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

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 51

Territory Contract Cross-sell Drivers/motivators 51

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

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

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Growth of Omni-Channel Sales Strategies & Social Selling. The Continued Emphasis on Alignment of Sales & Marketing. Amazon is your new competitor – They now sell everything and dominate every product category. – Jeffrey Gitomer , Best-Selling Author, The Little Red Book of Selling.

Sales 97

Sales Cross-sell Up-sell Pipeline 97

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. The first one.

Cross-sell 59

Cross-sell Sales Support Growth Up-sell 59

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 91

Growth Cross-sell Start-ups X-functional 91

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. You want to co-sell together. You will hire your Rio.

Quota 79

Quota Growth Product Closing 79

SaaStr

JULY 10, 2020

We shut down something called the Evernote Market, which was selling physical goods, sunset some niche products like Evernote Food which had nice followings, but I felt were distracting from the larger priorities. And it really, it changed the game and people really embraced that, but we didn’t stop there.

E-commerce 71

E-commerce Price Start-ups Growth 71

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. This is not an “MQL is dead!”

B2B 117

B2B GTM Cross-sell Quota 117

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 66

Sales Cross-sell Start-ups Growth 66

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 75

Pipeline Territory Price Product 75

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

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.). Percentage of sales reps attaining 100% quota. Revenue by market.

X-functional 95

X-functional Quota Cross-sell Contract 95