SaaStr

MAY 14, 2023

As we gear up for SaaStr Europa 2023 in London on 6-7 June and SaaStr Annual 2023 in the SF Bay Area on 6-7 September , we wanted to take a look back at some of our most iconic speakers and sessions from over the year, that we can still learn from today. OK, so straight up. Next up, we’ve got Nicolas Dessaigne.

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Price Start-ups Up-sell X-functional 93

Veloxy

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

You spend 13 hours a week sending 180 emails to prospects, leads, and customers, and all you can drum up is 2 responses. Just be sure you print and bookmark this blog post so you can take it with you wherever you go, wherever you sell. You can read up on how to identify spam mail here. And share it with your sales colleagues.

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Objectives and Key Results Prospecting Contact Campaign 204

SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2020

David Sacks, General Partner at Craft Ventures joins the New New in Ventures to discuss The Cadence and how to structure around it while building a start-up. When you start growing above 50 employees, and certainly get to 100, things change, you now have teams, which means you have functional leaders. I learned this operating myself.

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Finance X-functional Launch Objectives and Key Results 111

Hubspot

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Do you sell to their industry? Many salespeople are loath to disqualify prospects and shrink their pipelines. MEDDIC requires sales reps to understand every aspect of a target company's purchase process, down to whether you have an internal champion -- an employee at a prospective company who will internally sell your product.

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Sales X-functional Contact Prospecting 101

SaaStr

APRIL 24, 2020

They are coming up on $10m ARR but aren’t there quite yet, so a lot like a lot of you, or where you’ll be soon enough. 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.

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X-functional Strategize Retail Technology 87

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 22, 2018

To get marketing a seat at the table and prove that it can drive revenue and pipeline, we’ve become borderline obsessed with numbers. She might have gotten up to go to lunch. After she gets a series of lead nurturing emails and sales/marketing communications, she signs up for a demo and converts into a paying customer.

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B2B Process Campaign Contact 131

SaaStr

JULY 15, 2022

Jason recently opened up an AMA on Twitter Spaces to answer questions about scaling from $1M to $10M. Jason Lemkin: Well, let’s break it up. How, if no one’s heard of you, do you sell to big companies? Jason Lemkin: Yeah, maybe let’s break it up into two points. Jason Lemkin: Hey everybody.

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Growth Cross-sell Start-ups X-functional 96

SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

What are you doing up so early? What’s the failure rate for a Series A start up? What’s the failure rate of a Series C start up? We are screwing up the scale. Awesome revenue growth on the X axis, awesome revenue retention on the Y. The game has changed but we haven’t caught up.

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Growth Cross-sell Contract X-functional 83

ConversionXL

APRIL 12, 2017

Last week, 400+ data-driven marketers from 20+ countries around the world met up in the outskirts of San Antonio, Texas for CXL Live 2017. 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. Copy either sells or it doesn’t.

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

Heinz Marketing

JANUARY 25, 2021

If you’re not already subscribed to Sales Pipeline Radio , or listening live every Thursday at 11:30 a.m. You can subscribe right at Sales Pipeline Radio and/or listen to full recordings of past shows everywhere you listen to podcasts! I ask Jason why is this function so interesting? ROI is a two-way street. Matt: Right.

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Pipeline Sales X-functional B2B 86

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?

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B2B Cross-sell X-functional Follow-up 98

Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

And for leveling up your sales skills, nothing beats a good sales book. There are only about 10–15 books in each discipline, so you can easily read up on the books you’re likely to need or want. The New Solution Selling. The Little Red Book of Selling. Unbreakable Laws of Selling. The New Strategic Selling.

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Sales Technique Objectives and Key Results Non-Profits 141

SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2022

Open it up if I can help in any way, or I can make it up, but anyone got a question they’ve got to start? 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. X this year.

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Quota Growth Product Closing 79

SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

We’ve invested in over 300 companies at Salesforce Ventures and have partnered with both of you closely and it’s been amazing to see this story up close and personal over the years. There’s amazing highs, but there’s low lows, too, and you have to do everything. Trisha Price: Yes. Which we’ll chat about.

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Price Retail X-functional Healthcare 59

SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

I actually just got off the boat, Nick, and scurried up to make sure that I was ready to go for the presentation. Nick Mehta: I got to say pretty good internet up there on the Italian Alps, so I’m impressed. So, you teed it up really well. One, it starts high up in the sales process, right? Jay Snyder: Yeah.

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Retail Start-ups Drivers/motivators Up-sell 78

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. Use sales pipeline updates, reports, and analytics to understand revenue and customer performance. Give presentations and demos.

Networking 59

Networking B2C Cross-sell Negotiate 59

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. Pipeline Sales Metrics.

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X-functional Quota Cross-sell Contract 96

Heinz Marketing

DECEMBER 30, 2019

If you’re not already subscribed to Sales Pipeline Radio , or listening live every Thursday at 11:30 a.m. You can subscribe right at Sales Pipeline Radio and/or listen to full recordings of past shows everywhere you listen to podcasts! Football does come up, but we also talk about 2020. Matt Heinz.

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Pipeline Objectives and Key Results Sales Start-ups 46

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

And not only is Aileen one of the investors that many of us all look up to-. Now you open up TechCrunch or StrictlyVC or anything, you’ll see a dozen firms a week literally sometimes. I used it in kind of my breakfast pre warm-up, the crazy times we’re in. Jason Lemkin | Founder @ SaaStr. Aileen Lee: Oh, God.

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Pitch Start-ups Up-sell Technology 65

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.

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Territory X-functional Cross-sell Sales 52

Sales Hacker

APRIL 23, 2018

One was “The Closer” and the other was “The Pipeline Pusher.” This is the only way to create both predictability and sustainability to the sales function. These metrics include: 1) Dollar value of new opportunities in pipeline. Definition : The value of the opportunities in the pipeline. Process: What Do You Measure?

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Drivers/motivators Pipeline Objectives and Key Results X-functional 78

PandaDoc

MARCH 7, 2023

Salespeople quickly adapt to consumer needs and switch up tactics whenever necessary. Sales workflows provide flexible and adaptable roadmaps that can be continually improved to keep up with evolving consumer needs and preferences. This visual aid gives every member of your sales team a big-picture view of the entire selling process.

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Process Objectives and Key Results Pitch Legal 52

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. It's up to salespeople to ask effective sales questions and uncover business pain as quickly as possible. Business pain points affect a company's bottom line and must be solved in order for them to grow and function successfully.

X-functional 101

X-functional Cross-sell Angle Prospecting 101

Heinz Marketing

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

If you’re not already subscribed to Sales Pipeline Radio , or listening live every Thursday at 11:30 a.m You can subscribe right at Sales Pipeline Radio and/or listen to full recordings of past shows everywhere you listen to podcasts! Matt : Welcome everyone to another episode of Sales Pipeline Radio.

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Pipeline B2B Inside sales Trust 100