Playbook

Playbook

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Scaling to 100 is organized into four general categories: Getting Started, Revenue, People and Other. The three first categories constitute the essence of the Hypergrowth Sales Playbook and act a roadmap, a table of contents of sorts for future posts that I will write as time permits. While I will try to write them in order – as they generally outline a logical sequence of steps – I may jump ahead, skip or merge sections due to content dependencies or based on requests. The final category – Other – will consist of content unrelated to the playbook or any other topics that I may want or need to write about.

Blog Roadmap

Last updated 09/02/2019.

Part 1 – Getting Started

Part 2 – Revenue

  • 2.1 – Build a predictable sales pipeline
    • Pitch/Messaging
    • Outbound/ABM
    • Inbound/SEM/Content Marketing
    • Qualifying matrix
    • Sales/Marketing alignment (Leads)
  • Create repeatable wins
    • Sales process
    • Buyer Journey V2.
    • Pick an appropriate Sales Methodology
    • Sales/Marketing alignment (Enablement)
    • Compensation planning
  • Ensure customer success
    • Hand off process
    • Success Planning
    • Onboarding, Training and Deployment
    • Expansion Planning
    • Customer Advocacy
  • Sales/Customer Success Alignment
  • Optimize/Automate
    • End-to-end Customer Journey
    • Go-to-Market vx.
    • Org alignment
    • Role specialization
    • Double your ACV (or at least increase it)
    • Technology and Sales Operations
    • Product qualified leads
  • Find your next best potential target market

Part 3 – People

  • Identify your Ideal AE Profile
  • Put together sales hiring criteria
  • Build an interview scorecard
  • Build target company profiles
  • Systematize sourcing
  • Build out Training and Sales enablement
  • Review/Optimize Ramp Time
  • Supporting cast and role specialization
  • Promote a Coaching culture
  • Promoting from within
    • Formalized career growth plan
    • Developing sales leaders
  • Other elements of a growth culture

Other

  • Additional paths to Revenue Growth
    • Build vs. Buy
    • Partners