Sales Hacker

JANUARY 23, 2019

When I contacted my Sales rep to ask about the promotion and see if they could grant me the discount, he said he knew nothing about it. Needless to say, this made him look bad in my eyes. This left a bad taste in my mouth as the company clearly valued new business more than existing customers. Here’s the upside. The result?

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The SaaStock team will be landing in São Paulo to run the region’s first Pan-Latin American SaaS conference, SaaStock LatAm. He dropped out of Stanford Graduate School of Business and then co-founded LeaseExchange, an online marketplace for equipment leasing. Starting as VP of Sales, in less than two years he became CEO.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Most of the articles that I write on my blogs are catered towards intermediate to experienced marketers and those with a business website. Everything from a site builder, perhaps using a website template to web design and using social media to develop your new business website. Hosting Factor #2: Customer Service.

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OPEXEngine

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Over the past decade, software has created tremendous value for investors and businesses, thanks largely to its transformative effect on the economy , its role in developing new cloud-based business models, and its ability to increase efficiency in operations. Rolling out these new features quickly can help companies earn price increases.

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Software Review DevOps as a Service Software Underperforming Technical Team 52

FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Ryan Austin had VP-level experience in training when he decided to start a consulting business to help enterprise-level companies with their corporate learning and development initiatives. Ryan and his team noticed so many inefficiencies across the L&D workflows. “It There are now over 150 enterprise companies using the platform.

Payment Solutions 91

Payment Solutions Payment Services SaaS Payments VP of Engineering 91

Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

You can think of Horizontal SaaS as broad-based tech that is industry agnostic; a sales person at a Cybersecurity company can use HubSpot the same way a sales person at a Health Supplements company might use it. We trust leaders to make decisions on what tools they need to get the most out of their teams.

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Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring SaaS 52

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 11, 2019

But as the business becomes more successful – and there are resources to build a support team – additional layers begin to separate executives from their customers. As the General Manager for HubSpot’s Service Hub , Michael knows a thing or two about keeping customers close. Michael Redbord has an answer for that. Short on time?

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ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

And yet, downplaying your team’s needs undermines CS’s current impact and future revenue-driving potential. According to our 2022 Customer Success Leadership Study, CS teams are already underfunded and under-resourced. My job is to continually inform and share knowledge that’s going out in the marketplace.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Sales is traditionally a people-to-people business, but technologies like artificial intelligence are making expert sellers rethink the balance between human and machine. In fact, automation is already impacting sales, and its influence will only continue to grow. The need for automation in sales. Those that don’t — won’t.

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AI Search Scale AI Artificial Intelligence 84

OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

In a recent article on the OpenView blog , Blake Bartlett frequently advises to “be like Slack!,” The rationale behind Atlassian’s go-to-market strategy was threefold: If we don’t have sales staff, the product must sell itself. It wants to solve all the specific use cases so it grows into a monumental application.

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Payment Solutions Outsourcing Services Payment Methods Marketplace as a Service 47

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 13, 2021

Although Linda started her career in sales, she has spent the past twelve years scaling post-sales teams and moving hyper-growth companies like Zendesk, Slack, and now Gong upmarket into the enterprise realm. So how do you create a strong, enterprise-ready team? Leveraging customer insights across your business.

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Scale Customer Success Strategy Sales Hiring 177

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Sales development representative roles have grown 5.7X since 2012, according to LinkedIn’s State of Sales report. That’s a lot of new people entering sales! If you’re one of them, that’s both good news and bad: It means sales is growing, but you’re going to have a lot of competition getting started.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Prior to joining the world of venture, Karen was a Senior Director at Apple and before Apple, Karen spent an incredible 9 years at Box as a founding member of the executive team, where she was responsible for defining and leading Box’s Industry GTM strategy. Karen Page: I started my career in sales and marketing.

Scale 180

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Investment Sales Hiring 180

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Maria and Anthony present the CEO and CMO playbook of how the CEO and CMO can partner with other members of the team to grow sales and marketing. Maria : Not too bad. So I think that’s contributing to this importance of kind of investing in marketing and sales. Want to see more content like this? Maria : Thank you.

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Neil Patel

AUGUST 4, 2021

More sales? As time goes on, you’ll develop a stronger understanding of what type of video content works and what doesn’t. As your video marketing strategy develops over time, you can upgrade and invest more time and money into video creation. This will considerably improve the quality of your video content. A higher CTR ?

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Marketing Social Media Sales Hiring Technical Review 145

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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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Women in sales often have a polarizing experience. Never believe that doubting yourself is a bad thing. In the Sales Hacker video series Aha Moments , I asked 10 women: “What is one ‘aha moment’ you’ve had in your sales career?”. What is one a-ha moment you’ve had in your sales career? Anything less is failure.

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Chargify

AUGUST 17, 2017

Sales exploded, and if you’d picked up a big enough chunk of stock when the company went public, you’d never have to work again.”. Retail experts can point to many reasons Sears, and other large retailers, have fallen from global leaders to massive store closures and flat sales. You could pay a fair price.

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Scale Sales Hiring SaaS Artificial Intelligence 53

Neil Patel

JANUARY 20, 2021

That’s exactly what we’ll cover in this article. You need to attract potential buyers and funnel them into your sales funnel. Post your team photos like Zappos. Don’t Just Promote Products and Services. Bombarding your fans with 10 poor-quality updates in an hour. There are more than 3.5 What’s the answer?

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SmartKarrot

AUGUST 22, 2022

VOC is often used in marketing, product development, sales, customer service, and management. This article gives representative techniques, tools, and examples to understand VOC. Voice of the customer (VoC) is a process that helps companies understand what their customers want to improve their products or services.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Outreach’s annual sales industry summit, Unleash, has a speaker lineup for 2019 that is absolutely packed with genius-level sales insights. It just so happens that many of the speakers (26 of them, actually) are also some of our favorite Sales Hacker contributors! Think of this as a sneak-peek of what’s coming up at Unleash ‘19!

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Neil Patel

APRIL 5, 2023

Spying on your competitors can strengthen your position in the marketplace, but not without having three crucial factors in play: First, what are you looking for? Google Alerts Google Alerts is a free service offered by Google to keep you up-to-date on the latest news, conversations, and web content.

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Payment Methods Social Media Payment Services AI Search 133

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 24, 2018

In this mega guide, I’ll breakdown 31 different lead generation techniques you can use to supercharge your sales pipeline almost immediately. Two of which are currently sales and marketing. I’m in control of every step of the sales process – from awareness to decision making. Why am I sharing this?

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Unbounce

JUNE 23, 2023

Will AI ever be able to replace marketers—or even an entire marketing team (gulp)? and how the key to making your brand stand out in a crowded, AI-dominated marketplace just might be summed up in three simple words: be more human. So certainly it’s challenging to stay on top of just this wave of AI news and development. [00:02:21]

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