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.

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

Highspot

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Sales performance is affected by your enablement efforts, such as sales training or content management; sales productivity; your customer experience; your cross-functional alignment across sales and marketing team members; and your company culture. What Factors Affect Sales Performance. Refresh your sales strategy. Coach your coaches.

Objectives and Key Results 52

Objectives and Key Results Assembly Line Cross-sell Sales 52

Highspot

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Instead, you’ve got to accelerate sales by learning the ins and outs of your revenue engine — so you know exactly how far and how fast you can push it. Go-to-market teams work in silos, rarely communicate. Go-to-market teams collaborate continuously to drive outcomes. Nimbly adapts to shifts in market.

Sales 52

Sales Cross-sell Growth Technique 52

Highspot

MARCH 30, 2021

Sales performance is affected by your enablement efforts, such as sales training or content management; your customer experience; your cross-functional alignment; and your company culture. That’s because certain sales models are better suited to certain types of businesses, selling motions, or solutions. Make decisions with data.

Objectives and Key Results 69

Objectives and Key Results Assembly Line Cross-sell Sales 69

Highspot

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Facilitate Better Sales and Marketing Alignment By incorporating marketing initiatives into sales strategies, the playbook ensures that both teams work towards common goals with consistent messaging and resources. This results in a more powerful go-to market strategy.

Growth 52

Growth Objectives and Key Results Cold Call Sales 52

Highspot

JUNE 11, 2020

Cross-functional input into go-to-market strategies. Seamless handoff between marketing-generated leads and sales. Through these actions, marketing supports sales by ensuring that buyers are educated, interested, and engaged — and more likely to start, or continue, doing business with you. Strategize together.

Objectives and Key Results 59

Objectives and Key Results Cross-sell Sales Education 59

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. Sales Engineer. using Zoom, Skype, email, and CRM). Regional Sales Manager. Image Source.

Commission 77

Commission Territory Finance Inside sales 77

SaaStr

MAY 27, 2023

Next up was Jason Cohen, founder of $100m+ WP Engine. So, whether you’re hiring or you’re selling or you’re running a leadership meeting, a lot of the time you’re banking on your natural skills and experience to get you to a good result so you can move on to the next thing. Several, we closed while I was on a cross-country flight.

Gaming 70

Gaming Trust Cross-sell Closing 70

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

SalesLoft

JANUARY 19, 2017

At this time I was tasked with developing & executing sales account strategy and managing the training of all go-to-market teams. Reps have a tendency to make excuses for the prospects they spend time trying to convert and less time being highly exclusive with whom to sell to. Your ICP could include 20 or more criteria.

Cross-sell 52

Cross-sell Sales Contract Prospecting 52

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Imagine having the opportunity to sell into a company like Lyft in 2011. Imagine growing with them on their journey to becoming a publicly-traded company with an $11+ billion market cap. The total addressable market continues to grow and is ripe for selling to, but very few startups reach unicorn status.

Sell 78

Sell Minimum Viable Product Objectives and Key Results Cross-sell 78

SaaStr

JUNE 27, 2019

As we talk about that journey, the enterprise has been the growth engine for the last several years. Fast forward to today, we’ve crossed the $400 million revenue mark. We announced tomorrow, but we’ve crossed that line and now we’re at about 55% of our revenues coming from the enterprise.

Cross-sell 70

Cross-sell Technology Technology Retail 70

SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2020

How does this change when selling to SMBs vs enterprise? * How does Sam think about the relationship between sales and marketing? Are marketing becoming the new sales team with their content being used more and more in the sales funnel? When is the right time to hire the first sales rep? Should you hire 2 at a time?

Sales 71

Sales Cross-sell Start-ups 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 97

Go To Market Process GTM Education 97

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

and before that spent 10 years as the Founder and CEO @ Raw Engineering, building a leading digital transformation consultancy. And before that, spent 10 years as the founder and CEO at Raw Engineering, building a leading digital transformation consultancy. For starters, I’m not an engineer and I’m a female.

Non-Profits 83

Non-Profits Teamwork Start-ups Engineering 83

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

Sales Hacker

APRIL 21, 2021

The director of customer success brings her Salesforce report to a cross-functional meeting with sales and marketing leadership. For our example, we’ll cover what a RevOps manager does on a daily basis: Makes decisions on sales and marketing strategies to drive business revenue. Career Advice from 6 RevOps Pros.

Finance 101

Finance GTM Cross-sell SQL 101

Highspot

JULY 18, 2023

Marketing enablement is not a new idea, but few companies take an intentional, strategic approach. Done well, it serves to align marketing departments around a single source of truth for marketing initiatives, planning, and messaging. This operational rigor is what good marketing enablement looks like.

Objectives and Key Results 52

Objectives and Key Results Cross-sell Strategize Lead generation 52

Highspot

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Suddenly, your business has gone from a single salesperson to a team of hundreds, each of whom has a different approach to selling — and not all of them right for your business. But to succeed, you’ll need your team to execute your go-to-market strategy in a single, unified motion. Transactional Selling.

Cross-sell 85

Cross-sell Consult Sales Strategize 85

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

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

You may agonize over the decision to choose one path over the other, but you can save that strategic energy for figuring out how to transition more free users into paying customers. And optimizing for micro-conversions can undermine macro-conversions, especially if your marketing team never sees what happens after a form fill.

Customers 119

Customers Cross-sell Referrals Networking 119

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

How does Amanda think the go-to-market has to change with every stage of development? What can be done to ensure seamless cross-functional communication across the org? How to ensure customer support is strategic and not just reactionary? You can also take your SaaStr to go: Listen on iTunes. Listen on Spotify.

Customers 43

Customers Price Cross-sell Start-ups 43

The Lost Book of Sales

JULY 12, 2021

Starting to cross the chasm. How does the "D-Day" strategy help companies cross the chasm? Being sales vs. market driven when crossing the chasm. In both cases, the reason we have separate markets is that the customers could not have referenced each other. What is the "Chasm"? A war analogy.

Cross-sell 52

Cross-sell Niche Objectives and Key Results Price 52

Heinz Marketing

MARCH 25, 2020

The following blog post was written based on new research from Heinz Marketing and 6Sense. Yet creating a predictable revenue growth engine is no small task, nor is it one that can be done overnight. The (Mis)alignment of Sales and Marketing. A severe lack of cross-functional coordination. Insufficient Demand Generation.

Growth 63

Growth Cross-sell Territory Engineering 63

SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2020

” And at the other end, it’s a true partner in the C suite that’s partnering and guiding the strategic agenda for the company. It started with just proving myself and building out a basic team and adding some value to really thinking about the longterm strategic agenda.

Customers 71

Customers Strategize Start-ups Growth 71

SaaStr

OCTOBER 22, 2020

* What should the first marketing hire look like? Why does Ryan believe you should hire two in marketing to start? How does Ryan ensure cross-function working seamlessly from the very beginning with marketing? * How does Ryan think about measuring success when it comes to product marketing?

Pipeline 69

Pipeline Cross-sell Launch Start-ups 69

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

264: Allison Pickens is the COO @ Gainsight, the company that provides everything you need to turn your customers into your biggest growth engine. What does a strategic plan really mean to Allison? How does one tie their strategic plan to their financial plan? What is included in it? How should it be structured? Harry Stebbings.

Engineering 11

Engineering Objectives and Key Results Strategic planning Strategize 11

SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

As for Erica, under her CRO role, she leads all go-to-market functions including Marketing, Sales, Operations, Customer Success, Services, and Support. How does this move impact the relationship between sales and marketing? How should compensation plans be altered with the move? It was really an incredible experience.

Contract 66

Contract Sports Cross-sell Start-ups 66

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Plus, from 2007 until 2013, Karen ran all of Box’s business development, partnership, and strategic alliance activities. Plus from 2007 until 2013, Karen ran all of Box’s business development, partnership and strategic alliance activities. Is it in that pre product market fit phase? Loving our podcast content?

Strategize 71

Strategize Pitch Growth Networking 71

SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2020

Kyle Parrish: In that time, before I was even really focused on the impact of UI/UX or the design world at large, I started to realize we were selling against companies like Google and Microsoft and Box, and a lot of our sales pitch was around how intuitive the product was. It wasn’t just engineering, product, and design roles.

Sales 79

Sales Price Quota Start-ups 79

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Selling has changed more in the last 10 years than it has in the previous 100 years, and this is especially true in B2B markets. . At the forefront of this change is what we at Engagio call, Account-Based Everything (ABE), some people know it as Account-Based Sales Development (ABSD), and others call it Account-Based Marketing (ABM).

Technology 58

Technology Technology Cross-sell Referrals 58

SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2022

Sometimes we’re not as founders, sometimes founders sell their company because they don’t end up being deeply passionate about what it does. So sell your product. I’m not great at it, but most folks they’re aggressive without crossing the line. First is strategic, and then the tactical.

Quota 79

Quota Growth Product Closing 79

SaaStr

AUGUST 13, 2019

When organizations actually go from starting up to selling to SMBs and going up market, the pool up market is undeniable. You’re trying to figure out how to sell to them. Also selling up market actually means that you can very easily have predictable revenue streams. Solution engineers.

Cross-sell 63

Cross-sell Sales Support Growth Up-sell 63

SaaStr

JULY 19, 2019

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How did Peter make his way into the world of enterprise SaaS with the founding and selling of 6 companies and how did InCountry come about? When is the right time to sell a startup? Harry Stebbings: And then what was the founding moment with InCountry after the bad habit of selling companies?

Cross-sell 54

Cross-sell Up-sell Start-ups Engineering 54

ConversionXL

JUNE 19, 2019

Product lifecycle marketing does the following: Ensures you’re operationalizing in the right context. Follow the go-to-market strategy using the Google Sprint structure: Research: ask the experts, competitive research. We sell success. Cross-sectional studies, surveys. Spots early signs of a pending transition.

A/B testing 90

A/B testing Objectives and Key Results UX Retail 90