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May 21, 2024 • 30min

Do you have one of these GTM problems?

There's 3 GTM problems we see over and over again - and they can totally be avoided. Listen to the episode to learn if you've got one of the problems.(00:00) - Introduction (02:09) - Calling out the problem (05:14) - 1: Everyone secretly knows (13:16) - 2: Acquisition is a mess (17:40) - Contingency planning (19:42) - 3: Blindsided by churn (21:36) - Love the demo, hate the product (23:00) - What now? *** This episode is brought to you by Growblocks. Finding and fixing problems in your GTM shouldn't take weeks. It should happen instantly.That's why Growblocks built the first RevOps platform that shows you your entire funnel, split by motions, segments and more - so you can find problems, the root-cause and identify solutions fast, all in the same platform.***Connect with us🔔 LinkedIn: Toni / Mikkel✉️ Newsletter: revenueletter.substack.com 📺 Watch: https://www.youtube.com/@growblocks💬 Contact: podcast@growblocks.com
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May 14, 2024 • 32min

Friction by design

Focused on removing friction? In this episode we discuss when it might be worth it to add some friction instead.(00:00) - Introduction (08:36) - Just try creating one graph (15:44) - Why is there no pricing page?? (23:35) - Support friction *** This episode is brought to you by Growblocks. Finding and fixing problems in your GTM shouldn't take weeks. It should happen instantly.That's why Growblocks built the first RevOps platform that shows you your entire funnel, split by motions, segments and more - so you can find problems, the root-cause and identify solutions fast, all in the same platform.***Connect with us🔔 LinkedIn: Toni / Mikkel✉️ Newsletter: revenueletter.substack.com 📺 Watch: https://www.youtube.com/@growblocks💬 Contact: podcast@growblocks.com
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May 9, 2024 • 42min

Here's how Koen Stam use AI for sales coaching

Do you think this is an AI summary or not?: With AI tools, such as ChatGPT, sales teams can enhance coaching processes by creating personalized frameworks, generating data-driven insights, and fostering consistency for improved productivity and skill development.It is... But anyway, that's pretty much what we discussed with Koen - he's been using AI to assist with coaching the team. Don't get us wrong, the AI doesn't do the coaching, it's enabling it.In the episode, we get into:(00:00) - Introduction (02:53) - Meet Koen (04:46) - Coaching, does it really matter? (13:43) - Why coaching doesn't happen (15:12) - How AI changes coaching (21:20) - Coaching framework with AI (25:58) - Top down does not work (39:21) - 1 thing to leave with *** This episode is brought to you by Growblocks. Finding and fixing problems in your GTM shouldn't take weeks. It should happen instantly.That's why Growblocks built the first RevOps platform that shows you your entire funnel, split by motions, segments and more - so you can find problems, the root-cause and identify solutions fast, all in the same platform.***Connect with us🔔 LinkedIn: Toni / Mikkel✉️ Newsletter: revenueletter.substack.com 📺 Watch: https://www.youtube.com/@growblocks💬 Contact: podcast@growblocks.com
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May 7, 2024 • 29min

Rethinking comp plans

We're using comp plans from the 80s, and there's some problems with that.We discuss how SaaS has simply changed, and provide some important reflections you can use if you need to rethink your comp plans.(00:00) - Introduction (02:26) - We still get lots of questions about this (05:24) - Why everyone does comp plans (08:25) - The purpose of what comp plans need to achieve has shifted (14:25) - The person on the ground (18:35) - Comp plans for multi product (20:52) - Comp plans without supply *** This episode is brought to you by Growblocks. Finding and fixing problems in your GTM shouldn't take weeks. It should happen instantly.That's why Growblocks built the first RevOps platform that shows you your entire funnel, split by motions, segments and more - so you can find problems, the root-cause and identify solutions fast, all in the same platform.***Connect with us🔔 LinkedIn: Toni / Mikkel✉️ Newsletter: revenueletter.substack.com 📺 Watch: https://www.youtube.com/@growblocks💬 Contact: podcast@growblocks.com
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May 2, 2024 • 46min

High velocity sales (with Frank Nardi)

Even if you don't run high velocity sales, there's much to learn from vendors who do.We talked with Frank Nardi (CRO at Cin7) about how they manage short sales cycles and proactively manage their funnel.(00:00) - Introduction (02:21) - Meet frank (06:02) - Tuning the engine (13:36) - Selling to SMB (21:56) - Short cycles, short term? (26:54) - Longer cycles impact capacity (28:34) - Managing multiple points of failure (32:29) - Efficient growth (38:27) - Build leading indicators (41:31) - Having plays ready *** This episode is brought to you by Growblocks. Finding and fixing problems in your GTM shouldn't take weeks. It should happen instantly.That's why Growblocks built the first RevOps platform that shows you your entire funnel, split by motions, segments and more - so you can find problems, the root-cause and identify solutions fast, all in the same platform.***Connect with us🔔 LinkedIn: Toni / Mikkel✉️ Newsletter: revenueletter.substack.com 📺 Watch: https://www.youtube.com/@growblocks💬 Contact: podcast@growblocks.com
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Apr 30, 2024 • 31min

When deals die

The podcast discusses why deals are harder to close today, introduces the MEDDICC framework to diagnose performance, emphasizes the importance of identifying and working with champions, explores the journey from pain to metric, analyzes who signs the deal and how decisions are made, and highlights the qualitative insights in sales operations and revenue generation.
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Apr 25, 2024 • 44min

Why RevOps is broken (with Jeff Ignacio)

Is RevOps broken? And how do we fix it?Together with Jeff, we get into a bunch of the challenging areas of Revenue Operations and some of the steps you can take to improve it.(00:00) - Introduction (01:40) - Meet Jeff (03:45) - Glorified GTM IT (11:57) - Overinvesting (18:13) - The go to market plan (30:57) - Under- & overinvestment (34:25) - Getting RevOps headcounts *** This episode is brought to you by Growblocks. Finding and fixing problems in your GTM shouldn't take weeks. It should happen instantly.That's why Growblocks built the first RevOps platform that shows you your entire funnel, split by motions, segments and more - so you can find problems, the root-cause and identify solutions fast, all in the same platform.***Connect with us🔔 LinkedIn: Toni / Mikkel✉️ Newsletter: revenueletter.substack.com 📺 Watch: https://www.youtube.com/@growblocks💬 Contact: podcast@growblocks.com
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Apr 23, 2024 • 30min

4 Outbound Mistakes

Is outbound dead? And if not, what are the biggest mistakes we've seen?That's exactly what we get into today(00:00) - Introduction (01:37) - "Outbound is dead? Bullshit." (05:46) - Can you even run outbound? (09:35) - What's changed? (12:28) - Mistake 1: Outsourcing (16:39) - Mistake 2: Not knowing the ideal talent profile (20:43) - Mistake 3: Scaling at the wrong pace (24:36) - Mistake 4: Not getting the balance right *** This episode is brought to you by Growblocks. Finding and fixing problems in your GTM shouldn't take weeks. It should happen instantly.That's why Growblocks built the first RevOps platform that shows you your entire funnel, split by motions, segments and more - so you can find problems, the root-cause and identify solutions fast, all in the same platform.***Connect with us🔔 LinkedIn: Toni / Mikkel✉️ Newsletter: revenueletter.substack.com 📺 Watch: https://www.youtube.com/@growblocks💬 Contact: podcast@growblocks.com
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Apr 18, 2024 • 50min

WTF is PLS even? (with Jesus Requena, VP Marketing at Hex)

What is PLS? When does it make sense to use it? How do you get started?These are just a couple of the questions we asked Jesus who's been building PLG and PLS motions at Unity, Figma, Algolia and Hex.(00:00) - Introduction (00:57) - Meet Jesus (04:35) - PLG at Unity (05:45) - Solving a big problem (12:12) - Is this the right motion? (16:49) - Can you bring users to a pain state? (21:18) - If it was a demo (23:08) - It's about signals (30:31) - Looking towards revenue (33:14) - Qualification is the same (36:39) - Narrowing your focus (39:16) - Activating 10K accounts (42:59) - Indicators of scale (46:26) - Hard lessons *** This episode is brought to you by Growblocks. Finding and fixing problems in your GTM shouldn't take weeks. It should happen instantly.That's why Growblocks built the first RevOps platform that shows you your entire funnel, split by motions, segments and more - so you can find problems, the root-cause and identify solutions fast, all in the same platform.***Connect with us🔔 LinkedIn: Toni / Mikkel✉️ Newsletter: revenueletter.substack.com 📺 Watch: https://www.youtube.com/@growblocks💬 Contact: podcast@growblocks.com
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Apr 16, 2024 • 37min

Don’t have GTM visibility?

Everyone has a dashboard, a sheet, some reports - but still the number 1 problem we hear about? It's visibility into performance.So we discussed the problem, and what you can do about it.(00:00) - Introduction (02:16) - Why we get asked about visibility (08:58) - The problem with visibility (14:16) - Breaking down targets (17:48) - Having foresight (21:55) - The first step to build it (27:04) - Test the model (29:44) - No one does QBRs You can find the CAC:Payback template here.*** This episode is brought to you by Growblocks. Finding and fixing problems in your GTM shouldn't take weeks. It should happen instantly.That's why Growblocks built the first RevOps platform that shows you your entire funnel, split by motions, segments and more - so you can find problems, the root-cause and identify solutions fast, all in the same platform.***Connect with us🔔 LinkedIn: Toni / Mikkel✉️ Newsletter: revenueletter.substack.com 📺 Watch: https://www.youtube.com/@growblocks💬 Contact: podcast@growblocks.com

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