SaaStr

AUGUST 27, 2024

At a recent Workshop Wednesday , Koby Conrad, Head of Growth at Oneleet and former Head of Growth at Rupa Health, shares the Top 6 growth channels that actually work. You can optimize these channels, as well as layer them, to drive meaningful growth. For Twitter/X , you have to convince the CEO to start posting.

Growth 114

Growth Cold Call X-functional Follow-up 114

ConversionXL

MARCH 29, 2017

Sean Ellis coined the term “growth hacking” way back in 2010. High-growth companies simply have something most companies don’t, right? High-growth companies simply have something most companies don’t, right? Some secret growth hack or silver bullet that skyrocketed them to household names.

Growth 123

Growth Process Objectives and Key Results A/B testing 123

Sales Pop!

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

8 Must-Have Ecommerce Tools for Rapid Retail Growth. Voice assistants (Amazon Echo, Alexa, Alice, Google Home), thanks to their upgradable functionality, are becoming personal shopping assistants: from finding a product in online stores to buying it with voice control. All they have to do is click on the item they like in the video.

Retail 130

Retail Growth X-functional Cross-sell 130

Martech

JUNE 27, 2025

It’s hurting growth for some companies. ” “Hit a ROAS of X.” Up to 40% of Fortune 500 companies don’t have a single growth- or customer-related role in their executive committee, per a 2023 McKinsey study. This results in teams focused on driving short-term wins instead of long-term business growth.

X-functional 85

X-functional Cross-sell Strategize Finance 85

Anthony Cole Training

OCTOBER 13, 2014

The easy way out – Take everyone’s number, increase it by the growth goal percentage of the company, and say to them, “Here is your goal for next year. Or, if you want to leverage our compensation model, you need to exceed this year’s goal by x.” Years ago, I heard Mark Victor Hansen say that motivation is an “inside/out” job.

X-functional 232

X-functional Drivers/motivators Sales Negotiate 232

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. PLG, for all its virtues, doesn’t mean that you can skip GTM functions. 2021’s Lesson from Calendly. Plan accordingly.

Growth 113

Growth Product GTM X-functional 113

Anthony Cole Training

JUNE 1, 2015

It’s very difficult to move from small to big and to do so quickly without having infrastructure around it go upward, which is why it’s so important to partner with organizations that will naturally accelerate your growth. verses having a discussion around “We can’t do that because of X, Y, Z, etc.’”.

X-functional 191

X-functional Technology Technology Growth 191

RingDNA

MAY 16, 2025

Instead of recommending the entry-level option, the rep suggests a plan with more users, added functionality, and onboarding support. That’s how you earn trust and drive growth simultaneously. These tools highlight when a customer asks about additional functionality, expresses a future need, or hints at scaling.

Cross-sell 62

Cross-sell Sell X-functional CRM 62

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 17, 2024

15:41) Scaling Twitter’s ad business and managing hyper-growth. (26:54) Conversations reveal the unshared details behind how they have grown companies, and the go-to-market strategies responsible for shaping that growth. Strategies for building relationships with PR outlets, reporters, and analysts. Feeling that AI FOMO?

GTM 100

GTM Engineering Electricity X-functional 100

The 5% Institute

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Coaching For Sales Performance – 5 x Important Reasons. Coaching For Sales Performance Reason #2 – Sales Growth. The second reason why you should be coaching for sales performance, is because it creates the opportunity for sales growth. An increase in sales growth. Coaching For Sales Performance Reason #1 – Alignment.

X-functional 145

X-functional Sales Clients Closing 145

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Growth hacking is how Slack went from 15,000 to half a million daily users in its first year. Growth hacking isn’t about deploying sleazy tricks. It’s about making calculated, data-driven moves for fast growth. It’s about making calculated, data-driven moves for fast growth. What is growth hacking?

Growth 113

Growth Referrals Minimum Viable Product Drivers/motivators 113

SaaStr

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Roughly, once you (x) have an established brand, and (y) have a marketing engine that is working, and (z) most importantly, once demand gen has finally become somewhat routine … you’ll need a CMO. Or maybe 12-24 months after you have the core marketing functions all built out, and working. You need a VP of Demand Gen!

X-functional 27

X-functional Growth Follow-up Strategize 27

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. 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

SaaStr

JUNE 23, 2025

✨ Lemkin (@jasonlk) June 23, 2025 The $10M-$100M ARR Sprint: How Replit Became the Fastest-Growing “Vibe Coding” App (Or One Of The Fastest) A deep-dive into the AI development platform wars and why Replit’s 10x growth in 5.5 The “Vibe Coding” Gold Rush is Real The numbers are staggering. 2023 : $2.4M

X-functional 85

X-functional Growth Price B2B 85

Search Engine Land

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

However, key details such as the official name, functionality, influence on auction dynamics, and effect on metrics are yet to be released. ” ‘Beyond crazy’ Melissa Mackey, paid search director at Compound Growth Marketing, also criticized the lack of information around the new ad format. ” Why we care.

X-functional 124

X-functional Engineering Launch Clients 124

Martech

MARCH 14, 2025

Your deep understanding of customer behavior, cross-functional perspective and ability to demonstrate tangible business impact make you a key player in this effort. X-axis: Difficulty of implementation. As a marketer, you are uniquely positioned to create compelling use cases for dismantling customer data silos. Processing.

Customers 103

Customers Cross-sell E-commerce X-functional 103

SaaStr

JULY 12, 2025

Many on X claim they could vibe cobe tons of their stack themselves now. ” This isn’t about replacing core business functions. 10x growth in less than half a year. That I could never vibe code myself for $240 ($20 x 12). In fact, I’ve already spent $200 the past 72 hours building my next app.on

X-functional 90

X-functional Niche Engineering B2B 90

Martech

MAY 5, 2025

When AI prioritizes cost-cutting over customer experience Theres a lot of discussion about which industries and job functions AI will disrupt and customer service is almost always near the top of that list. AI will replace X% of customer service jobs by [insert year]. Instead, the emphasis has been on reducing costs.

Service 107

Service Customers X-functional Contact 107

Hubspot

APRIL 23, 2025

I once worked with a client who completely changed the way I think about business growth. Why Companies Form Joint Ventures When growth feels risky, I get why companies look at joint ventures as the smarter bet. NASA and Boeing teaming up to develop a new type of sustainable airplane, the X-66. I asked him what changed.

X-functional 57

X-functional Manufacturing Non-Profits Government 57

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 7, 2024

CDPs can be technically complex pieces of software, with deep and lengthy sales cycles and cross functional implementations. The customer experience would also suffer, as pressure to meet growth targets will cause team members to generally prioritize pre-sales work. For example, “how do I implement X using this API?”

Go To Market 120

Go To Market X-functional Engineering Cross-sell 120

SaaStr

DECEMBER 19, 2022

What does successful company growth look like? Lots of SaaS founders are preoccupied with employee headcount as an important growth metric, but this indicator is not always true. So their output is also really high-functioning.”. These “stem cell” employees all work together to push the company toward its long-term goals.

X-functional 104

X-functional Drivers/motivators Growth Promote 104

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Aaron Ross discusses inbound and outbound sales and how to integrate Sales and Marketing Teams to re-ignite growth. What I was going to talk about today is the playbook for reigniting or even igniting growth. Really, I’ve worked with lots of companies and really been fascinated with how do you repeat growth? Good job guys.

Growth 110

Growth Niche Hospitality X-functional 110

SaaStr

OCTOBER 7, 2020

There are lots of reasons for this: All your hires can’t either be (x) folks you magically poach from other companies and (y) folks who magically are leaving another great gig at the perfect time to join you. So many of the very best VP candidates are folks who turn over in high growth start-ups. Not always.

X-functional 145

X-functional Teamwork Start-ups Growth 145

SaaStr

APRIL 2, 2023

Mistake: On the other hand… not betting on the team that got me there “Everything will be fine once we get a new head of [X]” -every startup CEO ever (also me, frequently) When you launch a company, the initial team is usually whoever you can get. For this one deal, we just need to do X. Every client uses you a little differently.

X-functional 131

X-functional Clients Growth Start-ups 131

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 15, 2020

So let me tell you what I’ve done and learned both myself and across 25+ high growth startups I’ve invested in or advised. no guaranteed bonus for X months until you scale). Basically, we paid our VP Sales X% of every single dollar after we hit the plan for the year out. That’s stressful. No draw (i.e.,

X-functional 142

X-functional Quota Teamwork Sales 142

SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2021

Maybe even in the not-so-early days But if you are 10x better at (x) One Important Thing that (y) customers value and will pay for, that’s enough. It’s only a subset of critical functionality that customers will pay to have implemented 10x better than an existing, trusted vendor. Yes, you can build that piece of functionality better.

X-functional 141

X-functional Trust CRM Product 141

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.

GTM 59

GTM Growth Customers X-functional 59

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.

Networking 117

Networking GTM X-functional Finance 117

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

X-functional 98

X-functional GTM B2B Technology 98

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?

B2B 116

B2B GTM Objectives and Key Results Sell 116

Sales Hacker

JUNE 17, 2025

At Procore, he led all customer-facing functions—Sales, Marketing, CS, RevOps, and BD. Build the team that builds the company.” – that is part of your go-to-market strategy responsible for growth. I want Dennis Lyandres: to know how this insane growth actually happened. TriNet exists to make that easier.

GTM 83

GTM Customers Construction X-functional 83

SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

Customers bought because they thought their organizations needed this functionality, and so they wrote the checks for Year 1, and even Year 2. Engagement Metrics are often low but (x) it’s already in the budget, and (y) what do you expect, we finally just deployed? OK, just renew at last year’s price.

Customers 135

Customers X-functional Price Launch 135

SaaStr

JULY 20, 2024

Aligning and Scaling the GTM Engine One of the core functions when hiring talent is engineering, product, and design. The types of people you want to hire at $1M to $20M will be consistent with the early days in the sense that, often, people want to hire generalists across functions. Hiring is another consideration.

GTM 119

GTM X-functional Engineering Referrals 119

The 5% Institute

JANUARY 12, 2023

5 x Amazing Sales Assets To Skyrocket Your Business Growth. Ensuring a collective understanding of who you are selling to enables all team members to craft messages and offers that drive revenue growth. A lot of software nowadays serve multiple functions, and may have a CRM already pre-set as a part of their package.

Growth 52

Growth X-functional Customer Relationship Management CRM 52

Martech

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

To many non-marketing executives, marketing is perceived as more of a “nice to have” than a “must have” function. Simplify what is communicated and focus on: The relationship between marketing, revenue growth and CLTV. How marketing’s activities contribute to topline and bottom-line growth.

X-functional 107

X-functional Objectives and Key Results Technology Technology 107

Martech

OCTOBER 20, 2022

He accounts the exponential growth to the massive adoption of martech that is happening across organizations of all sizes. The explosive growth happening within marketing operations can be attributed to the fact that, as a function, it is what “keeps the trains running” for marketing technology teams, according to Brinker.

X-functional 103

X-functional Objectives and Key Results Technology Technology 103

Martech

AUGUST 28, 2023

Martech is cross-functional by definition. For martech to be successful, you need cross-functional alignment and support for the solution. From the moment you identify a capability gap in your platforms, reach out to your cross-functional partners. Do you have a forum to get support from X. IT/engineering.

X-functional 98

X-functional Angle Government Education 98