From Impossible to Inevitable

Break your revenue records with Silicon Valley's "growth bible"
"This book makes very clear how to get to hyper-growth and the work needed to actually get there"

Why are you struggling to grow your business when everyone else seems to be crushing their goals? If you needed to triple revenue within the next three years, would you know exactly how to do it? Doubling the size of your business, tripling it, even growing ten times larger isn't about magic. It's not about privileges, luck, or working harder. There's a template that the world's fastest growing companies follow to achieve and sustain much, much faster growth.

From Impossible to Inevitable details the hypergrowth playbook of companies like Hubspot, Salesforce.com (the fastest growing multibillion dollar software company), and EchoSign--aka Adobe Document Services (which catapulted from $0 to $144 million in seven years). Whether you have a $1 billion or a $100,000 business, you can use the same insights as these notable companies to learn what it really takes to break your own revenue records.

• Pinpoint why you aren't growing faster
• Understand what it takes to get to hypergrowth
• Nail a niche (the #1 missing growth ingredient)
• What every revenue leader needs to know about building a scalable sales team

There's no time like the present to surpass plateaus and get off of the up-and-down revenue rollercoaster. Find out how now!

Auteur

Aaron Ross founded PredictableRevenue.com, a consulting company that helps b2b companies triple sales growth & create self-managing sales teams. Aaron is also the founder of PebbleStorm, which is helping 100 million people "make money through enjoyment" by combining happiness and money.

Jason Lemkin is a Managing Director of Storm Ventures. At Storm Ventures, Jason focuses exclusively on early-stage SaaS/enterprise start-ups and helping them scale. He has led and/or sourced Storm's investments in next-generation SaaS leaders including Talkdesk, Algolia, Pipedrive, Parklet, RainforestQA and Guidespark, as well as his own Storm-backed company, EchoSign (acquired by Adobe). He also serves an Advisory Board Member or investor in other emerging SaaS leaders, including Convertro (acquired by AOL), BetterWorks, AnyPerk, Retention Science, Showpad, FrontApp, Influitive, and Greenhouse.io. Jason is an acknowledged thought leader in SaaS through his creation of theSaaStr community for SaaS executives and founders.

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Praise for FROM IMPOSSIBLE TO INEVITABLE > ?STEPHAN M. SPENCER, author and SEO expert > ?ANDREW GAZDECKI, CEO and Founder of Bizness Apps, Founder and Chair, Altcoin.io "There's not much theory in this book?it focuses just on what actually works. Reading the book was like drinking a big tall glass of refreshing 'real world' juice. From Impossible to Inevitable helps you navigate that crucial piece of the business battlefield in your head."
?DOUGLAS BURDETT, Host, The Marketing Book Podcast > ?REG NORDMAN, Founder and Managing Partner, Rocket Builder

Résumé
Break your revenue records with Silicon Valley's "growth bible" "This book makes very clear how to get to hyper-growth and the work needed to actually get there" Why are you struggling to grow your business when everyone else seems to be crushing their goals? If you needed to triple revenue within the next three years, would you know exactly how to do it? Doubling the size of your business, tripling it, even growing ten times larger isn't about magic. It's not about privileges, luck, or working harder. There's a template that the world's fastest growing companies follow to achieve and sustain much, much faster growth. From Impossible to Inevitable details the hypergrowth playbook of companies like Hubspot, Salesforce.com (the fastest growing multibillion dollar software company), and EchoSign--aka Adobe Document Services (which catapulted from $0 to $144 million in seven years). Whether you have a $1 billion or a $100,000 business, you can use the same insights as these notable companies to learn what it really takes to break your own revenue records. Pinpoint why you aren't growing faster Understand what it takes to get to hypergrowth Nail a niche (the #1 missing growth ingredient) What every revenue leader needs to know about building a scalable sales team There's no time like the present to surpass plateaus and get off of the up-and-down revenue rollercoaster. Find out how now!

Contenu

Preface: Systematizing Success xiii

Lessons from the World's Fastest-Growing Companies xiii

Part I Nail a Niche

1 "Niche" Doesn't Mean Small 2

Are You Sure You're Ready to Grow Faster? 2

How to Know If You've Nailed a Niche 4

Achieve World Domination One Niche at a Time 6

The Arc of Attention 7

2 Signs of Slogging 12

Are You a Nice-to-Have? 12

Big Companies Suffer, Too 15

Case Study: Where Aaron Went Wrong 16

Your Current Strength Can Be a Future Weakness 21

3 How to Nail It 23

Where Can You Be a Big Fish in a Small Pond? 23

Work through the Niche Matrix 25

Case Study: How Twilio Nailed a Billion-Dollar Niche by Walking in Its Customers' Shoes 31

The 20-Interview Rule 36

4 Your Pitch 39

If You Were a Radio Station, Would Anyone Tune In? 39

Elevator Pitches Are Always Frustrating 41

They Don't Care about "You": Three Simple Questions 43

Part II Create Predictable Pipeline
*Introduction: Lead Generation Absolves Many Sins 46*

5 Seeds-Customer Success 50

How to Grow Seeds Predictably 51

Case Study: How Gild Dropped Monthly Churn from 4 to 1 56

Case Study: Customer Service Excellence at Topcon 58

6 Nets-Marketing 61

Three Uncommon Approaches of Hypergrowth CMOs 63

The Forcing Function Your Marketing Leader Needs: A "Sales Qualified Lead Commit" 70

Corporate Marketing versus Demand Generation 71

How Inbound Changed in 10 Years Between Scaling Marketo to $100M+ and Founding Engagio 72

Heroic Marketing: When You Have No Money and Little Time 76

7 Spears-Outbound Prospecting 80

Where Outbound Works Best-and Where It Fails 83

Outbound Lessons Learned Since Predictable Revenue Was Published 85

Case Study: Outbound's Role in Acquia's $100 Million Trajectory 87

Case Study: How Sagemount Triples the Value of a Company in Three Years 89

Case Study: How Zuora Drives 60%-Plus of Its Growth by Outbound, Even When Accounts Need Nurturing for Years 97

Build an Outbound Program Right the First Time 104

Have You Been Too Successful at Inbound? 110

8 What Executives Miss 114

Pipeline Creation Rate: Your #1 Leading Metric 114

The 15/85 Rule: Early Adopters and Mainstream Buyers 116

Why You're Underestimating Customer Lifetime Value 119

Part III Make Sales Scalable

9 Learn from Our Mistakes 123

Growth Creates More Problems Than It Solves-But They Are Better Problems 123

Top 12 Mistakes in Building Sales Teams 124

Advice from the VP Sales behind LinkedIn and EchoSign 126

10 Specialization: Your #1 Sales Multiplier 129

Why Salespeople Shouldn't Prospect 129

Case Study: How Clio Restructured Sales in Three Months 132

Can You Be Too Small, or Too Big, to Specialize? 134

Specialization: Two Common Objections 136

Specialization Snapshot at Acquia 137

11 Sales Leaders 139

The #1 Mis-Hire Is the VP/Head of Sales 139

The Right VP Sales for Your Stage 140

Ten Favorite Interview Questions 143

12 Hiring Best Practices for Sales 146

If You're a Startup: Four Phases of Hiring Your First Sales Team 146

Simple Hiring Tricks 149

When Doing Something New, Start with Two 150

The $100 Million HubSpot Sales Machine: Recruiting and Coaching Essentials 152

Case Study: How to Cut Down on Wasted Interviewing 154

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