SaaStr

JUNE 4, 2025

The Numbers That Haven’t Moved in 20 Years Rangan dropped two statistics that should haunt every go-to-market leader: 25-35% The percentage of time sales reps spend actually in front of customers. But here’s the kicker: this isn’t a new problem. It’s been this way for decades.

CRM 98

CRM Follow-up Pipeline Territory 98

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

Growth Strategize Sales Contact 129

SaaStr

JUNE 20, 2025

Conquest Numbers Let’s separate the happy convergence talk from the harsh conquest reality: SaaS: The Steady Performer Under Siege $295 billion market in 2025 with 18.4% growth rate vs. SaaS’s 18.4% The numbers tell the story: Q1 2025 : 39% revenue growth year-over-year, with U.S.

Government 112

Government Legal Engineering Growth 112

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. From Sales-Led to Product-Led: How Apollo.io

Growth 63

Growth Product A/B testing Strategize 63

Martech

OCTOBER 14, 2022

All that has changed with the advent of digital tools and modern marketing methods. Today, CMO positions are more than just higher-level marketing supervisors. They blend technology with traditional marketing capabilities while thriving in a chaotic, ever-changing environment and masters of creating demand. Growth driver.

Non-Profits 126

Non-Profits E-commerce Consult Niche 126

Heinz Marketing

JUNE 15, 2023

We think about them in three key areas: Company Firmographics At the company level, this includes company size (revenue and employee count), geographic locations, key industries along with other criteria like technology in use, size of user group, values and key initiatives.

Drivers/motivators 104

Drivers/motivators Sales Campaign Start-ups 104

SaaStr

JUNE 17, 2023

” This approach requires careful planning and execution but can result in significant long-term benefits such as increased market share, enhanced brand reputation, and ultimately higher profit margins. Analyze operations to identify inefficiencies and leverage technology for automation.

Growth 106

Growth E-commerce Profit margin Strategize 106

Salesforce

OCTOBER 12, 2021

It’s a broader term, inclusive of growing talent, market share, brand relevance. According to Forrester, companies that aligned people, processes and technology across their sales and marketing teams achieved 36% more revenue growth and up to 28% more profitability. It’s a big job with plenty of responsibility.

Gaming 98

Gaming Cross-sell Sales Finance 98

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 7, 2021

This stage is used to determine the viability of your product and confirm when it should go to market. Instead of spending years perfecting our technology, we build a minimum viable product, an early product that is terrible, full of bugs, and crash-your-computer-yes-really stability problems.

Product 142

Product Minimum Viable Product Price Launch 142

Highspot

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

We also have big plans for extending and deepening our investments in our customers’ success and so, as we prepare for our next fiscal year, I wanted to share our strategy for your success in the near- and long-term. Two recent research findings validate the category’s importance and growth: Spending on sales enablement technology grew 35.7%

Customers 64

Customers GTM Account management Government 64

Highspot

OCTOBER 17, 2023

in 2021” (Market Share Analysis: CRM Sales Software, Worldwide, 2022, Oct. Highspot’s new Initiative Scorecard shares the leading indicators of success for revenue teams, helping companies analyze the impact of enablement programs. in 2022, after growth of 19.7% Gartner is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc.

Launch 64

Launch Government Sales Strategize 64

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. Projected financials.

Technology 76

Technology Technology Cross-sell Referrals 76

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 13, 2021

This article was written for technology professionals who would like to learn more about OEM deal strategies and structures. CRM application licenses a natural language search technology. ERP system licenses graph database technology. Enterprise OEM software licensing is a multibillion-dollar segment of the software industry.

GTM 86

GTM Negotiate Profit margin Contract 86

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

It’s also been a powerful moment for technology to be a force for good. Still has some market share to go, but is providing a fantastic offering that many of you benefit from. If you think of this from a market size standpoint, there’s often this debate, is that good or bad? It is staggering.

Non-Profits 91

Non-Profits Strategize Trust Growth 91

Sales Hacker

MARCH 4, 2025

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Jessica Gilmartin has nearly 20 years of go-to-market leadership experience, most recently serving as both the Chief Revenue Officer and Chief Marketing Officer at Calendly. Your go to market motion has to be driven by the product.

GTM 72

GTM X-functional Start-ups Campaign 72

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 8, 2021

One of the first steps when you’re preparing to move into a new market is to create a cross-functional, go-to-market strategy. Gain agreement from everyone involved on market status, product, marketing, customer success investments, success metrics, and timeline. How to: Put the word out.

Territory 110

Territory Pipeline Launch Technical Sales 110

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Ian McAllister of Amazon offers greater detail on the process: The target audience for the press release is the new/updated product’s customers, which can be retail customers or internal users of a tool or technology. mahabis #slippers #packaging #shoes #footwear #design A post shared by mahabis (@mahabis) on Jul 16, 2014 at 3:50am PDT.

Launch 110

Launch Product Campaign Cold Call 110

SBI

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

In today’s world, companies need to develop targeted, engaging communication with their market, and having relevant, timely intelligence is the key to energizing all types of revenue-driving activities. Umberto: Most of the other solutions in this market are single-source, proprietary and closed. Umberto: It’s the drive to relevance.

Up-sell 51

Up-sell Closing Sell X-functional 51

SaaStr

JUNE 2, 2021

And you’re always up against an incumbent or competitor that has more market share. And I can’t make out a single logo, which of course is purposeful, just to show how crowded marketing tech is. And why do they do that? Well, hybrid matters because SaaS today, is so mature.

Sales 98

Sales Up-sell Price Start-ups 98

SaaStr

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Technology Reporter @ CNBC. Please welcome Zach Perret, Plaid Co-Founder and CEO and Ari Levy, CNBC Senior Technology Reporter. Zach : Go for it. But the really wonderful thing that we’ve been searching for is we wanted a mix of finance and technology. That allows us to have a very different go to market strategy.

Finance 85

Finance X-functional Non-Profits Launch 85

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.

Negotiate 45

Negotiate Strategize Sales Pipeline 45

Lead Fuze

JANUARY 1, 2022

The enterprise OEM software market is a large and lucrative segment of the software industry. This article is intended for those who want to learn more about how companies can negotiate with their technology providers. ERP systems can use graph database technology to store and analyze relationships between various data sets.

Negotiate 52

Negotiate Profit margin Contract Price 52

Highspot

OCTOBER 23, 2023

When executed effectively, it can lead to a significant uptick in sales, expanding the business’s market share and revenue streams. Market share: How much of the target market has the product captured compared to competitors? A strategic product launch targets the needs and desires of its audience.

Launch 59

Launch Negotiate Product GTM 59

Highspot

AUGUST 18, 2024

Developed by Winning by Design, the SPICED framework is a five-step sales methodology that helps go-to-market (GTM) teams diagnose customer needs, recommend a compelling solution, and maintain strong, lasting relationships. Example impact questions are: Are these challenges impacting your revenue or market share?

GTM 52

GTM Retail Drivers/motivators Contract 52

SalesHandy

JULY 12, 2022

Increasing Customer Lifetime Value (CLV): When you have a go-to-market strategy that is targeting the right customers, by default, your customer lifetime value (CLV) will experience a gradual increase. It is said that organizations with an ICP framework have a win rate of at least 68%.

Customers 59

Customers Cross-sell Represent Up-sell 59

Sales Hacker

MAY 13, 2025

They work with startups and scaling businesses to help take HR off your plate, so you can stay focused on building product, growing revenue, and hiring great people – the go-to-market engine. And I think what we’ve seen with technological shifts is that it’s always a huge changer of jobs.

GTM 72

GTM Engineering Start-ups Growth 72

Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

Which is why this pioneering guide shows you how to build a fully streamlined sales engine that uses modern techniques and technologies. This comprehensive resource goes in-depth into the human aspects of sales, as well, because there is a point where you have to let go of technology and rely on your ability to sell.

Sales 143

Sales Technique Objectives and Key Results Non-Profits 143

SaaStr

JULY 11, 2019

Then we’re going to talk a lot about the market in this conversation, because it’s relevant, because there’s a lot of players, right? This is a 20-year-old market, and then how did you really get traction? But how could you penetrate this old, dated market with this brand new company? Tiago Paiva: Yeah.

Launch 107

Launch Technology Technology Up-sell 107

SaaStr

MARCH 8, 2019

My perspective is a logo is probably a term one uses to describe market share acquisition, but at the essence of any acquired customer, there is a human. So can you share your perspective on that, because I think it’s very important to how you designed the first experiences using the HubSpot product. Hilarie K.:

Cold Call 22

Cold Call Trust Go To Market B2C 22

SaaStr

MARCH 8, 2019

My perspective is a logo is probably a term one uses to describe market share acquisition, but at the essence of any acquired customer, there is a human. So can you share your perspective on that, because I think it’s very important to how you designed the first experiences using the HubSpot product. Hilarie K.:

Cold Call 43

Cold Call Trust Go To Market B2C 43

SaaStr

JUNE 28, 2019

Jason Vandeboom is the Founder of ActiveCampaign, a sales and marketing automation platform that enables small businesses around the world to meaningfully connect and engage with their customers. Dave Kellogg is a leading technology executive, independent board member, advisor and angel investor. Common go-to-market myths and lessons.

Price 51

Price Cross-sell Up-sell Start-ups 51

The Lost Book of Sales

JULY 12, 2021

It's one of those books that you have to read if you work in sales or technology. Because it brings you a good mental model for understanding modern high-tech marketing, as well as the importance of segmenting and understanding your customers in a manner that I haven't seen anywhere else. Basics: Markets and segmentation.

Cross-sell 52

Cross-sell Niche Objectives and Key Results Price 52

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.

Objection handling 67

Objection handling Territory Pipeline Trust 67

Heinz Marketing

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

By Maria Geokezas , Chief Operating Officer at Heinz Marketing Looking Back: The Growth-at-All-Costs Era Just two years ago, the B2B market was fueled by a growth at all costs mentality. Companies prioritized market share over profitability, pouring resources into customer acquisition without a clear path to sustainable returns.

Growth 71

Growth B2B GTM Pipeline 71

ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2020

Market saturation. Scott Brinker maintains the marketing technology landscape project. 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. To do safe and boring marketing, post safe and boring stuff.

A/B testing 162

A/B testing X-functional Price Gaming 162