SaaStr

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Product-led growth has built a name for itself through its deep toolbox of effective tactics, from free trials to low prices to an inherent vitality — all of which can build a strong foundation for a versatile company. There’s no harm, of course, in celebrating big numbers — but not at the cost of neglecting a go-to-market (GTM) strategy.

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Heinz Marketing

JUNE 27, 2024

By Tom Swanson , Engagement Manager at Heinz Marketing CLG (customer-led growth for the unaware) is another entry in the X-Led Growth trend. I will share some of our own experiences and best practices to help establish aligned incentives, and orchestrate your teams effectively to foster customer-led growth.

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SaaStr

JULY 5, 2024

What are the biggest GTM mistakes founders make? GTM Mistake #1: A VP of Sales That Can’t Sell or Demo the Product Mistake number one has always been an issue, and it’s the number one reason startups struggle in today’s world. GTM Mistake #3: Stepping Out Of Sales Founders often want to step out of sales after hiring a GTM team.

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SaaStr

JULY 20, 2024

It’s essential to take a step back, slow down in terms of consecutive hiring, and ensure you’re working with third-party providers to find the right talent, especially on the GTM and technical side. Aligning and Scaling the GTM Engine One of the core functions when hiring talent is engineering, product, and design.

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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. But you have to take a step back because you might underestimate what it means to implement product-led growth. Keep optimizing your current GTM. A dedicated growth team is suited to this change.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2024

They’ll explore strategies for using customer success not just as a support function but as a powerful engine for revenue growth. In this session, Notion’s CRO, Erica Anderson, and GitHub’s VP of Customer Success, Abbas Haider Ali, discuss how customer success teams can take a proactive approach to drive sales.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 3, 2023

PST, Bo Borland, founder, and CEO of playbuilt, shares four steps for creating repeatable success at every stage of growth, specifically in B2B Enterprise. Let’s look at Borland’s approach to aligning and executing B2B team selling motions for a rinse-and-repeat process for growth. Why is teaming the new selling?

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Go-to-market (GTM) design and efficiency are sometimes overlooked, but they’re a critical driver of any SaaS business. Magic Number is your growth in ARR over a quarter divided by the sales and marketing spend in the prior quarter. x in this case, you would already be at break even. 4x magic number.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Thanks for reading The GTM Newsletter! 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. See more top GTM jobs here. That’s all this week.

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SaaStr

JULY 12, 2024

Grafana Labs co-founder and CEO Raj Dutt and Partner at Lightspeed Alex Kayyal answer the most popular questions about Grafana Labs’ rocketship growth journey at this year’s SaaStr Europa. Open source is all about value creation, and GTM teams are all about value capture. Scaling to $150M ARR and beyond is no simple task.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 10, 2018

This will then help you diversify your revenue, make your business more resilient to economic setbacks and help you plan for growth. Where you can apply this GTM strategy. How to map your GTM strategy to different customer segments. Using CAC to model your GTM strategy. GTM models as a function of Annual Contract Value.

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Martech

AUGUST 9, 2023

Account-based marketing (ABM) is a powerful strategy helping B2B marketers target and engage with high-value accounts, deliver personalized experiences and drive revenue growth. Hillary Carpio Hillary is head of ABM at Snowflake and spearheaded its ABM function through its record-breaking IPO. followers) X (Twitter): @julietrandall (2.5K

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2024

How do you build GTM efficiency in SMB sales? The CRO at Owner, Kyle Norton, shares his learnings and strategies for building better efficiency into your GTM motion at Workshop Wednesday, held every Wednesday at 10 a.m. How to build operational excellence into your organization at different stages of the growth curve.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Their co-founder, Dylan Smith, handles many functions of the business, like finance. The other part of the business Aaron needs help with is the GTM operation — customer success, marketing, all of the international global operations, sales, and consulting. His work frees Aaron to focus on what he loves: product and engineering.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 25, 2021

We’ll also share when to transition to the growth stage in the product lifecycle so you can drive conversions and revenue off your momentum. Growth: A sharp increase in users and sales. A product launch lives primarily in the introduction phase (merging into growth once it generates enough demand).

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SaaStr

JUNE 20, 2024

AI is the X-factor for your business, and it can lead to exponential growth. The Future of Work Is With An AI Assistant Organizations are leveraging AI, this X-factor, by moving toward the AI assistant, the copilot, and the virtual agent. AI is the X-factor. How do you create client-ready use cases?

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ConversionXL

MARCH 24, 2016

Here’s one way to rake the data, according to Andrew Chen: Andrew Chen : “Once you have a way to evaluate the success of a user, then you want to grab a cohort of users (let’s say everyone who’s joined in the last X days) and start creating rows of data for that user. Remember that this rule isn’t a causation. Focus groups.

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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.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 7, 2025

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Fred Viet serves as the Chief Sales Officer at Aircall, overseeing global sales and playing a key role in scaling the company’s reach over the last four years. As always, you’ve got your host, Scott Barker. Fred Viet: That’s good.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

For more than two decades, she has been instrumental in promoting sales development and inside sales as a community and engine for revenue growth. In this podcast, she describes the incredible experience of guiding a company’s growth from a very early stage startup to IPO. End of quarter is a testing time for any sales team.

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SaaStr

MAY 10, 2019

How should North Star’s be segregated between GTM teams and biz ops teams? You said you believe in eliminating the handoffs between GTM teams and the redundancy of MQLs and SQLs. That’s an internal function, but to the customer it shouldn’t be obvious that that’s their obligation, right?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

How does Krish think your customer acquisition and GTM strategy has to change with the movement from SMB to enterprise? How does your customer success and customer support functions change with the move to enterprise? inaudible] in all three, in every stage of growth. What are the biggest challenges in making this transition?

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 22, 2025

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Harmony Anderson is an entrepreneurial marketing leader with deep expertise in building global GTM strategies at growth startups. 20:04 Unlocking 60% growth through user-generated content and affiliate advocacy.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2025

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Rob Giglio is the Chief Customer Officer at Canva, where he oversees Canvas sales and go-to-market functions. Scott Barker: Hello and welcome back to the GTM podcast. So you better be thoughtful. It’s all about the guest always.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 11, 2025

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Cassie Young is a General Partner at Primary Venture Partners, a $1B AUM early-stage venture capital firm in New York that has backed category-defining companies such as Chief, Alma, K Health, Latch, Alloy, Dandy and Vestwell.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2025

Rob Giglio is the Chief Customer Officer at Canva, where he oversees Canvas sales and go-to-market functions. Conversations reveal the unshared details behind how they have grown companies, and the go-to-market strategies responsible for shaping that growth. Visit gtmnow.com for more episodes and other interesting content.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Joe DiMento is the Head of Go-To-Market & Industry Partnerships at Bain Capital Ventures. If you’re hiring for sales or marketing roles, reach out to Pursuit at pursuitsalessolutions.com/gtm or message a GTMfund team member.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 1, 2025

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Hayden Stafford is the President and Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) at Seismic, where he oversees the global go-to-market (GTM) organization, including pre-sales, sales, customer success, services, partners, and more.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 29, 2025

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Oji Udezue was most recently Chief Product Officer at Typeform, where he led product strategy across the companys growing suite of tools. The future of GTM is here. The AI SDR Summit, put on by Qualified, just took place.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 28, 2025

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Kraig Swensrud is the Founder & CEO of Qualified where he provides crucial experience and entrepreneurial energy to create the future of enterprise sales tech. GTM 131 Episode Transcript Scott Barker: Hello, and welcome back to the GTM podcast.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 15, 2025

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Udi Ledergor served as CMO during Gongs rise from new SaaS startup to industry dominance. If you missed GTM 141, check it out here: Timeless Growth Tips From a $7.4B 00:01:00] Sophie Bounassisi: Hello and welcome to the GTM podcast.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Casey Woo is the Founder and CEO of Operators Guild, an invite-only community for professionals in strategic finance and operations roles. 18:13 The role of cross-functional communication. 18:13 The role of cross-functional communication.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Katrina Wong is the CMO of New Relic and a top marketing leader. If you’re hiring for sales or marketing roles, reach out to Pursuit at pursuitsalessolutions.com/gtm or message a GTMfund team member. It’s one of my faves.

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