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How to Double Your Magic Number and Increase Your Go-to-Market Efficiency with Sapphire Ventures

SaaStr

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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How to Build Go-to-Market Efficiency in SMB Sales with Owner.com CRO Kyle Norton

SaaStr

2023 saw the team grow from 6-10 reps, which is pretty modest, and they built an SDR function. At the end of ‘22, they started a small pilot and grew that function from one and two BDRs to a team of 10 and then 12. Take on less and go deeper with it to have more success. Every function gets a stack rank. They grew 2.5x

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The Ultimate Guide to Sales Metrics: What to Track, How to Track It, & Why

Hubspot

That’s why successful companies obsessively measure everything about their go-to-market model, sales strategy, and salespeople. Percentage of sales reps attaining 100% quota. Revenue by market. Imagine one of your reps isn’t hitting her quota. Let's take a look at what sales metrics are. Revenue by territory.

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Scaling from $1 to $10M, an AMA with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin (Pod 573)

SaaStr

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. Ash Bhoopathy (@ashbhoopathy): Probably more around go-to-market and sales. But potentially even technology.

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The Ultimate Guide to Sales Playbooks 

Highspot

This will lead to uneven results: some reps may find their own way to sell the new product; others will struggle and fail to meet quota. Sales motions are defined by your larger go-to-market strategy. Closing: Guides sellers on how to close deals, including working with intra-company functions like legal and deal desk.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Byron Deeter, Elliott Robinson, Henry Schuck, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

Law number three, this is huge, particularly in COVID, so we’re going to talk about this a little bit differently. Everyone is trying to figure out the go-to-market learning curve. Here, what you really want to think about is testing out two or three reps, seeing how they work, see if their quotas are about right.

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The Answers to Scaling, Hiring, and Everything Else: A SaaStr Europa AMA with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin (Pod 585 + Video)

SaaStr

I’ll tell you, of all the founders I’m impressed with, I’m most impressed with founders that I meet and I’m like, “How you doing”, “Well, I’m at 2 million in revenue and I’m going to grow 2.5 X this year. I’m going to go from 2 to 5 or 2 to 6.”

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