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How to Double Your Magic Number and Increase Your Go-to-Market Efficiency with Sapphire Ventures

SaaStr

Go-to-market (GTM) design and efficiency are sometimes overlooked, but they’re a critical driver of any SaaS business. Rajeev Dham and Karan Singh, Partners at Sapphire Ventures, and Jane Lee, Vice President at Sapphire walk us through how to double your “Magic Number,” a shorthand for your sales and marketing efficiency.

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How to Build Go-to-Market Efficiency in SMB Sales with Owner.com CRO Kyle Norton

SaaStr

The way we build financial models, the cell for the number of deals per quarter is always something like reps times quota. The math only works when there’s the proper pipeline to make those reps successful. 80% of the time, companies don’t have a rep capacity problem; they have a pipeline problem.

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Why Top-Performing Reps See Their Pipeline as Half Empty

Salesforce

When it comes to closing a deal, it pays to look at your pipeline as half empty. Learn how the brightest minds in business, culture, and sports “Think Outside the Quota” to find sales success. You deal with a lot of failure as a rep,” said Belal Batrawy, veteran sales coach and head of go-to-market (GTM) at GTM Buddy.

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No More Quotas, No More Commission: Sales Without SDRs

Sales Hacker

Nelson Gilliat: The premise behind the book is that the go to market model for most B2B companies nowadays is outdated. The latest figures show that the majority of SDRs are missing quota , struggling. Get rid of quotas and get rid of commissions. Nelson, welcome to the show. What’s the premise behind the book?

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Sales Pipeline Radio, Episode 256: Q & A with Jamie Shanks @jamietshanks

Heinz Marketing

By Matt Heinz , President of Heinz Marketing. If you’re not already subscribed to Sales Pipeline Radio , or listening live every Thursday at 11:30 a.m The show is less than 30 minutes, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. Check them out.

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Sales Pipeline Radio, Episode 240: Q & Brian Trautschold @BTrautschold

Heinz Marketing

By Matt Heinz , President of Heinz Marketing. If you’re not already subscribed to Sales Pipeline Radio , or listening live every Thursday at 11:30 a.m The show is less than 30 minutes, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals.

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Sales Pipeline Radio, Episode 251: Q & A with Shawn LaVana @shawnlavana

Heinz Marketing

By Matt Heinz , President of Heinz Marketing. If you’re not already subscribed to Sales Pipeline Radio , or listening live every Thursday at 11:30 a.m The show is less than 30 minutes, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. My name is Matt Heinz.

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