Chart Mogul

APRIL 29, 2021

Over the last six months, we built and refined a dedicated outbound sales strategy. It also extends to our customer acquisition and sales strategy. Enter: the allure of an outbound sales motion. What would it mean for our business if we could crack outbound sales? Our outbound sales strategy. The result?

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InsightSquared

MARCH 8, 2021

I transitioned from education to software in 2008, and I have held roles in everything from project management to sales. Today, I direct Field Enablement for the sales organization. Focus on the things that you can control and work to win, understanding as you engage with your team, or anyone really.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 15, 2022

In the 200th episode of the Sales Hacker Podcast, we have Asad Zaman , CEO of Sales Talent Agency (STA), where he rose through the ranks from AE to CEO, earning recognition as Toronto’s Young Professional of the Year (2019). There are over 40K more sales jobs openings than salespeople. How COVID has affected sales salaries.

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Valuize Consulting

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

A recent Towers Watson study revealed that businesses with a strong employee experience sustained a 4% bump in revenue while those with a poor experience saw revenue fall by 1%. times faster revenue growth ( Sale s force , 2020). 82% of business leaders believe that culture is a competitive advantage ( Deloitte , 2016).

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SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

Aaron : 2016. Jason : 2016. 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. Jason : All right. Aaron : No.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Sales works the same way. What can the life of an Italian Grandma teach you about sales? You’re likely wondering what Italian grandmas know about sales. And while neither of them ever studied sales or marketing, they both taught me immense amounts about life. Grandma Crisia and I sharing a moment together – 2016.

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Aaron Beashel

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Alex co-founded the well-known SaaS company Desk.com before selling it to Salesforce and becoming the VP of Service Cloud (their second largest business unit, behind Sales Cloud). It was game-changing for the company, and for each team that implemented it. How to create a V2MOM framework for your company or team.

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SaaSOptics

MAY 19, 2022

For subscription-based SaaS businesses, your customer acquisition metrics indicate how effectively you acquire new users via sales, marketing, or a product-led approach like a free trial. At what point will you introduce Sales into the buyer’s journey? . Metrics: What’s your target win rate for sales opportunities? .

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 16, 2020

In this article, we’ll look at five sales follow-up tactics that will help you do just that. 5 Tactics for Effective Sales Follow-Up in 2020. Before we get into the best practices for effective follow-ups, it’s important to note that the path in which a buyer was classified as sales-ready by Marketing will change your messaging.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Alina Vandenberghe is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Chili Piper , an inbound conversion software that helps sales teams automatically schedule appointments and instantly turn leads into qualified meetings. In 2016, she created Chili Piper with her husband Nicolas and poured in everything she had learned over the years.

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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. Here are five quick takeaways: Businesses focused on scaling need to think of customer support as a revenue team , not a cost center. For us, that first fit was with growing sales teams.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

Prior to Crossbeam, Bob founded Stitched, a powerful ETL service built for developers that was acquired by Talend in 2018. Before that Bob co-founded RJ Metrics, where he built a global base of online retailers leading to their acquisition by Magento Commerce in 2016. Loving our podcast content? Why is this? Kind of solve the problem.

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Unbounce

OCTOBER 1, 2019

How Can Ecommerce Marketers Get More Sales Through Targeted Messaging? In just over a year , they (along with the rest of Zola’s marketing team) managed to: Build and launch 300+ custom landing pages for Zola’s specific audience segments. The Challenge: Get More Couples Registered on Zola Using Google & Facebook Ads.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 4, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Matt Rizzetta , founder of North 6th Agency, which is a communications and PR firm based in New York City. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. How to get better at sales [21:37]. Welcome to the Sales Hacker podcast. Welcome to the Sales Hacker podcast.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 4, 2019

The fastest growing software companies in recent years all have something in common – they started with little to no sales team. But even for companies with this early viral growth, there comes a point in time when this organic growth needs to be supplemented with formal sales. Yes, Slack started off with no sales team.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Women in sales often have a polarizing experience. Never believe that doubting yourself is a bad thing. In the Sales Hacker video series Aha Moments , I asked 10 women: “What is one ‘aha moment’ you’ve had in your sales career?”. What is one a-ha moment you’ve had in your sales career? Anything less is failure.

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 29, 2020

I actually wrote about the phenomenon , which I called ‘The Slow Death of Freemium’, back in 2016. HubSpot now offers freemium versions of their CRM, Marketing and Sales products. Freemium Model for SaaS – The Good, The Bad, and The In-between. Flash forward to 2020 and freemium again feels cutting edge. Find out here.

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Upscope

JANUARY 10, 2019

Well, Obviously A quick note: Some of the metrics below like CAC are of little use until you have a repeatable sales process. Companies developing their idea and in the early stages of generating revenue will see these metrics bounce around like an oompa loompa. Seen on an annual basis, a 10% customer churn is bad.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

We had them on the podcast way back in 2016, and they’ve even been a guest contributor to our book Intercom on Onboarding. Samuel Hulick: I actually started as a full stack developer. Back in those days, and this was like over 10 years ago, the developer would get a Photoshop file that had all of the different interface elements.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Use outsourcing as a tool to drive sales and revenue. Critical parts of your company, like sales or hiring, are often the least fun parts of an entrepreneur’s job. The problem isn’t just in the amount of time an in-house team has to dedicate to the work. In the same way, outsourcing isn’t a method to do more nonessential tasks.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

When it comes to launching sales teams in hyper-growth startups, few people have walked the walk as much as Maggie Hott. She “stumbled” into it, as she told us, first as one of the earliest sales hires of Eventbrite, where she stayed for four years, and then into Slack in early 2015 as the first sales rep in the Bay Area.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

From strategies in recruitment and team building to sales tactics, these leaders from Salesforce, nCino, and Vlocity, will discuss the top tips for moving beyond horizontal SaaS and building a billion-dollar SaaS company. They need fewer sales as a percentage of overall employees. This episode is sponsored by Linode. .”

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The SaaStock team will be landing in São Paulo to run the region’s first Pan-Latin American SaaS conference, SaaStock LatAm. The company’s best-selling book, Predictable Revenue , details the hugely successful outbound process and sales created specifically for Salesforce. Starting as VP of Sales, in less than two years he became CEO.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Thank you so much to the SaaStr team for organizing this conference and thank you to Joaquim for joining me on this session. We give them the superpowers of the developer and the designer. Yeah, we’ve been tracking this since May, 2016 so it’s not been forever. But that’s not bad. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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SaaStr

APRIL 23, 2019

Henrique: And we grew that company for a while, and sold it in September 2016, and came to college. 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. Anu: And then the rest of the team? The first end team. Henrique: So, one, you need a team.

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yoursales

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Sales Stack 2023 Sales Tools for Professional B2B Sales SALES STACK 2023: Sales Tools for. Professional Sales SALES STACK. 2022: Sales Tools. Sales share this with your network S ales tools and figuring out what your sales stack 2023 should look like is as challenging as ever.

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Teamgate

OCTOBER 19, 2019

The average email open rate across all industries and devices in 2016 was 24.88% , a smashing figure compared to Facebook and Twitter performance. Which is an awfully bad news for marketers who need to keep their audience glued to their screens. Team up with influencers . Social proof. Image Source: Engadget.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 21, 2020

Justin Welsh, former SVP of Sales at PatientPop explains how he started in SaaS in 2009 as the second sales hire at Zocdoc. Justin used Sales Culture to grow a successful PatientPop team to 140 employees and 55 million in revenue. Justin Welsh | SVP Sales @ PatientPop. Want to see more content like this?

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yoursales

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Sales Stack 2023 Sales Tools for Professional B2B Sales SALES STACK 2023: Sales Tools for Professional Sales SALES STACK 2023: Sales Tools for Professional Sales share this with your network S ales tools and figuring out what your sales stack 2023 should look like is as challenging as ever.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 20, 2021

You need to attract potential buyers and funnel them into your sales funnel. AdExpresso analyzed over 100 million dollars of ad spend and determined the average ad cost for the whole of 2016. Post your team photos like Zappos. Bombarding your fans with 10 poor-quality updates in an hour. Don’t Automate Everything.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

In August of 2016, Rachel Hepworth embarked on a unique challenge: start a growth marketing team at one of the most successful startups of this generation – one that had long relied heavily on word of mouth. I stumbled upon Eric Ries and Steve Blank, the concept of customer development – it was a revelation. We got sales leads.

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GetUplift

MARCH 22, 2019

Anyway, but what we do here is we work a lot with in-house teams. If your goals are event-based, which are good, or destination-based, which are bad. Your web developer’s traffic, your agency’s traffic, none of that should be in there. Unfortunately, what happens is that people are really bad at closing tabs.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Before I joined the venture capital industry many years ago, I was a software developer, and I worked for a startup around the 2000 time period. Usually, it requires an outbound sales motion. Many of these are names that you know, and this is actually the largest we’ve seen in history. I think it’s a really staggering stat.

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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

In 2016, Hubspot was still a scrappy player that had only recently IPO’d, with a market cap around $1B. Turns out a founding team of six MBAs creating a full suite of products sold solely to SMBs can become a multi-million dollar public company in nine years – and continue growing rapidly ($77.6 million in 2013 to $115.9

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we’ve got a fantastic episode for you. If you missed episode 122, check it out here: Tips for Building a Diverse Team of High-Quality Salespeople with Wesley Ulysse. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Welcome to Sales Hacker Podcast. Sales enablement is easy.

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FastSpring

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Dave has gleaned some valuable CRO insights since he founded Browser to Buyer in 2016, which he shared with FastSpring CMO and Growth Stage podcast host Dave Vogelpohl in our latest episode. I think SaaS businesses and subscription businesses are particularly bad at having vague, waffley headlines on their homepages,” he states.

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User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Let’s delve into the key benefits of concept tests: Build Lasting Customer Relationships : When you actively involve your customers in the development phase, it’s not just about getting feedback. Then, respondents answer the same follow-up questions, granting you deeper insights into each idea’s strengths and weaknesses.

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