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: Sales Leadership | Sales Transformation | Scaling Sales
Revenue growth has never been more complex or more scrutinized.
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Categories: Sales Leadership | Scaling Sales
First principles thinking is a reasoning process used by some of today’s top innovators to look at complex problems through a new lens. The concept is based on Aristotle’s writings about first principles, which he called the “first basis from which a thing is known.”
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Categories: Differentiation | Sales Messaging | Scaling Sales | Unicorn Companies
If you’re a leader in a high-growth tech sector, you’ve probably heard the phrase “unicorn company.” It’s the dream of any private company – to reach a valuation of $1 billion without an IPO. As a revenue leader, your success is tied to securing growth, increased returns, and higher valuation. So what do unicorns and their leaders do differently that sets them so far apart from the competition?
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Categories: Company Alignment | Sales Coaching Tools | Sales Productivity | Scaling Sales
The journey from start-up to maturity involves multiple rounds of iteration. Achieving product-market fit and getting your customers to pay and stay are the results of how your product and message adapted to your buyers' needs along the way. Now, reaching that next benchmark means continuing to refine and shift the way your company thinks about and talks about itself in the market. In our work with rapidly growing B2B SaaS and tech organizations, we’ve identified three common components that are crucial for satisfying the growth imperative. Here are three keys for leaders targeting the next revenue milestone:
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Categories: Customer Success | Sales Messaging | Scaling Sales
A recent piece by McKinsey notes that 80% of startups who landed Series A funding failed within eight years (n=3164). Using interviews with B2B SaaS leaders who beat those odds by scaling from startup to over $100MM in ARR, McKinsey's recent playbook examines how these companies set up their organizations, common challenges they overcame and the actions leaders can use to emulate these pathways to success.
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