SaaStr

JUNE 20, 2023

Almost everyone in sales seems to be into real estate, either “multi-family” real-estate or getting their broker’s license. Especially a VP of Sales, working on a big number, and with presumably, a big upside and OTE? About 3,000 of you think it’s just fine for even a VP of Sales to have a side hustle.

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Startup 287

Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Unfortunately, things only get more difficult when it comes to running the whole business as a Shopify app developer. This article will cover 10 business tips for improving your Shopify app’s development, marketing, and sales. 10 business tips for Shopify app developers 1. The Shopify QA team are your friends 6.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Do a lot more Business Development and Partnerships. Underperformers found it harder to hide after Covid, and many have already left or moved on. Respectfully move on from any other underperformers by year-end. Some sales professionals have thrived in this environment. Instead of a crummy office at 2x the price.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Hear from Duo Security’s VP of Inside Sales America on how to build a $2.3B sales team. Jennifer Lawrence | VP, Inside Sales @ Duo Security. Today I’m going to start by telling you a little bit about me, a little bit about Duo, and then the secrets to building a killer inside sales org. Good afternoon.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 30, 2021

I asked Aasif Osmany to share his learnings as a top-performing SMB VP of Sales, below. I considered the four companies and chose Gorgias based on my experience with their team during the interview process. While at Gorgias, I expected to leave with as much knowledge to earn me an honorary bachelor’s in sales.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 25, 2021

First, how does the knowledge that Terry is married and loves eating Smarties help your reps make a sale? Our guess is that poor Polly from purchasing is gathering dust on a noticeboard in the canteen or buried somewhere deep in your internal network of folders. And second, where is Terry the tech exec now? Or Mary from marketing?

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

You know how everyone says you'll never look and wish you'd kept a bad VP as long as you did? Some classics here: How My VP, Sales Doubled Our Sales in 90 Days. If Your VP Sales Isn’t Going to Work Out — You’ll Know in 30 Days. Your VP of Sales Shouldn’t Be Perfect. They hire weak, too junior folks.

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SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2021

I’ve seen sales reps great at $20k deals join a start-up with tons of leads but at a $2k price point and fail. Pick a sales process you are comfortable with. Can you do truly competitive sales? Not everyone is ready for highly technical or highly verticalized sales in the early days of a start-up’s life. This is #1.

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CustomerSuccessBox

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Let’s look at the top customer success blogs. As well as their actionable customer success platform they provide a widely respected blog. Our Top recommendations: Customer Success: How to Quantify the Impact of Bad-fit Customers. how to design and build a sales & marketing growth machine, etc. Intercom Blog.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 1, 2021

As a sales manager, the most impactful thing you can do is coach your team. Study any sales coaching blog, podcast, or book and you’ll find plenty of advice on the best ways to coach your sales reps: join their calls, listen to recordings, apply a framework … the list goes on. Emails introduce your solution.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

He also observed that after product-market fit had been achieved, companies would only ever have to worry about marketing and sales. As companies begin to succeed, they sometimes develop a tunnel vision towards the customers who have brought them their success. Listen to sales. We just have to actively listen.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 29, 2023

Sometimes it’s VP Sales (OK, often, this is the most common mishire — another post here on what a really great VPS can do for you, and how a poor one can wreck your company, coming). The #1 reason to do a start-up is Career Development. 1/ Want the best startup VP Sales candidates in the world? Only money.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 16, 2023

Not that they are just "great at sales" — Jason Be Kind Lemkin  (@jasonlk) January 12, 2023. So a while back we did a deep dive on why 95% of the VPs of Sales candidates just won’t thrive at your start-up. I think it’s important to repeat that analysis, but for your first few sales reps.

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Buffer Resources

JANUARY 15, 2024

Inaccurate, packed with "filler," or completely AI-generated — bad B2B (business-to-business) content is easy to spot and even easier to find online. "  Among her favorite recent content examples is a sales multithreading playbook from Lavender that gives you the why, why, and how to without burying the lede.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 24, 2024

How should you handle presenting challenges to your C-suite team when you’ve just joined the company? Lattice had a product-led growth flow on the website while the sales team was still trying to sell the PLG companies The good news is Lattice had a lot of activity and initiatives at play. Can you start and stop a PLG motion?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 2, 2024

Some things to think about as you craft your offer are: Does it align with your sales motion? You don’t want conflict with the sales team. How do you leverage that offer to develop relationships with partners? Those travel so fast from venture teams straight to founders, boards, and other VC funds.

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Neil Patel

APRIL 20, 2021

In this in-depth article, you’ll learn how to leverage the power of the human brain with neuroscience sales tips. They’ll help you drive more visitors into your marketing funnel and convert casual visits into sales. Your ability to persuade others in this way by appealing to their emotions will increase your sales.

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OPEXEngine

JUNE 8, 2021

In the movie Glengarry Glen Ross, Blake, a successful salesperson, visits the real estate sales team and gives them a blistering motivational speech that has gone down in history as one of the best of all time. This is the first challenge facing enterprise SaaS sales teams. Challenge 2: Sales Cycles Are Longer.

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TrackStreet

JULY 20, 2023

Successful Online Sales Strategy When a brick-and-mortar retailer considers opening a new store, that company has to weigh the significant capital and operating expenses (mortgage, construction, employees, etc.) Make Your Shipping Processes Smarter Adding sales channels also increases shipping complexity.

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User Pilot

MARCH 23, 2023

And how can customer success teams address them to ensure product growth? Reasons why customers churn: #1: Customers churn when there is a bad product-customer fit and your product’s features don’t align with their needs. 3: Poor customer service or experience with the sales teams can make customers churn.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The success of an executive team often depends as much on their interpersonal harmony as their professional expertise. How does a team establish rapport with one another? Algolia’s Bernadette Nixon (Chief Executive Officer) and Michelle Adams (Chief Revenue Officer) have spent the past few years developing this relational toolbox.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Designing a successful post-sale strategy requires choices, says CXology’s Tim Conder. You can find even more of Tim’s answers on the CXology blog here. You can find even more of Tim’s answers on the CXology blog here. Here’s the webinar in full. A: Try to narrow it down. But we can’t do it all.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 29, 2022

With Merge’s Unified API, developers integrate just once and give their customers access to over 150 HR Information Systems (HRIS), Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS), Accounting, Ticketing, and CRM integrations. Empower your inside sales team by automating the hardest parts of outbound calling.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 16, 2024

Perform a SWOT analysis, identify the strengths and weaknesses of your top competing products, etc. Idea creation : Use ChatGPT to generate new feature ideas , campaigns, blog post topics, product differentiation ideas, and more. You can also use it to craft engaging blog posts, write simplified product documentation, etc.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 13, 2021

You have three months left to hit your sales targets and end the year on a high note. Your sales pipeline is dry. I’ve compiled some of my top strategies which will help you increase B2B sales and smash your Q4 targets. Let’s dive in and open the B2B sales flood gates. 10 Ways to Increase B2B Sales.

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Incredo

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Affiliate partners write and distribute copies, create videos or blog posts, introduce the software, direct users to software company’s landing page. If sounds like this topic can help you generate more SaaS sales with less risk, we are starting! 5) Everyone minds his own business. But most SaaS startups don’t realize that.

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InsightSquared

MARCH 8, 2019

My transition into a BDR role at InsightSquared came shortly after spending my first few post-grad years gaining experience in a highly transactional, customer-facing sales role. A career in sales isn’t for everyone, though. Having a go-getter or team player mentality, unfortunately, accounts for $0 in the comp plan.

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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. You can have the great product and a great team, but the market of small or very niche. Jyoti Bansal: Yeah.

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SaaStr

APRIL 14, 2023

Mistake #1: Viewing Investors Only As Capital As founders build a team, they focus on obtaining complementary skill sets. Of course, building great teams and finding product market fit is critical, but don’t forget about product investor fit. The “right time” for sales efficiency metrics is unique to the company. Absolutely.

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SaaStr

APRIL 5, 2023

A bad experience with a revenue operations leader might taint your view of the position at all future companies, but that would be a mistake, as CRO Confidential podcast host Sam Blond learned first-hand. Considering aspects of sales and GTM strategies. A good range for this hire might be between 2-8 sales reps. Enablement.

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Sales Hiring Education Scale Strategy 203

User Pilot

APRIL 7, 2023

When your product is catering to other businesses, it can be difficult for sales reps and other teams to understand the needs and experiences of the clients, especially if the client company sells multiple products. However, customer insights can help your teams understand all aspects of your B2B partners.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

ABM allows you to craft efficient solutions to some of the biggest issues plaguing sales today. You need specific, account-based marketing tactics, and I’m going to let you in on 5 tactics that we use at Belkin that you can use to boost your sales. In the world of sales development, nothing stays a novelty for long.

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Social Media Technical Review Sales Underperforming Technical Team 107

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Do you have two sales teams? Who gets what part of the long-term development budget? And most importantly, multiple products can be very distracting at the management team level. The last thing you want the team doing is chasing a shiny penny, when what really matters is hitting the plan for the quarter.

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Underperforming Technical Team Cloud Revenue Acquisition 354

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

The Sales Hacker Success Summit will be here before you know it! WHAT : Five exciting days of advanced sales training and tips from some of the biggest names in Sales. Sales Hacker Success Summit: Level Up for 2020. So, start clearing your schedule, and get ready for the best week of your sales career! COST : Nada.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 7, 2022

Have you ever had a sudden realization that you’re spending more on sales and marketing than research and development? If so, you aren’t alone –– the median enterprise SaaS company spends twice as much on sales and marketing than R&D. Use a mixture of long and short sales cycle tactics.

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Buffer Resources

OCTOBER 24, 2023

But, during my day job, I noticed that quality content (blogs and web copy readers would actually engage with) was missing from most service offerings.  After all, most leads consume three to four pieces of content from a vendor before engaging with their sales team.  This felt like a missed opportunity.

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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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