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Need an Expert for Your Next Panel, Presentation, or Podcast? Here Are Over 530 of the Top Female Sales Practitioners

Sales Hacker

Customer Success. Senior Vice President, Sales SMB. Sales Manager, SMB New Business Acquisition. VP, SMB Essentials Sales. Amazon Web Services (AWS). Head of Sales and Customer Success. We’ve broken the list down into categories of expertise for your convenience. Leadership. Leadership.

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Dharmesh Shah of HubSpot: From Day 0 to IPO. What Went to Plan. What Most Certainly Didn’t (Video, Podcast + Transcript)

SaaStr

The other thing that dropped our odds of success was the fact that we were focused on small business, on the SMB market, and everyone we talked to, literally everyone. Do not…,” and the reason is no one hardly ever has succeeded in building a big business in SMB. I’m paraphrasing… [laughter].

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4 Traits of Fast-growing SaaS Companies

OpenView Labs

As investors, we keep a close eye on customer acquisition cost (CAC) payback. This metric represents how long it takes, in months, to pay off the costs of acquiring a given customer on a gross margin basis. We use it as an indicator that a company has the right fundamentals in place to effectively ramp up customer acquisition.

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How Top Sales Leaders are Adjusting their Sales Process (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Then, we’ll end of the day with me and Stewart Butterfield and obviously Slack is doing well, but Slack also has a massive SMB base and its challenges. For example, we’ve got like Roman from Gorgeous that Sam knows at the end of the day talking about dealing with SMB turns, they did something interesting at Gorgeous.

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

SaaStr

We’ve all seen AWS and what they’ve done with their platform. Everyone knows Shopify for what it is today, but in the earlier days, it really was the best SaaS platform for SMB eCommerce providers. You can also find your second act inorganically via acquisition as Twilio did with SendGrid. It is staggering.

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170+ Women in Sales Share Their Career-Defining Aha Moment

Sales Hacker

Again, I am a big believer in the power of customer storytelling for helping sales outcomes. As Compass’s Regional President of North Central, Rachael is responsible for driving revenue growth, M&A integrations, operations, marketing, and customer success across Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, and Minnesota.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Airtable and Shopify Plus — October 25, 2019

SaaStr

How does Liat think Airtable is pushing up against the traditional customer success model? 277: When is the right time to go upmarket and how do you serve small, medium and large customers in the same company. We have a customer engagement organization that encompasses all of our customer facing teams. ”?