Hubspot

JUNE 8, 2021

How do you get started in sales? Is the sales job market strong enough to support a career? So let's get started! An SDR role is right for you if you're looking to start your sales career and don't have much experience. Nearly half of their time is spent selling remotely (i.e. The Sales Career Path. Image Source.

Commission 77

Commission Territory Finance Inside sales 77

InsightSquared

APRIL 14, 2021

They work tirelessly to assess the funnel quality, sales process adherence, and the overall go-to-market strategy. If your organization isn’t taking advantage of automated activity capture, you, along with every report that relies on the data within your CRM, are set up to fail. . So, where do you start?

Contract 62

Contract Territory Cross-sell Pipeline 62

SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2022

So for the audience, cloud giants are turbocharging startup sales, and the predominant reason for this is because they’re fundamentally changing IT budgets at the customers that we’re all selling to. Rico Mallozzi: So marketplaces are fundamentally changing, go to market motions for a lot of enterprise technology companies.

Cross-sell 81

Cross-sell Finance Strategize Technology 81

Highspot

JUNE 11, 2020

Cross-functional input into go-to-market strategies. Seamless handoff between marketing-generated leads and sales. Managing pipeline, territory planning, and forecasting. What Does Sales Do for Marketing? Sales’ responsibility is, of course, to sell. Market dynamics. Generating revenue.

Objectives and Key Results 59

Objectives and Key Results Cross-sell Sales Education 59

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Gaetan Gachet : All right, so usually the way I start this session is I ask the crowd which revenue stage they’re in. So Algolia started out mostly as a inbound long tail company. So mid-market, we’re about 40 to 50K ACV enterprise. So up to 100-150K and SMB, we’re at 2K. One and 10?

Territory 57

Territory Cross-sell Sales Cold Call 57

Sales Hacker

APRIL 16, 2018

4) Going up the sales career ladder [9:00]. 9) Territory planning and territory creation [33:30]. Before we start, a quick thank you to this month’s Sales Hacker podcast sponsor Node. Sam Jacobs : Where did you guys start from? Kiva Kolstein : We started from Maplewood, New Jersey.

Territory 40

Territory Cross-sell Up-sell Objection handling 40

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Understand HOW to tactically sell against specific competitors. In fact, 60% of buyers prefer to connect with sales during the consideration stage , after they’ve researched the options and come up with a short list. Understanding how to sell tactically. Go-to-market information. Today’s buyer is educated.

Objection handling 73

Objection handling GTM Cross-sell Sales 73

Highspot

OCTOBER 23, 2023

It starts with strategic actions, teamwork, and market understanding. Dive into the art of coordinated strategies, discover how hits like the iPhone and Netflix mastered market needs and brand appeal, and use key metrics to elevate your launch. Let’s explore these strategies to set your product launch up for success.

Launch 59

Launch Negotiate Product GTM 59

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

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Harry Stebbings: But I do want to start today with a little bit of context. Andy MacMillan: I started my career in tech actually as a developer. So in some ways, things that are important, people will naturally bubble up to you if they know that there’s access. Andy MacMillan: Excellent. Thanks for having me.

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Pipeline Territory Price Product 82

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

For Collibra, a cross-organizational data governance platform, the company went from slow growth to hypergrowth. So let’s start with the origin story of the company. When, when did you guys initially get it founded and what was the business you started with? Felix : Yeah, sure. So it’s been awhile.

Growth 74

Growth Territory Government Engineering 74

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. Finding and attracting new customers is a costly process from the start to the end.

Customers 59

Customers Cross-sell Represent Contract 59

SaaStr

JUNE 27, 2019

Today, we have more than 17,000 customers, including 50% of the Fortune 100, and the 17,000 customers are broken up into what we would call about 2,000 enterprises and you see a lot of our current customers up there. Fast forward to today, we’ve crossed the $400 million revenue mark. And 15,000 disruptors.

Cross-sell 72

Cross-sell Technology Technology Retail 72

Martech

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The growing impact of B2B internal disconnects is limiting our customer relationships, affecting our revenue results and hamstringing our go-to-market (GTM) teams’ productivity. This disconnect challenge is made more complicated when every organization, region, team or business unit is doing their own thing in how they go to market.

B2B 119

B2B GTM Customers Cross-sell 119

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

I was always up to something. So when I was 12 years old, my best friend and I started a fan club for our favorite band, who I’m not going to name right now, and I charged teenagers all over the world $18 for a homemade fan club folder that we made ourselves. I can start a start up or I could join an incumbent.”

Non-Profits 86

Non-Profits Teamwork Start-ups Engineering 86

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

Veloxy

MAY 3, 2022

You need actual thought leadership and takeaways that you can readily apply to your role and your sales organization starting today. Get ready to download and start using (yes, much of these sales resources are actually useful and interactive) these sales tools today. Helps perfect your sales process in order to sell more.

Sell 182

Sell Cold Call Tradeshows Cross-sell 182

Sales Hacker

APRIL 21, 2021

If the answer is “yes” to all three, now is the best time to get started in a revenue operations job. Revenue operations (RevOps) is a centralized org within a company that supports all revenue-generating business operations including Sales Ops, Marketing Ops, Customer Success Ops, and systems management. Unified data problems.

Finance 100

Finance GTM Cross-sell SQL 100

SaaStr

JULY 15, 2020

” So all the people who were whining, jumping up and down about the evils of short-termism and public markets, which I never really believed in any way, maybe you’re just factually wrong. Does it not all bubble up to even the best cloud stocks? Keith Rabois: It’s unclear which stocks a ball is up to.

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X-functional E-commerce Growth Retail 63

Openview

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Having been in sales for thirty-eight years, I know there’s a lot on the line, and a lot of things that can go wrong if you don’t know what you’re doing. Often, it’s not until the end of the process that companies ask a candidate to demonstrate their ability to sell something. Do the screen and then jump right into the role play.

Territory 72

Territory Healthcare Retail Sales 72

InsightSquared

JULY 1, 2021

Whether you’re just starting your journey or on a team that’s scaling, we’ve created this comprehensive RevOps overview and glossary of revenue operations terminology and KPIs for your reference. . Guided Selling. A sales leader’s persona is going to be very different from a CRO’s, for example. . Cross-Selling.

Cross-sell 62

Cross-sell Contract Objectives and Key Results Quota 62

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

We’re often encouraged to hide, toughen up, and bury our emotions. Your sales career project has ups and downs. What would you tell a woman just starting a career in sales? You can rise within a company selling your ideas, or you can go off on your own and be your first salesperson. Anything less is failure.

Sales 130

Sales Start-ups Up-sell Cross-sell 130

SaaStr

AUGUST 27, 2019

In addition to sales comps go to super power is a mean karaoke rendition of, Since You’ve Been Gone. Jessica Lin: Next up we have Michaela Lairs, senior director of finance at Movable Ink, a digital marketing platform, and also a veteran of top enterprise startups in New York City. But also what is my go to market motion?

Territory 55

Territory Contract Cross-sell Drivers/motivators 55

Gong.io

JULY 21, 2021

Sales teams can’t keep up with their tech stack. 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. Done well, RevOps means higher revenue and a smoother go-to-market (GTM) process.

Growth 62

Growth GTM Cross-sell Pipeline 62

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 96

X-functional Quota Cross-sell Contract 96

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? It was really an incredible experience.

Contract 69

Contract Sports Cross-sell Start-ups 69

SaaStr

JULY 30, 2018

Don’t miss out on two full days of thought leadership content, networking opportunities, fantastic French food, and fabulous evening events, all in the heart of Paris — snag your Europa 2019 tickets and catch up with us on the other side of the Atlantic next year! They’re trying to cross?sell sell products.

Cross-sell 65

Cross-sell Up-sell Sales Start-ups 65

The Lost Book of Sales

JULY 12, 2021

If you enjoy what you read and would like to receive a very occasional, hand-crafted update from me into your inbox, feel free to sign up below. Basics: Markets and segmentation. Starting to cross the chasm. How does the "D-Day" strategy help companies cross the chasm? Table of Contents. A war analogy.

Cross-sell 52

Cross-sell Niche Objectives and Key Results Price 52

Sales Hacker

JULY 16, 2020

In a recent conversation, Gainsight CEO Nick Mehta told us he’s turning his attention to his partner ecosystem as the market tightens, “ Partnerships have the lowest customer acquisition costs out there,” he said. By understanding this macro trend you can set yourself, and your company, up for amazing long-term outcomes. I would know.

Pipeline 95

Pipeline E-commerce Cross-sell Referrals 95

Heinz Marketing

MARCH 25, 2020

Sales and marketing leaders seeking to improve revenue generation typically start by examining their channel mixes, tool sets, dashboards, and strategies, but what’s often lost is arguably the most important part of any go-to-market plan: the customer experience. A severe lack of cross-functional coordination.

Growth 61

Growth Cross-sell Territory Engineering 61

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Historically, growth of a sales team was based on the revenue starting with $0M on day 1 of the year. How the numbers add up. The sales leader starts hiring new people… and with that, the downward spiral continues. EXECUTE THE GO TO MARKET PLAN. To meet the growth potential a Go To Market (GTM) plan is imperative.

Growth 87

Growth GTM SQL Strategic partnership 87

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. Is it best to start at enterprise and work down to SMB or does SMB and work up to enterprise work best? Jason Lemkin.

Price 47

Price Cross-sell Up-sell Start-ups 47

SaaStr

AUGUST 13, 2019

So most of the SaaS organizations really find it pretty difficult to scale up. Why is it very difficult to actually scale up? When organizations actually go from starting up to selling to SMBs and going up market, the pool up market is undeniable. Why is that the case?

Cross-sell 64

Cross-sell Sales Support Growth Up-sell 64

SaaStr

JULY 29, 2022

Jason recently opened up an AMA on Twitter Spaces to answer questions about how to scale faster. Let’s get it going. If we want to queue up the conversation, we did a blog post on SaaStr last week, about how everyone from Salesloft, to Zendesk, to Salesforce, Workday said they’re really seeing no slow down.

Price 89

Price Product Start-ups Niche 89

SaaStr

MAY 27, 2020

We woke up February 2020 with a shock to the system and no idea what it would mean for our business. If you look on the left hand side of the slide, by December 12th, we started to seek cases in Wuhan China. That’s the week that the CARES Act was signed into law and created some market stability that drove the Dow Jones back up.

Finance 81

Finance Government Price Contract 81

SaaStr

AUGUST 19, 2020

Portag3 Ventures Partner Chris O’Neill discusses leadership and teamwork lessons he’s picked up in his career through a hobby and a metaphor of sailing. I grew up in a really small town in Canada on the shores of Lake Huron and in that community, sailing was a really big part of the community and the way of life.

E-commerce 105

E-commerce Price Start-ups Growth 105

SaaStr

JULY 19, 2019

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How did Peter make his way into the world of enterprise SaaS with the founding and selling of 6 companies and how did InCountry come about? Why is market risk no longer a risk he is willing to take? Where do many entrepreneurs make mistakes when it comes to market timing? and Socialcam.

Cross-sell 55

Cross-sell Up-sell Start-ups Engineering 55