SaaStr

MARCH 2, 2025

Rippling does use AI for account scoring and targeting, but maintains that human SDRs bring three irreplaceable elements: Personalization that AI often gets wrong Multi-channel saturation (especially phone) Creative hustle that differentiates in a crowded market Matt’s advice: “The more effort something takes, the higher the yield.

Growth 77

Growth Cold Call Cross-sell Account management 77

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Becoming less reliant on human touch takes time and planning, so take a good look in the mirror, determine how much and how fast you can do it, and then form a cross-functional plan that meets your current business goals while also working towards future ones. When can we expect X% of trial sign-ups to convert with 1-2 human touches or less?

Go To Market 97

Go To Market Growth GTM X-functional 97

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Guy Yalif is a seasoned B2B SaaS executive with over 20 years of go-to-market experience. 49:07) The effectiveness of small group events in go-to-market strategies. (31:55) And thank you all for rocking with us every week.

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GTM Engineering Electricity X-functional 102

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. These early conversations helped shape Databricks product, pricing, and go-to-market strategy. Talk to users.

Technical Sales 70

Technical Sales Inside sales Cross-sell Account management 70

Heinz Marketing

OCTOBER 4, 2021

This week’s show is called “ A New Go To Market Framework to Get You MOVE-ing “ My guest is Sangram Vajre , Author, Co-Founder & Chief Evangelist at Terminus. We’re going to talk a little bit about that today as well, in terms of better go-to-market strategies. The bait and switch.

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Pipeline Go To Market Cross-sell Sales 124

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

Gong.io

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Hence, every business that wants to grow needs direction in the form of a go-to-market strategy. . A go-to-market strategy framework is a blueprint for growth. Whether it’s your first time creating a go-to-market strategy or your tenth, this article will teach you everything you need to know to be successful.

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Go To Market GTM Launch Promote 62

Heinz Marketing

JUNE 21, 2021

Join us as Christel shares some best practices on how she prioritizes all the different marketing requirements in an early stage company as well as how she is setting up the marketing organization and priorities internally. Like we talk a lot about big demand programs and sales and marketing teams working together.

Pipeline 105

Pipeline Start-ups Go To Market Education 105

Veloxy

MAY 3, 2022

You need actual thought leadership and takeaways that you can readily apply to your role and your sales organization starting today. Get ready to download and start using (yes, much of these sales resources are actually useful and interactive) these sales tools today. Helps perfect your sales process in order to sell more.

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Sell Cold Call Tradeshows Cross-sell 182

Partners in Excellence

MARCH 26, 2024

It’s a solution that addresses the way buying is changing, integrating digital and personal selling. But what really interested me were Bill’s perspectives on where buying and selling is headed and how we must change our engagement strategies to work with buyers more impactfully.

Sell 137

Sell Cross-sell Finance B2C 137

Martech

OCTOBER 28, 2022

B2B marketing leaders are at a crossroads. But the go-to-market (GTM) strategies, systems and plays many teams use are not connecting with how buyers and companies research and make purchase decisions. . Dump the ‘lead capture’ mentality and turn up the engagement-first approach. This is not an “MQL is dead!”

B2B 127

B2B GTM Cross-sell Quota 127

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 122

SaaStr

MARCH 22, 2023

Your Commercial Market Will Define You Throughout Lenta’s experiences with these three journeys, he’s learned some key lessons for those looking to do similar. The commercial market you choose to build and offer your customers defines you, yes. Instead of selling products, they were selling aspirational concepts and business value.

Growth 103

Growth Cross-sell GTM Up-sell 103

Highspot

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

It’s typically a cross-functional initiative between sales and marketing. At its core, sales training teaches sales reps how to sell, imparting essential skills and techniques for engaging customers. On the flip side, sales enablement provides the tools to sell better. What Does Sales Enablement Training Include?

Pitch 52

Pitch Sales Technique Cross-sell 52

Highspot

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Leaders quickly realize the importance of revenue operations (RevOps) and how aligning go-to-market teams under one unified approach can boost performance, improve operational efficiency, and increase revenue. Start by conducting an audit of your current workflows.

Teamwork 52

Teamwork Objectives and Key Results Cross-sell Follow-up 52

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.

Product 52

Product GTM Objectives and Key Results Cross-sell 52

Martech

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The growing impact of B2B internal disconnects is limiting our customer relationships, affecting our revenue results and hamstringing our go-to-market (GTM) teams’ productivity. This disconnect challenge is made more complicated when every organization, region, team or business unit is doing their own thing in how they go to market.

B2B 119

B2B GTM Customers Cross-sell 119

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

SalesLoft

AUGUST 23, 2019

, you know that SalesLoft’s self-declared sales nerd and podcast host, Jeremey Donovan asks every guest two questions: What is the first thing you remember selling? We have built up a pretty impressive book list from some of the most successful and influential sales leaders of all time. Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey A.

Cross-sell 96

Cross-sell Niche Sales Quota 96

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 7, 2022

It’s up to every ecommerce business to find the middle ground between investing too little in customer acquisition and spending beyond your means. These averages are useful for benchmarking figures for your industry, especially when starting out. To fully optimize CAC, look closely at your sales and marketing costs.

Cross-sell 22

Cross-sell Customers Referrals Drivers/motivators 22

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. We asked ourselves: ‘Would you rather have your competitor work remotely or be all huddled up in an office together?’ Our unanimous pick? who am I kidding?

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GTM Pipeline SQL UX 122

Heinz Marketing

JANUARY 13, 2022

And as marketing programs become more complex, it’s far more important to create seamless cross-channel campaigns that break through siloed teams. None of these reach the bar of a true, integrated account-based go-to-market motion. An equally coordinated approach across the seller’s go-to-market teams.

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B2B Objectives and Key Results Campaign Cross-sell 137

Gong.io

OCTOBER 19, 2021

For a long time, sales leaders thought that the way to give sales teams a leg up was to help them target the right buyers in the right ways. But if you thought that gifted reps and some targeted marketing would get your team to the top, pull up a chair. Let’s start by answering this simple question: “What is Sales Enablement?”.

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Quota Sales Strategize Cross-sell 164

Heinz Marketing

JULY 30, 2020

Where an ICP is more focused on the fit of an account, your buyer personas will go into much more detail on the individuals that make up those accounts. Plus, having this information up front will give you a head start when it comes time to build out your buyer personas! Luckily, getting started is easy.

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Customers Non-Profits Cross-sell Technology 124

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 2, 2020

No, that’s not the setup for some obscure go-to-market joke. It’s a flywheel for the entire sales funnel, speeding up sales motions and connecting every revenue-generating activity. Basic sales enablement is a good start, but it’s just that: a start. Start simple, the. Add complexity.

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Objectives and Key Results Sales Cross-sell Technology 139

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

A freemium or free-trial approach impacts the micro-conversion of an unpaid product sign-up. 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. So what should you do first?

Customers 119

Customers Cross-sell Referrals Networking 119

SalesLoft

MARCH 31, 2022

Both the pandemic and full adoption of digital selling have rapidly improved the way that we are looking at workplaces and teams, how we communicate with customers, and ultimately how we sell. These changes are positive, but now sales leaders have new challenges that are keeping them up at night – myself included.

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Objectives and Key Results Cross-sell Objection handling Sales 105

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.

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Cross-sell Growth Up-sell Launch 113

SaaStr

JULY 20, 2022

As start-ups begin to accumulate success and ?generate generate momentum, they will inevitably need to scale up. You’ve identified a persona to sell to and a problem you solve for buyers. Or, perhaps, you’ve secured a new round of funding and want to live up to the hype. You can see Dave’s slides here.

Cross-sell 103

Cross-sell GTM Finance Growth 103

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

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

The best sales teams don’t just sell — they keep customers happy and drive serious upsell, cross-sell, and expansion revenue. If you’re trying to build a world-class sales team, this is where you should start. As you can see, there are many ways to go about landing high-paying new customers. Field Sales.

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Inside sales Cold Call Contract Price 132

SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

The three stages are product-market fit, then go-to-market fit and lastly growth and moat. What are you doing up so early? What’s the failure rate for a Series A start up? What’s the failure rate of a Series C start up? We are screwing up the scale. SaaStr, good morning.

Growth 106

Growth Cross-sell Contract X-functional 106

Highspot

MARCH 7, 2025

Key Takeaways RevOps frameworks streamline your technology stack, clean up CRM data, and get sales reps using sales tools. Revenue Operations , or RevOps, is all about aligning your GTM teams (sales, marketing, and customer success) to drive growth. Ensures cross-team alignment on revenue goals. The result?

Growth 52

Growth GTM Objectives and Key Results CRM 52

Sales Hacker

APRIL 21, 2021

If the answer is “yes” to all three, now is the best time to get started in a revenue operations job. Revenue operations (RevOps) is a centralized org within a company that supports all revenue-generating business operations including Sales Ops, Marketing Ops, Customer Success Ops, and systems management. Asia Corbett ).

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Finance Cross-sell GTM SQL 116

Highspot

MAY 3, 2024

The buyer’s journey doesn’t just start and stop with sales. It requires multiple teams including marketing, customer success, account management, and more to optimize the sales cycle and performance. The goal is to simplify the complexities of today’s selling environment and create a smoother experience for buyers and sellers.

Cross-sell 93

Cross-sell Technology Technology GTM 93

SaaStr

JANUARY 30, 2023

Overcoming challenges by optimizing for success In the early stages of setting up your SaaS business, it’s always a good idea to invest time thinking about the direction you want to take. Identifying a direction is just the starting point. You will be able to leverage the best strategies for the go-to-market function.

Cross-sell 109

Cross-sell Account management Clients Growth 109

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Product marketers work to understand the market and what motivates customers. They choose the market segments to target. They design an effective go-to-market plan along with the required positioning and messaging. Start with product features. And nobody wants that.: Become customer-obsessed.

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Product E-commerce Strategize B2B 127