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The Biggest Sales Excuses You Need to Stop Making in 2018

Sales Hacker

It may not reflect immediately on top line figures, but their follow through moves the needle on other metrics — productivity, discovery of new tools or techniques, and sharpened selling skills — any one of which will eventually translate to higher performance and attained goals. No one knows our brand. No one cares about our brand.

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SaaStr Podcast #376 with ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck: “10 Mistakes the CEO of ZoomInfo Made on His Journey to IPO (Part 2)”

SaaStr

Jason Lemkin: 50 reps in a new city that you’ve never met, and hired in 60 days when you’re in the low millions ARR. It had much larger brand awareness in the market. What does sales enablement motion look like? And guess what happened to all those mistakes, they were terrible. Henry Schuck: Right.

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PODCAST 129: The Keys to Building and Scaling a Company from Scratch with Vishal Sunak

Sales Hacker

Major challenges facing a new CEO [19:40]. Sales enablement is easy: all you have to do is create perfectly targeted content, stay informed on email best practices, drive more engagement quarter over quarter, spend less money, and do all of this with less time. Show Agenda and Timestamps. Show Introduction [00:10].

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The Playbook to Hiring Your First VP of Sales and Not Screwing it Up…….with Cassidy Ventures Founder Brendon Cassidy (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And then last resort is somebody out of a big company like Salesforce, Oracle, again for all the reasons that had been stated before, but those are people that, generally speaking, you’re not going to be comfortable walking to a scenario without any brand, without customers, without potentially even a pitch and a message. New category.

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Why 2019 Is The Year Of Growth Engineering In SaaS

Hull

Over the past few years, we've seen a new role emerging at within scaling startups - the growth engineer. These roles are filled by engineers that roll up to the CMO/COO (not CTO) as part of a growth team. Someone had to define the brand. This is not new. So what is new? Someone has to create a campaign.

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SaaStr Podcast #403 with Loom VP of Sales Sam Taylor

SaaStr

How does Sam think about the relationship between sales and marketing? Are marketing becoming the new sales team with their content being used more and more in the sales funnel? Bret was formerly the CTO at Facebook. And I found in my experience that the path to relevance is its own sales cycle.

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PODCAST 123: How to Go From a Transactional Model to a Subscription Model with Brandon Meyers

Sales Hacker

We’ve got two sponsors, including a new one called Sapper Consulting. Sales enablement is easy. Okay, it’s not that easy, but Sapper Consulting has built REGIE to keep the promise of sales enablement and help carry the load to help keep your team doing what they do best, winning.