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

It’s a snap to make and it sells itself – a mega hit. If you sell a product without attracting the right buyers and demonstrating how it meets their needs, it may just sit on the shelf. Build a comprehensive go-to-market (GTM) strategy that combines careful research with tailored messaging that hits on the right buyer pain points.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

A hybrid product-led sales motion is more realistic if your product was not originally built to sell itself. When can we expect X% of trial sign-ups to convert with 1-2 human touches or less? Instead, you should create a dedicated team to drive change in parallel with your existing sales-led Go-To-Market strategy.

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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. Take Apple, for example.

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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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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. 1) Marketing: Does your marketing appeal to enterprise orgs? Promoting high performing mid-market reps.

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SaaStr

JULY 27, 2022

But your sales needs when selling to small and medium-sized businesses differ from an enterprise-level market. At PayFit, they prioritize hiring junior talent hoping to grow their sales skills and ambitious to move up at the company. Before you start international expansion, get your internal tools and processes organized.

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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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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 26, 2024

It’s a solution that addresses the way buying is changing, integrating digital and personal selling. But what really interested me were Bill’s perspectives on where buying and selling is headed and how we must change our engagement strategies to work with buyers more impactfully.

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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. Sales tactics like cold calls often have a low conversion rate.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Rather, how you go-to-market is a significant determinant of 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! No sign-up needed; it was simply an easy scan. Keep it simple. “Do

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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. The bait and switch.

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Pipeline Go To Market Cross-sell Sales 117

Highspot

MARCH 12, 2024

To maximize the impact of revenue enablement, you must focus on three elements: the enablement’s position in your go-to-market (GTM) engine, its strategic role, and how you measure its impact. After you’ve gathered the list of the desired selling behaviors, it’s time for a frank conversation with sales leadership.

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Veloxy

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Whether you’re a rookie learning the ropes or a vet hunting innovative tactics, our curated guide to essential sales podcasts is your ticket to leveling up your sales game. Expect actionable insights, cutting-edge strategies, and insider knowledge to keep you engaged and selling smarter—all without the fluff.

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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. We’d love to hear from you.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

He was one of the first few reps hired at Yammer to sell into the Fortune 500, responsible for closing some of their largest, 7-figure contracts. Over the last few years he has advised and invested in many B2B SaaS companies, particularly focused on helping with Go-To-Market.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

At this year’s SaaStr Annual, Mark Roberge, co-founder and Managing Director of Stage 2 Capital, takes the stage to have a bake-off between startups and incumbents when it comes to who will win the AI Go-to-Market race. Design Big But Start Small You go to the mountain and rethink your business in a post-AI world.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 20, 2023

How Did We Get Here — OpenAI OpenAI started as a research lab in 2015. From there, the pace picked up rapidly. From there, the pace picked up even more, releasing ChatGPT, Whisper, and GPT4, the state-of-the-art seminal model. years, going public, and even ringing the bell at NASDAQ.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 24, 2024

Can you start and stop a PLG motion? What should you look for in an Enterprise rep vs. a Mid-Market rep? Solving High Volume, Low Conversion at Lattice Dini Mehta joined Lattice at $3M in revenue when it had just 10 people in seat for Go-To-Market and 7 salespeople. How do you diagnose and solve churn?

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SaaStr

MAY 25, 2023

Probably just say Yes pic.twitter.com/K483lKnyzd — Jason ✨Be Kind✨ Lemkin  (@jasonlk) April 21, 2021 So I wrote a version of this post years ago, about when to think about selling your startup, if you do get an attractive offer. No one is going to want to buy your pre-revenue SaaS start-up, unless you have a truly epic, proven team.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 6, 2022

And with the majority of startups failing due to no PMF (Product-market fit) or cash flow, it’s crucial to get your GTM (go-to-market) strategy right early on. . Where is the best place to start? How do you sell as a founder? How do you set up your sales team for success? When is it time to hire talent?

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SalesLoft

JANUARY 16, 2024

After weekends, holidays, and vacations, that’s how many selling hours there are left in a year. But the reality for most go-to-market teams is that only about a third of that is spent engaging customers and prospects. Selling is where you live. You guessed it: administrative work. But it doesn’t have to be that way.

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SaaStr

JUNE 22, 2023

Dear SaaStr: What do startup founders typically get wrong when starting a business? 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. Yes, we all start with a hack. Not having a true, viable go to market plan.

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Hubspot

APRIL 1, 2024

It means sales and go-to-market motions are going to have to evolve. Marketing is going to have to evolve, too, but that's a whole other topic.) And don’t consider everyone who does sign up a hot lead!) This has probably come as a bit of a shock to any sellers who started their careers in the late 2010s.

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ClickFunnels

AUGUST 8, 2021

Instead, they focus on just one element of it, e.g. landing pages, pop-ups, etc. Our co-founders, Russel Brunson and Todd Dickerson, each had over a decade of experience selling online via sales funnels. The reason we are bringing this up is that all that extensive funnel building experience went into our software.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 15, 2023

Anna Baird started her career in Accounting helping with IPOs of companies like Google. She then moved to become an SVP at McAfee and when they sold to Intel she decided to work at start-ups so that she could help build the foundations at scale from the beginning. She became a CFO and then a COO and finally a CRO.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 31, 2023

Let us know: marketing [at] saleshacker [dot] com. Generative AI is all the craze, mostly because of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and their freemium go-to-market motion, which made them go viral for being the fastest ever application to reach 100 million users. Don’t see your favorite tool?

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Martech

OCTOBER 18, 2022

If more users were going to be collecting and showing off blockchain-based NFTs, then this was a space in which brands should also be involved. Wykes-Sneyd started a metaverse task force allowing anyone within the organization to opt in and contribute ideas. “I How is that identification going to show up?

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Salesforce

MAY 25, 2023

The product’s benefits, capabilities, and performance do much of the selling and persuading. Customers don’t rely on marketing campaigns and salespeople to tell them what the product will do for them – they experience it for themselves. Ready, set, go-to-market! What is product-led growth?

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SaaStr

APRIL 25, 2023

While many of the companies on SaaStr are based in North America and then expand to Europe and APAC, we’re seeing more and more expansion going the other way. Celonis started 12 years ago in Germany and recently began its move into the U.S. He also started a public sector business, which did not previously exist.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The landscape for Go-to-Market (GTM) will be changing over the next 12 months in terms of roles within GTM, in combination with how buyers make purchases and the decision-makers involved. The reality is that the way we sell now should be focused on the buyer. Let’s start at the beginning — with the customer.

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GTM CRM Pipeline Referrals 100

Salesforce

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Often, CROs have risen up through a classically successful sales career, only to face an entirely new challenge: take over every revenue-generating function in the business to drive predictable growth. Level up your leadership What is a chief revenue officer? Trait 2: Data-obsessed CROs own the go-to-market strategy.

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Gaming Cross-sell Price Customer Relationship Management 59

Sales Hacker

MARCH 1, 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. Consider the overnight success of a celebrity-owned product.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

They typically have large amounts of their personal wealth in the company, they have investors who have trusted them, sometimes even have personal assets tied up in the mix, they aren’t paying themselves market rate and they are making sacrifices in their personal lives. Founders are all in. So, Wiza was built.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Start your sales planning efforts with account segmentation to fill your territories with fruitful opportunities and increase your sellers’ ability to hit quotas. Many organizations start with simple rules and definitions – geography-based territories (east, central, west) or account-based territories. Account profiles.

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SaaStr

JULY 20, 2022

As start-ups begin to accumulate success and ?generate generate momentum, they will inevitably need to scale up. You’ve identified a persona to sell to and a problem you solve for buyers. Or, perhaps, you’ve secured a new round of funding and want to live up to the hype. You can see Dave’s slides here.

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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Your business is getting by just fine – but still, the questions remain: Could you be selling more? Is there an opportunity to increase market penetration? Creating a plan to sell existing products/services to new demographics, through such initiatives as adding locations or expanding delivery radius.

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