Totango

MARCH 15, 2022

Efforts to scale customer success team activity often fall short because of failure to avoid common mistakes. Your human resources practices, your project management procedures and your technology strategy all need to come together in order for you to scale up without overextending yourself.

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Totango

JULY 19, 2021

And in this customer-centered economy, your customer success (CS) team is invaluable. The team’s goal is to retain your hard-won customers and help them grow by deepening the customer relationship and ensuring they are realizing value with your product every step of the way. 1: Recruit the Right People.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 6, 2021

What’s the difference between a VP of Sales and a Chief Revenue Officer (CRO)? The VP of Sales. Great VPs of sales have gravitas and tact, command the room and hold their end of the table regardless of who is on the other side. Singular focus on sales. As the title would hint at, the VP of Sales should focus on sales.

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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. Sales Development. Sales Growth.

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Totango

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Hiring team members with the right customer success manager skills is critical for the effectiveness of your CS team and strategy. Here we’ve identified the 13 most essential qualities to consider when hiring a CS manager. What Is a Customer Success Manager (CSM)? Relationship management.

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ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

This is a guest article by Michael Su , senior consultant of Customer Success, The Success League. Customer Success is still a young field and a new concept for many companies. When I ventured out to build my first Customer Success department at a tech software company, my leadership team thought I was nuts.

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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.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Sales leaders like Florin Tatulea (Director of Sales at Barley) feel the impact from the past few years alone: “Pure cold outbound is 3x harder than it was in 2021.” The accuracy of prospect data is the first point in this article: Two BIG Reasons Your Prospecting Isn’t Working. So how can one cut through the noise?

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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.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 30, 2023

The first goal of sales at a startup isn’t to bring in revenue — it’s to get customer feedback. I’ve used our sales process to iterate our way to product market-fit and wanted to share what I’ve learned along the way. Use sales conversations as a tool to get product feedback. So how do you get there?

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SaaSX

JULY 12, 2020

Determining if sales or customer success should own customer expansion and renewals is the age-old SaaS question. And not to spoil this article for you, but I don’t have the answer. . If you are a SaaS founder, sales, or CX leader you have probably spent a lot of time thinking about this topic. Leadership.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

I was the new Vice President of International Sales & Managing Director for a work management software company called Wrike. Starting Your International Sales Team. The key to starting an international sales team is having the right people in your landing team. A mercenary is driven by the sale.

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Totango

DECEMBER 13, 2022

As subscription models and recurring revenue become the norm for both SMBs and enterprise solutions, customer success is becoming an essential part of businesses across the globe. To make it easier, give recruiters more input on what CS is, the careers and paths to advancement it offers, and criteria for an ideal candidate.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Sales compensation planning can be a tricky beast to tame — but know that you’re not alone. I asked 12 incredible sales leaders across the SaaS industry to share their biggest challenges with comp planning and how to overcome them. Related: New to sales compensation planning? Top 10 sales compensation challenges.

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Totango

MARCH 19, 2021

The traditional customer journey infographic envisioned the customer’s experience from a sales and marketing standpoint, visualizing a funnel marking the steps from a lead acquisition through a sale, also known as the buyer’s journey. Keep in mind that onboarding can also begin in the presales process.

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ChurnZero

APRIL 27, 2021

As ChurnZero recently secured a Series B investment bringing our total funding that has been raised to date to $35 million, we thought we’d take a look back and see the role that Customer Success plays at each respective stage of funding for SaaS companies. Early-Stage Funding & Customer Success.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

One of the oldest truisms in sales is that recruiting new clients costs more than retaining them ( five to 25 times more costly, depending on the industry). More than ever, customer success teams must be in complete lockstep with their sales teams—both should treat any renewal as a joint effort and success.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Companies were growing their sales organizations and bringing in more revenue. Companies everywhere have frozen their hiring and laid off workers — with sales reps often among the first to go. I’ll be honest: as the leader of a sales-focused recruiting company, this has been tough for me and my team.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

At Sales Hacker, our Community Leaders help build relationships with our members. Add them to your network and give them a warm welcome, because you’ll be seeing them all over Sales Hacker in the coming months! WHY SALES HACKER? Sales Hacker provides a network of sales professionals dedicated to helping others in similar roles.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 7, 2021

We hear a lot about equipping salespeople with customer insights to help them move from simple questioning to exploring challenges and discussing solutions with customers. Sales customer insights. This is important for anyone who prospects or handles inbound calls – could be both inside sales and field sales.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 19, 2022

In this article, I’ll outline the principles of compensation design , how to build sales compensation plans , and include resources to set OTEs and quotas that keep your reps happy and hungry for more. Why Sales Comp Planning is Key to Rep Retention. Who should be responsible for sales compensation planning?

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Sales is a hyper-social, customer-facing role that can get highly stressful. In this article we talk about the top indicators of sales burnout and how to tackle them. We all know Sales is the job for the people person — the high-flying, always-on-the-go charmer that’s on the phone, in meetings and/or closing deals.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 8, 2021

Elements of Successful Global Sales Expansion. “Be Successful global expansion is all about capitalizing on the right opportunity at the right time. So, let’s look at four keys to a successful global sales expansion. It takes a particular type of sales leader to be the first in a new country or region.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 22, 2020

If you think sales is a simple job, I have a few hundred professional connections who would like a word with you. There’s a range of key skills that separate the best from the rest, and success belongs to companies who can identify and hire reps who have those precious skills. By mastering your sales interview questions.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 21, 2021

Do you love chasing down the sale? What about using data analysis to create sales strategies? Revenue operations (RevOps) is a centralized org within a company that supports all revenue-generating business operations including Sales Ops, Marketing Ops, Customer Success Ops, and systems management.

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

In this article, we’ve outlined the major roles that move the needle in terms of product growth alongside their KPIs and current salary ranges. Customer Success Manager: This person is responsible for customer relationships and experience as well as acting as the voice of the customer.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

When it comes to launching sales teams in hyper-growth startups, few people have walked the walk as much as Maggie Hott. She “stumbled” into it, as she told us, first as one of the earliest sales hires of Eventbrite, where she stayed for four years, and then into Slack in early 2015 as the first sales rep in the Bay Area.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 27, 2019

I typically see this happen for one main reason: Startups often think (consciously or subconsciously) that scaling or building a sales team is as simple as “getting bodies in the door yesterday.”. Just because a rep has amazing sales numbers doesn’t necessarily mean they’re a good hire. Nothing could be further from the truth!

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ChurnZero

MARCH 6, 2020

Customer Success Starts Within: 6 Ways to Put Employees First. The Customer Success industry is obsessed with cracking the code on customer experience and loyalty. So, it’s easy to see how a fixation on the customer can overshadow the very people who make that success possible: the employees.

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User Pilot

DECEMBER 6, 2023

What does it have to do with product management or product design? That’s what you’ll find out from this article. Using the product to solve real-world problems also helps them to better empathize with their customers and understand their needs and pain points. Dogfooding means eating your own dog food.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 28, 2018

The best sales conferences enrich your team, build knowledge, and offer plenty of networking opportunities (and fun)! Bad sales conferences just feel like a huge waste of time away from you prospects. Unleash is the ultimate Sales Engagement conference. TOPO Sales Summit. Go ahead and add these to your calendar now.

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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.

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yoursales

JANUARY 28, 2022

Sales Stack 2022 Sales Tools for Professional B2B Sales SALES STACK 2022: Sales Tools for. Professional Sales SALES STACK. 2021: Sales Tools. Sales W hich challenges would you like sales technology to solve for your sales team? What is sales technology here to do?

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CustomerSuccessBox

MAY 9, 2022

A Customer Success dashboard keeps track of your company’s health in connection to your product and its users. Customers are the lifeblood of any company, therefore having a clear picture of its revenue activities is critical for expansion. 360 Customer Success Dashboard. Voice of Customer.

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SaaStr

APRIL 11, 2019

Join Nick and Anthony for an open and honest look into their playbook to building the Customer Success category: the needle movers, the mistakes, and everything in between. Louis and it was focused on solving the business challenge that we now know as customer success. Want to see more content like this session?

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yoursales

JANUARY 29, 2021

Sales Stack 2021. Sales Tools for Professional Sales. SALES STACK 2020: THE TOOLS SALES STACK 2020: THE TOOLS. Sales technology for professional sales will be more important than ever. In 2020 almost every single Sales Professional was forced inside. Same goes for Sales Professionals.

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yoursales

DECEMBER 23, 2019

SALES STACK 2020. Sales Tools for Professional Sales. SALES STACK 2019: THE TOOLS SALES STACK 2019: THE TOOLS. W elcome to "Sales Stack 2020 - Sales Tools for Professional Sales". Next to that we'll continue to have the full list of sales tools available right here.

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