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

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

He was one of the first few reps hired at Yammer to sell into the Fortune 500, responsible for closing some of their largest, 7-figure contracts. Over the last few years he has advised and invested in many B2B SaaS companies, particularly focused on helping with Go-To-Market.

GTM 122

GTM Growth Referrals Contract 122

InsightSquared

MARCH 6, 2018

Instead of behind-the-scenes sales support, sales ops now acts as a strategic partner for sales VPs and leadership. They’ll ensure guidelines are properly adhered to and contracts are being executed, all while simultaneously working to eliminate barriers that slow down the contracting process. Go-to-market strategy.

Contract 119

Contract CRM Territory Sales 119

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Through strategically implemented training, software tools and engagement techniques, sales ops leaders enable sales reps to focus more on selling in order to drive business results. . Sales Ops has expanded its role to include nearly all functions that provide strategic insight needed by a sales team to achieve sustainable growth.

Territory 106

Territory Non-Profits Contract Quota 106

Gong.io

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

I don’t just sell — I coach and direct a go-to-market team.”. Decisions makers: Senior leaders and executives who care about how the purchase affects their budget, strategic goals, and org alignment. Those who dwell in due diligence: Budget approvers, legal/contract reviewers, and procurement analysts .

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Closing Sports GTM Legal 162

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

This is a special Wednesday edition of The GTM Newsletter by GTMnow – read by over 52,000 revenue professionals weekly to stay up-to-date on go-to-market and scale their companies and careers. It was launched back in 2016, which given the rapid pace of go-to-market innovation, is becoming obsolete.

GTM 110

GTM Represent Growth Contract 110

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Make sure you know how your customers buy and tailor your go to market strategy and messaging to that. If you can’t afford that person, you’ll have to be very conscious about finding time to be strategic, to working on improving the business, not just doing the day-to-day work of the company all the time.

Non-Profits 128

Non-Profits Price Contract Start-ups 128

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Companies, especially those with an undifferentiated product, may want to think strategically about the evolution of their respective category and the path towards building a platform. . PP could be a strategic enabler of GTM scale up if done well. Picking early customers is very strategic. That’s too tactical.

GTM 117

GTM Niche Cross-sell Contract 117

Veloxy

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Listening to these top sales podcasts can help professionals enhance their skills, stay informed about new developments in the field, and gain strategic advice from seasoned sales experts for career advancement and sales success.

Gaming 233

Gaming Sell GTM Technique 233

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

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.

Engineering 126

Engineering Objectives and Key Results Drivers/motivators Teamwork 126

Salesforce

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Businesses are realizing that to stay agile, strategic, and most importantly, sustainable, they need a CRO who can fold marketing, sales, and customer success into one seamless revenue machine. “In They’re able to pinpoint how organizations can strategically move themselves into a very successful future.”. Not exactly.

Gaming 98

Gaming Cross-sell Sales Finance 98

SaaStr

MARCH 7, 2023

Actions Companies Can Take Today To Reduce Burn Companies that have been able to beat bottom-line plans have taken various strategic actions, often in tandem, to reduce burn and extend runway. Some other strategies for creating a more efficient go-to-market are: Adjusting pricing and contract terms with customers.

GTM 70

GTM Growth Profit margin Contract 70

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Average Contract Value. AB Testing (or Split Testing) is an experiment involving two variants, usually for measuring and comparing market response to each. Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) is the value of contracted, often subscription-based revenues normalized for one calendar year. Go-to-Market Strategy.

B2B 105

B2B E-commerce Cold Call Represent 105

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.

Objectives and Key Results 103

Objectives and Key Results GTM Price Territory 103

Martech

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

4 Defend marketing efficiency and effectiveness above budget In challenging times , CEOs and boards can look to scale back go-to-market efforts, leaving marketing in a defensive stance when it comes to budget. Here, in reverse order, are the top four deeper dive areas where we found direct success. #4

GTM 128

GTM Market share Growth Technology 128

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 88

GTM Negotiate Profit margin Contract 88

SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2022

Rico Mallozzi: So marketplaces are fundamentally changing, go to market motions for a lot of enterprise technology companies. And with that being said, today we’re going to discuss how you assess that, how you become successful on these. You need to get those transactions to kind of get that high velocity movement going.

Cross-sell 103

Cross-sell Finance Strategize Technology 103

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 100

Growth GTM SQL Strategic partnership 100

Salesforce

AUGUST 12, 2021

As part of a three-member demand gen marketing team for Salesforce Marketing Cloud , Galit Heimlich and her colleagues are responsible for influencing 40% of the product’s marketing pipeline and annual contract value. In that sense, we function as strategic partners and project managers.

Campaign 98

Campaign Contract B2B Conversion 98

Sales Hacker

APRIL 29, 2021

For example, a start-up with thirty total people in the company will not be able to hire for each of these functions, but an enterprise company with a large sales team may hire (or contract out) for the majority of these functions. Thus, to fully implement a strategic content shop, individual contributors will have to wear multiple hats.

A/B testing 116

A/B testing Sales Quota GTM 116

Sales Hacker

APRIL 21, 2022

We changed our product, evolved our marketing programs, and transitioned the sales team. This was all in an effort to increase our average contract value (ACV). The ICP determines decisions across the company from the go-to-market to product strategy. It’s a more strategic, creative sale. Product usage.

Cross-sell 103

Cross-sell Legal Contract Price 103

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 69

GTM X-functional Start-ups Relationship building 69

Heinz Marketing

MARCH 6, 2019

If I scale my efforts to additional accounts, often I’m expanding from, say, top strategic accounts into broad enterprise or commercial. ERIC : It is important for companies to approach account based as a complimentary go-to-market strategy, not a replacement. These accounts don’t justify the same investment.

B2C 78

B2C Drivers/motivators Account management B2B 78

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

VCs are always on the lookout for the next Lyft, so they strategically partner with founders who they believe will provide them with a 10X return. This funding generally gives the company a couple of years to further develop its products, team, and begin to tackle its GTM (go-to-market) strategy. It’s no longer just an idea.

Sell 106

Sell Minimum Viable Product Objectives and Key Results Cross-sell 106

PandaDoc

MARCH 17, 2025

Revenue operations is a strategic approach to aligning sales, operations, customer success, and marketing to drive growth. 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. What is RevOps ? What is FinOps ?

Legal 52

Legal Finance Strategize Growth 52

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. Full time offer with Intel on their strategic finance team. Assist the CEO and sales leadership team with go-to-market planning. Manager, Revenue Operations.

Finance 116

Finance Cross-sell GTM SQL 116

PandaDoc

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

A strategic revenue operations (RevOps) approach can help you optimize your end-to-end customer journey to maximize growth. Marketing, sales, and customer success departments are all aiming for a common goal: to drive revenue. Integrating your CRM with the PandaDoc contract management solution will speed up the deal-closing process.

E-commerce 52

E-commerce Objectives and Key Results Contract Pipeline 52

Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Proposal sent: The buyer reviews your proposal or contract. Average deal size: The mean value of a contract. As your salespeople become more knowledgeable, your marketing team learns which channels to use to attract the best fit prospects, and your business becomes more well-known in its space, your sales cycle should decrease.

Pipeline 101

Pipeline Negotiate Sales Objectives and Key Results 101

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. Boosting annual contract values? Targeting new markets? Your data and analytics won’t help you make bold, strategic plans.

Growth 62

Growth GTM Cross-sell Pipeline 62

Gong.io

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Target account selling is a B2B sales methodology that focuses on building and nurturing relationships with strategically chosen, high-value accounts that have a high probability of closing. Sales reps don’t waste time chasing low-quality leads that won’t close or whose annual contracts are barely worth their time. What is TAS?

Sell 62

Sell Cold Call Contract Up-sell 62

Highspot

APRIL 2, 2020

When implemented alongside strategic training, tools, and engagement techniques, sales operations can help sales teams become more productive and efficient and have a positive impact on both top- and bottom-line performance. Planning and strategizing go-to-market plans. Contract lifecycle management.

Non-Profits 75

Non-Profits CRM Territory Cross-sell 75

Sales Hacker

MAY 20, 2019

How to better optimize your go to market. With Conga, you can simplify documents, automate contracts, and execute esignatures so you can focus on accelerating sales cycles and closing business faster. Jake Dunlap : Marketing looks at technology as a strategic investment that’s an absolute must.

Consult 86

Consult Technology Technology Networking 86

SalesLoft

JUNE 21, 2022

Your legal and finance teams are likely reviewing and negotiating vendor contracts. More challenging to identify where the problem is if something breaks; time spent troubleshooting takes away from more strategic work . Multiple contracts to negotiate and manage. That’s right, it isn’t just a revenue issue. Points of Failure.

Negotiate 52

Negotiate Legal Finance Technology 52

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.

Finance 108

Finance Government Price Contract 108

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Doug Landis, Growth Partner at Emergence Capital shares his expertise on the art of business conversations and how your customers should inform your go-to-market messaging. In today’s post, we present The Cutting Edge , where the best sales leaders in SaaS share cutting – edge tactics and strategies.

Pitch 113

Pitch Conversion Sales Territory 113

SBI

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

It’s a combination of CMOs accepting that the CAP’s (any programs for that matter) goals and activities aren’t aligned to corporate imperatives, and advocate program managers not seeing their true potential or thinking strategically. If you’re thinking, “This is all pretty strategic stuff!” has identified a new segment ripe for growth.

Customers 49

Customers Cross-sell B2B Strategize 49