Sales Hacker

JULY 31, 2020

2 in 5 sellers struggled with mental health in 2019, and these numbers were from last year. Much of this is due to the nature of our profession, but it’s made worse because most sellers today operate in toxic work environments. So, yes, it’s time to start a conversation about mental health on your sales team. It gets worse.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

374: ZoomInfo founder and CEO Henry Schuck shares how he built a business from scratch and grew it into one of the most successful IPOs of the 21st century—and what it was really like…the good, the bad, and most of all, the ugly. That was February 5th, 2019. This episode is sponsored by Outgrow.

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Neil Patel

JUNE 17, 2021

consumers who love a product or brand would ditch it after several poor experiences. More concerningly, almost one in five would do so after a single bad experience. To give just one example, 87 percent of consumers read online reviews for local businesses in 2020, up from 81 percent in 2019. Word of Mouth. Key Takeaway.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 8, 2019

A successful close is the end goal that every sales team guns for. But despite a focus on closing sales, it remains one of the biggest issues for teams. In fact, 36% of sales teams regard it as the most challenging part of the sales process, and 28% say it’s their top priority. Giving your sales team highly qualified leads.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

For example, if you’re getting ready to close the deal, sales team’s pretty darn excited. You have to be aware, you have to listen, and you have to talk about the bad things your customers are saying about you. Is this related to a new service program we rolled out and that could be either good or bad, right?

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

After working on NASA’s Space Shuttle Main Engine, he went on to develop Portfolium, a social networking platform that allows students and graduates to showcase skills beyond the traditional resume to potential employers. Portfolium was eventually acquired, but the team behind it never stopped thinking about a better way to do it.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Two years ago, ZoomInfo CEO and Founder Henry Schuck and his then-VP of Sales Operations, Chris Hays, came up with the bold idea to challenge the sales team to convert 100 leads into product demos in one day. But, at the end of the day, the team did hit that first number. We also pull in recycled leads from the revenue-generation team.

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Baremetrics

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Sean Ellis, who ran growth in the early days of Dropbox, LogMeIn, and Eventbrite benchmarked nearly a hundred startups with his customer development survey. Amazing job — you’ve made so many people so very happy pic.twitter.com/fyQ7H43q00 — Rahul Vohra (@rahulvohra) April 12, 2019. survey User Churn and Revenue Churn Quick Ratio.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 21, 2020

In my experience, getting caught up in shiny objects (like great numbers) during the hiring process is a straight line to Disasterville, and when the cost of a bad hire is painfully significant , it pays to take a measured approach. Also: What are the top performers in my current team doing? Technical chops. Reporting/Modeling.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2020

How to build a more diverse team [24:50]. At 15, he began going to school part-time in Northern England in Manchester, so that he could run a technology consulting business that he had started. Through that, he went to university where he studied AI and cybernetics, ultimately leading big teams in EMEA for AppDynamics.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 5, 2019

We’d been doing some investment, the product and technology leaders, but we talked about creating a proper investment fund to spur innovation around Workday ecosystem to get earlier stage companies, part of the Workday story for our customers. That’s how much I knew about it. Not just beneficial for the big company.

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SaaSOptics

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Based on a 2019 survey, Gartner forecasts that eighty-four percent of new software will be delivered as SaaS , and this percentage is expected to increase as existing providers transition to a subscription-based model. This is due to what’s known as performance obligations. And this trend will continue. Automation is Key. .

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

WHEN : December 9–13, 2019. 2019: LinkedIn’s #1 B2B Sales Expert to Follow. In this session, she’s going to share 2 of the skill sets you need to thrive as a modern seller and give you strategies to implement them in yourself and your team. The Sales Hacker Success Summit will be here before you know it! COST : Nada.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Guided selling with Revenue Grid allows you to guide reps step-by-step through every deal, reducing guesswork and increasing consistency so your teams have the best odds with every opportunity in the pipeline. See how you can put your sales teams in the best position to win now at revenuegrid.com/saleshacker. Callie Moriarty: Hi Sam.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 18, 2023

If there’s a story to tell from 2022, it’s that Google’s algorithm updates continue to impact the past, present, and even future of both web development and content creation. March : Product Review Update: The first of several updates this year focused on identifying high-quality reviews. Video Is Priority #1.

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ProfitWell

AUGUST 18, 2020

Growth is so fast in SaaS, that enterprise SaaS revenue hit a $100 billion run rate in Q2 in 2019. The risk to switch is so low that one survey found that 63% of DTC customers leave after one poor customer experience. Most companies opt to evaluate the outcomes from change by the same team that implemented the change.

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How To Buy Saas

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The biggest challenge facing the insurance industry worldwide in the next two to three years will be the pressing need to update businesses and technology. With an average of 52% of overall traffic from mobile devices in 2019, U.S. Missed sales and poor conversion rates are inevitable. Let’s explore them below: 1.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 8, 2020

Michael has 15 years of experience running global sales and product teams across multiple software and FinTech companies. Overseeing the growth of their sales and business development organization from 2 to 30 teams across the U.S. Michael Coscetta: I feel bad for those three people because they are definitely missing out.

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ProfitWell

MARCH 12, 2020

Almost half (49%) of American consumers switched companies in 2019 due to poor customer service. Up to 20%- 40% of churn is caused by failed payments , meaning customers who are trying to buy your products are being discouraged by technical problems and searching elsewhere. Ask different teams about pain points.

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Unbounce

OCTOBER 15, 2024

How to implement the strategy Choose a landing page builder : While you technically can build pages without one, a dedicated landing page builder (like Unbounce ) will make the process 1,000x faster, easier, and more effective than trying to code everything yourself. LinkedIn is all about people and personal relationships.

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BetterCloud

MARCH 11, 2021

DevOps is a practice that combines software and IT operations to shorten the development cycle and deliver high-quality software. As more enterprises adopt SaaS applications, it’s not hard to imagine a world in which most companies have dedicated SaaSOps teams. Could SaaSOps become the next “big” thing in tech?

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

An existing SaaS customer spends more, on average, than a new customer, and are more than seven times more likely to churn (leave your business) to go to a competitor because of poor customer service than they are for a better product. In 2019, the picture is pretty rosy for Wistia. Consistent updates. Growth stage.

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Upscope

JANUARY 23, 2021

Enterprises have, on average, 288 different SaaS apps in usage across their businesses" The report by Blisfully was published in Oct 2019 so take into account that spending on SaaS has likely rocketed since then due to the pandemic forcing organisations to go cloud first. "The

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ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

The success of your customers no longer lies squarely on one team or department. In today’s hyper-customer-oriented environment, the success of your customers is no longer limited to the responsibility of your Customer Success or Support teams. For Your Executive Team: ? For Your Entire Organization: ?

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OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Sean Ellis, who ran growth in the early days of Dropbox, LogMeIn and Eventbrite benchmarked nearly a hundred startups with his customer development survey. Rahul Vohra (@rahulvohra) April 12, 2019. Peter Caputa IV (@pc4media) September 21, 2019. Guessing is a bad strategy. User Churn and Revenue Churn. Quick Ratio.

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OpenView Labs

MAY 6, 2021

There are at least a dozen different technologies available promising to do just that. If you just deploy their technology, you can just sit back and watch the leads flow in. It seems like this kind of technology could make us so much more efficient with our outreach. Matthew Howells-Barby (@matthewbarby) October 25, 2019.

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Valuize Consulting

JUNE 10, 2020

Perhaps it was fueled by all of the strategic expertise, funding and time required to develop a category-leading customer success strategy—one that transforms your company’s revenue retention and expansion metrics. Fix your processes and THEN huge value can be realized from customer success technology. Or perhaps not.

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OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

— Sahil Lavingia (@shl) August 26, 2019. Sales teams were primarily responsible for driving revenue through outbound calls. Marketing and sales teams started working hand-in-hand to offer a better experience by educating and nurturing leads with low buying intent first, until they become sales-ready.

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ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Today is Friday the 13 th and we all know that means – bad luck, right? The team felt it was necessary to wait to fully understand how their data might have been affected by the outage, which again delayed the deployment process. Churn Monster #10 – Bad Fit Customer. Churn Monster #13: Unlucky Customer. .

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Chart Mogul

JANUARY 28, 2022

We kept growing over the years, and by 2019 we found ourselves looking at a fleet of somewhere around 50 machines in constant need of management, software updates, security patches, and so on. The volume of operational work to maintain our infrastructure to keep up with the growth rate (and deal with tech debt simultaneously) increased.

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The Marketing & Growth Hacking Publication

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Mobile phone use has increased by more than 4 billion since 2015 , most of which can be attributed to the fact that smartphones are rapidly becoming a technological extension of ourselves. Forbes predicts that by the end of 2019, mobile advertising will drive as much as 75% of all digital spend.

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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. Pros: No one will know your “stuff” better than internal people, it’s the best long-term solution for most companies, and begins your sales Farm Team. You build a team of four Outbound SDRs.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Never believe that doubting yourself is a bad thing. That company only lasted another year before they were out of business, so it was a poor use of my energy, time, and being away from my family – a lesson I work to pass on to others new in roles today. Invest in your development internally and externally. Anita Nielsen.

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SmartKarrot

JUNE 30, 2021

Once a user is aware, you need to develop interest in your product. Non-product teams need to work on increasing the number of users at the top of the funnel. Product teams need to guide engagement and ensure customers are happy with the product. Product planning teams can-. This mitigates the risk of churn to an extent.

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SaaStr

MAY 27, 2020

If you look at this graph, it simply plots out how many people filed in the weeks before 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020. This is an example just of the oil market compared just from April 2019 to April 2020. They don’t want to p**s off management teams that face dilution from down rounds. I suggest we probably aren’t.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 21, 2019

2019: LinkedIn’s #1 B2B Sales Expert to Follow. As far as additional career goals, I would love to serve on the board of a technology company. Manager of Enterprise Account Development at Lucidchart. Building out a new enterprise development team, and scaling it from 3 to 14 reps over a one-year period. .

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Before Optimizely, Travis spent 6 years at Salesforce in a number of sales roles including building the first Platform Sales team. What does Travis advise founders when it comes to uniting customer facing teams? * This podcast is an excerpt from Aydin and Roelant’s session at SaaStr Annual 2019. Loving our podcast content?

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