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 12, 2020

When you start growing above 50 employees, and certainly get to 100, things change, you now have teams, which means you have functional leaders. Rather than the CEO running around telling the engineers exactly what to build, you now have product managers. And, the second system is what I call the product marketing system.

Finance 108

Finance X-functional Launch Objectives and Key Results 108

Salesforce

JANUARY 31, 2024

How to get a job in tech sales: the fundamentals Types of tech sales jobs Pros and cons of working in tech sales How to get started: best practices and tips What trends drive sales productivity today? Get the State of Sales Report to discover productivity insights from 7,700 sales professionals. Get the free report What is tech sales?

Networking 59

Networking B2C Cross-sell Negotiate 59

Hubspot

AUGUST 8, 2019

Revenue by product or product line. Percentage of revenue from existing customers (cross-selling, upselling, repeat orders, expanded contracts, etc.). Cost of selling as a percentage of revenue generated. You can’t control how much this salesperson sells -- but you can tell her to increase her daily email output.

X-functional 95

X-functional Quota Cross-sell Contract 95

Lead Fuze

JULY 6, 2023

Pinpointing customers’ issues is an essential move in boosting your product or service, increasing customer gratification, and eventually aiding the development of your company. We’ll also explore practical solutions like offering multiple payment options and regular product training programs that address specific problems.

Customers 52

Customers Clients Lead generation X-functional 52

SaaStr

JULY 15, 2022

As a tiny startup who might be commercializing its first product, are there any general guidelines that you can stick to that would prevent the massive companies out there from crushing the baby? How, if no one’s heard of you, do you sell to big companies? So again, we could use it for any function. It never works.

Growth 95

Growth Cross-sell Start-ups X-functional 95

Veloxy

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Just be sure you print and bookmark this blog post so you can take it with you wherever you go, wherever you sell. As far as they know you could be a scammer running a con game. Therefore, they really don’t have any real reason to care about you or your amazing products. And share it with your sales colleagues.

Objectives and Key Results 204

Objectives and Key Results Prospecting Contact Campaign 204

Heinz Marketing

JANUARY 25, 2021

I ask Jason why is this function so interesting? I mean, why is that function so interesting to you? So, I get a chance to help, direct and navigate and facilitate introductions that can help make our product better. What about partner marketing is so exciting? Jason Yarborough: There’s a lot that excites me about it.

Pipeline 88

Pipeline Sales X-functional B2B 88

SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

So it’s about operational efficiencies, productivity gains, digital experiences and making sure we’ve captured those. We’ve got a lot of training to do with our sales teams to get them to start to speak in these types of terms versus feature function. But as we look at our market, it’s not all created equal.

Retail 78

Retail Start-ups Drivers/motivators Up-sell 78

SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

The three stages are product-market fit, then go-to-market fit and lastly growth and moat. Awesome revenue growth on the X axis, awesome revenue retention on the Y. 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.

Growth 84

Growth Cross-sell Contract X-functional 84

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. X this year. Don’t go from a $10 a month product to 1 million dollars a year. I’m going to go from 2 to 5 or 2 to 6.”

Quota 83

Quota Growth Product Closing 83

Heinz Marketing

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Matt Heinz: I’m looking forward to that game. Paul: It’s generally been in those bowl games. And so there were games where they could have gone for the win or they could have done something dramatic to try, and go for a National Championship and let’s just beat Ohio State. Paul: Yeah. Fun to watch.

Pipeline 55

Pipeline Objectives and Key Results Sales Start-ups 55

PandaDoc

MAY 8, 2023

Customer support is an essential aspect of any customer experience, and research bares this out: 68% of customers will pay more for products and services from companies with a strong record of good customer service. This can include canned scripts and email templates for fast response, as well as standard workflows for better productivity.

Service 52

Service Product Customers E-commerce 52

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

Look, okay, let’s say half your business sells to eCommerce, but 20% sells to live events. Aileen Lee: But these are also super… I mean, you were talking about growth stage companies where they’ve got strong product market fit. Seed is just a totally different game, right? Well, do the math in your head.

Pitch 62

Pitch Start-ups Up-sell Technology 62

ConversionXL

APRIL 12, 2017

Featuring a classic game of CRO Feud.) It’s not which variant collects more email addresses, it’s which variant sells more books. Typically happens at the end of the product lifecycle. Pay them upfront so they don’t try to say X to get the money. E.g. Someone is very interested in a particular product.

Growth 86

Growth X-functional A/B testing Objectives and Key Results 86

Hubspot

MARCH 10, 2016

An adjective used to describe companies that sell to other businesses. An adjective used to describe companies that sell directly to consumers. Uses for JavaScript include pop-ups, slide-in calls-to-action, security password creation, check forms, interactive games, and special effects. 4) B2B (Business-to-Business).

Networking 78

Networking Non-Profits Engineering Follow-up 78

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2018

As it turned out , the enhanced algorithms “did not seem to justify the engineering effort needed to bring them into a production environment.”. which customers will buy one or more products for a cross-sell or upsell. or “Who is likely to try product X?” It took two years, but a team finally won.

Sports 131

Sports Clients Engineering Niche 131

SaaStr

AUGUST 19, 2020

We shut down something called the Evernote market which was selling physical goods, sunset some nice products like Evernote food which had nice followings, but I felt were distracting from the larger priorities. We had way too many bugs, latency had grown to too long and crashes were a problem with the product.

E-commerce 100

E-commerce Price Start-ups Growth 100