What's Broken in GTM and How to Fix It

Welcome to episode 19 of What's Broken in GTM and How to Fix It with Louis Fernandes and Simon Daniels. Each week, together with occasional guests, we explore the challenges that face go-to-market leaders in SaaS scale-up businesses and suggest solutions to common issues.

This week, Louis attended the CRO Connected get together, a breakfast briefing courtesy of Jodie Battson at Alpha Group, and was introduced to the redoubtable – and potential future guest (hint, hint!) – Scott Vaughan. Simon has been on retreat in the beautiful West Dorset countryside, enjoying some sunshine while getting through the to-do list!

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Welcome to episode 18 of What's Broken in GTM and How to Fix It with Louis Fernandes and Simon Daniels. Each week, together with occasional guests, we explore the challenges that face go-to-market leaders in SaaS scale-up businesses and suggest solutions to common issues.

Louis has been deepening his wine tasting knowledge and expertise, gaining his next set of qualifications. He’s getting quite good at it, he reckons… And it turns out that the Portuguese drink more wine per capita of any nation in the world! Meanwhile, Simon has been attending the B2B Marketing Ignite conference and...

Welcome to episode 17 of What's Broken in GTM and How to Fix It with Louis Fernandes and Simon Daniels. Each week, together with occasional guests, we explore the challenges that face go-to-market leaders in SaaS scale-up businesses and suggest solutions to common issues.

This week we close-out the revenue operations and enablement arc with another fantastic guest, and the first in our Summer Cognoscenti Series, Ambre Jeanneau, to help us really understand the enablement aspect in real life. Here’s the TL;DL (“Too Long; Didn’t Listen)”) in case you don’t have time for the whole epis...

Welcome to episode 16 of What's Broken in GTM and How to Fix It with Louis Fernandes and Simon Daniels. Each week, together with occasional guests, we explore the challenges that face go-to-market leaders in SaaS scale-up businesses and suggest solutions to common issues.

We share insights from the recent revenue leaders dinner Louis co-hosted with Tim Ogle at Toggle Switch Consulting, to which Simon was kindly invited! The discussion during the evening focused on attracting, developing, and defending top sales talent, highlighting the balance between gut instinct and scientific assessment, particularly for first-time managers. The importance of...

Welcome to episode 15 of What's Broken in GTM and How to Fix It with Louis Fernandes and Simon Daniels. Each week, together with occasional guests, we explore the challenges that face go-to-market leaders in SaaS scale-up businesses and suggest solutions to common issues.

Louis and Simon spent the day recently at Inspire, the 6Sense customer conference, courtesy of Andy Champion and Jon Clarke. The both agreed it was a great event, especially sessions from Saima Rashid, April Dunford, and Gemma Greaves. The stat of the day, reckons Louis, is that 81% of B2B decision makers have already...

Welcome to episode 14 of What's Broken in GTM and How to Fix It with Louis Fernandes and Simon Daniels. Each week, together with occasional guests, we explore the challenges that face go-to-market leaders in SaaS scale-up businesses and suggest solutions to common issues.

Louis has squeezed in a day’s cricket, courtesy of Khalid Rahmany from InnoVyne, and Harry Riseborough and Matthew Hobson from Xactly. It was a T20 match, meaning it was extremely fast paced and didn’t entail blocking out the whole week! Simon recounts his time at the Anticon conference, including his panel session. Watc...

Welcome to episode 13 of What's Broken in GTM and How to Fix It with Louis Fernandes and Simon Daniels. Each week, together with occasional guests, we explore the challenges that face go-to-market leaders in SaaS scale-up businesses and suggest solutions to common issues.

Louis is back in Porto to do some work with one of the start-ups at Founders Founders, the tech incubator based there. He has also been sailing in the Solent on a SaaS sailors trip organised by Paul French at Intrinsic Executive Search. Simon speculates as to whether “4 SaaS revenue leaders on a sailing bo...

Welcome to episode 12 of What's Broken in GTM and How to Fix It with Louis Fernandes and Simon Daniels. Each week, together with occasional guests, we explore the challenges that face go-to-market leaders in SaaS scale-up businesses and suggest solutions to common issues.

This week we’re joined again by a guest, Jon Clarke, Data Partnerships Director at intent data platform 6Sense. Here’s the TL;DL (“too long, didn’t listen”) in case you don’t have time for the whole episode: Intent data isn't just a list of engaged accounts, it's your early warning system for b...