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9 essential sales steps you need to grow your SaaS startup

Intercom, Inc.

In the early stages of most SaaS startups’ lives, the CEO or founder often acts as the initial head of sales. She knows the process, what works, what doesn’t. Despite that value, however, there’s a drawback – a lack of formal sales training and sales process can seriously undermine those initial efforts.

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What is Demand Generation?

Neil Patel

Marketing your business can feel like an uphill battle, but it all comes down to making your target audience care about what you’re selling. This process is called demand generation. It’s a broad term covering all your marketing and sales initiatives at every stage of the sales funnel. What’s the best way to do that?

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How to Craft and Measure Profitable Funnel Conversions from Scratch

Neil Patel

To get the most out of your leads in each stage of their purchasing journey, you should have a funnel conversion strategy for all levels of the funnel. A sales funnel is simply a series of steps that you design to guide visitors toward a buying decision. Each stage of the funnel involves different strategies for this, however.

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The Funnel is Dead. Long Live the Flywheel. With Hubspot CEO Brian Halligan (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Join Hubspot CEO Brian Halligan and NEA’s Hilarie Koplow-McAdams to explore the evolution of the marketing and sales funnel you’ve been using for decades to generate traffic and convert and leads into customers. Brian Halligan: Whether we all like it or not, trust in sales and marketing is at an all-time low. Who do they trust?

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with G2 and Gorgias — September 27, 2019

SaaStr

268: Ryan Bonnici is the CMO @ G2, the company that allows you to get the right software and services for your business with over 897,000 user reviews to help you make smarter buying decisions. Before Hubspot, Ryan was Head of Marketing @ Salesforce (APAC) where he led his team to achieve 227% YoY net-new sales sourced through marketing.

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The 12 Essential Sales Metrics You Don’t Want to Miss

InsightSquared

They work tirelessly to assess the funnel quality, sales process adherence, and the overall go-to-market strategy. Has it been a week since the last inbound email? Does our marketing strategy need to be adjusted to generate more in-period leads? But, the truth is, time is not on their side. A specific use case?

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The Funnel is Dead. Long Live the Flywheel. With Hubspot CEO Brian Halligan (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Join Hubspot CEO Brian Halligan and NEA’s Hilarie Koplow-McAdams to explore the evolution of the marketing and sales funnel you’ve been using for decades to generate traffic and convert and leads into customers. Brian Halligan: Whether we all like it or not, trust in sales and marketing is at an all-time low. Who do they trust?

Scale 53