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. Conversations reveal the unshared details behind how they have grown companies, and the go-to-market strategies responsible for shaping that growth.

GTM 69

GTM X-functional Start-ups Relationship building 69

Sales Hacker

MARCH 22, 2018

I run a European-based sales agency for software and technology companies. Reasons to outsource include: Lack of expertise and experience in some sales functions (e.g. Assigning sales functions to other departments (we’ve seen R&D doing sourcing). Some functions (e.g. Would the product fit the selected market?

B2B 100

B2B X-functional Cold Call SQL 100

SaaStr

JUNE 20, 2024

AI is the X-factor for your business, and it can lead to exponential growth. People may not often think of IBM as a tech company that develops AI technology, but they’ve been doing it since 1956. People may not often think of IBM as a tech company that develops AI technology, but they’ve been doing it since 1956. Open-source.

X-functional 67

X-functional Government Technology Technology 67

Heinz Marketing

APRIL 11, 2022

Tune in to hear more about navigating marketing experiences in a crypto world, while learning about: The differences and implications between B2B Marketing in Web2 vs. Web3. How blockchain technology affects digital advertising and go-to-market standpoints. The other is really from a go-to-market standpoint.

Pipeline 111

Pipeline B2B Go To Market Sales 111

SaaStr

DECEMBER 8, 2023

There are a bunch of unknowns, but it’s clear how much LLMs are democratizing technology. How Enterprises Are Adopting This Technology Zooming out at a technical level, public data is running out for all of what LLMs can take advantage of. The necessity of balancing security and functionality. What about the GTM side?

GTM 121

GTM SQL X-functional Engineering 121

Sales Hacker

MARCH 4, 2025

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Jessica Gilmartin has nearly 20 years of go-to-market leadership experience, most recently serving as both the Chief Revenue Officer and Chief Marketing Officer at Calendly. Your go to market motion has to be driven by the product.

GTM 76

GTM X-functional Start-ups Campaign 76

ConversionXL

JUNE 30, 2019

Companies do it for a wide variety of reasons—SEO, branding, go-to-market strategy, pricing, etc.—and Competitor X is doing Y. We should do that, too,” or “X is the market leader, and they have Y, so we need Y.” Run a functional investigation. Run a functional investigation. is probably random.

UX 126

UX X-functional A/B testing User Experience 126

Hubspot

AUGUST 8, 2019

That’s why successful companies obsessively measure everything about their go-to-market model, sales strategy, and salespeople. Ramp-up = amount of time spent in training + average sales cycle length + X. X is based on the salesperson’s experience: The more they have, the smaller this number is. X months or years).

X-functional 101

X-functional Quota Cross-sell Contract 101

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 13, 2021

This article was written for technology professionals who would like to learn more about OEM deal strategies and structures. The licensee embeds the third-party software into its application to improve it by adding new functionality or features, or enhancing existing functionality or features.

GTM 88

GTM Negotiate Profit margin Contract 88

Hubspot

OCTOBER 4, 2017

That is -- if the technology functions as it was designed, as USA TODAY'S Eli Blumenthal put it: Pixel Buds promise real-time translation, which if it works in real life as well as it does in this demo would be incredible. — This technology had been alluded to earlier this year, and now, Pixel owners will be the first to preview it.

Product 78

Product X-functional Price Technology 78

Heinz Marketing

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The technology that the services they offer, what they bring to market, and the value that those things deliver to their customers in both directions. What if it had X? How do you balance feedback from customers individually, which are valid, with making sure you’re staying focused on a core addressable market?

Pipeline 122

Pipeline Sales Growth X-functional 122

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

But I always believe that at the core, I always believe that this problem could be solved through that application technology. And I still don’t believe that there’s technology that can solve this problem of knowing what I’ve agreed to in contracts I’ve already executed. I was bullish on that from day one.

Contract 119

Contract X-functional Objectives and Key Results Legal 119

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

When clients ask, “Do you do X?,” Respond to shifting market priorities. However, as an agency, clients expect you to be knowledgeable about shifts in the market, new technologies, approaches, tactics, and methodologies. You must constantly educate yourself on the shifts and changes within your market.

UX 120

UX Clients Niche Service 120

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 5, 2019

Megan spent over a decade building and managing customer and revenue generation teams for leading technology companies, so when it comes to understanding how companies can structure their organization around the customer, she’s leading the pack. What You’ll Learn. What Managed by Q does. Starting Out in Sales and Account Management.

Customers 65

Customers Account management X-functional Hospitality 65

Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

It uses the formula PPVVC=S (Pain x Power x Vision x Value x Control = Sale) to help salespeople accurately gauge the probability of closing a deal. Which is why this pioneering guide shows you how to build a fully streamlined sales engine that uses modern techniques and technologies. Jeffrey Gitomer.

Sales 143

Sales Technique Objectives and Key Results Non-Profits 143

SaaStr

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Technology Reporter @ CNBC. Please welcome Zach Perret, Plaid Co-Founder and CEO and Ari Levy, CNBC Senior Technology Reporter. Zach : Go for it. But the really wonderful thing that we’ve been searching for is we wanted a mix of finance and technology. That allows us to have a very different go to market strategy.

Finance 85

Finance X-functional Non-Profits Launch 85

Heinz Marketing

MAY 9, 2022

You do a lot of advising with companies in go-to-markets scale up stages but what interested in me a lot was this relationship with the CRO and the CFO, which quite frankly like, we have an audience that is sales and marketing in particular, the better relationship you have with the CFO, the better off you can be. Jamie : Yeah.

Pipeline 98

Pipeline Finance Commission Sales 98

SaaStr

JULY 15, 2022

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. Jason Lemkin: I’ll answer it, but are you thinking more on sales or technology or broadly speaking in the question?

Growth 114

Growth Cross-sell Start-ups X-functional 114

SBI

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

In today’s world, companies need to develop targeted, engaging communication with their market, and having relevant, timely intelligence is the key to energizing all types of revenue-driving activities. Umberto: Most of the other solutions in this market are single-source, proprietary and closed.

Up-sell 51

Up-sell Closing Sell X-functional 51

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

It’s also been a powerful moment for technology to be a force for good. We are truly living in a cloud first world today, where businesses not only understand, but they now embrace and are looking to lead with technology solutions from folks on this Zoom, who are cloud first and providing that next generation of solutions.

Non-Profits 91

Non-Profits Strategize Trust Growth 91

Sales Hacker

APRIL 14, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Jessica Wilkeyson , Co-Founder and Principal at Alternate Route , a go-to market strategy and revenue operations consultancy based in New York. She’s the founder of Alternate Route, a go-to market strategy and revenue operations consultancy based here in New York.

Contract 84

Contract CRM Consult Cross-sell 84

Sales Hacker

JUNE 9, 2020

We’re about a $3 billion market cap company in the human resources space. We provide human resources expertise, technology, benefits plans, and everything related to your people so that you can focus on your core business. But I was determined to do it and found a technology startup that was willing to give me a shot.

Finance 104

Finance X-functional Pipeline Territory 104

SaaStr

JULY 17, 2020

I mean, many companies are not really serving the target market of the SMBs that are most affected, think like traditional retail, traditional coffee shops, comfort food, gyms, fitness, et cetera. But that’s more the exception than the rull of the go to market for many companies. X and it’s not [inaudible 00:20:29].

E-commerce 91

E-commerce Retail Real Estate X-functional 91

Highspot

MAY 20, 2022

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. For instance, Highspot enables sales enablement professionals to quickly build richly formatted sales plays via our SmartPage technology.

Territory 52

Territory X-functional Sales Cross-sell 52

Heinz Marketing

MARCH 11, 2019

I think what I see happening now is kind of a return to the basics and saying what are our core objectives as a team and how does our technology need to be constructed to help us do what we really care the most about. Let me pick one and pick a vendor that’s going to help deliver 100% of what I need, and let me drop the other two tools.

Pipeline 69

Pipeline Sales B2B X-functional 69

Heinz Marketing

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

I think if you’re not familiar, definitely go check out G2crowd.com. It is an online review marketplace for technology. Not so that we’re functioning as a curation and we’re positioning it in a different kind of segment than it would normally be on our site. Insert company name X did Y. Matt: Yeah.

Pipeline 63

Pipeline B2B Sales Pitch 63

SaaStr

JULY 15, 2020

I mean, many companies are not really serving the target market of the SMBs that are most affected, think like traditional retail, traditional coffee shops, comfort food, gyms, fitness, et cetera. But that’s more the exception than the role of the go to market for many companies. X and it’s not [inaudible 00:20:29].

X-functional 78

X-functional E-commerce Retail Growth 78

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

I look at my experience through those companies, and I learned a lot about enterprise software sales, about buying patterns, about functions like product management and product marketing, and how they fit into a well functioning and operating company. It just made it a lot easier for us to scale up Salsify as we found success.

E-commerce 114

E-commerce Manufacturing X-functional Retail 114

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Trish Bertuzzi is the founder of The Bridge Group that helps B2B technology companies build world-class Inside Sales teams. Matt Cameron is the Managing Partner at SaaSy Sales Management , Silicon Valley’s SaaS go to market leadership development community. Trish Bertuzzi – Founder of The Bridge Group.

Cold Call 14

Cold Call Inside sales Sales B2B 14

SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

In terms of replacement, what does Bob believe will be the emerging trends in SaaS Go To Market that will replace it? * We need to hire this new head of sales, who’s going to come in and change the way that we’re going to market. How important is it to own the entire customer journey?

X-functional 64

X-functional Start-ups Drivers/motivators Go To Market 64

SaaStr

AUGUST 30, 2019

As for Whitney, she directly leads the organization’s go-to-market efforts, including sales, marketing, business development and customer operations. Whitney is also an advisor to companies funded by the YC Continuity Fund, focusing on enterprise strategy, go-to-market strategy, leadership and execution.

X-functional 60

X-functional Drivers/motivators Start-ups Engineering 60

SaaStr

JUNE 21, 2019

244: Ryan Petersen will share what he has learned about scaling culture, expanding globally, raising venture capital (or not), and using technology to improve legacy industries. Sara Varni: I think you need a combination of different personalities and skillsets within a product marketing team. That’s just not what motivates them.

Start-ups 66

Start-ups X-functional Drivers/motivators Up-sell 66

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

How does your customer success and customer support functions change with the move to enterprise? Right, and every business that grows, evolves in people, process, and technology. Let’s say the customer is going to the next stage and they want additional help, let’s say in [inaudible] of security.

Price 62

Price GTM Up-sell Product 62

SaaStr

APRIL 8, 2025

Rudina Seseri, Managing Partner at Glasswing Ventures As founder and Managing Partner of Glasswing Ventures, Rudina leads investments in early-stage AI and Frontier Tech companies, with a particular focus on Enterprise and cybersecurity markets. We can do it in X time for Y cost.”

X-functional 77

X-functional Healthcare Government Networking 77

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 28, 2025

To claim this offer, go to www.superhuman.com/gtmnow The GTM Podcast The GTM Podcast is a weekly podcast hosted by Scott Barker, GTMfund Partner, featuring interviews with the top 1% GTM executives, VCs, and founders. And you could say they’re still going through hyper growth, um, but really excited to, to dive into your journey.

GTM 102

GTM X-functional Price Pipeline 102

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2025

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Rob Giglio is the Chief Customer Officer at Canva, where he oversees Canvas sales and go-to-market functions. Rob brings to Canva over 20 years of industry experience leading and executing global marketing and sales initiatives.

GTM 105

GTM Gambling B2B E-commerce 105

Sales Hacker

MARCH 11, 2025

Guest Speaker (Cassie Young): LinkedIn Primary VC Host (Scott Barker): LinkedIn Newsletter Find GTMnow (GTMfund’s Media Brand): Website LinkedIn Twitter/X YouTube Podcast Sponsor: Pursuit The best talent isn’t actively job hunting. Pursuit helps companies hire elite go-to-market talent on a non-retainer basis.

GTM 81

GTM Growth X-functional Referrals 81