SaaStr

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Does Manny believe that the founder should always be responsible for selling their product at one moment in time? How did Manny sell the first $1m in ARR simply through walking the streets of SOMA and selling door-to-door? What is sufficient? What is excessive? What were his biggest lessons from doing this?

Territory 56

Territory Quota Cross-sell Pipeline 56

SaaStr

MAY 3, 2019

Does Manny believe that the founder should always be responsible for selling their product at one moment in time? How did Manny sell the first $1m in ARR simply through walking the streets of SOMA and selling door-to-door? What is sufficient? What is excessive? What were his biggest lessons from doing this? Does that make sense?

Territory 58

Territory Quota Cross-sell Pipeline 58

ConversionXL

APRIL 22, 2015

So in a nutshell, this is how you succeed: Run as many tests as possible at all times (every day without a test running on a page/layout is regret by default), Win as many tests as possible, Have as high impact (uplift) per successful test as possible. Well what if we both sell food items? Doesn’t work like that.

A/B testing 123

A/B testing Cross-sell Start-ups Follow-up 123

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Every industry needs sales so the education you receive working in this role can be immense. 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. No matter your gender, work hard and sell with heart.

Sales 130

Sales Start-ups Up-sell Cross-sell 130

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

What can be done to ensure seamless cross-functional communication across the org? I mean if I’m in sell mode, then I’m going to be in sell mode. Amanda Kleha: I like that my team can feel like they can make decisions on their own, but in order to do that, I need to educate them on what’s important to me.

Customers 42

Customers Price Cross-sell Start-ups 42

SaaStr

OCTOBER 29, 2019

I began my career in new product development and starting in 2011 got really excited about the high growth phase of a company. I was on the product team and saw this opportunity for us to work more cross functionally across the company and focus heavily on retention and monetization. First is assigning an owner.

Price 40

Price X-functional Cross-sell Growth 40

Sales Hacker

JULY 8, 2020

If you missed episode 116, check it out here: How to Form Great Habits and High Impact Behaviors at Work? It makes it a place where, if you do the right things, you can have a massive impact and really see big numbers, and see big number growth as we have. .” with Andrew Sykes. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

Real Estate 113

Real Estate Strategize Launch Commission 113

ConversionXL

AUGUST 21, 2014

I have seen this happen at a few startups I’ve worked with by expanding revenue from the current product, plus up-sell and cross-sell opportunities , but that will be a future post. Before we get there though, I want to mention that David Skok points out something that can massively accelerate SaaS growth: negative churn.

Referrals 106

Referrals Objectives and Key Results Follow-up Service 106

SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

Jay Snyder: So I guess I’d say it’s forcing us to both challenge our customers more than ever, and by extension us to be educated and in tune with the customer’s business, more than ever. Bernadette Nixon: And so there are different things we need to do to bring to the table in crossing that chasm for our market.

Retail 79

Retail Start-ups Drivers/motivators Up-sell 79

Outreach

APRIL 25, 2019

Over the years, businesses have used many selling techniques to reframe their sales process and improve performance. Solution Selling. To build a custom solution, practitioners of this technique rarely sell off-the-shelf products. More focus on the communicative aspect of selling, less on strategic/tactical aspects.

Technique 55

Technique B2B Sell Cross-sell 55