promising prospects saves your sales team time and increases conversion rates.

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Teamwork Objectives and Key Results Cross-sell Follow-up 52

Heinz Marketing

JANUARY 13, 2022

And as marketing programs become more complex, it’s far more important to create seamless cross-channel campaigns that break through siloed teams. None of these reach the bar of a true, integrated account-based go-to-market motion. An equally coordinated approach across the seller’s go-to-market teams.

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B2B Objectives and Key Results Campaign Cross-sell 137

Highspot

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

It’s typically a cross-functional initiative between sales and marketing. At its core, sales training teaches sales reps how to sell, imparting essential skills and techniques for engaging customers. On the flip side, sales enablement provides the tools to sell better. What Does Sales Enablement Training Include?

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Pitch Sales Technique Cross-sell 52

Highspot

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Product training is a structured learning process that helps team members understand, communicate, and sell a product. Marketing to connect what your product does to how it solves customer problems with compelling promotions and campaigns. What is Product Training? Customer support to address customer queries and ensure adoption.

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Product GTM Objectives and Key Results Cross-sell 52

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 2, 2020

No, that’s not the setup for some obscure go-to-market joke. A Sales Engagement platform is a technology platform that brings sales (and often customer success) activities under a single roof, allowing sales professionals to efficiently and effectively focus on selling. Empowering, Cross-Functional Content.

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Objectives and Key Results Sales Cross-sell Technology 139

SalesLoft

MARCH 31, 2022

Both the pandemic and full adoption of digital selling have rapidly improved the way that we are looking at workplaces and teams, how we communicate with customers, and ultimately how we sell. Putting greater emphasis on cross-departmental collaboration. Check out this guide: Conversations with 7 Top Sales Leaders in EMEA.

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Objectives and Key Results Cross-sell Objection handling Sales 105

Highspot

MAY 9, 2023

The bad news is today’s sales professionals face arguably the hardest selling environment in a decade. Humans can now have conversations with computers. AI can amplify and accelerate work across your go-to-market, but it can’t replace the people. The output is almost magical.

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Cross-sell Sales Strategize Entertainment 98

Sales Hacker

MARCH 11, 2020

Meeting conversion rate : What is the rate at which you convert a qualified meeting to a qualified opportunity. Now put those together in this simple equation: ACVClose Rate Meeting Conversion Rate = Average Value Per Meeting. Cross-Sell Targets: Most companies have $10 Million – $100 Million of cross-sell lead deficit!

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Meeting Cross-sell Pipeline Up-sell 82

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

The best sales teams don’t just sell — they keep customers happy and drive serious upsell, cross-sell, and expansion revenue. Their goal is very clearly to get you into a conversation with a rep. The key is to know exactly who you are targeting, and then go all in to impress that potential buyer. No-Touch Sales.

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Inside sales Cold Call Contract Price 131

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Those three little letters that can stir up so much debate in the marketing and go-to-market world. What I mean by MQLs is Marketing Qualified Leads. Staying quiet on go-to-market topics isn’t exactly my style – so let’s get into it. Not Nicole and not other marketing leaders.

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GTM Pipeline SQL UX 121

Martech

MARCH 10, 2022

When you consider the above, you start to understand why a “zero-touch” approach is so important; it allows the prospect to buy the way they want to buy and not necessarily the way you want to sell. Inbound marketing is about building value and trust, NOT about selling.?. ?Content Account-based marketing: A snapshot.

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E-commerce Growth Cross-sell Objectives and Key Results 111

Heinz Marketing

JUNE 23, 2023

By Brittany Lieu , Marketing Consultant at Heinz Marketing Interested in hearing seasoned CMOs’ insights on 2023 go-to-market strategies? We are a human-first business that not only sells to humans but is run by humans.

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B2B GTM Cross-sell Trust 96

Martech

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Product-led growth (PLG) is all the rage as a go-to-market (GTM) strategy for B2B software companies looking to increase adoption and grow revenue. Profitability, efficiency and precision are today’s expectations for both vendors and the organizations they sell to. So, why PLG now?

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Growth GTM Product Cross-sell 107

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

GTMnow is the media brand of GTMfund – sharing go-to-market advice from the top 1% of revenue operators including the 350 executives behind the fund, news, and our viewpoints from working with hundreds of portfolio companies. This is no longer news to go-to-market leaders. Product : Apollo.

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GTM Strategize Launch Pipeline 110

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. B2B marketing expert Tony Zambito calls this the “ Great Buyer Resignation.”

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B2B GTM Cross-sell Cold Call 120

ConversionXL

JUNE 30, 2019

Knowing what the competitors are doing—how they’re thinking about the market, which tactics they’re using, how they’re crafting messages and design—can make all the difference in the battle for customers. In addition, competitive analysis can be a treasure trove of conversion optimization insights, yet it often gets skipped.

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UX X-functional A/B testing User Experience 126

Heinz Marketing

AUGUST 25, 2020

Today, I want to continue the conversation and talk about how to map the B2B buying committee. When you think about how you sell and market your solutions, you might think you’re only addressing a single person – maybe it’s the one who signs on the dotted line; or the person in charge of implementation; or even the end user.

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B2B Sell E-commerce Cross-sell 128

Sales Hacker

JUNE 14, 2021

They did not see themselves in the “story” that was being told, which is why they ignored all outreach (social, email, live, and phone conversations) by sales and marketing. An e-commerce tech firm learned that there should not be a hand-off between sales and marketing once selling conversations begin.

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GTM E-commerce B2B Profit margin 109

Salesforce

JANUARY 3, 2022

As our recent Sales Summit revealed, the old ways of selling — aggressive quotas, in-person sales calls, nagging pipeline reviews — just don’t work anymore. Learn more: “Diversity Sells”. Create a single source of truth to empower go-to-market teams. Learn more: “Unlock Team Selling with Strategic Account Planning”.

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