SaaStr

MARCH 22, 2023

They asked themselves, “what if we moved to some motion of licensing contracts?” Instead of selling products, they were selling aspirational concepts and business value. Take Your Company Global If you haven’t read Crossing The Chasm by Geoffrey Moore, you should, especially if you want to take your company global.

Growth 102

Growth Cross-sell GTM Up-sell 102

SaaStr

JULY 13, 2023

It took Monday a long time to cross 100% NRR from SMBs, and they have to have multiple offerings to get there. #2. NRR is the NorthStar metric in SaaS, but we all agreed it can be gamed, to some extent. Long-term contracts can boost NRR, without adding long term value. #6. GRR will vary by segment and category.

Cross-sell 97

Cross-sell Contract Gaming Up-sell 97

Salesmate

OCTOBER 15, 2020

You cannot cast your net wide and sell to everyone, so lead qualification is necessary. Sales closing best practices: Avoid complicating your contracts. An up-to-date sales pipeline creates a systematic approach to selling. This metric is very important for companies selling SaaS products as they depend on recurring purchases.

Pipeline 143

Pipeline Negotiate Appointment Sales 143

Hubspot

AUGUST 8, 2019

Percentage of revenue from existing customers (cross-selling, upselling, repeat orders, expanded contracts, etc.). Cost of selling as a percentage of revenue generated. You can’t control how much this salesperson sells -- but you can tell her to increase her daily email output. Average contract value (ACV).

X-functional 101

X-functional Quota Cross-sell Contract 101

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

We remain optimistic about the prospects of cross-border SaaS. Org Building Ideas for Cross-Border Companies. The former CRO of a successful prosumer SaaS company shared how they gave away free annual licenses for all new users over and above the ones contracted. SV SaaS companies sell to other SV SaaS companies.

GTM 114

GTM Niche Cross-sell Contract 114

Salesmate

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Yes, you’ll find many hurdles on the path while selling to enterprises, but a firm determination and constant hard work can lead you to success. A different and long pathway while selling to enterprises. Selling to a large enterprise is a different game. It is essential to know the rule of the game to win it.

Sell 103

Sell Cold Call Negotiate Cross-sell 103

Salesforce

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The CRO leverages cross-functional knowledge to create a complete view of the customer lifecycle from bringing in new leads to closing deals to renewing customer contracts. READ MORE: 5 Game-Changing Traits of Chief Revenue Officers. Screenshot from this Future of Selling video (1:13). CRO in the organizational chart.

Gaming 98

Gaming Cross-sell Sales Finance 98

PandaDoc

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Redefine how you manage your customer relationships Relationship selling is more efficient than traditional sales approaches, and CRM helps highlight that objective: building and enhancing relationships. Our solution lets you whip up and send proposals and contracts in minutes. The relationship usually ends with or without a sale.

CRM 52

CRM Gaming Contract Objectives and Key Results 52

Hubspot

DECEMBER 28, 2017

What is relationship selling? Relationship selling is essential if you have a high average selling price (ASP),” explains VidScale COO Adam Rizika. What is transactional and relationship selling? Relationship selling, on the other hand, is effort- and research-intensive. Relationship selling examples.

Sell 101

Sell Cross-sell Negotiate Technique 101

SaaStr

DECEMBER 5, 2023

You don’t want to end up in The Valley of Death, where you can’t get the big dollar contracts. You have to expand your focus on how you sell and make it strategic to the C-suite. When you get to the phase of wanting to sell to Enterprise, it often breaks down at Enterprise needs. The warning — You have to be patient.

GTM 104

GTM Cross-sell Government Legal 104

Salesforce

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Decision stage By now, buyers understand their problem, have done their research, and are ready to make a purchase — but they haven’t crossed the finish line yet. Remember: Selling a solution rather than a product can help set you apart from competitors. You’re not just selling.

Sports 111

Sports Cross-sell Pitch Represent 111

Veloxy

AUGUST 31, 2023

And while you can always push a product for the sake of selling it, you’ll only sell it once. A lot of sales reps end up competing on who sold the most or what product is selling faster. Maybe you’re selling the right products to the wrong audience in the wrong market. However, salespeople tend to miss the bigger picture.

Outside Sales 130

Outside Sales Pipeline Inside sales Cross-sell 130

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

.” AI can change the game in two ways: Customer-focused experiences Automation You want automation that makes the customer happy, and you want AI to support CS teams and other functions within an organization so they can be more effective at their jobs. They tap back into sales for upsells and cross-sells.

Customers 116

Customers Cross-sell Drivers/motivators Gaming 116

Heinz Marketing

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Procurement , also known as: vendor management, supplier management, or even sometimes supply-chain management, are the folks who need to ensure that all the i’s are dotted and t’s are crossed. Well being compliant with GDPR is crucial for companies that market and sell in Europe. Empathy is the name of the game here.

Legal 105

Legal Cross-sell Government Contract 105

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Who could avoid dreaming of those seven-figure deal sizes, 3-year contracts, and trophy logos? We have worked inside organizations that have successfully transitioned from selling into mid-market to selling into Enterprises. However, when moving up-market to companies with 1,000+ employees, the game changes.

Product 68

Product Contract Cross-sell Account management 68

Sales Hacker

APRIL 2, 2018

While an earlier post talked about automating the sales process with bots , this article shows you how you can take control of your sales data, documentation process, and contracts to get started with sales automation. The result is that your team spends more time on mission-critical activities and actual selling. Who doesn’t?

Process 66

Process Contract Legal CRM 66

PandaDoc

AUGUST 22, 2024

SaaS sales is the art of selling software-as-a-service (SaaS), focused on methods to obtain new customers while retaining/upselling existing ones. What makes selling SaaS products different from other types of sales? What does SaaS sales stand for?

Contract 52

Contract Cross-sell Legal Drivers/motivators 52

Hubspot

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

As technology continues to advance, AI has emerged as a game-changer for sales professionals, offering numerous ways to enhance productivity and drive better results. While winning new customers is obviously a key role of account executives, many also must focus on cross-selling and upselling current customers.

Cross-sell 73

Cross-sell Contact Contract Prospecting 73

SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

And I think it comes out of the 80s and 90s and how we used to sell with shelfware. It was all about getting the contract. Totally changes the game. The game has changed but we haven’t caught up. We really only know how to sell the mid market companies through inbound demand gen. How did that gain work?

Growth 106

Growth Cross-sell Contract X-functional 106

Hubspot

AUGUST 25, 2022

They’re under contract with another vendor. The goal, of course, isn’t to sell them anything, but to see how things are going and if there’s anything you can do to help. It may seem counterintuitive, but sometimes when you’re in a sales slump, it helps to focus on activities that you’re good at that aren’t directly related to selling.

Cold Call 88

Cold Call Drivers/motivators Pitch Sales 88

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 2, 2019

Think relationship selling, sales prospecting, and lead nurturing all rolled into one. Granted, sales is a numbers game. If it used to take you 20 calls to find one prospect, how much more would you sell if it only took you 10 calls? RELATED: Why The Sales World Sucks at Earning Referral Business and How You Can Change The Game.

Contact 80

Contact Referrals Appointment Cross-sell 80

Highspot

JUNE 22, 2021

Mastering new skills in sales is challenging, even for top sellers — to say nothing of the core selling techniques that reps need to be successful. With so much to learn and little time to learn it, how can salespeople ensure they are always at the top of their game? Sell the Problem, Not the Solution.

Technique 82

Technique Negotiate Cross-sell Sales 82

Hubspot

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

These roles vary based on the product, industry, and vertical you’re selling to. Renewal: Your customer renews their contract or subscription. Lastly, in the channel model , an outside agency or partner sells your product for you. They are also often less motivated to sell than your own sales team would be.

Go To Market 101

Go To Market Process GTM Education 101

SaaStr

AUGUST 27, 2019

I’ll start because I’m living this right now, and where we’re contract value. Michaela Lehr: So mine says to learn ballpark contract value and figure out the pricing that the market can bear. Either work or not work. Sanj Sanampudi: Great. You’re doing something that is brand new. So Michaela?

Territory 60

Territory Cross-sell Contract Drivers/motivators 60

PandaDoc

MARCH 26, 2024

Imagine you’re playing a video game where your goal is to guide a character through different levels until they reach the final stage. Here, your sales team needs to gather a list of prospects that are potentially interested in what you’re selling. Proposal software is the most straightforward way to do this.

Pipeline 52

Pipeline Contract CRM Customer Relationship Management 52

Salesforce

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

A prospect lingering in the negotiation stage, for example, may need a change to product price to move them to the contract stage. Contract signing Pop some bubbly because you just closed a deal. Make signing the contract simple by using an e-signature service that allows your soon-to-be-customer to sign and upload from anywhere.

Pipeline 59

Pipeline Objectives and Key Results Contract Cross-sell 59

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 6, 2020

Changing the sales game for smaller companies. Changing the sales game [15:29]. Take control with the DocuSign agreement cloud, a suite of tools that automates sales contracts and quotes ,all right in your CRM. Create custom contracts in a click, sign them digitally, and automatically pull data back into your opportunities.

Contract 57

Contract Gaming Cross-sell Growth 57

SBI

AUGUST 30, 2018

We call it Sales Tech Game Changers. NANCY: WHAT ARE THE TOP 3 WAYS YOUR SOLUTION CHANGES THE GAME FOR A SALES ORGANIZATION? In this series, we ask Sales Tech Executives to describe how their solution can change a sales organization in a significant way. This week I interview Shreesha Ramdas , Co-Founder & CEO of Strikedeck.

Trust 38

Trust Cross-sell Customers Referrals 38

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 25, 2023

At Outreach, we implemented Growth AE’s in 2020 that were responsible for cross sell/upsell into accounts, and the year after they started running renewals as well. Oh, and remember that 92% of the lifetime value comes after they commit and sign the contract! That’s from my boy Jacko at Winning by Design.”

GTM 53

GTM Contract Cross-sell Account management 53

Salesforce

MARCH 18, 2024

Gone are the days when you would sell time slots during primetime TV or a half-page ad in a newspaper or magazine and call it a day. When you don’t have a clear picture of what buyers are spending with you, it’s harder to upsell or cross-sell your offerings. It’s a total game-changer for your company.

Transportation 52

Transportation Cross-sell Territory Sales 52

SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2020

Rather than having this erratic schedule around hitting sales targets, or hitting releases, that there’s a feeling that just quarter after quarter the company keeps shipping and selling. So, you’re going to have this cross-functional opportunity at all these events for those kinds of interactions. billion dollars.

Finance 114

Finance X-functional Launch Objectives and Key Results 114

Martech

OCTOBER 23, 2023

During Weinberg’s cross-examination by Google, Google’s lawyer pointed out that DuckDuckGo’s market share is lower in Europe compared to the United States, even in countries where a default search engine choice screen has been introduced. It’s a hard game to make any breakthroughs, but no one can accuse us of not being persistent.”

Trust 90

Trust Objectives and Key Results Engineering Negotiate 90

SaaStr

AUGUST 13, 2019

When organizations actually go from starting up to selling to SMBs and going up market, the pool up market is undeniable. You’re trying to figure out how to sell to them. Also selling up market actually means that you can very easily have predictable revenue streams. The first one. So let me explain what this is.

Cross-sell 68

Cross-sell Sales Support Growth Up-sell 68

SaaStr

MAY 27, 2020

So people were paying people to take their futures contracts. That means specifically they’re going to cancel contracts. The reason for that is most people have annual contracts and they haven’t come up for renewal yet. When we talk about connections, 5G really will be a game changer.

Finance 105

Finance Government Price Contract 105

SalesLoft

AUGUST 10, 2023

In fact, reps only spend about 28% of their time day-to-day actually selling! Tasks like updating a field after each buyer engagement are handled by our CRM sync, ensuring that all your reps’ time is focused on selling and generating pipeline. Take a step back and put yourself in your sellers’ shoes — or better yet, ask them directly.

Pipeline 52

Pipeline Cross-sell A/B testing Contract 52

Search Engine Land

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Meanwhile, across the pond, Google is facing the possibility that it may be forced to sell part of its ad business after being charged with violating the European Union’s antitrust laws. In another blow for Google, an Adalytics study accused it of mis-selling video ads to marketers for the last three years.

X-functional 116

X-functional Retail Launch Non-Profits 116

Highspot

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Remote Sales and Virtual Events In an era where remote sales and virtual selling have become increasingly prevalent, digital sales rooms offer an ideal platform for engaging with prospects and customers in a virtual environment, effectively replacing the traditional in-person meetings and trade shows.

Objectives and Key Results 59

Objectives and Key Results Objection handling Teamwork Sales 59