Sales Hacker

MARCH 22, 2018

Reasons to outsource include: Lack of expertise and experience in some sales functions (e.g. Opportunistic side bets by signing up some commission-only sales agents. Opportunistic side bets by signing up some commission-only sales agents. Assigning sales functions to other departments (we’ve seen R&D doing sourcing).

B2B 99

B2B X-functional Cold Call SQL 99

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. Happy to be here. And it was very, very successful.

GTM 75

GTM X-functional Start-ups Campaign 75

ConversionXL

JUNE 30, 2019

You won’t know until you figure out what your competitors are up to. Knowing what the competitors are doing—how they’re thinking about the market, which tactics they’re using, how they’re crafting messages and design—can make all the difference in the battle for customers. Competitor X is doing Y.

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. Percentage of revenue from existing customers (cross-selling, upselling, repeat orders, expanded contracts, etc.). Revenue by market. Cost of selling as a percentage of revenue generated.

X-functional 101

X-functional Quota Cross-sell Contract 101

SBI

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

We built our technology to maintain profiles on all meaningful companies and decision makers worldwide, from basic data like revenues, employee counts and email addresses, to real-time insights on companies and people, while analyzing relationships that help our customers go to market.

Up-sell 51

Up-sell Closing Sell X-functional 51

SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

The three stages are product-market fit, then go-to-market fit and lastly growth and moat. What are you doing up so early? What’s the failure rate for a Series A start up? What’s the failure rate of a Series C start up? We are screwing up the scale. SaaStr, good morning. Get right into it.

Growth 106

Growth Cross-sell Contract X-functional 106

Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

And for leveling up your sales skills, nothing beats a good sales book. There are only about 10–15 books in each discipline, so you can easily read up on the books you’re likely to need or want. The New Solution Selling. The Little Red Book of Selling. Unbreakable Laws of Selling. The New Strategic Selling.

Sales 143

Sales Technique Objectives and Key Results Non-Profits 143

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

They sell that product to general councils, operations teams, and deal desks. They sell that product to general councils, operations teams, and deal desks. Regie uses AI to create inbound, outbound, and even follow-up sales campaigns faster using over a billion rows of performance data across 75 industries.

Contract 117

Contract X-functional Objectives and Key Results Legal 117

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 13, 2021

It includes factual information, personal experience, and interviews from successful professionals on both the buy-side and the sell-side of enterprise OEM software licensing to ensure a broad mix of experience and ideas. Enterprise software companies rarely resell agreements because they are focused on selling their software.

GTM 87

GTM Negotiate Profit margin Contract 87

ConversionXL

JUNE 25, 2021

The typical product lifecycle can be broken down into four stages: Introduction: Your product may still be in development and your marketing goals focus on generating awareness and motivating users to sign up and purchase. You’re adding new product features and looking to capture more market share from your competitors.

Launch 96

Launch Product Non-Profits GTM 96

Heinz Marketing

MAY 16, 2022

Why did that bubble up as a topic for you? If I’m ever in market, I won’t buy from them because of how they treated me, because of how they pushed me.” You recommended we cover customer service, customer success today. Customer experience. Alan : Customer experience is the area I’m most passionate about.

Pipeline 95

Pipeline Referrals X-functional Cross-sell 95

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

You’ll end up pivoting not only your service offering but the people you serve and your value proposition. When clients ask, “Do you do X?,” I knew we needed to change things up to survive. In 30 minutes, Grizzle pivoted from a productized digital PR service to an SEO-focused content marketing agency. Image source ).

UX 120

UX Clients Service Niche 120

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. Reps working from home need to be willing to converse without selling. Data integrity is more important than you thought.

Contract 83

Contract CRM Consult Cross-sell 83

SaaStr

JULY 17, 2020

” So all the people who were whining, jumping up and down about the evils of short-termism and public markets, which I never really believed in anyway, maybe you’re just factually wrong. Does it not all bubble up to even the best cloud stocks? Keith Rabois: It’s unclear which stocks it bubbles up to.

E-commerce 91

E-commerce Retail Real Estate Growth 91

SaaStr

JULY 15, 2022

Jason recently opened up an AMA on Twitter Spaces to answer questions about scaling from $1M to $10M. Jason Lemkin: Well, let’s break it up. How, if no one’s heard of you, do you sell to big companies? Ash Bhoopathy (@ashbhoopathy): Probably more around go-to-market and sales. It was packed.

Growth 114

Growth Cross-sell Start-ups X-functional 114

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 5, 2019

If you missed episode 68, check it out here: PODCAST 68: How to Go to Market with an Enterprise Solution w/ Ed Calnan. Sam Jacobs: You said that sales and account management are the best functions from which to start a career. What You’ll Learn. What Managed by Q does. Building a Customer Success Strategy. About Managed by Q.

Customers 63

Customers Account management X-functional Hospitality 63

Heinz Marketing

JANUARY 25, 2021

As marketers, we focus so much on direct demand gen, direct sales– we focus on this direct line of sight that marketers control and yet there is so much leverage and opportunity for so many people in their partner ecosystems. I ask Jason why is this function so interesting? What about partner marketing is so exciting?

Pipeline 88

Pipeline Sales X-functional B2B 88

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 30, 2018

In this blueprint, we provide insights into the best prospecting methods for different go-to-market (GTM) strategies. If you’re selling car tires, anyone with a car is a fit. Following a short conversation, you may learn that they go up the mountain a couple of times a year and that they hate putting on chains.

Prospecting 60

Prospecting SQL GTM X-functional 60

Highspot

MAY 20, 2022

No matter how your strategy changes – whether that’s selling something new, deploying a new methodology, or entering a new region – sales playbooks ensure that reps know what to do, and how to do it effectively. As reps begin to sell the product, they can access the sales play to understand which actions they should take and why.

Territory 52

Territory X-functional Sales Cross-sell 52

Sales Hacker

JUNE 9, 2020

With limits on in-person meetings, it’s even more important to double down on your digital selling strategy. LinkedIn Sales Navigator is a relationship-based digital selling tool that is designed to help you do just that. And I ended up going far to the other end of the spectrum. Some teach marketing.

Finance 102

Finance X-functional Pipeline Territory 102

SaaStr

JULY 15, 2020

” So all the people who were whining, jumping up and down about the evils of short-termism and public markets, which I never really believed in any way, maybe you’re just factually wrong. Does it not all bubble up to even the best cloud stocks? Keith Rabois: It’s unclear which stocks a ball is up to.

X-functional 78

X-functional E-commerce Growth Retail 78

Heinz Marketing

MARCH 11, 2019

Derek contends tB2B marketing is no longer a red balloon versus a blue balloon’s discussion just about lead generation; today it’s about the partnerships between sales, marketing and the CFO with the focus on revenue. So I had to get my CMO muscles tuned back up. Grab your board. Derek: Yeah.

Pipeline 65

Pipeline Sales B2B X-functional 65

SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2022

Open it up if I can help in any way, or I can make it up, but anyone got a question they’ve got to start? Sometimes we’re not as founders, sometimes founders sell their company because they don’t end up being deeply passionate about what it does. So sell your product. X this year.

Quota 98

Quota Growth Product Closing 98

Heinz Marketing

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

It’s just 30 minutes long, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. We’ve already featured some great guests and have a line up of awesome content and special guests into 2016. It’s been written up. Insert company name X did Y. We did this thing.

Pipeline 53

Pipeline B2B Sales Pitch 53

Heinz Marketing

APRIL 2, 2018

She’s spent almost two years in Africa creating new design thinking curriculum, and then a couple years ago she decided, “Well, what the hell, I’ll just go back to the valley and I’ll create a start up.” The full transcript is below: Sales Presentations That Don’t Suck (& How Marketing Can Help).

Pipeline 52

Pipeline Sales Presentation B2B 52

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

But it took a lot of thinking up until that point before we ended up pulling the trigger. It just made it a lot easier for us to scale up Salsify as we found success. And that’s distinct from the X in the cloud pattern that was the first generation. You might sell it through Facebook marketplace.

E-commerce 114

E-commerce Manufacturing X-functional Retail 114

Heinz Marketing

JUNE 4, 2018

Start-up advisor. – Territory and Market Optimization – executing to high conversions on the active funnel. Every week we’re featuring some of the best and brightest minds in B2B sales and marketing. Really excited to have a good friend, long time sales and marketing and go to marketing executive, Samuel Sunderarajj.

Pipeline 57

Pipeline Sales Drivers/motivators X-functional 57

SaaStr

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Or if you’ve ever gotten a 2 cent and a 4 cent deposit into your account as you’re trying to set up direct deposit or payments transfers, that’s a pre-Plaid world. So, the image that I have as a vapid tech reporter is sort of everything is up into the right for that period of time in order to reach that … is that true?

Finance 85

Finance X-functional Non-Profits Launch 85

SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2019

We were split up into groups. Isaac Saldana, in particular, took me up to the front of the room on my day one and introduced me to the company and said, “We’re one team and we, the board, Isaac was on the board, we believe that Sameer can really contribute here, so please give him your support.”

Growth 60

Growth X-functional Start-ups Conversion 60

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Think of this as a sneak-peek of what’s coming up at Unleash ‘19! Lauren Alt – Marketing Campaigns Manager at Outreach. Lauren is an email marketing wiz and always has a trick or two up her sleeve to share with her sales colleagues. Note: these speakers are just in alphabetical order.

Cold Call 13

Cold Call Inside sales Sales B2B 13

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? * You’re selling capital and I think it was a really transformative experience for me. ” I thought this was a particularly interesting one to kind of pick up on. Kind of solve the problem.

X-functional 64

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

SaaStr

MAY 10, 2019

Currently growing 100% year over year, working with companies to un-silo their operations and create one strategic revenue ops team to support their Go To Market strategy. In the past, Go Nimbly has helped companies like Zendesk, Twilio, PagerDuty and Coursera to achieve alignment and increase revenue by 26%.

X-functional 54

X-functional SQL Pipeline Go To Market 54

SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2019

So a huge thank you for putting up with these dulcet British tones once again. So we ran a free trial survey because we found that in most of our startups, many of them at all different price points, even starting around 1K is obvious, but going up to 150K ACV, they were running free trials as part of their marketing campaign.

Contract 66

Contract Price Commission Conversion 66

SaaStr

JANUARY 3, 2020

So a huge thank you for putting up with these dulcet British tones once again. So we ran a free trial survey because we found that in most of our startups, many of them at all different price points, even starting around 1K is obvious, but going up to 150K ACV, they were running free trials as part of their marketing campaign.

Contract 12

Contract Price Commission Conversion 12

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

What does Krish mean when he says, “In SaaS, you either sell to one of 2 customer profiles”? How does Krish think about purely serving the SMB market? How does your customer success and customer support functions change with the move to enterprise? A classic example is a Shopify selling to, let’s say, contract.

Price 62

Price GTM Up-sell Product 62

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

Where does Sara see so many people go wrong? What are Sara’s tips for creating this alignment between the marketing team that make the stories and the sales team that sell them? Ended up at a company that wasn’t as well known at the time called SalesForce.com and things just went from there.

Start-ups 66

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