Sales Hacker

MARCH 8, 2024

Hello and welcome to The GTM Newsletter – read by over 50,000 revenue professionals weekly to scale their companies and careers. Join us at the gorgeous Proper Hotel in Austin on May 15-16 and hear how the top SaaS companies are leveraging partner ecosystems in their GTM motions aka Ecosystem-Led Growth. Austin’s F1 track.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 24, 2025

Hello and welcome to The GTM Newsletter by GTMnow – read by 50,000+ to scale their companies and careers. GTMnow highlights the strategies, along with the stories from the top 1% of GTM executives, VCs, and founders behind these strategies and companies. Insight from a $1.3B acquisition by Adobe. Product signals (e.g.

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GTM Cross-sell Finance Price 95

Highspot

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Highspot also announced new capabilities for its generative artificial intelligence (AI) digital assistant, Highspot Copilot, which help sellers and sales managers successfully execute GTM initiatives through personalized coaching recommendations, skill and competency assessments, and learning reinforcement at every stage in the revenue lifecycle.

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Martech

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Cross-department ownership and confusion A major issue with ABM platforms is that using them effectively requires buy-in and cooperation from multiple departments, like sales and IT. They unlock an account-based approach to marketing, which is the right GTM for any business selling to an account.

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B2B Contract GTM CRM 132

SaaStr

APRIL 6, 2025

A little ways back Databricks VP of Sales Heather Akuiyibo joined SaaStr to share unexpected things that work well at Databricks GTM organization as well as some things that havent worked as well. “We asked our cross-functional partners to describe our team in three words,” Cuibo explains.

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Growth Territory Teamwork Cross-sell 80

SaaStr

MAY 29, 2025

At Owner, selling ~$10K ACV deals to tiny businesses that “don’t typically buy software,” the AI transformation has been mission-critical. The humans who remain will need to excel at the uniquely human aspects of selling: relationship building, complex problem solving, and strategic influence.

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GTM Negotiate Cross-sell CRM 95

Force Management

MARCH 28, 2024

Top-performing organizations have go-to-market teams that successfully navigate buying committees of multiple stakeholders, as well as the parties who influence them, to sell deals at a high value. They build widespread agreement on positive business outcomes, success metrics, and the requirements needed to get there.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 12, 2024

Strategies for pricing new products and cross-selling within an existing customer base. The GTM Podcast Features conversations with well-known tech executive, VC, and founders – the expert operators in the trenches who have been there, done that’ to build some of the fastest-growing software companies.

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GTM Engineering Growth Cross-sell 121

Sales Hacker

APRIL 8, 2025

Jeff Perry is a truly iconic revenue leader and the Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) at Carta, responsible for core software revenue across New Business, Upsell, Cross Sell, and Customer Success. 19:07 Cartas GTM evolution: How Jeff scaled from one rep selling one product to multiple teams across three business lines.

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GTM Growth Cross-sell Account management 65

Force Management

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Internally, revenue organizations have to adapt and align their message in a way that communicates their value in today's dynamic selling environment. Externally, marketplace dynamics have shifted and buyers have redefined why and how they buy. Strategies for growth and evolution should drive alignment across all your revenue teams.

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Growth GTM Cross-sell Drivers/motivators 167

Sales Hacker

APRIL 25, 2025

Hello and welcome to The GTM Newsletter by GTMnow – read by 50,000+ to scale their companies and careers. GTMnow highlights the strategies, along with the stories from the top 1% of GTM executives, VCs, and founders behind these strategies and companies. The future of GTM is AI-powered. Be the quarterback of the deal.

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Growth GTM Cross-sell Negotiate 68

Highspot

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Product training is a structured learning process that helps team members understand, communicate, and sell a product. According to Gartner, 77% of B2B buyers say their most recent purchase felt “very complex or difficult,” highlighting the importance of thorough product knowledge for anyone selling or supporting a solution.

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Product GTM Objectives and Key Results Cross-sell 52

Highspot

MARCH 24, 2025

Key Takeaways GTM operational excellence improves efficiency, aligns sales and marketing operations, and enables your teams to close complex deals faster. Companies with strong GTM enablement see 49% higher win rates on forecasted deals. What is GTM Operational Excellence? What is GTM Operational Excellence?

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GTM Cross-sell Pipeline CRM 52

SaaStr

JULY 5, 2024

What are the biggest GTM mistakes founders make? GTM Mistake #1: A VP of Sales That Can’t Sell or Demo the Product Mistake number one has always been an issue, and it’s the number one reason startups struggle in today’s world. They hire a VP of Sales who doesn’t want to sell or learn the product. Let’s jump right in.

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GTM Cross-sell X-functional Pipeline 83

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. Disconnect 1: Fragmented marketing, sales and customer tactics versus unified GTM strategies. Review, refresh and optimize your GTM strategy continuously.

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B2B GTM Customers Cross-sell 128

Heinz Marketing

MAY 20, 2024

The ideal outcome extends into the advocacy stage, where satisfied customers become brand champions, spreading positive word-of-mouth and potentially leading to upsell or cross-sell opportunities. Step 2: Develop Account-Based GTM Account-based go-to-market (GTM) is a collaborative process.

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B2B Cross-sell Customers GTM 127

Highspot

MARCH 12, 2024

To maximize the impact of revenue enablement, you must focus on three elements: the enablement’s position in your go-to-market (GTM) engine, its strategic role, and how you measure its impact. If the enablement function is not empowered to actively shape the GTM function, you’re on the path to two major pitfalls.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 25, 2025

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Ray Smith is the VP of AI Agents at Microsoft. GTM 139 Episode Transcript Scott Barker: Hello, and welcome back to the GTM podcast. Previously, he was the Global VP of Product for SAP, CRM and Sales Cloud.

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GTM X-functional Start-ups Relationship building 65

SaaStr

JUNE 19, 2024

How Sales & CS 4x-ed Glean’s ARR and Top Tips for GTM Cross-Collaboration Strategies with Glean’s VP of Sales and Head of CS. Glean AI has rocketed to a $3B valuation by selling AI search to the enterprise. How are the success and cross-selling motions different here? #7. ” #6.

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GTM Cross-sell Finance Price 120

SaaStr

JULY 22, 2021

But then it will add $200m in 2 years to cross $700m ARR shortly. 1000 partners are key to their GTM strategy. And “950 of the partners, Avalara has no competition” Like HubSpot and other leaders that sell sophisticated, $10k+ solutions to SMEs, partners are key to implementation. market cap.

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Cross-sell GTM Commission Up-sell 133

Sales Hacker

JUNE 14, 2021

An e-commerce tech firm learned that there should not be a hand-off between sales and marketing once selling conversations begin. There’s also a huge gap when it comes to penetrating new business units or in cross-selling/upselling. Even though revenue derived from existing customers account for 70.1% Create margin growth.

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GTM E-commerce B2B Profit margin 104

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

What he shared was pure gold for any SaaS founder trying to navigate the complex world of GTM motions. The Evolution of Go-To-Market (And Why It Matters) Let’s break this down into three distinct eras: GTM 1.0: The “Golf Course Era” – Selling to CIOs over lunch GTM 2.0: Salesforce started with 2.0

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GTM Cross-sell Contract Inside sales 59

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

General Partner Doug Pepper and General Partner and Head of Analytics at ICONIQ Growth, Christine Edmonds, share the art and science of scaling GTM at this year’s SaaStr Annual. The Early Stage — $0 to $20M ARR The early stage is crucial for GTM. But to develop a GTM strategy, you must have Product Market Fit.

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Go To Market GTM Cross-sell Growth 109

Martech

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Product-led growth (PLG) is all the rage as a go-to-market (GTM) strategy for B2B software companies looking to increase adoption and grow revenue. Profitability, efficiency and precision are today’s expectations for both vendors and the organizations they sell to. So, why PLG now?

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Growth GTM Product Cross-sell 109

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

On the supply side — GTM gets more efficient, and the cost of selling net new customers is unbelievably higher than selling to existing customers. The Logistics of Going Multi-Product GTM only exists on the back of a product that real customers need. Who is going to do the selling? What are those incentives?

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Product GTM Cross-sell Commission 113

SaaStr

MAY 28, 2025

It never had a downturn, and just keeps on growing at top-tier rates, selling both to SMBs and now larger enterprises. This is what 12x ARR selling to SMBs++ looks like. This suggests they’ve found product-market fit across multiple customer segments, from SMBs to enterprises, and can effectively sell at multiple price points.

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Non-Profits Profit margin Cross-sell Represent 79

Martech

JUNE 28, 2022

Marketers play a large, proactive role in the buying-selling process to generate revenue across the entire buyer lifecycle – from generating a new customer, to contract renewal, to solution expansion and cross-sell/upsell. Drive the shift from push to pull marketing. It doesn’t have to be over complicated.

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B2B GTM Cross-sell Cold Call 122

SaaStr

MARCH 22, 2023

But it also defines your GTM efforts. Instead of selling products, they were selling aspirational concepts and business value. Take Your Company Global If you haven’t read Crossing The Chasm by Geoffrey Moore, you should, especially if you want to take your company global. A consumption model is about removing friction.

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Growth Cross-sell GTM Up-sell 103

SaaStr

MAY 30, 2024

It’s a growth model and GTM strategy. They prioritize direct selling and relationships over allowing customers to go and buy directly. What PLG Signals Can Sales Use to Sell Software? If you have data scientists or ML teams, you can correlate the probability of upsells and cross-sells if someone has used that aha feature.

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Cross-sell Customers Pitch Drivers/motivators 119

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Hello and welcome to The GTM Newsletter – read by over 52,000 revenue professionals weekly to stay up-to-date and scale their companies and careers. Others are “strategic partners” involved in long-term initiatives like co-selling and co-marketing. This is no longer news to go-to-market leaders.

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GTM Strategize Launch Pipeline 106

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

We remain optimistic about the prospects of cross-border SaaS. Org Building Ideas for Cross-Border Companies. Learnings on GTM. Pricing/Packaging (PP) is a key component of GTM. PP could be a strategic enabler of GTM scale up if done well. SV SaaS companies sell to other SV SaaS companies.

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GTM Niche Cross-sell Contract 117

Highspot

MARCH 7, 2025

Revenue Operations , or RevOps, is all about aligning your GTM teams (sales, marketing, and customer success) to drive growth. They help unite your go-to-market (GTM) teams, streamline processes, and tackle tool sprawl. It ensures go-to-market (GTM) teams work toward shared company goals with efficient processes and reliable data.

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Growth GTM Objectives and Key Results CRM 52

SaaStr

MARCH 15, 2024

They sell a lot into internal video, which is employee engagement. The question is, how do they translate or take that passion and create products, value propositions, messages, and GTM motions that are more strategic and have a bigger impact on those businesses? How much synergy is there between the long tail and the PLG piece?

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GTM Cross-sell Start-ups Growth 109

Highspot

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

It’s typically a cross-functional initiative between sales and marketing. At its core, sales training teaches sales reps how to sell, imparting essential skills and techniques for engaging customers. On the flip side, sales enablement provides the tools to sell better. What Does Sales Enablement Training Include?

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Pitch Technique Sales Cross-sell 52

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

PST for those of you who want to connect with SaaS experts — Growth Advisor at FastSpring and Director of Growth at Planday, Frederic “Fred” Linfjard shares his insights on how to evolve from a sales-led to product-led GTM strategy constructively. Keep optimizing your current GTM. link] Every Wednesday at 10 a.m.

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Go To Market Growth GTM X-functional 97

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

If selling up-market and doing higher ACV deals, most likely 90% of these are being touched by sales, marketing, and partners. Listen on Spotify or find it anywhere you get your podcasts by searching “The GTM Podcast.” Share The GTM Newsletter That’s it, that’s all. Meaning, revenue is a team sport. Have a great weekend!

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GTM Pipeline SQL UX 117

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

CAC payback factors in all the health indicators of your business: GTM efficiency, ARR growth, churn rates, and gross margin. Partnering to sell to SMBs while you’re an expert in selling to enterprises. Partnering to sell in Europe, Latin America, or Asia with successful partners in those regions. Industry-wise.

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Growth GTM Cross-sell Non-Profits 19