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A CEO’s Guide to Marketing With Dave Kellogg: Five Things Every Founder Should Know (Podcast 515 and Video)

SaaStr

Have you ever had a sudden realization that you’re spending more on sales and marketing than research and development? When it comes to marketing, executives can grow frustrated or intimidated by the sheer volume of numbers and metrics, ill-defined terminology, unclear processes, and potential conflict between sales and marketing teams.

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The SaaS Metrics Blueprint: How to Define, Measure and Display What Actually Matters

Sales Hacker

In this blueprint, we’ll breakdown how to structure your SaaS metrics, and measure the right data for your business. Below is an overview of key SaaS metrics. Figure 2: How to measure Inbound vs. Outbound metrics. CASE IN POINT: A client downloads a white paper and is asked for the email to receive it.

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7 Key Elements of a High-Converting Sales Funnel

Sales Hacker

There’s sales pipeline , a 7-stage journey describing what your sales team must do to convert a lead to a customer. For your team, the goal is to share more information about your products without appearing overly promotional. For your team, this step is about making your prospects realize they need your products or service.

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Scaling from $1 to $10M, an AMA with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin (Pod 573)

SaaStr

Jason Lemkin: You certainly can hire a whole content team and build 10,000 pieces of content, but I will tell you what I have always seen work is one incredible piece a week. Jason Lemkin: But usually your teams can’t do that. So you’re going to need at least three of those in the sales ops team. This always works.

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The Evolution of Software Marketing: Hey Marketing, Go Get [This]!

Kellblog

They’d even have decay functions where downloading a white paper got you 10 points, but you’d lose a point every week since if there you had no further activity. At one company I ran, our single largest customer was initially scored a D lead because the contact downloaded a white paper using his Yahoo email address.

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Slack’s Rachel Hepworth on bringing growth marketing to a high growth company

Intercom, Inc.

In August of 2016, Rachel Hepworth embarked on a unique challenge: start a growth marketing team at one of the most successful startups of this generation – one that had long relied heavily on word of mouth. I stumbled upon Eric Ries and Steve Blank, the concept of customer development – it was a revelation.

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How Smart Is Your Sales Playbook?

Sales Hacker

In fact, with so many variables involved in a deal—from unique buyer objectives, to your timing in a deal relative to your competitors— building playbooks for your sales teams is more like writing a “ Choose Your Own Adventure ” novel. According to Salesforce via The TAS Group, “Almost half of all sales team don’t have a playbook.