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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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. 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. More sales meetings, start creating better sequences faster, go to go.regie.io

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SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

Centralized HQs with all the perks and amenities “under one roof” have traditionally been used as recruiting tools to attract and retain top talent. And honestly, we’re limiting ourselves by proximity on recruiting a diverse best-in-class team. This will be a really strong indicator of retention and recruiting.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

373: Bessemer’s 5th Annual State of the Cloud Report returns for a definitive look at the cloud industry today. We’ve all seen AWS and what they’ve done with their platform. Then unified communications and video conferencing space, Zoom has definitely taken a new position as the market leader. It is staggering.

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Unbounce

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

It’s important to focus on one customer type at a specific stage in the sales funnel. Our next example comes from Teaching Personnel, a UK-based recruitment agency for teachers and learning support staff. Here are some best practices to consider when designing your own landing page. Cater to a specific audience. Teaching Personnel.

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SaaStr

JUNE 25, 2019

Now, I have some background with luck because in between some long stints with other companies, seven years at Eventbrite and 15 years at Ticketmaster before, I spent five years of my life playing poker for a living and learned an awful lot about luck and positive outcomes as well. The third rule is definitely for sure the most important.

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Outseta

MAY 8, 2020

As I’m now 10 years in, I feel like I can *officially* say that I have significant “experience”—I’ve definitely packed a wide range of experiences into the past decade. There’s an awful lot of nuance here and the devil is in the details. I’d need to learn to raise capital and recruit developers. I needed a disruptive idea.

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OpenView Labs

MAY 5, 2021

Other businesses, like LinkedIn and Netflix, have strong histories of being producers of open-source projects, which provides a strategic recruitment and retention tool for top-tier engineering talent. Related podcast episode: How MongoDB Scaled Their Open-Source Product with a Bottom-Up and Top-Down Sales Motion.

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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. The platform allows sales reps to deliver consistent, relevant, and responsible communication for each prospect every time, enabling personalization at scale previously unthinkable, previously, absolutely unthinkable.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Most leaders don’t spend enough time recruiting. Now, maybe you ran the wrong strategies as well, and you didn’t have the right team members or process – all of that is definitely a part of it. The only way you could learn about a new car was by going into the showroom, speaking to a sales rep and getting sold.

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SaaStr

JULY 29, 2020

And while it’s different, it’s definitely a different thing going on in the world today. So if you’re one of those entrepreneurs who are working on your ideas and thinking, “Man is now the time to start,” it’s definitely possible. And I remember like AWS was growing really quickly.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2019

We definitely have a saying at SendGrid, “It’s we, not I.” We were signing up hundreds of new paying customers every month with five sales reps. Sameer Dhokalia: It turns out if you do ask those two basic questions of 100 people in your business, you will learn an awful lot about what needs to be focused on.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Before Assist, Liat spent 6 years at Twitter where she first hand saw their hyper-growth, managing a team of 40 across New York and SF and also Liat achieved 102% to quota on average every year. Finally before Twitter, Liat was VP of Sales @ Revolution Prep where she led and managed 7 offices. Loving our podcast content?

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SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2024

” “I hated Katie at that company meeting, it was awful.” I was like, “Yeah, I was definitely thinking about emailing someone and saying, “Let’s put in on the roadmap for next year.”” Along with our marketing software, along with our sales software. And I sort of understand that.

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SaaStr

JULY 10, 2020

The first will be sharing five perspectives and things that I found to be useful in adjusting sales in the midst of a crisis or a turnaround. We also challenged the sacred cow, the assumption at the time, that the website was cannibalizing store sales, in the bricks. If you’re selling to recruiting, they may be deeply hurting.

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