Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

As a key GTMfund partner, they equip sales and marketing teams with top performers. If you’re hiring for sales or marketing roles, reach out to Pursuit at pursuitsalessolutions.com/gtm or message a GTMfund team member. And if you’re a B2B, you know, as a business leader myself. That’s the metric of success.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 8, 2025

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Doug Camplejohn is a serial entrepreneur and seasoned executive with extensive experience in B2B SaaS and go-to-market strategies. 06:33 Why Sales Nav was a $250M business with a “crappy product” — and how Doug turned it around.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 20, 2025

Get as specific as you can Stage: Get clear on what stage to focus on Sales Model (optional): Personalize or add a different line relevant to your function Sectors:See our thinking on sectors but have fun with this Target Companies: A target list is a powerful accelerant in your search. And you send the wrong signal to recruiters.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 28, 2025

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Kraig Swensrud is the Founder & CEO of Qualified where he provides crucial experience and entrepreneurial energy to create the future of enterprise sales tech. You got sales reps. Everybody was learning on the fly.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 24, 2025

From viral LinkedIn content and founder-led dinners to the now-infamous “donut drop” strategy, this episode is packed with practical, first-principles GTM plays you won’t find in a sales playbook. Both Centari and Atrix AI scaled founder-led sales by hiring a Chief of Staff to operationalize and extend GTM efforts.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 27, 2025

They work with startups and scaling businesses to help take HR off your plate, so you can stay focused on building product, growing revenue, and hiring great people the go-to-market engine. B2B companies like Hivebrite and Equilend trust TriNet to help handle the infrastructure of their workforce, so their teams can focus on execution.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Each week, host Scott Barker asks guests two key questions, and this week, we’re diving into their responses to: What is one widely held belief that revenue leaders have that you think is bull$** or no longer serving us? 11:46) Neal Patel on why you shouldn’t hire a sales leader for their playbook. (15:44) Jon Dick: Okay.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 28, 2022

In 2021, there was much less focus on efficiency and more on revenue metrics like ARR. In 2021 there was a lot of emphasis on top-line revenue growth, what percentage year-over-year was the business growing, and less emphasis on things like gross margins and quality of revenue.”.

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SaaStr

JULY 29, 2021

Someone great at something core you aren’t: Sales, Engineering, Marketing. Great at sales. Somehow, find enough cash to make it 24 months to first real revenue. It just takes that long in SaaS and B2B, nine times out of ten. It just takes that long in SaaS and B2B, nine times out of ten. Great at engineering.

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SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2024

They discuss Sam’s learnings at Founders Fund, what the 2024 playbook looks like, hiring and motivating sales teams, and a handful of audience questions. There was so much budget flowing into B2B that it seemed like there could be 1,000 unicorns, even if 800 of those turned out to be junk. On the sales side, people hired way too much.

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

You might have a few account executives and a sales leader in place; maybe some revenue and a handful of customers. The sales team costs real money, and the question before the company is: how do you know what quota plan to assign to the account executives? Stage 1: Management by Objectives.

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SaaStr

JULY 14, 2022

Founders were able to recruit on-site. Revenue leaders were able to network once again. Fast forward to today, and there is an amazing amount of B2B-centric content out there, and many others have put together amazing events around the hard-learned lessons of scaling revenue and scaling SaaS companies. Now a staple!)

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SaaStr

JULY 25, 2021

They talked about product adoption, sales alignment, freemium models and lessons they have learned throughout their successful SaaS careers. As two CEO who love the art of sales and scaling, this one really was special. Recruiting is easier, but the things that don’t change are customers don’t care.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The rate of acceleration is impressive, yet the B2B element is still missing but is on its way. . The 2024 Pulse For B2B In San Francisco . Honestly, it’ll be challenging to completely replace San Francisco as the B2B hub. . They have no kids or partners, and they’re in B2B. The Future Is Not A One-Size-Fits-All Approach.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 6, 2020

The number one thing I grade candidates on is how well did they run their sales process on me? If you’re a job candidate in sales, you should be managing your job application process just like you’d run your sales process with a potential customer. Again, I’m running this like a sales process.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Storyblok started with a leadership-first hiring plan and a recruitment strategy that involved the following: A test to know how candidates handle different tasks and their expertise level. Additionally, they had to figure out how they would sustain the revenue stream to retain the staff.

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SaaStr

MAY 31, 2024

1: How Sales and Marketing Have Shifted Since 2020 Expectations and the types of people working in SaaS have shifted over the past few years, and much more in sales, marketing, and customer success. . #1: You’ve got a billion in revenue per year at Box, and yes, some of it goes to hosting and storage. But this is software.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 30, 2020

B2B sales is always changing, but nothing could’ve quite prepared us for the wild ride that 2020 ended up being. While most of us have settled into the new normal and the challenges that come with it, sales leaders are looking ahead with uncertainty. Best Sales Statistics to Know in 2021. Short on time?

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

“The shift from serving just consumers to serving consumers and companies is a massive one” For Udemy, investing in a B2B arm seemed too obvious, and too good, an opportunity to ignore. Today Udemy for Business boasts 80% of the Fortune 100 – the top 100 largest US companies by revenue – as customers.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 7, 2020

Wait, are we at just an average B2B software company? We’re basically going to talk about the seven “people” things that nobody tells you when you scale a B2B company. The first thing is, and this is a little crazy, but recruitment is incredibly overrated. Tough Management Lesson #1. How you all doing?

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Sales Hacker

MAY 6, 2021

From B2C consumer-focused tech to the next B2B enterprise cloud giants, B2B, and B2C technology companies are springing up left and right and sprinting toward multi-billion dollar valuations (whether on the private or public markets) faster than ever. What’s the difference between a VP of Sales and a Chief Revenue Officer (CRO)?

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Welcome to Sales Hacker’s first-ever Influential Women in Sales list! In this exclusive list, we wanted to honor not just female leaders that promote their own sales platform (no shame in that!) They say “You can’t be what you can’t see,” and the sales floor is no exception.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 7, 2020

Fortunately, more organizers than ever before are consciously seeking out female sales experts for panels, presentations, and podcasts. At Sales Hacker, we’re serious about diversity, and for that reason, we’ve compiled a list of 530+ female sales experts to consider for your next event. Sales Development. Sales Growth.

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SaaStr

APRIL 7, 2022

We took the series A, interesting enough, the first executive hired by, thanks to the sales coaching, actually was marketing. We actually think it’s about where the customers are when it comes to our sales and customer success and then where our product development center should be. We do have a network of recruiters.

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SaaStr

JUNE 11, 2019

But when you need a CFO, let’s say, or you need an outstanding VP of engineering or maybe a VP of sales, which is even more different to find for an engineer, you don’t know who these people are. Lloyed : On the B2B side, probably similar learnings, because without-. Keith : B2B, you can brute force. One, a VP sales.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Chuck is the co-founder of Blueprint Expansion , a GTM roles recruiting firm that has helped over 50 VC-backed companies make amazing Sales, Marketing, & Customer Success hires. Our Sponsor Today’s episode is sponsored by DemandBase , Demandbase helps B2B companies hit their revenue goals using fewer resources.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

With the rise of AI, new sales technology and automation at the forefront of the sales echo chamber these days, we thought we’d take a moment to bring it back to BASICS – that’s why we’ve rounded up this complete glossary of sales terms and definitions to help you remember where it all started.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Aaron Ross, Co-CEO, Predictable Revenue. Today he is the man behind Predictable Revenue, the “Outbound Success Company.” The company’s best-selling book, Predictable Revenue , details the hugely successful outbound process and sales created specifically for Salesforce. Talk: SaaS.City Bootcamp: Sales Leadership.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

If your reps have $1M quota, then every day is worth $4,000 in revenue. Sales leaders like Florin Tatulea (Director of Sales at Barley) feel the impact from the past few years alone: “Pure cold outbound is 3x harder than it was in 2021.” “Let’s say there are 251 working days this year. unbooked, unearned, and unrealized.”

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 8, 2018

In a time where buyer behavior has rendered cold calling nearly obsolete, successful sales prospecting begins with using tools like live chat and social media to build relationships. He’d go on to become the VP of Sales at Sprinklr, guiding the company through its own high growth period, before striking out on his own.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 13, 2024

The importance of post-sale marketing and customer lifecycle management. Applying B2C marketing strategies to enhance B2B customer engagement and retention. Emerging B2B marketing trends, including SMS as a core communication channel. Most recruiting firms fill an order, but IPS is a different breed of search firm.

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SaaStr

MAY 15, 2019

Gainsight’s customer success software empowers companies to increase revenue and decrease customer churn. He then led product management for XDegrees and spent over five years rising up through the ranks at Symantec. His sales focused, actionable content made an impact on the audience. Kyle Porter Salesloft Founder / CEO.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

What if sales reps can really harness the full potential of the pricy software tools we thought would turn us into sales superstars? Goodbye missed quotas; hello sales engagement!). When science and sales meet, sparks fly. RELATED: What is Sales Engagement? Sales Engagement: A Billion Dollar Market.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 21, 2021

College-educated women hold fewer than one-third of all B2B sales jobs despite being the better-educated gender. Additionally, race also plays a significant factor, with white people making up over 88% of the entire workforce in sales. Better-scoring sales. What does it mean to diversify your sales team?

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 30, 2023

The first goal of sales at a startup isn’t to bring in revenue — it’s to get customer feedback. I’ve used our sales process to iterate our way to product market-fit and wanted to share what I’ve learned along the way. Use sales conversations as a tool to get product feedback. So how do you get there?

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 23, 2024

Before Common Room, Linda led product marketing for serverless computing at Amazon Web Services, where she saw firsthand the impact connected data and person-level insights had on accelerating product adoption, earning new customers, and expanding account revenue. 11:07 – Differences between intent data and signal-based selling.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 29, 2018

In this blueprint, we provide insights on how to structure your sales organization. The changes in SaaS require that we no longer look at salespeople as individual contributors, but rather a team that crosses disciplines, not just within sales but also across other parts of the organization such as marketing and product.

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