InsightSquared

MAY 15, 2019

It’s one of my favorite questions to ask a fellow professional in sales operations. Insurance sales rep. Account Manager. Sales Operations is Still Developing. Sales operations as a profession is growing, yet it is a comparatively new function in businesses. Sales Ops is Many Disciplines in One.

Sales Recruiting 110

Sales Recruiting Scale Technical Review Sales 110

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.

Sales Recruiting 83

Sales Recruiting VP of Engineering Sales Hiring Sales 83

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 28, 2022

Growth is arguably the most defining and sought-after trait of technology companies. It fluctuates, plateaus, goes up and down with each new round of funding, new competitor, new technological leap – or even a global pandemic or economic downturn. However, growth is seldom linear, as is all too clear in the current economic climate.

Scale 210

Scale Scaling Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting 210

ChurnZero

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Designing a successful post-sale strategy requires choices, says CXology’s Tim Conder. Maybe, just as our product teams create a roadmap of future product features, we should have a similar roadmap of improvements to our customer experience. Here’s the webinar in full. But we can’t do it all.

Sales Recruiting 52

Sales Recruiting Scale Customer Success Sales 52

Totango

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Hiring team members with the right customer success manager skills is critical for the effectiveness of your CS team and strategy. Here we’ve identified the 13 most essential qualities to consider when hiring a CS manager. What Is a Customer Success Manager (CSM)? What Makes a Good Customer Success Manager?

Sales Hiring 91

Sales Hiring Customer Success Sales Recruiting Technical Review 91

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Experts believe as much as 80 percent of recruiting will remain virtual for the foreseeable future , and the early stages of the recruitment process are ideal for the online medium. With Paradox, you get a mobile-first recruitment experience that uses AI to put the candidate first. Develop a Marketing Plan.

Sales Recruiting 138

Sales Recruiting Social Media Sales Hiring Marketing 138

User Pilot

APRIL 19, 2024

Applying insights from market research to product development and marketing strategies can significantly enhance business growth. Sharper marketing messages, savvy product development strategies, and an intimate grasp of both prospective buyers and existing customers’ preferences and needs. The outcome?

Market Research 52

Market Research Sales Recruiting Marketing Underperforming Technical Team 52

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.

Compensation 81

Compensation Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team Leadership 81

Valuize Consulting

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Stephen is a Customer Success Executive in the SaaS industry, specializing in customer renewals and relationships, with 20+ years of organizational development experience. When it comes to budget, organizations often haven’t established where the investment is coming from to fund the CS team. leverage Training & Development.

VP of Engineering 98

VP of Engineering Customer Success Sales Hiring Interviewing 98

Sales Hacker

APRIL 1, 2021

Because we’re Sales Hacker (and it’s literally our job), we decided to take matters into our own hands: we talked to the experts. A made-up role so companies can hire more people to tell sales how best to do their job.” — Jason Henson , Manager, SMB Sales Development at Lytx, Inc. . Like a dope sneaker collection.

Sales Recruiting 92

Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Scale 92

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.

Sales Recruiting 178

Sales Recruiting Scale Underperforming Technical Team Pricing 178

SaaStr

APRIL 17, 2019

Prior to Harness, Stephen was VP of Marketing at Glassdoor, managing a team of 52 in product marketing, helping grow B2B revenue from $19m to $90m in just 2 years, leading to their $1.2Bn acquisition. Steve has previously said, “Sales and marketing must be one team.” Does it differ from traditional dev teams?

DevOps as a Service 100

DevOps as a Service Sales Recruiting Scale Sales Hiring 100

User Pilot

MAY 21, 2023

In our guide, we discuss; The importance of features releases The stages of a successful release Best practices for each of these stages We also mention how Userpilot can help your product team orchestrate your feature releases. Before developing a new feature, make sure it’s in line with your product vision.

Underperforming Technical Team 97

Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting Social Media Onboarding 97

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. That means your focus should be on building the right customer profile and developing precise messaging to reach them.

Sales Hiring 183

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Technical Advisors 183

Sales Hacker

JULY 3, 2018

We’ve been compiling this sales automation tools list for a while, trying to figure out the best way to get the information out there. There are a number of existing resources available on sales automation, but they don’t offer use cases and examples of how to put the tools to action. What Is Sales Automation?

Scale 66

Scale Outsourcing Services Sales Recruiting Outsourced Development 66

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

One of the biggest decisions you can make when setting up your sales team is whether to focus primarily on inside or outside sales. They seem to be completely at odds, with one focused on clients with a high acquisition cost and high ACV (annual account value), the other focused on a high sales velocity.

Sales Hiring 81

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Payment Methods 81

Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

One of the toughest challenges for founders — and especially technical founders who are used to focusing so much on product features over sales — is striking “product-market fit”. So in that shift from product-market fit to product-market-SALES fit, how much should you optimize your go-to-market for product… and even the other way around?

Product Marketing 77

Product Marketing Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting 77

SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

Scaling the company’s employee base, sales teams, marketing, and operations—all while preserving its culture—has required a laser focus on first principles, smart processes, and effective hiring. Know who is the foundation of your product and build your product for that user (in Stripe’s case, developers).

Scale 160

Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Scaling 160

Kellblog

JULY 18, 2019

Great core/founding team. Thus, there is a good chance one or all of the founding team will be around, and in influential positions, for a long time. Newer company/technology. So the third hardest-to-change key factor is technology. So, strictly speaking, how could this table be inherently good or bad?

Underperforming Technical Team 78

Underperforming Technical Team Startup Software Technical Cofounder 78

FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Ryan Austin had VP-level experience in training when he decided to start a consulting business to help enterprise-level companies with their corporate learning and development initiatives. Ryan and his team noticed so many inefficiencies across the L&D workflows. “It There are now over 150 enterprise companies using the platform.

Payment Solutions 91

Payment Solutions Payment Services SaaS Payments VP of Engineering 91

SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

And so, she can, and Anthony just finished up basically going from the first sales hire at Gainsight at almost 100 million in revenue and has just retired. Maria : It’s like saying, “Hey, you want a sales rep to carry 10 times the quota they do today. You can’t, you have to invest in that sales infrastructure.”

Sales Hiring 214

Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 214

SaaStr

MARCH 18, 2019

Scaling the company’s employee base, sales teams, marketing, and operations—all while preserving its culture—has required a laser focus on first principles, smart processes, and effective hiring. Our team is in Room 111. They were self taught developers. Your registration. We’re doing office hours all day.

Scale 123

Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Sales Hiring 123

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Intercom, the product, continued to develop at a fast pace with hundreds of new features big and small – from an entirely reimagined Messenger to a thriving Intercom App Store to next generation chatbots, Custom Bots and Answer Bot. Lessons learned from scaling a team. It has been a year of extraordinary growth at Intercom.

Scale 150

Scale Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring 150

Neil Patel

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Unfortunately, your in-house team doesn’t have the required expertise to push through change. In a nutshell, they can give you expert opinions, analysis, and recommendations that can help ensure a more objective-based approach to grow your business and maximize sales – all at the same time. So what do you do? Where to Find Consultants.

Consulting 132

Consulting Sales Hiring Technical Review Sales Recruiting 132

SaaStr

APRIL 23, 2019

We’re going to go into the bleeding edge of technology, and the bleeding edge of technology was VR. Henrique: So, we applied to YC with this VR idea, which, looking back, it was pretty bad, but at the time we thought it was great. That … Henrique: So, we do the credit, we do underwriting, we do technology.

Sales Hiring 165

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Payment Methods 165

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

As for Krish, under Krish’s leadership the team has grown to over 300 people and over 5,000 clients making it one of the next generation in truly global SaaS businesses started in India. First, what is continuous customer development? Billion story from its launch in 2008 to its 2018 acquisition by Recruit Holdings.

Scale 137

Scale SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting Payment Services 137

Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2021

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Neil Ringers , EVP of Revenue Grid. Neil’s experience includes a long history of sales leadership, primarily in the Salesforce ecosystem, and is now running revenue for Revenue Grid. If you missed episode 153, check it out here: Learning Drives Sales Effectiveness with Paul Fifield?.

Scale 102

Scale Payments Technical Advisors Sales Recruiting 102

Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In this episode, a16z partner Seema Amble talks with Dimitri Dadiomov, the co-founder and CEO of payment operations platform Modern Treasury, about the challenges of creating a new category, hiring for marketing before you hire for sales, and why developing new features is similar to birding. It was maybe like a 4 or 5 person team.

Payment Solutions 110

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payment Services Payments 110

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2019

Businesses also win if, as a result of AI, teams are able to create more white-glove moments that turn users into customers for life. Rick started Guru in 2013, after successfully founding Boomi (a cloud integration and data management company) and selling it to Dell. For us, that first fit was with growing sales teams.

Scale 156

Scale Scaling AI Search Underperforming Technical Team 156

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 13, 2021

Although Linda started her career in sales, she has spent the past twelve years scaling post-sales teams and moving hyper-growth companies like Zendesk, Slack, and now Gong upmarket into the enterprise realm. So how do you create a strong, enterprise-ready team? Leveraging customer insights across your business.

Scale 177

Scale Customer Success Strategy Sales Hiring 177

SaaStr

MAY 24, 2019

235: Andrew Filev is the Founder & CEO @ Wrike, the cloud based collaboration and project management software that scales across teams in any business. Now Andrew is the founder and CEO at Wrike, the cloud based collaboration and project management software that scales across teams in any business.

Sales Hiring 154

Sales Hiring Scale SMB Sales Recruiting 154

Upscope

MAY 24, 2019

There are many articles on developing a customer experience (CX) strategy so seeing a range of practical examples will help put them into perspective. Avast fixed the broken things first This is a good study of technology driven companies learning customer experience thinking. Question 3: Who are you willing to be bad for?

Strategy 99

Strategy Sales Hiring Airlines Underperforming Technical Team 99

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

InVision is a software platform that’s built for design teams that are building remarkable digital applications and digital experiences, and it’s used to collaborate with product and engineering organizations as well. What types of tools or technology do we use? You’re all using Arm technology.

Sales Hiring 179

Sales Hiring Scale Technical Review Sales Recruiting 179

SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

Prior to Crossbeam, Bob founded Stitched, a powerful ETL service built for developers that was acquired by Talend in 2018. Does Bob agree with the notion that channel sales have completely died in the world of SaaS? Prior to Crossbeam Bob founded Stitched, a powerful ETL service built for developers that was acquired by Talend in 2018.

Sales Hiring 132

Sales Hiring Scale Outsourcing Services CTO Hire 132

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we talk to Vikas Bhambri , SVP of Global Sales and Customer Experience at Kustomer. Vikas is a well-respected sales leader in NYC and comes from a sales engineering and product background, with more than 20 years experience. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

Sales Hiring 50

Sales Hiring Startup Scale Sales Recruiting 50

Upscope

JUNE 9, 2021

There are plenty of happy smiling recruitment videos for call centers on Youtube but the real data on how people feel can be found in the comments section. A couple of them our team did. And at the call center I was at, the recruiters told me the job wasn't a sales job, just customer service. I feel so alone I need help!

Payment Methods 52

Payment Methods Management Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring 52

Full Session

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Product teams, UX and UI researchers, marketers, and site owners use this feature to capture data and analyze user behavior. Identify Javascript errors, user frustration, usability issues, or poor-performing content. FullSession provides a central analytics platform that lets you and your team collaborate more efficiently.

Software Review 52

Software Review Technical Review Payment Solutions Payment Methods 52