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In SaaS sales, you're typically competing against another SaaS solution or a traditional software solution. In either case, knowing your competitors inside and out will set you apart from alternatives. This post explores some common traps SaaS companies fall into, and how to avoid falling behind your competition. These days, you may have 40 competitors in a hot space, your whole team needs to be involved in identifying and learning about them. 

Pardon the oxymoron, but it's true. No matter if you're at home or in the office, or managing a team or calling customers; when you get the most busy you need to get the most efficient. The best way to get more efficient is to plan - it will cost you about an hour a week, and can save you more than an hour every day. With an extra two or three days every month, what could you accomplish?

Typically following the initial growth of a company's core SaaS product, markets become saturated, and growth of new accounts slows. Once this happens, key ways to continue rapid growth are to bring a new product, service, or upgrade to market, or expand utilization of the current product within installed base accounts. These strategies allow SaaS companies to bridge the gap to continue hitting rapid growth targets by offering new products, services, or tiers of products.

Selling to the Enterprise is very different than selling to small and medium businesses (SMB). Typically, an enterprise business has at least a thousand employees, well defined policies and procedures, and does over a billion dollars a year in revenue. Conversely, small and medium businesses have less than a thousand employees, with revenues short to well short of a billion dollars a year. These two types of accounts have different mindsets, and sales reps need to understand the differences to approach them for better results.