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CEOs of Zapier, Walkme and Dialpad: How to Build Your First Management Team (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

So let’s take a look back to a deep dive with the CEOs on what they learned building their first senior teams: ———-. As a founder/CEO, building your first management team is something that you often lose sleep over. What makes you feel that you need to level up your management, set up your first management team?

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Scaling Success: Digital Entrepreneurship and SaaS Exits

FastSpring

And when you’re doing the due diligence, there’s only so many assets within a YouTube channel you need to assess. So one of the best tactics that most people won’t do is to point out the weaknesses in the business. Blake Hutchison (29:53) Our churn rate is poor, but we actually know why.

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SaaStr Classic: Jyoti Bansal of Harness.io and AppDynamics; Dev Ittycheria of MongoDB (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

You can have the great product and a great team, but the market of small or very niche. The second one is the team, obviously depending on how earlier the team has a huge factor because you may be so early in your journey that there’s nothing else to point to, but the track record of the team. Jyoti Bansal: Yeah.

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Report: The Top 7 Reasons Salespeople Lose Deals in 2022 (& How to Fix It)

Sales Hacker

Why your sales team is losing deals in 2022. 43% cited poor timing or insufficient data on when to reach out. 33% had poor sales demos. 18% need help booking demos with their prospects. Our survey determined that 20% of monthly calls don’t materialize into closed sales. 29% cited insufficient sales decks.

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Flow’s Daniel Scrivner on the brave new world of asynchronous productivity tools

Intercom, Inc.

As the CEO of Flow , a flexible project management app for teams, Daniel is working to create a productivity tool that defies conventional metrics, meaning that it simply allows you to get your most important work done without monopolizing the time you spend in the software itself. What books can I read? billion in 2015.

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How to Build Effective Sales Compensation Plans for Any Customer Facing Role

Sales Hacker

Once you understand how to create a fair compensation plan for your sales team, you can check out some examples: Sales Development Rep (SDR) Compensation Plan Example. The goal of variable pay is to develop a performance-driven culture in which your sales team is financially accountable for results.

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The Greatest Competitive Advantage You’ll Ever Know: Mental Health

Sales Hacker

Much of this is due to the nature of our profession, but it’s made worse because most sellers today operate in toxic work environments. So, yes, it’s time to start a conversation about mental health on your sales team. But there is no such thing as only freezing out bad emotions. I was cold to protect myself. It gets worse.