Lead Fuze

JULY 1, 2023

Finally, you’ll gain insights on cross-checking territory assignments, compensation incentive programs, capacity staffing and understanding different types of quotes serving different functions. Case Study: Adjusting Quota Based on Performance Imagine this: Jonathan sells fewer products but at higher value points.

Quota 52

Quota Growth Territory Commission 52

SaaStr

JULY 5, 2024

GTM Mistake #1: A VP of Sales That Can’t Sell or Demo the Product Mistake number one has always been an issue, and it’s the number one reason startups struggle in today’s world. They hire a VP of Sales who doesn’t want to sell or learn the product. You can’t go public or be acquired on 10% growth. Let’s jump right in.

GTM 84

GTM Cross-sell X-functional Pipeline 84

Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

The New Solution Selling. The Little Red Book of Selling. Unbreakable Laws of Selling. The New Strategic Selling. Agile Selling. Spin Selling. Insight Selling. Spear Selling. The Psychology of Selling. Buyer-Centered Selling. Integrity Selling for the 21st Century.

Sales 143

Sales Technique Objectives and Key Results Non-Profits 143

Sales Pop!

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

8 Must-Have Ecommerce Tools for Rapid Retail Growth. Voice assistants (Amazon Echo, Alexa, Alice, Google Home), thanks to their upgradable functionality, are becoming personal shopping assistants: from finding a product in online stores to buying it with voice control. All they have to do is click on the item they like in the video.

Retail 52

Retail Growth X-functional Cross-sell 52

SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2020

When you start growing above 50 employees, and certainly get to 100, things change, you now have teams, which means you have functional leaders. Rather than having this feeling of disconnected functional areas, everyone in the company knows what to work on. To me, that’s what the cadence says. I learned this operating myself.

Finance 119

Finance X-functional Launch Objectives and Key Results 119

Heinz Marketing

MAY 16, 2022

Matt : Yeah, or companies that have a history of selling to mid-market and SMB companies that don’t take the time to understand how an enterprise buyer buys and then don’t respect what is conveyed via a very different buying process. That could be a self-help tool in a product led growth format. Alan : Sure.

Pipeline 89

Pipeline Referrals X-functional Cross-sell 89

ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2018

CXL Live is our flagship conference about growth and optimization. Amazon built its growth on top of these 4 pillars: Customer Centricity. Hana Abaza – Thriving on Change, Driving Growth and Lessons Learned at Shopify. Ed Fry – Customer Data Operations: Unleashing your hidden growth engine. Fastest fish wins.

A/B testing 106

A/B testing Objectives and Key Results Growth X-functional 106

ConversionXL

MAY 14, 2014

Realizing this was a much bigger problem we’ve yet to address, Peep took to Twitter and asked: Looking for an in-house optimizer in a big company for a blog post on selling CRO internally. On-going battles for prime real estate, page layouts, copy and imagery persist and often burden cross-functional team performance and relations.

Conversion 124

Conversion Sell E-commerce Legal 124

ConversionXL

JUNE 26, 2017

Websites selling different things are different and even if they sell the same products, their target audience might be different. Morgan Brown : Building a Growth Organization. Organize growth into a cross-functional team. Build your team – make sure they are focused on driving growth through testing.

UX 85

UX Cross-sell A/B testing Government 85

Search Engine Land

MAY 7, 2024

selling over 400,000 eBikes in the last four years. Figure 1: Brand and non-brand keywords overview (Source: Semrush) Figure 2: Organic traffic growth (Source: Semrush) Figure 3: Brand search and traffic (Source: Semrush) Non-brand keyword CTR Ranking in the top three positions in Google generates the vast majority of clicks (Figure 4).

CTR 83

CTR Electricity Real Estate X-functional 83

SaaStr

JULY 17, 2020

And so obviously the people that need consumers to spend money for their revenue and then their contribution margin just had no shot of selling things. Keith Rabois: There is in another tale two cities is most of the people that were most affected by the March and April shutdowns were not the people that buy and sell houses.

E-commerce 85

E-commerce Retail Real Estate Growth 85

Hubspot

APRIL 4, 2023

It's also when you really need to sell yourself and your skills. This question is designed to test your knowledge of the industry and where you see potential growth. Describe a time when you worked within a cross-functional team to complete a project. Accomplishments like that really motivate me to do my best."

Consult 83

Consult Objectives and Key Results X-functional Construction 83

SaaStr

MAY 14, 2023

All were growing 15%-20% a month, so we called them “The 20%ers club” Did that growth last? Greenhouse followed a similar path to Talkdesk and should cross $10 million ARR later this year, up from almost nothing at the start of the year. What I mean is that even to sell let’s say, to a customer in London.

Price 111

Price Start-ups Up-sell X-functional 111

SaaStr

JULY 15, 2022

How, if no one’s heard of you, do you sell to big companies? And the way you get it is whether it’s outbound, generally inbound events or whatever, solve a 10 X pain point, solve a unique pain point that a large enterprise has that other vendors don’t provide. So again, we could use it for any function.

Growth 119

Growth Cross-sell Start-ups X-functional 119

The 5% Institute

AUGUST 7, 2023

The role of an account manager goes beyond mere customer service – it involves nurturing client relationships, driving revenue growth, and enhancing a company’s reputation. Such relationships not only lead to client loyalty but also open doors for potential upselling and cross-selling opportunities.

Account management 52

Account management Negotiate X-functional Cross-sell 52

Heinz Marketing

JUNE 7, 2021

We used a sales activity study to benchmark how and where sellers are spending their time, pinpointing places where we are maybe spending a little more time on non-direct selling activities than we would like. And so, as we have evolved complex buying and selling, the model has evolved as well. It’s a common noun in B2B.

Pipeline 122

Pipeline B2B Sales Cross-sell 122

Sales Hacker

APRIL 14, 2020

She helps growth-oriented B2B, SaaS companies design, implement, and optimize their data strategies, business processes and existing tool stacks to support their customers. Reps working from home need to be willing to converse without selling. So companies going out, they bought this SaaS platform to help with X, Y, and Z.

Contract 79

Contract CRM Consult Cross-sell 79

Sales Hacker

APRIL 23, 2018

This is the only way to create both predictability and sustainability to the sales function. On the cross hair = hitting goal. 3) Encourage activity based selling. Measuring Effectiveness with the Compound Growth Formula. The equation is simple: I refer to this as the “Compound Growth Formula.” Creation of value.

Drivers/motivators 79

Drivers/motivators Pipeline Objectives and Key Results X-functional 79

PandaDoc

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Lead generation X ? Social media integration X ? Free version X ? Lead generation X ? Social media integration X ? Free version X X 24/7 customer service ? Lead generation X ? X Mobile access ? ? Social media integration X ? Free version X ? Lead generation X ?

X-functional 52

X-functional Territory CRM Lead generation 52

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

We have 1,000 employees across three locations, San Francisco, Denver, and New York, and everything in the past four years has grown by more than 10 X. And with that growth, there is something that I think is really deeply reflective of what creates high performing teams, and it may not be the thing that you’re thinking of.

Drivers/motivators 89

Drivers/motivators X-functional Trust Cross-sell 89

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 17, 2024

15:41) Scaling Twitter’s ad business and managing hyper-growth. (26:54) Conversations reveal the unshared details behind how they have grown companies, and the go-to-market strategies responsible for shaping that growth. They’re signing the renewals, the cross-sell, up-sell. Feeling that AI FOMO?

GTM 57

GTM Engineering Electricity X-functional 57

SaaStr

JULY 24, 2019

This is pretty simple, but when I look at this industry, a lot of times what I see is organizations crafting pricing packages that would enable, for example, an enterprise-wide license, where an organization pays you X amount of money, and they have unlimited seats, unlimited usage. We sell contact center software. What does that mean?

X-functional 62

X-functional Engineering Clients Start-ups 62

Heinz Marketing

JULY 13, 2020

Can you talk a little bit about though, in this pandemic, in a time when you’ve got your buyers are working from home, we don’t have in-person offices as often, you would think that this would be the time for digital selling strategies to really shine. I don’t know that we have seen that. Get it now at hub.6sense.com/prg.

Pipeline 85

Pipeline Referrals Cold Call Sales 85

SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2022

Sometimes we’re not as founders, sometimes founders sell their company because they don’t end up being deeply passionate about what it does. Yes, Zoom and Shopify and folks that were huge COVID beneficiaries had a bit of a hit, but even those have resumed their growth path. So sell your product. It could come back.

Quota 98

Quota Growth Product Closing 98

SaaStr

JULY 15, 2020

And so obviously the people that need consumers to spend money for their revenue and then their contribution margin just had no shot of selling things, look at model T-shirts or something. People are buying and selling houses. Right now if you look on the other side, an area I know a fair amount about, look at US real estate.

X-functional 72

X-functional E-commerce Growth Retail 72

PandaDoc

APRIL 12, 2022

NPS is designed to use customer experience as a predictor of satisfaction and future business growth. In fact, they can negatively damage growth by speaking out about their experience. Example: 40 positive responses / 60 total responses X 100 = 67%). 08 x 100 = 8%. Customer Lifetime Value (CLV). Net Promoter Score (NPS).

Customers 52

Customers X-functional Promote Price 52

SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

359: The Secrets to Vertical Growth, What it Really Takes to Build a $1B SaaS Company with Matt Garratt, SVP, Managing Partner @ Salesforce Ventures, Trisha Price, Chief Product Officer @ nCino and David Schmaier, CEO & Founder @ Vlocity. Because if you look at these financial institutions, they have growth aspirations, right?

Price 75

Price Retail X-functional Healthcare 75

SaaStr

MARCH 5, 2019

The entire company was told about us selling our chat products Stride and Hipchat to our largest competitor in the space, Slack, four days before the news went out. That’s a lot of growth isn’t it? Crossed a billion in revenue. And I think that’s fueled a lot of our growth. But it can be risky.

Objectives and Key Results 70

Objectives and Key Results Cross-sell Trust Product 70

Heinz Marketing

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

This week’s episode is entitled “ The Importance and Power of Editing: A B2B Masterclass (in 30 Minutes!) ” and our guest is Lisa Gschwandtner , Editorial Director at Selling Power. I won’t get into the inside jokes there but Lisa Gschwandtner from Selling Power Magazine , thank you so much for joining us today.

Pipeline 65

Pipeline Sales Cross-sell Up-sell 65

SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

We’ve got a lot of training to do with our sales teams to get them to start to speak in these types of terms versus feature function. That doesn’t mean to say, you’re going to do away with the functions. Jay Snyder: That’s an enablement exercise that is not to be minimized, right? I mean, what do they do?

Retail 108

Retail Start-ups Drivers/motivators Up-sell 108

PandaDoc

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Do you feel like your selling job is becoming harder and harder over time? As the same State of Sales 5th edition claims, salespeople, on average, sell only 28% of their working hours. So hurry up and learn how to stop wasting your time on inefficient routines and redirect your efforts to selling!

Process 52

Process Objectives and Key Results X-functional Sales 52

SaaStr

MARCH 5, 2019

The entire company was told about us selling our chat products Stride and Hipchat to our largest competitor in the space, Slack, four days before the news went out. That’s a lot of growth isn’t it? Crossed a billion in revenue. And I think that’s fueled a lot of our growth. But it can be risky.

Objectives and Key Results 62

Objectives and Key Results Cross-sell Trust Product 62

SaaStr

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Learn actionable monetization tips from a Product/Growth operator turned VC. I began my career in new product development and starting in 2011 got really excited about the high growth phase of a company. If you value speed, you might up in for an Uber X. I had a cross functional team that owned pricing and packaging.

Price 41

Price X-functional Cross-sell Drivers/motivators 41

PandaDoc

MARCH 7, 2023

This visual aid gives every member of your sales team a big-picture view of the entire selling process. And that can only mean one thing, more revenue and growth for your business. What’s more, it makes it easy to ensure you have enough personalization to show the lead that you understand their needs (and what you’re selling!).

Process 52

Process Objectives and Key Results Pitch Legal 52

Lead Fuze

JULY 6, 2023

Cross-training Staff: Make sure everyone on your team knows your product/service inside out. One way to ensure continuous, up-to-date customer engagement is by incorporating live chat functions into your platform. The Power of Omnichannel Help Desk Software Omnichannel help desk software is like a superhero with x-ray vision.

Customers 52

Customers Clients Lead generation X-functional 52

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

Look, okay, let’s say half your business sells to eCommerce, but 20% sells to live events. Aileen Lee: But these are also super… I mean, you were talking about growth stage companies where they’ve got strong product market fit. Well, do the math in your head. Jason Lemkin: Anyone post-revenue. Aileen Lee: Yeah.

Pitch 76

Pitch Start-ups Up-sell Technology 76

ConversionXL

APRIL 12, 2017

Finally, day three covered all things customer success and growth. It’s not which variant collects more email addresses, it’s which variant sells more books. Pay them upfront so they don’t try to say X to get the money. If the copy won’t sell them, what will? Copy either sells or it doesn’t. See you next year.

Growth 86

Growth A/B testing X-functional Objectives and Key Results 86