SaaStr

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

25x’d Revenue and Crossed $100M ARR Apollo.io, an all-in-one go-to-market platform, underwent a significant transformation in its business model that led to remarkable growth. Strategic Transformation The company’s leadership, including CEO Tim Sang, recognized that their challenges extended beyond typical growing pains.

Growth 64

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Martech

MAY 14, 2025

.” Fortune 500 CEO, from a recent interview I recently published part of an interview with a public company CFO, which ignited a conversation among marketing, sales and finance leaders across multiple channels. One thing became exceptionally clear: go-to-market (GTM) programs are under intense scrutiny.

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Heinz Marketing

OCTOBER 25, 2023

By Maria Geokezas , Chief Operating Officer at Heinz Marketing After perfecting your product and redefining your brand and message, it’s time to go-to-market. However, the success of your product depends on how well your team can adapt when things don’t go as planned. You’ve nailed down the perfect strategy.

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Martech

JULY 3, 2023

Looking forward to the second half of 2023, we are recalibrating go-to-market plans for what I call the “next normal.” They shared our long-term GTM mindset and that helped to make them resilient through the pandemic. When a brand is complacent about marketing, the energy needed to engage customers diminishes.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

A great product, while necessary, isn’t sufficient to build a market leader and eventually a public company. Companies that win a market are just as good at Go-to-Market as they are at building great products. This needs to be a strategic decision, so companies should ask themselves a few questions.

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The 5% Institute

MAY 26, 2023

In today’s competitive business landscape, having effective go-to-market strategies is crucial for organizations aiming to maximize their success. By carefully planning and executing their entry into the market, businesses can gain a competitive edge, capture the attention of their target audience, and achieve sustainable growth.

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Highspot

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

It connects everyone from marketing and sales to post-sales in delivering a unified buying experience that wins, retains and expands customer relationships,” said Robert Wahbe, CEO, Highspot. “Scaling your go-to-market strategy is a complex process with a large gap between strategy and action. We close this gap.

Growth 129

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Martech

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

4 Defend marketing efficiency and effectiveness above budget In challenging times , CEOs and boards can look to scale back go-to-market efforts, leaving marketing in a defensive stance when it comes to budget. Many CEOs regret not prioritizing market share during periods of resiliency and growth.

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Martech

MAY 17, 2024

Your marketing materials will never be as influential as third-party validation, so if you want your startup to succeed, it’s time to understand how earned media falls under the PR umbrella. The PR umbrella Public relations generally refers to any form of strategic communication between a brand and the media.

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Highspot

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

In fact, according to Gartner, “Sales enablement grew several percentage points faster than the sales segment average, demonstrating continued enhanced interest in solutions that can increase the effectiveness of sellers” (Gartner®, Market Share Analysis: CRM Sales Software, Worldwide, 2021, 2022)*.

Growth 98

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Martech

OCTOBER 14, 2022

They blend technology with traditional marketing capabilities while thriving in a chaotic, ever-changing environment and masters of creating demand. Once separate from other executives, CMOs are now part of the C-suite and can help you achieve strategic goals. Marketing consultants have their place but are quite different than CMOs.

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SaaStr

JUNE 17, 2023

This was achieved through strategic cost-cutting measures without compromising their growth trajectory. Known for its inbound marketing software products, it has consistently reinvested profits back into the business to fuel sustainable growth. It wasn’t luck – it was strategic planning and execution.

Growth 109

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Salesforce

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Businesses are realizing that to stay agile, strategic, and most importantly, sustainable, they need a CRO who can fold marketing, sales, and customer success into one seamless revenue machine. “In They’re able to pinpoint how organizations can strategically move themselves into a very successful future.”. Not exactly.

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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

In this article, we'll explain what market development is and how you can employ it to increase sales and grow your business. What is market development? Market development is the expansion of your total addressable market (TAM) and how much market share you can expect to claim. Step 4: Go-To Market.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Randy was let go in July. In 2015 Randy had kept pace with the growth in the market. Competitors were increasing their market share and Randy was falling behind. FIND PRODUCT MARKET FIT. EXECUTE THE GO TO MARKET PLAN. To meet the growth potential a Go To Market (GTM) plan is imperative.

Growth 100

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Highspot

OCTOBER 17, 2023

in 2021” (Market Share Analysis: CRM Sales Software, Worldwide, 2022, Oct. Businesses worldwide are prioritizing sales productivity, driving investment in sales enablement. According to research from Gartner® “The sales enablement subsegment grew strongly once more, rising 35.7% in 2022, after growth of 19.7%

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

Byron Deeter and Elliott Robinson, partners at Bessemer Venture Partners, offer macro trends in the public and private cloud markets, strategic advice to cloud founders, and insights into why entrepreneurs should feel auspicious about the future. Everyone is trying to figure out the go-to-market learning curve.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Once you reach momentum and hit a tipping point with market share, it creates a machine of its own. The takeaway: determine your marketing strategy and tactics based on where you are in product maturity curve. #2 2 Change in Marketing As You Scale : Handling Complexity Like a Pro You don’t want to oversimplify complexity.

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Lead Fuze

JULY 24, 2023

Whether you’re a startup founder, a product manager, or an investor, understanding how to find total addressable market is crucial for your strategic planning. According to industry experts, the ability to accurately calculate your Total Addressable Market (TAM) can significantly influence your business’s growth trajectory.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Product marketing informs strategic positioning and ensures alignment across the company. 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. Product marketing uncovers where to play and how to win.

Product 110

Product GTM Construction Launch 110

Highspot

OCTOBER 23, 2023

It starts with strategic actions, teamwork, and market understanding. Dive into the art of coordinated strategies, discover how hits like the iPhone and Netflix mastered market needs and brand appeal, and use key metrics to elevate your launch. A strategic product launch targets the needs and desires of its audience.

Launch 59

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Sales Hacker

JULY 24, 2018

Most founders ignore market cap [13:38]. Strategic functions to go to market with [30:24]. But there’s this whole other commercial aspect that is heavily dependent on a go-to-market strategy that’s executed through market cap. Strategic Functions to Go to Market With.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

ABE is more than just a marketing campaign or a sales process — it’s a mindset. Account-Based Everything is a strategic, go-to-market approach that orchestrates personal-marketing, sales, success efforts to drive engagement, and conversions at named accounts. Industry, market, and vertical. Growth trends.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 25, 2021

The typical product lifecycle can be broken down into four stages: Introduction: Your product may still be in development and your marketing goals focus on generating awareness and motivating users to sign up and purchase. You’re adding new product features and looking to capture more market share from your competitors.

Launch 96

Launch Product Non-Profits GTM 96

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 13, 2021

Depending on the software, implementation, and go-to-market (GTM) strategy, considerable costs and internal resources could be needed for a successful deployment. Product management, engineering, customer success, sales, and marketing groups will weigh in on the decision-making process. Resell relationship.

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Highspot

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

By defining specific goals and identifying key performance indicators (KPIs), a sales and marketing plan provides a structured framework for marketing and sales to align their go-to-market efforts. And when teams are aligned, companies can generate up to 208% more revenue from their marketing efforts.

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Highspot

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

By defining specific goals and identifying key performance indicators (KPIs), a sales and marketing plan provides a structured framework for marketing and sales to align their go-to-market efforts. And when teams are aligned, companies can generate up to 208% more revenue from their marketing efforts.

Objectives and Key Results 52

Objectives and Key Results Cross-sell Click Through Rate Sales 52

SalesHandy

JULY 12, 2022

It makes use of account-based marketing, which focuses on selling to targeted accounts that align your products/services’ capabilities with the needs of the customers. Some examples of firmographic attributes include revenue, number of employees, market share, growth potential, organizational structure, etc.

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Lead Fuze

JANUARY 1, 2022

Product management, engineering, customer success, sales and marketing departments all play a role in determining whether or not this should be done. Deciding to move forward with OEM partnerships is a strategic decision because it can have an impact on the company as a whole. Using an OEM go-to-market strategy.

Negotiate 52

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

The New Strategic Selling. The New Strategic Selling: The Unique Sales System Proven Successful by America’s Best Companies. Then a mentor’s invitation from the other side of the world powerfully transforms everything as Joshua embarks on the journey of discovering leadership secrets of strategic selling. Agile Selling.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Salesforce, for example, increased its revenue market share to 18.4% This is when the ‘double jeopardy law’ comes into play : the larger the market share, the more users and loyalty a brand will have. A marketing strategy should include a go-to-market plan that is sales-led and product assisted.

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B2B Objectives and Key Results Relationship building Growth 94

The Lost Book of Sales

JULY 12, 2021

Early adopters | Visionaries The key point is that, in contrast with the technology enthusiast, a visionary focuses on value not from a system’s technology per se but rather from the strategic leap forward such technology can enable. This can only happen if the sales effort is focused on a single niche market.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2020

Often, they go for the obvious—stuff like “easy-to-use” email marketing. But if you go to market with this message, you’ll go nowhere. That means that being just a little bit different is not good enough (at least not when you’re trying to increase awareness and gain market share).

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ConversionXL

JUNE 19, 2019

Use product lifecycle marketing to map campaigns to the stage of your product. The various stages are defined below: Introduction stage: when the product first comes to market. Growth stage: when it grabs market share (getting the consumers to prefer the brand). Maturity stage: hold your dominant place in the market.

A/B testing 90

A/B testing Objectives and Key Results UX Retail 90

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The Strategic Imperative of Going Multiproduct The data is clear: multiproduct strategies are becoming mandatory for sustained growth. The “Chess, Not Checkers” Approach to Product Strategy Procore’s success wasn’t about randomly adding products it was about strategic sequencing. The good news?

Construction 73

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SaaStr

JUNE 3, 2025

These are the executives responsible for driving revenue, understanding customers, and competing in the market. Yet two-thirds of CEOs don’t trust their go-to-market leaders to navigate what 77% of those same CEOs call “a new business era” driven by AI. This isn’t just a skills gap.

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Objection handling Territory Pipeline Trust 69

SaaStr

APRIL 10, 2025

This created massive customer value where marketers became internal heroes. Building connectors in-house unlocked massive advantages : Rather than treating data connectors as “intern work,” Klaviyo recognized them as strategic assets that provided critical context for measurement and reporting.

E-commerce 69

E-commerce B2C Customers Strategize 69