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Is Your SaaS Go-to-Market Strategy Tsunami-Proof?

ConversionXL

A go-to-market (GtM) strategy is an action plan that specifies how a company will reach target customers and achieve a competitive advantage. Before we dive into which SaaS GtM strategies might work best for your business, you need to take four elements into account: Battle environment (i.e. The sales-led GtM strategy.

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How B2B GTM Teams Win and Expand Key Tier 1 Accounts with ABM

Sales Hacker

Because our client was not having the right customer discussions, Sephora would treat our client as technicians and pay for man hours vs. strategic value that has higher profit margins and revenue growth. Create margin growth. There was no conversation involving our client in the go-to-market planning of new products or lines.

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Building Resilience Through Efficient Scaling In 2023 with ICONIQ Growth General Partner, Doug Pepper, and General Partner and Head of Analytics, Christine Edmonds (Video)

SaaStr

Out of those companies, over 50% were significantly below the Rule of 40 (a company’s combined profit margin and growth rate should exceed 40%) and/or had less than two years of runway. Is Your GTM Strategy Poking Holes In The Ship GTM strategy has been one of the biggest areas of inefficiency over the last two years.

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SaaS Rule of 40 Drivers Using KeyBanc’s 2021 SaaS Survey

SaaStr

In simple terms, the “Rule of 40” states a healthy SaaS company’s a) revenue growth rate plus b) profit margin should exceed 40%. . In equation form, Revenue Growth % + Profit Margin % > 40%. The “Rule of 40” treats 1% of revenue growth as exactly equivalent to 1% of profit margin.

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SaaS Is Growing Up: 4 Business Model Changes To Adopt with Notion Capital

SaaStr

This is where traditional SaaS methods like subscription pricing only, driving growth through headcount only, or a pure sales GTM strategy only live. If you can optimize Cloud costs, and many have already optimized for professional services, you can get a 10% increase in your gross profit margin. You don’t want to be there.

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What Is Enterprise OEM Software Licensing?

Lead Fuze

This will allow them access to leverage and customer base as well as providing major discounts off list price in exchange for giving up higher profit margins that could be obtained by going direct with customers. The benefits of a larger customer base outweigh the negatives from lower profit margins. Dedicated sales team.

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What Is Enterprise OEM Software Licensing?

Sales Hacker

Depending on the software, implementation, and go-to-market (GTM) strategy, considerable costs and internal resources could be needed for a successful deployment. The OEM is gaining scale, more customers – and giving up higher profit margins that could be obtained by going direct to customers. And if yes, to what extent?

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