SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

He dropped out of Stanford Graduate School of Business and then co-founded LeaseExchange, an online marketplace for equipment leasing. The company’s best-selling book, Predictable Revenue , details the hugely successful outbound process and sales created specifically for Salesforce. Talk: SaaS.City Bootcamp: Sales Leadership.

Technical Review 207

Technical Review Scale Entrepreneurship Sales Hiring 207

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 4, 2019

The fastest growing software companies in recent years all have something in common – they started with little to no sales team. But even for companies with this early viral growth, there comes a point in time when this organic growth needs to be supplemented with formal sales. Yes, Slack started off with no sales team.

Scale 162

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Payment Services 162

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

If you missed episode 130, check it out here: Turning Junior-level Talent into Top Sales Professionals with Eddie Baez. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Why it’s hard to build a two-sided marketplace [13:38]. Sales enablement is easy. More sales meetings, more money. More sales meetings, more money.

Marketplace as a Service 111

Marketplace as a Service CTO Hire Sales Recruiting Scale 111

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

MARCH 23, 2020

I leveraged many of the 52 mental models while working at various software as a service (SaaS) companies, but in truth, they can be applied anywhere, regardless of industry. Total Addressable Market Total addressable market (TAM) is an economic framework to understand the potential revenue available for a product or service.

Underperforming Technical Team 215

Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service 215

SaaStr

JULY 22, 2019

We are the world’s most complete and comprehensive instrumentation platform on the marketplace today, that is cloud-based, that is SaaS-based. So much more of an inside sales mentality, hub-based selling, predominantly in North America, not really into strong relationship-based selling and the trust that he talked about.

Scale 231

Scale Scaling Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 231

Casey Accidental

JANUARY 23, 2019

They have also heard about marketplaces that have given all of the power to the supply, and also marketplaces where supply has no power. These issues usually arise in two areas, which particularly, but not exclusively, affect marketplaces. Do I hire local managers? Or do people report into managers in HQ?

Scale 73

Scale Marketplace as a Service Outsourcing Services Scaling 73

Chart Mogul

MAY 7, 2020

Onboarding a new member of your sales team is challenging on its own, but especially so when they have to call prospects out of the blue. According to data from RingLead, sales reps spend as much as 15% of their time leaving voicemails. New sales reps aren’t going to close million-dollar sales on their first day.

Sales Hiring 121

Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Marketplace as a Service Headcount 121

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 13, 2021

Although Linda started her career in sales, she has spent the past twelve years scaling post-sales teams and moving hyper-growth companies like Zendesk, Slack, and now Gong upmarket into the enterprise realm. Your first SaaS customer success hire. The Davidson Hang Podcast with Linda Lin.

Customer Success 177

Customer Success Scale Sales Hiring Strategy 177

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 9, 2021

I spent the past two years interviewing best-in-class sales team to uncover unique approaches that work. They hired GTMP to reach out to prospects offering them a stipend to participate in a best practices study on development and utilization of Amazon-like marketplaces and related in-marketplace advertising.

Innovation 120

Innovation Development Marketplace as a Service Business 120

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Sam Jacobs: This week on the show, we’ve got Luke Rogers, the Vice President of Sales at Instabase. He now leads the sales function at a really promising and high-growing unicorn called Instabase. Learn how modern sales teams with deals, win deals now. We’re on iTunes.

Scale 114

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Technical Review 114

SaaStr

JULY 11, 2019

The challenge with that is you found a company, you start building a company, you raise money for a company, you hire a team to build the product for a certain type of company, and then the whole consumer changes and you have to adjust. I have a five-year-old and a two-year-old, so I might be a little bias, but we read this book a lot.

Scale 145

Scale Marketplace as a Service Sales Recruiting Scaling 145

Neil Patel

MAY 20, 2021

The addition of shopping features such as Facebook Marketplace can also be leveraged by businesses to improve online conversions. With over 140 million business accounts on Facebook, you may think competition is high. Your business page also helps you build an online community and better service your customers.

Business 145

Business Social Media Marketplace as a Service Advertising 145

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 18, 2019

They noticed that a big design conference was coming to town, and all the hotels were booked. They didn’t know it at the time, but they had also created an entire business category: an on demand, short-term rental marketplace, which has shot the value of their business north of $38 billion. So how can we do more of that?

Scale 112

Scale Sales Recruiting Marketplace as a Service Sales Hiring 112

Baremetrics

AUGUST 6, 2021

Afterall, well-maintained books are the only antidote to a tax audit. This includes the labor and materials you put into each product, but not all of the indirect costs such as for distribution and sales. This includes cash, investments, inventory, and accounts receivable. be honest How well do you know your business?

SaaS Payments 105

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions Business 105

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Romain Huet : Of course, besides the brand I mentioned earlier like, Google, Apple and Facebook, and so on, a lot of marketplaces also like Uber and Airbnb they tend to think of themselves as platform because they have the buyers and the sellers connecting to each other. Let’s start with our five key steps.

Payments 162

Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services 162

Sales Hacker

APRIL 21, 2021

Do you love chasing down the sale? What about using data analysis to create sales strategies? Revenue operations (RevOps) is a centralized org within a company that supports all revenue-generating business operations including Sales Ops, Marketing Ops, Customer Success Ops, and systems management. Unified data problems.

Sales Recruiting 114

Sales Recruiting Scale Technical Review Technical Advisors 114

Sales Hacker

MARCH 18, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we interview Roger Scott , Chief Customer Officer at New Relic. If you missed episode 48, check it out here: PODCAST 48: The Secret to Amazing Sales Engagement w/ Max Altschuler. Steps for managing your career within the context of global enterprise orgs like Oracle. What You’ll Learn.

VP of Engineering 82

VP of Engineering Sales Hiring Scale Technical Review 82

User Pilot

AUGUST 18, 2024

Trello is the best task management tool. HubSpot is the best customer relationship management software. Salesforce is the best sales automation tool. Sprout Social is the best social media management tool. You can book a consultation that comes with a 14-day free trial. Hotjar is the best heatmap tool.

Scale 104

Scale Scaling Software Review Social Media 104

How To Buy Saas

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

The best thing about SEMrush is that they offer a high-quality service to their users; they are accurate and provide regular program updates that enhance the user experience, capabilities, and success ratio online. update in Content marketing tool Content Marketplace Expansion: Order the Content You Need.

Content Marketing 104

Content Marketing Payment Methods Social Media Marketplace as a Service 104

Andreessen Horowitz

AUGUST 30, 2023

For those that don’t know, the title of this post is a play on the book Barbarians at the Gate , by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar, which chronicles the battle to buy RJR Nabisco in 1988.) Inside sales? Can costs be reduced, customer support improved, NPS increased, new, previously unprofitable sales opportunities be unlocked?

VP of Engineering 91

VP of Engineering AI Payment Methods Merchant Services 91

Chart Mogul

MAY 7, 2020

Onboarding a new member of your sales team is challenging on its own, but especially so when they have to call prospects out of the blue. According to data from RingLead, sales reps spend as much as 15% of their time leaving voicemails. New sales reps aren’t going to close million-dollar sales on their first day.

Sales Hiring 52

Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Marketplace as a Service Headcount 52

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

In this episode of the Sales Hacker Podcast, we have Brandon Barton , CEO of Bite and a hospitality tech entrepreneur and expert. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Fundraising as a PR activity instead of a sales activity. Welcome to the Sales Hacker podcast. That’s differentiated us in the marketplace.

Technical Review 56

Technical Review Sales Hiring Scale Marketplace as a Service 56

ProfitWell

JANUARY 27, 2020

And finally, we spotlight Quibi yet again—a company spending more than $1 billion as it crusades into the streaming service battles. But here are some learnings, from the sales community, that Mixmax put together so we can start acting like pipeline pros. Because sales professionals are often likened to "hunters."

Sales Recruiting 40

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Sales Marketplace as a Service 40

OPEXEngine

OCTOBER 5, 2021

But while software’s success in the marketplace has lifted the valuations of software companies, our analysis suggests that some firms may still be undervalued. In more mature software companies, we see oversized returns for companies that are moving to software-as-a-service subscription models (see Figure 1). Four ways to drive value.

Software Review 52

Software Review DevOps as a Service Software Underperforming Technical Team 52

Sales Hacker

JUNE 23, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Leah Chaney , the Chief Experience Officer for BetterGrowth, a customer support agency she founded. Leah has been a pioneer for customer experience practices for the last two decades, focusing her work on putting customers at the heart of SaaS and service-based technology organizations.

Scale 78

Scale Sales Hiring Technical Review Customer Success 78

ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

PieSync is an integration platform as a service (iPaaS) specializing in customer data. An integration service like PieSync, then, helps save manual labor and eliminate inconsistencies by automatically syncing data across apps.". So why the PieSync appeal for HubSpot? Most marketers use multiple and varied applications on a daily basis.

Sales Recruiting 40

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service Scale 40

ProfitWell

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

But here are some learnings from the sales community that Mixmax put together so we can start acting like pipeline pros. Hire leaders who are aligned with your goals and take a step back to view the big picture. Far too often, focus is limited to the short term because of the nature of daily deliverables in sales.

Sales Recruiting 40

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service Mobile 40

Point Nine Land

APRIL 21, 2021

There are many posts out there explaining how startup co-founders should “land the first sales, then hire the first 2 sales and when to hire a VP sales”. But, in my experience, there’s very little written about what is the equivalent for Product Management. In SaaS vs. marketplaces? Hire a VP Product.

Sales Hiring 52

Sales Hiring Startup Scale Software Review 52

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 12, 2021

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Productivity: The growth pillar you should always manage [14:41]. What’s your sales organization’s biggest challenge right now? See how you can put your sales teams in the best position to win now at revenuegrid.com/saleshacker. Welcome to the Sales Hacker podcast.

Technical Review 66

Technical Review VP of Engineering Sales Hiring Scale 66

Point Nine Land

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Both Jack and Rian had tech backgrounds and at the time were providing consulting services to the legal industry. Law practice management software existed, but it required on-premise service and tens of thousands of dollars in annual upkeep, which meant only the big law firms had access to it. Again, this was 2007.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Scale Sales Hiring Business 40

Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

You can think of Horizontal SaaS as broad-based tech that is industry agnostic; a sales person at a Cybersecurity company can use HubSpot the same way a sales person at a Health Supplements company might use it. Here is a comprehensive list of SaaS blogs that goes through the most common metrics and terms.

Scale 52

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring SaaS 52

SmartKarrot

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Role: Director Client Success Location: Leawood, KS, US Organization: C2FO As a Director of Client Success, you will hire, mentor, develop, and direct Client Success Managers (CSM) to perform their daily duties. Partner with Sales leaders and offer account insight to build pipeline volume and accelerate expansion velocity.

Customer Success 19

Customer Success Technical Advisors Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service 19

SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

So, Aaron and I wrote a book together in 2014 or something. We wrote a book together. And so, she can, and Anthony just finished up basically going from the first sales hire at Gainsight at almost 100 million in revenue and has just retired. You can’t, you have to invest in that sales infrastructure.”

Sales Hiring 234

Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 234

Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

As a lifelong learner, I turn to books whenever I want to expand my thinking or improve my performance. And for leveling up your sales skills, nothing beats a good sales book. So what are the best sales books for helping you reach peak performance? Books that made the cut: Are on my own bookshelf.

Scale 143

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Payment Methods 143

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Women in sales often have a polarizing experience. In the Sales Hacker video series Aha Moments , I asked 10 women: “What is one ‘aha moment’ you’ve had in your sales career?”. The conversations that followed were so authentic and encouraging that we decided to expand this conversation to other badass women in the sales world.

Scale 136

Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 136

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Maria and Anthony present the CEO and CMO playbook of how the CEO and CMO can partner with other members of the team to grow sales and marketing. In this Best of Times in Cloud and Saas, learn the questions to ask to hire the CMO expert and create a strong CEO and CMO partnership. I know we’re going to hear about your book.

Scale 283

Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 283

SmartKarrot

JUNE 25, 2021

No business can survive in the long run without a loyal customer base for its services or products. This book is the basis for the Lean Startup Movement. The models in the book are useful for both SaaS companies and startups. Is there a sales cycle you know of? Customer development is important. The customer is right.

Development 10

Development SaaS Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service 10