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. 20 VCs do come to me to invest in the company now. Jyoti Bansal: Let’s switch topics to sales.

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Incredo

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Precisely – about SaaS affiliate programs… SaaS partner programs entice both software providers and affiliate partners for various reasons: 1) SaaS products are usually low-cost. 2) Software companies can pay high commissions because they don’t sell physical products. 5) Everyone minds his own business.

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Buffer Resources

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This is your street credibility and personal brand all rolled into one. Thanks to that hard work and consistency, I've established a personal brand grounded in credibility and respect, and grown my follower count to 45,000. The reality is that the best LinkedIn users are marketing machines. The ROI is insane.

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User Pilot

APRIL 19, 2024

These discussions can provide valuable feedback on products, perceptions of your company’s brand name, or opinions on competitors. This type of research provides deep insights into consumer perceptions, brand comparisons, consumer behavior, and feedback on specific product features.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

I was the new Vice President of International Sales & Managing Director for a work management software company called Wrike. Starting Your International Sales Team. The key to starting an international sales team is having the right people in your landing team. A mercenary is driven by the sale.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

268: Ryan Bonnici is the CMO @ G2, the company that allows you to get the right software and services for your business with over 897,000 user reviews to help you make smarter buying decisions. Before Hubspot, Ryan was Head of Marketing @ Salesforce (APAC) where he led his team to achieve 227% YoY net-new sales sourced through marketing.

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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

JUNE 26, 2018

Today, everyone working in and around sales and marketing knows that bots are hot, in vogue and quite simply, of the moment. After years of dreaming about what might just be possible, over the past 12-18 months numerous software as a service (SaaS) companies from around the globe have taken their respective bot offerings to market.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 25, 2020

The right employee will be more invested on an emotional level more than any agency partner as they are fully immersed in your company’s journey. This of course will take many years of active investment, but you could potentially build a powerful team organically. Brand Familiarity. Employees Are More Focused.

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FastSpring

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Starting, or investing in, an affiliate program is a great idea for just about any ecommerce company. This is even more important for a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company. Here are seven reasons why every SaaS company should start—or invest in an affiliate program. It is the Perfect Space to Explore Co-branding.

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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”. So in that shift from product-market fit to product-market-SALES fit, how much should you optimize your go-to-market for product… and even the other way around?

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OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The exciting thing about prototypes is that large-scale experiments can be built through open-source projects , which companies like Netflix and Linkedin will do as a strategic way of recruiting top talent. . Someone accepting your free software is nice, but a champion willing to spend social capital to secure a Purchase Order (P.O.)

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Chart Mogul

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

But creating a genuine community can be orders of magnitude more valuable than other growth channels: people getting value from each other, and coming back every day because they want to, rather than being retargeted, creates a priceless brand association. We also made a firm decision to ban our sales team from the community.

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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. And so that was what you’re investing in.

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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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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.

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SaaStr

JULY 12, 2022

One of the first what How to Hire a Great VP of Sales at the New York Enterprise Tech Meet-Up (thank you to John Lehr and Work-Bench for setting this up). The Number One Thing You Can Do to Accelerate Your Business Post-Initial Traction is Hiring a Great VP of Sales. Now, I just invest in SasS companies. SaaStr is Turning 10!

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

How do you recruit your interviewees? The easiest way is to use a monitoring tool like Brand24 that allows you to track and analyze mentions of your (and other brands) products, and keywords across the web. Conversely, in an expanding economy, businesses may be more willing to invest in new software, creating opportunities for growth.

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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

JANUARY 11, 2018

At the beginning of each year I like to reflect on where I’m investing my time - this exercise helps me evaluate whether or not it’s being used in the most valuable, productive and impactful way. Recommended episode is: Sales Mistakes That Can Kill Your Startup & How To Avoid Them. I want to maximise each minute on my commute.

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Unbounce

OCTOBER 18, 2021

When done right, marketing can be about more than return on investment or brand metrics. When we talk about “marketing that moves,” global brands like Nike or Dove easily come to mind. Sounds like a big opportunity for talent-starved companies to recruit, right? And it’s not for lack of trying. Powering Up with Design.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 2, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Mary Rogul , a VP Sales Consultant, who’s currently an Enterprise Sales Advisor at Crayon. Fresh out of college, Mary started out in accounting, but it didn’t take long before she began a 20-year sales career that led her through Monster.com, HubSpot, and several others.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

So, you just raised your series E one of the European software unicorns, congrats on that. I remember talking to Belgium investors at the time and everybody said, look, enterprise software is dead, there’s no opportunity through investment. Felix : There’s no way to be successful with enterprise software.

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Chart Mogul

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

But creating a genuine community can be orders of magnitude more valuable than other growth channels: people getting value from each other, and coming back every day because they want to, rather than being retargeted, creates a priceless brand association. We also made a firm decision to ban our sales team from the community.

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OPEXEngine

JANUARY 13, 2021

Many of the current vertical SaaS companies started as traditional software, moved to SaaS later, and will have to evolve quickly to remain competitive. From the bottom: VC, PE, and angel investors are expected to continue strong investment in SaaS. SaaS Management and Operations. B2B Sales and Marketing.

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SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

Scaling the company’s employee base, sales teams, marketing, and operations—all while preserving its culture—has required a laser focus on first principles, smart processes, and effective hiring. But we provide a combination of APIs and software. So just be like if this is any good at all, I’m glad I’m here.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Here at Inside Intercom, we did a lot of growing too – adding new editors in Dublin and San Francisco, saying farewell to others , and entirely redesigning this publication right here, creating a brand new platform for our range of content. We invested in more social and video content as well to connect with more of you. On Marketing.

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SaaStr

MARCH 18, 2019

Scaling the company’s employee base, sales teams, marketing, and operations—all while preserving its culture—has required a laser focus on first principles, smart processes, and effective hiring. But we provide a combination of APIs and software. This podcast is an excerpt of Claire’s session at SaaStr Annual 2019.

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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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SaaStr

DECEMBER 5, 2019

We’d been doing some investment, the product and technology leaders, but we talked about creating a proper investment fund to spur innovation around Workday ecosystem to get earlier stage companies, part of the Workday story for our customers. And I found some exciting things happening in a lot of investments.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Users are recruiting your product to reach a specific outcome in their lives — whether that’s catching a flight to reunite with their families or using a productivity app to meet a deadline and impress their boss. Be selective about the outcomes you’re investing in. Liam: You’ve launched a brand new podcast called Value Paths.

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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. Maria : Yeah, I think, coming from a marketing side and thinking about that as a marketer, marketing is all about investments. And notice that I said investments, not cost or spend.

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Chart Mogul

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Selling software often means trying to have your voice heard online: content, emails, ads, demos, calls. The cost of the sponsorship itself, travel and accommodation for the team, time invested in planning, it all adds up to a significant sum. And if your sales cycle is long, it’s hard to understand the impact right away.

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ChurnZero

MARCH 6, 2020

Founder Annette Franz shares a quote from sales expert Zig Ziglar that shows how a people-first philosophy is your business growth strategy: “You don’t build a business. There’s a smorgasbord of studies that overwhelmingly prove the multi-faceted benefits of investing in a people-first culture. The good news is that….

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 24, 2020

We know brand awareness is important, but are you going too far? We know the idea of “brand affinity” has been this sort of buzz-worthy, industry-trending topic. getting people to actually like their brands. So they dropped a blog post all about the common problems that marketers face when focused too much on brand affinity.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

As leads pour in, it becomes challenging for your current sales reps to manage their book of business and properly prospect. As a sales manager, you have to ask yourself “Do I simply hire more salespeople, or is it time to implement an SDR program?”. RELATED: B2B Sales Outsourcing Is Dicey. to $62K” ( Hubspot ).

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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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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

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.

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