SaaStr

APRIL 23, 2019

Building the basic functionality. Henrique: So, it’s a little bit like an equity pitch, when you’re raising equity, that they need to believe that you will be a successful company, and that their time is worth spending. And I think we did two X what we thought we were going to do. We go in a lot of directions.

Launch 65

Launch Pitch Niche Negotiate 65

SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

I think if you’ve pitched that early on and you don’t suddenly show up one day with $10 million quotas, people understand that that is a journey that they are going to be part of. So one of the things that I did, pretty early on here as we knew we were going to scale the team, was I set up an enablement function.

Finance 52

Finance X-functional CRM Engineering 52

SaaStr

JULY 15, 2020

But I think that was when everybody had the proverbial partner meeting discussions about what are we funding, why are we funding, what price are we funding. X and it’s not [inaudible 00:20:29]. I mean, there’s a couple public companies, several private companies, but it had step function. So massive step function.

X-functional 60

X-functional E-commerce Growth Retail 60

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

SaaStr

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Their co-founder, Dylan Smith, handles many functions of the business, like finance. Box’s Pricing Model to Maintain Efficient Growth: Box came up with a clever model. There’s also a risk in the industry of overloading the customer with a thousand pitches. They want to embody that strategy in their pricing model.

X-functional 87

X-functional Non-Profits GTM Price 87

Sales Hacker

MARCH 12, 2019

1) It makes your product and your pitch easier to remember. A list of features and functionality is easy to forget, because it lacks context. It really is as simple as “our product can do X for you.”. If all goes well, there will be additional meetings later in the sales process , and you can pitch these extra features then.

Product 77

Product Sell Pitch X-functional 77

PandaDoc

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

To use this promotional technique, the closer must go into the meeting anticipating objections (especially with pricing) and have a pre-approved offer ready to go. Do you need this functionality or that? Discussing functionality is especially important if you’re a SaaS business or offer IT solutions. How do you do that?

Closing 52

Closing Contract Technique Objectives and Key Results 52

Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

Pitching and Closing. Pitch Anything. It uses the formula PPVVC=S (Pain x Power x Vision x Value x Control = Sale) to help salespeople accurately gauge the probability of closing a deal. ” When we break the Laws, we pay the price. Pitching and Closing. High-Profit Prospecting. Simplified.

Sales 141

Sales Technique Objectives and Key Results Non-Profits 141

Hubspot

JUNE 13, 2018

Explicit needs are specific features or functions. Features and benefits are the most common ways to pitch a product to the buyer. Do you have a strategy in place for X? Who’s responsible for X? What happens if you’re not successful with X? Has a problem with X ever negatively impacted your KPIs?

Sell 101

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

SaaStr

MAY 14, 2023

Algolia went from zero to seven figures in revenue in 12 months, and the launch of their search as a service product, and grew pricing from $19 a month to $100,000, which sounds amazing. Nicolas : Really, one step at a time, so we knew the first pricing was just testing the market, and we iterated a lot on it. Nick : Pretty good?

Price 98

Price Start-ups Up-sell X-functional 98

SalesHandy

JUNE 29, 2021

B2B(Short for Business to Business) sales is a function of B2B product sales(i.e. B2B sales involves selling to multiple decision makers and users within an account, higher tickets and pricing, and a longer sales cycle, depending on what you’re selling and who you’re selling it to. selling products to other businesses).

B2B 98

B2B Cross-sell X-functional Follow-up 98

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. For example, if the lead is from the ‘X’ industry, they get 30 (out of 100) added to their score. Could it be the right pricing terms? How to Qualify Leads effectively. And so on.

X-functional 98

X-functional Pipeline Sales CRM 98

PandaDoc

MARCH 7, 2023

Pitching a sale is the most time-consuming part of the sales process. Prospectors will know when to move on to qualification or when to pass on a buyer to pitching specialists. In any event, you can always help ease the friction of pre-pitching by offering a gift, promotion, or free trial.

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. For example, if the lead is from the ‘X’ industry, they get 30 (out of 100) added to their score. Could it be the right pricing terms? How to Qualify Leads effectively. And so on.

X-functional 52

X-functional Pipeline Sales Lead generation 52

SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2019

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. What we found is that time is by far, even across all price points, is by far the most common.

Contract 47

Contract Price Commission Conversion 47

ConversionXL

MARCH 21, 2017

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. As Marc Ecko put it, if you’re not getting through, it’s the message, not where you’re pitching: Marc Ecko: “The same goes for email addresses. Find their public email and make your pitch.

B2C 78

B2C Trust X-functional Pitch 78

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

I think whether it’s doing portfolio triage or learning to take pitches over Zoom or whatever people are doing, it’s hard as human beings. Jason Lemkin: So, traditionally in normal and good times, there is a sort of very slow-paced pressure as a VC, which is to do X deals a year. Aileen Lee: Is the price going to be double?

Pitch 63

Pitch Start-ups Up-sell Technology 63

Search Engine Land

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The search engine revealed that: It quietly increase ad prices by as much as 10% without telling advertisers. Google released a fully-redesigned version of AdWords Editor that supports several of the bulk editing features that have recently been added to the web interface and introduces new functionality to the desktop tool.

E-commerce 129

E-commerce Launch Campaign Retail 129

Hubspot

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

If you can offer an existing product at a lower price point, better quality, or ideally, both, you'll have plenty of customers. Ask everyone to come prepared to discuss a certain product category or question, such as, "What's your favorite type of X and why?" Pitch to angel investors. Pitch to angel investors.

Minimum Viable Product 101

Minimum Viable Product Legal X-functional Networking 101

SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

And then last resort is somebody out of a big company like Salesforce, Oracle, again for all the reasons that had been stated before, but those are people that, generally speaking, you’re not going to be comfortable walking to a scenario without any brand, without customers, without potentially even a pitch and a message.

Sales 63

Sales Promote X-functional Up-sell 63

Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Use the “Insert > Table” function to adopt one of television’s traditional script writing practices: the two-column script. Then, be sure your resolution is at least 1920 x 1080 to maintain quality footage. Here are some common shutter speeds and how to calculate them: At 24fps, 24 x 2 = 48, equalling a shutter speed of 1/50.

Angle 101

Angle Objectives and Key Results X-functional CTR 101

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Is PR just pitching and getting articles? What price points you will you sell at? So don’t be too upset if you’re not yet at the four X number, but know for sure that if you don’t get beyond that, you’re not going to have a very profitable company in the long run. Who actually gets into these outlets?

Non-Profits 74

Non-Profits Up-sell Start-ups Product 74

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 30, 2018

CR(t) —The conversion rate as a function of time to get to a single SQL. Nurtured] leads such as by visiting a pricing page. In this approach, it’s paramount to understand that you cannot reach out to all three at the same time with the same “pitch” or “value proposition.”. Four Prospecting Approaches. Hierarchical —.

Prospecting 47

Prospecting SQL GTM X-functional 47

SaaStr

JANUARY 3, 2020

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. What we found is that time is by far, even across all price points, is by far the most common.

Contract 10

Contract Price Commission Conversion 10

ConversionXL

JULY 6, 2021

But a higher CPC can be prohibitive for smaller businesses and lower-priced products and services. Industries known for high-priced products and businesses experiencing rapid growth also work. High-priced products are table stakes in the medical device industry. Also, consider the benchmark conversion rate. billion in 2023.

CTR 129

CTR X-functional Campaign Price 129

SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2019

I think we’re probably going to talk less about the delivery model of the architecture of the services and function and we’re going to talk more about the subscription model. There’s a lot of design function. All updates are delivered through the cloud. You pay a subscription. Design is amazing. That’s a lot.

Growth 41

Growth Launch B2B Networking 41

SaaStr

MARCH 5, 2019

We’ve got maybe 60 venture pitches coming back and others. It could influence the stock price. And I think one thing that’s broken around the conversation is it’s easy to sort of project big numbers where you’re like “Hey, look at our percentage of x or our percentage of Y.”

Objectives and Key Results 59

Objectives and Key Results Cross-sell Trust Product 59

SaaStr

MARCH 5, 2019

We’ve got maybe 60 venture pitches coming back and others. It could influence the stock price. And I think one thing that’s broken around the conversation is it’s easy to sort of project big numbers where you’re like “Hey, look at our percentage of x or our percentage of Y.”

Objectives and Key Results 54

Objectives and Key Results Cross-sell Trust Product 54

Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Business pain points affect a company's bottom line and must be solved in order for them to grow and function successfully. Examples of business problems include making a fully functional product slightly prettier, slightly decreasing a product’s price, or small work-life balance issues. Why are we losing deals?

X-functional 101

X-functional Cross-sell Angle Prospecting 101

SalesHandy

MAY 28, 2021

Once you’ve got the lead on the other end of the call engaged with your pitch, it’s time to qualify them a level deeper. Emails can be used to share calendar invites, pitch decks, etc, unlike how it is with phone calls. Based on a few specifics, I’m ready to offer you a {X}% discount. Ask Qualifying Questions.

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. Randy Rayess: Or what’s the price because it’s just $20 per user per month is the same for everyone.

A/B testing 79

A/B testing X-functional Launch Start-ups 79

ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2020

We have feature X that they don’t.”. Your competitor has feature X, you need feature X. If you’re using table-stakes arguments to sell your product or pitching it like you’re the only game in town, you need to rethink differentiation. Differentiating with price is not sustainable. You can see the same in software.

A/B testing 162

A/B testing X-functional Price Gaming 162

ConversionXL

JUNE 19, 2018

Pricing is a rule. You would probably find 6-7 functionally identical apps for every idea. Impact = Reach x Relevance x Frequency. Momoko Price: Data-driven copywriting for brand-spanking new products. What are the decision making moments in your growth process? Can you create rules for them? Design = rules.

A/B testing 103

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