Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 22, 2018

Fast forward to today, and Eventbrite is the world’s largest self-service event ticketing and registration platform – processing more than 3 million tickets each week. Going back a bit, Brian was a co-founder at SkillSlate, a local services marketplaces similar to Thumbtack. We raised a $1.5-million

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SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

Leveraging survey data from 66+ enterprise SaaS companies, Matt Garratt, Managing Partner of Salesforce Ventures shares the landscape of how businesses are shifting their sales & GTM strategies to react to today’s uncertain times. Adnan Chaudhry | SVP of Sales @ Salesforce.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 29, 2022

Revenue Alignment: How to Pull Marketing, Sales, Customer Success Together with Divvy’s CRO : The time spent mediating disputes between your Revenue functions is a growth killer. How should marketing, sales, and product all work together? It is time to adopt a future-proof sales model that meets how today’s customers want to buy.

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SaaStr

MARCH 30, 2022

Atlassian spends about 40% of its budget on R&D and only 15% on sales and marketing, which is a different approach than many companies take. Bharadwaj recommends investing more on the “building” side of the business that focuses on creating the best possible product for the customer, with sales focusing most of their efforts on expansion.

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 14, 2020

You’ve heard about diversifying your income streams, but what about your e-commerce sales channels? If you’re selling physical products, and you’re only relying on ONE channel to bring home the bacon, it’s time to switch things up with Facebook’s social commerce platform, Marketplace. It’s Free to List an Item.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 14, 2023

While the marketplace business model is evergreen, every new platform changes how and where transactions happen. Now, we believe generative AI promises to revolutionize marketplaces again. It will not only transform how products and services are sold — but also how they are made.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 4, 2019

The fastest growing software companies in recent years all have something in common – they started with little to no sales team. But even for companies with this early viral growth, there comes a point in time when this organic growth needs to be supplemented with formal sales. Yes, Slack started off with no sales team.

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SaaStr

MARCH 17, 2020

Hired talked about how they’re giving companies unprecedented flexibility for tech hiring. Go to Hired’s website to learn more about their news. Head over to Sendoso’s website to read up on the soon-to-be-released “State of Sending” report. Predictable Revenue. com/matched. ActiveCampaign .

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Neil Patel

APRIL 13, 2021

Influencer marketplaces can help you do just that, so let me show you how they work. For sales-based companies, influencer marketing could be a promising alternative. Let’s explore the mysteries of the influencer marketplace. Influencer marketplaces: These marketplaces help you match with various influencers in your niche.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Understanding your ICP is a foundational and organization-wide decision because it impacts your downstream sales and marketing efforts. . Build your sales, marketing, customer success, and product development efforts around the needs of your ideal client.”. Spotlighting the success of an ICP-focused strategy .

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Setting up a web shop for players to buy subscriptions or in-game items outside of mobile app marketplaces is a great way to create additional revenue streams for your game while saving on steep marketplace fees. Spend less time managing your payments and compliance and more time making great games!

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

He dropped out of Stanford Graduate School of Business and then co-founded LeaseExchange, an online marketplace for equipment leasing. The company’s best-selling book, Predictable Revenue , details the hugely successful outbound process and sales created specifically for Salesforce. Talk: SaaS.City Bootcamp: Sales Leadership.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 14, 2022

?. Regardless of the industry or the product you’re selling, the old sales playbook is falling short of customers’ expectations. For James Dyett , a customer-centric mindset shouldn’t just be the purview of post-sales departments. Sales, he thought, would do just the trick. Hire customer-centric salespeople.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

If you missed episode 130, check it out here: Turning Junior-level Talent into Top Sales Professionals with Eddie Baez. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Why it’s hard to build a two-sided marketplace [13:38]. Sales enablement is easy. More sales meetings, more money. More sales meetings, more money.

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SaaStr

JULY 22, 2019

We are the world’s most complete and comprehensive instrumentation platform on the marketplace today, that is cloud-based, that is SaaS-based. So much more of an inside sales mentality, hub-based selling, predominantly in North America, not really into strong relationship-based selling and the trust that he talked about.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 7, 2020

I have been an early employee at a very successful start-up (and several not-so-successful ones), and I’ve also been in Sales and Management at large, enterprise corporations. And although Sales is Sales, there are several big differences. Sales Support. There are pros and cons to both. Procedures and Workflows.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 20, 2022

It is our job as leaders and sales professionals to prepare for such an eventuality. 10 key points for sales leaders. What I share with you below is a distillation of incredible advice from sales leaders and professionals, as well as my own experiences. Well, it looks like the likelihood of a recession is a lot higher.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Sam Jacobs: This week on the show, we’ve got Luke Rogers, the Vice President of Sales at Instabase. He now leads the sales function at a really promising and high-growing unicorn called Instabase. Learn how modern sales teams with deals, win deals now. We’re on iTunes.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

I’m referring to the full spectrum of business execution, from product management to design to engineering to marketing to sales to support and all the other functions needed to scale a business. The Apple and Google Play app stores give developers an instant marketplace, a gateway to billions of customers.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 11, 2019

As the General Manager for HubSpot’s Service Hub , Michael knows a thing or two about keeping customers close. Here are five quick takeaways: Most sales and support teams talk about their jobs as a funnel. Kaitlin: You’re the General Manager HubSpot’s Service Hub. Customer service as a model for growth.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Micro teams can amplify a company’s productivity while getting rid of the learning curve which comes with new hires. Micro Acquire is a marketplace that connects startups to buyers. The marketplace is designed to cut down on the time you need to sell your business and find startups to invest in. Micro Acquire.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 13, 2021

Although Linda started her career in sales, she has spent the past twelve years scaling post-sales teams and moving hyper-growth companies like Zendesk, Slack, and now Gong upmarket into the enterprise realm. Your first SaaS customer success hire. The Davidson Hang Podcast with Linda Lin.

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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

MARCH 23, 2020

I leveraged many of the 52 mental models while working at various software as a service (SaaS) companies, but in truth, they can be applied anywhere, regardless of industry. Total Addressable Market Total addressable market (TAM) is an economic framework to understand the potential revenue available for a product or service.

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 11, 2015

Starting with why is a simple but powerful framework for startups to develop a unique marketing message, particularly in a competitive marketplace. It’s not that they think most suppliers are particularly bad on brand, product, or service. Values campaigns start with the why. ” Source: CEB. Apple embodies starting with why.

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SaaStr

JUNE 3, 2020

The SaaS Trust Crisis is making it harder to market and sell software and services than ever before. And today, I’m very excited to be the co-founder and CEO of G2 where we’re building the world’s leading marketplace for SaaS software. The situation is getting worse. Godard Abel | Co-Founder and CEO @ G2.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Whether you’re a product or service-based business, it’s never too early to start planning your holiday promotions. Do you really need a seasonal promotion if you sell services, though? In fact, the run-up to the holidays is a perfect time for any service-based business to find customers and start the new year on a profitable note.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

You are getting enormous levels of organic traffic … Full of enthusiasm, you rush to your sales manager to check the sales status. And your jaw drops seeing you’ve got little to none sales from all of that traffic. You have to make consistent sales if you want to scale your business fast. No, I’m serious.

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Casey Accidental

JANUARY 23, 2019

They have also heard about marketplaces that have given all of the power to the supply, and also marketplaces where supply has no power. These issues usually arise in two areas, which particularly, but not exclusively, affect marketplaces. Do I hire local managers? Or do people report into managers in HQ?

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Chart Mogul

MAY 7, 2020

Onboarding a new member of your sales team is challenging on its own, but especially so when they have to call prospects out of the blue. According to data from RingLead, sales reps spend as much as 15% of their time leaving voicemails. New sales reps aren’t going to close million-dollar sales on their first day.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 1, 2025

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Hayden Stafford is the President and Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) at Seismic, where he oversees the global go-to-market (GTM) organization, including pre-sales, sales, customer success, services, partners, and more.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Out of this, only 10% generate annual sales of more than $100,000. By partnering with a top Amazon marketing agency, you can improve the visibility of your store, reach more buyers, and drive sales. To help you get started, let’s explore some scenarios when you should hire an Amazon marketing agency. It doesn’t work that way.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 6, 2018

Finding the best live chat software in a crowded marketplace can be tricky. Simply being available can make the difference between getting a sale and losing a potential customer. The window must act as a sales clerk would in a retail store, greeting the customer and offering assistance. Target Customer: Sales and support teams.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 9, 2021

I spent the past two years interviewing best-in-class sales team to uncover unique approaches that work. They hired GTMP to reach out to prospects offering them a stipend to participate in a best practices study on development and utilization of Amazon-like marketplaces and related in-marketplace advertising.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

My classmates moved back into their childhood bedrooms, fought for part-time jobs in retail and food service. But this August I hosted a Sales Hacker panel with four sales leaders who guided their teams and companies through ‘08 and beyond, and what they said lightened something in my chest: Don’t panic. Hiring freezes.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Hire a consultant, hands down. In a nutshell, they can give you expert opinions, analysis, and recommendations that can help ensure a more objective-based approach to grow your business and maximize sales – all at the same time. Unfortunately, your in-house team doesn’t have the required expertise to push through change.

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Point Nine Land

APRIL 9, 2021

What does it take to raise capital, in B2B marketplaces, in 2021? Over the last few years, we’ve published a number of SaaS funding napkins as well as marketplace napkins. This year, we’re shaking things up with our first ever B2B marketplace napkin! What does it take to raise capital, in B2B marketplaces, in 2021?

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Hiring a social media marketing consultant could be a game-changer for your business. Your social media expert will help you with tactics tailored to your business and establish a high-performing social media sales funnel, which is key because on average it takes seven and a half visits to your website before somebody makes a purchase.

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