SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

So it really focused our efforts on selling larger deals and go after the enterprise space. When you sign up for hypergrowth especially, you have to go after the US. When I started, our very first target country territory was the US, even though we didn’t have an office. You’re crossing the chasm.

Territory 56

Territory Cross-sell Sales Cold Call 56

Highspot

JUNE 11, 2020

Cross-functional input into go-to-market strategies. Seamless handoff between marketing-generated leads and sales. Managing pipeline, territory planning, and forecasting. What Does Sales Do for Marketing? Sales’ responsibility is, of course, to sell. Or is ad-hoc the way to go?

Objectives and Key Results 59

Objectives and Key Results Cross-sell Sales Education 59

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

SaaStr

AUGUST 27, 2019

I think that we would probably all agree that there is no one more motivated than the founder in the founder led sales stage to get sales, cross the line, and when it comes to comp design, there’s really no big comp design to be had if the founder’s the one closing the deals. But also what is my go to market motion?

Territory 54

Territory Contract Cross-sell Drivers/motivators 54

Sales Hacker

APRIL 16, 2018

4) Going up the sales career ladder [9:00]. 9) Territory planning and territory creation [33:30]. 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. What happened next?

Territory 41

Territory Cross-sell Up-sell Objection handling 41

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

For Collibra, a cross-organizational data governance platform, the company went from slow growth to hypergrowth. Teddie : I guess you were also selling into sectors and verticals that had been used to buying software as the last license and maybe a little bit slower. It can order subscription. Felix : Yeah, exactly. Financial services.

Growth 73

Growth Territory Government Engineering 73

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

So I really believe much like how product management works, we talk about in product management you’re kind of responsible for everything, but in charge of nobody, engineering doesn’t work for you, sales doesn’t work for you. That to me, is where product marketing really comes into play. Harry Stebbings: Trust me.

Pipeline 79

Pipeline Territory Price Product 79

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

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

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

SaaStr

AUGUST 19, 2020

We shut down something called the Evernote market which was selling physical goods, sunset some nice products like Evernote food which had nice followings, but I felt were distracting from the larger priorities. So if you haven’t experimented with an ROI calculator in your go-to-market motion, I’d highly encourage it.

E-commerce 101

E-commerce Price Start-ups Growth 101

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

APRIL 21, 2021

An emerging need to support multiple GTM plans across segments and regions. Proliferation of marketing and sales technology. The director of customer success brings her Salesforce report to a cross-functional meeting with sales and marketing leadership. Assist the CEO and sales leadership team with go-to-market planning.

Finance 101

Finance GTM Cross-sell SQL 101

SaaStr

JULY 29, 2022

So you’re really asking how do you get a business going, like selling to restaurants that not only is hard to penetrate but has a hardware component. So maybe it was a crummy time to sell as they were coming up on 20 million US dollars in revenue. Jason Lemkin: Well, look. It is a tailwind pulling you up.

Price 85

Price Product Start-ups Niche 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

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

JULY 30, 2018

They’re trying to cross?sell sell products. What they’re finding is it’s prohibitively difficult to use these newer technologies like UiPath without being able to connect all these different systems together in a way that the software on top can actually bring together a different picture of what’s going on.

Cross-sell 64

Cross-sell Up-sell Sales Start-ups 64

Sales Hacker

JULY 16, 2020

In May 2020, Facebook announced it was buying the gif search engine , Giphy, for $400 million — primarily for its Instagram product. This makes a gif search engine extremely valuable to the most-used products of our time. RELATED: Moving to Enterprise Sales (Part 2): 5 Go-to-Market Prerequisites You Need to Succeed.

Pipeline 96

Pipeline E-commerce Cross-sell Referrals 96

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