OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 8, 2020

According to First Round’s 2019 State of Startups report , sales leadership is the most difficult hire to make. And with sales being a top priority for founders…. …along with it getting harder to recruit top-quality talent… Image: State of Startups. See, hiring and sales aren’t dissimilar.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

How does Krish think your customer acquisition and GTM strategy has to change with the movement from SMB to enterprise? Billion story from its launch in 2008 to its 2018 acquisition by Recruit Holdings. This podcast is an excerpt from Robert and Neeraj’s session at SaaStr Annual 2019. Does it have to be in person?

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Scale SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting Payment Services 134

SaaStr

MAY 15, 2019

Meet SaaStr’s Most Respected Leaders of 2019. Our most popular CEO, COO’s and Presidents that spoke at SaaStr Annual 2019. From P&G, Jennifer became Chief Strategy Officer for Mincom, then President and CEO of Keynote Systems and finally CEO of PagerDuty which she has helmed since 2016. Curious how we came up with this list?

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ChurnZero

MAY 10, 2019

Top 10 Customer Success Takeaways from TSW 2019. This event brought together thousands of technology leaders from Customer Success, Services, Sales, Product and Marketing. For those who didn’t get to attend, or for those that attended and want a recap, we compiled a list of our top ten Customer Success takeaways from TSW 2019.

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SaaStr

MARCH 24, 2020

Nothing matters but recruiting and using your personal network. Sam Blond, CSO at Brex explains why recruiting, networking and employee happiness is the key to this playbook on recruiting your sales team. Sam Blond | Chief Sales Officer @ Brex. I’m doing The Playbook To Recruiting Your Sales Team.

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OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

And the primary burden of your product and GTM execution can fall on an effective technical leader and proven sales executive. While the motion is slightly different, the genuine excitement that helped you make your first sale or close your first round should be leveraged in selling candidates as well. Cash is no longer a top concern.

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Startup 82

InsightSquared

AUGUST 14, 2019

In 2019, artificial intelligence (AI) is prevalent in our everyday lives. For sales professionals, AI is not only impacting your personal life, but it will soon influence your professional work too if it hasn’t already done so. Many of today’s forward-thinking companies have already begun using AI in their sales strategies.

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SaaStr

MARCH 10, 2020

That was the most over the top entrance that the sales leader for a company that moves boxes around the world has ever gotten. So we did about 442 million in sales last year. The top 25 freight forwarders combined to do 100 billion a year in sales. Rely on your success, know you are doing something right and scale faster.

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The Angel VC

DECEMBER 12, 2018

It’s an important question, as your target growth rate determines your hiring plan, budget, and fundraising strategy. As I wrote here , trying to forecast what happens to your CACs if you 10x your sales and marketing spend is very difficult. The main reason is that your customer acquisition costs are highly front-loaded.

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Sales Recruiting SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Scale 106

OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 17, 2019

As you race to close the books on a hopefully successful 2019, it’s worth stepping back and considering what the future will hold for B2B software. OpenView’s experts weighed in with their predictions across product, sales, marketing, pricing, corporate development and talent. Product Managers Will Own a KPI. What do you think?

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Trends Sales Recruiting Technical Review SaaS 67

Valuize Consulting

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The Employee Experience (EX) is the journey an employee takes with your organization and is the sum of all employee-employer interactions throughout that employee lifecycle, from pre-recruitment to post-exit. times faster revenue growth ( Sale s force , 2020). Ready to drive better business outcomes? 6 Elements Of A Strong EX.

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

“It got us thinking: Why is there no purpose-built operating system for corporate learning and development teams, when their jobs are so strategic to the business, and they’re managing massive budgets, but they can’t track things like ROI?” So I would really say as a software company, 2019 was when we were born.

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Payment Solutions Payment Services SaaS Payments VP of Engineering 95

Sales Hacker

APRIL 21, 2020

When I first wrote this article, we were in a very different place, with unemployment at an all-time low and sales hiring a top priority. Part two of this scorecard series will help you create a sales interview scorecard to land that sales role you’ve been dreaming about. Sales chops. What sales system do we use?

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OpenView Labs

MARCH 17, 2021

Tom Holahan joined OpenView in 2019 as a Vice President. Dan Heck joined OpenView as a Vice President in 2019. He has the unique ability to move between strategic and tactical level of analysis, from positioning opportunities in the context of larger market trends, to discerning actionable sales and marketing insights.”

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Neil Patel

MARCH 17, 2021

Strategies to Target Generation Z Through Paid Ads. These strategies are relevant to reaching young adults right now, but trends will change by the time the youngest Zoomers come of age. Food delivery services saw big sales growth during the coronavirus pandemic. Showcase Diversity in Your Paid Ads Targeted at Generation Z. .”

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Social Media Advertising Sales Recruiting Branding 145

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Eoghan McCabe, CEO , and Matt Hodges, VP of Commercial Product Strategy. Des Traynor, Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer. Analytics, biz ops, marketing, sales, support, recruiting, finance, HR. ” Strategy over speed: How video games prepared me for life as a product manager. ” On Sales.

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Scale Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring 150

Sales Hacker

JULY 24, 2019

It’s a problem in sales too. According to the 2019 State of Sales Performance survey , 73% of teams polled said that less than half of their team were women. Companies and sales teams are missing out on the benefits that diversity brings. Women Sales Pros. Women in Sales. Utah Women in Sales.

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Revenue Sales 74

Point Nine Land

DECEMBER 12, 2018

It’s an important question, as your target growth rate determines your hiring plan, budget, and fundraising strategy. As I wrote here , trying to forecast what happens to your CACs if you 10x your sales and marketing spend is very difficult. The main reason is that your customer acquisition costs are highly front-loaded.

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Sales Recruiting SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Scale 61

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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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Today, we see an NPR-owned app go freemium , a social media management platform is sprouting an IPO (although not a profit), and Vendr raises $2 million to replace your enterprise sales team. The same percentage of its revenue came from software subscriptions in the first nine months of 2019. Your top subscription news.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 28, 2019

SaaStock is a gathering of SaaS Sales Leaders, Founders, VCs, and anybody passionate about building a SaaS business. And make sure you’re following Sales Hacker on Instagram , Twitter , and LinkedIn. So how do you design a go-to-market strategy that ensures product-market fit stays strong? How Can I Get Live Updates?

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Unfortunately, the same template that worked on decision-makers at digital agencies won’t work on decision-makers in recruitment. RELATED: 7 Battle Tested Cold Sales Email Subject Lines (And Why They Work). In sales, you don’t want your outreach emails to be confused with a branded newsletter. I’m in the first group.

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 13, 2020

Source: Byteant , December 2019. Product-led growth and usage of the data for customer success and other strategies can be a powerful proposition. 5000 Rank in 2019 in the security industry. A SaaS-based Apple fleet management platform, Fleetsmith automates device setup, intelligence, patching, and security for Apple devices.

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SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services Sales Recruiting 19

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Matt Turck talks with three hyper-growth stage Co-Founders and CEOs on three roadblocks when scaling past $15M ARR: hiring, culture, and sales. Also, if you didn’t attend SaaStr Europa, we’re doing it bigger and better in June 2019. Matt Turck – Managing Director at FirstMark. Ticket prices go up March 1st!

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 5, 2021

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. How the role of sales development has changed [13:10]. Keeping new sales professionals focused on the mission [18:44]. Sam Jacobs: This week on the show, we’ve got Kata Nyitrai , head of global sales development for Meero, a fast-growing company in Europe. We’re on iTunes.

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Scale Sales Recruiting Technical Review Outsourced Development 92

ChurnZero

MARCH 6, 2020

Founder Annette Franz shares a quote from sales expert Zig Ziglar that shows how a people-first philosophy is your business growth strategy: “You don’t build a business. Have you been forced to inherit hand-me-down sales tools that weren’t built with the Customer Success Manager (CSM) in mind? Always respect them.

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Customer Success Software Review Scale Sales Recruiting 69

SaaStr

DECEMBER 5, 2019

And we had been talking about that and I also run corporate strategy. I think at the highest level there’s a big difference between the CVCs that are focused more strategically about enhancing their product and their corporate strategy, versus financially. They might be sales operations challenges. We hear this a lot.

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Development Team Review Scale Technical Review Software Review 132

SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

Does Bob agree with the notion that channel sales have completely died in the world of SaaS? Podium, an interaction management platform for local businesses, was founded in Utah and grew from five employees in 2015 to more than 300 in 2019 to become one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in the United States. Why is this?

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 11, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Wes Ulysse , Head of Sales, North America at Red Points, a SaaS company that’s leveraging AI and machine learning to protect brands’ online intellectual property. Wes started his professional career as an accountant for the New York City Ballet. We’re on iTunes.

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ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

We are in the thick of Q4 and the high-pressure budget and strategy planning season is in full swing in SaaS organizations around the globe. It’s all about sending direct mail during the holiday and it also tends to be our highest sales quarter and therefor it’s also our highest renewal quarter.

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Customer Success Sales Recruiting Scale Technical Review 40

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The company’s best-selling book, Predictable Revenue , details the hugely successful outbound process and sales created specifically for Salesforce. Afterward, he delved into education management by creating his own business, Mestreduca, a platform targeted at educational institutions. Talk: SaaS.City Bootcamp: Sales Leadership.

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Technical Review Scale Entrepreneurship Sales Hiring 207

SaaStr

JULY 13, 2023

Q: Where Should SDRs Report — Marketing or Sales? Continuing the conversation on effective team members, it’s important to hire the right people to manage SDRs. A VP of Sales might seem the logical place to have your first SDR team report. But if they’ve never managed a higher turnover SDR team, they often melt.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2019

For us, that first fit was with growing sales teams. We were very, very focused on that fit – to be even more specific, on growing sales teams for high-tech products. That was essentially the Boomi sales team, so I could personally relate to them. How is it different from what sales teams are dealing with?”

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Women in sales often have a polarizing experience. In the Sales Hacker video series Aha Moments , I asked 10 women: “What is one ‘aha moment’ you’ve had in your sales career?”. The conversations that followed were so authentic and encouraging that we decided to expand this conversation to other badass women in the sales world.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 28, 2019

The most sophisticated marketing plans today deploy at least nine disciplines which range from content marketing, to evangelist recruitment, to customer lifecycle marketing and beyond. We sat down with Heather to get her take on what it means to be a CMO in 2019. The must haves for sales and marketing alignment.

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Unbounce

JUNE 16, 2020

For example, ActiveCampaign’s reseller program offers beefier discounts to partners as they grow, letting them set their own pricing and pocket the difference: ActiveCampaign’s reseller program offers deeper discounts on pricing as more sales are made, creating an incentive to go big. Is your sales process simple and streamlined?

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Outsourcing Services Sales Recruiting Scale SaaS 131

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 21, 2019

There are tons of roundup articles about top women sales leaders. Most of the time, somebody does a LinkedIn search for “sales leader,” chooses the top 15 profiles with the most followers, and calls it a day. What about the amazing sales leaders who aren’t well-known already? Most Dynamic Women Sales Leaders.

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