SaaStr

JANUARY 24, 2024

Sales reps were hosting 4-6 calls daily but most of these calls were early demos or top-of-funnel discovery calls Sales was closing really small deals on one end while talking to really large companies with hundreds of thousands of people on the other. Define your ICP as early as you can and segment your sales team accordingly.

Scale 233

Scale Sales Hiring Scaling Revenue 233

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Welcome to Sales Hacker’s first-ever Influential Women in Sales list! In this exclusive list, we wanted to honor not just female leaders that promote their own sales platform (no shame in that!) They say “You can’t be what you can’t see,” and the sales floor is no exception.

Sales Recruiting 111

Sales Recruiting VP of Engineering Scale Sales Hiring 111

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 7, 2020

Fortunately, more organizers than ever before are consciously seeking out female sales experts for panels, presentations, and podcasts. At Sales Hacker, we’re serious about diversity, and for that reason, we’ve compiled a list of 530+ female sales experts to consider for your next event. Leadership. Sales Development.

VP of Engineering 121

VP of Engineering Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Payment Services 121

InsightSquared

MAY 15, 2019

It’s one of my favorite questions to ask a fellow professional in sales operations. Insurance sales rep. Account Manager. Sales Operations is Still Developing. Sales operations as a profession is growing, yet it is a comparatively new function in businesses. Sales Ops is Many Disciplines in One.

Sales Recruiting 110

Sales Recruiting Scale Technical Review Sales 110

InsightSquared

MARCH 6, 2018

Sales operations has been around for quite some time, but lately the function has been gaining momentum. Instead of behind-the-scenes sales support, sales ops now acts as a strategic partner for sales VPs and leadership. Start building out your sales operations department by hiring someone to own your CRM.

Sales Recruiting 119

Sales Recruiting Scale Sales Hiring Sales 119

OpenView Labs

MARCH 8, 2021

B2B sales involves one business selling its product to another business. Those with experience in both B2B and B2C sales know that B2B is a lot tougher—the deals are bigger, there’s often more than one decision-maker, and the competition is intense. For all those reasons, hiring and management must be on point.

Sales Hiring 80

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting B2B 80

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 28, 2022

Those line charts showing fast-rising user acquisition or explosive ARR have been synonymous with the industry over the past decade. And for Intercom’s VP of Sales EMEA, Sanj Bhayro , scaling is just what you need to invest in to ensure growth becomes as constant and linear as it can be. Sanj: Well, it’s a pretty long one.

Scale 210

Scale Scaling Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting 210

SaaStr

JUNE 4, 2019

I actually worked in sales for five and a half years and that’s probably why I have tended to gravitate to B2B marketing. Worked as an AE and then a sales manager. Decided to go to business school, did that for a little bit and then came out in management consulting, a company. So, they’re a B2B piece.

Sales Recruiting 172

Sales Recruiting Scale Underperforming Technical Team Pricing 172

Buffer Resources

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Building Thought Leadership While other social channels are typically reserved for building your company’s brand, LinkedIn provides a unique opportunity for you to grow a personal following—that can, in turn, support your brand’s recognition. It won't take much time and it can go a long way!

Sales Recruiting 81

Sales Recruiting Social Media Business Marketplace as a Service 81

The Angel VC

DECEMBER 12, 2018

The main reason is that your customer acquisition costs are highly front-loaded. While this is generally true for most companies, it’s particularly true for SaaS businesses, which invest heavily in product development, sales, and marketing upfront and get payments from customers over a delayed period of time, usually several years.

Sales Recruiting 106

Sales Recruiting SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Scale 106

SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2020

403: Sam Taylor is the VP of Sales and Success @ Loom, the startup that helps you get your message across by making it easy to record instantly shareable videos. As for Sam, prior to Loom, Sam spent over 4 years at Salesforce following their acquisition of Quip, a startup Salesforce acquired for $750M where Sam was also the 1st sales leader.

Scale 174

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Sales 174

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

SaaStr

JULY 9, 2019

Giraffe is a mobile job matching platform that helps medium skilled workers get access to opportunities and helps businesses to recruit staff faster, and easier, and more affordably than any other way. The next thing I would say we learned is really about removing all barriers to user acquisition. I’m from South Africa.

Scale 163

Scale Sales Recruiting Scaling SaaS Payments 163

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

OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The exciting thing about prototypes is that large-scale experiments can be built through open-source projects , which companies like Netflix and Linkedin will do as a strategic way of recruiting top talent. . Why startup founders should treat fundraising like a sales funnel. It’s best not to leave leadership to change.

Sales Hiring 82

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Marketing 82

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 28, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Ellie Tamari , the VP of North American Sales at Namogoo. Today we are incredibly excited to have a recent friend, member of the Boston chapter of the Revenue Collective, and female sales leader that came to the role somewhat later in life — Ellie Tamari. What You’ll Learn.

Sales Hiring 67

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Management 67

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

As for Krish, under Krish’s leadership the team has grown to over 300 people and over 5,000 clients making it one of the next generation in truly global SaaS businesses started in India. How does Krish think your customer acquisition and GTM strategy has to change with the movement from SMB to enterprise? Loving our podcast content?

Scale 128

Scale SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting Payment Services 128

OpenView Labs

JANUARY 31, 2022

This is especially effective with hiring top talent for executive and leadership hires. . Growing pains can occur as your team expands and you need to think about talent retention just as much as talent acquisition. A few compelling slides can help set the hook with strong candidates as they do their due diligence on the company.

Sales Hiring 60

Sales Hiring Interviewing Sales Recruiting SMB 60

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). In fact, companies that prioritized Employee Experience achieved 1.8

Underperforming Technical Team 52

Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting Data Sales Hiring 52

ProfitWell

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Userpilot’s Aazar Ali Shad begins his latest Twitter storm with a question for the product peeps out there: how do you run sales in the era of product-led growth? customer acquisition cost rising. And if we look at the product-led vs. sales-led approach, there’s a solid juxtaposition here. Your top subscription news.

Technical Advisors 62

Technical Advisors Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Customer Lifetime Value 62

Unbounce

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Sounds like a big opportunity for talent-starved companies to recruit, right? To promote networking, women holding leadership positions in leading tech companies run courses as well as open-invite webinars that explore topics from feminism to salary negotiation. But a great story doesn’t mean success is easy for the team.

Artificial Intelligence 136

Artificial Intelligence Marketing Scale Sales Recruiting 136

ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

On today’s episode, a summation of the Lola summit, HubSpot makes an acquisition that will simplify data synchronization, and Grapevine Logic knows: it takes a village. I enjoyed listening to Jack McCullough , Founder and President of the CFO Leadership Council. Your top subscription news. HubSpot x PieSync. Good points by NOBULL.

Sales Recruiting 40

Sales Recruiting Scale Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service 40

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

A big part of why we are seeing this growth is that our customers have found that when they use Intercom to engage their website visitors, conversion rates and sales increase by more than 80%! He helped bring the company public and later through its acquisition for $3.5B. Check out all our open SF roles!

Scale 195

Scale Sales Hiring CTO Engineering 195

Point Nine Land

DECEMBER 12, 2018

The main reason is that your customer acquisition costs are highly front-loaded. While this is generally true for most companies, it’s particularly true for SaaS businesses, which invest heavily in product development, sales, and marketing upfront and get payments from customers over a delayed period of time, usually several years.

Sales Recruiting 61

Sales Recruiting SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Scale 61

CustomerSuccessBox

JANUARY 10, 2022

You train them on the acquisition of new skills to allow them to be autonomous on certain subjects. Additional Resource – What is a Customer Success Manager. Main missions of the Customer Success Manager. How to recruit the right Customer Success Manager? This is an increase of 34% from 2020.

Compensation 52

Compensation Customer Success Trends Management 52

ProfitWell

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Userpilot’s Aazar Ali Shad begins his latest Twitter storm with a question for the product peeps out there: how do you run sales in the era of product-led growth? customer acquisition cost rising. And if we look at the product-led vs. sales-led approach, there’s a solid juxtaposition here. Your top subscription news.

Technical Advisors 40

Technical Advisors Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Customer Lifetime Value 40

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 177

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Government 177

Casey Accidental

JANUARY 23, 2019

They could do scrappy things to drive supply and demand acquisition and brute force initial liquidity. Uber started to build up world class acquisition teams in HQ that didn’t have full control on how to scale customer acquisition. So Eventbrite partially outsourced demand acquisition to its supply of event creators.

Scale 73

Scale Marketplace as a Service Outsourcing Services Scaling 73

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 157

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale CTO Hire 157

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 114

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Company Culture 114

SmartKarrot

MARCH 4, 2021

Role: VP, Customer Success – SaaS Location: Remote, Boston, MA, US Organization: Blue Signal Search As a VP of Customer Success, you will manage and provide executive leadership to all facets and members of the customer success department. Provide visibility to other cross-functional leadership teams on progress and key metrics.

Customer Success 10

Customer Success Sales Recruiting Cost optimization & reporting Leadership 10

SmartKarrot

APRIL 13, 2020

This is increasing the spending as more and more features are being offered, through acquisitions or expansion. The Atlassian Corporation has reached billions in revenue even without an enterprise sales team, all by creating user-friendly software development, team collaboration, project management tools including JIRA and Confluence.

SaaS Payments 19

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services Sales Recruiting 19

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.

Scale 130

Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 130

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

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 202

Part-Time VPE Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 202

SaaStr

JUNE 2, 2023

Recruit diverse leaders The goal of hiring a revenue leader is to put gasoline on finding product market fit success. Whether in customer acquisition, the revenue growth spectrum, or elsewhere, know that you’ll need to find the bottleneck and apply enough pressure and attention to alleviate it and move it elsewhere.

Sales Recruiting 222

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Branding 222

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we talk to Vikas Bhambri , SVP of Global Sales and Customer Experience at Kustomer. Vikas is a well-respected sales leader in NYC and comes from a sales engineering and product background, with more than 20 years experience. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

Sales Hiring 50

Sales Hiring Startup Scale Sales Recruiting 50