SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2022

So for the audience, cloud giants are turbocharging startup sales, and the predominant reason for this is because they’re fundamentally changing IT budgets at the customers that we’re all selling to. And it’s one of the three large cloud vendors that we all know: Microsoft, AWS, and Google. Jabari Norton. Crowdstrike.

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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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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 14, 2019

For a long time, I thought my inability to bluff would hamstring me in sales, but now I see it differently. I’ve come to view authenticity as a kind of sales superpower. The old world of sales was akin to a high stakes poker table where buyers and sellers wore dark sunglasses and headphones to avoid tipping their hand.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Your sales team becomes more efficient, your customer success team becomes efficient, your customers like you more. Many of our users begin their journey with Slack on our free subscription plan. Atlassian famously does not have a sales team. Like if I don’t do this invoice, what’s going to happen?

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SaaStr

APRIL 24, 2020

How does John think about the role of leadership in a crisis such as this? Where does John believe many leadership teams go wrong in times such as this? How can leadership teams ensure that a crisis is not self-fulfilling and how can one prevent that mindset? You’ve got executive people who want thought leadership.

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ChurnZero

AUGUST 11, 2020

While you might be tempted to renew their subscription or sell them a new product, the best course of action is to empathize with their current situation and listen to what they truly need. You and I both know how awful it feels to have someone disregard what we say and focus on their end goal instead. I’m sure you have too.

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OpenView Labs

MAY 20, 2019

That’s certainly true in developer tooling (AWS), sales and support (Salesforce), MarTech (Adobe), commerce (Square), HR tech (Workday) and even vertical markets (Veeva). Those on the front lines know that more competition means greater saturation of traditional marketing and sales channels, increasing customer acquisition costs (CAC).

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