Categories: Sales Leadership | Scaling Sales | Selling Technology
The CEO of Hubspot, one of the world’s largest CRMs, recently made waves with a LinkedIn post that began: “RIP cold outreach. Welcome, signal-based prospecting.” For most GTM leaders, this isn’t a new concept. Signal-driven sales is already a tool in their arsenal; but it’s one that’s been hard to master. Difficulty identifying signals, defining clear follow-up actions and tracking success across the customer journey mean cold outreach remains a strong revenue-driver for many organizations; even as AI is changing everything we know about building successful go-to-market operations. We’re not here to tell you that cold outreach is dead. But the real reason many organizations haven’t converted entirely to signal-driven pipeline is simple: successfully integrating signal-driven processes into the GTM requires a level of alignment across systems, people and process that most organizations lack. So, what’s the big deal with signal-driven sales, and what should revenue and sales leaders do about it? We’ll break it down in this blog.
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Categories: Podcasts
As we settle into 2026, we're reflecting on a year of great leadership conversations on the Revenue Builders Podcast. From hiring and managing teams, to scaling startups into enterprise, to feeling fulfilled and finding inspiration as a leader — John Kaplan and John McMahon covered it all last year, with help from outstanding guests. We're proud to present our top five most-listened episodes of 2025. Revisit your favorites to refresh your outlook for the year, or tune in to what you may have missed. We publish two episodes per week, sharing lessons for sales leaders at all stages of their careers. Make sure to subscribe to the Revenue Builders podcast on your favorite podcast player, so you never miss an episode.
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Categories: Sales Leadership | Sales Transformation | Scaling Sales
Revenue growth has never been more complex or more scrutinized.
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Categories: Company Alignment | MEDDICC | Sales Messaging | Sales Transformation
Scaling a B2B tech company isn’t all about getting more revenue. In fact, unpredictable growth can cause a promising company to nosedive by making big bets that it can't follow through on. To scale successfully, you need a repeatable system that allows you to forecast revenue accurately and consistently deliver on value to retain revenue. Many organizations and their leaders struggle with these same questions as they target the next level of growth: How do we keep teams aligned and productive as we grow and add new talent? How do we improve forecasting accuracy and revenue predictability? How do we ensure our strategy translates into measurable board outcomes like higher Average Contract Value (ACV), Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) growth and reduced Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC)? If you’re leading a SaaS or tech organization, achieving alignment at three levels — executive, cross-functional, and within teams — can be the difference between scaling successfully and stalling out. To explore how alignment impacts your growth goals, we'll draw on the story of how one company, Caveonix, applied these principles to drive measurable results like a 200% growth in ARR, a 30% decrease in average sales cycle length, and a 94% decrease in CAC.
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Categories: Sales Coaching Tools | Sales Enablement Technology | Sales Transformation | Selling Technology
There are thousands of AI tools for sales teams, but it can be hard to discern what is the best fit for your organization’s goals and needs. To generate repeatable success and measurable impact, you need more than just automation of the same old processes; you need tools that can reveal deeper insights, prompt action that moves deals forward, and align with a methodology that helps your teams win bigger and more often.
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Categories: Company Alignment | MEDDICC | Sales Messaging | Sales Transformation
When one deal slips, that’s a deal problem. Nobody likes a missed opportunity, though sales professionals accept that some slippage comes with the territory. But when slipped deals are a consistent end-of-quarter occurrence, that’s an organizational problem with serious negative consequences. Companies that can’t rely on forecasts feel ripple effects across the organization, impacting product, delivery, operations, and finance. Unreliable revenue means falling shortof the expectations of your board and leadership. Frequent deal slippage indicates a broader issue with your qualification and sales execution process. It signals that reps aren’t qualifying deals appropriately and managers aren’t coaching effectively. Leaders of revenue teams with a high slip rate need a systematic fix for an organizational challenge. On the Revenue Builders Podcast, hosts John Kaplan and John McMahon met with featured guest John Donnelly III, CRO with DTiQ and Co-Founder of e2log, to break down the reasons why deals slip, and the strategies leaders can use to solve the problem.
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