PandaDoc

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Do you feel like your selling job is becoming harder and harder over time? As the same State of Sales 5th edition claims, salespeople, on average, sell only 28% of their working hours. So hurry up and learn how to stop wasting your time on inefficient routines and redirect your efforts to selling!

Process 52

Process Objectives and Key Results X-functional Sales 52

SaaStr

JULY 17, 2020

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. Keith Rabois: There is in another tale two cities is most of the people that were most affected by the March and April shutdowns were not the people that buy and sell houses.

E-commerce 70

E-commerce Retail Real Estate Growth 70

Lead Fuze

JULY 1, 2023

Finally, you’ll gain insights on cross-checking territory assignments, compensation incentive programs, capacity staffing and understanding different types of quotes serving different functions. Case Study: Adjusting Quota Based on Performance Imagine this: Jonathan sells fewer products but at higher value points.

Quota 52

Quota Growth Territory Commission 52

Heinz Marketing

JUNE 7, 2021

We used a sales activity study to benchmark how and where sellers are spending their time, pinpointing places where we are maybe spending a little more time on non-direct selling activities than we would like. And so, as we have evolved complex buying and selling, the model has evolved as well. It’s a common noun in B2B.

Pipeline 123

Pipeline B2B Sales Cross-sell 123

SaaStr

JULY 24, 2019

This is pretty simple, but when I look at this industry, a lot of times what I see is organizations crafting pricing packages that would enable, for example, an enterprise-wide license, where an organization pays you X amount of money, and they have unlimited seats, unlimited usage. We sell contact center software. What does that mean?

X-functional 54

X-functional Engineering Clients Start-ups 54

Heinz Marketing

JULY 13, 2020

Can you talk a little bit about though, in this pandemic, in a time when you’ve got your buyers are working from home, we don’t have in-person offices as often, you would think that this would be the time for digital selling strategies to really shine. I don’t know that we have seen that. Get it now at hub.6sense.com/prg.

Pipeline 86

Pipeline Referrals Cold Call Sales 86

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

We have 1,000 employees across three locations, San Francisco, Denver, and New York, and everything in the past four years has grown by more than 10 X. And with that growth, there is something that I think is really deeply reflective of what creates high performing teams, and it may not be the thing that you’re thinking of.

Drivers/motivators 71

Drivers/motivators X-functional Trust Cross-sell 71

SaaStr

JULY 15, 2020

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. Right now if you look on the other side, an area I know a fair amount about, look at US real estate.

X-functional 60

X-functional E-commerce Growth Retail 60

Heinz Marketing

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

This week’s episode is entitled “ The Importance and Power of Editing: A B2B Masterclass (in 30 Minutes!) ” and our guest is Lisa Gschwandtner , Editorial Director at Selling Power. I won’t get into the inside jokes there but Lisa Gschwandtner from Selling Power Magazine , thank you so much for joining us today.

Pipeline 66

Pipeline Sales Cross-sell Up-sell 66

SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

359: The Secrets to Vertical Growth, What it Really Takes to Build a $1B SaaS Company with Matt Garratt, SVP, Managing Partner @ Salesforce Ventures, Trisha Price, Chief Product Officer @ nCino and David Schmaier, CEO & Founder @ Vlocity. Because if you look at these financial institutions, they have growth aspirations, right?

Price 59

Price Retail X-functional Healthcare 59

SalesHandy

JUNE 29, 2021

Selling products or services to businesses and professionals can be tough. Which is unlike selling to consumers, who have common needs and wants. Having a sales process in place that caters to every businesses’ needs can be crucial to hitting revenue goals consistently, and driving growth. What is B2B Sales?

B2B 98

B2B Cross-sell X-functional Follow-up 98

SaaStr

JUNE 14, 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. ” They’d show up and try and squeeze up EBITDA and try and sell you for an EBITDA multiple. ” Right?

Strategize 56

Strategize Quota Non-Profits Price 56

SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

He provides an in-depth guide to driving revenue growth at your company and what to expect at each stage. The three stages are product-market fit, then go-to-market fit and lastly growth and moat. Awesome revenue growth on the X axis, awesome revenue retention on the Y. Thirty, 50% revenue growth. Growth and milk.

Growth 84

Growth Cross-sell Contract X-functional 84

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 141

Sales Objectives and Key Results Technique Non-Profits 141

SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2020

When you start growing above 50 employees, and certainly get to 100, things change, you now have teams, which means you have functional leaders. Rather than having this feeling of disconnected functional areas, everyone in the company knows what to work on. To me, that’s what the cadence says. I learned this operating myself.

Finance 110

Finance X-functional Launch Objectives and Key Results 110

Hubspot

AUGUST 8, 2019

Percentage of revenue from existing customers (cross-selling, upselling, repeat orders, expanded contracts, etc.). Year-over-year growth. Cost of selling as a percentage of revenue generated. You can’t control how much this salesperson sells -- but you can tell her to increase her daily email output. SaaS Metrics.

X-functional 93

X-functional Cross-sell Quota Contract 93

SaaStr

JULY 15, 2022

How, if no one’s heard of you, do you sell to big companies? And the way you get it is whether it’s outbound, generally inbound events or whatever, solve a 10 X pain point, solve a unique pain point that a large enterprise has that other vendors don’t provide. So again, we could use it for any function.

Growth 95

Growth Cross-sell Start-ups X-functional 95

SaaStr

MAY 14, 2023

All were growing 15%-20% a month, so we called them “The 20%ers club” Did that growth last? Greenhouse followed a similar path to Talkdesk and should cross $10 million ARR later this year, up from almost nothing at the start of the year. What I mean is that even to sell let’s say, to a customer in London.

Price 94

Price Start-ups Up-sell X-functional 94

Sales Hacker

APRIL 14, 2020

She helps growth-oriented B2B, SaaS companies design, implement, and optimize their data strategies, business processes and existing tool stacks to support their customers. Reps working from home need to be willing to converse without selling. So companies going out, they bought this SaaS platform to help with X, Y, and Z.

Contract 70

Contract CRM Consult Cross-sell 70

ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2018

CXL Live is our flagship conference about growth and optimization. Amazon built its growth on top of these 4 pillars: Customer Centricity. Hana Abaza – Thriving on Change, Driving Growth and Lessons Learned at Shopify. Ed Fry – Customer Data Operations: Unleashing your hidden growth engine. Fastest fish wins.

A/B testing 106

A/B testing Objectives and Key Results Growth X-functional 106

ConversionXL

JUNE 26, 2017

Websites selling different things are different and even if they sell the same products, their target audience might be different. Morgan Brown : Building a Growth Organization. Organize growth into a cross-functional team. Build your team – make sure they are focused on driving growth through testing.

UX 85

UX Cross-sell A/B testing Government 85

SaaStr

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Learn actionable monetization tips from a Product/Growth operator turned VC. I began my career in new product development and starting in 2011 got really excited about the high growth phase of a company. If you value speed, you might up in for an Uber X. I had a cross functional team that owned pricing and packaging.

Price 40

Price X-functional Cross-sell Growth 40

Lead Fuze

JULY 6, 2023

Cross-training Staff: Make sure everyone on your team knows your product/service inside out. One way to ensure continuous, up-to-date customer engagement is by incorporating live chat functions into your platform. The Power of Omnichannel Help Desk Software Omnichannel help desk software is like a superhero with x-ray vision.

Customers 52

Customers Clients Lead generation X-functional 52

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Mark Suster , General Partner @ Upfront Ventures: What were Mark’s two biggest lessons on pricing from seeing the hyper-growth of Salesforce first hand? You know, how to find a way to upsell and cross-sell into their installed base. The first thing you realize with this is how do we sell something more to them?

Price 43

Price Cross-sell X-functional Up-sell 43

Sales Hacker

APRIL 23, 2018

This is the only way to create both predictability and sustainability to the sales function. On the cross hair = hitting goal. 3) Encourage activity based selling. Measuring Effectiveness with the Compound Growth Formula. The equation is simple: I refer to this as the “Compound Growth Formula.” Creation of value.

Drivers/motivators 77

Drivers/motivators Pipeline Objectives and Key Results X-functional 77

PandaDoc

APRIL 12, 2022

NPS is designed to use customer experience as a predictor of satisfaction and future business growth. In fact, they can negatively damage growth by speaking out about their experience. Example: 40 positive responses / 60 total responses X 100 = 67%). 08 x 100 = 8%. Customer Lifetime Value (CLV). Net Promoter Score (NPS).

Customers 52

Customers X-functional Promote Price 52

PandaDoc

MARCH 7, 2023

This visual aid gives every member of your sales team a big-picture view of the entire selling process. And that can only mean one thing, more revenue and growth for your business. What’s more, it makes it easy to ensure you have enough personalization to show the lead that you understand their needs (and what you’re selling!).

Process 52

Process Objectives and Key Results Pitch Legal 52

SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

We’ve got a lot of training to do with our sales teams to get them to start to speak in these types of terms versus feature function. That doesn’t mean to say, you’re going to do away with the functions. Jay Snyder: That’s an enablement exercise that is not to be minimized, right? I mean, what do they do?

Retail 78

Retail Start-ups Drivers/motivators Up-sell 78

ConversionXL

MAY 14, 2014

Realizing this was a much bigger problem we’ve yet to address, Peep took to Twitter and asked: Looking for an in-house optimizer in a big company for a blog post on selling CRO internally. On-going battles for prime real estate, page layouts, copy and imagery persist and often burden cross-functional team performance and relations.

Conversion 124

Conversion Sell E-commerce Legal 124

SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2022

Sometimes we’re not as founders, sometimes founders sell their company because they don’t end up being deeply passionate about what it does. Yes, Zoom and Shopify and folks that were huge COVID beneficiaries had a bit of a hit, but even those have resumed their growth path. So sell your product. It could come back.

Quota 81

Quota Growth Product Closing 81

SaaStr

MARCH 5, 2019

The entire company was told about us selling our chat products Stride and Hipchat to our largest competitor in the space, Slack, four days before the news went out. That’s a lot of growth isn’t it? Crossed a billion in revenue. And I think that’s fueled a lot of our growth. But it can be risky.

Objectives and Key Results 59

Objectives and Key Results Cross-sell Trust Product 59

SaaStr

MARCH 5, 2019

The entire company was told about us selling our chat products Stride and Hipchat to our largest competitor in the space, Slack, four days before the news went out. That’s a lot of growth isn’t it? Crossed a billion in revenue. And I think that’s fueled a lot of our growth. But it can be risky.

Objectives and Key Results 54

Objectives and Key Results Cross-sell Trust Product 54

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

To navigate the list, you can filter out tools based on function as well as for which size company it works best. For cross device testing, you can emulate a range of mobile environments across Android, Windows and iOS. Canvas , by GrowthHackers, helps support the whole growth process (including archiving results). ChangeAgain.me

Conversion 124

Conversion A/B testing UX Consult 124

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

Look, okay, let’s say half your business sells to eCommerce, but 20% sells to live events. Aileen Lee: But these are also super… I mean, you were talking about growth stage companies where they’ve got strong product market fit. Well, do the math in your head. Jason Lemkin: Anyone post-revenue. Aileen Lee: Yeah.

Pitch 63

Pitch Start-ups Up-sell Technology 63

ConversionXL

APRIL 12, 2017

Finally, day three covered all things customer success and growth. It’s not which variant collects more email addresses, it’s which variant sells more books. Pay them upfront so they don’t try to say X to get the money. If the copy won’t sell them, what will? Copy either sells or it doesn’t. See you next year.

Growth 86

Growth X-functional A/B testing Objectives and Key Results 86

Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Selling to people who can’t or won’t buy is a huge drain on your sales productivity, budget, and team. Business pain points affect a company's bottom line and must be solved in order for them to grow and function successfully. These are slight annoyances -- but aren't keeping the company from functioning. Of course you have.

X-functional 101

X-functional Cross-sell Angle Prospecting 101

Hubspot

MARCH 10, 2016

An adjective used to describe companies that sell to other businesses. An adjective used to describe companies that sell directly to consumers. Blogging is a core component of inbound marketing, as it can accomplish several initiatives simultaneously -- like website traffic growth, thought leadership, and lead generation.

Networking 78

Networking Non-Profits Engineering Follow-up 78