Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

SaaS companies, who often have complex sales cycles coupled with small but agile sales teams, can especially benefit from lead scoring, since it allows small teams to punch well above their weight class. Even if you did, it would spike lead acquisition costs and strangle the productivity of your sales team.

Sales 98

Sales Underperforming Technical Team Systems Review Headcount 98

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Without goals, your team lacks the key elements it needs to win — a direction to follow and the encouragement to stay motivated in sales. They enable your team to track collective and individual performance. In fact, they often result to massive disappointment, and may even pull your team one or two steps backward.

Technical Review 80

Technical Review Revenue Management Underperforming Technical Team 80

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.” Does it differ from traditional dev teams?

DevOps as a Service 100

DevOps as a Service Sales Recruiting Scale Sales Hiring 100

Kellblog

JANUARY 24, 2020

Given such stories and a general lack of faith in the scoring system, operationally nobody ever treated an A lead differently from a D lead – they’d all get “6×6’ed” (6 emails and 6 calls) anyway by the sales development reps (SDRs). Sales responds by staffing up sales enablement and sales productivity functions.

Software Review 98

Software Review Marketing Software Outsourced Development 98

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

In August of 2016, Rachel Hepworth embarked on a unique challenge: start a growth marketing team at one of the most successful startups of this generation – one that had long relied heavily on word of mouth. I stumbled upon Eric Ries and Steve Blank, the concept of customer development – it was a revelation.

Growth Marketing 174

Growth Marketing Scale Marketing Outsourcing Services 174

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. What is your best piece of career advice for women in sales?

Scale 130

Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 130

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Managing a technical team as a non-technical person [24:13]. Sales enablement is easy. Okay, it’s not that easy, but Sapper Consulting has built REGIE to keep the promise of sales enablement alive and keep your team doing what they do best, which is winning. Ideas Ryan finds transformative [29:33].

Marketplace as a Service 96

Marketplace as a Service CTO Hire Sales Recruiting Scale 96

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 21, 2018

Without goals, your team lacks the key elements it needs to win — a direction to follow and the encouragement to stay motivated in sales. They enable your team to track collective and individual performance. In fact, they often result to massive disappointment, and may even pull your team one or two steps backward.

Technical Review 63

Technical Review Revenue Management Underperforming Technical Team 63

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

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Regarding our 2017 sales predictions , here’s a quick reflection: What we were RIGHT about: Powerful partnerships and mergers e.g. Salesforce & Google. Spike in acquisition purchasing power – validated via Tomasz Tunguz. Acquisition speculation – are there more possibilities that could impact SaaS in 2018?

Scale 97

Scale Technical Review Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring 97

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 25, 2020

Sales enablement is easy. But Sapper Consulting has built REGIE to keep the promise of sales enablement and keep your team doing what they do best, which is winning. REGIE uses your targeting to inform your campaigns and decreases the time your team spends creating campaigns because that’s a pain in the ass.

Management 73

Management Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Development Team Review 73

SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2020

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. Before Quip, Sam spent an incredible 3 years at Dropbox where he was the first enterprise sales rep in the entire company.

Scale 173

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Sales 173

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

They sell that product to general councils, operations teams, and deal desks. They sell that product to general councils, operations teams, and deal desks. Keep the promise of sales enablement and keep your team doing what they do best, which is winning. Welcome to the Sales Hacker podcast.

Scale 108

Scale CTO Hire Scaling CTO Coach 108

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Manager of Enterprise Account Development at Lucidchart. Co-Founder of Utah Women in Sales. How long have you been in sales? . I have been in sales for around 4 years. Building out a new enterprise development team, and scaling it from 3 to 14 reps over a one-year period. . I’ve been in sales for 20+ years.

Sales Recruiting 90

Sales Recruiting Scale Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 90

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 1, 2020

If you missed episode 137, check it out here: Team Selling: A Comeback Story for 2021 with Trish Bertuzzi. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Learn how modern sales teams win deals now at 6sense.com/saleshacker. The second sponsor is Outreach, the number one sales engagement platform. We’re on iTunes.

VP of Engineering 63

VP of Engineering Branding Scale Marketing 63

SmartKarrot

AUGUST 9, 2022

Instead of building, developing, and implementing enterprise applications, SaaS users can simply license and subscribe to them. Using remote cloud servers, users can access and utilize SaaS applications from any web-enabled device. Software As A Service (SaaS) is a cloud-based method of delivering on-demand software to users.

Scale 10

Scale Sales Recruiting Business SaaS 10

SmartKarrot

AUGUST 9, 2022

Instead of building, developing, and implementing enterprise applications, SaaS users can simply license and subscribe to them. Using remote cloud servers, users can access and utilize SaaS applications from any web-enabled device. Software As A Service (SaaS) is a cloud-based method of delivering on-demand software to users.

Scale 10

Scale Sales Recruiting Business SaaS 10