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. We really only know how to sell the mid market companies through inbound demand gen. And help them to figure out how to sell the enterprise. That’s easy.

Growth 82

Growth Cross-sell Contract X-functional 82

Sales Hacker

APRIL 23, 2018

This is the only way to create both predictability and sustainability to the sales function. Target formula : Sales Goal (Quota in $) / Win Rate. On the cross hair = hitting goal. Closed more than double the company assigned YTD Quota. . 3) Encourage activity based selling. Measuring outcomes is easy.

Drivers/motivators 78

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

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.

Strategize 54

Strategize Quota Non-Profits Price 54

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 91

Growth Cross-sell Start-ups X-functional 91

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 value speed, you might up in for an Uber X. I had a cross functional team that owned pricing and packaging. Your sticks are your quota limits.

Price 40

Price X-functional Cross-sell Growth 40

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. X and it’s not [inaudible 00:20:29]. Somehow this defies logic but is true. Jasom Lemkin: Yeah.

X-functional 59

X-functional E-commerce Growth Retail 59

Hubspot

AUGUST 8, 2019

Percentage of revenue from existing customers (cross-selling, upselling, repeat orders, expanded contracts, etc.). Percentage of sales reps attaining 100% quota. Cost of selling as a percentage of revenue generated. Imagine one of your reps isn’t hitting her quota. Year-over-year growth. Net Promoter Score (NPS).

X-functional 95

X-functional Quota Cross-sell Contract 95

Salesforce

JANUARY 31, 2024

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Networking 59

Networking B2C Cross-sell Negotiate 59

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

Look, okay, let’s say half your business sells to eCommerce, but 20% sells to live events. Jason Lemkin: So, traditionally in normal and good times, there is a sort of very slow-paced pressure as a VC, which is to do X deals a year. Well, do the math in your head. You should still be growing, but growing more slowly.

Pitch 62

Pitch Start-ups Up-sell Technology 62