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. Growth forecasts of sales territories. Planning and strategizing go-to-market plans. Automating any possible selling or non-selling tasks.

Non-Profits 75

Non-Profits CRM Territory Cross-sell 75

Sales Hacker

APRIL 16, 2018

4) Going up the sales career ladder [9:00]. 9) Territory planning and territory creation [33:30]. 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. What happened next?

Territory 41

Territory Cross-sell Up-sell Objection handling 41

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

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

SalesHandy

JULY 12, 2022

is a common misconception amongst many salespeople and marketers believing they should serve everyone. Every product or service has ideal and less-than-ideal customers. If you are selling to the wrong individuals, then your sales team will most likely struggle to connect with them and their pain points.

Customers 59

Customers Cross-sell Represent Contract 59

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

So it really focused our efforts on selling larger deals and go after the enterprise space. When you sign up for hypergrowth especially, you have to go after the US. When I started, our very first target country territory was the US, even though we didn’t have an office. You’re crossing the chasm.

Territory 54

Territory Cross-sell Sales Cold Call 54

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

For Collibra, a cross-organizational data governance platform, the company went from slow growth to hypergrowth. We pivoted focused on data governance folks, mostly on financial services and that’s when it started to kind of grow. Financial services. That’s when we found product market fit. Felix : Absolutely.

Growth 70

Growth Territory Government Engineering 70

Highspot

MAY 20, 2022

Sales plays can be created to support different regions, product lines, or buyer personas; this ensures that your reps’ tactics match different buyer needs. This will lead to uneven results: some reps may find their own way to sell the new product; others will struggle and fail to meet quota. Align your go-to-market teams.

Territory 52

Territory X-functional Cross-sell Sales 52

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.

Cross-sell 70

Cross-sell Technology Technology Pitch 70

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

I essentially started off doing services in tech as a marketing person, and eventually went into product marketing and product management and realized that I have an incredible passion for products, and products that change the way that we work and the way that we do things. We were not spending a ton of money on marketing.

Non-Profits 81

Non-Profits Teamwork Start-ups Engineering 81

Sales Hacker

APRIL 21, 2021

An emerging need to support multiple GTM plans across segments and regions. Proliferation of marketing and sales technology. The director of customer success brings her Salesforce report to a cross-functional meeting with sales and marketing leadership. That didn’t go so well at all! Unified data problems.

Finance 103

Finance GTM Cross-sell SQL 103

InsightSquared

JULY 1, 2021

Revenue operations is a methodology that drives cross-functional collaboration in order to close gaps in the customer experience and maximize revenue for the business. It aligns the organization by combining the functions of sales, marketing, and customer success into a single team that drives strategy based on revenue impact. .

Cross-sell 62

Cross-sell Contract Objectives and Key Results Quota 62

SaaStr

JANUARY 25, 2021

Prior to the pandemic, many companies knew which vertical channels were doing well, but COVID caused a change in territory planning overnight. 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.

Cross-sell 65

Cross-sell GTM Territory Sales 65

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

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 52

Territory Contract Cross-sell Drivers/motivators 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. The best products, services, and ideas are nothing without a way to turn them into currency, and sellers are a big part of making commerce happen. Anita Nielsen is a best-selling author and sales performance coach.

Sales 130

Sales Start-ups Up-sell Cross-sell 130

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 60

X-functional E-commerce Growth Retail 60

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 territory. Revenue by market. Year-over-year growth.

X-functional 94

X-functional Quota Cross-sell Contract 94

SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

As for Erica, under her CRO role, she leads all go-to-market functions including Marketing, Sales, Operations, Customer Success, Services, and Support. How does this move impact the relationship between sales and marketing? How should compensation plans be altered with the move?

Contract 67

Contract Sports Cross-sell Start-ups 67

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 52

Cross-sell Niche Objectives and Key Results Price 52

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Previously they may have only spent $1,000 when buying a SaaS service online. Now the services have matured where buyers are spending 20x in online services is relatively comfortable. EXECUTE THE GO TO MARKET PLAN. To meet the growth potential a Go To Market (GTM) plan is imperative.

Growth 89

Growth GTM SQL Strategic partnership 89

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. Shaking the Partner Money Tree.

Pipeline 98

Pipeline E-commerce Cross-sell Referrals 98

SaaStr

JULY 30, 2018

They’re trying to cross?sell sell products. What they’re finding is it’s prohibitively difficult to use these newer technologies like UiPath without being able to connect all these different systems together in a way that the software on top can actually bring together a different picture of what’s going on.

Cross-sell 62

Cross-sell Up-sell Sales Start-ups 62

SaaStr

JUNE 28, 2019

In his most recent role, Dave was the CEO @ Host Analytics where he quintupled ARR, halved customer acquisition costs and increased net retention rates before selling the company to a private equity sponsor. If ACV increase is a core focus for our startup, should we hire a sales rep solely selling to enterprise? Missed the session?

Price 45

Price Cross-sell Up-sell Start-ups 45

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 61

Cross-sell Sales Support Growth Up-sell 61

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 86

Price Product Start-ups Niche 86

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 77

Finance Government Price Contract 77

SaaStr

JULY 19, 2019

250: Peter Yared is the Founder & CEO @ InCountry, the startup that allows you to operate globally with data residency as a service meaning they store your mission-critical data in it’s country of origin, without compliance. When is the right time to sell a startup? What is that founding moment? * Missed the session?

Cross-sell 52

Cross-sell Up-sell Start-ups Engineering 52

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. So if you haven’t experimented with an ROI calculator in your go-to-market motion, I’d highly encourage it.

E-commerce 100

E-commerce Price Start-ups Growth 100