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

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 19, 2022

As the president of Sales Xceleration, a firm specializing in assessing and implementing sales strategy , sales processes, and sales execution to drive growth, I’ve seen how job hopping can affect otherwise stable sales teams. But also the cost it has on their careers — and your sales team.

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Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting Compensation 101

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 21, 2018

Whether you’re at an early-stage startup that’s just made its first sales hires, or part of a fast-moving sales team in a large organization, the key to success often comes down to efficiency. That means your focus should be on building the right customer profile and developing precise messaging to reach them.

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Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Technical Advisors 183

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

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.” If you’ve used big-name prospecting tools before, you know that they all share one, massive problem: Bad data. So how can one cut through the noise?

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Sales Recruiting Strategy Systems Review Sales 119

SaaStr

APRIL 23, 2019

Brex Co-Founder and CEO Henrique Dubugras will talk about what he’s learned building the fastest-growing B2B company. Learn what he did differently the second time around and the specific decisions he made to drive growth among B2B companies with Brex. ” It was pretty complicated. But for fintech companies, it’s hard.

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Payment Methods 209

Sales Hacker

APRIL 1, 2021

Because we’re Sales Hacker (and it’s literally our job), we decided to take matters into our own hands: we talked to the experts. A made-up role so companies can hire more people to tell sales how best to do their job.” — Jason Henson , Manager, SMB Sales Development at Lytx, Inc. . Like a dope sneaker collection.

Sales Recruiting 118

Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Scale 118

FastSpring

JUNE 11, 2024

How to go about recruiting the RIGHT affiliates to help drive meaningful growth in your business. FastSpring provides an all-in-one payment platform for SaaS, software, video game, and other digital goods businesses, including software management, VAT and sales tax management, global payments, and consumer support.

Sales Recruiting 114

Sales Recruiting Software Review Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 114

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 110

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Recruiters are still reporting it as a challenging time to fill roles, with both employers and candidates being more gun shy than previously. We will be hosting monthly digital events, kicking off the series with none other than Lars Nilsson who coined the phrase account-based sales development himself.

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Interviewing Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 113

User Pilot

MARCH 21, 2024

You can collect data via multiple sources, such as feedback surveys , user interviews, product data analytics , and firsthand observations from your customer-facing teams Create a high-level customer journey map with all the relevant touchpoints to contextualize the collected data.

Sales Recruiting 105

Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team Interviewing Social Media 105

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

One of the biggest decisions you can make when setting up your sales team is whether to focus primarily on inside or outside sales. They seem to be completely at odds, with one focused on clients with a high acquisition cost and high ACV (annual account value), the other focused on a high sales velocity.

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Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Payment Methods 94

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.

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New CTO Sales Hiring B2C CTO Hire 162

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

This article covers all you need to know to create a solid GTM strategy for your SaaS startup or B2B business model. A GTM strategy provides direction for all team members, reduces your product’s time to market, and helps you cut costs. Design a launch plan before the product is ready and assign clear roles to team members.

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Strategy Sales Recruiting Scale Marketing 98

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 28, 2018

The best sales conferences enrich your team, build knowledge, and offer plenty of networking opportunities (and fun)! Bad sales conferences just feel like a huge waste of time away from you prospects. Unleash is the ultimate Sales Engagement conference. TOPO Sales Summit. March 10-12 | San Diego, CA.

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Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Underperforming Technical Team 86

yoursales

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Sales Stack 2023 Sales Tools for Professional B2B Sales SALES STACK 2023: Sales Tools for. Professional Sales SALES STACK. 2022: Sales Tools. Sales share this with your network S ales tools and figuring out what your sales stack 2023 should look like is as challenging as ever.

Scale 88

Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Outsourced Development 88

Chart Mogul

JULY 1, 2020

Customer interviews are a powerful tool that can help you better position your B2B product to attract and retain more customers. B2B marketing is much more complicated than consumer marketing. That’s because B2B businesses address particular niches, where customers don’t spend as much time online. You identify customer pains.

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Interviewing B2B Marketing Underperforming Technical Team 76

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

TL;DR Regular roadmaps kill outcomes by forcing teams to think in the categories of features and timelines. It’s difficult to implement outcome-based roadmaps because stakeholders don’t trust product teams to deliver on business goals. Many companies lack differentiation strategies and drive product development by copying competitors.

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Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting Software Review 105

ProfitWell

AUGUST 18, 2020

The risk to switch is so low that one survey found that 63% of DTC customers leave after one poor customer experience. Most companies opt to evaluate the outcomes from change by the same team that implemented the change. This bias can be seen when teams evaluate the changes they’re making in a more positive manner.

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SaaS Payments Payment Methods Outsourced Development Underperforming Technical Team 111

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 98

Sales Recruiting Sales Underperforming Technical Team Social Media 98

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.

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Onboarding Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 254

Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2021

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Neil Ringers , EVP of Revenue Grid. Neil’s experience includes a long history of sales leadership, primarily in the Salesforce ecosystem, and is now running revenue for Revenue Grid. If you missed episode 153, check it out here: Learning Drives Sales Effectiveness with Paul Fifield?.

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Scale Payments Technical Advisors Sales Recruiting 111

Valuize Consulting

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The collaboration between B2B Chief Customer Officers (CCOs), Chief Experience Officers (CXOs), and Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) is critical for todays businesses. And yet in the face of all that, enterprise B2B technology companies aiming for sustainable, profitable growth, have no choice. We at Valuize break things down this way.

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Technical Review Customer Lifetime Value 52

User Pilot

JUNE 19, 2024

A product analyst job description outlines the key responsibilities, must-have skills, and qualifications required to be the voice of the user within the product development team. Assist in developing the product roadmap, aligning it with company goals, market trends, and customer requirements.

Sales Recruiting 52

Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team Data Analysis Sales Hiring 52

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

They sell that product to general councils, operations teams, and deal desks. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. They sell that product to general councils, operations teams, and deal desks. Keep the promise of sales enablement and keep your team doing what they do best, which is winning. We’re on iTunes.

Scale 117

Scale CTO Hire CTO Coach Scaling 117

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 98

Technical Review Scale Development Team Review Software Review 98

Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 5, 2023

But along the way we found that the tool that we’d built was really interesting to a lot of other developers. So, myself and my co founder, we were kind of software developers, like kind of engineers by background. H ow did you guys think about the API that you wanted to launch with for other developers to build on?

Sales Hiring 93

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Banking Outsourced Development 93

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.

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Investment Technical Review Part-Time VPE Development Team Review 183

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 135

Development Team Review Scale Technical Review Software Review 135

Chart Mogul

JULY 1, 2020

Customer interviews are a powerful tool that can help you better position your B2B product to attract and retain more customers. B2B marketing is much more complicated than consumer marketing. That’s because B2B businesses address particular niches, where customers don’t spend as much time online. You identify customer pains.

Interviewing 52

Interviewing B2B Marketing Underperforming Technical Team 52

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 181

Payment Solutions Pricing Payments Payment Services 181

yoursales

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Sales Stack 2023 Sales Tools for Professional B2B Sales SALES STACK 2023: Sales Tools for Professional Sales SALES STACK 2023: Sales Tools for Professional Sales share this with your network S ales tools and figuring out what your sales stack 2023 should look like is as challenging as ever.

Scale 52

Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Outsourced Development 52

OpenView Labs

MAY 12, 2020

With experience in both B2B and B2C at companies such as HubSpot and Wayfair, Dan has built teams across marketing, growth, sales, customer success, business development, and founded and sold a video tech startup of his own. What are they thinking in general, and what are they thinking specifically about me and my team?

Sales Recruiting 72

Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team Startup Scale 72

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.

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Business Model SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments 54

User Pilot

APRIL 19, 2024

Applying insights from market research to product development and marketing strategies can significantly enhance business growth. Sharper marketing messages, savvy product development strategies, and an intimate grasp of both prospective buyers and existing customers’ preferences and needs. The outcome?

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Market Research Sales Recruiting Marketing Underperforming Technical Team 52

Unbounce

JUNE 23, 2023

Will AI ever be able to replace marketers—or even an entire marketing team (gulp)? So certainly it’s challenging to stay on top of just this wave of AI news and development. [00:02:21] So it starts to recruit its own AI agents or attempt to recruit. What if an AI were tasked with, say, destroying the human race?

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AI Search AI ChatGPT Marketing 95

ProfitWell

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

In a similar realm, we found an episode of Escape Velocity by our friend Dan Martell , on helping leaders get team feedback—all in the name of faster growth. In it, Dan interviews Claire Lew , the CEO of Know Your Team , the software that essentially saves managers from becoming bad bosses.

Sales Recruiting 40

Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team Interviewing Scale 40

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.

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Customer Success Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team Scale 19