Martech

JUNE 27, 2025

.” “Hit a ROAS of X.” Up to 40% of Fortune 500 companies don’t have a single growth- or customer-related role in their executive committee, per a 2023 McKinsey study. But that cross-sell opportunity still exists; it just doesn’t need to happen on the first click. Ask how those goals were set.

X-functional

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

18:13 The role of cross-functional communication. So you guys are open up a new chapter down there. Scott Barker: Hell Casey Woo: it’s, it’s a, definitely a very up and coming tech ecosystem out there that I’m excited to help invest in. Cause you’re not setting up [00:09:00] trust.

GTM

Sales Hacker

JUNE 3, 2025

But to kick us off, I almost wanna start at the beginning because you’re initially from Boston, you know, if you take us back, what was that moment and opportunity that set you on this path to building Meta’s EMEA sales organization? started in a sales career at FedEx, you know, the shipping company. I am from Boston.

GTM

Martech

MARCH 14, 2025

Your deep understanding of customer behavior, cross-functional perspective and ability to demonstrate tangible business impact make you a key player in this effort. Email: Business email address Sign me up! X-axis: Difficulty of implementation. Processing. Highlight lost opportunities due to fragmented data.

Customers

Hubspot

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

So, we decided to create a tool that could scan individuals Twitter (now X) profiles and generate content tailored to the individual. When we launched, we simply shared the link on X, hoping a few dozen users might try it out. We didnt have that sort of money, but we didnt want to give up either. Google NLP. Elasticsearch.

Minimum Viable Product

SaaStr

JUNE 23, 2025

months is reshaping how software gets built TL;DR: The New Dev Platform Reality In June 2025, Replit CEO Amjad Masad dropped a bombshell on X: his company had crossed $100M ARR, up from just $10M at the end of 2024. You need to set up a dev environment, install packages, configure DB, and, if lucky, deploy.

X-functional

Sales Hacker

APRIL 15, 2025

Sign up here: [link] GTM 142 Episode Transcript Udi Ledergor: Just focus on building a great product people love. And the founder said, well, get us lots of leads and lots of meetings and we’ll, we’ll sell to them. Like I can go bring a hundred more lookalikes if I know who we’re selling to.

GTM

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 7, 2024

Along the way of selling and supporting a product as complex as a Customer Data Platform (CDP), he tackled some of the more common topics go-to-market leaders encounter as they build and scale their customer facing teams. How exactly did we end up with CS functions without commercial focus and ergo CSMs that lack commercial skills?

Go To Market

Martech

JUNE 6, 2023

Customer data, AI, marketing automation and analytics are must-haves for any martech stack and several companies are now looking to sell them all at once. If you have a couple of products from one company, they’re likely already selling you on the benefit of adding a third or fourth. And to be fair, it sometimes is a smart move.

X-functional

Martech

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Broaden job skills on an agile marketing team Many marketing teams still operate with specialists who perform a very limited job function. However, it will be up to the person to critically analyze AI’s results, determine what is true, and validate those assumptions by talking to real customers.

X-functional

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Becoming less reliant on human touch takes time and planning, so take a good look in the mirror, determine how much and how fast you can do it, and then form a cross-functional plan that meets your current business goals while also working towards future ones. Sign up HERE ! You still have to pay the bills.

Go To Market

ConversionXL

JUNE 30, 2019

You won’t know until you figure out what your competitors are up to. From start to finish, this post will show you how to conduct a competitive analysis the right way. How does the user experience on my website stack up to the competition? How does your site's user experience stack up to the competition? By Karl Gilis.

UX

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. Percentage of leads followed up with.

X-functional

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

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

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. billion dollars.

Finance

Search Engine Land

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Google stirred things up by shaking cushions and discreetly adjusting ad prices, and the entire industry faced a major shift with the sunset of Universal Analytics, forcing everyone to transition to Google Analytics 4. In another blow for Google, an Adalytics study accused it of mis-selling video ads to marketers for the last three years.

X-functional

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. He also used real data to back everything up, rather than getting into an opinionated p **g match with anyone who wanted to throw up any barriers.

Conversion

Heinz Marketing

MAY 16, 2022

Why did that bubble up as a topic for you? Alan : It starts with a prospect experience and goes into the wholesale customer experience. So that experience really starts then. But when you become customers, is when everything starts. You recommended we cover customer service, customer success today. Customer experience.

Pipeline

Heinz Marketing

JUNE 7, 2021

Matt: So, as we record this, we are coming up at the end of May. 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. Thanks for being part of the show.

Pipeline

Hubspot

JUNE 22, 2022

Sound customer relationships are the foundation of any viable, productive business — having direct sway over how your business functions and grows. Without satisfied customers, you can't generate sustainable revenue, and you sell yourself short by losing out on referrals. Keep up with key contacts. Look for ways to add value.

Legal

SalesHandy

MARCH 21, 2023

You can add up to 30 different merge tags like {{first name}}, {{last name}}, {{location}}, {{country}}, and more. When you send a prospect a follow-up email ensure an adequate amount of time has passed between each email. All we want to know is how would that product help us I am investing X amount of money in it. Be mindful.

Closing

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. The benefits of TikTok for ecommerce brands don’t start and end with a sale. Why should your brand be on TikTok? TikTok users spent $2.5 via Shopify ].

Entertainment

Hubspot

APRIL 4, 2023

Here, we'll cover 15+ questions that will likely come up in consulting interviews — and discuss best practices for nailing them. Here's how it works: Situation: Start by describing the situation. Because the question is so open-ended, it can be difficult to know where to start. However, solving cases is only half the battle.

Consult

ConversionXL

JUNE 26, 2017

Elite Camp 2017 had an enviable line-up of heavy hitters and rock stars. Websites selling different things are different and even if they sell the same products, their target audience might be different. So we want to come up with a bunch of radically different ideas & test them. Websites are contextual.

UX

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

So while many usability heuristics remain the same in B2B website design and functionality , much of what goes into lead gen, sales, and analysis is different. In other words, you’ll answer questions like: Where in the buyer journey is the person that downloads [X] whitepaper? What are you trying to sell? How do they buy?

B2B

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 22, 2018

To reframe marketing as an investment rather than a cost center, we must connect all the dots to revenue—but it’s hard to do without the right tools and models to get started. She might have gotten up to go to lunch. Selling to companies adds complexity to the Lead Source method. No marketing attribution model is perfect.

B2B

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

And over that time, let’s say Amex was 150 years, Google was 9 years when I started, and Gusto was about 4 years old when I started. Keep your hands up if you use Gusto. 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.

Drivers/motivators

Sales Hacker

APRIL 14, 2020

Reps working from home need to be willing to converse without selling. Talk to us about your business and how you started — give us an overview. So companies going out, they bought this SaaS platform to help with X, Y, and Z. Data integrity is more important than you thought. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

Contract

SaaStr

JULY 5, 2024

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. People aren’t as receptive to a cross-sell when you rip them off in the core one.

GTM

SaaStr

JULY 17, 2020

” So all the people who were whining, jumping up and down about the evils of short-termism and public markets, which I never really believed in anyway, maybe you’re just factually wrong. Does it not all bubble up to even the best cloud stocks? Keith Rabois: It’s unclear which stocks it bubbles up to.

E-commerce

Heinz Marketing

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

The power of 3 key selling strategies: virtual product tours, ROI validation and customer case studies. How ScienceLogic aims to get the right personalized outcome engagements to targets by building components cross-functionally. ” And yet I have yet to see a building pick up the phone.

Pipeline

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. It starts to get complicated.

Growth

Salesforce

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Sales leads can quickly pile up, and figuring out how to prioritize them can be overwhelming. Model categories Your model can be made up of any combination of data types: Demographic : Data that describes your lead, such as their Job title, location, budget, or role in the sales decision-making process. So many leads, so little time.

Prospecting

PandaDoc

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The no-strings-attached free trial, a couple of tutorials, and a bunch of courses allow any user to successfully set up the system and start tinkering with the available features. To capture both professional reviews and opinions from real users, we actively interact with up to 30 various sources of data. Among these are: G2.com

X-functional

Search Engine Land

MAY 7, 2024

The site was able to: Rank in the top three positions of Google for commercial keywords that get up to 246,000 average monthly searches. selling over 400,000 eBikes in the last four years. Additionally, ecommerce SERPs tend to have ads taking up some of the real estate, which can reduce organic CTR. The x -axis shows U.S.

CTR

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

By tightening up the standards and criteria you use to find, deploy, and measure keywords, you can really begin to improve your conversion rates at every level of the funnel. In PPC, this typically means setting up Campaign location targeting by selecting specific locations to show ads or excluding specific locations. Don’t have any?

Territory