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. I really liked this one and wanted to write up a few more learnings. What is Codeium and Windsurf?

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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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Martech

JULY 17, 2024

A marketing VP’s dilemma In 2022, Emma was the confident VP of Marketing for a thriving SaaS analytics platform. Despite rapid growth, her team of eight now faces the challenge of achieving more with less due to recent layoffs. Fast-forward to 2024, and Emma’s reality has shifted.

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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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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

JUNE 1, 2020

This is part of a phenomenon called Product Led Growth (PLG) , an end-user growth model that relies on the product itself to be the primary driver of customer acquisition, conversion, and expansion. With PLGs massive growth, many wonder if PLG and self-service solutions will replace Sales. Sales Isn’t Going Anywhere.

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Martech

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The burden of implementation ABM platforms are often self-service. Marketers are expected to set up, integrate and manage the system themselves. Many providers require long minimum contracts, often locking companies into a year or more of service with six-figure annual fees. This process is far from simple.

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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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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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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

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. Without it, you don’t have a business.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 29, 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. Reflection across go-to-market trends, but also on the investment front (not to mention community !).

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Iannarino

APRIL 1, 2023

As B2B sales organizations continue to reorganize their go-to-market (GTM) sales teams, there is a convergence into revenue teams. These teams comprise sales, marketing, sales operations, sales enablement, and customer success (once called customer service). More resources are used to pursue large clients.

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Martech

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The example client I use for this tutorial is an immersive virtual event platform that offers 3D and interactive event technology; however, these prompts are built to apply to any industry, product or service. I also want to see the data used to make the selection so I can ensure it’s accurate.

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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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Hubspot

JULY 20, 2020

Other pieces in the series include HubSpot's Chief Customer Officer on Why We Need to Talk About Growth and our VP of Marketing's Content Marketing Playbook for Times of Crisis. As the rate of employment has gone down, the stock market has surged. Traditional Customer Service ? Self-Service. Inside Selling.

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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

So, here’s my step-by-step guide to building your own go-to-market strategy using the strategies I’ve implemented to build multiple companies throughout the years. But first, what is a go-to-market strategy? What is a go-to-market (GTM) strategy? But first, what is a go-to-market strategy?

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Highspot

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

The round included all existing investors: ICONIQ Growth, Madrona Venture Group, OpenView, Salesforce Ventures, Sapphire Ventures and Shasta Ventures. Highspot’s hyper-growth has been driven by the critical role sales enablement plays in a company’s ability to improve the performance of their sales teams. SEATTLE, Feb.

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Heinz Marketing

JANUARY 7, 2022

By Maria Geokezas , COO and VP of Client Services at Heinz Marketing. 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. How Do You Know if You Could Incorporate a Product-Led Growth Strategy?

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SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2023

If you don’t want your company defeated by change, you need to adapt your Go-To-Market strategy at every stage of growth. Managing Partner of CIPIO Partners, Rolan Dennert, shares how companies need to readjust and rethink GTM fit — and even product market fit — from time to time. Growth was slowing.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Along with co-host Ben Salzman, Jason and Henry discuss the transformative power of AI within SaaS and the evolving dynamics that are reshaping the landscape of software as a service. ” For example, when you hit a $100M, you just can’t sell enough to drive 40 points of new growth.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 12, 2024

Bob Moore is Co-Founder and CEO of Crossbeam, an Ecosystem-Led Growth (ELG) platform that helps companies use their partner ecosystems to generate leads, close deals, and grow faster. Discussed in this Episode: Ecosystem-led growth is about leveraging partnerships to make your go-to-market teams more successful.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 1, 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. Does it follow a PLG or Sales-Led Growth (SLG) model? Help your team close more deals.

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Martech

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Answer: The role of a marketing technology (martech) manager is pivotal in bridging the gap between marketing and IT within an organization. This position focuses on leveraging technology to enhance marketing efforts and drive business growth. Here are the key responsibilities and functions of a MarTech Manager: 1.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 7, 2025

With a background that includes leadership roles at AWS, Microsoft, and Lenovo, Fred brings a wealth of experience in building high-performing teams and driving revenue growth. They need to be able to, I would say, build services on top of the software. And it’s not my business to do, I would say, professional services.

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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. There’s no harm, of course, in celebrating big numbers — but not at the cost of neglecting a go-to-market (GTM) strategy.

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Growth Hacking is a popular buzzword, but does anyone really know what it means? Neil Patel does a pretty good job explaining the concept and talking about its origin, saying that a growth marketer is someone who uses " analytics, inexpensive, creative and innovative ways to exponentially grow their company’s customer base. "

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Highspot

JANUARY 27, 2021

Highspot connected more than three million salespeople, channel partners, services reps and customers in modern, digital sales experiences last year, representing a 100 percent increase in platform usage from 2019. The remote reality has accelerated the pace of digital transformation and changed the way go-to-market teams engage buyers.

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Martech

MARCH 10, 2022

E-commerce has been on the rise for years but has had explosive growth during the pandemic. Because of this it’s essential to have an Account-based marketing (ABM) strategy. What was already a high-growth industry has catapulted into hyper-speed as the world adapted to changing regulations, societal norms and customer needs.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 3, 2023

In the current economic climate, investors weigh profitability over growth. There’s a trend toward transitioning from growth at all costs to paths to profitability. If you’re a go-to-market operator, you know this new imperative is not an either/or. RevOps as a unifying force in go-to-market strategy.

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SaaStr

JULY 5, 2023

Let’s find out the go-to-market models Divvy used to go from zero to a $2.5B When people hear about Divvy’s growth, they assume Divvy must have skipped a step. If you can get wins, you’re going to get more wins. If you take losses, you’re going to get more losses. How did they do it? They didn’t.

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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? Customers don’t rely on marketing campaigns and salespeople to tell them what the product will do for them – they experience it for themselves. The result?

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Transitioning from mid-market selling to enterprise selling isn’t easy. In our first post we focused on how to be product- and market-ready, but that’s still only part of the solution. 1) Marketing: Does your marketing appeal to enterprise orgs? Customer and channel partnerships. Sales strategy.

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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. ” The Age of Connected Work B2B market dynamics are also a driving factor: B2B buyer expectations have changed. The SaaS sales and marketing landscape has shifted.

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SaaStr

JULY 27, 2022

So how did PayFit achieve such explosive growth? However, you should still be selective in choosing your talent pool, ensure there is room for growth at your company, and train your SMB reps very well. . Secret 6: Customer Satisfaction Is Your First Lever For Growth. Unhappy customers can kill your growth engine.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 10, 2023

Whether you’re going from nothing to something or already scaling and thriving beyond $10-100M, healthy, sustainable growth in SaaS is on every founder’s mind. 0-$1M — From Nothing To Something Within each growth stage, Kimball shares three themes of advice. Building a go-to-market function from scratch.

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Sales Pop!

AUGUST 2, 2023

Outsourcing is a great way for companies to reduce costs and save up on resources while at the same time improving and accelerating their growth. Not all sales agencies provide equally good services. Not all representatives will be experienced in your market. Is Sales Outsourcing Right for You?

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