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Ultimate Guide to B2B Sales Hiring and Management

OpenView Labs

B2B sales involves one business selling its product to another business. 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. For all those reasons, hiring and management must be on point.

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How to Build Sales Compensation Plans that Increase Retention and Productivity

Sales Hacker

In this article, I’ll outline the principles of compensation design , how to build sales compensation plans , and include resources to set OTEs and quotas that keep your reps happy and hungry for more. Why Sales Comp Planning is Key to Rep Retention. Who should be responsible for sales compensation planning?

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The SaaS Trends You Need to Know for 2020

OpenView Labs

OpenView’s experts weighed in with their predictions across product, sales, marketing, pricing, corporate development and talent. Product Managers Will Own a KPI. How many of your highest paid team members are in sales? The fact is that a great (albeit expensive) sales rep is worth every penny and has an obvious ROI.

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7 Tips For Using Customer Feedback To Build Rabid Fans And Make More Money (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

I actually worked in sales for five and a half years and that’s probably why I have tended to gravitate to B2B marketing. Worked as an AE and then a sales manager. Decided to go to business school, did that for a little bit and then came out in management consulting, a company. So, they’re a B2B piece.

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19 SaaS Predictions For 2021 and Beyond

OpenView Labs

Every year we ask the OpenView network to weigh in, and this time around many folks unsurprisingly made predictions around a trend most of us in SaaS had to adapt to (and, to be honest, are still figuring out) in 2020: remote work. The prevailing go-to-market structure for SaaS companies in the last decade is through an inside sales team.

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Startup Sales: Everything You Need to Know About Building Your First Sales Team

Chart Mogul

But sales is the one thing founders cannot oversee — without it your startup will die. But the one thing you must think about is sales. Without sales, your startup dies. Yet, sales is all too often a dirty word. They go for the sale without caring about what the customer needs in the first place. Coach regularly.

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6 Ways to Transform RFPs from Obstacles to Opportunities in 2021

Sales Hacker

Requests for proposals (RFPs) generate a whopping average of 35% of annual sales revenue , according to Loopio’s 2021 RFP Response Benchmarks and Trends Report. Busy technical experts, tight deadlines, and tricky approval processes can all throw a wrench in the sales cycle. 6 ways to transform RFPs into opportunities.