SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Becoming less reliant on human touch takes time and planning, so take a good look in the mirror, determine how much and how fast you can do it, and then form a cross-functional plan that meets your current business goals while also working towards future ones. You still have to pay the bills. Keep optimizing your current GTM.

Go To Market 75

Go To Market Growth GTM X-functional 75

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.” And you want the CFO to understand what modern marketing can do, not only to demand function, but again, customer experience, the impact on retention, lifetime value, valuation multiples over time.

Pipeline 97

Pipeline Referrals X-functional Cross-sell 97

ConversionXL

JUNE 30, 2019

Companies do it for a wide variety of reasons—SEO, branding, go-to-market strategy, pricing, etc.—and Competitor X is doing Y. We should do that, too,” or “X is the market leader, and they have Y, so we need Y.” Run a functional investigation. Run a functional investigation. is probably random.

UX 126

UX X-functional A/B testing User Experience 126

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 70

E-commerce Retail Real Estate Growth 70

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 market. Cost of selling as a percentage of revenue generated.

X-functional 93

X-functional Cross-sell Quota Contract 93

Highspot

MAY 20, 2022

No matter how your strategy changes – whether that’s selling something new, deploying a new methodology, or entering a new region – sales playbooks ensure that reps know what to do, and how to do it effectively. As reps begin to sell the product, they can access the sales play to understand which actions they should take and why.

Territory 52

Territory X-functional Cross-sell Sales 52