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PODCAST 42: How Sales Managers Should Build Their Career Path w/ Jamie Scarborough

Sales Hacker

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast , we talk to Jamie Scarborough , Co-Founder of the Sales Talent Agency, one of the largest sales recruitment firms in North America. . The keys to building your own business as a career sales professional. Moving into sales from other industries. What You’ll Learn.

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Even More of SaaStr’s Most Respected Leaders Unveiled!

SaaStr

He then led product management for XDegrees and spent over five years rising up through the ranks at Symantec. Mikkel later founded Zendesk in 2007 while living in Copenhagen, Denmark. His sales focused, actionable content made an impact on the audience. He served as CEO for the company until 2002 before moving on to Materna.

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7 Lessons Helping Start Pardot, SalesLoft and Calendly (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

I started a software company in college to make it easy to update websites called Content Management Software Now, and I had this idea for Pardot, I wanted to make it easy for marketers to run campaigns online and measure their results. We started the business in 2007. ” So let’s jump in and talk a little bit more.

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Sales Engagement: The Intersection of Sales and Science

Sales Hacker

What if sales reps can really harness the full potential of the pricy software tools we thought would turn us into sales superstars? Goodbye missed quotas; hello sales engagement!). When science and sales meet, sparks fly. RELATED: What is Sales Engagement? Sales Engagement: A Billion Dollar Market.

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The First Generation of the Talent Software Wars

Tom Tunguz

In the late 1990s, two of the dominant talent management platforms were founded. Both companies eventually offered talent acquisition, performance management, and learning tools for human resources teams. Taleo initially focused on recruiting tools and SuccessFactors on performance management. in February 2012.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Byron Deeter, Elliott Robinson, Henry Schuck, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

They started in the point of sale market, and then as the company scaled, they rolled out new value props and modules for payroll, or Toast capital, or ways to manage your employee base. This is really founder-led sales. Byron gave a great example with Toast, one of my favorite portfolio companies. That’s your CAC.

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The Things Nobody Tells You About An $8B Acquisition with Ryan Smith from Qualtrics (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And we were about a $50 million sales run rate, but I’d never done a media interview. Ryan Smith: And so we had to switch and we chose Qualtrics, and it was the best thing we’ve ever done because everything we ever wanted to do, pivot the company or get away from surveys, which in 2007 were like, “Whoa, this is way bigger.”