Sales Hacker

JANUARY 29, 2018

In this blueprint, we provide insights on how to structure your sales organization. The changes in SaaS require that we no longer look at salespeople as individual contributors, but rather a team that crosses disciplines, not just within sales but also across other parts of the organization such as marketing and product.

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Sales Recruiting Scale Sales Hiring Sales 74

OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Prototypes might also help you gain clarity around your offering: is it packaged and priced competitively? 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. . Still unsure?

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Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Marketing 82

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?

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Scale SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting Payment Services 131

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.

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Scale Sales Recruiting Scaling SaaS Payments 169

Baremetrics

OCTOBER 8, 2021

This complication can only increase when your customers tend to change pricing tiers, purchase add-ons, or you implement usage-based pricing. Customer acquisition cost (CAC) and LTV Knowing what your LTV is for each customer segment is critical Summary. Table of Contents. What is LTV? What is LTV? Try Baremetrics Free.

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Payment Services Payments SaaS Payments Payment Features 94

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.

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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.

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Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Payment Methods 81

Baremetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

Take a look at conversion rates, customer acquisition costs, and overall financial performance. For instance, do you have a certain number of sales agents or current customers or a specific marketing activity planned? And don't forget the costs of recruiting. What's driving it? How much will it cost to hire those employees?

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Startup Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Deferred Revenue 98

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.

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Trends Sales Recruiting Technical Review SaaS 67

ProfitWell

DECEMBER 13, 2019

The goal in SaaS sales is not to convince your customer to buy your product there and then—it’s to win that customer over to your product for a lifetime. We’ll tell you how to use your understanding of a prospect to turn them into a delighted customer, what metrics to lean on, and how to build the perfect SaaS sales team. What is SaaS?

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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. .

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Payment Services Benchmarks SaaS Payments Merchant Services 80

Sales Hacker

MAY 1, 2018

On this episode of the Sales Hacker podcast, we talk with Rick Smolen , VP of Sales at Greenhouse Software about moving your product upmarket and how to sell your software to a big company. What sales strategies and philosophies are necessary for enterprise sales. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Your title?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 29, 2021

Ever since he was hired as the Director of EMEA Sales at BrowserStack , a web and mobile testing platform that lets developers test their websites and mobile applications across browsers, operating systems, and mobile devices, he had to completely rethink how to successfully onboard hundreds of salespeople just as everyone was going remote.

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Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 223

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. Name Your Price.

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Technical Advisors Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Customer Lifetime Value 62

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.

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Sales Recruiting SaaS Business Social Media 66

SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC). & Customer acquisition. Customer acquisition is basically how much do you spend in terms of sales people, sales team, and in terms of marketing to acquire a new customer. The key here is knowing what your sales model is. And there are basically two sales models out there.

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SaaS Payments Metrics Payment Methods Scale 243

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Craft a comprehensive go-to-market strategy covering your product positioning , pricing , marketing campaign details, and launch timelines. Its main goal is to help you plan the efforts of the product, marketing, and sales team to maximize the impact of the launch. Assists in managing the launch timelines.

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Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting Social Media Market Research 83

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. Is it a flash in the pan, or are all SaaS operations destined to cook up this pricing structure? We're doing it live.

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Sales Recruiting Marketplace as a Service Technical Review Subscription 45

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. We aired an episode of Pricing Page Teardown on Sprout vs. Buffer , but Patrick and Peter find it may just be a draw.

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Sales Recruiting Social Media Subscription Payment Features 40

The Angel VC

AUGUST 10, 2011

To put it as simple as possible, the health of a SaaS business is mainly determined by two factors: Customer lifetime value (CLTV) and customer acquisition costs (CAC). One could almost say that CAC and CLTV are for a SaaS company what wholesale price and sales price are for a retailer. along the way.

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Sales Recruiting Startup Customer Lifetime Value SaaS 155

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. There is also demand across different price points, time of day, day of week, etc.

Scale 73

Scale Marketplace as a Service Outsourcing Services Scaling 73

ProfitWell

JANUARY 6, 2020

Plus, how to price for SaaS success in the new year. The “active user” will be a company’s crown jewel , with customer acquisition at top of mind in 2020. Companies will begin to diversify their offerings , launching and experimenting with varying promotions and services to increase subscribers, build loyalty, and drive sales.

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Payments Merchant Services SaaS Payments Payment Methods 40

Point Nine Land

APRIL 9, 2021

An intransparent market: The lower the transparency of a given market, the greater the opportunity for marketplaces to add value by providing access to clear pricing and information. Economics and Acquisition ?? However, given that sales tend to be founder-led, it’s difficult to get precise data around payback time and CAC.

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Marketplace as a Service Payments B2B SaaS Payments 59

ProfitWell

JANUARY 23, 2020

Plus we’ve got Chargify’s Michael Klett and our very own Patrick Campbell to share their billing and pricing predictions. Pricing predictions from the pros. Chargify 's CEO Michael Klett and ProfitWell’s Patrick Campbell took to LinkedIn Live to air out their 2020 billing and pricing predictions. None other than custom pricing.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Venture Capital Pricing 43

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

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%.

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale CTO Hire 163

OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 17, 2019

We continue that practice today, and extend it to include roles that aren’t typically exposed to customers—operations people, accountants, recruiters, etc. For instance, recruiters with first-hand customer experience are able to give job candidates real examples of what it’s like to work at Zapier.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Technical Advisors 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. Ticket prices go up March 1st! Matt Turck – Managing Director at FirstMark. So we decided to take you to know three specific topics which are hiring, culture and sales.

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Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Company Culture 115

Outseta

JULY 2, 2018

Live chat is commonly used in both the context of sales and support, and adding this feature will help bring us closer to feature parity with the more established players in this space who are increasingly being dragged upmarket. We think it's a significant competitive advantage both in terms of recruiting and in terms of employee retention.

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Payments Payment Methods Payment Services SaaS Payments 40

Stax

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Software as a Service (SaaS) has made business software more accessible by offering cloud-based, on-demand access to a range of solutions, from project management and collaboration to sales and marketing. This creates an intensely competitive landscape with a higher churn rate, but greater customer acquisition opportunities.

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SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions 88

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.

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Part-Time VPE Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 213

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.

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Outsourcing Services Sales Recruiting Scale SaaS 131

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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User Pilot

JULY 22, 2023

In this guide, we’re going to show you how a land and expand strategy can help you grow your revenue generation from existing clients by deploying a foot-in-the-door approach with your sales team! You need a clear target market, proper positioning, product-market fit, and the right sales process for a land and expand strategy to work.

Strategy 71

Strategy Sales Recruiting Customer Success Acquisition 71

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The story you tell to the market, the competitive moats you build, the pricing models fueling your growth – everything that got you to where you are needs to be reimagined for your new buyer. At the helm of Udemy for Business’ customer acquisition machine is their VP of Marketing Yvonne Chen.

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Marketplace as a Service Scale Sales Recruiting Business 243

Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

And for leveling up your sales skills, nothing beats a good sales book. So what are the best sales books for helping you reach peak performance? Have been recommended by sales professionals. Here’s how you can find the sales books that are most relevant to you. Here they are… The 97 Best Sales Books in 2020.

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Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Payment Methods 141

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? What time frame from SAL to closed lead suggests product market fit?

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Scale SMB Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 120