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.”

Sales Hiring 212

Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 212

OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

But no matter how thick a skin you develop, it’s never fun to be told ‘no,’ especially after you’ve spent significant time with an investor exploring a potential deal. To make matters worse, the customers revealed that instead of paying for a seat for each team member, they bought one login and shared it amongst 10 people.

Technical Review 73

Technical Review Scale Development Team Review Software Review 73

SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

Prior to Crossbeam, Bob founded Stitched, a powerful ETL service built for developers that was acquired by Talend in 2018. Before that Bob co-founded RJ Metrics, where he built a global base of online retailers leading to their acquisition by Magento Commerce in 2016. What were the core mistakes that he made with RJ Metrics?

Sales Hiring 132

Sales Hiring Scale Outsourcing Services CTO Hire 132

SmartKarrot

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Every leader should develop a personal framework to organize how they approach their work. Priorities, Program, Tools and Team. Next, assess the current state of your Program, Tools, and Team. Customer Success Programs are pretty straightforward, but somehow every organization seems to have weak points. Priorities.

Customer Success 19

Customer Success Sales Recruiting Scale Underperforming Technical Team 19

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Users are recruiting your product to reach a specific outcome in their lives — whether that’s catching a flight to reunite with their families or using a productivity app to meet a deadline and impress their boss. Samuel Hulick: I actually started as a full stack developer. And it was basically my job to make it clickable.

Onboarding 254

Onboarding Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 254

SaaStr

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Actually what I found was a little disarming, a little unfortunate, because there was a lot of, I think, bad experiences in the past with corporate venture capital and with earlier stage companies or with other VCs working with CVCs as they were once called. They might be sales operations challenges. ” And not just open ended.

Development Team Review 131

Development Team Review Scale Technical Review Software Review 131

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.

Scale 130

Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 130

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.

Scale 141

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Payment Methods 141

SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

359: The Secrets to Vertical Growth, What it Really Takes to Build a $1B SaaS Company with Matt Garratt, SVP, Managing Partner @ Salesforce Ventures, Trisha Price, Chief Product Officer @ nCino and David Schmaier, CEO & Founder @ Vlocity. They need fewer sales as a percentage of overall employees. David Schmaier: Sure.

Payment Solutions 152

Payment Solutions Pricing Payments Payment Services 152

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. Anthony : Well, last time we were on a stage together, we were filming B2B Creatives, which thank you so much for being a part of that. Maria : Not too bad. It was a blast.

Scale 220

Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 220

SaaStr

JULY 15, 2022

So how feasible do you think that works for a typical B2B SaaS business that probably our user-base is not too knowledgeable about [inaudible] on the internet for something specific in their day-to-day use case? But I almost never see mediocre outsource SEO really work for B2B. That’s a great example. This always works.

Scale 247

Scale Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 247

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. The company’s best-selling book, Predictable Revenue , details the hugely successful outbound process and sales created specifically for Salesforce. Starting as VP of Sales, in less than two years he became CEO.

Technical Review 207

Technical Review Scale Entrepreneurship Sales Hiring 207

SaaStr

MARCH 6, 2020

To meet buyers’ high expectations and manage the challenging sales landscape, companies must involve their entire organization in maturing the sales process- including after prospects sign on the dotted line. So when I was at Microsoft, I was doing consumer marketing and then when I moved to ExactTarget I was doing B2B.

Scale 220

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 220

Sales Hacker

MAY 9, 2019

A great sales compensation plan needs to accomplish quite a lot. And of course, a strong sales comp plan needs to motivate reps to hit goals that grow the company while still maintaining a profit margin. The Process for Creating a Sales Compensation Plan. Know what to Include in a Sales Incentive Plan. Keep it Simple.

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Compensation Sales Hiring Development Team Review Sales Recruiting 103

Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Do you want to grow your SaaS sales team and improve your processes? maintain healthy atmosphere in your Smarketing team, make smart choices regarding your SaaS sales model, strategy, pricing, . build smoother connections both with your prospects through optimized sales process. SaaS Sales Models.

SaaS Payments 157

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 157

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Pietro Bezza | Managing Partner @ Connect Ventures. Emilie Maret | Fellowship Team @ The Family. We’re a team of former investors and operators from the likes of Facebook, Deliveroo, and the Swedish payments company Klarna. We are a purely B2B fund, focused on software and fintech. Maybe fifty of them are B2B SaaS.

New CTO 154

New CTO Sales Hiring B2C CTO Hire 154

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

David is also the author of foreentrepreneurs.com the must read blog in the world of SaaS metrics. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How David made his way into the world of SaaS at the age of 22. * What does David believe is the crucial step missing in B2B when it comes to finding product market fit? Loving our podcast content?

Scale 199

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 199

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 21, 2019

There are tons of roundup articles about top women sales leaders. Most of the time, somebody does a LinkedIn search for “sales leader,” chooses the top 15 profiles with the most followers, and calls it a day. What about the amazing sales leaders who aren’t well-known already? Most Dynamic Women Sales Leaders.

Sales Recruiting 90

Sales Recruiting Scale Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 90

Chart Mogul

APRIL 8, 2020

A cold call was usually initiated by a sales rep who, out of a blue sky, reached out to a potential buyer via phone and tried to talk them into purchasing their product or service. Cold email outreach as a strategy poses a number of challenges for sales reps. My team knows it firsthand — we’ve been doing it since day one in business.

Scale 98

Scale Sales Recruiting Startup Sales Hiring 98

Chart Mogul

APRIL 8, 2020

A cold call was usually initiated by a sales rep who, out of a blue sky, reached out to a potential buyer via phone and tried to talk them into purchasing their product or service. Cold email outreach as a strategy poses a number of challenges for sales reps. My team knows it firsthand — we’ve been doing it since day one in business.

Scale 52

Scale Sales Recruiting Startup Sales Hiring 52

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2017

The race to the 2017 finish line is in full throttle – While last minute closed deals are still trickling in, B2B organizations are researching how to shape next year’s sales strategy to align with the top sales trends that are expected to emerge in 2018. This is the greatest time ever in history to be a sales rep.

Scale 97

Scale Technical Review Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring 97

ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

An existing SaaS customer spends more, on average, than a new customer, and are more than seven times more likely to churn (leave your business) to go to a competitor because of poor customer service than they are for a better product. Chorus is a leading conversation intelligence platform for sales teams. Consistent updates.

Business Model 54

Business Model SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments 54

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?

Sales Recruiting 86

Sales Recruiting Sales Underperforming Technical Team Social Media 86

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

When shelter in place started, the conversation we’ve had internally on our team is we have to think of ourselves as Navy SEALs, where we’re at base camp right now, and we’re going to train and we’re going to work on our playbooks and do our research. Personally, our team has been holding back a little bit.

Investment 167

Investment Technical Review Part-Time VPE Development Team Review 167

SmartKarrot

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

A poor decision in the planning stage can truly portray a disastrous effect later on. It has to trickle down from the C-suite and might be amplified by the CS Leadership team to start top-down and ensure everyone to be on the same page. Having a seamless alignment within the teams is the key here,” says Dasgupta.

Customer Success 21

Customer Success Technical Review Development Team Review Systems Review 21

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.

VP of Engineering 75

VP of Engineering Scale Development Team Review Technical Review 75

SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

So let’s take a look back to a deep dive with the CEOs on what they learned building their first senior teams: ———-. As a founder/CEO, building your first management team is something that you often lose sleep over. I feel like the core team is generally a bunch of natural athletes. Is it a time?

Sales Hiring 258

Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Development Team Review CTO Hire 258

Sales Hacker

JUNE 12, 2018

”Tito, how do I go about building a sales team (especially the sales development function) from scratch?” ” It usually comes from founders, or the first sales hire at a company. 1) Training SDRs as if they were Account Executives. 1) Training SDRs as if they were Account Executives.

Scale 75

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 75

Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Marketing and sales may employ different tactics, but their goal should be singular: help the company sell its product. Sometimes, however, blocks can develop in the pipeline. Here are 4 quick takeaways: Many early-stage companies fail because they scale sales too quickly. you’re not ready to build out sales.

Scale 99

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 99

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

AUGUST 22, 2017

In my sales enablement role at HubSpot I'm truly privileged to partner with over 100 sales professionals that are at the top of their game and only want to get better. Working with sales reps that want to succeed and push each other to do better is a joy. Revenue trumps all else and sales enablement has to contribute to that.

Sales Recruiting 122

Sales Recruiting Sales Sales Enablement Underperforming Technical Team 122

SaaStr

MARCH 13, 2020

And I guess this was somewhat foreshadowing because I’m now backed by David Saks who is the founding team there. Harry Hurst: So throughout my teens and early 20s, I built companies ranging from fashion distribution, all the way to headhunting and recruitment. Especially when there’s kind of that continuity on the team.

SaaS Payments 219

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Finance Payments 219