Sales Hacker

MARCH 25, 2025

Ray breaks down why the rise of AI agents is a tectonic shift, how businesses are already seeing ROI, and what it means for SaaS, team structure, and go-to-market strategies. Conversations reveal the unshared details behind how they have grown companies, and the go-to-market strategies responsible for shaping that growth.

GTM 67

GTM X-functional Start-ups Relationship building 67

Sales Hacker

MARCH 8, 2024

GTMnow is the media extension of GTMfund – sharing insight on go-to-market from working with hundreds of portfolio companies backed by over 350+ of the best in the game executive operators who have been there, done that at the world’s fastest growing SaaS companies. Let’s break it down Why ecosystem-led growth?

GTM 121

GTM Growth Referrals Cross-sell 121

Sales Hacker

JULY 16, 2020

RELATED: Moving to Enterprise Sales (Part 2): 5 Go-to-Market Prerequisites You Need to Succeed. But three things have changed: There are new sets of tools such as partner ecosystem platforms that automate the co-selling and cross-selling process. Top of funnel: Stop cold calling, get a referral.

Pipeline 124

Pipeline E-commerce Cross-sell Referrals 124

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

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. As Wes Bush details, you have three options for a SaaS go-to-market strategy : sales led, marketing led, or product led.

Customers 119

Customers Cross-sell Referrals Networking 119

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 110

GTM Strategize Launch Pipeline 110

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

The best sales teams don’t just sell — they keep customers happy and drive serious upsell, cross-sell, and expansion revenue. The key is to know exactly who you are targeting, and then go all in to impress that potential buyer. Now 50% of their customers are from inbound and referrals. Upsales: $15k ACV and $7.5M

Inside sales 131

Inside sales Cold Call Contract Price 131

Martech

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Product management : This aims to develop or bring a new product to the market. This is closely related to “go-to-market” strategies. Sales : Your sales team’s job is to sell your products or services to customers, converting qualified leads into buyers.

Objectives and Key Results 103

Objectives and Key Results Teamwork Cross-sell Customer Relationship Management 103

Heinz Marketing

MAY 16, 2022

If I’m ever in market, I won’t buy from them because of how they treated me, because of how they pushed me.” Matt : So what if you could make it so that your best source of referrals was, in fact, from people that had never bought from you? ” Alan : You’re turning a lot off in the process. Alan : Sure.

Pipeline 96

Pipeline Referrals X-functional Cross-sell 96

Hubspot

APRIL 1, 2024

It means sales and go-to-market motions are going to have to evolve. Marketing is going to have to evolve, too, but that's a whole other topic.) Budgets were inflated and inbound leads were plentiful, which created a distorted view of what it’s like to sell. We all know buyer research is changing.

Cross-sell 80

Cross-sell CRM Referrals Up-sell 80

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 101

X-functional Quota Cross-sell Contract 101

SalesLoft

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Cross-functional orchestration. Alignment across Marketing, Sales, Sales Development, etc — outbound sales development is today’s most effective account-based tactic. Go-to-Market alignment: segment the ICP by value and align to the GTM (organization, target list, and offers + plays).

Cross-sell 52

Cross-sell GTM Referrals Contract 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

Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2021

And he really worked the referrals. He really worked his referral business so that was pretty interesting. That’s when I felt really bad selling people that, even though they were signing up for it themselves. No one really knew how it was going to work out. The best sales guy had keen product knowledge.

Referrals 66

Referrals Cross-sell Contract Sales 66

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Selling has changed more in the last 10 years than it has in the previous 100 years, and this is especially true in B2B markets. . At the forefront of this change is what we at Engagio call, Account-Based Everything (ABE), some people know it as Account-Based Sales Development (ABSD), and others call it Account-Based Marketing (ABM).

Technology 78

Technology Technology Cross-sell Referrals 78

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. Build a robust referral network. What Factors Affect Sales Performance.

Objectives and Key Results 52

Objectives and Key Results Assembly Line Cross-sell Sales 52

SaaStr

JULY 29, 2022

So you’re really asking how do you get a business going, like selling to restaurants that not only is hard to penetrate but has a hardware component. So maybe it was a crummy time to sell as they were coming up on 20 million US dollars in revenue. Jason Lemkin: Well, look. It is a tailwind pulling you up.

Price 109

Price Product Start-ups Niche 109

Lead Fuze

DECEMBER 2, 2021

One of the biggest changes in sales is its shift to B2B markets. There is a new way of selling and marketing that we call Account-Based Everything (ABE). ABE is more than just a marketing ploy or sales technique — it’s an attitude. The Data Points Effective Account Targeting Strategy. Just to give you an idea.

Technique 52

Technique Technology Technology Cross-sell 52

SalesHandy

JULY 12, 2022

is a common misconception amongst many salespeople and marketers believing they should serve everyone. If you are selling to the wrong individuals, then your sales team will most likely struggle to connect with them and their pain points. Low CLV and high churn rates indicate that you are selling to the wrong people.

Customers 59

Customers Cross-sell Represent Up-sell 59

Highspot

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Improve Lead Qualification and Prioritization The sales development playbook provides criteria to identify high-value leads and referrals, ensuring SDRs focus on opportunities with the highest potential. This results in a more powerful go-to market strategy. Build Consistency Across the Sales Team Customers expect consistency.

Growth 52

Growth Objectives and Key Results Cold Call Sales 52

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

You did it both from technology initially, with Twilio, and then with go-to-market partners like Zendesk and Salesforce, right? When you go with such a strong message, that’s what got us in the first couple of years after ’14, that got Talkdesk to grow as much as it did. That was the, was more market pull.

Launch 108

Launch Technology Technology Up-sell 108

SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2020

Kyle Parrish: In that time, before I was even really focused on the impact of UI/UX or the design world at large, I started to realize we were selling against companies like Google and Microsoft and Box, and a lot of our sales pitch was around how intuitive the product was. It wasn’t just engineering, product, and design roles.

Sales 108

Sales Price Quota Start-ups 108

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

How does Amanda think the go-to-market has to change with every stage of development? What can be done to ensure seamless cross-functional communication across the org? And now here I am at Figma, in charge of all go-to-market, which is super exciting for me. What are the challenges with this? * Amanda Kleha: Yeah.

Customers 44

Customers Price Cross-sell Start-ups 44

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 108

Sales Cross-sell Up-sell Pipeline 108

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 7, 2022

To fully optimize CAC, look closely at your sales and marketing costs. Can you lower costs by removing steps to market or sell your product (e.g., If you’re not converting customers at the volume you’d like or you’re spending more to get people over the line, go back to the drawing board. They also play on emotion.

Cross-sell 22

Cross-sell Customers Referrals Drivers/motivators 22

Sales Hacker

MARCH 11, 2025

Pursuit helps companies hire elite go-to-market talent on a non-retainer basis. As a key GTMfund partner, they equip sales and marketing teams with top performers. If you’re hiring for sales or marketing roles, reach out to Pursuit at pursuitsalessolutions.com/gtm or message a GTMfund team member.

GTM 79

GTM Growth X-functional Referrals 79

Sales Hacker

APRIL 11, 2025

GTMnow shares insight around the go-to-market strategies responsible for explosive company growth. If people arent actively searching for what you sell, youre shouting into the void. If you dont know your buyers journey, you dont have product-market fit. Others win by embedding SEO into cross-functional teams.

GTM 87

GTM E-commerce Cross-sell Referrals 87

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Martin brings a wealth of experience in building and scaling sales teams, developing effective go-to-market strategies, and navigating the challenges of startup growth. Conversations reveal the unshared details behind how they have grown companies, and the go-to-market strategies responsible for shaping that growth.

GTM 113

GTM Construction Up-sell Cross-sell 113