SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

Prior to Kustomer, Vikas spent over 20 years implementing, consulting, marketing, and selling CRM and ContactCenter solutions with companies like LivePerson and Oracle. What about the changing tech stacks and infrastructures makes them vulnerable to up and comers? Does this not lead to a consolidatory environment?

Finance 55

Finance X-functional CRM Engineering 55

SaaStr

JULY 15, 2020

” So all the people who were whining, jumping up and down about the evils of short-termism and public markets, which I never really believed in any way, maybe you’re just factually wrong. Does it not all bubble up to even the best cloud stocks? Keith Rabois: It’s unclear which stocks a ball is up to.

X-functional 63

X-functional E-commerce Growth Retail 63

Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

And for leveling up your sales skills, nothing beats a good sales book. There are only about 10–15 books in each discipline, so you can easily read up on the books you’re likely to need or want. The New Solution Selling. The Little Red Book of Selling. Unbreakable Laws of Selling. The New Strategic Selling.

Sales 141

Sales Objectives and Key Results Technique Non-Profits 141

SaaStr

OCTOBER 29, 2019

We’re going to talk about matching price to value, and I’m going to share some lessons from my time as both an operator and an investor. I was on the product team and saw this opportunity for us to work more cross functionally across the company and focus heavily on retention and monetization. Hi, everybody.

Price 40

Price X-functional Cross-sell Growth 40

Sales Hacker

MARCH 12, 2019

If you’ve spent any amount of time researching sales strategies online, then you no doubt have heard this: | “Sell your benefits, not your features.”. Or maybe this: | “A great product demo sells your story, not your features.”. 1) It makes your product and your pitch easier to remember. Those are both good pieces of advice.

Product 78

Product Sell Pitch X-functional 78

PandaDoc

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

That process of negotiating with a prospect is one PandaDoc can help you streamline and speed up. Pre-built, customizable templates and real-time reporting and notifications on proposal activity free up your sales team to hone their craft. Do you need this functionality or that?

Closing 52

Closing Contract Technique Objectives and Key Results 52

SalesHandy

JUNE 29, 2021

Selling products or services to businesses and professionals can be tough. Which is unlike selling to consumers, who have common needs and wants. The right B2B sales strategy optimizes your sales process around a few key principles, all of which allow you to make the most out of B2B selling efforts. B2B Sales Principles.

B2B 98

B2B Cross-sell X-functional Follow-up 98

Hubspot

JUNE 13, 2018

It’s one of the most well-known -- not to mention oldest -- selling systems. To help you implement the most useful tips, aspects, and templates from SPIN Selling, we’ve put together the following guide: Introduction to SPIN Selling. SPIN Selling Book Summary. SPIN Selling Questions. Modern SPIN Selling.

Sell 101

Sell X-functional Objectives and Key Results Up-sell 101

SaaStr

MAY 14, 2023

As we gear up for SaaStr Europa 2023 in London on 6-7 June and SaaStr Annual 2023 in the SF Bay Area on 6-7 September , we wanted to take a look back at some of our most iconic speakers and sessions from over the year, that we can still learn from today. OK, so straight up. Next up, we’ve got Nicolas Dessaigne.

Price 96

Price Start-ups Up-sell X-functional 96

SalesHandy

MAY 15, 2020

All of this will naturally lead to making it easier for you to scale your sales function and increase revenues for your organization. Depending on what you’re selling, this list could be longer. For example, if the lead is from the ‘X’ industry, they get 30 (out of 100) added to their score. How to Qualify Leads effectively.

X-functional 98

X-functional Pipeline Sales CRM 98

PandaDoc

MARCH 7, 2023

Salespeople quickly adapt to consumer needs and switch up tactics whenever necessary. Sales workflows provide flexible and adaptable roadmaps that can be continually improved to keep up with evolving consumer needs and preferences. This visual aid gives every member of your sales team a big-picture view of the entire selling process.

Process 52

Process Objectives and Key Results Pitch Legal 52

SalesHandy

MAY 15, 2020

All of this will naturally lead to making it easier for you to scale your sales function and increase revenues for your organization. Depending on what you’re selling, this list could be longer. For example, if the lead is from the ‘X’ industry, they get 30 (out of 100) added to their score. How to Qualify Leads effectively.

X-functional 52

X-functional Pipeline Sales Lead generation 52

SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2019

So a huge thank you for putting up with these dulcet British tones once again. So we ran a free trial survey because we found that in most of our startups, many of them at all different price points, even starting around 1K is obvious, but going up to 150K ACV, they were running free trials as part of their marketing campaign.

Contract 47

Contract Price Commission Conversion 47

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

And not only is Aileen one of the investors that many of us all look up to-. Now you open up TechCrunch or StrictlyVC or anything, you’ll see a dozen firms a week literally sometimes. I used it in kind of my breakfast pre warm-up, the crazy times we’re in. Jason Lemkin | Founder @ SaaStr. Aileen Lee: Oh, God.

Pitch 67

Pitch Start-ups Up-sell Technology 67

ConversionXL

MARCH 21, 2017

But even if that had never gone public, it was still a cool way to hook a fan up–and all they would have been out was a couple bucks.”. I heard he had a new movie out—a biopic of Malcolm X—so I sent him a sweatshirt with a meticulously painted portrait of Malcolm X on it. Find their public email and make your pitch.

B2C 78

B2C Trust X-functional Pitch 78

Hubspot

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Checking out what other people have come up with can be a great way to kick your own thought process into gear. If you can offer an existing product at a lower price point, better quality, or ideally, both, you'll have plenty of customers. It's functional enough to satisfy early customers and get a sense of what you should improve.

Minimum Viable Product 101

Minimum Viable Product Legal X-functional Networking 101

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Is PR just pitching and getting articles? David Skok: So I graduated with a computer science degree in the early days of that craft and few months after leaving college, I found a problem and I wrote some code to solve it and accidentally without even thinking what I was doing, I ended up creating a startup. Take a listen for more.

Non-Profits 79

Non-Profits Up-sell Start-ups Product 79

SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

So the title of my presentation is The Playbook To Hiring Your First VP Of Sales And Not Screwing It Up. The best recruiters that ended up with getting the best VPs of Sales do it over six months, a year, sometimes more than that. Brendon Cassidy | Founder @ Cassidy Ventures. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW. Hey everybody, how you doing?

Sales 63

Sales Promote X-functional Up-sell 63

Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

It also draws longer streams and higher engagement rates — viewers spend up to 8.1x Before you set up, record, or edit anything, start with a conversation about the purpose of your video. Sell more event tickets? Then, be sure your resolution is at least 1920 x 1080 to maintain quality footage. Live Videos. On Facebook?

Angle 101

Angle Objectives and Key Results X-functional CTR 101

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 30, 2018

If you’re selling car tires, anyone with a car is a fit. Following a short conversation, you may learn that they go up the mountain a couple of times a year and that they hate putting on chains. CR(t) —The conversion rate as a function of time to get to a single SQL. Sign-up] for a webinar and social events.

Prospecting 47

Prospecting SQL GTM X-functional 47

SaaStr

JANUARY 3, 2020

So a huge thank you for putting up with these dulcet British tones once again. So we ran a free trial survey because we found that in most of our startups, many of them at all different price points, even starting around 1K is obvious, but going up to 150K ACV, they were running free trials as part of their marketing campaign.

Contract 10

Contract Price Commission Conversion 10

SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Jos White of Notion and Christian Lanng of Tradeshift team up to show you how to work within, and sometimes around, rules in the workplace. Exited to Semantic in 2008 and had a good exit for the early SaaS businesses then set up Notion and we focus on SaaS companies, mainly in Series A in the European market. Work smarter, not harder.

Growth 41

Growth Launch B2B Networking 41

ConversionXL

JULY 6, 2021

But a higher CPC can be prohibitive for smaller businesses and lower-priced products and services. Still, a LinkedIn ad strategy can pay back dividends if your products or services produce a high monthly recurring revenue or you sell high-ticket items. High-priced products are table stakes in the medical device industry.

CTR 129

CTR X-functional Campaign Price 129

SaaStr

MARCH 5, 2019

The entire company was told about us selling our chat products Stride and Hipchat to our largest competitor in the space, Slack, four days before the news went out. We’ve got maybe 60 venture pitches coming back and others. And we tried to make up a metric. And two thoughts I came up with. But it can be risky.

Objectives and Key Results 62

Objectives and Key Results Cross-sell Trust Product 62

SaaStr

MARCH 5, 2019

The entire company was told about us selling our chat products Stride and Hipchat to our largest competitor in the space, Slack, four days before the news went out. We’ve got maybe 60 venture pitches coming back and others. And we tried to make up a metric. And two thoughts I came up with. But it can be risky.

Objectives and Key Results 57

Objectives and Key Results Cross-sell Trust Product 57

Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Selling to people who can’t or won’t buy is a huge drain on your sales productivity, budget, and team. It's up to salespeople to ask effective sales questions and uncover business pain as quickly as possible. Business pain points affect a company's bottom line and must be solved in order for them to grow and function successfully.

X-functional 101

X-functional Cross-sell Angle Prospecting 101

SalesHandy

MAY 28, 2021

Or getting a call from a company that wants to partner up and work on a collaboration that could benefit you both. Cheaper calling and data costs have made it easier for everyone to pick up the phone, which has lowered the barriers for scrappy sales teams. Key Benefits Of Cold Calling For Sales. Supplements Your Sales Pipeline.

Cold Call 98

Cold Call Closing Contact Follow-up 98

SaaStr

OCTOBER 30, 2020

We made it just 10 questions, and on the results page, we’d show you how the price varies by the features you listed in the 10 questions, and how the price varies kind of by the geography of the tech talent. Harry Stebbings: Totally get you in terms of kind of resourcing up. Harry Stebbings: No, totally.

A/B testing 81

A/B testing X-functional Launch Start-ups 81

ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2020

We have feature X that they don’t.”. You can toot your horn for a few months, but they’ll catch up. They’ll always catch up. They will catch up. Your competitor has feature X, you need feature X. That’s what a unique value proposition (or unique selling proposition, USP) should do, right?

A/B testing 162

A/B testing X-functional Price Gaming 162

ConversionXL

JUNE 19, 2018

Rockboost process of building up a skill set: Personal T-shape plans. Pricing is a rule. Cross-sell/up-sell. Focus on upsells, cross-sells and personalization when the conversion rate is already very high. Focus on upsells, cross-sells and personalization when the conversion rate is already very high.

A/B testing 103

A/B testing Cross-sell X-functional Growth 103