SaaStr

JULY 9, 2019

Giraffe is a mobile job matching platform that helps medium skilled workers get access to opportunities and helps businesses to recruit staff faster, and easier, and more affordably than any other way. Well, you have to build a direct sales force. We said, “How important is Giraffe to you in your recruitment process?”

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Incredo

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

If sounds like this topic can help you generate more SaaS sales with less risk, we are starting! In reality, creating collateral for affiliates, recruiting, training and motivating affiliates takes a lot of effort. We provide sales copy, banners, keywords, etc. What are and what are not SaaS affiliate programs?

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

As for Ryan, prior to G2 he was Senior Director of Global Marketing at Hubspot where among many other achievements, he scaled HubSpot’s marketing-generated sales revenue by 330% year-over-year. What type of CMO would Ryan bucket himself as; demand gen or brand? How does Ryan think about the relationship between the two?

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Companies were growing their sales organizations and bringing in more revenue. Companies everywhere have frozen their hiring and laid off workers — with sales reps often among the first to go. I’ll be honest: as the leader of a sales-focused recruiting company, this has been tough for me and my team.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2020

403: Sam Taylor is the VP of Sales and Success @ Loom, the startup that helps you get your message across by making it easy to record instantly shareable videos. As for Sam, prior to Loom, Sam spent over 4 years at Salesforce following their acquisition of Quip, a startup Salesforce acquired for $750M where Sam was also the 1st sales leader.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

However, it can be hard for smaller businesses to compete with well-known brands in their market. Alongside customer choice, brand awareness and visibility are critical to business success. Niche marketplaces allow businesses to leverage the power and branding of larger platforms to reach their target audiences.

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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

By definition, winning organisations are the rarest of beasts (there can only ever be one winner), but in addition to their talent, successful teams possess an exceptional work ethic, the highest standards, unshakable confidence, and a determination that literally sets them apart from the competition. But that’s only the start.

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Neil Patel

MARCH 17, 2021

For this article, I’m using the definition from Pew Research Center, which categorizes anyone born from 1997 to 2012 as part of Gen Z. Taking their influence on all household spending into account, their annual economic impact climbs to a staggering $600 billion. Generation Z isn’t the best target audience for every brand.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

One of the toughest challenges for founders — and especially technical founders who are used to focusing so much on product features over sales — is striking “product-market fit”. The concept can be defined many ways , but the simple definition shared in this episode is: it’s when you understand the business value of your product.

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SaaStr

APRIL 23, 2019

And can you talk a little bit about touching on the hiring point, because you did say that you focused a lot on talent, and recruiting. And coming from Brazil without a big network in Silicon Valley, un-launched, without a website, it was actually really hard to recruit the first ten people. And it’s very helpful. Anu: Got it.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 28, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Ellie Tamari , the VP of North American Sales at Namogoo. Today we are incredibly excited to have a recent friend, member of the Boston chapter of the Revenue Collective, and female sales leader that came to the role somewhat later in life — Ellie Tamari. What You’ll Learn.

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Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

But sales is the one thing founders cannot oversee — without it your startup will die. Between hiring, training, and helping new employees excel, iterating on customer feedback, building brand awareness, et al., Between hiring, training, and helping new employees excel, iterating on customer feedback, building brand awareness, et al.,

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Sales Hacker

JULY 3, 2018

We’ve been compiling this sales automation tools list for a while, trying to figure out the best way to get the information out there. There are a number of existing resources available on sales automation, but they don’t offer use cases and examples of how to put the tools to action. What Is Sales Automation?

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 29, 2022

In this episode of the Sales Hacker Podcast, we have Tom Lavery , CEO & Founder at Jiminny , a conversation intelligence platform that helps companies create high performance culture. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Sam Jacobs: Welcome to the Sales Hacker podcast. Sam Jacobs: How’d you get into sales?

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 6, 2023

At the same time, the number of houses up for sale is at historic lows. All that results in more sales and a growing income. In fact, real estate agents who invest in SEO make 2-3x more sales every month than those who don’t. What does that mean for you? It’s called real estate SEO. Best Practices for Real Estate SEO.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 24, 2020

In a nutshell, they can give you expert opinions, analysis, and recommendations that can help ensure a more objective-based approach to grow your business and maximize sales – all at the same time. Sales and Marketing Consultants. Plus, an outsider’s perspective can likely improve strategizing and troubleshoot problems effectively too.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

Billion story from its launch in 2008 to its 2018 acquisition by Recruit Holdings. Hear about the early days of Glassdoor; tactical lessons on scaling—from building a business model and recruiting an all-star management team to advice on building a compelling, innovative company culture; and learn whyGlassdoor’s $1.2

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Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

But sales is the one thing founders cannot oversee — without it your startup will die. Between hiring, training, and helping new employees excel, iterating on customer feedback, building brand awareness, et al., Between hiring, training, and helping new employees excel, iterating on customer feedback, building brand awareness, et al.,

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SaaStr

JUNE 10, 2020

Meagen, sales. Launch it to our customers, launch it to the sales team, launch it to prospects.” What did we need for our sales team from an enablement standpoint and our CSMs? And then of course, sales pipeline and the livelihood of our business. They’re going to build a bunch of things that we need.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In this episode, a16z partner Seema Amble talks with Dimitri Dadiomov, the co-founder and CEO of payment operations platform Modern Treasury, about the challenges of creating a new category, hiring for marketing before you hire for sales, and why developing new features is similar to birding. So people know what they’re buying.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 29, 2018

On this episode of the Sales Hacker podcast, we talk with Todd Caponi , former CRO of PowerReviews about how to sell enterprise software solutions with increased transparency in the sales process. How to evolve your sales posture given the changes in sales conversations over the last 20 years. What You’ll Learn.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

Felix : But I think what it has enabled us to do is to really become almost a market leader and build like a mini brand. And so again we would just have added to more kind of friction in the sales cycle and there was a whole video long sales cycle. You build a brand in that industry, but then we always were always convinced.

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SaaSX

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Some founders are able to launch a product and get a bit of early traction without sales or marketing. The second case where initial sales & marketing aren’t needed to launch a product is when a founder has a built-in network of ready buyers and lands initial customers through their own efforts. The skill of the sales reps.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

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. There’s none of the brands that you’ve seen get to an IPO or continue on to a Fortune 500 company that is not making some significant investments there. Any thoughts?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 24, 2018

If you’ve ever tried hiring, onboarding and training a brand new team, you know how challenging that can be. On the other hand, there’s definitely an upside to not having teammates right next to you. There are definitely pros and cons on both sides. We felt like we were growing something from scratch. Team building.

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SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

Brendon introduces his playbook to hiring the first VP of Sales from his experiences as VP of Sales at LinkedIn, EchoSign, Talkdesk and more. Learn the dos and don’ts to make the correct hire the first time and not rush into hiring the wrong VP of Sales, which can cost the company months or even years. Roughly 90%.

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Upscope

MAY 24, 2019

Below we'll stick to a simple definition and then show you 7 examples of how companies implemented CX strategies. You'll see a lot of CX definitions out there so we'll stick to the common elements taken from Forrester research. An accountability outline. Commercial clients give feedback through sales and partners.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 21, 2020

Justin Welsh, former SVP of Sales at PatientPop explains how he started in SaaS in 2009 as the second sales hire at Zocdoc. Justin used Sales Culture to grow a successful PatientPop team to 140 employees and 55 million in revenue. Justin Welsh | SVP Sales @ PatientPop. I was a local sales manager or regional manager.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

And so, for the team that I’m responsible for, which is sales, and customer success, and support, clearly a weekly note out about what’s going on, with regards to the business is something that I’ve kind of done in the past at other companies, but it’s a ritual here. You talked about it, inside sales.

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SaaStr

JULY 1, 2021

We work with brands across the industry, like IBM, Disney, Intuit, Microsoft to help them build better products to understand what their users are doing. That can definitely help. For us, definitely one big thing that we look for us is, are you a driver of the situation you’re in? That was definitely a key one for us.

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SaaStr

MAY 14, 2023

Daniel, you grew to 3 million in ARR before you hired a VP of Sales. You had all the reps and SDRs reporting to you, managed it all yourself. How’d you manage all that? Daniel : We followed a lean start up approach to building our sales process. An engineering team and the sales team was me with a laptop.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

With the rise of AI, new sales technology and automation at the forefront of the sales echo chamber these days, we thought we’d take a moment to bring it back to BASICS – that’s why we’ve rounded up this complete glossary of sales terms and definitions to help you remember where it all started.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we talk to Vikas Bhambri , SVP of Global Sales and Customer Experience at Kustomer. Vikas is a well-respected sales leader in NYC and comes from a sales engineering and product background, with more than 20 years experience. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 11, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Wes Ulysse , Head of Sales, North America at Red Points, a SaaS company that’s leveraging AI and machine learning to protect brands’ online intellectual property. Wes started his professional career as an accountant for the New York City Ballet.

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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.

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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. I learned so much from you, from, we talked about category creation, why brand matters in B2B. Maria : I mean, I’ve talked to over 60 recruiters. Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020.

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SmartKarrot

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

For starters, let’s delve into the definition of the term. Pre-define expectations Empathy and Value Commit and Care Sponsors and Support Converse and Communicate Provides a fresh perspective Identify new opportunities Networking and Socializing Recruit well Time for Results. Recruit well. What is a customer advisory board?

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