Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

One of the biggest decisions you can make when setting up your sales team is whether to focus primarily on inside or outside sales. They seem to be completely at odds, with one focused on clients with a high acquisition cost and high ACV (annual account value), the other focused on a high sales velocity.

Sales Hiring 81

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Payment Methods 81

SaaStr

APRIL 17, 2019

Prior to Harness, Stephen was VP of Marketing at Glassdoor, managing a team of 52 in product marketing, helping grow B2B revenue from $19m to $90m in just 2 years, leading to their $1.2Bn acquisition. Steve has previously said, “Sales and marketing must be one team.” billion acquisition. billion acquisition by Cisco.

DevOps as a Service 100

DevOps as a Service Sales Recruiting Scale Sales Hiring 100

FastSpring

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

When you have an established affiliate program that is driving sales and also recruiting additional affiliates in your niche, you have all the pieces in place when it’s time to launch a new product. For example, let’s say you are an accounting software company and you are getting ready to launch a brand-new tax assistant software.

Sales Recruiting 73

Sales Recruiting SaaS Business Social Media 73

OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 17, 2019

OpenView’s experts weighed in with their predictions across product, sales, marketing, pricing, corporate development and talent. Product Managers Will Own a KPI. How many of your highest paid team members are in sales? The fact is that a great (albeit expensive) sales rep is worth every penny and has an obvious ROI.

Trends 67

Trends Sales Recruiting Technical Review SaaS 67

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. Billion acquisition is just one milestone in the early innings of the company’s story. Does it have to be in person?

Scale 126

Scale SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting Payment Services 126

Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Debt financing is preferable for sales and marketing acceleration since it has a lower long-term cost and enables the company to expand quicker. They increase recruiting, spend in sales and marketing, and then sit back and watch their revenue grow. Determine if your issue is one of customer acquisition or market size.

Finance 98

Finance Venture Capital SaaS Payments Payments 98

OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The game has changed when it comes to recruiting. Hiring managers should prepare by putting together pitch materials (usually a 2-3 page deck) to give candidates a deeper look at your company and culture – beyond what’s on your website. It’s tempting to prioritize new customer acquisition as your top growth priority. .

Payment Services 80

Payment Services Benchmarks SaaS Payments Merchant Services 80

ProfitWell

APRIL 15, 2019

Bullhorn Stacked with Recruiting Automation. Automated messaging system TextUs partners with Bullhorn and Herefish to make the recruiting process less laborious, while still providing a personal 1:1 experience. Nike created one of their most successful sales campaigns with the robot chat, so who’s to say you can’t too?

Sales Recruiting 45

Sales Recruiting Marketplace as a Service Technical Review Subscription 45

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. So we decided to take you to know three specific topics which are hiring, culture and sales. And I have my sales team in France who’ve been through the great process.

Sales Hiring 112

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Company Culture 112

Sales Hacker

MAY 9, 2019

A great sales compensation plan needs to accomplish quite a lot. It needs to provide fair compensation to employees in customer-facing roles. And of course, a strong sales comp plan needs to motivate reps to hit goals that grow the company while still maintaining a profit margin. Example Compensation Plans.

Compensation 102

Compensation Sales Hiring Development Team Review Sales Recruiting 102

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

Teddie : And also we’ve seen the BI market that’s been acquisitions at the last. And so again we would just have added to more kind of friction in the sales cycle and there was a whole video long sales cycle. We opened a small sales office in Wework. And so it’s interesting to see how that has changed.

Sales Hiring 174

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Government 174

SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

Brendon introduces his playbook to hiring the first VP of Sales from his experiences as VP of Sales at LinkedIn, EchoSign, Talkdesk and more. Learn the dos and don’ts to make the correct hire the first time and not rush into hiring the wrong VP of Sales, which can cost the company months or even years. Roughly 90%.

Sales Hiring 159

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting CTO Hire Scale 159

Practical Advice on SaaS marketing

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Instead these solutions for expense reporting, recruiting, asset tracking, or sales compensation management, for example, are used broadly, not by experts and not on a daily basis. They're not confined to highly-trained, dedicated users with a high threshold for pain.

Sales Recruiting 100

Sales Recruiting AWS Compensation User Experience 100

SaaStr

JULY 30, 2020

356: Pete Kazanjy is the Co-Founder @ Atrium, the startup providing proactive, always-on insights for sales operations, managers, and leaders. Alongside Atrium, Pete is also the Founder of Modern Sales Pros, a community of 15,000 focused on sales operations and sales management. Stop asking questions.

Part-Time VPE 203

Part-Time VPE Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 203

Sales Hacker

JUNE 9, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Barrett Boston , Chief Revenue Officer at TriNet. The finance world wasn’t scratching the itch, though, so he decided that he just had to be in sales. The finance world wasn’t scratching the itch, though, so he decided that he just had to be in sales.

Leadership 78

Leadership Scale Sales Recruiting VP of Engineering 78

Unbounce

JUNE 16, 2020

I think channel distribution is one of the most promising and untapped acquisition channels for SaaS?—?especially Over the long term, it can also deliver increased revenue, higher customer lifetime value (LTV), and reduced customer acquisition costs (CAC). Your partners act as an outsourced sales and marketing team.

Outsourcing Services 131

Outsourcing Services Sales Recruiting Scale SaaS 131

SaaStr

AUGUST 27, 2019

How to Design a Sales Comp Plan to Get You to $100M with Work-Bench, Movable Ink, MongoDB and Concert Finance. This panel will speak tactically to various comp design options as a way for management to determine and promote ideal behavior in their front-line teams. Meghan Gill | VP of Sales Ops @ MongoDB.

Sales Recruiting 130

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Sales 130

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Inspired by the release of our book Intercom on Sales , we wanted to take a fresh look at three big topics – speed, automation, and growth. We wanted to know: what are sales leaders doing to bring velocity to their sales cycle? How are they using automation to bring new efficiencies to their sales orgs?

Scale 139

Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Trends 139

SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2019

What one question must all founders be asking in the sales process? * Where should the responsibility for upsell lie, customer success or sales? Should sales commission be paid on renewals? Does it lie with customer success or does it lie with sales? Or you could do it based on an account expansion NDR multiplier.

Scale 117

Scale SMB Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 117

Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Do you want to grow your SaaS sales team and improve your processes? maintain healthy atmosphere in your Smarketing team, make smart choices regarding your SaaS sales model, strategy, pricing, . build smoother connections both with your prospects through optimized sales process. And from SaaS sales models to SaaS pricing.

SaaS Payments 157

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 157

SaaStr

JULY 1, 2020

An open discussion with Sam Blond, CSO at Brex, and Kristen Habacht, VPS at Atlassian, about adjusting their sales process during Covid-19. Kristen Habacht runs EDR sales at Atlassian, which I got a check today, $40 billion-$50 billion company. She manages a huge global team. Four, people in the sale? Jason Lemkin: None.

Merchant Services 181

Merchant Services Scale Sales Recruiting Sales 181

Kellblog

MARCH 13, 2020

In days of yore, chief revenue officer (CRO) was just a gussied-up title for VP of Sales. If someone was particularly good, particularly senior, or particularly hard to recruit you might call them CRO. Chief revenue officer meant chief sales officer meant VP of Sales. Frank, the head of Sales, had a $1B number.

VP of Engineering 98

VP of Engineering Customer Success Sales Recruiting Acquisition 98

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.

Sales Recruiting 90

Sales Recruiting Scale Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 90

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

If you missed episode 130, check it out here: Turning Junior-level Talent into Top Sales Professionals with Eddie Baez. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Sales enablement is easy. REGIE uses artificial intelligence to create entire outbound inbound, and even follow-up sales campaigns faster. We’re on iTunes.

Marketplace as a Service 95

Marketplace as a Service CTO Hire Sales Recruiting Scale 95

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Prior to its July 2002 acquisition by Novell, SilverStream was a public company that had reached a revenue run rate in excess of $100M, with approximately 800 employees and offices in more than 20 countries around the world. * How does David think about scaling sales teams? How should founders think about sales rep compensation?

Scale 187

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 187

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. The acquisition process [21:55]. The acquisition process [21:55]. What’s broken with compensation plans? [26:28]. If RFPs are slowing down your sales team, you need to check out Loopio. Welcome to the Sales Hacker podcast. We’re on iTunes. And on Stitcher.

VP of Engineering 75

VP of Engineering Scale Development Team Review Technical Review 75

Sales Hacker

APRIL 30, 2018

To see what selling on steroids looks like, check out companies with the best sales enablement strategies. You’ll discover a lively place, with a lot of things — like revenue, productivity, and win rate s — going up, and a lot of things — like speed to revenue, sale cycle period, customer churn, and staff attrition rate — going down.

Sales Enablement 78

Sales Enablement Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 78

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2017

The race to the 2017 finish line is in full throttle – While last minute closed deals are still trickling in, B2B organizations are researching how to shape next year’s sales strategy to align with the top sales trends that are expected to emerge in 2018. Top 2018 Sales Trends & Predictions – Strategic Headlines.

Scale 96

Scale Technical Review Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring 96

SaaStr

JANUARY 3, 2020

What one question must all founders be asking in the sales process? * Where should the responsibility for upsell lie, customer success or sales? Should sales commission be paid on renewals? Does it lie with customer success or does it lie with sales? Or you could do it based on an account expansion NDR multiplier.

SMB 26

SMB Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale 26

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

282: Michael Pryor , Co-Founder & CEO @ Trello, now Head of Trello Product with Atlassian following their recent acquisition. Does having an exec and sales team in one place and the rest of the team elsewhere work? I think most of the time you still get the value of being remote, whether you’re in sales or marketing.

Education 107

Education Sales Hiring Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team 107

Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Marketing and sales may employ different tactics, but their goal should be singular: help the company sell its product. They can be difficult to diagnose, and if sales and marketing don’t have a healthy relationship, things can devolve into pointing fingers instead of working together to find solutions.

Scale 99

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 99

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Today on the show, we’ve got Brian Litvack, the first person that ever hired me as a sales consultant and my fast friend. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Sam Jacobs: Today on the show, we’ve got Brian Litvack, the first person that ever hired me as a sales consultant and my fast friend. We’re on iTunes.

Leadership 63

Leadership Payments Scale Payment Methods 63