Salesforce

OCTOBER 12, 2021

They see how all departments can drive revenue for the company; those departments can include sales, marketing, customer success, and finance. The CRO leverages cross-functional knowledge to create a complete view of the customer lifecycle from bringing in new leads to closing deals to renewing customer contracts. Not exactly.

Gaming 98

Gaming Cross-sell Sales Finance 98

Salesforce

JULY 28, 2022

To ensure your company is recession ready, develop a game plan for your sales organization that focuses on investments in tools, training, and effective sales tactics. Upskill and cross-train your teams. A resilient sales org can nimbly respond to market changes whenever they arise. said Batrawy.

Cross-sell 98

Cross-sell GTM Quota Contract 98

SaaStr

MAY 27, 2023

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. And so, with 48 hours to go before quarter close, I worked with this leader to close 16 deals. Let’s get to market.

Gaming 69

Gaming Trust Cross-sell Closing 69

Gong.io

OCTOBER 19, 2021

It helps you dominate the market by turning your team members into superstars and your go-to-market function into a revenue-generating beast. They do all of this by equipping your sales organization with the insights, data, culture, tools, and knowledge it needs to sell better. . How do you up your game?

Quota 164

Quota Sales Strategize Objection handling 164

Sales Hacker

MAY 6, 2021

They’ll rip apart your CRM and replace your opportunity fields with their proven-and-trusted sales methodologies and scoff if you try to rehearse Sandler, Challenger, or MEDDIC selling to them. And this is exactly why you hired them! Dissecting pipeline with mid-level leaders to ensure and maintain pipeline velocity and accuracy.

B2C 93

B2C Pipeline SQL Strategize 93

Salesforce

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Team selling is more important than ever, and sales kickoffs help us sell faster and smarter when we learn more about each other’s working styles. Maybe you’re launching a new product, selling into a new industry, or tweaking the sales process. SKOs are all about: Camaraderie. Collaboration. What are the products?

Cross-sell 64

Cross-sell Presentation Sales Up-sell 64

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

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

We remain optimistic about the prospects of cross-border SaaS. AI is likely the next platform, dev tools are strategic given the scarcity of developers, cybersecurity is front and center for enterprises, and the data stack is still going strong. Org Building Ideas for Cross-Border Companies. It’s a close-knit buyer/seller group.

GTM 85

GTM Cross-sell Niche Strategize 85

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

And optimizing for micro-conversions can undermine macro-conversions, especially if your marketing team never sees what happens after a form fill. Define your go-to-market strategy. As Wes Bush details, you have three options for a SaaS go-to-market strategy : sales led, marketing led, or product led.

Customers 119

Customers Cross-sell Referrals Networking 119

Highspot

JUNE 6, 2023

Establishing shared goals begins with defining common objectives and expected results to foster cross-team collaboration and understanding. Objectives may include increasing conversion rates, generating more marketing and sales-qualified leads, or improving customer retention.

Closing 52

Closing Product Objectives and Key Results Quota 52

Highspot

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Go-to-market teams work in silos, rarely communicate. Go-to-market teams collaborate continuously to drive outcomes. Static relationship with market, slow to adapt. Nimbly adapts to shifts in market. Your sales acceleration strategy should touch all aspects of your go-to-market approach.

Sales 52

Sales Cross-sell Growth Technique 52

Heinz Marketing

MAY 16, 2022

If I’m ever in market, I won’t buy from them because of how they treated me, because of how they pushed me.” I think I see a lot of companies want to have good net promoter scores, and unfortunately some of them game the system. I’m a big believer in cross-functional alignment. And keep things simple.

Pipeline 93

Pipeline Referrals X-functional Cross-sell 93

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

As you can imagine, that’s a tough sell, especially when you’re at a startup or entering new markets. For instance, a company with a product that practically sells itself already might pay low salaries while a company entering an uncertain new market might opt for higher salaries to attract game-changing talent.

Quota 83

Quota Represent Cross-sell Drivers/motivators 83

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

Highspot

DECEMBER 19, 2023

6 Benefits of a Sales Development Playbook The sales development playbook isn’t just a tool; it’s a game changer for SDRs and sales leaders. This results in a more powerful go-to market strategy. Product/Service Information Your sales development team needs to know what they are selling.

Growth 52

Growth Objectives and Key Results Cold Call Sales 52

criteria for success

MARCH 25, 2020

And no matter where you are or what your organization sells, you’ve likely seen an impact on your business. Selling Through Uncertainty. Criteria for Success is hosting a series of group Q&A's about selling during COVID-19. What silly games could you implement to keep people connected? Optimize for Remote Work.

Cross-sell 66

Cross-sell Sales Up-sell Meeting 66

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

ConversionXL

JUNE 30, 2019

Companies do it for a wide variety of reasons—SEO, branding, go-to-market strategy, pricing, etc.—and Most likely, they’ll only remember one—your main selling point. Your PODs are where you’ll win the game. and you can definitely use it for UX and conversion optimization , too. Compare competitor value propositions.

UX 126

UX X-functional A/B testing User Experience 126

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

Heinz Marketing

DECEMBER 11, 2017

That means driving pipeline, owning successes and misses, and continuing to up the game to beat competitors in this noisy world we now operate in. Join Matt and Dan as they discuss steps you can take to up your pipeline game and build the ultimate trifecta. Data-driven Marketing Executive. More about Dan : .

Pipeline 44

Pipeline Sales Cross-sell B2B 44

Martech

MAY 5, 2022

Here are some actionable steps Naves recommends marketers take to enhance their personalization by connecting customer data. “Some people say, ‘I’ve got my [buyer] persona, I’m ready to go. We want to go to market,'” said Naves. Implement personalized cross-sell campaigns.

Customers 94

Customers Cross-sell Gaming Campaign 94

SaaStr

MAY 8, 2020

How have you seen the best engage with offering pilots, and what’s the structure of the pilots that you tend to advise when selling to enterprise? So, our company, Arthur, an explainable AI company, realized that the regulated industries they sell into also want their solution on prem, even during a pilot phase.

Cross-sell 72

Cross-sell Contract Start-ups Up-sell 72

SaaStr

MARCH 22, 2023

Your Commercial Market Will Define You Throughout Lenta’s experiences with these three journeys, he’s learned some key lessons for those looking to do similar. The commercial market you choose to build and offer your customers defines you, yes. Instead of selling products, they were selling aspirational concepts and business value.

Growth 76

Growth Cross-sell GTM Up-sell 76

SaaStr

JUNE 27, 2019

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. So we’ve gone through a pretty massive transformation as we’ve taken on the enterprise market. That was it.

Cross-sell 70

Cross-sell Technology Technology Retail 70

Martech

OCTOBER 28, 2022

B2B marketing leaders are at a crossroads. But the go-to-market (GTM) strategies, systems and plays many teams use are not connecting with how buyers and companies research and make purchase decisions. . But in simple terms, it starts with B2B marketing viewing sales as their customer. Oxford Dictionary.

B2B 119

B2B GTM Cross-sell Quota 119

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

So it may be easy to pick at large companies if you’re in the startup game, but there’s a lot of really smart people doing things really well at massive scale in these very successful companies. That to me, is where product marketing really comes into play. And then scaling a go to market organization, right?

Pipeline 78

Pipeline Territory Price Product 78

Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

I’ve pulled together the top 97 books from a range of sales disciplines to give you the information you need to stay relevant, lead conversations, understand the trends — and of course, improve your game. The New Solution Selling. The Little Red Book of Selling. Unbreakable Laws of Selling. The New Strategic Selling.

Sales 141

Sales Technique Objectives and Key Results Non-Profits 141

InsightSquared

DECEMBER 3, 2019

The heart of revenue operations is the alignment of marketing, sales and customer success operations and their go-to-market teams around one single north-star goal: revenue. AI is changing the game with its ability to upscale human capabilities and provide us with faster, deeper and more accurate insights. AI Influences.

Cross-sell 62

Cross-sell Teamwork Sales Gaming 62

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. Now that we’ve officially combined The Sales Hacker newsletter with The GTM Newsletter, we’re almost 60K strong!

GTM 52

GTM Contract Cross-sell Account management 52

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

Salesforce

JANUARY 3, 2022

Predictable growth is the name of the game in the new year, and you need the right tools, tips, and techniques to make it happen. 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”.

Growth 98

Growth Quota Intrinsic Cross-sell 98

InsightSquared

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Align your complete go-to-market team around a uniform view to maximize results. Rely on our advanced dashboards and analytics to see and report real-time results to the business and adapt cross-functional strategies in time to win business and prevent losses. Get everyone on the same page of a best-selling book.

Objectives and Key Results 62

Objectives and Key Results Cross-sell CRM Sales 62

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

SaaStr

JULY 15, 2022

How, if no one’s heard of you, do you sell to big companies? Ash Bhoopathy (@ashbhoopathy): Probably more around go-to-market and sales. First of all, on go-to-market and sales and marketing, be very, very wary of folks that want to outsource your core. Jason Lemkin: Well, let’s break it up.

Growth 94

Growth Cross-sell Start-ups X-functional 94

SaaStr

JULY 30, 2020

Why do founders have to sell the product themselves at the start? Peter Kazanjy: So at TalentBin, that was kind of like my first training wheels, SaaS business, and also the place where I started to learn and appreciate go to market. So nowadays I’m all go to market all the time.

Cross-sell 80

Cross-sell Up-sell Start-ups Sell 80

Hubspot

AUGUST 8, 2019

That’s why successful companies obsessively measure everything about their go-to-market model, sales strategy, and salespeople. Percentage of revenue from existing customers (cross-selling, upselling, repeat orders, expanded contracts, etc.). Revenue by market. Cost of selling as a percentage of revenue generated.

X-functional 96

X-functional Quota Cross-sell Contract 96

SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

The three stages are product-market fit, then go-to-market fit and lastly growth and moat. And so I just want to throw in a framework around product market fit measured by customer value creation, then go to market fit measured by economics, then we scale fast. Totally changes the game.

Growth 82

Growth Cross-sell Contract X-functional 82