SaaStr

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

We remain optimistic about the prospects of cross-border SaaS. AI is likely the next platform, dev tools are strategic given the scarcity of developers, cybersecurity is front and center for enterprises, and the data stack is still going strong. Org Building Ideas for Cross-Border Companies. It’s a close-knit buyer/seller group.

GTM 117

GTM Niche Cross-sell Contract 117

Sales Hacker

APRIL 21, 2021

It may take days before the rep can actually send a contract for signature. The marketing team ran a super successful campaign and generated hot leads. The director of customer success brings her Salesforce report to a cross-functional meeting with sales and marketing leadership. Manager, Revenue Operations.

Finance 117

Finance Cross-sell GTM SQL 117

Martech

JUNE 28, 2022

Marketers play a large, proactive role in the buying-selling process to generate revenue across the entire buyer lifecycle – from generating a new customer, to contract renewal, to solution expansion and cross-sell/upsell. Drive the shift from push to pull marketing.

B2B 112

B2B GTM Cross-sell Cold Call 112

InsightSquared

JULY 1, 2021

Revenue operations is a methodology that drives cross-functional collaboration in order to close gaps in the customer experience and maximize revenue for the business. It aligns the organization by combining the functions of sales, marketing, and customer success into a single team that drives strategy based on revenue impact. .

Cross-sell 62

Cross-sell Contract Objectives and Key Results Quota 62

Salesforce

OCTOBER 12, 2021

They see how all departments can drive revenue for the company; those departments can include sales, marketing, customer success, and finance. 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. Not exactly.

Gaming 98

Gaming Cross-sell Sales Finance 98

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Imagine having the opportunity to sell into a company like Lyft in 2011. Imagine growing with them on their journey to becoming a publicly-traded company with an $11+ billion market cap. The total addressable market continues to grow and is ripe for selling to, but very few startups reach unicorn status. And so on.”.

Sell 107

Sell Minimum Viable Product Objectives and Key Results Cross-sell 107

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

CASE IN POINT: Common mistakes we find that can lead you to believe you are in a launch window: Not distinguishing outliers: One of our client’s database showed a single $200,000 annual contract (ACV) Enterprise deal with a 270-day sales cycle among dozens of $12,000 ACV deals with 28 days sales cycles. EXECUTE THE GO TO MARKET PLAN.

Growth 101

Growth GTM SQL Strategic partnership 101

Sales Hacker

APRIL 21, 2022

SaaS companies tend to follow a typical path, and it almost always leads to moving up-market and enterprise sales. In the early days, most SaaS companies sell to other startups for a number of reasons. But as SaaS startups mature, they usually start moving up-market. We started by selling to other startups, mainly YC companies.

Cross-sell 104

Cross-sell Legal Contract Price 104

SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2022

So for the audience, cloud giants are turbocharging startup sales, and the predominant reason for this is because they’re fundamentally changing IT budgets at the customers that we’re all selling to. Rico Mallozzi: So marketplaces are fundamentally changing, go to market motions for a lot of enterprise technology companies.

Cross-sell 103

Cross-sell Finance Strategize Technology 103

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

If you have a product that is absolutely crushing it in SMB/mid-market, you may be tempted to dive straight into the Enterprise market. Who could avoid dreaming of those seven-figure deal sizes, 3-year contracts, and trophy logos? Related: The SaaS Executive’s Guide To Building A Winning Go-To Market Strategy.

Product 68

Product Contract Cross-sell Account management 68

Sales Hacker

APRIL 14, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Jessica Wilkeyson , Co-Founder and Principal at Alternate Route , a go-to market strategy and revenue operations consultancy based in New York. Reps working from home need to be willing to converse without selling. Data integrity is more important than you thought.

Contract 85

Contract CRM Consult Cross-sell 85

SalesLoft

OCTOBER 21, 2016

From the OG, Account Based Marketing, to the new front man Account Based Sales Development , the lift in annual contract values alone is proof that the targeted approach to customer acquisition is working.As Cross-functional orchestration. Account-based everything should starts with the alignment of Marketing and SDRs.

Cross-sell 52

Cross-sell GTM Referrals Contract 52

InsightSquared

APRIL 14, 2021

They work tirelessly to assess the funnel quality, sales process adherence, and the overall go-to-market strategy. Average Annual Contract Value. Because of this, we tend to overlook the individual value customer contracts are bringing us each year. But, the truth is, time is not on their side. In-Period Bookings .

Contract 62

Contract Territory Cross-sell Pipeline 62

Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

But what is a sales pipeline and why is it so instrumental to selling success? If your forecast anticipates you’re going to miss your quota, you should double down on selling activities. The answer depends on your product, prospect base, and marketing resources. Proposal sent: The buyer reviews your proposal or contract.

Pipeline 101

Pipeline Negotiate Sales Objectives and Key Results 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. But also what is my go to market motion? Either work or not work. Sanj Sanampudi: Great. So Michaela?

Territory 62

Territory Contract Cross-sell Drivers/motivators 62

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 23, 2018

There’s a general tendency among most frontline sales teams to sell to enterprises and become the next Salesforce. The other advantages of selling to SMBs is that over time businesses can gain experience in developing enterprise-grade software while beefing up their go-to-market strategy for SMBs.

B2B 74

B2B Cross-sell Negotiate Up-sell 74

ConversionXL

APRIL 7, 2021

Account-Based Marketing has in fact been around since the 1940s. When sales made a list of logos they wanted to sell, or the list of ‘dream customers’ to close. The concept remains the same today with modern ABM—we want to sell to a list of ‘dream customers’ more commonly referred to as target accounts.

CRM 98

CRM GTM Cross-sell Cold Call 98

Gong.io

AUGUST 10, 2020

Which selling skills should account managers focus on building? Selling skills matter just as much for account management, just in a more subtle way. Selling Skills and Account Management. Because renewing, especially in SaaS, is pretty much selling. At the end of that contract, you’ve got to sell it again.

Customers 62

Customers Cross-sell Account management Drivers/motivators 62

Gong.io

JULY 21, 2021

That’s why m odern go-to-market teams started aligning those teams a while back. Done well, RevOps means higher revenue and a smoother go-to-market (GTM) process. Once you’ve moved your org beyond ‘ What is revenue operations ”, they’ll know that it’s more than hosting a few cross-functional meetings. .

Growth 62

Growth GTM Cross-sell Pipeline 62

Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2021

That’s when I felt really bad selling people that, even though they were signing up for it themselves. I left print media because it was an industry that was contracting. A lot of really big fashion brands and jewelers and watch brands, that was a lot of relationship selling, which I like, but it’s not my favorite.

Referrals 68

Referrals Contract Cross-sell Sales 68

Sales Hacker

MARCH 25, 2025

Ray breaks down why the rise of AI agents is a tectonic shift, how businesses are already seeing ROI, and what it means for SaaS, team structure, and go-to-market strategies. Conversations reveal the unshared details behind how they have grown companies, and the go-to-market strategies responsible for shaping that growth.

GTM 70

GTM X-functional Start-ups Relationship building 70

Highspot

APRIL 2, 2020

Modern sales ops professionals play a vital role in the success of a sales organization by staying ahead of problems and enabling the sales team to focus on selling. Planning and strategizing go-to-market plans. Automating any possible selling or non-selling tasks. Contract lifecycle management.

Non-Profits 75

Non-Profits CRM Territory Cross-sell 75

SalesLoft

JANUARY 19, 2017

At this time I was tasked with developing & executing sales account strategy and managing the training of all go-to-market teams. Reps have a tendency to make excuses for the prospects they spend time trying to convert and less time being highly exclusive with whom to sell to. Your ICP could include 20 or more criteria.

Cross-sell 52

Cross-sell Sales Contract Prospecting 52

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 25, 2023

We’ll continue on our mission to provide real stories/strategies/insights from the best go-to-market operators on the planet, spanning sales, marketing, customer success, operations/enablement, product and hiring. Oh, and remember that 92% of the lifetime value comes after they commit and sign the contract!

GTM 53

GTM Contract Cross-sell Account management 53

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Take control with the DocuSign agreement cloud, a suite of tools that automates sales contracts and quote, all right in your CRM. Create custom contracts in a click, sign them digitally, and automatically pull data back into your opportunities. You experienced so many different founders and companies and go to market motions.

Cross-sell 53

Cross-sell Contract Pharmaceutical Quota 53

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 17, 2019

How selling as a founder will help you understand your sales motions. And he has indoctrinated that it cross a wide range of functions and content so that the rest of us can learn. Take control with a DocuSign agreement cloud, a suite of tools that automated sales contracts and quotes all in your CRM. What You’ll Learn.

Cross-sell 53

Cross-sell Contract Sales Up-sell 53

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 2, 2019

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. Most recently she worked at Crayon, which is an early-stage market intelligence platform.

Strategize 55

Strategize Contract Strategic planning Drivers/motivators 55

SBI

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Beta or early-adopter customers logically represent the tip of the arrow of your go-to-market efforts, but only if that’s been planned. acquired a company and wants to ramp up cross-sell opportunities. Renewal rates are certainly important, but a customer advocate is worth multiples of their annual contract value.

Customers 49

Customers Cross-sell B2B Strategize 49

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

We hear his best practices on developing a sales team, measuring rep productivity, why companies should lead with their product first, and what the sales team’s responsibility is inside of a product-led go-to-market strategy. He went to Holy Cross. But, Let’s go to the beginning: How’d you get into sales?

Product 63

Product Pipeline Engineering Cross-sell 63

SalesHandy

JULY 12, 2022

is a common misconception amongst many salespeople and marketers believing they should serve everyone. If you are selling to the wrong individuals, then your sales team will most likely struggle to connect with them and their pain points. Low CLV and high churn rates indicate that you are selling to the wrong people.

Customers 59

Customers Cross-sell Represent Up-sell 59

SaaStr

JULY 29, 2022

So you’re really asking how do you get a business going, like selling to restaurants that not only is hard to penetrate but has a hardware component. So maybe it was a crummy time to sell as they were coming up on 20 million US dollars in revenue. Jason Lemkin: Well, look. It might take a few times.

Price 109

Price Product Start-ups Niche 109

SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2019

Then on the go to market side just over 40% of new ARR comes indirectly around the world through partners. I’m happy to talk about both of those as we go through this session. We look at things like do we, the net new logos versus upsells or cross-sells coming from channel versus direct.

Engineering 51

Engineering Launch Contract Start-ups 51

SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2020

My focus is SaaS and my job is to create a defensible go-to market moat, right? When we talk of hypergrowth and I go back to Drift and Segment to give you an idea of how fast and how much growth there is, we did 3X revenue at Segment in 18 months and we made 5X revenue at Drift in 18 months. It’s not going to stop, right?

Growth 64

Growth Engineering Launch Commission 64

Hubspot

AUGUST 21, 2023

To have a successful product launch, you need to craft a thoughtful, actionable, effective go-to-market (GTM) strategy framework. Without proper planning, it’s impossible to know if you’re chasing the wrong audience, are too early or too late to a given market, or targeting a market that's too saturated with similar solutions.

Go To Market 69

Go To Market Process GTM Launch 69

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 7, 2025

One of my questions right away was just, you made this transition, at least at Aircall, from APAC and running that to now overseeing you know global what are some of the differences between selling in apac and selling in in north america hmm. So I think I’m going to start with what is the same.

GTM 118

GTM Sell Customers Cold Call 118

SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

The three stages are product-market fit, then go-to-market fit and lastly growth and moat. And so I just want to throw in a framework around product market fit measured by customer value creation, then go to market fit measured by economics, then we scale fast. It was all about getting the contract.

Growth 106

Growth Cross-sell Contract X-functional 106

Salesforce

JULY 28, 2022

Elyse Archer , founder and CEO of She Sells, said this should start with the customer need: “What can you change in your processes, systems, and delivery to serve them best now?” Additionally, simple tweaks to payment options and contract terms go a long way to addressing customers’ budgetary concerns. said Batrawy.

Cross-sell 98

Cross-sell GTM Quota Contract 98