Hubspot

JUNE 8, 2021

It's important for this role to educate prospects and follow up once a sale is closed to maintain customer satisfaction and encourage repeat buyers. The path to a promotion is clear, and you'll gain the skills you need to level up to a managerial position. Nearly half of their time is spent selling remotely (i.e. Image Source.

Commission 77

Commission Territory Finance Inside sales 77

Salesforce

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Sing up now. Breidenthal had been closely tracking the rise of Coinbase in the months leading up to its public offering. Reimagine the selling experience. If you’re wondering how a seller runs a deal like this up that many flagpoles and gets a bunch of players with different needs on the same page, enter automation.

Closing 98

Closing Contract Legal Cross-sell 98

Salesforce

AUGUST 24, 2021

The research surveyed executives, team managers, and individual contributors across marketing, sales, commerce, service, finance, and IT. Research suggests that even as customer expectations, market dynamics, and technologies have rapidly evolved, the way companies use CRM systems is not keeping up with the times.

CRM 98

CRM Finance Customer Relationship Management Technology 98

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. And so on.”.

Sell 78

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

Sales Hacker

APRIL 1, 2021

If you’re an OEM or selling physical products, this one’s for you (sorry, SaaS folks). As the world is starting to reopen, there is likely room for your products in new markets, if you understand the complexities and risks. But that might mean overlooking a golden opportunity. COVID-19 Lessons Will Serve You Well.

E-commerce 67

E-commerce Territory Transportation B2C 67

SalesLoft

JUNE 26, 2020

An account-based strategy is only a strategy until marketing and sales come together to hyper-focus on their top-tier accounts. Patrick Lencioni’s fundamental business book, The Advantage , says, “Not finance. We met three times per week to align on our go-to-market strategy. . Not strategy. Not technology.

A/B testing 52

A/B testing Teamwork Cross-sell Finance 52

Heinz Marketing

MAY 16, 2022

Why did that bubble up as a topic for you? If I’m ever in market, I won’t buy from them because of how they treated me, because of how they pushed me.” You recommended we cover customer service, customer success today. Customer experience. Alan : Customer experience is the area I’m most passionate about.

Pipeline 93

Pipeline Referrals X-functional Cross-sell 93

The Lost Book of Sales

JULY 12, 2021

If you enjoy what you read and would like to receive a very occasional, hand-crafted update from me into your inbox, feel free to sign up below. Basics: Markets and segmentation. Starting to cross the chasm. How does the "D-Day" strategy help companies cross the chasm? Table of Contents. What's happening?

Cross-sell 52

Cross-sell Niche Objectives and Key Results Price 52

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 2, 2019

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. I understand accounting and finance.

Strategize 52

Strategize Contract Strategic planning Drivers/motivators 52

Sales Hacker

APRIL 16, 2018

4) Going up the sales career ladder [9:00]. 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. We’re on iTunes.

Territory 41

Territory Cross-sell Up-sell Objection handling 41

SaaStr

JULY 15, 2020

” So all the people who were whining, jumping up and down about the evils of short-termism and public markets, which I never really believed in any way, maybe you’re just factually wrong. Does it not all bubble up to even the best cloud stocks? Keith Rabois: It’s unclear which stocks a ball is up to.

X-functional 62

X-functional E-commerce Growth Retail 62

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. We asked ourselves: ‘Would you rather have your competitor work remotely or be all huddled up in an office together?’ Our unanimous pick? who am I kidding?

GTM 93

GTM Pipeline SQL UX 93

Sales Hacker

APRIL 21, 2021

Revenue operations (RevOps) is a centralized org within a company that supports all revenue-generating business operations including Sales Ops, Marketing Ops, Customer Success Ops, and systems management. On Linkedin alone, a search for “revenue operations” in the US brings up almost 20,000 results. Remind me again – what is RevOps?

Finance 101

Finance GTM Cross-sell SQL 101

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

We’re often encouraged to hide, toughen up, and bury our emotions. Your sales career project has ups and downs. 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. Anita Nielsen.

Sales 130

Sales Start-ups Up-sell Cross-sell 130

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

The group that I was in was actually made up of the WebEx acquisition and so all of, kind of, our marketing initiatives were run outside of corporate marketing. I mean, I’m a firm believer that people don’t wake up in the morning thinking about your brand. Harry Stebbing: No, I do agree.

E-commerce 54

E-commerce Trust Start-ups SQL 54

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 2, 2020

No, that’s not the setup for some obscure go-to-market joke. It’s a flywheel for the entire sales funnel, speeding up sales motions and connecting every revenue-generating activity. Sales Engagement is designed to promote consistent conversations, rapid sales motions, and sales and marketing alignment.

Objectives and Key Results 133

Objectives and Key Results Cross-sell Sales Technology 133

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 25, 2023

We’ll continue on our mission to provide real stories/strategies/insights from the best go-to-market operators on the planet, spanning sales, marketing, customer success, operations/enablement, product and hiring. Thanks for being part of the GTM community. Mark’s pro tip: “And why call them Growth AEs vs. Account Managers?

GTM 52

GTM Contract Cross-sell Account management 52

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. And as part of that strategy, they actively answer marketing questions on Quora to set themselves up as experts in the space. And users can sign up for a free trial. Inside Sales.

Inside sales 110

Inside sales Cold Call Contract Price 110

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”. Sign up now. Create a single source of truth to empower go-to-market teams. It’s time to #ThinkOutsidetheQuota.

Growth 98

Growth Quota Intrinsic Cross-sell 98

SaaStr

AUGUST 27, 2019

How to Design a Sales Comp Plan to Get You to $100M with Work-Bench, Movable Ink, MongoDB and Concert Finance. Sanj Sanampudi | Co-Founder & CEO @ Concert Finance. First step, we have who has worked with a number of SAAS companies in New York City as a CFO, and is now CEO of Concert Finance, a sales commission platform.

Territory 54

Territory Contract Cross-sell Drivers/motivators 54

InsightSquared

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

In fact, you want a Platform that captures activity from anyone who touches a deal, including SEs, finance, support, and executive sponsors. Make sure the work reps do is 100% lined up with your organization’s proven recipe for how to win deals. Otherwise, you’re looking at squandered marketing budgets and a dried-up pipeline.

Objectives and Key Results 62

Objectives and Key Results Cross-sell CRM Sales 62

SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2020

To date the company has raised over $132M in financing from some of the best in the business including Sequoia, a16z, Index, Greylock and Kleiner Perkins to name a few. So we were really selling on the intuitiveness of the design, and in tandem with that, we were hiring these kind of rockstar designers. That made a ton of sense to me.

Sales 79

Sales Price Quota Start-ups 79

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

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

We have worked inside organizations that have successfully transitioned from selling into mid-market to selling into Enterprises. This guide will arm you with the three most important things to address with your executive team before committing to the Enterprise market. Get Aligned Before Moving Upmarket.

Product 58

Product Contract Cross-sell Account management 58

SaaStr

MAY 27, 2020

We woke up February 2020 with a shock to the system and no idea what it would mean for our business. That’s the week that the CARES Act was signed into law and created some market stability that drove the Dow Jones back up. So we’ll know tomorrow, the extent to which that goes up. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

Finance 79

Finance Government Price Contract 79

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

Karen Page: I agree in theory with that because as you’re writing your angel checks, you know that they may very well go up in flames. And that’s the mindset that you come into it with, when you’re writing a check to a company at the seed stage, you know that the likelihood that that is going to fail is great.

Strategize 71

Strategize Pitch Growth Networking 71

SaaStr

JULY 29, 2022

Jason recently opened up an AMA on Twitter Spaces to answer questions about how to scale faster. Let’s get it going. If we want to queue up the conversation, we did a blog post on SaaStr last week, about how everyone from Salesloft, to Zendesk, to Salesforce, Workday said they’re really seeing no slow down.

Price 85

Price Product Start-ups Niche 85

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Allison made her way into the world of SaaS with Gainsight from her start in finance at Bain in New York? Does Allison believe that marketing needs to be held accountable to a number directly tied to revenue? * How can one approach setting up a services team for scale? What is included in it?

Engineering 11

Engineering Objectives and Key Results Strategic planning Strategize 11

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 17, 2019

As a serial founder, Pete has built up an impressive library of knowledge on scaling businesses and optimizing sales motions. How selling as a founder will help you understand your sales motions. And he has indoctrinated that it cross a wide range of functions and content so that the rest of us can learn. What You’ll Learn.

Cross-sell 52

Cross-sell Contract Sales Up-sell 52

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