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Marketing Must Own Strategy (not just funnel management)

Joel Caparella

Once upon a time, the strategic element of marketing resided within the marketing department, but today the discipline is often absent from the marketing team and sadly may not have found a new home. Only one of every four deals in the sales pipeline is coming from marketing efforts. 25% of the time. One of four.

Scale 55
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CRO Confidential: Bringing Product-Led and Sales-Led Growth Together For Go-To-Market Success with Giancarlo Lionetti, CRO of Zapier

SaaStr

In this latest episode of CRO Confidential , Sam Blond, Partner at Founders Fund and former CRO at Brex, sits down with the CRO of Zapier, Giancarlo Lionetti (GC), to chat about Product-Led Growth (PLG) and Go-To-Market (GTM). In a product-led growth strategy, the product serves as the focal point of your company’s marketing and strategies.

Scale 260
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Secrets to Revolutionizing Enterprise Sales Growth with End-to-End RevOps with Calendly CRO Kate Ahlering (Video)

SaaStr

If you’re a go-to-market operator, you know this new imperative is not an either/or. Your enterprise must grow, and profitably. How customers come into the sales funnel, when, where, and how they’re engaged are becoming increasingly digitalized. RevOps as a unifying force in go-to-market strategy.

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CRO Confidential: The Hangover’s Over: 5 Ways to Get Your SaaS Revenue Back On Track with Gong’s SVP Sales and Founders Fund

SaaStr

In the early days, it was about setting expectations that startups are hard and you must work hard to succeed. If you think about the customer acquisition funnel, you have the top, middle, and bottom. If you think about the customer acquisition funnel, you have the top, middle, and bottom. Revenue matters, too.

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CRO Confidential: The Proven Customer Acquisition Strategies Behind Toast’s Explosive Growth with Founders Fund Partner Sam Blond and CRO of Toast Jonathan Vassil

SaaStr

We’ll share the answers in today’s brand new episode of CRO Confidential, where our host Sam Blond, partner at Founders Fund, sits down with Toast CRO, Jonathan Vassil to talk about their proven customer acquisition strategies that led to its record-breaking growth. Just six years later, he’s the CRO of the company.

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The Top 10 Worst Pieces of SaaS Advice

SaaStr

But I thought I’d take a stab at the Top 10 Pieces of Classic SaaS Advice … that, in my experience at least, are usually Just Plain Wrong. Most say the same — just send us the pitch when you are ready. If a great VP of Marketing can double your inbound leads — of course you can afford her salary.

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Leveraging Product-led Growth to Drive Sales Pipeline with Asana GM of Americas, Amy Borsetti, & Head of Revenue and Marketing, Jessica Gilmartin (Video)

SaaStr

If you build a product that people love and you define problems that you’re solving for them, you can extract a ton of additional value than just having a sales-led motion,” says Borsetti. . It’s a huge change management process when you don’t have a lot of users in the product already. . Of course, this is easier said than done.

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