Martech

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

At a time when most technology marketplaces have hundreds of products — each claiming to be a leader — such a graphic can help simplify creating a shortlist of vendors to explore when you start your evaluation journey. For example, a customer may never know why one vendor got placed at (x, y) and another one at (x1, y1).

X-functional 114

X-functional Strategize B2B Territory 114

Martech

OCTOBER 11, 2023

You can divide organizations into two buckets based on their approach to social media execution: Those that think strategically and plan their programs. Twitter (now X) has lost much of its business audience and interest from B2B companies. This means they can create the content in a large batch and strategically schedule it out.

B2B 135

B2B X-functional Pharmaceutical B2C 135

Heinz Marketing

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

It became clear that the only way to wrap my head around this task was to switch my typical top-down way of thinking about the buying committee to a bottom-up approach. Instead of identifying key buyer personas and then categorizing specific titles and job functions under each, I looked at specific job titles and functions first.

Government 127

Government X-functional Angle B2B 127

Sales Hacker

JULY 21, 2021

“We’re looking for a strategic rockstar sales rep who knows how to leverage and optimize our customers’ digital transformation to really move the needle!”. That thing reps do where they call every lead every day until the customer finally picks up the phone? Let’s come up with a plan for some quick wins”. Digitize everything!

X-functional 133

X-functional Sales Strategize Cold Call 133

SaaStr

JANUARY 24, 2022

SaaS accounting and finance has gotten pretty complicated, and the impacts of getting it wrong have gone up substantially. Last year, I met with the founder of a start-up I really, really liked. She has worked with numerous start ups in Bay Area and Europe (Virgin Mobile USA Inc., Things have changed a lot.

Finance 131

Finance Contract X-functional Start-ups 131

Sales Hacker

MAY 7, 2025

The importance of cross-functional stream teams for accelerating GTM initiatives. We identify cross-functional streams of work that have dependencies cross-functionally that we need to get done. We actually opened up our commercial sales offices there and our BDR offices there. And we build what we call stream teams.

GTM 67

GTM Engineering Customers Cross-sell 67

Martech

MAY 10, 2023

Emerging processes are starting to be established at a group level. The “people” roles, responsibilities, technical know-how, strategic alignment and talent in an organization’s use and management of DAM Information. On the top row along the X axis are the measures. Standardizing processes are agreed upon and centralized.

X-functional 102

X-functional Strategize Process Presentation 102

Heinz Marketing

APRIL 25, 2023

The function is straightforward: output = tools + teams x strategy. A client once shared a quote with me that summed this up very well: “For the simplicity on this side of complexity, I wouldn’t give you a fig. Luckily, we can refer to the equation above to get started. Sound familiar?

X-functional 111

X-functional Strategize Growth Clients 111

Salesforce

JANUARY 22, 2024

You can spend more focused time on strategic thinking or creative projects. And if you work in the legal or healthcare fields, AI can help analyze and research contracts or help interpret MRIs and X-rays, respectively. Start learning +2,200 points Trail Get started with artificial intelligence Learn the ways of this trail.

Healthcare 122

Healthcare X-functional Engineering Technology 122

Martech

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Broaden job skills on an agile marketing team Many marketing teams still operate with specialists who perform a very limited job function. However, it will be up to the person to critically analyze AI’s results, determine what is true, and validate those assumptions by talking to real customers.

X-functional 126

X-functional Cross-sell Territory Retail 126

Martech

JUNE 21, 2023

A: Not very strategically. I ended up moving to Australia and had planned to leave that company and get a different job out there. Editor’s note: Golden Seeds invests in women-led ventures and offers women entrepreneurs strategic business advice.] People started bringing us together on advisory boards. A: It did.

X-functional 103

X-functional Technology Technology Construction 103

Sales Hacker

MARCH 25, 2025

I think I got to start by maybe putting you on the spot a little bit. Getting entire work done or processes done in the background and only bubbling up to a human when it has an exception. And it’s usually like a very detailed sort of Google doc, here’s the login for X. I mean, moonshot projects sound pretty fun.

GTM 67

GTM X-functional Start-ups Relationship building 67

Hubspot

JUNE 13, 2018

Explicit needs are specific features or functions. 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? Would X make it simpler to achieve [positive event]? How do you do X? Implication.

Sell 101

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

Martech

APRIL 8, 2022

Not long ago, marketing operations was the “clean-up-on-aisle-13” squad. But, as businesses digitized their customer experiences, marketing operations became strategic advisors to not only the CMO but also key cross-functional partners in product, IT, customer service, etc. I’ll start with a playful quiz.

X-functional 124

X-functional Technology Technology Strategize 124

Martech

DECEMBER 12, 2022

That starts with optimizing the data intake process. The other thing this allows you to do is to ensure that when others outside of your team are creating web forms they know exactly how to set those things up and there’s no manual intervention from your team.”. However, just having a MAP isn’t enough.

X-functional 117

X-functional Strategize Contact Process 117

Search Engine Land

MAY 13, 2024

And for B2B, you need a content strategy with a strategic distribution plan. Up to 49% of successful content marketers used paid social media to promote content, per a 2023 Semrush survey. Facebook and X can also be effective for reaching a broader audience and engaging with industry influencers.

B2B 109

B2B X-functional Pitch Click Through Rate 109

Martech

JUNE 6, 2023

The challenge comes in understanding the many facets of this decision — your company’s unique position at the time — and knowing what your strategic goals truly are. It’s straightforward to add up licensing, managed services support and development costs and then make a choice. And to be fair, it sometimes is a smart move.

X-functional 114

X-functional Cross-sell Contract Up-sell 114

ConversionXL

JULY 15, 2020

In a software team, a full-time Product Owner and separate Scrum Master work together to ensure the team is working on the right work at the right time, but they stay away from rolling up their sleeves and executing work. While developers may measure success based on “working code,” a functioning campaign is not enough for marketing success.

X-functional 87

X-functional Technique Strategize Campaign 87

Martech

OCTOBER 20, 2022

They provide technical and strategic support for marketing software tools, workflows and processes. Of course, there are the leaders — the chief marketing technologists and other C-level executives driving the martech ship — but how have roles evolved since we first started separating marketing technology from the IT department?

X-functional 103

X-functional Objectives and Key Results Technology Technology 103

ConversionXL

AUGUST 5, 2021

Otherwise, you’ll end up with automations that lack cohesiveness and are prone to error. Before connecting the apps that make up your tech stack, make sure you fully understand your goals and how each component contributes to the customer experience. It’s critical that you start this process with the customer journey itself.

CRM 143

CRM Contact Consult X-functional 143

Hubspot

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Despite dating all the way back to the MySpace era , marketing on X (formerly called Twitter) is still untouched for many businesses. Compared to other platforms, X has an intimidation factor. Behind its mysterious gestalt lies an enormous sea of opportunity for brands who learn to use X for marketing and sales.

Sell 81

Sell X-functional Networking Follow-up 81

Hubspot

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Ask follow-up questions. Buyer personas describe business pain, job function, and other firmographic data that sum up who a prospect is and what they care about. Your company probably already has demographic information on who makes up your customer base. Laughter is the best way to start a call.

X-functional 101

X-functional Sports Prospecting Follow-up 101

Heinz Marketing

JANUARY 9, 2024

These are big and important projects, so knowing where and when to start gets you the best possible chance of success. If you are continuously asking yourself why it is taking so long to get X thing to market (be it a campaign, asset, or some other resource), it is very likely a process problem. Curious what that is?

X-functional 97

X-functional Government Strategize Start-ups 97

Sales Hacker

MARCH 4, 2025

It’s your host, Scott Barker, and we really appreciate you lending us your eardrums for the [00:03:00] next 45 minutes or an hour or so, uh, we have a fantastic guest lined up, I am joined by Jessica Gilmartin, Jessica, welcome, Jessica Gilmartin: Thank you very much. And when should companies start thinking about making that shift?

GTM 72

GTM X-functional Start-ups Campaign 72

Search Engine Land

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Google stirred things up by shaking cushions and discreetly adjusting ad prices, and the entire industry faced a major shift with the sunset of Universal Analytics, forcing everyone to transition to Google Analytics 4. A month later, YouTube stepped up its tactics to stop its users from installing ad blocked by disabling videos.

Retail 116

Retail X-functional Launch Non-Profits 116

SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2023

People mislead because they’re afraid of being bludgeoned, or they don’t have a functional relationship with the Board, so it’s seen as something to survive. Someone could present the data here, stand up, and say we had a good quarter. stabilizer called starting ARR to dampen out fluctuation and plan performance. 4: Rat-holding.

X-functional 134

X-functional Trust Presentation Drivers/motivators 134

Heinz Marketing

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Listen up – the number of minutes you choose is important. If your campaigns are time specific—routing high-value leads to sales for immediate follow-up, for example—be cognizant of these prioritization rules. #2 It’s an easy fix, and one you should implement right away if you’ve had your Marketo instance up and running without it. .

CRM 137

CRM Campaign X-functional Clients 137

ConversionXL

MAY 14, 2014

This was what Iztok Franko, the current director of IT & Marketing at Adria airlines was facing before the idea of “conversion rate optimization” ever came up internally. He also used real data to back everything up, rather than getting into an opinionated p **g match with anyone who wanted to throw up any barriers.

Conversion 124

Conversion Sell E-commerce Legal 124

SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2020

David Sacks, General Partner at Craft Ventures joins the New New in Ventures to discuss The Cadence and how to structure around it while building a start-up. When you start growing above 50 employees, and certainly get to 100, things change, you now have teams, which means you have functional leaders. billion dollars.

Finance 114

Finance X-functional Launch Objectives and Key Results 114

ConversionXL

APRIL 25, 2016

The GDN is made up of millions of websites, videos and mobile apps. This will help you define conversions, set up goals, events, etc. Getting Started with Android. Getting Started with iOS. If you’re building for the App Store, ensure you have a Mac that’s at least running OS X 10.8 Acquisition Reports.

X-functional 88

X-functional UX Objectives and Key Results GTM 88

SaaStr

AUGUST 27, 2024

For example, if someone searches for a specific lab test like GI Map, Rupa displays that ad and comes up first. Set your brand up as an exclusive so you’re not bidding on your own brand terms. The result was that if you search for GI Map, Rupa shows up in paid ads but also shows up organically under the lab themselves.

Growth 110

Growth Cold Call X-functional Follow-up 110

SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

As part of the run up to 2021 SaaStr Annual in the SF Bay Area Sep 27-29, we’re taking a look back at some of our top sessions of all times. The way I understand this problem, briefly, just a set up a framework, is that there are a lot of interesting questions around it. Get best price tickets here!!! One thing is the timing.

Finance 103

Finance X-functional Start-ups Trust 103

Hubspot

DECEMBER 10, 2019

In fact, the company I currently lead, Spotted Media, used these tactics below to acquire our first set of customers before we even had a fully functioning web site. and start asking yourself in-depth, meaningful questions about these professionals’ motivations. Send a follow-up. Create an ideal customer profile.

Customers 93

Customers Manufacturing X-functional Contact 93

Search Engine Land

MARCH 15, 2023

Fundamentals for SEO product managers These fundamental tips can help SEO product managers (PMs) accomplish day-to-day tasks while strategizing for the future: Trust but verify When validating technical SEO work done in the code, don’t assume everything has been implemented correctly. How to write an effective SEO ticket.

Product 78

Product X-functional Objectives and Key Results Engineering 78

Hubspot

APRIL 3, 2014

These two metrics are powerful because they allow us to start answering some very intriguing questions, like: We raised “X” dollars from this fundraising strategy, but what does that mean? More importantly, we can answer strategic questions that drive fundraising improvement and growth. Fundamentals.

X-functional 78

X-functional Finance Strategize Drivers/motivators 78

ConversionXL

AUGUST 4, 2020

Follow this 90-day plan to get the right things in place and start delivering results. Your backstory might be that you’ve recently taken up yoga and you need to buy some yoga pants to wear to a class. Start by researching your options on Google and follow the paths presented to you. Have you bitten off more than you can chew?

A/B testing 117

A/B testing Objectives and Key Results Education SQL 117

SaaStr

JULY 13, 2023

Startups come in all shapes and sizes on various stages of a timeline, yet it’s not surprising how many have the same questions and concerns about how to scale from x to y to z, the right time to hire and fire, and how to keep a team motivated during hard times. But since startups came into the mainstream, normal people started coming in.

X-functional 96

X-functional Closing Growth Contract 96