Every successful fast-growing B2B SaaS company has to have a large TAM (Total Addressable Market) and lots of greenfield upside in that TAM. But there is more to the best of Growth-stage SaaS – based on what I’ve seen of the best companies where I’ve been on the executive teams…  Read More >

Several times a year you must do a quick checkup and get a gauge on whether you need to rethink your Execution or troubleshoot your SaaS Sales Strategy. This is primarily about the “New Business” deals/sales rather than expansion sales (i.e. not as much about AM/CS driven renewals or upsells…  Read More >

Assessing Your Sales Force Strength to Identify Upside for Growth As a CRO, you need to know how to audit/assess your overall B2B Sales & Revenue Growth capability and team strength. Typically I start with my simple “People / Pipeline / Process / Performance / Plan” approach. But for a…  Read More >

A couple of years ago I presented at the annual Sales Acceleration Summit about “The Science of Sales” (InsideSales.com posted the presentation on Slideshare). This relates primarily to New Logo / New Customer Acquisition – the The Magic Sales Formula is the “SaaS New Logo Sales Growth Formula”:   Here…  Read More >

In the past, I discussed what companies should include in their “Strategic Plan” which focuses on the “Corporate Strategy“. Of course, the right sequence requires the executives to craft their Corporate Strategy first (i.e. should be planned and finalized first before any other business functions craft their strategy) – it…  Read More >

If you aiming to build a “sales machine” that generates repeatable, predictable, scalable and sustainable revenue and growth, you need to first systematize your sales – i.e. you have to develop a System for yourself. Such system, just like coaches develop for their professional sports teams, in turn comprises several sub-systems and…  Read More >

The Blueprint for Scaling Your Sales I want to share a blueprint for how to think about scaling.  Scaling means that you are looking for “disproportionate growth results”.  This post is not meant to be tactical and it doesn’t cover any techniques but is primarily a general blueprint for going…  Read More >

I believe that your people are your biggest asset.  And on a Sales Team your people – sales professionals – can be engaged or disengaged based both on your company’s and your Sales Team’s own culture.  I care personally about building a positive and high-performance corporate culture and Sales Culture…  Read More >

The book “Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley’s Bill Campbell” by Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, and Alan Eagle was one of the best books on management and leadership that I’ve read in the past decade. Bill Campbell was the coach to some of the best CEOs in high tech…  Read More >