SaaStr

MARCH 16, 2024

Dear SaaStr: I Have Some Shares in a Successful Start-Up I Worked At, But the Company Won’t Let Me Sell Them. And while it mainly impacts ex-employees, it also impacts angel and seed investors who are often blocked from selling as well. Why do scale-ups and startups do this? Personally, I’ve lost here.

Start-ups 115

Start-ups Up-sell Sell Cross-sell 115

ClickFunnels

AUGUST 2, 2021

1 Set Up a Value Ladder Sales Funnel. Note that starting at step two there’s also the ClickFunnels subscription which provides recurring revenue. The standard that you want to apply to your lead magnet is this: “Would my dream customers be happy to pay for it should I ever chose to sell it?”. Sounds interesting?

Cross-sell 246

Cross-sell Sales Up-sell Presentation 246

ClickFunnels

JANUARY 30, 2022

Let’s go over several of them and see which ones you can start using today. Cross-selling and Upselling. The art of cross-selling and upselling is all about getting the customer to buy more products. Cross-selling gets the customer to enter a new funnel with a new product. Rewarding Loyal Customers.

Cross-sell 246

Cross-sell Technique Up-sell Start-ups 246

Cerebral Selling

JANUARY 23, 2023

But running into the same objections time and time again can make selling feel more like Groundhog Day, especially when you know they’re coming! Maybe you have one of the more expensive solutions on the market and have to routinely defend your pricing. In sales, customer objections are a fact of life.

Objection handling 221

Objection handling Cross-sell Price Up-sell 221

SaaStr

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The bar has gone up, and it’s not just in AI. So yes, while it’s true that challenges are real for those in the right-hand column above – overall cloud spend is still up 20%. Crowdstrike is up and still grew 35%. You have to maybe either sell to different customers, or have to build more software or be more AI.

B2B 127

B2B Legal Cross-sell Growth 127

SaaStr

JULY 24, 2023

So price increases have been the name of the game in SaaS for the past 12 months, in many (not all) cases to help make up for slowing growth: Zendesk up 16% Salesforce up 9% Google Workspace up 20% HubSpot up 12% Webflow up 16% Shopify up 33% Slack up 10% And some of them like Slack and Salesforce hadn’t raised list prices in quite some time.

Price 98

Price Cross-sell Gaming Follow-up 98

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

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 7, 2025

But since I started using Superhuman last quarter, I was able to get back to inbox zero within minutes. I dont know how I didnt start on Superhuman sooner. So if I look at a month or a quarter, you start and you say, okay, do we have enough pipeline? So I think I’m going to start with what is the same.

GTM 117

GTM Sell Customers Cold Call 117

Salesforce

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

That’s the beauty of effective cross-selling. It increases the customer’s overall satisfaction, while driving up sales. What you’ll learn: What is cross-selling? See how it works What is cross-selling? What’s the difference between cross-selling and upselling?

Cross-sell 69

Cross-sell Sell Quota Pitch 69

ClickFunnels

JANUARY 28, 2022

If you are just starting out, you probably don’t have any sales data yet, so you won’t be able to accurately determine lead quality. However, once that sales data starts coming in, you should begin looking for patterns that can help you figure out who the highest-quality leads are and how to attract more of them. And that’s okay.

Lead generation 217

Lead generation Cross-sell Profit margin Contact 217

Salesforce

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

This included Agentforce Campaigns , sending multichannel journeys with email and SMS, and advanced personalization features like Cross-Object Merge fields. Although Permission Set Licenses will automatically be added to these orgs, customers need to do a few things to get started. Segment Creation.

Cross-sell 64

Cross-sell Customers Territory Campaign 64

ClickFunnels

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Obviously, you can’t just sit back and wait for people to start signing up to your email list, you have to actively drive traffic to the lead magnet landing page. So begin with a small daily ad budget, figure out how to generate leads profitably, then start gradually scaling the campaign. Extra Expense: Hiring or Outsourcing.

Lead generation 219

Lead generation Cross-sell Start-ups Campaign 219

Heinz Marketing

MARCH 10, 2021

As stay-at-home Americans stocked up on bulk goods during the pandemic, Costco has been one of the few retailers that have mostly benefited from the pandemic. Here are a few of them that I think we can start putting into practice right away. If you are selling a product or a service, make sure it is user-friendly. Peace of mind.

B2B 138

B2B Cross-sell Retail Healthcare 138

Veloxy

AUGUST 17, 2022

Price: $49/month for Salesforce users, corporate plans available Automations: Non-selling activities, lead prioritization, lead capture Veloxy has several features to help you automate Salesforce, no matter how long you’ve been using the CRM platform. Visit Veloxy’s Salesforce AppExchange store to start your free trial today.

Appointment 147

Appointment Territory Cross-sell Contract 147

PandaDoc

MARCH 25, 2025

If youre selling a cup of coffee, the options are relatively simple. You choose a price based on size, add any extras, and send your customers on their way. You need to evaluate pricing, implementation, features, integrations, and ongoing support. Identifying upsell and cross-sell opportunities to drive continued revenue growth.

Objectives and Key Results 52

Objectives and Key Results Contract Legal Sales 52

SaaStr

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Especially as they gear up to cross $1 billion in ARR in 2020. Many see this price point as not scaleable. If you have something great in SaaS, never sell ??. 60% of Hubspot’s customers are still starting off in a free trial or free product. HubSpot sells to what it calls mid-market customers.

Cross-sell 145

Cross-sell Price Growth Up-sell 145

The 5% Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

In this article, you’ll learn eight powerful and effective new realtor tips so that you can sell more homes, consistently. In this guide, you’ll learn our recommend new realtor tips and how to sell more homes, by using a system followed and successfully executed by our Students from various countries, and who speak many different languages.

Real Estate 145

Real Estate Sell Cross-sell Objectives and Key Results 145

The 5% Institute

JULY 26, 2021

Selling real estate with the right consultative process is important; however prior learning how to close real estate deals; you first you need to know and learn the correct sales prospecting methods. Cross selling. Inbound prospecting is the method of setting up marketing systems, that help leads come to you.

Real Estate 145

Real Estate Closing Cross-sell Objectives and Key Results 145

SaaStr

JANUARY 1, 2024

So once you cross 3,500, let alone 10,000 — you’re starting to saturate most B2B markets. The Average Public SaaS Company has 35,000 Customers So at some point, you can’t just raise prices and add enterprise editions to keep mixing it up and growing. 45% of HubSpot customers now buy 3 or more products.

Product 138

Product Cross-sell CRM Growth 138

ClickFunnels

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

The post Your First Funnel Challenge Review: Should You Sign Up? On Day 2, we’re going to show you the first funnel that every business (no matter your industry) should start with. Jamie Cross. He started as a freelance funnel builder learning the ropes. appeared first on ClickFunnels. Day 4 – Irresistible Ads.

E-commerce 244

E-commerce Niche Real Estate Cross-sell 244

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

This is trending to 50/50 now that Asana has crossed $400m in ARR, but still a reminder a self-serve motion combined with sales jumping on the bigger deals can scale very, very far. 60% of Expensify’s Customers started off in the Free edition, even at IPO. Sprout Social doesn’t only sell a low-end edition.

Contract 145

Contract Cross-sell Price Up-sell 145

Sales Pop!

JANUARY 5, 2023

A few verses later in the same book and chapter of Proverbs, a warning is issued about buyers who would loudly complain about a transaction to the merchant so that the merchant would lower the price. The buyer would leave and then boast loudly to their cohorts about how they had unfairly cheated to drive down the price. The Mismatch.

Pipeline 190

Pipeline CRM Intrinsic Networking 190

SaaStr

MAY 30, 2024

How PLG Evolved First, let’s start with PLG and its evolution. How did it all start? Because the end user starts using the product, often through a self-serve motion. From a PLG perspective, if you make it easy for users to start using your product, any interaction with a rep or customer service person is a bad user experience.

Cross-sell 119

Cross-sell Customers Pitch Drivers/motivators 119

SaaStr

JULY 1, 2024

It sounds great to be able to sell to more people and sell bigger deals, but are you ready? You want to ensure you have cross-functional alignment and that this isn’t another squirrel you’re chasing. Do you have a core portion of your team equipped to sell upmarket? Start to figure out messaging and where to put it.

Cross-sell 120

Cross-sell Price Account management Up-sell 120

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

When I look across my investment portfolio for past 11 years , the #1 issue I think isn’t pricing, or TAM, or making a terrible mishire, or competition. No the #1 issue ends up being waiting too long to truly go multi-product. That’s the one that ends up slowing growth. Those all matter, but the best founders fight through them.

Cross-sell 120

Cross-sell CRM Growth Up-sell 120

Highspot

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Product training is a structured learning process that helps team members understand, communicate, and sell a product. According to Gartner, 77% of B2B buyers say their most recent purchase felt “very complex or difficult,” highlighting the importance of thorough product knowledge for anyone selling or supporting a solution.

Product 52

Product GTM Objectives and Key Results Cross-sell 52

ClickFunnels

AUGUST 1, 2022

Once you have your Value Ladder sales funnel set up, making sales through social media will be much easier! We believe that the most effective way to sell anything online is the Value Ladder sales funnel. We also recommend adding downsells , upsells , and cross-sells to these core offers in order to maximize your revenue.

Cross-sell 130

Cross-sell Pitch Sales Niche 130

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

ConversionXL

MAY 3, 2017

Facebook ads are based on an ad auction system , so increased competition drives the cost of using the platform up. To combat rising competition and prices, you need to get savvy about your ad targeting and delivery. However, for the most efficient results, I recommend starting with Custom Audiences. Landing Pages. App activity.

Customers 133

Customers E-commerce Cross-sell Represent 133

SaaStr

JANUARY 12, 2024

2023 wasn’t hard for everyone: First, it was mainly hard for folks that sold into “tech”, broadly speaking : Monday sells mainly outside of tech — it crushed 2023. Asana and Atlassian, competitors who sell more to tech? Shopify was up 128%! HubSpot was up 104%! Now let’s be clear.

Cross-sell 126

Cross-sell Growth Up-sell Price 126

SaaStr

DECEMBER 27, 2020

CEO Lew Cirne, after regretting selling his first startup in the space to CA for $375m, tries again with New Relic. But New Relic has continued to scale, crossing $650,000,000 in ARR (or so) and a $4B market cap. That’s up from 70% 5 quarters ago — a big change. 10x the sign-ups with new Free tier.

Contract 136

Contract Cross-sell Price Growth 136

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Thinking about AI for your sales team but unsure where to start? I have no idea what episode we are currently on, but it’s getting up there. Experience before starting Intellimize. And it’s basically just all the mistakes that they made before starting the journey. And we’ll keep the good guests rolling.

GTM 102

GTM Engineering Electricity X-functional 102

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

We’ve rounded up some must-have tools to automate lead generation across the following categories. Price: From $49 per month with a free trial. Price: From $50 per month with a free basic account option for testing. Price: From $59 per month with a 30-day money back guarantee. Automated follow-up emails.

Lead generation 126

Lead generation Price Campaign Cross-sell 126

Gong.io

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

and cross your fingers that you sat in on the “right” calls. The goal of prospecting is to sell the meeting. Instead, focus on selling the meeting. #2 When it comes to prospecting follow-up emails, it’s perfectly fine (actually, preferred) to send a longer — personalized, direct, and intentional — email. #4

Cold Call 118

Cold Call Objectives and Key Results Negotiate Cross-sell 118

Veloxy

OCTOBER 29, 2021

This turns a sales rep who spends too much time on non-selling activity into a trusted advisor that spends the majority of their time on customer engagement. So buckle up and prepare for one super informative, all inclusive guide to all things Sales AI. The power of selling will never move away from human interaction.

Sales 223

Sales Non-Profits CRM Pipeline 223

SaaStr

APRIL 19, 2024

For those who aren’t as familiar with our CEO and founder, here’s a highlight reel (as per Sam): Jason started a software company called EchoSign, which sold for nine figures. 50, and package it up for another $.50 Then, someone would sell it for you for $50 to $400. You never catch up.

Engineering 120

Engineering Price Cross-sell Up-sell 120

Salesforce

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Field service can help drive revenue growth by selling to your existing customers, also called upselling or cross-selling. We’ve found that 65% of mobile workers are successfully selling to existing customers. Let’s dig into each of these best practices for upselling and cross-selling in field service.

Service 105

Service Growth Cross-sell Appointment 105