OpenView Labs

MARCH 8, 2021

Those with experience in both B2B and B2C sales know that B2B is a lot tougher—the deals are bigger, there’s often more than one decision-maker, and the competition is intense. What Interviewing 600+ Sales Reps Taught Me About Team Building. What’s your biggest weakness? The last thing you can afford is a bad sales hire.

Sales Hiring 98

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting B2B 98

Sales Hacker

MARCH 16, 2020

They’re taking a more B2C-like approach, optimizing the buying experience to win more business. The 2016 Sales Development Benchmark Report indicated that SDRs who leveraged a triple touch approach (phone, email, LinkedIn) had a 28% higher SQL conversion rate than SDRs who only used phone and email. How are you?

B2C 129

B2C Technical Review Social Media Underperforming Technical Team 129

Neil Patel

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Even for fully-staffed marketing teams, it can be overwhelming. In this case, look for an email marketing agency that is exceptional at developing strategies and tactics to help increase your open and click-through rates. Thought Leadership. Align your in-house team. The agency should have plenty of examples to point to.

Marketing 142

Marketing Outsourced Development Underperforming Technical Team Scale 142

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

TL;DR Product managers often don’t get the due recognition for their work and their role is often marginalized by frustrated leadership or other teams. Allocating time for a specific research stage is often a no-go for leadership, so make the habit of interviewing customers continuously. Average ships per person in the team.

Technical Review 104

Technical Review Management Underperforming Technical Team Leadership 104

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Throughout the year, we’ve talked to business leaders, experts, and pioneers about all kinds of topics: from creating world-class customer experiences to the challenges of running a business during the pandemic, from being an ally and addressing gaps in diversity to building technical leadership careers.

VP of Engineering 118

VP of Engineering Technical Review Scale Outsourcing Services 118

SaaStr

DECEMBER 31, 2019

She founded Box’s growth team as well as the product operations team. And before box she ran product and engineering teams building large scale financial platforms for Accenture clients. Ciara : Craig’s designed and led teams at enterprise and consumer companies including Salesforce, eBay, and Google.

Enterprise 162

Enterprise Underperforming Technical Team Scale B2B 162

User Pilot

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Meta is looking for an Operations leader to join the Product Data Operations (PDO) team. As a Manager on the PDO GenAI team, you will be responsible for managing a team of Project Managers to supply product teams with critical data and data labeling for Meta’s GenAI products. Who would be a BAD fit for this job?

Technical Advisors 52

Technical Advisors Data Management Scale 52

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). Meanwhile, marketing teams from every competitor fight to rank on the same top keywords, driving costs per click through the roof. They aren’t alone.

Scale 96

Scale Startup Technical Review Software Review 96

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

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). Meanwhile, marketing teams from every competitor fight to rank on the same top keywords, driving costs per click through the roof. They aren’t alone.

Scale 69

Scale Startup Technical Review Software Review 69

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 1, 2020

If you missed episode 137, check it out here: Team Selling: A Comeback Story for 2021 with Trish Bertuzzi. Learn how modern sales teams win deals now at 6sense.com/saleshacker. It’s a bad look, it’s a bad way to end your relationship. And a lot of that early founding team came from ExactTarget lineage.

VP of Engineering 78

VP of Engineering Branding Scale Marketing 78

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). Meanwhile, marketing teams from every competitor fight to rank on the same top keywords, driving costs per click through the roof. They aren’t alone.

Scale 40

Scale Startup Technical Review Software Review 40

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Never believe that doubting yourself is a bad thing. That company only lasted another year before they were out of business, so it was a poor use of my energy, time, and being away from my family – a lesson I work to pass on to others new in roles today. Invest in your development internally and externally. Joyce Johnson.

Scale 136

Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 136

SmartKarrot

OCTOBER 26, 2022

However, far too often, companies do not have a set process in place for developing these crucial client relationships. Since this is a corporate decision, you should consult with other departments of the organization, like the marketing team, a customer success team , and business stakeholders.

B2B 11

B2B Management Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 11

SaaStr

AUGUST 19, 2022

And also on the side, doing a strategy of pure, just changing our ICP and fully picking it and making it super narrow and super focused, and having 25% of the team doing that. And 75% of the team continuing business as usual. No one has an engineering team with the time to build anything. Jason Lemkin: Yep. So, thanks.

Scale 272

Scale Sales Hiring Scaling VP of Engineering 272

SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2022

So clearly there are areas of our economy that are slow growing and B2C has its challenges. But it sounds like the bad news is you’ve got a limited runway. It’s not the investor’s problem if you have an expensive team. They know everyone, and if they don’t, someone on their vast team does.

Scale 245

Scale SaaS Payments Scaling SaaS 245

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, . Skills for SaaS Sales Team. 6 Essential skills for SaaS inside sales team to boost product’s sales. 3 examples for you).

SaaS Payments 157

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 157

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

And I put together these horrible, bad websites – I’m lucky there’s no evidence of them anymore. I’d love to dive into what those strategies were like, especially first at Atlassian, particularly because they had no sales team. Atlassian does not have an outbound sales team.

Technical Review 199

Technical Review Scale Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 199

Upscope

MAY 24, 2019

There are many articles on developing a customer experience (CX) strategy so seeing a range of practical examples will help put them into perspective. Even KONE elevators have found customers to be more demanding at every level wanting real time information and B2C type customer service. Question 3: Who are you willing to be bad for?

Strategy 99

Strategy Sales Hiring Airlines Underperforming Technical Team 99

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

B2B and high-ticket B2C buyers are watching product deep-dives, expert interviews, and tutorials to guide their buying decisions. Being read by Paul Mander , General Manager of Optery for Business: Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matter – by Richard Rumelt. Why startup founders need to develop their voice.

B2B 78

B2B Scale Sales Hiring AI Search 78

Teamgate

JANUARY 14, 2019

I was planning to become a war correspondent, as was my role model and inspiration Anna Politkovskaya , but when the time came and I was invited to join a group of journalists from a very reputable broadcasting team to go to Palestine in 2010, when I was still at university, unfortunately, I had to reconsider my life choices.

Interviewing 81

Interviewing Startup Technical Review Technical Advisors 81

GetUplift

DECEMBER 12, 2021

It’s a process that my team and I at GetUplift have used to 10x our clients’ conversion rates. I spent years researching the psychology behind purchase decisions and used that knowledge to develop a four step conversion optimization process deeply rooted in emotional marketing. Here’s an example of this thinking system in action.

Payment Methods 126

Payment Methods Marketing Payment Solutions Underperforming Technical Team 126

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Top Sales Trends & Predictions of 2018: Buyer Side Technology Continues to Disrupt Sales Development & Demand Generation. Increased Importance of Personal Branding & Career Development to Create Your Own Sales Opportunities. By 2020, 70% of sales teams will be using analytics to understand their customers.

Scale 108

Scale Technical Review Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring 108

SaaStr

JUNE 3, 2020

Who should be brought into the meeting other than the sales team? Harry Stebbings: We are back for another week in the world of SaaStr, and diving straight in today, I recently tweeted about the importance of a sales playbook, pre-release, scaling out your sales team. Are you selling to B2B brands, or are you selling to B2C brands?

Sales Hiring 236

Sales Hiring Scale Technical Advisors Outsourced Development 236

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 11, 2024

But when it comes to those lengthy security questionnaires, the endless back and forths between you, your security team, and the customer can often cause deals to stall out, leaving your deal at risk and dollars on the table. The key is knowing the #1 metric that will have the biggest impact on results for each rep, team, and organization.

Leadership 113

Leadership Scale Artificial Intelligence Sales 113

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2025

Prior to Docusign, Rob spent over ten years at Adobe, leading the global sales and go-to-market teams for their Digital Media Business Unit and holding responsibility for over $7B in revenue. Leading a large, remote-first team. Highlights: 06:07 – 3 lessons from B2C to that B2B marketing needs to learn.

Scale 101

Scale Scaling Strategy Sales Hiring 101

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Martin brings a wealth of experience in building and scaling sales teams, developing effective go-to-market strategies, and navigating the challenges of startup growth. 35:30) Optimal team structures for SMB sales organizations. (52:25) 52:25) Why in-person sales environments are crucial for early-career development. (53:46)

Scale 112

Scale Sales Hiring Scaling CTO Coach 112