Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Contracted $ARR quadrupled, win rates doubled, and ACV increased by 150%. Several leading indicators contributed here, including product maturity, a better understanding of our customers and competition, and better coordination across sales and marketing. Here are the areas of greatest impact SEs have made at Stytch: 1.

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Engineering Objectives and Key Results Drivers/motivators Teamwork 127

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Contract Lifecycle Management. Contract Management. Contract Lifecycle Management. In addition to the technical and sales enablement responsibilities, the newly formed Sales Operations unit will be responsible for the following tasks: Go-to-market strategy & planning. Customer contract life cycle management.

Territory 107

Territory Non-Profits Contract Quota 107

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

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. Marketing is more than just demand gen! Most of the CMOs we spoke to emphasized how their developer relationship team was a game changer in driving customer love.

GTM 116

GTM Niche Cross-sell Contract 116

SaaStr

MARCH 22, 2023

You need to marry your go-to-market strategy to specific commercial structures that you, as a SaaS company, decide to offer your customers. They asked themselves, “what if we moved to some motion of licensing contracts?” And if you do that, ensure you have a go-to-market approach specific to that commercial model.

Growth 102

Growth Cross-sell GTM Up-sell 102

Hubspot

AUGUST 8, 2019

That’s why successful companies obsessively measure everything about their go-to-market model, sales strategy, and salespeople. Market penetration. Percentage of revenue from existing customers (cross-selling, upselling, repeat orders, expanded contracts, etc.). Average contract value (ACV). Year-over-year growth.

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X-functional Quota Cross-sell Contract 101

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 13, 2021

OEM licenses are significantly larger deal sizes than direct to end-user contracts because the licensee is usually pushing out the software to their entire customer base or a large portion of their customer base. One OEM contract can give thousands or tens of thousands of end-users access to the licensor’s software. Exclusivity.

GTM 89

GTM Negotiate Profit margin Contract 89

Highspot

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Marketing to connect what your product does to how it solves customer problems with compelling promotions and campaigns. Conduct Film Reviews In the same way athletes watch game footage to enhance their performance, sales teams benefit from replaying and analyzing actual calls.

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Product GTM Objectives and Key Results Cross-sell 52

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

Heinz Marketing

MARCH 29, 2021

But also I remember a lot of explicit conversations from 12 months ago talking to go-to-market leaders, especially in some of our manufacturing industrial clients saying like, what am I going to do? I got reps that are used to going to someone’s office with a box of samples. Oh, what did we agree to last time?

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Pipeline Sales Gaming Up-sell 128

Gong.io

JUNE 11, 2021

Rapidly evolved into a strategic, go-to-market function. They continue, “What was once the responsibility of product marketing, sales operations, or of a single sales trainer, sales enablement is now supported by dedicated teams founded within the sales organization” (bold is mine). 3: Accelerate strategic initiatives.

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Objectives and Key Results Price GTM Territory 103

Gong.io

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Sales reps don’t waste time chasing low-quality leads that won’t close or whose annual contracts are barely worth their time. This isn’t a numbers game — it’s about quality over quality. Achieve higher annual contract value (ACV). Go-to-market outreach.

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Sell Cold Call Contract Up-sell 62

Cience

APRIL 27, 2020

Many hospitals wouldn’t know about this game-changing tech without good old-fashioned outbound. We came into the year with a roaring economy, bullish outlooks on the future, a smattering of contraction warnings. We were buried by what seemed like weekly stock market record highs, and the lowest unemployment rates in history.

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Hospitality Angle Contract Appointment 66

Gong.io

OCTOBER 27, 2021

That’s how it ensures alignment between plans and reality, and helps everyone on your sales and go-to-market teams be their highest-performing selves. That might include contract lifecycle management, maintaining comms channels, facilitating inter- and intra-team collaboration on major deals, and allocating accounts. Perfection.

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Quota Pipeline Sales Contract 62

PandaDoc

MARCH 17, 2025

You might see marketing operations reporting to demand gen, and then you might have a sales or business operations function supporting the sales strategy and process. The concept of RevOps is to ensure revenue efficiency and business processes are unified across all your go-to-market functions. What is FinOps ?

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Legal Finance Strategize Growth 52

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

And in this way, we under invested in middle management along the way, especially in our go to market motion. Instead of investing a bunch in automation, they invested a bunch in managers in that go to market motion. There’s not a game room. And they trusted people. And so we made that decision. It molded-.

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Account management Engineering Launch Start-ups 98

Heinz Marketing

JANUARY 10, 2020

Looking for market insights from those already deeply embedded with history and perspective? How about feedback on your intended go-to-market plan and/or product road map? If they’re focused on enterprise and you’re focused on SMB, can you really expect the same ROI in terms of market intelligence, sales referrals and more?

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Referrals Negotiate Contract High impact 54

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 60

Territory Cross-sell Contract Drivers/motivators 60

Lead Fuze

DECEMBER 1, 2021

SMB and mid-market businesses may be tempted to go straight into selling to enterprise. Those deals are large, with 3 year contracts and prestigious logos. One of the most important parts about being a successful SaaS company is understanding how to go-to market. We even included some examples for you.

Sell 52

Sell Account management Contract Price 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

Lead Fuze

JANUARY 1, 2022

OEM licenses are larger than direct to end-user contracts because the licensee is usually pushing out software to their entire customer base or a large portion of it. One OEM contract can give thousands or tens of thousands access to licensors software. Using an OEM go-to-market strategy. Licensing OEM software Sellers.

Negotiate 52

Negotiate Profit margin Contract Price 52

Lead Fuze

DECEMBER 1, 2021

SMB and mid-market businesses may be tempted to go straight into the Enterprise market. Those deals are large, with 3 year contracts and prestigious logos. One of the most important parts about being a successful SaaS company is understanding how to go-to market. We even included some examples for you.

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Product Account management Contract Price 40

Pointclear

JANUARY 27, 2017

I start with Matt Heinz : If we could get more sales and marketing teams to develop and agree on this model TOGETHER, we’d have a foundation for much better, more efficient and effective sales results well into 2017 and beyond. Finally, some valuable insight from Ardath Albee : I dislike the reduction of marketing and sales to a numbers game.

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SQL Pipeline Strategize Presentation 51

Gong.io

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

And it’s great insight for sellers to be able to go in, and if you’re the top salesperson in the company, to go in there and say, “Alright, what’s she doing at what stage of the cycle? Why is her game so much better than mine?” And then analyze all of that, and make everything better as we go. Listen now at gong.io/podcasts.

Pipeline 48

Pipeline Start-ups Up-sell Contract 48

SaaStr

JULY 2, 2019

We’re here to talk for the next 25 minutes or so about our experience going from freemium to enterprise. Kevin : We kept it fairly vague, if you will, but we’re going to be really focused on the go-to-market elements of the freemium to enterprise model. Dannie : It made for a really nice go-to market model.

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Follow-up Go To Market Meeting Start-ups 66

SaaStr

JULY 29, 2022

And it became a massive capital sink, as the company changed its go-to market around five million in revenue. Because it is viral, but is viral like Dropbox as you noted, it is viral like DocuSign and Adobe Sign were when we built it in the early days, when by signing a contract, someone else inherently saw the product.

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Price Product Start-ups Niche 108

Veloxy

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Whether you’re a rookie learning the ropes or a vet hunting innovative tactics, our curated guide to essential sales podcasts is your ticket to leveling up your sales game. So, whether you are a sales rep, a sales manager, or a sales development rep, exploring this curated list of podcasts can elevate your selling game.

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Gaming Sell GTM Technique 233

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 14, 2025

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube There’s a ton of talk about what isn’t working today in go-to-market. In this special episode, Scott Barker is looking at some of the big themes he’s seen in how the top go-to-market leaders are driving growth today.

GTM 109

GTM Growth B2B Pipeline 109

SBI

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

ZoomInfo powered by DiscoverOrg is a powerful sales prospecting and go-to-market solution for salespeople, marketing, and even C-Level execs. DiscoverOrg and ZoomInfo Merge Brands to Launch Innovative B2B Data Platform To Power Go-To-Market Success. We talk about ABM, Purchase Intent, the number's game.

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Customers Tradeshows Technology Technology 20

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.

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Go To Market Process GTM Launch 69

Salesforce

MAY 2, 2022

This year, we’re adding 13 new names to our top-tier cohort, featuring experts in go-to-market strategies, diversity and inclusion, mental health, productivity, and revenue growth in our digital-first world. These are the future-makers in sales. Without further ado, here are the influencers who made our list for 2022.

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Gaming GTM Consult Sales 98

SaaStr

DECEMBER 21, 2023

By the time companies get to Series B, they’ve figured out their product-market fit but they still haven’t scaled. Series B is where the go-to-market expertise is essential – you have to know how to truly understand who your target customers are and set up an experimental channel strategy.

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Gambling GTM Legal Contract 115

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

To ensure your company is recession ready, develop a game plan for your sales organization that focuses on investments in tools, training, and effective sales tactics. Additionally, simple tweaks to payment options and contract terms go a long way to addressing customers’ budgetary concerns.

Cross-sell 98

Cross-sell GTM Quota Contract 98

SaaStr

JULY 28, 2021

I really tried and never lose a game of chicken. Terrifying because back in those days, big companies didn’t even know what SaaS was, much less they weren’t going to put their financial information out in the cloud. Venture capitals are playing a numbers game. ” [laughs] They didn’t realize it.

Start-ups 112

Start-ups Gaming Up-sell Contract 112

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

GTMnow is the media brand of GTMfund – sharing go-to-market advice from the top 1% of revenue operators including the 350 executives behind the fund, news, and our viewpoints from working with hundreds of portfolio companies. If your sales team has 20 plus reps, we’re confident Apollo could be a game changer for you.

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GTM Launch Electricity Sales 76

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

So if you are in the modern world, 2021, you are going to market, as a brand manufacturer, as a retailer, as a distributor, any of these models, in a hundred different ways. So first and foremost, you want to have control of your go-to-market, and you’ve got to have the ability to sell to your customer yourself.

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E-commerce Manufacturing X-functional Retail 116

SaaStr

MAY 27, 2020

So people were paying people to take their futures contracts. That means specifically they’re going to cancel contracts. And that means they’re going to renegotiate prices for tools that they deem essential. I think most SaaS startups haven’t seen the full effects of what you’re going to see.

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Finance Government Price Contract 106