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

Partners in Excellence

MARCH 26, 2024

It’s a solution that addresses the way buying is changing, integrating digital and personal selling. But what really interested me were Bill’s perspectives on where buying and selling is headed and how we must change our engagement strategies to work with buyers more impactfully.

Sell

Openview

APRIL 11, 2018

So much of what they do, particularly fundraising, is selling. But if you scale this function with intention, a sales org will enrich your company’s existing culture, help you build better product, and sell it too. . Discuss your company’s non-negotiables. Founders make natural salespeople. We dogfood our own products.

Product

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

SaaStr

JANUARY 25, 2021

Secure the deal through the use of all available resources such as executive relationships or board relationships in order to provide the most cross-functional attention possible. Lower tiers often have less back and forth negotiation and can create buy-in and proof for your customer to expand their use to the rest of their team.

Cross-sell

Highspot

OCTOBER 23, 2023

By introducing a new product or updating an existing one, businesses can tap into new customer segments or markets, ensuring a diversified and steady revenue flow. Ensure Communication Across Departments A product launch necessitates seamless communication across various departments, from product development to marketing.

Launch

Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

But what is a sales pipeline and why is it so instrumental to selling success? If your forecast anticipates you’re going to miss your quota, you should double down on selling activities. The answer depends on your product, prospect base, and marketing resources. How to Build a Sales Pipeline.

Pipeline

Sales Hacker

JUNE 14, 2021

An e-commerce tech firm learned that there should not be a hand-off between sales and marketing once selling conversations begin. There’s also a huge gap when it comes to penetrating new business units or in cross-selling/upselling. Even though revenue derived from existing customers account for 70.1%

GTM

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 23, 2018

There’s a general tendency among most frontline sales teams to sell to enterprises and become the next Salesforce. The other advantages of selling to SMBs is that over time businesses can gain experience in developing enterprise-grade software while beefing up their go-to-market strategy for SMBs.

B2B

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Imagine having the opportunity to sell into a company like Lyft in 2011. Imagine growing with them on their journey to becoming a publicly-traded company with an $11+ billion market cap. The total addressable market continues to grow and is ripe for selling to, but very few startups reach unicorn status. And so on.”.

Sell

Highspot

JANUARY 9, 2024

It starts with prospecting for potential leads, then moves through to negotiation and closing the deal. Each stage requires specific selling skills to satisfy prospect needs. Negotiation: Sales reps and prospects will enter talks to find an agreement that suits the client’s needs and the sales goals.

Technique

Gong.io

AUGUST 10, 2020

Which selling skills should account managers focus on building? Selling skills matter just as much for account management, just in a more subtle way. Selling Skills and Account Management. Then all the negotiation skills that you learn in sales carry through to the renewal process. Key Points to Remember.

Customers

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

SaaStr

JULY 17, 2020

But that’s more the exception than the rull of the go to market for many companies. And so obviously the people that need consumers to spend money for their revenue and then their contribution margin just had no shot of selling things. People are buying and selling houses. Look at Model T sales or something.

E-commerce

Heinz Marketing

APRIL 19, 2021

I actually learned the hard way when I was working at a startup company, working a booth at a trade show that, as an engineer, I thought my product would sell itself, but you really do need sales and marketing. We need to articulate pain, talk about differentiated value and lead to the power of our solution, and then we can negotiate.

Pipeline

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

Highspot

MAY 30, 2024

Enhance cross-department communication: Meet regularly to discuss strategies and challenges, share insights, and coordinate revenue-generating activities across the buyer journey. Optimize your sales process by mapping each step, from lead generation to negotiation and closing, and finding and removing bottlenecks.

Objectives and Key Results

Sales Hacker

APRIL 16, 2018

The sales team is set up in two teams, we’ve got a team that’s responsible for selling into the buy side and sell side, and a team responsible for selling into big corporations. Sales management at Global Crossing. Sam Jacobs : Let’s keep going through your background. What happened next?

Territory

Lead Fuze

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The push tactics we’ve been using are not working, so here’s why: Sales and marketing teams are more aware of who they’re selling to, rather than just focusing on revenue growth. It’s also tough to penetrate new business units or cross-sellingupselling.

E-commerce

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

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

Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

The New Solution Selling. The Little Red Book of Selling. Unbreakable Laws of Selling. The New Strategic Selling. Agile Selling. Spin Selling. Insight Selling. Spear Selling. The Psychology of Selling. Buyer-Centered Selling. Integrity Selling for the 21st Century.

Sales

Salesforce

JULY 28, 2022

Elyse Archer , founder and CEO of She Sells, said this should start with the customer need: “What can you change in your processes, systems, and delivery to serve them best now?” Upskill and cross-train your teams. A resilient sales org can nimbly respond to market changes whenever they arise. said Batrawy.

Cross-sell

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

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

SaaStr

MAY 27, 2020

But the thing that I would really focus on is price reduction and harder term negotiations. You’re saying, well, we’re just going to hold the line. As one of my mentors used to say, in a strong market, even turkeys can fly. So they’d rather sell in a secondary at a loss to get rid of unfunded liabilities.

Finance

SaaStr

JULY 15, 2020

But that’s more the exception than the role of the go to market for many companies. And so obviously the people that need consumers to spend money for their revenue and then their contribution margin just had no shot of selling things, look at model T-shirts or something. People are buying and selling houses.

X-functional

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

SaaStr

APRIL 10, 2025

Ecosystem partnerships began with super fans : Instead of negotiating commercial terms with platforms like Shopify, Klaviyo first focused on creating 10-20 raving customer fans, then showed these testimonials to the platform. This created a pull-through effect where customer support teams were already recommending Klaviyo.

E-commerce