Sales Hacker

AUGUST 7, 2020

Fortunately, more organizers than ever before are consciously seeking out female sales experts for panels, presentations, and podcasts. At Sales Hacker, we’re serious about diversity, and for that reason, we’ve compiled a list of 530+ female sales experts to consider for your next event. Sales Development. Sales Growth.

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VP of Engineering Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Payment Services 121

Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Database startups, data movement startups, data quality startups, data lineage startups, machine learning startups will be the zeitgeist of the decade as they shape the next wave of massive innovation. M&As and IPOs continue at torrid rates. Scoring last year’s predictions: The direct listing becomes the standard path to IPO.

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Sales Recruiting Blockchain Banking Machine Learning 279

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 30, 2023

The first goal of sales at a startup isn’t to bring in revenue — it’s to get customer feedback. I’ve used our sales process to iterate our way to product market-fit and wanted to share what I’ve learned along the way. Use sales conversations as a tool to get product feedback. So how do you get there?

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SaaStr

APRIL 5, 2021

And at a sales perspective, they’ll move to optimizing revenue per lead, over closing every possibly lead. Once sales and marketing gets to be all about the top line, you need to let some marginal customers just go, if for no other reason than holding on price. Harder to Recruit. Easier to Innovate.

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Scale Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team Pricing 242

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Welcome to Sales Hacker’s first-ever Influential Women in Sales list! In this exclusive list, we wanted to honor not just female leaders that promote their own sales platform (no shame in that!) They say “You can’t be what you can’t see,” and the sales floor is no exception.

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 14, 2019

These startups use machine learning to disrupt an industry traditionally dominated by agencies: law, accounting, recruiting, translation, debt collection, marketing…the list is long. In meeting many of these innovative businesses, I’ve observed they face three strategic questions.

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AI Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team Machine Learning 191

Sales Hacker

JULY 19, 2022

Celine, who transitioned from agency sales to SaaS, is the Vice President of Boardable. Join us for a great conversation about transitioning in sales and technology selling. Sometimes you have to take one step back to go two steps forward in sales. Sales is all about building internal relationships. powered by Sounder.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Sales compensation planning can be a tricky beast to tame — but know that you’re not alone. I asked 12 incredible sales leaders across the SaaS industry to share their biggest challenges with comp planning and how to overcome them. Related: New to sales compensation planning? Top 10 sales compensation challenges.

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SaaStr

JUNE 4, 2019

I actually worked in sales for five and a half years and that’s probably why I have tended to gravitate to B2B marketing. Worked as an AE and then a sales manager. Decided to go to business school, did that for a little bit and then came out in management consulting, a company. So, they’re a B2B piece.

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Sales Recruiting Scale Underperforming Technical Team Pricing 179

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

In this episode of the Sales Hacker Podcast, we have Scott Barton , VP of Industry Solutions at Varicent. He’s an expert in the sales world, particularly in revenue operations and incentive compensation. Join us for a great conversation about driving the right behaviors within your sales team. powered by Sounder.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 5, 2021

In 2020 I was building my sales team at Livestorm , and at the time we were going through a big hiring boom. Over the course of time, I’ve interviewed and talked to hundreds of sales candidates. This was the case for me years ago when I started applying for sales positions in France, Ireland, and Luxembourg.

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Company Culture Interviewing 92

User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Account Managers: They serve as the lead point of contact for all customer account management matters. Product Marketing Manager: This person is tasked with developing product marketing campaigns , crafting compelling marketing messages, and coming up with ideas to retain customers. Average salary: $46,035/yr.

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Sales Hiring SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 95

FastSpring

MARCH 8, 2021

Many studies have shown that superior innovation is achieved by having diverse teams where people can challenge each other and bring new perspectives. Having more women in technology will help close the gender gap and creates more female mentorship opportunities.” – Elizabeth Faddis – Recruitment Manager.

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Technical Review Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Leadership 147

Mucker Capital

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

This enables the startup to develop innovative and distinctive positioning strategies within the market. For instance, mechanics focus on product innovation and market dominance, mothers prioritize customer relationships and segmentation, and missionaries disrupt industries with visionary concepts.

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Branding Startup Development Strategy 98

Sales Hacker

JUNE 8, 2021

In this episode, Kyle Racki , co-founder and CEO of Proposify, talks about how his upbringing helped his sales career, the journey from being a freelancer to a founder, and how to create and maintain a competitive advantage. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Solving the innovator’s dilemma [18:31]. powered by Sounder.

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Sales Recruiting Entrepreneurship Sales Hiring Sales 73

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 2, 2021

Some problems need a straightforward solution, while others require more innovation. Our team aligns on three points: Innovation . Innovation. Is this solution something we want to innovate on and own as an industry leader and differentiator, or is it table stakes where we want to be on par with the market? Investment .

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OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Faced with one of the hottest recruiting markets in recent memory, many newly remote tech companies have dramatically expanded their hiring borders. Prioritize building out your product team over bringing on sales and marketing hires. At the end of the day, the best sales and marketing is still an exceptional product.

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Marketing Interviewing 68

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Winning teams I’ve been part of How winning teams are constructed is timely, as in my role leading sales enablement at Automation Anywhere , shortly we’ll be growing the team, and I want to be thoughtful about the work we do, the candidates we hire and the culture we foster on what we hope and expect to be a winning team.

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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

JUNE 26, 2018

Today, everyone working in and around sales and marketing knows that bots are hot, in vogue and quite simply, of the moment. In my role leading sales enablement at HubSpot in EMEA, we deliberately carve out time to think about ways to leverage tools, technology and software that will make sales reps more effective.

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Buffer Resources

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

When Sherrell Dorsey started the digital news and insights platform The Plug , she knew she wanted it to be seen as the leading voice in the Black innovation economy—and she wanted her voice to be in the mix as well. This is especially true when your individual thought leadership aligns closely with the mission of your company.

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Sales Recruiting Social Media Business Marketplace as a Service 80

SaaStr

JULY 9, 2019

Giraffe is a mobile job matching platform that helps medium skilled workers get access to opportunities and helps businesses to recruit staff faster, and easier, and more affordably than any other way. Well, you have to build a direct sales force. We said, “How important is Giraffe to you in your recruitment process?”

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Scale Sales Recruiting Scaling SaaS Payments 169

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

OCTOBER 16, 2017

The sales enablement industry has taken tremendous strides in recent years, but by most measures, it's still a relatively immature function. To fill this "best practices void" and play my part in elevating the role of sales enablement I often take ideas from other fields and apply them to my work at HubSpot.

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Sales Enablement Sales Recruiting Scale Sales 100

SaaStr

APRIL 17, 2019

Steve has previously said, “Sales and marketing must be one team.” Where does Steve find common points of tension between sales and marketing? I mean, my career started as a software engineer, and out of frustration, I went into sales. The role of marketing is to help sales sell, and it’s not about creating a logo.

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DevOps as a Service Sales Recruiting Scale Sales Hiring 100

Neil Patel

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Innovative Products – If you are working with a very innovative product that is sold at the enterprise level for instance, chances are you will need very technical people that can help with the sales process. When accounting for hiring the best talent, the cost of building an in house team quickly adds up.

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Sales Hiring Outsourcing Services Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 145

OPEXEngine

APRIL 8, 2021

It is easier for small companies—they don’t have large sales organizations that need to be re-trained in how to manage a sales cycle in a virtual world or how to meet changing buyer expectations. We are hearing that some companies are already increasing recruitment budgets going into Q2.

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SaaStr

MAY 8, 2020

Prior to Work-Bench, Jessica was a Learning and Development Manager at Cisco Systems, where she worked with the Engineering organization on Agile transformation, innovation and culture. Where does Jessica find managers and founders do pipe reviews wrong? How should sales teams and CS respond to requests for discounts?

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Sales Recruiting Technical Review Sales Hiring Outsourced Development 183

OpenView Labs

APRIL 13, 2021

She transitioned into a solution engineer, a role that sits at the crossroads of sales and product, which gave her the opportunity to do more of what she loved: discussing business challenges and crafting corresponding technology solutions. How do you get design to work with sales, or engineering to work with customer success?

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Sales Recruiting Management Engineering Leadership 60

Totango

JANUARY 22, 2018

With more than 20 years in customer-focused leadership and management, Krista is an innovative leader passionate about engaging customers and creating excellence in customer experience across industries. Manager, Partner & Customer Experience. Dante is the Manager of Partner & Customer Experience at Google Cloud.

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Customer Success Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale 77

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 21, 2018

Whether you’re at an early-stage startup that’s just made its first sales hires, or part of a fast-moving sales team in a large organization, the key to success often comes down to efficiency. Then, the sales team went to work. When making a sales hire, Max pays attention to the way candidates approach getting the job.

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Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Technical Advisors 183

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

One of the consequences of this is that the sales cycles slow down. Create strategic value PMs are under a lot of pressure to deliver features – from the sales team chasing a deal, the customer service colleagues trying to alleviate customer pain points, and executive leadership eyeing market expansion or increased market share.

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Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting Software Review 92

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Track in-app customer behavior to find fresh ideas Tracking user behavior inside your product can highlight unmet needs, user pain points, and opportunities for improvement and innovation. How do you recruit your interviewees? Instead, get to the bottom of the user problem and look for innovative ways to solve it.

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Underperforming Technical Team Marketing Market Research Outsourced Development 94

Valuize Consulting

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The Employee Experience (EX) is the journey an employee takes with your organization and is the sum of all employee-employer interactions throughout that employee lifecycle, from pre-recruitment to post-exit. times faster revenue growth ( Sale s force , 2020). In fact, companies that prioritized Employee Experience achieved 1.8

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Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting Data Sales Hiring 52

ProfitWell

JANUARY 27, 2020

But here are some learnings, from the sales community, that Mixmax put together so we can start acting like pipeline pros. Far too often, focus is limited to the short term because of the nature of daily deliverables in sales. Because sales professionals are often likened to "hunters." Firstly, firm up your foundation.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 29, 2022

In this episode of the Sales Hacker Podcast, we have Tom Lavery , CEO & Founder at Jiminny , a conversation intelligence platform that helps companies create high performance culture. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Sam Jacobs: Welcome to the Sales Hacker podcast. Sam Jacobs: How’d you get into sales?

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Sales Recruiting SaaS B2C Innovation 77

Chaotic Flow

MARCH 4, 2013

More than a year ago, McKinsey and Company predicted that big data would be “The Next Frontier of Innovation, Competition and Productivity.” Cloud-based businesses create value in one of two ways: lowering TCO (cost advantage) and network-enabled innovation (differentiation). Reengineering Across the Firewall.

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Data Sales Recruiting Social Media Scale 140

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 29, 2021

Ever since he was hired as the Director of EMEA Sales at BrowserStack , a web and mobile testing platform that lets developers test their websites and mobile applications across browsers, operating systems, and mobile devices, he had to completely rethink how to successfully onboard hundreds of salespeople just as everyone was going remote.

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Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 223

OPEXEngine

JANUARY 13, 2021

Hiring—lessened requirements for in-person work expected even post-pandemic open up recruitment beyond physical locations, but competition for talent will remain tough in tech. B2B Sales and Marketing. Sales organizational changes: no more big rooms with 50+ inside sales. Impact of the Remote Workplace. More testimonials.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring SaaS Benchmarks 52