SaaStr

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

In this latest episode of CRO Confidential , Sam Blond, Partner at Founders Fund and former CRO at Brex, sits down with the CRO of Zapier, Giancarlo Lionetti (GC), to chat about Product-Led Growth (PLG) and Go-To-Market (GTM). First, we’ve talked about this a lot at SaaStr: product-led or sales-led, which is right?

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Martech

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Think of it as the core of your marketing strategy, where all tools and processes support your business goals. But how do you ensure your martech efforts are in lockstep with the goals of different organizational and go-to-market functions? Product marketing Role: Define the positioning and messaging of products or services.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

5:39) The importance of customer experience from the first marketing touch. (8:38) 47:58) One thing that is working for Kim in go-to-market right now. The post GTM 123: Customer Experience Fuels Business Growth, Build a Customer-First Culture with Kim Peretti appeared first on GTMnow.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Randy combines deep operational expertise in SaaS with a unique perspective on B2B growth metrics, having analyzed data from thousands of private companies through Maxio’s platform. He’s a regular speaker at SaaStr and other leading SaaS conferences, focusing on helping founders navigate growth and monetization challenges.

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SaaStr

MARCH 2, 2025

Matt shared the three core growth tactics that transformed Rippling from cold calls in Parker Conrad’s basement to 1,500+ revenue professionals driving massive scale. Growth Tactic #1: Double Down on High-Touch Outbound (Even When It Seems Counterintuitive) When everyone zigged toward automation, Rippling zagged toward humans.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

CRO Confidential podcast host Sam Blond chats with the CEO and co-founder of Clay, Kareem Amin, about two major topics: The evolution of Go-To-Market systems: where we are today with the incorporation of AI, and where we’re headed. It blends AI and SaaS and can speed up the outbound Go-To-Market process.

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Heinz Marketing

OCTOBER 21, 2022

By Brittany Lieu , Marketing Consultant at Heinz Marketing. Your go-to-market strategy is NOT a one and done strategy or project. It’s not something that can be “cracked” at an executive offsite or “just how you do sales or how you do marketing.” Myth #1: GTM Belongs to Marketing or Sales.

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Heinz Marketing

JANUARY 7, 2022

Content marketing has defined the last two decades, but there’s a go-to-market strategy that’s been capturing lots of attention — product-led growth. As a growth strategy, product-led growth removes the traditional sales cycle and, instead, lets the product sell itself. Not quite.

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Highspot

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Driving successful go-to-market initiatives is no easy featand once launched, understanding how theyre performing can often feel like a guessing game. This execution gap is a major barrier to growth, largely driven by disconnected teams working in silos.

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Highspot

JANUARY 23, 2025

Key Takeaways Companies investing in GTM strategies report a 70% increase in closing rates and up to 5x business growth by communicating value. Skipping GTM planning can lead to disastrous results, like misaligned teams, wasted resources, and failed launches, as seen in notable product flops.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 7, 2024

Paul Mander currently leads all of go-to-market for B2B at Optery. Along the way of selling and supporting a product as complex as a Customer Data Platform (CDP), he tackled some of the more common topics go-to-market leaders encounter as they build and scale their customer facing teams.

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Martech

MAY 9, 2023

Organizations need a go-to-market (GTM) strategy that uses the right metrics and mix of tactics or “motions” to drive revenue and survive economic challenges, said Sangram Vajre, CEO of analyst firm GTM Partners, in his second-day keynote at The MarTech Conference. Maybe product-led growth works for you. “Be Get MarTech!

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SaaStr

JANUARY 8, 2025

In the latest episode of our SaaStr CRO Confidential podcast, host Sam Blond sat down with Lindsey Scrase, COO of Checkr (and former CRO), to discuss her tactics for driving growth at the background screening unicorn. Checkr’s go-to-market strategy was already well-established when Lindsay joined in 2022.

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Force Management

JANUARY 11, 2022

Product-led growth (PLG) is leading many B2B companies to drive rapid revenue success. If your company is aiming to scale revenue, your cross-functional team may already be considering shifts to go-to-market (GTM) distribution efforts and strategies.

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SaaStr

MARCH 23, 2025

5 Key Learnings from Scaling from 3 to 75 Go-To-Market Team Members in Less Than 12 Months The latest SaaStr CRO Confidential is out and Sam Blond did a great deep dive with Graham Mareno, VP of Worldwide Sales at Codeium. Their product is generating an impressive 45% of developers’ code on average.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 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. Product : HG Insights. Product-led SEO. Feeling that AI FOMO? You’re not alone.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 25, 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. Product : Attention At Attention, call recordings and CRM auto-fill are just the beginning.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

So you’ve heard that product-led growth is all the rage, and now you want to transition from a sales-led motion to a product-led one. Some companies go really hard,” he shares. But you have to take a step back because you might underestimate what it means to implement product-led growth.

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Heinz Marketing

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

By Maria Geokezas , Chief Operating Officer at Heinz Marketing It’s no secret marketing and sales are equally critical to your go-to-market success. But sometimes, things go off track, and marketing and sales operate in their own silos causing them to be misaligned in the way they attract and acquire new customers.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Product-led growth has built a name for itself through its deep toolbox of effective tactics, from free trials to low prices to an inherent vitality — all of which can build a strong foundation for a versatile company. The optics, however, proved dramatically different when we went to monetize our free product. Plan accordingly.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 11, 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. Product : Vanta Your deal is almost closed, and all that’s left is the security review.

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Sales Gravy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

In this episode they dive into key insights on building effective sales training, the importance of a well-defined go-to-market strategy, and the power of partnerships to drive customer success. Continuous development and management of employees' growth are crucial. In this episode of The Sales Gravy podcast, Jeb Blount Jr.

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SaaStr

MARCH 16, 2025

He spent over eight years scaling their marketing from zero to supporting a multi-billion dollar public company. Prior to Datadog, Alex held leadership positions at several high-growth SaaS companies and has a proven track record of building marketing engines that deliver consistent, measurable growth. The problem?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

A great product, while necessary, isn’t sufficient to build a market leader and eventually a public company. Companies that win a market are just as good at Go-to-Market as they are at building great products. But to develop a GTM strategy, you must have Product Market Fit.

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Heinz Marketing

JULY 25, 2023

By Sarah Threet , Marketing Consultant at Heinz Marketing At Heinz Marketing, we value continuous improvement and growth and we care about being in-the-know about the latest marketing strategies and best practices so we can deliver the best work to our clients. What is Go-to-Market?

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Heinz Marketing

MAY 23, 2023

By Michelle Voznyuk , Marketing Specialist at Heinz Marketing As a CMO, it can be challenging to create an effective go-to-market (GTM) strategy that drives results. Intent data captures a potential customer’s behavior or interest in a specific product or service. That’s where intent data comes into play.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 24, 2025

GTMnow shares insight around the go-to-market strategies responsible for explosive company growth. acquisition and 7 startups The most successful companies understand that product and go-to-market strategy must be deeply interconnected. If not, a product-led growth (PLG) strategy may not be the right fit.

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Salesforce

MAY 25, 2023

You can help your marketing team by getting your die-hard customers to spread the word about your offerings — sparking product-led growth. What is product-led growth? It puts your product at the center of the customer experience and buying journey. Watch & learn What is product-led growth?

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2024

How to build operational excellence into your organization at different stages of the growth curve. 2022 was a foundation-building year, fixing a very leaky bucket where the product crushed it with the right customers, but they were closing a lot of poor-fit customers. Ways to scale that don’t include rampant inefficiency and burn.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Product-led growth (PLG) is all the rage as a go-to-market (GTM) strategy for B2B software companies looking to increase adoption and grow revenue. Traditional SaaS buyer-seller relationships are no longer productive. The SaaS sales and marketing landscape has shifted. So, why PLG now?

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

In this article we dive into a playbook for pricing across different stages of company growth, inspired by Geoffrey Moore’s Crossing the Chasm. Each growth stage demands its own pricing approach, and getting it right can mean the difference between stagnation and explosive growth.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Go-to-market (GTM) design and efficiency are sometimes overlooked, but they’re a critical driver of any SaaS business. Rajeev Dham and Karan Singh, Partners at Sapphire Ventures, and Jane Lee, Vice President at Sapphire walk us through how to double your “Magic Number,” a shorthand for your sales and marketing efficiency.

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Martech

JULY 3, 2023

Looking forward to the second half of 2023, we are recalibrating go-to-market plans for what I call the “next normal.” The category creation aspiration failure Popularized by evangelists from high-growth point solutions, this advice to create a new category was both the least achievable and most costly.

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Martech

JULY 30, 2024

Every startup begins with the goal of growth. Achieving success, especially when competing against large corporations, hinges on implementing effective marketing strategies that provide a competitive advantage. Here are some key takeaways that I believe are most valuable for startups to keep in mind through the growth stages.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Having led sales teams of 500+ at BILL and 800+ at HubSpot, Michelle has unique insights into what makes great frontline managers and why investing in them is crucial for sustainable growth. Enabling and coaching reps on product positioning, systems, and ICP. “At HubSpot, I had over 100 frontline sales managers reporting to me.

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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. Why Ecosystem-Led Growth for GTM? Let’s get into it.

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Martech

JUNE 3, 2024

As companies prioritize “efficient growth,” vertical software has gained prominence due to its lower customer acquisition costs, higher expansion sales and stronger gross retention than its horizontal counterparts. In 2024, under the banner of “efficient growth,” vertical software is gaining prominence.

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