Hubspot

JUNE 5, 2018

Whether you’re at a networking event, a party, a conference, or an office function, walking up to a stranger and introducing yourself can be terrifying. But even though I’ve always been strategic about my in-person opening lines, I only recently began applying the same level of thought to my online messages -- a common sales email mistake.

X-functional 101

X-functional Territory Prospecting Contact 101

Hubspot

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Questions you should ask at this stage include: Is the prospect in your territory? For example, if you ask your prospect about the company’s strategic goals and they’re unable to answer, it’s a good sign they’re not close enough to the decision process and lack influence. Does the buyer match the demographics of a given persona?

Sales 101

Sales X-functional Contact Prospecting 101

Lead Fuze

JULY 1, 2023

Finally, you’ll gain insights on cross-checking territory assignments, compensation incentive programs, capacity staffing and understanding different types of quotes serving different functions. Fairness: Each member should feel their target is fair, considering their skills, experience level, and territory.

Quota 52

Quota Growth Territory Commission 52

Martech

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

For example, a customer may never know why one vendor got placed at (x, y) and another one at (x1, y1). You can often find solid regional vendors and functionally specialized vendors. Let’s explore an alternative approach where your specific requirements and sense for strategic trade-offs really matter. Customer support.

X-functional 98

X-functional Strategize B2B Territory 98

Highspot

MAY 20, 2022

Sales plays can be created to support different regions, product lines, or buyer personas; this ensures that your reps’ tactics match different buyer needs. In simple terms, it’s how your sales team operates — how it is structured, how territories are determined, how pipeline is generated, and so on.

Territory 52

Territory X-functional Cross-sell Sales 52

SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

With more companies launching and thriving outside of Silicon Valley, regions such as ‘Silicon Slopes’ in Utah and ‘Silicon Alley’ in New York City are gaining traction within the startup scene. Bob Moore: Yeah, I think there is a lot of the strategic and the tactical definitely mixed with each other.

X-functional 53

X-functional Start-ups Drivers/motivators Go To Market 53

Heinz Marketing

JUNE 4, 2018

– Territory and Market Optimization – executing to high conversions on the active funnel. I think your customer base grows by two X it seems like every month these days. So gone are the days of feature functionality, obviously have a great product to sell, but more important, it’s getting to know the buyer, right?

Pipeline 55

Pipeline Sales Drivers/motivators X-functional 55

SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2020

When you start growing above 50 employees, and certainly get to 100, things change, you now have teams, which means you have functional leaders. Rather than having this feeling of disconnected functional areas, everyone in the company knows what to work on. So, sales in my view is best run on a quarterly plan.

Finance 111

Finance X-functional Launch Objectives and Key Results 111

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

What are the core differences when comparing marketing functions at the likes of Salesforce to smaller companies like G2? None of the regions really do anything to drive inbound in the original sense of the word, so inbound meaning blog traffic, because we had a massive and an amazing content team over at headquarters in Boston at HubSpot.

Start-ups 52

Start-ups B2B A/B testing Pipeline 52

SaaStr

APRIL 24, 2020

John joined Adobe through the company’s acquisition of Omniture in 2009, where he served as executive vice president of marketing, driving all marketing efforts to strategically advance the industry’s largest standalone web analytics business. So, I think the strategic role for a founder has got to be an organic evolution.

X-functional 86

X-functional Strategize Retail Technology 86

ConversionXL

APRIL 25, 2016

If you’re building for the App Store, ensure you have a Mac that’s at least running OS X 10.8 Note: Often, people cannot get this report to function properly. X might be why non-purchasers are not converting or there might be UX issues for users in French-Canadian areas) and make smarter promotion decisions (e.g.

X-functional 88

X-functional GTM UX Objectives and Key Results 88

Sales Hacker

MAY 9, 2019

Here’s a simple example to begin with that covers the SDR, AE and Customer Success Manager (CSM) functions: Table 1. A recoverable draw makes more sense if your sales rep is taking over an established territory where brand name helps close 80% of the business. This fluctuates between markets, regions etc.

SQL 102

SQL Commission Customers Non-Profits 102

ConversionXL

MAY 14, 2014

Customers searching for legal advice are usually performing information searches, while customers searching for lawyers in a specific region or practice are likely conducting transaction searches. On-going battles for prime real estate, page layouts, copy and imagery persist and often burden cross-functional team performance and relations.

Conversion 124

Conversion Sell E-commerce Legal 124

SaaStr

JANUARY 21, 2020

I was a local sales manager or regional manager. As I think back to when I came out of school and went into the workforce, I remember thinking I got to be this associate territory rep. I was in med device for 36 months before I get a territory and then it’s like in the middle of nowhere. That was the old way.

Quota 104

Quota Sales Healthcare Territory 104

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

Byron Deeter and Elliott Robinson, partners at Bessemer Venture Partners, offer macro trends in the public and private cloud markets, strategic advice to cloud founders, and insights into why entrepreneurs should feel auspicious about the future. This episode is sponsored by Linode. This is when you’re actually building out your org.

Non-Profits 63

Non-Profits Strategize Trust Growth 63

SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

So they come out and they say “It’s sort of manifest destiny that somebody that my magical dream candidate that scaled company X, Y or Z from zero to 50 or zero to 100 is going to come off the beach and stop whatever they’re doing, which is probably not much except golf and jump back in and take a risk to build your company.

Sales 62

Sales Promote X-functional Up-sell 62

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

I interviewed Tina Donati, Head of Marketing at Alloy Automation, to learn how each marketing function can use data visuals: Use data visuals internally—extensively. Bubble charts display three dimensions of data: an x-axis, a y-axis, and the size of the data point. Bubble charts and maps. The tool isn’t one to pick up immediately.

Objectives and Key Results 110

Objectives and Key Results Represent Presentation Promote 110

SaaStr

OCTOBER 30, 2020

And so what we’ll see people come in and do is they’ll say, Hey, we want to acquire name, email, company size, function, or department, and then the consent and all these fields, right? The salesperson now isn’t just getting a name and email and this guy or girl wants to talk at X time. Randy Rayess: Thank you.

A/B testing 78

A/B testing X-functional Launch Start-ups 78