SaaStr

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

So I went down the hall, met with the head of marketing, and I discovered a lot about in bound SaaS, about SMB, the importance of building this machine as I call it now that generates all these lovely leads. Then I went over to the sales department. They all looked at me really weird because remember, I’d never done SMB before.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

How do good founders respond to questions on not achieving sales targets? #2: 3: Godfather of Sales John Barrow on How To React When a Lead Goes Dark. About the episode: John Barrows is essentially the Godfather of Sales. How did John make his way into the world of SaaS and more specifically sales optimization?

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Angus Davis , VC and Partner at Foundation Capital. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. SMB Sales & SDRs at (Smaller) Scale [18:20]. Sam Jacobs: Welcome to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Angus is an amazing person — who never went to college. We’re on iTunes.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

If you have a product that is absolutely crushing it in SMB/mid-market, you may be tempted to dive straight into the Enterprise market. Aside from the areas outlined below, you need to hire or train sales reps who are capable of selling at an Enterprise level. It works well when you can find thousands of look-a-like small businesses.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

And so instead of investing in a manager to manage sales folks, we built a lot of automations so our sales team would never miss a followup, you would always see what’s going on in their accounts, would be alerted if their account logged into a trial and took a bunch of action. What does sales enablement motion look like?

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

Everyone knows Shopify for what it is today, but in the earlier days, it really was the best SaaS platform for SMB eCommerce providers. 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.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Plus, from 2007 until 2013, Karen ran all of Box’s business development, partnership, and strategic alliance activities. Plus from 2007 until 2013, Karen ran all of Box’s business development, partnership and strategic alliance activities. Karen Page: I started my career in sales and marketing.

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SaaStr

JULY 22, 2019

The company started back in 2007, 2008. We started out in the commercial SMB mid-market space. So much more of an inside sales mentality, hub-based selling, predominantly in North America, not really into strong relationship-based selling and the trust that he talked about. So we’re into our second decade.

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