Sales Pop!

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

8 Must-Have Ecommerce Tools for Rapid Retail Growth. Voice assistants (Amazon Echo, Alexa, Alice, Google Home), thanks to their upgradable functionality, are becoming personal shopping assistants: from finding a product in online stores to buying it with voice control. All they have to do is click on the item they like in the video.

Retail 130

Retail Growth X-functional Cross-sell 130

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. PLG, for all its virtues, doesn’t mean that you can skip GTM functions. 2021’s Lesson from Calendly. Plan accordingly.

Growth 111

Growth Product GTM X-functional 111

Anthony Cole Training

OCTOBER 13, 2014

The easy way out – Take everyone’s number, increase it by the growth goal percentage of the company, and say to them, “Here is your goal for next year. Or, if you want to leverage our compensation model, you need to exceed this year’s goal by x.” Years ago, I heard Mark Victor Hansen say that motivation is an “inside/out” job.

X-functional 204

X-functional Drivers/motivators Sales Negotiate 204

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 17, 2024

15:41) Scaling Twitter’s ad business and managing hyper-growth. (26:54) Conversations reveal the unshared details behind how they have grown companies, and the go-to-market strategies responsible for shaping that growth. Strategies for building relationships with PR outlets, reporters, and analysts. Feeling that AI FOMO?

GTM 101

GTM Engineering Electricity X-functional 101

Anthony Cole Training

JUNE 1, 2015

It’s very difficult to move from small to big and to do so quickly without having infrastructure around it go upward, which is why it’s so important to partner with organizations that will naturally accelerate your growth. verses having a discussion around “We can’t do that because of X, Y, Z, etc.’”.

X-functional 173

X-functional Technology Technology Growth 173

The 5% Institute

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Coaching For Sales Performance – 5 x Important Reasons. Coaching For Sales Performance Reason #2 – Sales Growth. The second reason why you should be coaching for sales performance, is because it creates the opportunity for sales growth. An increase in sales growth. Coaching For Sales Performance Reason #1 – Alignment.

X-functional 145

X-functional Sales Clients Closing 145

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Growth hacking is how Slack went from 15,000 to half a million daily users in its first year. Growth hacking isn’t about deploying sleazy tricks. It’s about making calculated, data-driven moves for fast growth. It’s about making calculated, data-driven moves for fast growth. What is growth hacking?

Growth 113

Growth Referrals Minimum Viable Product Drivers/motivators 113

SaaStr

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Roughly, once you (x) have an established brand, and (y) have a marketing engine that is working, and (z) most importantly, once demand gen has finally become somewhat routine … you’ll need a CMO. Or maybe 12-24 months after you have the core marketing functions all built out, and working. You need a VP of Demand Gen!

X-functional 27

X-functional Growth Follow-up Strategize 27

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

So you’ve heard that product-led growth is all the rage, and now you want to transition from a sales-led motion to a product-led one. But you have to take a step back because you might underestimate what it means to implement product-led growth. When can we expect X% of trial sign-ups to convert with 1-2 human touches or less?

Go To Market 97

Go To Market Growth GTM X-functional 97

Search Engine Land

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

However, key details such as the official name, functionality, influence on auction dynamics, and effect on metrics are yet to be released. ” ‘Beyond crazy’ Melissa Mackey, paid search director at Compound Growth Marketing, also criticized the lack of information around the new ad format. ” Why we care.

X-functional 124

X-functional Engineering Launch Clients 124

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. So then it can help them to really move to be more digital and accelerate their growth as well. Fred Viet: That’s good. Scott Barker: Awesome.

GTM 115

GTM Sell Customers Cold Call 115

SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

He provides an in-depth guide to driving revenue growth at your company and what to expect at each stage. The three stages are product-market fit, then go-to-market fit and lastly growth and moat. Awesome revenue growth on the X axis, awesome revenue retention on the Y. Thirty, 50% revenue growth. Growth and milk.

Growth 106

Growth Cross-sell Contract X-functional 106

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 7, 2024

CDPs can be technically complex pieces of software, with deep and lengthy sales cycles and cross functional implementations. The customer experience would also suffer, as pressure to meet growth targets will cause team members to generally prioritize pre-sales work. For example, “how do I implement X using this API?”

Go To Market 121

Go To Market X-functional Engineering Cross-sell 121

Heinz Marketing

JUNE 27, 2024

By Tom Swanson , Engagement Manager at Heinz Marketing CLG (customer-led growth for the unaware) is another entry in the X-Led Growth trend. I will share some of our own experiences and best practices to help establish aligned incentives, and orchestrate your teams effectively to foster customer-led growth.

GTM 59

GTM Growth Customers X-functional 59

SaaStr

OCTOBER 7, 2020

There are lots of reasons for this: All your hires can’t either be (x) folks you magically poach from other companies and (y) folks who magically are leaving another great gig at the perfect time to join you. So many of the very best VP candidates are folks who turn over in high growth start-ups. Not always.

X-functional 145

X-functional Teamwork Start-ups Growth 145

SaaStr

APRIL 2, 2023

Mistake: On the other hand… not betting on the team that got me there “Everything will be fine once we get a new head of [X]” -every startup CEO ever (also me, frequently) When you launch a company, the initial team is usually whoever you can get. For this one deal, we just need to do X. Every client uses you a little differently.

X-functional 130

X-functional Clients Growth Start-ups 130

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 15, 2020

So let me tell you what I’ve done and learned both myself and across 25+ high growth startups I’ve invested in or advised. no guaranteed bonus for X months until you scale). Basically, we paid our VP Sales X% of every single dollar after we hit the plan for the year out. That’s stressful. No draw (i.e.,

X-functional 142

X-functional Quota Teamwork Sales 142

SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2021

Maybe even in the not-so-early days But if you are 10x better at (x) One Important Thing that (y) customers value and will pay for, that’s enough. It’s only a subset of critical functionality that customers will pay to have implemented 10x better than an existing, trusted vendor. Yes, you can build that piece of functionality better.

X-functional 141

X-functional Trust CRM Product 141

Martech

AUGUST 9, 2023

Account-based marketing (ABM) is a powerful strategy helping B2B marketers target and engage with high-value accounts, deliver personalized experiences and drive revenue growth. Hillary Carpio Hillary is head of ABM at Snowflake and spearheaded its ABM function through its record-breaking IPO. followers) X (Twitter): @julietrandall (2.5K

X-functional 98

X-functional GTM B2B Technology 98

SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2024

They’ll explore strategies for using customer success not just as a support function but as a powerful engine for revenue growth. In this session, Notion’s CRO, Erica Anderson, and GitHub’s VP of Customer Success, Abbas Haider Ali, discuss how customer success teams can take a proactive approach to drive sales.

Networking 114

Networking GTM X-functional Finance 114

Salesforce

OCTOBER 26, 2021

To ensure predictable growth that offered customers digital-first, low-cost entry to products and services, businesses rolled out subscriptions. Different measures track different models, but all depend on a simple formula: [Recurring revenue = Active accounts in a period X Cost of good/service]. X 100 = 10% customer churn rate.

X-functional 98

X-functional Sales Growth Contract 98

SaaStr

OCTOBER 3, 2023

PST, Bo Borland, founder, and CEO of playbuilt, shares four steps for creating repeatable success at every stage of growth, specifically in B2B Enterprise. Let’s look at Borland’s approach to aligning and executing B2B team selling motions for a rinse-and-repeat process for growth. Why is teaming the new selling?

B2B 114

B2B GTM Objectives and Key Results Sell 114

SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

Customers bought because they thought their organizations needed this functionality, and so they wrote the checks for Year 1, and even Year 2. Engagement Metrics are often low but (x) it’s already in the budget, and (y) what do you expect, we finally just deployed? OK, just renew at last year’s price.

Customers 134

Customers X-functional Price Launch 134

Partners in Excellence

JULY 8, 2015

Too often, however, we see huge disconnects in what the metrics show and the most important performance metrics–revenue/profitability attainment, growth, share, customer satisfaction, customer growth/retention, and so forth. They had goals to send X millions of emails a month.

X-functional 117

X-functional Quota Meeting Growth 117

The 5% Institute

JANUARY 12, 2023

5 x Amazing Sales Assets To Skyrocket Your Business Growth. Ensuring a collective understanding of who you are selling to enables all team members to craft messages and offers that drive revenue growth. A lot of software nowadays serve multiple functions, and may have a CRM already pre-set as a part of their package.

Growth 52

Growth X-functional Customer Relationship Management CRM 52

SaaStr

JULY 20, 2024

Aligning and Scaling the GTM Engine One of the core functions when hiring talent is engineering, product, and design. The types of people you want to hire at $1M to $20M will be consistent with the early days in the sense that, often, people want to hire generalists across functions. Hiring is another consideration.

GTM 116

GTM X-functional Engineering Referrals 116

Martech

AUGUST 28, 2023

Martech is cross-functional by definition. For martech to be successful, you need cross-functional alignment and support for the solution. From the moment you identify a capability gap in your platforms, reach out to your cross-functional partners. Do you have a forum to get support from X. IT/engineering.

X-functional 98

X-functional Angle Government Education 98

A Sales Guy

AUGUST 21, 2015

You look at the United States military and how instructional design and organizational development function and you see a system that can take young men and women, with different socio and economic backgrounds from all over the country, and turn them into a single fighting force. I love growth and development. That’s impressive!

X-functional 124

X-functional Clients Growth Start-ups 124

Martech

OCTOBER 20, 2022

He accounts the exponential growth to the massive adoption of martech that is happening across organizations of all sizes. The explosive growth happening within marketing operations can be attributed to the fact that, as a function, it is what “keeps the trains running” for marketing technology teams, according to Brinker.

X-functional 101

X-functional Objectives and Key Results Technology Technology 101

SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2024

How to build operational excellence into your organization at different stages of the growth curve. 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. They grew 2.5x

Go To Market 117

Go To Market GTM X-functional Objectives and Key Results 117

Martech

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

To many non-marketing executives, marketing is perceived as more of a “nice to have” than a “must have” function. Simplify what is communicated and focus on: The relationship between marketing, revenue growth and CLTV. How marketing’s activities contribute to topline and bottom-line growth.

X-functional 104

X-functional Objectives and Key Results Technology Technology 104

Heinz Marketing

APRIL 25, 2023

The function is straightforward: output = tools + teams x strategy. It is a natural product of growth, but it must be managed. As a natural product of growth, it must always be managed. Cross-functional burn-out – If teams from different functions are all burning out, it is time to talk with them.

X-functional 110

X-functional Strategize Growth Clients 110

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Define goals with continuous growth in mind. Goals to measure could be “X users completed free trial in X timeframe” or “X users completed basics course in X timeframe”. A mix of broken links, slow site speed, low-quality content, and a confusing UI can contribute to poor website growth.

UX 121

UX X-functional A/B testing Follow-up 121

Hubspot

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

It makes the company seem like a great place to work and drops some impressive growth stats. I think you could be a great fit for a [function, like “sales”] role at [company] -- we’re [growing fast, just raised $X in funding, currently #1 in Y space, etc.]. It’s enthusiastic and human-sounding. You fit the bill. Your name].

X-functional 101

X-functional Networking Contact Technique 101

SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2024

As a founder, you need to be more involved in functional areas like sales support and success. It’s tough for folks to staff these functions. Give everyone x amount of money to go find the best one. Growth capital won’t dry up because it has to go somewhere. Say growth slows, and you sell for $800M; that’s pretty amazing.

Price 117

Price X-functional B2B Growth 117

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

This combined approach helps users experience the full functionality initially and, if they don’t upgrade, the transition to the free plan with limited features can highlight the value of the paid service, encouraging them to upgrade. Include a full-feature free trial. they will get in trouble if they try to buy and expense it back ).

GTM 119

GTM X-functional Inside sales User Experience 119

Martech

MARCH 21, 2023

If you’re not an expert in your company’s tech stack, you won’t know how to use existing tools to boost results or maximize new functionality that could replace apps you no longer need. To keep up, you must continually read product updates, beta launches and more to learn how your tech stack functionality is expanding.

X-functional 104

X-functional Negotiate Contract Technology 104