Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

GTMnow is the media brand of GTMfund – sharing go-to-market advice from the top 1% of revenue operators including the 350 executives behind the fund, news, and our viewpoints from working with hundreds of portfolio companies. This is no longer news to go-to-market leaders. Product : Apollo.

GTM 106

GTM Strategize Launch Pipeline 106

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. . Great sales people care deeply about driving to cross their own personal quotas, but they care about the company too.

Product 100

Product Negotiate Quota Cross-sell 100

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 98

Sell Minimum Viable Product Objectives and Key Results Cross-sell 98

Highspot

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Suddenly, your business has gone from a single salesperson to a team of hundreds, each of whom has a different approach to selling — and not all of them right for your business. But to succeed, you’ll need your team to execute your go-to-market strategy in a single, unified motion. Transactional Selling.

Cross-sell 85

Cross-sell Consult Sales Strategize 85

Sales Hacker

MARCH 10, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Nicole Wojno Smith , the VP of Marketing at Tackle.io. Nicole is the VP of Marketing at Tackle.io, a company that helps ISVs sell their software through the cloud marketplaces. This is our go-to-market strategy and about 99% of our deals are close to the marketplace.

Cross-sell 82

Cross-sell Objectives and Key Results Pitch Start-ups 82

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 68

B2B Cross-sell Negotiate Up-sell 68

Hubspot

JUNE 8, 2021

There's the hustle to find leads, the hundreds of calls, and the high of delivering a flawless pitch. If you imagine jet-setting to new locations to pitch prospective clients, an outside sales rep role could be the career for you. Nearly half of their time is spent selling remotely (i.e. That can be true. Outside Sales Rep.

Commission 94

Commission Territory Finance Inside sales 94

Sales Hacker

APRIL 21, 2022

SaaS companies tend to follow a typical path, and it almost always leads to moving up-market and enterprise sales. In the early days, most SaaS companies sell to other startups for a number of reasons. But as SaaS startups mature, they usually start moving up-market. We started by selling to other startups, mainly YC companies.

Cross-sell 101

Cross-sell Legal Contract Price 101

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 95

Cross-sell Technology Technology Pitch 95

Highspot

JANUARY 9, 2024

Gone are the days of cold calls and one-size-fits-all pitches. Each stage requires specific selling skills to satisfy prospect needs. Initial meeting / Pitch: This is the opportunity to make a solid first impression with a well-prepared pitch that addresses the prospect’s unique requirements.

Technique 52

Technique B2B Cross-sell B2C 52

Highspot

MARCH 30, 2021

Sales performance is affected by your enablement efforts, such as sales training or content management; your customer experience; your cross-functional alignment; and your company culture. That’s because certain sales models are better suited to certain types of businesses, selling motions, or solutions. Make decisions with data.

Objectives and Key Results 69

Objectives and Key Results Assembly Line Cross-sell Sales 69

Heinz Marketing

APRIL 19, 2021

Russell: You bring up a good point, because I was in product marketing before I got in sales enablement, and we were creating pitch decks, which I hate that phrase now. They’re not selling suits off the rack, they’re going to be selling a couple of different things to different people.

Pipeline 81

Pipeline Sales Cross-sell Up-sell 81

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 96

Gaming Trust Cross-sell Closing 96

PandaDoc

JULY 22, 2021

As you might guess, there are so many benefits to prioritizing cross-team alignment. And we’re not just talking about Sales + Marketing. You can even take this a step further by creating a no-go list for your internal teams to use for future go-to-market strategies. Implement a note taking system.

Cross-sell 52

Cross-sell Sales Pitch Education 52

Highspot

APRIL 2, 2020

Modern sales ops professionals play a vital role in the success of a sales organization by staying ahead of problems and enabling the sales team to focus on selling. Planning and strategizing go-to-market plans. Automating any possible selling or non-selling tasks. Sales process optimization and lead management.

Non-Profits 75

Non-Profits CRM Territory Cross-sell 75

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. Sellers begin their pitches by understanding the customer’s why. Maybe you’re launching a new product, selling into a new industry, or tweaking the sales process.

Cross-sell 64

Cross-sell Presentation Sales Up-sell 64

Gong.io

JULY 21, 2021

That’s why m odern go-to-market teams started aligning those teams a while back. Done well, RevOps means higher revenue and a smoother go-to-market (GTM) process. Once you’ve moved your org beyond ‘ What is revenue operations ”, they’ll know that it’s more than hosting a few cross-functional meetings. .

Growth 62

Growth GTM Cross-sell Pipeline 62

Highspot

JULY 18, 2023

Done well, it serves to align marketing departments around a single source of truth for marketing initiatives, planning, and messaging. Effective marketing enablement programs can help drive faster time to close, higher win rates, and increased revenue. This operational rigor is what good marketing enablement looks like.

Objectives and Key Results 52

Objectives and Key Results Cross-sell Sales Strategize 52

Highspot

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Sales performance is affected by your enablement efforts, such as sales training or content management; sales productivity; your customer experience; your cross-functional alignment across sales and marketing team members; and your company culture. What Factors Affect Sales Performance. Refresh your sales strategy.

Objectives and Key Results 52

Objectives and Key Results Assembly Line Cross-sell Sales 52

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

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 17, 2019

If you missed episode 87, check it out here: PODCAST 87: How to Pitch Category Creation to Your CEO or CFO w/ Anthony Kennada. How selling as a founder will help you understand your sales motions. And he has indoctrinated that it cross a wide range of functions and content so that the rest of us can learn. What You’ll Learn.

Cross-sell 53

Cross-sell Contract Sales Up-sell 53

Highspot

MAY 20, 2022

However, whereas sales plays are focused on telling reps what to know, say, show, and do, a sales kit narrows in on “what to know” and “what content to show” buyers – such as talking points, and email pitch templates. Sales motions are defined by your larger go-to-market strategy.

Territory 52

Territory X-functional Sales Cross-sell 52

SalesLoft

JUNE 25, 2019

Don’t miss the (very entertaining) part of the conversation where they determine the right pitch for having milk delivered… in the early 2000s. In general, how does social selling work in the UK? In general, how does social selling work in the UK? Was that the pitch? Or were you pitching convenience?

Cold Call 40

Cold Call Pitch Cross-sell Sales 40

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 59

Launch Negotiate Product GTM 59

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Our second sponsor is Outreach , the leading sales engagement platform that enables sales reps to humanize their communications at scale, from automating the soul-sucking manual work that eats up selling time to providing action-oriented tips on what communications are working best. Outreach has your back. About Mary Rogul and Crayon.

Strategize 54

Strategize Contract Strategic planning Drivers/motivators 54

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 52

E-commerce B2B Healthcare Sales 52

Heinz Marketing

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

So that you can go and close more deals. It’s been happening since the dawn of someone selling something. That’s what we did for large corporations, to help their salespeople sell stuff, as simple as it gets. Matt: No, go for it. Keep going. Along the way… Oh, you’ll give a question.

Pipeline 52

Pipeline Sales Niche Start-ups 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 136

Sales Up-sell Start-ups Cross-sell 136

Heinz Marketing

OCTOBER 4, 2021

This week’s show is called “ A New Go To Market Framework to Get You MOVE-ing “ My guest is Sangram Vajre , Author, Co-Founder & Chief Evangelist at Terminus. We’re going to talk a little bit about that today as well, in terms of better go-to-market strategies. The bait and switch.

Pipeline 124

Pipeline Go To Market Cross-sell Sales 124

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 143

Sales Technique Objectives and Key Results Non-Profits 143

SaaStr

JULY 11, 2019

This is a 20-year-old market, and then how did you really get traction? What changed in technology, in the market, that a new entrant for a CEO that by the time I met you, knew the market cold? Let me tell you, the first pitch. But how could you penetrate this old, dated market with this brand new company?

Launch 108

Launch Technology Technology Up-sell 108

SaaStr

MAY 27, 2020

If you have an amazing product that truly is differentiated IP, that solves real problems, it’s much harder for all the posers to raise their poser money and go to market and make it harder for you to charge for your product or service. As one of my mentors used to say, in a strong market, even turkeys can fly.

Finance 108

Finance Government Price Contract 108

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 98

Sales Cross-sell Start-ups Up-sell 98

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 69

Cross-sell Sales Support Growth Up-sell 69

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 80

X-functional E-commerce Retail Growth 80

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Which was my first exposure to pitching and seeing how the venture community took on entrepreneurs and their thinking and the questions that they asked and the way in which the opportunities were evaluated and considered. But you said, “Invest in people, not pitches.” Karen Page: Yeah, the pitch is just one of it.

Strategize 86

Strategize Pitch Growth Networking 86

Sales Hacker

APRIL 15, 2025

Speaker: A quick pause because it can be so hard to stay abreast of the newest AI developments around go to market with how quickly things are changing. They’re gathering thousands of revenue leaders to explore how high performing teams and individuals are leveraging go to market intelligence and AI to crush revenue goals.

GTM 62

GTM B2B Follow-up Campaign 62