Sales Hacker

MAY 6, 2021

They’ll rip apart your CRM and replace your opportunity fields with their proven-and-trusted sales methodologies and scoff if you try to rehearse Sandler, Challenger, or MEDDIC selling to them. And this is exactly why you hired them! Dissecting pipeline with mid-level leaders to ensure and maintain pipeline velocity and accuracy.

B2C 93

B2C Pipeline SQL Strategize 93

The Lost Book of Sales

AUGUST 15, 2021

Today, I store some of them for my own personal motivation. 🌪 Book summary #1 (long): Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey Moore Outtake: -> What is the “Chasm”? We have enough high-tech marketing history now to see where our model has gone wrong and how to fix it. If so, ask to see the go-to-market strategy.

Cross-sell 98

Cross-sell Gambling GTM Territory 98

Highspot

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

By defining specific goals and identifying key performance indicators (KPIs), a sales and marketing plan provides a structured framework for marketing and sales to align their go-to-market efforts. And when teams are aligned, companies can generate up to 208% more revenue from their marketing efforts.

Objectives and Key Results 52

Objectives and Key Results Cross-sell Click Through Rate Lead generation 52

Highspot

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

By defining specific goals and identifying key performance indicators (KPIs), a sales and marketing plan provides a structured framework for marketing and sales to align their go-to-market efforts. And when teams are aligned, companies can generate up to 208% more revenue from their marketing efforts.

Objectives and Key Results 52

Objectives and Key Results Cross-sell Click Through Rate Lead generation 52

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The best way to think about it: product marketing is strategy. Product marketers work to understand the market and what motivates customers. They choose the market segments to target. They design an effective go-to-market plan along with the required positioning and messaging.

Product 127

Product E-commerce Strategize B2B 127

Openview

APRIL 11, 2018

So much of what they do, particularly fundraising, is selling. But if you scale this function with intention, a sales org will enrich your company’s existing culture, help you build better product, and sell it too. . Recognition – Another thing we’re exploring is how we externally motivate our sales people. They’re resilient.

Product 82

Product Negotiate Quota Cross-sell 82

Hubspot

AUGUST 21, 2023

To have a successful product launch, you need to craft a thoughtful, actionable, effective go-to-market (GTM) strategy framework. Without proper planning, it’s impossible to know if you’re chasing the wrong audience, are too early or too late to a given market, or targeting a market that's too saturated with similar solutions.

Go To Market 69

Go To Market Process GTM Launch 69

SBI

MARCH 8, 2018

SAVO enables: Sales Transformation – We accelerate large sales transformations like M&A, changing sales coverage, or implementing a new sales methodology like Challenger to get sellers back to selling quickly. Nancy: What are the top 5 things your solution allows salespeople to do better, or faster than they can today? Diagram #1).

Gaming 55

Gaming Strategize Government Cross-sell 55

Highspot

DECEMBER 18, 2019

The sales kickoff, or SKO, is your go-to-market team’s annual strategy meeting. Done right, a great SKO provides cross-team visibility into major business initiatives for the coming year, motivates the team, and creates momentum. Mixing in fun will keep your teams refreshed and ready to return to selling renewed.

Cross-sell 52

Cross-sell Presentation Follow-up Drivers/motivators 52

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

As you can imagine, that’s a tough sell, especially when you’re at a startup or entering new markets. Nothing’s more demoralizing (not to mention bad for the business) than a leader motivated by goals that are antithetical to those of his or her team members. If you already have a mix of compensation plans, adjust them.

Quota 82

Quota Represent Cross-sell Drivers/motivators 82

Highspot

APRIL 2, 2020

Modern sales ops professionals play a vital role in the success of a sales organization by staying ahead of problems and enabling the sales team to focus on selling. Planning and strategizing go-to-market plans. Automating any possible selling or non-selling tasks. Motivate the team to increase efficiency.

Non-Profits 75

Non-Profits CRM Territory Cross-sell 75

Hubspot

JUNE 8, 2021

Nearly half of their time is spent selling remotely (i.e. Their main goal is to help customers increase the ROI on a purchase, so they'll often connect with a salesperson if an opportunity to cross-sell or upsell arises. You're self-motivated and enjoy having a goal to reach. using Zoom, Skype, email, and CRM).

Commission 76

Commission Territory Finance Inside sales 76

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. They also play on emotion.

Cross-sell 22

Cross-sell Customers Referrals Drivers/motivators 22

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.

Go To Market 62

Go To Market GTM Launch Promote 62

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Motivations of an individual contributor vs. a manager. Our second sponsor is Outreach , the leading sales engagement platform that enables sales reps to humanize their communications at scale, from automating the soul-sucking manual work that eats up selling time to providing action-oriented tips on what communications are working best.

Strategize 52

Strategize Contract Strategic planning Drivers/motivators 52

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 23, 2018

There’s a general tendency among most frontline sales teams to sell to enterprises and become the next Salesforce. The other advantages of selling to SMBs is that over time businesses can gain experience in developing enterprise-grade software while beefing up their go-to-market strategy for SMBs.

B2B 55

B2B Cross-sell Negotiate Pitch 55

ConversionXL

JUNE 30, 2019

Companies do it for a wide variety of reasons—SEO, branding, go-to-market strategy, pricing, etc.—and Most likely, they’ll only remember one—your main selling point. Reliable lifts come from knowing your customer and tailoring the value proposition to match that customer’s motivations in a way that no other website will.

UX 126

UX X-functional A/B testing User Experience 126

SalesHandy

JULY 12, 2022

is a common misconception amongst many salespeople and marketers believing they should serve everyone. If you are selling to the wrong individuals, then your sales team will most likely struggle to connect with them and their pain points. Low CLV and high churn rates indicate that you are selling to the wrong people.

Customers 59

Customers Cross-sell Represent Contract 59

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

We hear his best practices on developing a sales team, measuring rep productivity, why companies should lead with their product first, and what the sales team’s responsibility is inside of a product-led go-to-market strategy. He went to Holy Cross. What You’ll Learn. Outreach has your back. He’s a father of two.

Product 52

Product Pipeline Engineering Cross-sell 52

Sales Hacker

APRIL 16, 2018

The sales team is set up in two teams, we’ve got a team that’s responsible for selling into the buy side and sell side, and a team responsible for selling into big corporations. Sales management at Global Crossing. Sam Jacobs : Let’s keep going through your background. What happened next?

Territory 40

Territory Cross-sell Up-sell Objection handling 40

SaaStr

JULY 17, 2020

But that’s more the exception than the rull of the go to market for many companies. And because the driver or the impetus for this economic turmoil wasn’t really lack of consumer confidence or lack of consumer resources, it’s not clear that consumers don’t have the money to spend. Jason Lemkin: Yeah.

E-commerce 71

E-commerce Retail Real Estate Growth 71

Hubspot

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

So, here’s my step-by-step guide to building your own go-to-market strategy using the strategies I’ve implemented to build multiple companies throughout the years. But first, what is a go-to-market strategy? What is a go-to-market (GTM) strategy? But first, what is a go-to-market strategy?

Go To Market 96

Go To Market Process GTM Education 96

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Andy MacMillan: I think that’s something a lot of folks struggle with as they scale companies, is that you start to have to, even if you’re the overall boss, if you’re the CEO, you have to get good at driving consensus in coalition around ideas and getting people motivated to make those things happen. It meets a need.

Pipeline 91

Pipeline Territory Price Product 91

Heinz Marketing

JUNE 1, 2020

Best Practices from Lisa McLe od” Lisa is the founder of McLeod & More as well as the Author of Selling with Noble Purpose. We know what we want to get done, sometimes we happen to think about what the prospect wants out of this as well, but that’s different than having a noble selling purpose. And I believe it is.

Pipeline 63

Pipeline Sales Up-sell Cross-sell 63

Heinz Marketing

AUGUST 25, 2020

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. Here, the decision is horizontal, and it does not go to a senior-level executive team.

B2B 112

B2B Sell E-commerce Cross-sell 112

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 123

B2B GTM Customers Cross-sell 123

Heinz Marketing

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Specialties: Large Team Leadership, Lead / Demand Generation, Problem-Solving & Optimizing, Account Based Marketing (ABM), Business / Sales Development, Strategy & Analysis, Go-To-Market Strategy, International Marketing, Tactical Execution, Marketing Mix Integration, Start-Up organization, Growth, Turn-arounds, and Operations.

Pipeline 44

Pipeline Sales Cross-sell B2B 44

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

What are the counter-intuitive strategies Neha has found work when it comes to motivating remote teams? * And when we were ready to take those to market and to actually put the fire behind them for go-to-market marketing, sales, all of that good stuff, that’s when we spun them out and started to look at raising funds.

Non-Profits 91

Non-Profits Teamwork Start-ups Engineering 91

Sales Hacker

APRIL 21, 2021

According to Gartner , the switch to RevOps is due to five key business drivers: Companies are disillusioned with rigid silos. Proliferation of marketing and sales technology. Customer experience becoming a critical revenue driver. We could also add a sixth business driver to the list. Unified data problems.

Finance 100

Finance GTM Cross-sell SQL 100

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.

B2B 135

B2B Objectives and Key Results Campaign Cross-sell 135

InsightSquared

JULY 1, 2021

And there’s no better driver of great decisions than information and education. . Revenue operations is a methodology that drives cross-functional collaboration in order to close gaps in the customer experience and maximize revenue for the business. Guided Selling. Cross-Selling. Go-To-Market Strategy.

Cross-sell 62

Cross-sell Contract Objectives and Key Results Quota 62

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

You can rise within a company selling your ideas, or you can go off on your own and be your first salesperson. Anita Nielsen is a best-selling author and sales performance coach. Best-selling author of Embrace Your Edge, Hang is a global speaker on sales, leadership, and diversity & inclusion in the workplace.

Sales 130

Sales Start-ups Up-sell Cross-sell 130

Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

The New Solution Selling. The Little Red Book of Selling. Unbreakable Laws of Selling. The New Strategic Selling. Agile Selling. Spin Selling. Insight Selling. Spear Selling. The Psychology of Selling. Buyer-Centered Selling. Integrity Selling for the 21st Century.

Sales 141

Sales Technique Objectives and Key Results Non-Profits 141

SaaStr

JULY 15, 2020

But that’s more the exception than the role of the go to market for many companies. And because the driver or the impetus for this economic turmoil wasn’t really lack of consumer confidence or lack of consumer resources, it’s not clear that consumers don’t have the money to spend. Jasom Lemkin: Yeah.

X-functional 61

X-functional E-commerce Growth Retail 61

Gong.io

AUGUST 10, 2020

Which selling skills should account managers focus on building? Selling skills matter just as much for account management, just in a more subtle way. The account management function is a critical driver of long-term retention. Selling Skills and Account Management. At the end of that contract, you’ve got to sell it again.

Customers 62

Customers Cross-sell Account management Drivers/motivators 62

SaaStr

AUGUST 27, 2019

This will include diving into the pros and cons of the various comp design models, including MBOs, detailed incentive structures and flat commission rate payouts, as well as the nuance between using comp design as a motivational factor but not as a substitute for good management. Why don’t we actually go down the line?

Territory 51

Territory Contract Cross-sell Drivers/motivators 51

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

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. As Wes Bush details, you have three options for a SaaS go-to-market strategy : sales led, marketing led, or product led.

Customers 119

Customers Cross-sell Referrals Networking 119