Sales Hacker

MARCH 1, 2019

Sales Engagement: How the World’s Fastest Growing Companies are Modernizing Sales Through Humanization at Scale is a labor of love. I’m so proud to be sending it into the world at just the right time, when it can make a big difference for a lot of sales organizations. Why a Book on Sales Engagement?

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

Angela: One of the interesting things we notice about CEOs that are able to scale really quickly is that they often sit at the intersection of a few different worlds and are able to bring these trends together. I think we were doing something like $3 billion of revenue a year in software sales. We have to know what customers want.

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SaaStr

MAY 12, 2019

We all know this from AWS and Twilio on down, but Fastly is a visceral reminder. One consistent theme for every B2B/B2D company we’ve profiled here about to IPO, or that has recently IPO, is they all have outstanding revenue retention — even ones selling to SMBs like Zoom and Pagerduty. A lot of enterprise-grade spend.

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SaaStr

JUNE 3, 2020

And then I spent a year at Salesforce working on Marc Benioff’s extended leadership team, and really had a chance to learn how important trust can be, and also really learn from Salesforce, from Mark, how do you really build a global SaaS leader at scale? They can make donations for those charities.

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Audacix

JULY 28, 2022

In fact, smart and fast-growing cloud software companies who outperform their peers usually share this common trait: they consistently grow sales and build their brand by turning their security standards into a key differentiator and selling point. How many of these three things do you offer your prospective customers? Not really.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 20, 2019

292: Manny Medina is the Founder & CEO @ Outreach, the market leading sales engagement platform that turns your team into a revenue driving machine. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Manny made his way to found the leader in sales engagement from product management at Amazon and Business Development @ Microsoft. *

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OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

It’s a unique form of SaaS content marketing where you craft content to show—not tell—how your product solves prospects’ problems. When done well, product-led content demos your product in the content itself, allowing prospects to see exactly how it will solve their problems. But it doesn’t end there. Is it right for your company?

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SmartKarrot

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

With the advent of SaaS (software as a service), enterprises can now access cloud software solutions, making scaling much faster and easier. SaaS and the Cloud Let Enterprises Scale Faster. If you are an enterprise, the ability to scale quickly is crucial. Scaling is a fundamental part of business, but it is not easy.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

And so, she can, and Anthony just finished up basically going from the first sales hire at Gainsight at almost 100 million in revenue and has just retired. Maria : It’s like saying, “Hey, you want a sales rep to carry 10 times the quota they do today. You can’t, you have to invest in that sales infrastructure.”

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Audacix

OCTOBER 24, 2019

In fact, smart and fast-growing cloud software companies who outperform their peers usually share this common trait: they consistently grow sales and build their brand by turning their security standards into a key differentiator and selling point. How many of these three things do you offer your prospective customers?

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SaaStr

MAY 15, 2024

A lot of you reading SaaStr are probably more B2B SaaS oriented and may not be paying attention to the consumer market, but it’s already massive and is continuing to grow quickly. So, let’s look at the state of subscription apps and how B2B SaaS can learn from it. In B2B, the classic metric for this is 2% now and was 2% in 2006.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2022

As SaaStr Europa 2022 drew to a close, attendees took one more opportunity to ask Jason questions about topics like how to navigate the current market, the future of work, playing in a crowded space, and hiring your first VP of Sales. It was funny for Henry to say he segmented his sales team at 80 million in ARR. Transcript.

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ProfitWell

MAY 12, 2020

ProfitWell — SaaS B2B company ProfitWell has a number of software products designed to help SaaS companies improve their outcomes, including the free ProfitWell Metrics analytics software for SaaS. Both companies provide tools that allow businesses to automate their marketing, sales, and customer service efforts.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Keys to success when scaling a company [10:56]. Sales enablement is easy: all you have to do is create perfectly targeted content, stay informed on email best practices, drive more engagement quarter over quarter, spend less money, and do all of this with less time. We’re on iTunes.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 2, 2021

What will fill the void left by the business you worked hard to build, scale, and sell? It might be awful. It might be easier to tolerate post-sale commitments, therefore, as you have better control of the outcome. Whatever you decide to do after your SaaS business is acquired, don’t get swept up in the excitement of the sale.

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User Pilot

APRIL 30, 2024

Userpilot is a leading B2B product growth tool that excels at in-app engagement , product analytics, customer feedback collection, customer support, and integrations. Microsoft offers enterprise solutions, productivity suites, and cloud services for both B2B and B2C sectors, emphasizing innovation and efficiency.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 2, 2021

What will fill the void left by the business you worked hard to build, scale, and sell? It might be awful. It might be easier to tolerate post-sale commitments, therefore, as you have better control of the outcome. Whatever you decide to do after your SaaS business is acquired, don’t get swept up in the excitement of the sale.

Startup 52

Startup Acquisition SaaS Scale 52

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 13, 2018

But as the college-dorm-room startup matures, there’s a fascinating twist to be found in the way it applies its new mission to Workplace, a B2B startup within the (former) startup. Not to connect everyone – because everyone is already connected in the company – but to keep the culture and to scale the culture as they grow.

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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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SmartKarrot

MARCH 2, 2023

Here are the top 15 venture capital podcast leaders shaping the industry with their visionary and thought leading podcasts covering a range of topics from startups, investments, trends, interviews, and more! Masters of Scale Masters of Scale – By Reid Hoffman Reid Hoffman is an entrepreneur, product and business strategist, and podcaster.

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Venture Capital Scale Entrepreneurship EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) 10

OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Cloud marketplaces like AWS Marketplace, Azure Marketplace and Google Cloud Platform Marketplace are digital storefronts where companies can list their offerings for software buyers to find, purchase and provision software. . B2B buyers want ecommerce buying experiences. Companies migrating to the cloud are bringing buyers with them.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

What I mean by MQLs is Marketing Qualified Leads. One thing we’ve learned in helping our founders and operators scale their businesses is that cash is one of their most precious resources. Can also be responsible for PQLs, if there is a sales motion to upsell self-serve. Driving pipeline for sales (SLG). Efficiency.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

But developers notoriously don’t want to talk to anyone ever, and they’ll still spend six figures and beyond without ever talking to sales. If the company wasn’t built around this purpose, it would be hard to scale. Head of Sales: They don’t understand what SAML means and don’t plan to learn it. Go Enterprise early.

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Enterprise readiness Payment Solutions Enterprise Payments 224

ChurnZero

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Whether Customer Success or Sales should own the renewal, expansion, and upsell is a hot-button issue in today’s SaaS sphere. That was followed by the undecided (24%) leaving only 13% of participants who voted against the motion (believing that Sales should own the renewal).

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2023

The Sales Hacker Newsletter has now merged with The GTM Newsletter to make one of the largest newsletters in the space. As always, you’ll hear real stories/strategies/tactics from real revenue operators spanning: sales, marketing, customer success, operations/enablement, product and hiring. Needs more pre sales support.

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Casey Accidental

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In a previous post , I talked about how product work post-product/market fit shifts from zero to one innovation to features, growth, and scaling work. B2B requires suite expansion. Why does B2B require suite expansion? You can read parts 1 and 2 here and here. In Reforge terms, we call this new product expansion.

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Payments Scale Payment Solutions Technical Review 113

Mucker Capital

APRIL 6, 2023

If you have a very complicated product–for example you sell AWS or you sell Snowflake–those are infrastructure products. Today, a lot of the PLG SaaS tools require sales motion upfront because nobody understands those tools. Those types of tools actually require work in the initial days of the sales motion. That’s the success.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 24, 2019

Machine learning can get the right message or recommendation out in a responsive way – not just from the customer’s next best action, but from the sales perspective, too. We’re helping startups and scale-ups that are strategically aligned with Salesforce, which is actually very important in terms of actually delivering solutions.

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CloudGeometry

JULY 8, 2021

The B2B SaaS arms race will be won by those who can consistently translate technical debt into development versatility: adding new features, integrating new data sources and workflow integrations, trying new technologies, retiring locked-in dependencies. and onboarding new customers. They experience significantly worse outcomes.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 1, 2019

“Michael is the rare CFO who also leads up marketing, which makes him the perfect person to talk us through the company’s trajectory” As the head of Intercom’s Early Stage program for Startups, the fast-growing fintech startup is one company I’ve been keeping my eye on. But for B2B marketing, it’s super valuable.

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Strategy Payment Methods Payment Services Startup 36

Chargify

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

In addition, B2B customers are consumers in their daily lives which has influenced their buying patterns and expectations in the workplace. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a poster-child for the Relationship Economy—they truly understand the modern B2B customer. Salesforce is another great B2B example.

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SaaStr

APRIL 24, 2020

327: John Mellor is Chief Strategy Officer @ Domo, the company that allows you to leverage BI at scale to empower your team with data. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How did John make his way into the world of SaaS over 2 decades ago and how did that lead to his running a $3Bn ARR business line at Adobe and lead to his joining Domo?

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ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

While more and more CS leaders are catching onto the value of having Customer Success Operations, they still face challenges in both convincing the C-suite of its need and finding qualified people to lead the function. I had an intern that was helping me, so she quickly learned the platform, and then was able to scale it across all the CSMs.

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Chart Mogul

OCTOBER 18, 2019

This is already at play — services like AWS, Stripe, and others have brought down the cost of starting and running a business to a fraction of what they used to be just a decade ago. This was the main point in Jacco van der Kooij ’s keynote Sales as a Science. doubling the number of leads). Hope to see you there!

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Chart Mogul

OCTOBER 18, 2019

This is already at play — services like AWS, Stripe, and others have brought down the cost of starting and running a business to a fraction of what they used to be just a decade ago. This was the main point in Jacco van der Kooij ’s keynote Sales as a Science. doubling the number of leads). Hope to see you there!

Scale 52

Scale SaaS Automotive AWS 52

Frontegg

MARCH 22, 2023

The user experience with passwords is never good and can be downright awful. ” In subsequent years, famous journalists, leading analysts at Gartner, and technologists at major technology companies such as IBM and Google all said passwords were insufficient. The Trouble with Passwords We all know why passwords are a pain.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. If RFPs are slowing down your sales team, you need to check out Loopio. It’s the leading RFP response software trusted by more than 800 high performing organizations across North America. Welcome to the Sales Hacker podcast. We’re on iTunes. And on Stitcher.

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