Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Over the past few months, I’ve been constantly talking to VPs of Sales, SDR leaders, and SDRs themselves. One constant struggle I hear is the SDR to AE handoff. Note: My perspective is from an organization that uses mostly Outbound SDRs. SDR vs AE: Vicious Cycle of Blame. Create an SLA + Committee Review.

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Kellblog

JUNE 17, 2023

The prior discussion aside, these numbers look very strong raising two questions: who are these companies again (presumably top tier) are they calculating it funny? In practice, CPP is usually around 15 / magic number [3], so I can create a calculated CPP (which is 21.4, marketing, SDR, partners, and to a lesser extent, sales itself).

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 10, 2019

After the SDR reaches out to all 100 of them, Salesforce task records show 10 people replied something analogous to “no thank you” and another 2 responded asking for meetings. Answer : The trap answer is to calculate 12/100, for a reply rate of 12%. Tip: Never overwrite SDR data! Assign the SDR teams accounts strategically.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 18, 2019

Step 3: forecast sales (with a future pipeline calculator). Outbound – most deals sourced by an SDR using proactive outreach efforts. Step 3: Forecast Your Sales (With a Future Pipeline Calculator). Instead you can use this nifty future pipeline calculator to help you use data to generate a realistic number based on facts.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 29, 2018

The regions were based on ZIP codes calculated to represent approximately to have the same amount of potential. SDR: Sales Development Rep – S tarts a conversation with a client through outbound actions such as emails/calls. How a POD works: A 2×2 POD is depicted in which a MDR/SDR is partnered with 2 AEs.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Build products or service recommendation tools, create assessments to identify areas they can improve, and build savings calculators? Everyone wants to go from SDR to AE. In the beginning, you’ll find, “Well, I’ll just promote my best SDR to AE.” That’s outgrow.co/ S-A-A-S. Check out outgrow.co/saas.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 16, 2018

3) SDRs and SDR Development [3:51]. SDRs and SDR Development. You have SDRs, you have enterprises? Steve Denton: We have a large outbound SDR group, various titles, different things. We have around 15 folks that work in the SDR group right now, and then they support five enterprise sellers.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Here I’ll walk you through how to calculate sales velocity and how to optimize its four variables to bring in more revenue faster. When calculated, it allows you to provide an accurate forecast of when you’ll hit quota and gives you clear figures to optimize for stronger performance. What is sales velocity?

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Kellblog

JANUARY 24, 2020

Given such stories and a general lack of faith in the scoring system, operationally nobody ever treated an A lead differently from a D lead – they’d all get “6×6’ed” (6 emails and 6 calls) anyway by the sales development reps (SDRs). The answer: not much. Hey Marketing, Go Get Pipeline. No harm, no foul.

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Kellblog

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Let someone else do the company-finding for you and then market to (and/or SDR outbound call) them. While I’ve always heard mixed reviews about appointment-setting firms, I also know they’re a go-to resource when you’re in trouble — particularly if you’re bottlenecked up-funnel in marketing or SDRs.

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Kellblog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Generally in the sense that two keys have turned: an SDR thought it was an opportunity and passed it to sales, and a quota-carrying seller concurred. [5] Total demandgen spend / total oppties generated = average cost per opportunity which is the actual calculation I’m encouraging. A 4] Aka, sales-accepted opportunities. Generally

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 20, 2022

These are under-prepared and uninformed conversations that last less than a minute and sound like this: “Hey, SDR or AE! Combine the hidden costs of uncovered territories and lost productivity with the training, recruiting, and onboarding to calculate total turnover. What is a sales coaching platform? Okay great. Sound familiar?

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The Marketing & Growth Hacking Publication

APRIL 8, 2019

Internal Team: Hire your own Sales Development Rep (SDR) team that is 100% dedicated to outbound prospecting. Cons: Can be slower to find and train a great SDR, requires more management bandwidth. so in baseline scenarios, assume a range of one or two new customers per month per Outbound SDR. but with much larger deal sizes.

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Kellblog

OCTOBER 19, 2021

3] I remember there are four because back in the day at Salesforce they were known, oddly, as the “four horsemen” of the pipeline: marketing, SDR/outbound, alliances, and sales. [4] 15] The other big problem with the S2TC rate is that it can only be calculated on a lagging basis.

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Point Nine Land

DECEMBER 1, 2020

This is a necessary part of the pipeline review and an important input that SDRs can control. Some sales leaders get a commitment from each SDR on the metrics or KPIs that they think they can achieve by the following week, such as “prospects added to a sequence/cadence,” “discovery calls,” or “demos booked.”

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OpenView Labs

APRIL 7, 2021

paid marketing, SDR/BDR efforts, and the like). PQLs are usually calculated as a score from 0 (no intent) to 100 (highest possible intent). Natural rate of growth (NRG): The goal of this metric is to delineate how fast you’re growing “without trying” (i.e.,

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

They use calculators, graders and quizzes to attract relevant users to their website and turn them into paying customers. Jason Lemkin: It might be better, because I get to talk with the CEO over a Zoom instead of talking to an SDR in a booth. Below we’ve shared the transcript of Jason’s conversation with Ben.

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SaaStr

JUNE 10, 2020

The sales team had to be trained, all our MDR and SDR outreach had to be changed. And then persona based calculators and different ROI tools. How are you to manage to be a revenue generator and how did you calculate that? And we’re seeing a lot of inbound around these types of checklists, ROI calculators, stuff like that.

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Kellblog

JANUARY 2, 2024

Writers fighting ChatGPT are like mathematicians fighting calculators. Every SDR will be sending AI-generated, personalized email sequences. When a company targets a small number of accounts, focuses sellers on penetrating them, and aligns both marketing and outbound SDRs as part of the effort. What’s the glaring exception here?

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SaaStr

MAY 3, 2019

The problem is though, that SDR tend to be younger and less experienced and unable to carry conversations to the highest level. They have levers to pull for their business such as: marketing, or events, or demand gen, or SDR support. Even though you may be very good at opening doors, you may not be as good as opening the right door.

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Hull

AUGUST 5, 2019

Are not being worked by an SDR (as determined by your sales enablement tool). and then send those prospects an email via your marketing automation tool about a new ROI calculator your marketing team built -- all with a few clicks, automatically. Have a certain lead score (as determined by your marketing automation system).

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 7, 2018

In short, sales velocity is the calculation of four major sales ops metrics to forecast how much revenue you stand to generate over a period of time. Instead of coming to your weekly one-on-one or quarterly review saying “I’m just not hitting my number, I think you need to have an SDR pump more deals my way!”, Sales cycle length.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 20, 2019

My preference is to make sure that the rep understands that they own their own business and that they have levers to pull for their business, such as a marketing or events or demand gen or SDR support. Things that can support either creating pipeline owning or engaging with more people in their account. Efficiency is not like a one and done.

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Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

by Christoph Janz Several years ago, I did a bit of research into founder compensation and created a simple model that calculates what a typical founder salary might look like based on a few input factors. How Much Should You Pay Yourself?

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Sales Hacker

MAY 9, 2019

Once you understand how to create a fair compensation plan for your sales team, you can check out some examples: Sales Development Rep (SDR) Compensation Plan Example. This could be anywhere from a first SDR job focused on inbound, to a senior SDR calling on key accounts with 1-4 years of experience. Experienced/Top Performer.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

But by taking calculated risks and putting your best foot forward, you can get buy-in and make it work.”. From an SDR standpoint, we assumed the new approach would involve cold calling , emailing, and LinkedIn messaging prospects, just like we did in SMB,” he says. . Assumptions vs. reality .

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Unbounce

MAY 17, 2022

For example, we’ve experimented with five different CTAs and headline/subheadline variations for our marketing plan offer: Get free trial Get free audit Get free proposal Get free marketing plan Start my pricing calculation. Version 4: Pricing calculation. KlientBoost pricing calculation messaging. Version 1: 14-day free trial.

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InsightSquared

MAY 14, 2020

If your SDR/BDRs are using one tool, your AEs another and your Account Managers/Customer Success Managers yet another—your RevOps stack is likely spiraling out of control. Five days later, they get an email from an SDR asking if they’d like to learn more. It’s too late for the well-intentioned SDR. The customer suffers.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 27, 2019

SDRs: The sales development function once belonged exclusively to the sales team, but the past few years have seen this changing quickly. In 2018, only 65% of SDR teams reported to sales, according to the Bridge Group’s 2018 SDR Metrics & Comp Report. The result? Cost savings and more efficiency across the company.

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Totango

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

A typical usage event record (SDR – Service Details Record) log contains the following information: Timestamp. As you can see, a service details record (SDR) log provides a very powerful way to present that usage pattern of every user, every customer (collection of users), and how they are using the product. 1/1/19 8:07.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 12, 2020

Once we have average value per meeting, we have to calculate lead deficit, which is basically the TAM of any company’s leads that aren’t being converted to opportunities. Well, you would approach this by hiring more SDRs. Typical SDR across the industry costs about $7,000 when you look at wages and comp and benefits.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

I started my career in tech sales 4 years ago as a SDR and have since scaled two SDR teams. Started out as a teacher, then to outbound SDR world, then to closing on the AE team. I joined Flowhaven in 2021 as an SDR. ” Brittney Yastrub. Sales Manager focused on front of the funnel processes. Emily Davidson Dukes.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 23, 2018

Brian Walton, Kyle Porter, Andrea Austin, and Armando Mann at Sales Stack 2015 delivering the SDR playbook for high performing sales teams. I signed on for a big, expensive venue, and we started selling tickets for a massive event at Pier 27. We sold out a 1000 person event in 3 months and had over 45 vendors there exhibiting.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

A business development representative (BDR) or sales development representative (SDR) is a sales specialist focusing on finding new prospects, establishing foundational relationships, and refreshing the sales pipeline with new leads for account executives.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

It’s pretty easy to get buried in the minutia, what’s been successful for me is you have to always have a mindset that you’re going to move fast, faster than anyone else, which also means that you’re going to take risk, calculated risk, but risks nonetheless. And it makes zero sense for us to risk employee health.

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