SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Becoming less reliant on human touch takes time and planning, so take a good look in the mirror, determine how much and how fast you can do it, and then form a cross-functional plan that meets your current business goals while also working towards future ones. When can we expect X% of trial sign-ups to convert with 1-2 human touches or less?

Go To Market 97

Go To Market Growth GTM X-functional 97

ClickFunnels

AUGUST 8, 2021

Collect email addresses (either via native email marketing functionality or via a third-party integration). There are a ton of lead generation apps out there that do not offer the full functionality required to build a lead generation funnel. Native email marketing functionality with Platinum and TwoCommaClubX plans.

Lead generation 246

Lead generation A/B testing X-functional Price 246

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Guy Yalif is a seasoned B2B SaaS executive with over 20 years of go-to-market experience. 49:07) The effectiveness of small group events in go-to-market strategies. (31:55) Feeling that AI FOMO? Youre not alone.

GTM 102

GTM Engineering Electricity X-functional 102

Martech

AUGUST 9, 2023

Hillary Carpio Hillary is head of ABM at Snowflake and spearheaded its ABM function through its record-breaking IPO. Prior to Snowflake, Hillary worked at NetApp and Fortinet, and provided go-to-market advice via VC’s and startup advisory boards. LinkedIn: Pam Didner (12K followers) X (Twitter): @PamDidner (14.2K

X-functional 98

X-functional GTM B2B Technology 98

Sales Hacker

MARCH 22, 2018

Reasons to outsource include: Lack of expertise and experience in some sales functions (e.g. Assigning sales functions to other departments (we’ve seen R&D doing sourcing). Sales outsourcing agencies tend to outperform your own team with: Proven experience in exactly the sales functions they offer. Some functions (e.g.

B2B 100

B2B X-functional Cold Call SQL 100

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

This combined approach helps users experience the full functionality initially and, if they don’t upgrade, the transition to the free plan with limited features can highlight the value of the paid service, encouraging them to upgrade. Include a full-feature free trial. they will get in trouble if they try to buy and expense it back ).

GTM 122

GTM X-functional Inside sales User Experience 122

SaaStr

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Finding product market fit Moving from SMB to Enterprise or vice versa Achieving Enterprise repeatability Strategic expansion Borland has experienced all four stages at three different companies and knows what teams and functions look like for each stage of growth. Why is teaming the new selling? The journey covers three stages.

B2B 118

B2B GTM Objectives and Key Results Sell 118

SaaStr

JUNE 20, 2024

AI is the X-factor for your business, and it can lead to exponential growth. Today, they focus on two areas: Helping organizations accelerate how they go to market with AI by providing the best-of-breed technology and innovation. How do you go to market and drive new clients with AI? AI is the X-factor.

X-functional 72

X-functional Government Technology Technology 72

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

There’s no harm, of course, in celebrating big numbers — but not at the cost of neglecting a go-to-market (GTM) strategy. PLG, for all its virtues, doesn’t mean that you can skip GTM functions. Virality, as much as it remains the X factor, won’t be enough in the long-term. 2018’s Lesson from Salesforce.

Growth 115

Growth Product GTM X-functional 115

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. Conversations reveal the unshared details behind how they have grown companies, and the go-to-market strategies responsible for shaping that growth.

GTM 70

GTM X-functional Start-ups Relationship building 70

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 77

GTM X-functional Start-ups Campaign 77

ConversionXL

JUNE 30, 2019

Companies do it for a wide variety of reasons—SEO, branding, go-to-market strategy, pricing, etc.—and Competitor X is doing Y. We should do that, too,” or “X is the market leader, and they have Y, so we need Y.” Run a functional investigation. Run a functional investigation. is probably random.

UX 126

UX X-functional A/B testing User Experience 126

Hubspot

AUGUST 8, 2019

That’s why successful companies obsessively measure everything about their go-to-market model, sales strategy, and salespeople. Ramp-up = amount of time spent in training + average sales cycle length + X. X is based on the salesperson’s experience: The more they have, the smaller this number is. X months or years).

X-functional 101

X-functional Quota Cross-sell Contract 101

SaaStr

DECEMBER 8, 2023

LLMs Change How Companies Go to Market Massive changes are happening on the tech side of an organization. You need a strong point of view on how your product will save x company money or solve their pains. The necessity of balancing security and functionality. What about the GTM side?

GTM 125

GTM SQL X-functional Engineering 125

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

How has been the sales evolution of the go to market motion for LinkSquares? He has his own dedicated implementation and vetting function sales ops. Vishal Sunak : just constant backfill of functional areas with more experts. Then yeah, you could probably go for another year and a half if we had to.

Contract 120

Contract X-functional Objectives and Key Results Legal 120

Heinz Marketing

MAY 16, 2022

You may say, “I’m not a right fit for you because of X, Y, and Z,” but you still made an impression and made it clear who you are best for and that person knows other people that work for or lead companies or lead functions that could need you. . I’m a big believer in cross-functional alignment.

Pipeline 97

Pipeline Referrals X-functional Cross-sell 97

Hubspot

OCTOBER 4, 2017

That is -- if the technology functions as it was designed, as USA TODAY'S Eli Blumenthal put it: Pixel Buds promise real-time translation, which if it works in real life as well as it does in this demo would be incredible. — But watch this live demo from yesterday's event, and you'll see what I mean: Come on. How cool is that? 4) Pixelbook.

Product 78

Product X-functional Price Technology 78

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 13, 2021

The licensee embeds the third-party software into its application to improve it by adding new functionality or features, or enhancing existing functionality or features. Depending on the software, implementation, and go-to-market (GTM) strategy, considerable costs and internal resources could be needed for a successful deployment.

GTM 89

GTM Negotiate Profit margin Contract 89

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

When clients ask, “Do you do X?,” How you communicate as a function of that design is a critical problem that you should aim to solve. What go-to-market activity have we already tried? What go-to-market activity could we try? it’s a good sign they trust you enough to take care of fixing that problem, too.

UX 120

UX Clients Niche Service 120

ConversionXL

JUNE 25, 2021

X demos booked in introduction, X revenue in growth). This plan is your go-to-market (GtM) strategy , which should be informed by: Market conditions and competitive positioning Ideal customers and target audience Product offer and pricing Lead generation and customer acquisition process.

Launch 96

Launch Product Non-Profits GTM 96

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 5, 2019

If you missed episode 68, check it out here: PODCAST 68: How to Go to Market with an Enterprise Solution w/ Ed Calnan. Sam Jacobs: You said that sales and account management are the best functions from which to start a career. What You’ll Learn. What Managed by Q does. Building a Customer Success Strategy. Megan Bowen: Hi, Sam.

Customers 66

Customers Account management X-functional Hospitality 66

Heinz Marketing

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Let’s talk about the progression of this, cause I think a lot of times like a company will start not with a product, but observing a problem in an audience that is big enough that they think there’s a market. What if it had X? The product led growth, sorry, PLG product led growth functions businesses’ strategies.

Pipeline 122

Pipeline Sales Growth X-functional 122

SaaStr

DECEMBER 17, 2019

That allows us to have a very different go to market strategy. A lot of my time is focused on internal infrastructure building, making sure that the company is functioning as it needs to function. And so now he leads all of our product and engineering side and I lead the go-to-market side. Zach : Apparently.

Finance 85

Finance X-functional Non-Profits Launch 85

Sales Hacker

APRIL 14, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Jessica Wilkeyson , Co-Founder and Principal at Alternate Route , a go-to market strategy and revenue operations consultancy based in New York. She’s the founder of Alternate Route, a go-to market strategy and revenue operations consultancy based here in New York.

Contract 85

Contract CRM Consult Cross-sell 85

Heinz Marketing

JANUARY 25, 2021

As marketers, we focus so much on direct demand gen, direct sales– we focus on this direct line of sight that marketers control and yet there is so much leverage and opportunity for so many people in their partner ecosystems. I ask Jason why is this function so interesting? What about partner marketing is so exciting?

Pipeline 90

Pipeline Sales X-functional B2B 90

SaaStr

JULY 17, 2020

But that’s more the exception than the rull of the go to market for many companies. Whatever your bar is, your bar is high but tripling, quadrupling going 2.5X X and it’s not [inaudible 00:20:29]. Do you just connect the dots and say, “I’m going long. So massive step function.

E-commerce 96

E-commerce Retail Real Estate Growth 96

SBI

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

We built our technology to maintain profiles on all meaningful companies and decision makers worldwide, from basic data like revenues, employee counts and email addresses, to real-time insights on companies and people, while analyzing relationships that help our customers go to market.

Up-sell 51

Up-sell Closing Sell X-functional 51

SaaStr

JULY 15, 2022

And the way you get it is whether it’s outbound, generally inbound events or whatever, solve a 10 X pain point, solve a unique pain point that a large enterprise has that other vendors don’t provide. Ash Bhoopathy (@ashbhoopathy): Probably more around go-to-market and sales. But potentially even technology.

Growth 119

Growth Cross-sell Start-ups X-functional 119

Sales Hacker

JUNE 9, 2020

Did you consider like, “Hey, I want to be the FP&A analyst,” or something like that, some operational person at a startup, versus trying to go in there and carry a bag and actually close business? I just decided that it’s the sales function that grows companies and drives the economy, quite frankly.

Finance 105

Finance X-functional Pipeline Territory 105

Highspot

MAY 20, 2022

Sales motions are defined by your larger go-to-market strategy. Closing: Guides sellers on how to close deals, including working with intra-company functions like legal and deal desk. Your enablement function is also responsible for socializing your playbook with your sales team and achieving rep buy-in.

Territory 52

Territory X-functional Sales Cross-sell 52

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

Law number three, this is huge, particularly in COVID, so we’re going to talk about this a little bit differently. Everyone is trying to figure out the go-to-market learning curve. Transcript of Episode 374: Henry Schuck: Every company big and small is realizing that high quality data is a necessity to go to market.

Non-Profits 94

Non-Profits Strategize Trust Growth 94

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 30, 2018

In this blueprint, we provide insights into the best prospecting methods for different go-to-market (GTM) strategies. CR(t) —The conversion rate as a function of time to get to a single SQL. We call this a 3 x 3 account — a term coming from organizational selling. Prospecting is about having a conversation with a client.

Prospecting 62

Prospecting SQL GTM X-functional 62

SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2019

Sameer Dhokalia: The go-to-market model was magical. It’s the culture was a big part of it, the fact that you had this great go-to-market. There was something special about the market where some of the education had been done before. There was an adjacent market. I think you touched on some of those.

Growth 63

Growth X-functional Start-ups Conversion 63

Heinz Marketing

MARCH 11, 2019

There is a ton of overlap in kind of some of the use cases that many of those tools support, and I’m just seeing folks being much more diligent about I’m trying to do X and have actually three pieces of technology internally that can partially help me with that, whatever X is.

Pipeline 67

Pipeline Sales B2B X-functional 67

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 7, 2025

Well, what I wanted to dive into, because it’s a personal passion of mine, I’ve been in kind of a partnerships function for a while, at least while I was an operator at Outreach. You know, okay, are we aligned that this new line of product is going to be able to bring this amount of revenue? Fred Viet: That’s good.

GTM 118

GTM Sell Customers Cold Call 118

Heinz Marketing

APRIL 11, 2022

Tune in to hear more about navigating marketing experiences in a crypto world, while learning about: The differences and implications between B2B Marketing in Web2 vs. Web3. How blockchain technology affects digital advertising and go-to-market standpoints. The other is really from a go-to-market standpoint.

Pipeline 111

Pipeline B2B Go To Market Sales 111

SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

The three stages are product-market fit, then go-to-market fit and lastly growth and moat. Awesome revenue growth on the X axis, awesome revenue retention on the Y. And then once you set it up, align the whole go to market around it. This is go to market fit. You have go to market fit.

Growth 106

Growth Cross-sell Contract X-functional 106