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Empower Your Sales Team with a Strategic Enablement Function

Highspot

To maximize the impact of revenue enablement, you must focus on three elements: the enablement’s position in your go-to-market (GTM) engine, its strategic role, and how you measure its impact. If the enablement function is not empowered to actively shape the GTM function, you’re on the path to two major pitfalls.

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How to turn the great buyer resignation into B2B career opportunities

Martech

Marketers play a large, proactive role in the buying-selling process to generate revenue across the entire buyer lifecycle – from generating a new customer, to contract renewal, to solution expansion and cross-sell/upsell. Drive the shift from push to pull marketing. It doesn’t have to be over complicated.

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5 Challenges in Moving Upmarket and How to Overcome Them with Salesforce Ventures

SaaStr

You have to expand your focus on how you sell and make it strategic to the C-suite. When you get to the phase of wanting to sell to Enterprise, it often breaks down at Enterprise needs. Miro was trying to make the shift to more of a hybrid GTM. You need to segment the entire organization, not just GTM. The lesson learned?

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The Top 5 Scale-Up Mistakes for Startups with Dave Kellogg, Balderton Capital Executive-In-Residence (Pod 574 + Video)

SaaStr

You’ve identified a persona to sell to and a problem you solve for buyers. Mistake #1: Premature GTM acceleration. Hire according to empirical indicators, not the financing plan. As scaling occurs, the question of expanding beyond your initial selling borders will naturally come up. You can see Dave’s slides here.

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Is a Sales Operations Career Right for You?

Sales Hacker

Sales ops is responsible for supporting and enabling sales reps to sell efficiently and effectively. Sales operations teams bring a system of selling and structure to a sales organization. The focus is on things like reporting, territory management and later stage tasks such as contract negotiations and finance approvals.

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Snowflake, CrowdStike and SumoLogic: “How to Leverage the Cloud Giants to Scale to 100 Million ARR and Beyond”

SaaStr

Director of GTM Ops, Sapphire Ventures. So for the audience, cloud giants are turbocharging startup sales, and the predominant reason for this is because they’re fundamentally changing IT budgets at the customers that we’re all selling to. Panel: Colleen Kapase, VP of WW Partner & Alliances, Snowflake.

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Selling into Startups 101: What You Need to Know to Find a Unicorn

Sales Hacker

Imagine having the opportunity to sell into a company like Lyft in 2011. The total addressable market continues to grow and is ripe for selling to, but very few startups reach unicorn status. Why Should You Sell Into Startups? While selling to startups is an evergreen opportunity, it’s important to understand the risks as well.

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