SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2022

So for the audience, cloud giants are turbocharging startup sales, and the predominant reason for this is because they’re fundamentally changing IT budgets at the customers that we’re all selling to. Rico Mallozzi: So marketplaces are fundamentally changing, go to market motions for a lot of enterprise technology companies.

Cross-sell 105

Cross-sell Finance Strategize Technology 105

Hubspot

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

In a previous role selling software, I gained insight into the importance of choosing the right business model. Unfortunately, selling the product without a minimum price created a situation where a majority of customers placed substantial demands on our support team while contributing very little to revenue.

Retail 36

Retail Manufacturing GTM Price 36

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

With the rise of AI, new sales technology and automation at the forefront of the sales echo chamber these days, we thought we’d take a moment to bring it back to BASICS – that’s why we’ve rounded up this complete glossary of sales terms and definitions to help you remember where it all started.

B2B 105

B2B E-commerce Cold Call Represent 105

Heinz Marketing

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

I think, fundamentally the fact that with traditional ABM, we would identify the accounts that we really wanted to go after, and we’d go after them, regardless of whether they were interested in hearing from us or if it was the right time. It’s got a hold on the market team. Is there some way to merge these concepts?

Pipeline 119

Pipeline B2B Sales Objectives and Key Results 119

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

A freemium or free-trial approach impacts the micro-conversion of an unpaid product sign-up. And optimizing for micro-conversions can undermine macro-conversions, especially if your marketing team never sees what happens after a form fill. Define your go-to-market strategy. Cross-sells. So what should you do first?

Customers 119

Customers Cross-sell Referrals Networking 119

Sales Hacker

MARCH 25, 2025

Ray breaks down why the rise of AI agents is a tectonic shift, how businesses are already seeing ROI, and what it means for SaaS, team structure, and go-to-market strategies. 31:12 Inside Microsoft CoPilot: Real-world agent use cases across sales, support, and strategy. And that’s going to be dynamic.

GTM 69

GTM X-functional Start-ups Relationship building 69

Sales Hacker

APRIL 30, 2018

To see what selling on steroids looks like, check out companies with the best sales enablement strategies. You’ll discover a lively place, with a lot of things — like revenue, productivity, and win rate s — going up, and a lot of things — like speed to revenue, sale cycle period, customer churn, and staff attrition rate — going down.

Non-Profits 101

Non-Profits Profit margin Quota Sales 101

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Technical selling of SaaS, on-premise software, and hardware solutions has relied on sales proofs of concept (POCs) that require pre-sales professionals to lead, manage, and drive to a ‘technical win” outcome so that account executives can close the deal. Tip: Read more about these evaluation attributes. Guided trial.

Objectives and Key Results 103

Objectives and Key Results Technical Sales Engineering Sales 103

Hubspot

JUNE 8, 2021

It's important for this role to educate prospects and follow up once a sale is closed to maintain customer satisfaction and encourage repeat buyers. As a result, inside sales reps typically have a hybrid compensation package that includes a base salary and commission. Nearly half of their time is spent selling remotely (i.e.

Commission 94

Commission Territory Finance Inside sales 94

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.

Go To Market 69

Go To Market Process GTM Launch 69

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Women in sales often have a polarizing experience. We’re often encouraged to hide, toughen up, and bury our emotions. Your sales career project has ups and downs. Every industry needs sales so the education you receive working in this role can be immense. The expectation is that we can “do it all.”

Sales 137

Sales Up-sell Start-ups Cross-sell 137

SaaStr

AUGUST 13, 2019

So most of the SaaS organizations really find it pretty difficult to scale up. Why is it very difficult to actually scale up? When organizations actually go from starting up to selling to SMBs and going up market, the pool up market is undeniable. Why is that the case?

Cross-sell 70

Cross-sell Sales Support Growth Up-sell 70

Gong.io

APRIL 15, 2022

Revenue Intelligence automatically captures customer interactions, analyzes them to provide insights, and applies those learnings to determine the next best action for winning outcomes across an organization’s go-to-market strategy. Revenue Intelligence works within any go-to-market model by applying insights to provide automation. .

CRM 62

CRM Pitch Up-sell GTM 62

The Lost Book of Sales

JULY 12, 2021

If you enjoy what you read and would like to receive a very occasional, hand-crafted update from me into your inbox, feel free to sign up below. Basics: Markets and segmentation. As the kids like to say: What’s up with that? High-tech innovation and marketing expertise are two cornerstones of the U.S.

Cross-sell 52

Cross-sell Niche Objectives and Key Results Price 52

Salesforce

JULY 25, 2024

The partnership between Salesforce and AWS unlocks tremendous opportunities for ISVs to drive growth and expand their market reach. Additionally, ISVs can unlock incentives when working with Marketplace integrator partners as they scale up their co-sell business on AWS Marketplace. Sign up here

GTM 78

GTM Growth Up-sell Represent 78