SaaStr

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

In a recent Workshop Wednesday, Tolithia Kornweibel, CRO, and Jamie Edwards, Head of Go-to-Market Operations and Tools, share how Gusto maximizes revenue so that you can do the same. Today, many SaaS companies still divide up sales accounts in territories by city, country, or region, or round-robin them by rep.

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Salesforce

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Imagine a world where you create a new product that everyone wants. If you sell a product without attracting the right buyers and demonstrating how it meets their needs, it may just sit on the shelf. See how it works What is a go-to-market strategy? Why is a go-to-market strategy important?

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

So you’ve heard that product-led growth is all the rage, and now you want to transition from a sales-led motion to a product-led one. Some companies go really hard,” he shares. But you have to take a step back because you might underestimate what it means to implement product-led growth.

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Heinz Marketing

OCTOBER 1, 2022

You will have the opportunity to participate in 6 Roll-Up-Your-Sleeves sessions that will provide you with a realistic, step-by-step action plan to complete a task. The Alt-text Guide for Marketers. Start Your Thought Leadership Journey. So, roll up your sleeves and make sure not to miss MarketingProfs’s B2B Forum this Oct.

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Highspot

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Ultimately, these companies languish, while the perennial members of the Fortune 500 consistently execute their alignment and strategies, armed with the digital dexterity to win as market conditions change. As Highspot’s VP of Product Marketing, I believe that luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Rather, how you go-to-market is a significant determinant of success. Likewise, the new products you launch do not determine your success. Instead, how you launch them into the market is a huge factor in success. Today, we’re diving straight into the details with product marketing leaders. Start early!

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Martech

DECEMBER 21, 2023

This article outlines four steps essential to undertake at the start of your go-to-market effort before you even mention your product. They are the basis of a powerful GTM plan that builds unmatched market impact and unlimited revenue potential. There are two things to do before starting this process.

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Salesforce

MAY 25, 2023

You can help your marketing team by getting your die-hard customers to spread the word about your offerings — sparking product-led growth. What is product-led growth? It puts your product at the center of the customer experience and buying journey. Watch & learn What is product-led growth? The result?

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Product marketing is today’s most critical marketing function. The best way to think about it: product marketing is strategy. Product marketers work to understand the market and what motivates customers. They choose the market segments to target. Start with product features.

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Outreach

OCTOBER 1, 2020

In short, they need to pick up the pace with go-to-market strategy during one of the toughest markets ever. Some tough questions go along with tackling those challenges: How do you motivate your go-to-market team every day during a time of constant uncertainty ? Focus on the long game.

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Hubspot

JUNE 11, 2019

Even when you put great amounts of effort, time, money, and resources into developing a new product or service, a poorly-planned go-to-market strategy could cause your project to flop. Some of the biggest brands have even experienced go-to-market failures. Go-To-Market Plan Template. Example Eddy.

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Heinz Marketing

JANUARY 7, 2022

Content marketing has defined the last two decades, but there’s a go-to-market strategy that’s been capturing lots of attention — product-led growth. As a growth strategy, product-led growth removes the traditional sales cycle and, instead, lets the product sell itself. A product-led approach is holistic.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 17, 2023

What is the right Go-To-Market strategy for a startup getting out of the gate? Sales-led vs. product-led is a hot topic right now, and Jason Eubanks, Chief Revenue Officer of Harness, shares the answer during this week’s Workshop Wednesday — held every Wednesday at 10 a.m. Sign up here to join them FOR FREE!

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SaaStr

JULY 27, 2022

Secret 1: A Self-Serve Product is Non-Negotiable For SMBs. From the very beginning, PayFit planned to create a self-serve product. They built their sales funnel in the same fashion to empower customers with autonomous product discovery and conversions. when customers needed to switch from an old payroll solution to PayFit).

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 10, 2018

In this blueprint, we take a tactical approach on how to build a go to market strategy. 5 Steps To Building Your Go To Market Strategy. The SMB segment—going upstream vs. downstream. Where Can You Apply This Go To Market Strategy? Regions often respond with a 1-2 year delay to the US Market.

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Highspot

OCTOBER 23, 2023

You’ve put months of hard work into developing your new product, and now it’s time for its much-awaited debut. However, launching your product is not just another item on your to-do list; it’s a defining moment that can make or break your business. Nearly 30,000 new products are released into the market every year.

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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. Takeaway: The role of product marketing is more complex/nuanced if you are selling to enterprise.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2021

CMO Julie Herendeen and CPO Sean Scott are PagerDuty’s product & marketing power couple. They bring together their respective strengths to drive remarkable product-led growth for PagerDuty, the incident response SaaS that’s been invaluable to tech teams since 2009. His product team initially intended the robot to be flashy.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

But, increasingly, the Apple hype-fests are a marketing—not a product—showcase. For product launches, long-term success relies on cornerstones of marketing research and execution, like a strong value proposition and full-funnel campaign. Yet while product launches are a risk, they’re not as risky as you think.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

To succeed in today’s crowded market, you need to harmonize product marketing and brand marketing. In this article, you’ll learn the difference between brand marketing and product marketing, and how to balance both to stand out above the crowd. Brand vs product marketing: Friends or foe?

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Heinz Marketing

JUNE 21, 2021

Join us as Christel shares some best practices on how she prioritizes all the different marketing requirements in an early stage company as well as how she is setting up the marketing organization and priorities internally. Like we talk a lot about big demand programs and sales and marketing teams working together.

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Hubspot

MARCH 25, 2020

There are few times more exciting in a company than during a product launch. Anticipation brews and a sense of optimism emerges around the prospect of a growth in market share. Still, a question always arises when a new product launches: do enough people know about this product launch for it to be successful? What is it?

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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. We needed that.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 26, 2024

Like most salespeople, I started ‘carrying a bag.’ One of the leading Silicon Valley investors discussed his portfolio of companies and stated, “We have companies with great products and weak go-to-market teams, and these companies are struggling.

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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. Access to more data. Efficiency.

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Gong.io

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Design Big, Start Small. You don’t come out of the gate—especially if you’re taking over a team that isn’t that data driven, or you’re starting a company from the ground up. Just start with something really basic, like four stages of the funnel. Let’s start adding incremental value. Data Breakout—Why Startups Fail.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 20, 2023

She joined a team of two, and there was a lack of product-market fit beyond small groups of researchers. How Did We Get Here — OpenAI OpenAI started as a research lab in 2015. From there, the pace picked up rapidly. years, going public, and even ringing the bell at NASDAQ. How did they get here?

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Highspot

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Productivity. There are productivity role models , apps to help you work smarter , and a plethora of services designed to eliminate the inefficient habits of unproductive people, like grocery shopping or leisurely eating. First up — lunch. Marissa voiced similar productivity concerns. The reasons why vary.

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Search Engine Land

AUGUST 22, 2023

Preparing for the seasonal sale period, particularly if you have technical optimizations you want or need to implement to remain competitive, should ideally start in the first quarter of the year. Starting in the third quarter will already be a bit of a sprint to the finish line, but it is doable. SUBSCRIBE See terms.

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Martech

MAY 2, 2024

They contact the target account, network and gather important information about the group members, their roles and their interests related to the seller’s product or category. But who knows if the person in that job is involved in buying your particular product or service? But, as I like to joke, “A persona doesn’t have a phone number.”

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Product-led growth (PLG) companies have become a major trend in the world of SaaS over the last few years. These companies are characterized by being product-led; in other words, conversion, retention, and growth are led by the product itself. Going from sales-led to PLG is doable, but it is not easy. Secret #2: Pricing.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 19, 2024

Katrina Wong is the Divisional CMO / VP Marketing at Twilio Segment. She has a proven track record for launching products in new markets and helping companies move up to the Enterprise. She started her career as a management consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers. 25:49) Unlocking potential: a leadership journey. (27:33)

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Highspot

APRIL 30, 2024

As such a hot topic with little guidance on using it, you’re likely wondering: Does AI actually help boost your go-to-market productivity, and if so, how? Go-to-market teams can easily use AI to improve their workflows, especially when it comes to automation, co-creation, and insights.

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SaaStr

JUNE 22, 2023

Dear SaaStr: What do startup founders typically get wrong when starting a business? My list: Not committing to 24 months upfront to getting to Real Revenues and a Minimum Sellable Product. More here: If You’re Going to Do a SaaS Start-Up … You Have to Give it 24 Months – SaaStr Picking cofounders that aren’t as committed.

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Heinz Marketing

JULY 5, 2021

So my background real quick, I’ve been a startup marketer for basically, the entirety of my career, so growing companies from about 10 million to a hundred million in that scale up phase. If you are going to migrate cloud, if you are going to go multi-cloud, if you are going to bring on Docker or Kubernetes.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 17, 2023

Dave now runs Exit Five , The #1 community for B2B Marketers. Dave left Drift in 2019 to join Privy as their CMO for just under 2 years, then returned to Drift as a Chief Brand Officer. And…monthly bonus podcast episodes dropping the first Thursday of every month.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 3, 2023

If you’re a go-to-market operator, you know this new imperative is not an either/or. Product-led growth (PLG) is taking center stage in response to these changing buying patterns and flipped the sales funnel we’ve come to know. RevOps as a unifying force in go-to-market strategy. Not anymore.

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