Hubspot

APRIL 2, 2018

Great to meet you [prospect]! We’d already agreed on X price. If we can come down to X price, would you sign today?”. You might be interested in our newest Feature X. ". Use it to coordinate meetings, set up calls, and confirm next steps -- but don’t use it to advance an opportunity. Great to meet you [prospect]!

Prospecting 96

Prospecting X-functional Contract Cross-sell 96

InsightSquared

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

A common one is determining the output of sales activities, how many are typically needed to make X dollars. This information on hand allows you to provide a guidepost to managers such as, “If you want to book $X then your reps need to be making X calls, X emails, and having X meetings.”

X-functional 54

X-functional Cross-sell Sales CRM 54

Hubspot

OCTOBER 16, 2017

That is to say, if you want your salespeople to do X, reward them financially for doing X. If you want them to stop selling to poor fit customers, institute a clawback so they lose their commission if the customer churns or returns the product within a set window of time. Increase upsell/cross-sell rate.

Commission 92

Commission Quota X-functional Non-Profits 92

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

ConversionXL

JUNE 30, 2019

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. If you know your goals upfront, that knowledge will help you structure the research to meet those goals. Most likely, they’ll only remember one—your main selling point.

UX 126

UX X-functional A/B testing User Experience 126

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The New York Times named this urge to buy something the “TikTok Feta Effect,” after a viral recipe for baked feta pasta resulted in the cheese selling out nationwide in the U.S. By listening to the TikTok community, we meet users where they want to be met, and it’s not in the funnel.

Customers 115

Customers Entertainment E-commerce Objectives and Key Results 115

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. ” Or, last year in particular, a lot of time in internal meetings. I mean, you think about the marketing qualified lead.

Pipeline 123

Pipeline B2B Sales Cross-sell 123

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. They cross referenced a bunch to come up with the teams that performed the highest, were not the smartest people in the room. How do you challenge directly X-axis?

Drivers/motivators 73

Drivers/motivators X-functional Trust Cross-sell 73

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. They don’t know who we want to meet. And they have that issue.

Pipeline 83

Pipeline Referrals Cold Call Sales 83

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 56

X-functional Engineering Clients Start-ups 56

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 72

E-commerce Retail Real Estate Growth 72

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 62

X-functional E-commerce Growth Retail 62

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

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. How do management meetings with potential PE acquiring firms compare to founders meeting VCs in the early days?

Strategize 58

Strategize Quota Non-Profits Price 58

SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

And so, because we had done this before, we were able to very quickly do the fundraising, so we literally had like two meetings with each one of the investors and were able to close on the financing, so I don’t think that’s normal. “Well we’ll meet you on Thursday we’re going to fly in.

Price 59

Price Retail X-functional Healthcare 59

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 111

Finance X-functional Launch Objectives and Key Results 111

Salesforce

JANUARY 31, 2024

Tech sales refers to selling technology as a product or service. As an illustration, I used to sell appointment-scheduling software — a single-function solution for easier meeting set-up. The key is meeting the customers where they want to engage — and that may mean using multiple channels. •

Networking 59

Networking B2C Cross-sell Negotiate 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. The right B2B sales strategy optimizes your sales process around a few key principles, all of which allow you to make the most out of B2B selling efforts. What is B2B Sales?

B2B 98

B2B Cross-sell X-functional Follow-up 98

Hubspot

AUGUST 8, 2019

Percentage of revenue from existing customers (cross-selling, upselling, repeat orders, expanded contracts, etc.). 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. Number of meetings scheduled.

X-functional 96

X-functional Quota Cross-sell Contract 96

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 Technique Objectives and Key Results Non-Profits 141

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

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

AdWords Editor makes copying Campaigns really simple, and AdWords has added a copy function within the native web app itself, also. This type of cross referencing will help expand the scope of your conversion measurement and allow you to shape your conversion funnel. You Need To Be Where The People Are. image source.

Territory 111

Territory CTR Campaign Objectives and Key Results 111

SaaStr

APRIL 24, 2020

Number one is they didn’t really have an enterprise software selling group when they bought Omniture, so that route to market was something they were very interested in creating. And going through the process of selling boxed software in stores to selling online delivery of the application, it’s crazy.

X-functional 87

X-functional Strategize Retail Technology 87

Veloxy

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Just be sure you print and bookmark this blog post so you can take it with you wherever you go, wherever you sell. Before we look at some of the most epic and effective subject lines to ever cross a inbox, let’s categorize them into the main types. If you’re selling to this type of persona, you need to be quick and decisive as well.

Objectives and Key Results 204

Objectives and Key Results Prospecting Contact Campaign 204

Sales Hacker

APRIL 14, 2020

Reps working from home need to be willing to converse without selling. Jessica Wilkeyson: The first way you know is how frequently those teams are meeting together and working together and sharing insights and learning across the organization. So companies going out, they bought this SaaS platform to help with X, Y, and Z.

Contract 70

Contract CRM Consult Cross-sell 70

SaaStr

MAY 14, 2023

I don’t know if it’s 20 percent per month or did you just go 20 percent last meeting. 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 92

Price Start-ups Up-sell X-functional 92

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. David is generating the right number of meetings. Since he is in the poor category, we know his meetings aren’t moving the needle. 3) Win consistently.

Drivers/motivators 77

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

SaaStr

OCTOBER 29, 2019

I was on the product team and saw this opportunity for us to work more cross functionally across the company and focus heavily on retention and monetization. If you are a price sensitive customer, you need to get from A to B, but you’re willing to walk a few blocks to go meet your driver. First is assigning an owner.

Price 40

Price X-functional Cross-sell Growth 40

PandaDoc

MARCH 7, 2023

This visual aid gives every member of your sales team a big-picture view of the entire selling process. 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!). For example, you’re having an issue with scheduling virtual meetings promptly.

Process 52

Process Objectives and Key Results Pitch Legal 52

ConversionXL

JUNE 26, 2017

Websites selling different things are different and even if they sell the same products, their target audience might be different. Organize growth into a cross-functional team. Technical analysis – Crush all the bugs on your site: Check Analytics – identify issues, cross browser & cross device testing.

UX 85

UX Cross-sell A/B testing Government 85

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

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? Those are different versions of the primary product, and then you could have some some add-on products which are really cross-sells to a different thing.

Price 44

Price Cross-sell X-functional Up-sell 44

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 94

Growth Cross-sell Start-ups X-functional 94

Heinz Marketing

JANUARY 25, 2021

I ask Jason why is this function so interesting? I feel like I hear that every day now because we’re all in that same lane, same pool and everyone gets a chance to meet her and they’re like, “Oh, wow. I mean, why is that function so interesting to you? What about partner marketing is so exciting? Appreciate it.”

Pipeline 86

Pipeline Sales X-functional B2B 86

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 77

Retail Start-ups Drivers/motivators Up-sell 77

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

MARCH 12, 2019

Awesome revenue growth on the X axis, awesome revenue retention on the Y. And I think it comes out of the 80s and 90s and how we used to sell with shelfware. If you ever asked me to come to your board meetings, I want this to be the first slide. How often we run that meeting is how fast we learn. That’s easy.

Growth 82

Growth Cross-sell Contract X-functional 82

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. So sell your product. A few can, Andreessen and maybe Sequoia, but 99% of the VCs you meet, legally, they can only invest in startups, whether they’re late stage or early stage.

Quota 78

Quota Growth Product Closing 78