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The State of SaaS Go-to-Market with Theory Ventures General Partner Tomasz Tunguz

SaaStr

When Marc Benioff started Salesforce, he codified the sales playbook. Then Mark Roberge , former Hubspot CRO, wrote The Sales Acceleration Formula with deep insights into quota structures. The biggest challenge to that outlook is an increase in the sales cycle. That elongated sales cycle created pipeline supply shocks.

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2025 GTM forecast: Key shifts redefining the future of go-to-market strategy

Martech

As businesses prepare for 2025, go-to-market (GTM) strategies are undergoing major shifts driven by new technology, evolving customer demands and increased executive scrutiny. Dig deeper: Rethinking fit, growth and go-to-market for the modern startup 2. Some were B2C, many were B2B. Are you kidding?

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Planning Your 2025 ABX Go-To-Market Approach

Heinz Marketing

Here’s a strategic guide to building your 2025 ABM/ABX go-to-market approach that prioritizes alignment, personalization, and growth. Sales, marketing, and customer success teams should work from a unified playbook and metrics from day one. Reach out if you need help.

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How to align your martech COE with organizational and go-to-market goals

Martech

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? Sample goals: Host 10 regional events to generate new sales opportunities.

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16 Go-to-Market Plays for Your Entire Sales Funnel

Nurturing leads through your sales funnel is a daunting task for many business development teams, especially at the scale required to achieve lofty growth goals. At ZoomInfo, we’ve found that a rock-solid go-to-market playbook is key. These 16 plays are aligned to different stages of the sales funnel.

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Go-To-Market Made Simple: 3 Myths To Debunk

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.” Here are three B2B go-to-market myths that may be holding your business back. . Myth #3: GTM is lead by a Single Leader.

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The Future of Sales Enablement

Sales Hacker

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. Plus, an analysis of the top 75 trending sales AI tools. Product : HG Insights. You’re not alone.

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Outrun Your Competition: Best Practices for Accelerating Sales Processes

Longer sales cycles. Every go-to-market team knows the frustrations that come from a drawn-out sales process. Larger buying committees. Slow-moving compliance reviews. How can you speed it up?

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Predicting the Future of Sales: How AI and Automation Will Revolutionize Strategies

In this exploration, we're diving into predictions about the future of sales. From personalized customer journeys to streamlined sales processes, the goal is to make every moment count, enhancing both efficiency and connection. We're talking about a complete shake-up powered by automation and artificial intelligence (AI).

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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The New GTM Playbook: 18 Ways to Future-Proof Your Sales Team

Longer sales cycles. Go-to-market teams of every size, in every industry, are grappling with these challenges firsthand. Increasingly discerning buyers. More meetings. Intensifying competition. Economic uncertainty. Thankfully, there’s an answer.

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How to Create Sales Email Sequences That Convert

Modern go-to-market teams know it takes more than one email to break through the noise. Multiple touchpoints means more ways to get your pitch right — and, potentially, more ways to be wrong. The good news?

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3 Sizzling Ways to Warm Up Cold Calls

Even in today’s data-driven sales world, cold calling remains a fact of life for many go-to-market professionals. Fortunately, today’s sales leaders have a crucial advantage over their predecessors: market intelligence and outreach platforms that can warm up virtually any introduction.

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The 5 Stages of Account-Based Marketing — and How to Win Them All

The benefits of account-based marketing are clear: internal alignment, shorter sales cycles, higher conversion rates. And yet only 43% of marketers are completely satisfied with the quality of their data. But none of this is possible without the most important element of a successful ABM program: good data.

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Marketing Operations Efficiency: The Essential Checklist

As marketing becomes more tech-driven, the role of marketing operations (MOps) is getting more complex. Today, the discipline is increasingly interwoven with other vital go-to-market motions — including sales and customer support — and is responsible for all business elements associated with marketing, including the tech stack.