ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

For product launches, long-term success relies on cornerstones of marketing research and execution, like a strong value proposition and full-funnel campaign. Articles on product launches often lay out a start-to-finish strategy that applies tactics along a linear path to success. Lies, damned lies, and product launch statistics.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Transitioning from mid-market selling to enterprise selling isn’t easy. In our first post we focused on how to be product- and market-ready, but that’s still only part of the solution. 1) Marketing: Does your marketing appeal to enterprise orgs? Promoting high performing mid-market reps.

Go To Market 71

Go To Market Up-sell Sales Strategize 71

Sales Hacker

MARCH 8, 2024

GTMnow is the media extension of GTMfund – sharing insight on go-to-market from working with hundreds of portfolio companies backed by over 350+ of the best in the game executive operators who have been there, done that at the world’s fastest growing SaaS companies. Sales tactics like cold calls often have a low conversion rate.

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GTM Growth Cross-sell Referrals 95

SaaStr

OCTOBER 20, 2023

It’s only been ten months since ChatGPT launched, and since then, we’ve seen a huge increase in AI applications being created and used globally. OpenAI’s Head of Sales, Aliisa Rosenthal, joined OpenAI a year and a half ago — before ChatGPT launched. After the launch of ChatGPT, they went from 30 leads a week to 10,000.

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Growth Launch Territory Legal 89

Heinz Marketing

OCTOBER 4, 2021

This week’s show is called “ A New Go To Market Framework to Get You MOVE-ing “ My guest is Sangram Vajre , Author, Co-Founder & Chief Evangelist at Terminus. We’re going to talk a little bit about that today as well, in terms of better go-to-market strategies. The bait and switch.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 1, 2024

GTMnow is the media extension of GTMfund – sharing insight on go-to-market from working with hundreds of portfolio companies backed by over 350+ of the best in the game executive operators who have been there, done that at the world’s fastest growing SaaS companies. Consider the overnight success of a celebrity-owned product.

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GTM Launch B2B Growth 72

ClickFunnels

AUGUST 8, 2021

Instead, they focus on just one element of it, e.g. landing pages, pop-ups, etc. Our co-founders, Russel Brunson and Todd Dickerson, each had over a decade of experience selling online via sales funnels. The reason we are bringing this up is that all that extensive funnel building experience went into our software. 4 Landingi.

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Lead generation A/B testing X-functional Price 246

Sales Hacker

MARCH 31, 2023

Let us know: marketing [at] saleshacker [dot] com. Generative AI is all the craze, mostly because of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and their freemium go-to-market motion, which made them go viral for being the fastest ever application to reach 100 million users. Don’t see your favorite tool?

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

They typically have large amounts of their personal wealth in the company, they have investors who have trusted them, sometimes even have personal assets tied up in the mix, they aren’t paying themselves market rate and they are making sacrifices in their personal lives. Founders are all in. So, Wiza was built.

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GTM Real Estate Launch B2B 67

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

What is the secret to aligning go-to-market teams and finance teams? was pretty simplified, mostly made up of annual or monthly subscriptions. We are seeing more agile packaging and pricing methods, dynamic deals, ramp-up revenue, and consumption and usage. Set them up for success. . Era 2, SaaS 2.0: Era 3, SaaS 3.0:

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Finance GTM Government Territory 76

Hubspot

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Your business is getting by just fine – but still, the questions remain: Could you be selling more? Is there an opportunity to increase market penetration? Creating a plan to sell existing products/services to new demographics, through such initiatives as adding locations or expanding delivery radius.

Drivers/motivators 101

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Martech

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Using these ideas, Wykes-Sneyd developed a go-to-market strategy with the same foundations in consumer and category research that she uses with other product launches. The difference, she said, was in this case it was a bottom-up process involving people at all levels of the organization. Create a roadmap.

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Salesforce

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Team selling is more important than ever, and sales kickoffs help us sell faster and smarter when we learn more about each other’s working styles. Presentations At sales kickoffs, you’re usually launching something new. Use the sales kickoff to discuss product announcements that will help your sellers go to market.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

It partners with sales to close more revenue, informs product teams to deliver better products, and in some cases, co-owns demand generation activities with marketing teams. Bellroy understands what captures the attention of their target audience (beyond the relevant challenges) based on their market research. Why buy now?

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Product GTM Construction Launch 110

Hubspot

AUGUST 21, 2023

To have a successful product launch, you need to craft a thoughtful, actionable, effective go-to-market (GTM) strategy framework. Without proper planning, it’s impossible to know if you’re chasing the wrong audience, are too early or too late to a given market, or targeting a market that's too saturated with similar solutions.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 26, 2022

and go-to-market partners, to understand what’s happening in the space. . “G2 G2 track data supports expected spending increase in 2022 with average quarterly SaaS spending up 15% YoY.”. Buying and selling software is getting complex. Go-to-market Partners released a report using G2 data.

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Go To Market Follow-up Trust Up-sell 74

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

However, the road to this expansion is laid out by building a robust go-to-market motion early on and acquiring new logos at every stage. Although churn and down-sell rates are relatively consistent during growth, this ability to capture new logos consistently can help to avoid client concentration in a volatile market.

Growth 78

Growth GTM Launch Go To Market 78

Hubspot

MARCH 25, 2024

A one-off purchase like a sandwich is a non-starter (unless you're launching a wildly niche "mystery sandwich of the month" club.). If you look at a list of the “fastest” growing SaaS companies, besides having a great product and great go-to-market skills, they’re usually B2B sales-led products. Can I Afford To Be Patient?

Niche 57

Niche Price Contract B2B 57

Martech

MAY 19, 2022

“What is the right go-to-market (GTM) strategy(ies) for our business?” ” This is a common question being debated and discussed across the C-suite today (note: not just in sales and marketing meetings). So why is GTM confounding sales, marketing and product leaders and rising to the top of the CXO agenda?

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GTM B2B Drivers/motivators Sports 119

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

We’ve talked about Toast a bit here on SaaStr – most recently we wrote up the 5 Interesting Learnings from Toast at $1.1B That means they still have 85% of the market left to tackle. Toast’s Go To Market Structure Toast has seen unprecedented growth on the revenue side, so let’s look at the customer acquisition strategy.

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Growth Territory Referrals Customers 73

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Product marketers work to understand the market and what motivates customers. They choose the market segments to target. They design an effective go-to-market plan along with the required positioning and messaging. They determine what attributes the product needs to win against the competition.

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Product E-commerce Strategize B2B 127

Gong.io

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Whether you’re launching a new business or a new product, competition is fierce, resources are limited, and market preferences can change in a moment. . With over 700 companies competing in this highly saturated market, getting lost is easy. A go-to-market strategy framework is a blueprint for growth.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 11, 2023

We’re really excited to be able to provide our audience and network with even more high-quality content on all things go-to-market. GTMnow launches next Tues, Aug 15th! The work struck a chord with me because my parents ran a small business where I grew up on Long Island. Sara I love that.

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GTM Sales Launch Pipeline 64

Gong.io

DECEMBER 14, 2022

It’s time to talk about target account selling, or TAS. Target account selling is a highly personalized, targeted approach to sales that sees your sales reps focus only on the very best accounts. With that in mind, let’s examine what exactly target account selling is and how you can start executing it in your sales strategy today.

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Sell Cold Call Contract GTM 62

SaaStr

JUNE 8, 2022

When you work in B2B marketing, you don’t often get a great reason to show off your work to your friends and family. Or, “Hey mom, I’ve gotta tell you about our new gated ebook we launched on LinkedIn — you won’t believe the conversion rate.”. Can you imagine? Honey, check out this new webinar on support workflows! Good luck!

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Campaign B2B B2C Click Through Rate 95

SaaStr

JUNE 6, 2022

Up today: Plaid co-founder and CEO, Zach Perret. Their typical target is developers, and they sell up through the organization. That allows us to have a very different go-to-market strategy. Zach Perret’s Key Takeaways on Building a Platform: Go slow at the beginning, and make sure you get it right.

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Account management Engineering Technology Technology 90

Highspot

JANUARY 9, 2024

Each stage requires specific selling skills to satisfy prospect needs. B2B sales training equips sellers with skills, techniques, and tactics for selling products or services to other businesses. It plays a pivotal role in nurturing top selling talent who contribute to company growth. What is B2B Sales Training?

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SaaStr

MAY 16, 2022

Those early days are a classic example of having launched an application before developing a proper go-to-market strategy. Their original approach — to court and sell directly to customer service representatives — didn’t quite translate to Salesforce’s approach. Determine what it is your market really needs.

GTM 80

GTM Pipeline Strategize Represent 80

Heinz Marketing

MAY 20, 2021

Segmented from one another, marketing would work the top of the funnel and sales would work the bottom. Once a lead was ready for sales, it would be handed off and in many cases, never hear from marketing again. What Does Sales Do For Marketing? Market dynamics. What Does Marketing Do For Sales? Customer health.

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Campaign Cold Call Sales Education 126

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

In today’s market, you’ll need to convince investors that you’re a worthwhile investment. At the earliest stages, investors typically like to see you go from launch to $1 ARR in 12 months or less. It’s much easier to sell something to a customer you’re already working with than it is to win them again and again.

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Profit margin Drivers/motivators Cross-sell Growth 79

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

You should also be aware of the law of shitty clickthroughs: all marketing strategies end up having shitty CTR because novelty fades and a first-to-market strategy doesn’t last. They don’t usually fit within the consideration set where only category kings go. Daniel Layfield, Growth Product Manager at Codecademy.

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B2B Objectives and Key Results Relationship building Growth 94

Hubspot

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Over the past two years, we’ve talked a lot about how the pandemic has sped up the rate of digital transformation, particularly in the shift to selling online. Despite having a stronghold on the brick-and-mortar video rental business, they were quickly left behind when Netflix started selling online in the early 2000s.

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B2C Price B2B Sales 64

Martech

OCTOBER 11, 2021

She has had a front-row seat for the evolution of those roles during a period when B2B go-to-market has become less transactional and more focused on long-term customer engagement. ” She then moved to a London-based start-up, Decibel, to scale their client services practice. Stepping up to customer love.

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Customers Account management Real Estate Contract 93

Highspot

JUNE 25, 2021

Like many other rapidly growing companies, StackAdapt had to quickly establish and scale their sales enablement efforts – pivoting from reps building their own sales materials in silos, to a collaborative, centralized strategy that equips them with up-to-date, marketing-approved content that they can customize, share, and measure. .

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GTM Launch Drivers/motivators Quota 59

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Ryan Bonnici: “I think it depends on what you’re selling, right? If you’re selling a product that sells online, a product that grows as a business, it’s freemium, then you’re hiring product first and then people to help promote the product online, so more so marketing. ” Want more?

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Territory Launch Up-sell Meeting 62

SaaStr

APRIL 21, 2023

Now, he has five more marketing strategies that are sure to generate more leads if done right. If you aren’t spending money on marketing, it’s time to step it up. Most SaaS companies don’t spend enough on marketing, and that’s a mistake best avoided. If you aren’t, you could end up with a $0 ROI. It’s that simple.

Niche 75

Niche Prospecting Pitch Launch 75

Highspot

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Whether you call them SDRs, account executives (AEs), or business development representatives (BDRs), their ability to engage prospects through persistent, multi-channel communication outreach, and swift follow-up strategies is critical in transforming leads into viable opportunities and improving retention.

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Growth Objectives and Key Results Cold Call Sales 52