SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

In the latest episode of SaaStr’s CRO Confidential Series, our host Sam Blond sits down with Ron Gabrisko, CRO of Databricks , to unpack the journey from $1M in ARR to crossing $3B ARR at the end of January 2025. For context,Ron has an MBA and a master’s in engineering from Stanford. You gotta know the product cold.)

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Technical Sales Inside sales Cross-sell Account management 70

Salesforce

APRIL 2, 2025

Discover how to make product-led sales a part of your go-to-market strategy. Here’s an example: A software engineer at a major airline tries out a new SaaS product it’s a snippet of code that records the sessions of people who visit the airline’s website. What you’ll learn: What is product-led sales?

Product 85

Product Territory Sales Price 85

Sales Hacker

MARCH 8, 2024

GTMnow is the media extension of GTMfund – sharing insight on go-to-market from working with hundreds of portfolio companies backed by over 350+ of the best in the game executive operators who have been there, done that at the world’s fastest growing SaaS companies. Sales tactics like cold calls often have a low conversion rate.

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GTM Growth Referrals Cross-sell 124

Highspot

MARCH 12, 2024

To maximize the impact of revenue enablement, you must focus on three elements: the enablement’s position in your go-to-market (GTM) engine, its strategic role, and how you measure its impact. After you’ve gathered the list of the desired selling behaviors, it’s time for a frank conversation with sales leadership.

Strategize 115

Strategize GTM Cross-sell Finance 115

Sales Hacker

JULY 16, 2020

In May 2020, Facebook announced it was buying the gif search engine , Giphy, for $400 million — primarily for its Instagram product. This makes a gif search engine extremely valuable to the most-used products of our time. RELATED: Moving to Enterprise Sales (Part 2): 5 Go-to-Market Prerequisites You Need to Succeed.

Pipeline 127

Pipeline E-commerce Cross-sell Referrals 127

Sales Hacker

MAY 6, 2021

They’ll rip apart your CRM and replace your opportunity fields with their proven-and-trusted sales methodologies and scoff if you try to rehearse Sandler, Challenger, or MEDDIC selling to them. This includes roles that are complementary to sales like renewals, customer success, and solution engineering. Singular focus on sales.

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B2C Pipeline SQL Strategize 122

Highspot

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Product training is a structured learning process that helps team members understand, communicate, and sell a product. Marketing to connect what your product does to how it solves customer problems with compelling promotions and campaigns. What is Product Training? Customer support to address customer queries and ensure adoption.

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Product GTM Objectives and Key Results Cross-sell 52

Salesforce

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Every CRO finds themselves thinking this about their original revenue engine at some point — usually after a period of growth. What started as a manageable headache is now causing your organization to leak revenue — especially as you add more products, territories, and go-to-market strategies into the mix. “It’s not me.

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GTM Territory Finance E-commerce 98

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Those three little letters that can stir up so much debate in the marketing and go-to-market world. What I mean by MQLs is Marketing Qualified Leads. Staying quiet on go-to-market topics isn’t exactly my style – so let’s get into it. Not Nicole and not other marketing leaders.

GTM 123

GTM Pipeline SQL UX 123

SaaStr

JANUARY 30, 2023

Deel solved this by scaling the revenue operations team in conjunction to support sales, design quotas, and go-to-market strategies, and leverage data to identify the best strategies. To tap into this revenue potential, Deel grew the account management team so managers could reach out to clients, share products, upsell, and cross-sell.

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Cross-sell Account management Clients Growth 109

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

They offer all the features you need to sell to Enterprise customers. Single sign-on SAML authentication SCIM provisioning for user management You can sell to 20-30-40-person companies all day, but if you want to sell to hundreds of people in a company, you will need this stuff, and WorkOS helps you do it fast.

Cross-sell 113

Cross-sell Growth Up-sell Launch 113

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

And optimizing for micro-conversions can undermine macro-conversions, especially if your marketing team never sees what happens after a form fill. Define your go-to-market strategy. As Wes Bush details, you have three options for a SaaS go-to-market strategy : sales led, marketing led, or product led.

Customers 119

Customers Cross-sell Referrals Networking 119

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

The director of customer success brings her Salesforce report to a cross-functional meeting with sales and marketing leadership. For our example, we’ll cover what a RevOps manager does on a daily basis: Makes decisions on sales and marketing strategies to drive business revenue. Career Advice from 6 RevOps Pros.

Finance 117

Finance Cross-sell GTM SQL 117

Hubspot

JUNE 8, 2021

Nearly half of their time is spent selling remotely (i.e. Their main goal is to help customers increase the ROI on a purchase, so they'll often connect with a salesperson if an opportunity to cross-sell or upsell arises. Sales Engineer. using Zoom, Skype, email, and CRM). Regional Sales Manager. Image Source.

Commission 94

Commission Territory Finance Inside sales 94

Openview

APRIL 11, 2018

So much of what they do, particularly fundraising, is selling. But if you scale this function with intention, a sales org will enrich your company’s existing culture, help you build better product, and sell it too. . Great sales people care deeply about driving to cross their own personal quotas, but they care about the company too.

Product 82

Product Negotiate Quota Cross-sell 82

InsightSquared

DECEMBER 3, 2019

The heart of revenue operations is the alignment of marketing, sales and customer success operations and their go-to-market teams around one single north-star goal: revenue. In order for go-to-market teams to achieve that, they need to be able to communicate freely and change their actions mid-course quickly.

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Cross-sell Teamwork Sales Gaming 62

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.”.

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Sell Minimum Viable Product Objectives and Key Results Cross-sell 108

Highspot

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Suddenly, your business has gone from a single salesperson to a team of hundreds, each of whom has a different approach to selling — and not all of them right for your business. But to succeed, you’ll need your team to execute your go-to-market strategy in a single, unified motion. Transactional Selling.

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Cross-sell Consult Sales Strategize 85

Heinz Marketing

AUGUST 30, 2021

This week’s show is called “ The Evolution of Successful Social Selling ” and our guest is Jamie Shanks , CEO @ Sales for Life and Pipeline Signals. Sort of when lots of people say that they were the godfather of social selling, you were there at the start. You can even ask Alexa! I’m giving you that credit.

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Pipeline Sales Up-sell Cross-sell 122

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

Heinz Marketing

MARCH 25, 2020

The following blog post was written based on new research from Heinz Marketing and 6Sense. Yet creating a predictable revenue growth engine is no small task, nor is it one that can be done overnight. The (Mis)alignment of Sales and Marketing. A severe lack of cross-functional coordination.

Growth 69

Growth Cross-sell Territory Engineering 69

ConversionXL

JUNE 30, 2019

Companies do it for a wide variety of reasons—SEO, branding, go-to-market strategy, pricing, etc.—and Most likely, they’ll only remember one—your main selling point. Competitive analysis is a broad term for the practice of researching, analyzing, and comparing competitors in relation to yourself. What is it on your website?

UX 126

UX X-functional A/B testing User Experience 126

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

We have worked inside organizations that have successfully transitioned from selling into mid-market to selling into Enterprises. This guide will arm you with the three most important things to address with your executive team before committing to the Enterprise market. Get Aligned Before Moving Upmarket.

Product 68

Product Contract Cross-sell Account management 68

Highspot

MARCH 30, 2021

Sales performance is affected by your enablement efforts, such as sales training or content management; your customer experience; your cross-functional alignment; and your company culture. That’s because certain sales models are better suited to certain types of businesses, selling motions, or solutions. Make decisions with data.

Objectives and Key Results 69

Objectives and Key Results Assembly Line Cross-sell Sales 69

SaaStr

MAY 27, 2023

Next up was Jason Cohen, founder of $100m+ WP Engine. So, whether you’re hiring or you’re selling or you’re running a leadership meeting, a lot of the time you’re banking on your natural skills and experience to get you to a good result so you can move on to the next thing. Several, we closed while I was on a cross-country flight.

Gaming 96

Gaming Trust Cross-sell Closing 96

Heinz Marketing

MAY 16, 2022

If I’m ever in market, I won’t buy from them because of how they treated me, because of how they pushed me.” And you want the CFO to understand what modern marketing can do, not only to demand function, but again, customer experience, the impact on retention, lifetime value, valuation multiples over time.

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Pipeline Referrals X-functional Cross-sell 97

SaaStr

JUNE 27, 2019

As we talk about that journey, the enterprise has been the growth engine for the last several years. Fast forward to today, we’ve crossed the $400 million revenue mark. We announced tomorrow, but we’ve crossed that line and now we’re at about 55% of our revenues coming from the enterprise.

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Cross-sell Technology Technology Pitch 95

Highspot

JUNE 11, 2020

Cross-functional input into go-to-market strategies. Seamless handoff between marketing-generated leads and sales. Through these actions, marketing supports sales by ensuring that buyers are educated, interested, and engaged — and more likely to start, or continue, doing business with you. Strategize together.

Objectives and Key Results 59

Objectives and Key Results Cross-sell Sales Education 59

Salesforce

AUGUST 24, 2021

Believe me when I tell you: teams and companies aren’t using CRM technology to its full potential as the engine for customer-centered growth. The research surveyed executives, team managers, and individual contributors across marketing, sales, commerce, service, finance, and IT. CRM isn’t just for sales and service teams.

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CRM Finance Customer Relationship Management Technology 98

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. How experience as a sales engineer can play into your role as a sales leader. He went to Holy Cross.

Product 63

Product Pipeline Engineering Cross-sell 63

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

Highspot

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Instead, you’ve got to accelerate sales by learning the ins and outs of your revenue engine — so you know exactly how far and how fast you can push it. Go-to-market teams work in silos, rarely communicate. Go-to-market teams collaborate continuously to drive outcomes. Nimbly adapts to shifts in market.

Sales 52

Sales Cross-sell Technique Growth 52

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Selling has changed more in the last 10 years than it has in the previous 100 years, and this is especially true in B2B markets. . At the forefront of this change is what we at Engagio call, Account-Based Everything (ABE), some people know it as Account-Based Sales Development (ABSD), and others call it Account-Based Marketing (ABM).

Technology 82

Technology Technology Cross-sell Referrals 82

SaaStr

JULY 15, 2022

How, if no one’s heard of you, do you sell to big companies? Yes, there is the classic situation where a big company wants to give you a lot of money, but overwhelm your engineering resources. Ash Bhoopathy (@ashbhoopathy): Probably more around go-to-market and sales. Jason Lemkin: Well, let’s break it up.

Growth 117

Growth Cross-sell Start-ups X-functional 117

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

So it really focused our efforts on selling larger deals and go after the enterprise space. And large companies don’t necessarily go on your website and don’t sign up. You’re crossing the chasm. Like really advise you to read Crossing The Chasm because it’s a paradigm shift.

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Territory Cross-sell Sales Cold Call 58

Salesforce

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Team selling is more important than ever, and sales kickoffs help us sell faster and smarter when we learn more about each other’s working styles. Often a sales kickoff will include partners from other teams, like solution engineering and customer success, who are critical to the sales cycle. Collaboration.

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Cross-sell Presentation Sales Up-sell 64