SaaStr

APRIL 13, 2025

Pricing advantages : Compound products can optimize pricing across their entire bundle, allowing them to “run circles around competitors” in specific product categories. Finance Cloud : Expense reimbursements, bill pay, corporate cards, and more.

Cross-sell 62

Cross-sell Launch UX Up-sell 62

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

This is where a sales rep physically meets a potential customer to discuss needs, budgets, volumes, prices, requirements, timelines, and other contract details. And to facilitate that their website shows some of the services they provide with a vague “get in touch” option and no pricing listed. Talvista: $199k ACV and $996k ARR.

Inside sales 132

Inside sales Cold Call Contract Price 132

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 19, 2022

From there, you can identify which of those priorities sales compensation can reinforce – and those sales coaching, pricing, or proper training can accomplish. In a reasonably sized, mid-market company, RevOps drives it,” Mark said. Related: 8 Things to Review Before Accepting a Sales Commission Plan. Two different sides of the coin.

Commission 125

Commission Finance Quota Strategize 125

SaaStr

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Rippling positioned itself as an all-in-one solution for employee management across HR, IT, and finance. You have to invest a lot of time to get a channel going, to get referrals, to acquire customers…and then work on customer satisfaction. Scaling your go-to-market efforts. Logo acquisition (i.e.,

Niche 112

Niche Price Drivers/motivators Finance 112

Heinz Marketing

JANUARY 10, 2022

Join us for a great conversation about speaking finance as a marketer, the importance of the sales role in retention, how you are successful as a leader first and much more. So, I want to get to that as well, even with our audience being mostly B2B sales and marketing folks. I do not have a finance background.

Pipeline 110

Pipeline Finance Non-Profits Sales 110

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

GTMnow is the media brand of GTMfund – sharing go-to-market advice from the top 1% of revenue operators including the 350 executives behind the fund, news, and our viewpoints from working with hundreds of portfolio companies. A phenomenon called Price’s Law – let’s get into it. Brought to you by Apollo.

GTM 120

GTM Pipeline Finance Growth 120

CloserIQ

APRIL 8, 2019

Most startups spend more time thinking about the color of their logo than how to price their product. This might sound harsh, but here’s the truth: The color of your logo will not save you if you price your product wrong. Pricing is one of the most important parts of a startup’s sales strategy, but it’s often overlooked.

Price 59

Price Sales Finance Contract 59

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

It’s up to the CRO to keep a company’s marketing and product strategy in the kind of lockstep that drives it to produce the revenue it needs. For example, over the years, Angolia’s go-to-market strategy has tied together every part of its company, from finance to legal. . The life of a CRO is all about results.

Drivers/motivators 125

Drivers/motivators Trust Legal Finance 125

Highspot

JANUARY 23, 2025

Your entire go-to-market team also relies on these abilities to create seamless experiences for buyers at each stage of the buyers journey. Without being prompted, an innovative and critical-thinking rep might weigh different financing options for a customer’s unique budget constraints.

Objectives and Key Results 52

Objectives and Key Results Negotiate Cross-sell Pitch 52

SaaStr

AUGUST 5, 2021

They don’t get credit for making things better, but they’re motivated to do their job more efficiently at a lower price. With garage-dwellers the product-market fit is still questionable. High-rollers seek growth, as long as the go-to-market part of their P&L is finding efficiency.

Up-sell 104

Up-sell Sell Finance Price 104

Hubspot

JANUARY 25, 2019

If you're looking to validate a market, prove out a pricing model, or put together the right team, you'll need resources. Openview works with companies of all kinds to help with their expansion stage and go-to-market strategy. A venture capital funding is a financing event where the lead investor is a venture fund.

Territory 97

Territory Finance Healthcare Negotiate 97

Hubspot

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

In an effort to appeal to the entire marketplace, from enterprise users to solopreneurs, our product was priced based on usagethe more API calls we had to handle for a customer, the bigger their bill. The situation stabilized when we implemented a monthly minimum price, but since then, Ive paid much closer attention to business models.

Manufacturing 36

Manufacturing Retail GTM Price 36

Martech

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

If you’re looking to compare audience data and CPL pricing, you need to reach out to every publisher you wish to consider. And that’s where the inefficiency begins. Despite some consolidation in B2B tech media , there are a number of publishers in the B2B space. Get MarTech!

B2B 112

B2B Healthcare Commission Campaign 112

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

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. Be sure to offer growth-friendly plans in the form of tiered pricing models (usage or rolling seats) to accommodate their future growth. It’s no longer just an idea.

Sell 107

Sell Minimum Viable Product Objectives and Key Results Cross-sell 107

Hubspot

JULY 2, 2020

One of the first things you're taught in your Introduction to Marketing class is that marketing can be best explained using the marketing mix — also known as the four P's. When you stray too far away from the four P's, it can be easy to lose focus on your purpose as a marketer. Marketing Mix Elements.

Retail 101

Retail Promote Price Profit margin 101

Sales Hacker

JULY 28, 2021

Bring in your Marketing Ops and Sales Ops leads or your RevOps team to ensure your plans align with their policies and tech stack. These are crucial teams during a purchasing decision, along with finance. Clari says their Connected Revenue Operations platform uses AI and automation to align forecasting across all go-to-market teams.

CRM 131

CRM Pipeline Territory Sales 131

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 13, 2021

Depending on the software, implementation, and go-to-market (GTM) strategy, considerable costs and internal resources could be needed for a successful deployment. All the deal structure parameters will have a direct impact on value and cost, hence price. OEM deals affect many divisions within the licensee’s company.

GTM 89

GTM Negotiate Profit margin Contract 89

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

Martech

APRIL 19, 2023

Applications of decision intelligence DI applies to various decision-making problems, such as resource allocation, risk management, strategic planning, and, yes, marketing. I’ve used it in developing systems and platforms for complex energy, finance, policy, and marketing decisions.

Strategize 117

Strategize Healthcare GTM Strategic planning 117

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. Price and product are only two of many operational GTM levers.

GTM 128

GTM Market share Growth Technology 128

SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2020

There is a ton of capital committed to the seed asset class, and because we’re investing at the earliest stages of the market, there’s only so much price compression that investors can expect. The fourth major risk that investors are evaluating is go-to-market risk. Is there a repeatable, scalable sales model?

Pitch 125

Pitch Finance Product Start-ups 125

Salesforce

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

“Their contract was originally in our mid-market segment, but they outgrew our segment lines, which brought them into our enterprise team. This could allow us to get more creative with pricing.”. Slack would pull in a larger ACV (annual contract value), and Coinbase would get better pricing per user.

Closing 98

Closing Contract Legal Cross-sell 98

Hubspot

OCTOBER 2, 2019

For example, if a sales rep earns a 15% commission for each deal they close, and are projected to close $100,000 in sales for the quarter, then your finance team will anticipate an allocation of $15,000 in commission payroll for that rep. Price: Contact Xactly. Price: Contact Anaplan. Price: Contact IBM.

Territory 99

Territory Quota Commission Sales 99

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 2, 2020

No, that’s not the setup for some obscure go-to-market joke. But standout SEPs will recognize — and build out expertise in — the intricacies of finance, logistics and other industries critical to economic growth. Pricing breakdowns, testimonials, compete snippets, objection handling — an SEP should handle it all.

Objectives and Key Results 139

Objectives and Key Results Sales Cross-sell Technology 139

SaaStr

JULY 24, 2020

There is a ton of capital committed to the seed asset class, and because we’re investing at the earliest stages of the market, there’s only so much price compression that investors can expect. The fourth major risk that investors are evaluating is go-to-market risk. Is there a repeatable, scalable sales model?

Finance 83

Finance Pitch Government Start-ups 83

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. Why traditional SaaS pricing models (like per-seat) dont work in the agent era. What are your thoughts on pricing? There was an obvious way to.

GTM 70

GTM X-functional Start-ups Relationship building 70

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Enterprise has a budget owner, influencer, decisionmaker, and finance person to sign off. You have multiple personas, and all of a sudden, you’re confronted with figuring out what the marketing strategy needs to look like for this kind of Enterprise audience. Marketing strategies must adapt to handle this complexity.

GTM 109

GTM Growth Education Commission 109

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Average Sale/Selling Price. AB Testing (or Split Testing) is an experiment involving two variants, usually for measuring and comparing market response to each. Go-to-Market Strategy. Account Development Representative. Account Executive. Accounts Payable. Accounts Receivable. Annual Recurring Revenue. Base Salary.

B2B 105

B2B E-commerce Cold Call Represent 105

SaaStr

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Companies that have access to more accurate financial data have the ability to develop seamless exchanges of information, providing consumers with improved ways to manage their finances. So, as a consumer, the way that you interacted with your finances in the web pre-Plaid was doing a variety of manual processes. Zach : Yeah.

Finance 85

Finance X-functional Non-Profits Launch 85

PandaDoc

MARCH 17, 2025

At first glance, revenue operations (RevOps) and financial operations (FinOps) may seem like completely different functionsone focused on driving revenue and the other on managing finances. The concept of RevOps is to ensure revenue efficiency and business processes are unified across all your go-to-market functions.

Legal 52

Legal Finance Strategize Growth 52

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

This guide will arm you with the three most important things to address with your executive team before committing to the Enterprise market. Related: The SaaS Executive’s Guide To Building A Winning Go-To Market Strategy. For example: a Configure, Price, Quote tool that integrates with your CRM. 3) Market Readiness.

Product 68

Product Contract Cross-sell Account management 68

SaaStr

JUNE 2, 2021

It’s the opaque pricing, but hopefully the customer gets exactly what they need at the end. And I can’t make out a single logo, which of course is purposeful, just to show how crowded marketing tech is. It’s the same in sales tech, the space we’re in, in finance tech, in develop deployment tech.

Sales 98

Sales Up-sell Price Start-ups 98

SalesLoft

JUNE 21, 2022

I suggest creating a simple spreadsheet that outlines: Sales technologies : Vendor, price, contact information, average onboarding time, etc. Your legal and finance teams are likely reviewing and negotiating vendor contracts. Sales Management, Finance, and Legal Teams. That’s right, it isn’t just a revenue issue.

Negotiate 52

Negotiate Legal Finance Technology 52

SaaStr

JULY 29, 2022

I think it is possible to get some revenue-based financing here, for sure, both from SVB and others, and also new emerging vendors from Pipe and on, you can get some. And it became a massive capital sink, as the company changed its go-to market around five million in revenue. It’s really an existential challenge.

Price 109

Price Product Start-ups Niche 109

SaaStr

JANUARY 6, 2023

“Go-to-market innovation today is significantly undervalued.” However, you should spend a similar amount of time on how you can innovate in your go-to-market team. Of course, product innovation is very important, but we often forget how important going to market innovation is. Key Takeaways.

Legal 52

Legal Prospecting Customers Contract 52

Lead Fuze

DECEMBER 1, 2021

One of the most important parts about being a successful SaaS company is understanding how to go-to market. Go through a variety of filters to zero in on the leads you want to reach. Integrations are important because they integrate your CRM with the Configure, Price Quote tool. Pricing/Packaging.

Sell 52

Sell Account management Contract Price 52

SaaStr

JUNE 11, 2019

Lloyed : And so maybe one of the things in the early days is I need to get the produce market fit, or maybe I need to get the two million ARR. And then you identity I’m missing someone on the go-to-market or growth side. You’re missing that whole element of growth or go-to-market. But those are rare.

Engineering 109

Engineering Growth Promote B2B 109