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Two BIG Reasons Your Prospecting Isn’t Working

Sales Hacker

Your sales team doesn’t have time for efficiency blockers in a competitive, fast-paced market. Learn how these factors impact your prospecting, and what you can do to yield better outcomes in sales. #1: Learn how these factors impact your prospecting, and what you can do to yield better outcomes in sales. #1:

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Create a Sales Plan That Actually Works (Tips + Template)

Sales Hacker

And for sales success, nothing beats a strategic sales plan. Designed specifically to help your sales team drive more sales, a sales plan can show you where you’re at, where you want to be, and even more important, how to get there. The question, of course, is how to create a sales plan that actually impacts sales.

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How to nail your product market fit and sales pitch with a value proposition diagram

Tom Tunguz

Great product market fit and sales pitches hinge on understanding and serving all the members of an ecosystem. Should a product fail to meet the needs of any one member, company success and sales velocity will falter. There is no opponent to the sale within the ecosystem. Axial Market.

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The Defining Characteristics of Successful SMB SaaS Startups

Tom Tunguz

Successful SMB SaaS companies have reinvented their businesses eschewing the expensive enterprise sales model in favor of end-user centric marketing, support and product development. It’s all because of the nature of the market. Shifting from Customer Acquisition from Field Sales to Customer Support.

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Successful SMB SaaS Companies Have a 2 Step Value Proposition

Tom Tunguz

It’s not just the sales process that differs from traditional software. Encouragingly, the market size for enterprise software is roughly equal to the market size for the SMB market: about 57M potential seats in each. Of course, the true number depends on the market segment: sales, HR, payroll, expense management, etc.

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Managing a Thin Balance Sheet: 4 Lessons Learned From Laika’s $2 Billion Acquisition with Laika Co-Founder & COO Eva Pittas and CFO Dicken Chaplin (Video)

SaaStr

Founded in 2019, Laika (an enterprise-ready compliance platform) closed a $50MM Series C by the summer of 2022. These metrics will vary by company, but can include elements such as the following: Sales Funnel. Marketing Lead Gen. Productivity Per Sales Rep. Looking back vs. looking forward. Pipeline Coverage.

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It’s Time to Raise Your Debt Facility: Execution Tactics for Founders

Andreessen Horowitz

The closing process typically takes about 4 weeks, which allows for legal documentation negotiation, account opening (if the lender is a bank), and the completion of all necessary compliance documents. For example, an unsecured consumer loan originator can make money via net interest margin, origination fees, and/or loan sales.