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How Much Should Quotas Increase Next Year?

Tom Tunguz

We should expect the advances in AI to improve sales efficiency, even if modestly. Napkin-math suggests quotas should increase about 20%. Software spending should increase 15% - the fastest rate in the last three years. Year Software Spending Growth 2022 10.7% Automated email generation, automated research, automated scheduling.

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Should Your Success Team Be Growing Even Faster Than Your Sales Team? Maybe

SaaStr

Is your CS team growing as fast as your sales team? What should be growing faster — your sales team or your customer successteam? The answer can vary, but if you’re well enough funded, it may well make sense to grow the success team even faster than sales. If not, are you sure your have this right? Even great.

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The InsightSquared Revenue Intelligence Platform

InsightSquared

And in many cases, the focus of your sales strategy was simply survival. It’s easy to blame COVID for the “new” sales world. You’ve asked for deeper visibility into your sales teams’ activity. . Deeper Analytics: Introducing Advanced Sales Math. In-person demos were canceled indefinitely. Correlation.

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Why We Had to Let Our Smallest Customers Go at SaaStr (But Why You Probably Shouldn’t)

SaaStr

So in many ways we use SaaStr itself as sort of a lab to try sales and marketing experiments. We have a world-class sales team now that does $20m a year, with just 6 sales execs, so I’ve learned a lot about efficiency there. And they often distract the sales team from bigger deals. But you need to keep it fresh.

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The $2 Million Dollar Man/Woman: How to Think About Scaling Your Customer Success Team

SaaStr

E.g., Sales +Marketing Expenses < First Year ACV = Success ? The sales team only brings in a minority of the lifetime revenue per customer. See our deep analysis of this math here ). However you do it, $2m ARR per Customer Success Manager — but hired in advance , not arrears — is a solid model to scale with.

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Mailchimp’s ex-Head of Data Platform: “Data Doesn’t Have to be Hard — Three Data Myths and How to Bust Them”

SaaStr

The first myth is that working with data is hard, especially because it involves technical aspects and math. The difference between a CRM and a CDP is also explained, with a CRM being more focused on one-to-one sales motions and a CDP being more automated and one-to-many.

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Using Kindness to Build a Business with Sam Jacobs of Pavilion

Sales Hacker

Sales leaders play a critical role in a business’s success because they are responsible for driving revenue growth and developing and executing sales strategies. In this episode of Sales Hacker, our host Colin Campbell welcomes Sam Jacobs , the founder and CEO of Pavilion.