Sales Hacker

JANUARY 28, 2025

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Kraig Swensrud is the Founder & CEO of Qualified where he provides crucial experience and entrepreneurial energy to create the future of enterprise sales tech. You got sales reps. That was my, really my big start in cloud and SaaS.

Sales Hiring

Sales Hacker

MAY 27, 2025

With over two decades at the forefront of techs biggest transformationsfrom on-prem to cloud to AISean offers a rare, long-term view on how to build companies and go-to-market engines in the face of massive disruption. From the on-premise and internet era to cloud computing and now ai, he shares our expectations.

AI Search

Sales Hacker

JUNE 13, 2025

It’s so much bigger than just cloud or SaaS. At the start of the cloud era, software was a ~$350B market. It took 15 years to grow the cloud economy to $400B. Writer helps enterprises build custom AI apps using their own data—on-brand, compliant, and ready to plug into existing workflows.

AI Search

Sales Hacker

MAY 7, 2025

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Marcy Campbell is the Chief Revenue Officer at AppFolio, where she leads sales and client services with a focus on delivering unified, end-to-end customer experiences. 16:00 End-to-end GTM orchestration across sales, marketing, product, and CS.

Engineering

Sales Hacker

MAY 7, 2025

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Marcy Campbell is the Chief Revenue Officer at AppFolio, where she leads sales and client services with a focus on delivering unified, end-to-end customer experiences. 16:00 End-to-end GTM orchestration across sales, marketing, product, and CS.

Engineering

SaaStr

JANUARY 27, 2021

We’ve talked a ton on SaaStr over the years on how to make sure your VP of Sales and top hires really work out. We can pretty much summarize a lot of it into the following: Your VP of Sales should have lots of experience selling at your average ACV. for that type of sale. That they are the right ones. Ask who they are.

Sales Recruiting

SaaStr

JUNE 2, 2023

The company helps enterprises internationally with contextual and actionable insights to secure their cloud infrastructure. Recruit diverse leaders The goal of hiring a revenue leader is to put gasoline on finding product market fit success. Employees are the brand Every employee at your organization is the brand.

Sales Recruiting

Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Three yards and a cloud of dust. The founders have hired department heads, who manage employees. At some point, those managers manage managers too. To have built a brand. To recruit 100 people. However, continuing this way isn’t the path to huge scale. There’s a critical step missing.

Scale

OpenView Labs

APRIL 29, 2021

Recruiting top talent is the common denominator across all scaling startups. Nine out of 10 founders and CEOs I connect with are involved in recruiting on a weekly, if not daily, basis. Many of them are learning on the fly and trying to juggle being CEO and Chief People Officer/Lead Recruiter/Brand Evangelist all at once.

Sales Recruiting

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

379: From how many reps to hire, to compensation models, here are the top 10 mistakes founders make when hiring their first sales teams and how to avoid them. Announcer: In today’s SaaStr Insider, SaaStr CEO and founder, Jason Lemkin, shared the top 10 mistakes founders make when hiring their first sales team.

Sales Hiring

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. Recruiting is easier, but the things that don’t change are customers don’t care.

Sales Recruiting

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Ultrasite is a global website builder, Chinafy is a tool for making websites China-compatible, and Connect is their collaborative content management platform for brands. Talkpush is a conversational recruiting CRM that allows employers and job seekers to connect in new ways across the globe. They have three main products.

SaaS Payments

SaaStr

JULY 1, 2020

An open discussion with Sam Blond, CSO at Brex, and Kristen Habacht, VPS at Atlassian, about adjusting their sales process during Covid-19. Kristen Habacht runs EDR sales at Atlassian, which I got a check today, $40 billion-$50 billion company. Four, people in the sale? Kristen Habacht: Well, there’s none in sales.

Merchant Services

SaaStr

APRIL 7, 2022

I can give you marketing examples about how robots are sitting on my laptop and then in the cloud doing work for us that we hate doing, the work that is done in a contact center or in an airline or work that’s done in your finance business. We do have a network of recruiters. That’s what you were born to do.

Sales Hiring

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 7, 2020

Fortunately, more organizers than ever before are consciously seeking out female sales experts for panels, presentations, and podcasts. At Sales Hacker, we’re serious about diversity, and for that reason, we’ve compiled a list of 530+ female sales experts to consider for your next event. Sales Development. Sales Growth.

VP of Engineering

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Welcome to Sales Hacker’s first-ever Influential Women in Sales list! In this exclusive list, we wanted to honor not just female leaders that promote their own sales platform (no shame in that!) They say “You can’t be what you can’t see,” and the sales floor is no exception.

Sales Recruiting

SaaStr

AUGUST 27, 2019

How to Design a Sales Comp Plan to Get You to $100M with Work-Bench, Movable Ink, MongoDB and Concert Finance. This panel will speak tactically to various comp design options as a way for management to determine and promote ideal behavior in their front-line teams. Meghan Gill | VP of Sales Ops @ MongoDB. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

Sales Recruiting

Sales Hacker

JULY 19, 2022

Celine, who transitioned from agency sales to SaaS, is the Vice President of Boardable. Join us for a great conversation about transitioning in sales and technology selling. If you missed episode 210, check it out here: Increasing Revenue on Cloud Marketplaces with Tim Hudson of Tackle. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

Sales Recruiting

SaaStr

AUGUST 5, 2019

For the first five or six years, we were convincing customers to move to the cloud. This is where customers are going to go into the cloud. We’ve been in business for a little over a decade, and what we help our customers do is manage their content i.e., files and move them to the cloud.

Sales Recruiting

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2020

If you missed episode 137, check it out here: From Marketer to CEO: The Power of Brand as a Growth Amplifier with Jake Sorofman. 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. Learn how modern sales teams with deals, win deals now.

Scale

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

What’s a sample job description that I can use to recruit talent? Do this right, and a few things will happen: (1) your brand becomes aligned with the category you’re creating in a thought leadership position and (2) you begin to build an opt-in database of conversions from an audience listening to what you have to say.

Scale

SaaStr

JUNE 12, 2020

342: On this episode of the SaaStr podcast, our CEO, Jason Lemkin, chats with Zapier CEO, Wade Foster, on Distributed Teams and Building a Cloud Product. This is where the cloud meets. Announcer: Guru is the knowledge management solution that delivers the information you need when and where you need it. Jason Lemkin: Okay.

Cloud

Sales Hacker

APRIL 30, 2018

To see what selling on steroids looks like, check out companies with the best sales enablement strategies. You’ll discover a lively place, with a lot of things — like revenue, productivity, and win rate s — going up, and a lot of things — like speed to revenue, sale cycle period, customer churn, and staff attrition rate — going down.

Sales Enablement

SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

359: The Secrets to Vertical Growth, What it Really Takes to Build a $1B SaaS Company with Matt Garratt, SVP, Managing Partner @ Salesforce Ventures, Trisha Price, Chief Product Officer @ nCino and David Schmaier, CEO & Founder @ Vlocity. They need fewer sales as a percentage of overall employees.

Payment Solutions

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

I mean, it’s what you see on the BBP cloud on the left. Aileen Lee: But I think, yeah, for … I mean, the cloud index is not even post-revenue. When you look at Main Street versus the cloud index, what are you excited about today? The ones that have accelerated since March. They’re on fire. Jason Lemkin: Yes.

Investment

yoursales

JANUARY 28, 2022

Sales Stack 2022 Sales Tools for Professional B2B Sales SALES STACK 2022: Sales Tools for. Professional Sales SALES STACK. 2021: Sales Tools. Sales W hich challenges would you like sales technology to solve for your sales team? What is sales technology here to do?

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yoursales

JANUARY 29, 2021

Sales Stack 2021. Sales Tools for Professional Sales. SALES STACK 2020: THE TOOLS SALES STACK 2020: THE TOOLS. Sales technology for professional sales will be more important than ever. In 2020 almost every single Sales Professional was forced inside. Same goes for Sales Professionals.

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Stax

MARCH 18, 2025

Often abbreviated to CLV or LTV, this is the amount of revenue generated by a customer as long as they have an account with your SaaS company. Your CAC is how much you spend on acquiring and onboarding a customer, and can include marketing, communications, sales, and other expenses. Customer acquisition cost.

Scale

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

It’s going to change how everyone thinks about cloud and SaaS for ever. And we were about a $50 million sales run rate, but I’d never done a media interview. For the first 10 years when we didn’t do one media interview and we got to 50 million in sales. I’m just continuing to be a student of brand.

Acquisition

yoursales

DECEMBER 23, 2019

SALES STACK 2020. Sales Tools for Professional Sales. SALES STACK 2019: THE TOOLS SALES STACK 2019: THE TOOLS. W elcome to "Sales Stack 2020 - Sales Tools for Professional Sales". Next to that we'll continue to have the full list of sales tools available right here.

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yoursales

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Sales Stack 2020. Sales Tools for Professional Sales. SALES STACK 2020: THE TOOLS SALES STACK 2020: THE TOOLS. W elcome to "Sales Stack 2020 - Sales Tools for Professional Sales". Next to that we'll continue to have the full list of sales tools available right here.

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Stax

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Software as a Service (SaaS) has made business software more accessible by offering cloud-based, on-demand access to a range of solutions, from project management and collaboration to sales and marketing. Veeva is a cloud-based CRM and content management solution built specifically for the pharma and life sciences industry.

SaaS Payments

yoursales

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Sales Stack 2023 Sales Tools for Professional B2B Sales SALES STACK 2023: Sales Tools for. Professional Sales SALES STACK. 2022: Sales Tools. Sales share this with your network S ales tools and figuring out what your sales stack 2023 should look like is as challenging as ever.

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User Pilot

JULY 22, 2023

In this guide, we’re going to show you how a land and expand strategy can help you grow your revenue generation from existing clients by deploying a foot-in-the-door approach with your sales team! You need a clear target market, proper positioning, product-market fit, and the right sales process for a land and expand strategy to work.

Strategy

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2019

Rick started Guru in 2013, after successfully founding Boomi (a cloud integration and data management company) and selling it to Dell. Boomi is a cloud integration company that I worked on and built for 10 years and was acquired by Dell in 2010. For us, that first fit was with growing sales teams. What is the pain?

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User Pilot

APRIL 30, 2024

Cloud computing offers three main service models: SaaS for ready-to-use software, PaaS for application development frameworks, and IaaS for scalable virtualized computing resources. Quickbooks and Xero are accounting SaaS products that help you send invoices, track expenses, and process payroll. What are the benefits of the SaaS model?

SaaS Payments

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Then I went over to the sales department. The demo is the sale and we close everybody in month. It’s amazing what the efficiencies and the low costs of the cloud can allow you to do as far as industry specialization. The first thing you bring in your playbook on sales. We had a brand problem if you will.

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