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. Speed up rep success.

Cross-sell 98

Cross-sell GTM Quota Contract 98

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

Gong.io

OCTOBER 19, 2021

For a long time, sales leaders thought that the way to give sales teams a leg up was to help them target the right buyers in the right ways. But if you thought that gifted reps and some targeted marketing would get your team to the top, pull up a chair. How exactly will they know what’s going on? But it is. .

Quota 164

Quota Sales Strategize Objection handling 164

SaaStr

MAY 27, 2023

Next up was Jason Cohen, founder of $100m+ WP Engine. 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. Several, we closed while I was on a cross-country flight.

Gaming 73

Gaming Trust Cross-sell Closing 73

Sales Hacker

MAY 6, 2021

From B2C consumer-focused tech to the next B2B enterprise cloud giants, B2B, and B2C technology companies are springing up left and right and sprinting toward multi-billion dollar valuations (whether on the private or public markets) faster than ever. What’s the difference between a VP of Sales and a Chief Revenue Officer (CRO)?

B2C 95

B2C Pipeline SQL Strategize 95

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

We remain optimistic about the prospects of cross-border SaaS. Many of them will get gobbled up by the large platforms. 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. That’s too tactical.

GTM 84

GTM Cross-sell Niche Strategize 84

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.” I think I see a lot of companies want to have good net promoter scores, and unfortunately some of them game the system. Customer experience. Matt : Yeah.

Pipeline 93

Pipeline Referrals X-functional Cross-sell 93

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

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Hunters” typically have salaries tied to revenue; “farmers” usually get compensated based on renewal percentages; “prospectors” might receive pay for setting up qualified meetings. As you can imagine, that’s a tough sell, especially when you’re at a startup or entering new markets. Not sure where to look?

Quota 84

Quota Represent Cross-sell Drivers/motivators 84

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. Or, your supply chain is drying up and you are facing production or delivery delays. We’re all in this situation together, and as leaders, it’s up to us to support our teams in uncertain times. Selling Through Uncertainty.

Cross-sell 66

Cross-sell Sales Up-sell Meeting 66

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

Highspot

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Whether you call them SDRs, account executives (AEs), or business development representatives (BDRs), their ability to engage prospects through persistent, multi-channel communication outreach, and swift follow-up strategies is critical in transforming leads into viable opportunities and improving retention.

Growth 52

Growth Objectives and Key Results Cold Call Sales 52

ConversionXL

JUNE 30, 2019

You won’t know until you figure out what your competitors are up to. Knowing what the competitors are doing—how they’re thinking about the market, which tactics they’re using, how they’re crafting messages and design—can make all the difference in the battle for customers. Which results show up? By Karl Gilis.

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? And so, I got to just grow up, if you want to put it that way. This was in early 2015.

Sales 67

Sales Cross-sell Start-ups Growth 67

Heinz Marketing

DECEMBER 11, 2017

It’s just 30 minutes long, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. We’ve already featured some great guests and have a line up of awesome content and special guests into 2016. Data-driven Marketing Executive. What’s better than one team winning … three!

Pipeline 44

Pipeline Sales Cross-sell B2B 44

SaaStr

MAY 8, 2020

So, I studied International Development in Swahili in undergrad, thought I was going to end up in a career in global health, but then serendipitously ended up taking an engineering class in my senior year of college that led me down a path of working with student startups. And a lot of them really love tech.

Cross-sell 68

Cross-sell Contract Start-ups Up-sell 68

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 96

Go To Market Process GTM Education 96

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Andy MacMillan: I spent five years at Oracle in the Fusion Middleware Group, working in Thomas Kurian’s org and ended up hopping over to Salesforce to learn the SaaS business model and ran a business inside of Salesforce for a while. An edge case, somebody in marketing that might want to look up customers or whatever.

Pipeline 78

Pipeline Territory Price Product 78

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 118

Customers Cross-sell Gaming Campaign 118

SaaStr

JUNE 27, 2019

Today, we have more than 17,000 customers, including 50% of the Fortune 100, and the 17,000 customers are broken up into what we would call about 2,000 enterprises and you see a lot of our current customers up there. Fast forward to today, we’ve crossed the $400 million revenue mark. Your marketing mix changes quite a bit.

Cross-sell 68

Cross-sell Technology Technology Pitch 68

Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

And for leveling up your sales skills, nothing beats a good sales book. 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 New Strategic Selling.

Sales 141

Sales Technique Objectives and Key Results Non-Profits 141

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 79

Growth Cross-sell GTM Up-sell 79

Veloxy

MAY 3, 2022

Sales can be an intimidating numbers game. Helps your sales team spend more time on the selling activities that produce revenue. Helps perfect your sales process in order to sell more. In addition to helping sales team’s accelerate sales, Veloxy also helps optimize sales enablement by maximizing selling efficiency.

Sell 182

Sell Cold Call Tradeshows Cross-sell 182

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. . Dump the ‘lead capture’ mentality and turn up the engagement-first approach. Oxford Dictionary.

B2B 132

B2B GTM Cross-sell Quota 132

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

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

A freemium or free-trial approach impacts the micro-conversion of an unpaid product sign-up. 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. Cross-sells.

Customers 119

Customers Cross-sell Referrals Networking 119

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. This leaves them to think, “Well, what have you done for me lately?”

GTM 52

GTM Contract Cross-sell Account management 52

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

SaaStr

JULY 30, 2020

Why do founders have to sell the product themselves at the start? So as you know, currently the co-founder of Atrium, we make sales performance analysis software that continuously monitors key performance indicators of AEs, SDRs, etc, and bubbles up areas of interest to managers, and operations, and leaders. So that’s my day job.

Cross-sell 77

Cross-sell Up-sell Start-ups Sell 77

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

SaaStr

JULY 15, 2022

Jason recently opened up an AMA on Twitter Spaces to answer questions about scaling from $1M to $10M. Jason Lemkin: Well, let’s break it up. 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. It was packed.

Growth 95

Growth Cross-sell Start-ups X-functional 95

InsightSquared

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Make sure the work reps do is 100% lined up with your organization’s proven recipe for how to win deals. You’ve got to make sure marketing targets the right people — generating leads that can go the distance. 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

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 95

X-functional Quota Cross-sell Contract 95

Highspot

JUNE 6, 2023

What exactly do you stand to gain from ramping up sales productivity and increasing quota attainment across your team? Benefits of Sales Productivity A high-performing sales team paves the way for repeatable growth through changing market conditions, competitive pressures, and economic challenges.

Closing 52

Closing Product Objectives and Key Results Quota 52

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

SaaStr

AUGUST 27, 2019

In addition to sales comps go to super power is a mean karaoke rendition of, Since You’ve Been Gone. Jessica Lin: Next up we have Michaela Lairs, senior director of finance at Movable Ink, a digital marketing platform, and also a veteran of top enterprise startups in New York City. But also what is my go to market motion?

Territory 51

Territory Contract Cross-sell Drivers/motivators 51

Heinz Marketing

APRIL 19, 2021

Matt: So, you are the proud new recipient, last minute, of an all-star game. Which I assume means a home run derby, and it’s going to be exciting to have in town. So, you guys have got a pretty good deal going there. An all-star game coming here, I know a little bit of contention there, but it’s a wonderful place to be.

Pipeline 72

Pipeline Sales Cross-sell Up-sell 72