Sales Hacker

MARCH 12, 2020

Like most things in life, hiring sales talent is a matter of timing. Especially since the best candidates with strong sales skills are usually snatched up within 10 days. Add to that the dramatic pace of business, and it can be very difficult to put the right people in place. Business Moves at the Speed of Light.

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Compensation Underperforming Technical Team 76

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 28, 2022

And for Intercom’s VP of Sales EMEA, Sanj Bhayro , scaling is just what you need to invest in to ensure growth becomes as constant and linear as it can be. Sanj has plenty of experience scaling sales teams at growing businesses, and that’s precisely why, as of November of last year, he‘s overseeing EMEA sales at Intercom.

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Scale Scaling Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting 210

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Getting the team right is one of the hardest parts of scaling sales. But no sales team can afford to grow without intention. Many leads’ first meaningful interaction with your business will be a conversation with a salesperson – you have to carefully consider what kind of experience you want that to be, and who will be delivering it.

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Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Sales 160

ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

At the time, I was a sales engineer, and my job was to close deals and move on to the next prospect. However, I found there were two flaws in our customer management process. After getting slapped on the wrist a few times for my after-sales support, I knew things had to change. We had presales, and we had post-sales.

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Customer Success Sales Recruiting Technical Review Compensation 98

Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 15, 2021

Post-PMF, the organization must evolve: it has to grow headcount and then manage that headcount well. How many hiring managers are in each of the two hierarchies from above? The structure on the right divides the recruiting work in thirds. More hiring managers implies a broader pool of candidates to fish.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Headcount 363

Sales Hacker

APRIL 5, 2021

In 2020 I was building my sales team at Livestorm , and at the time we were going through a big hiring boom. Over the course of time, I’ve interviewed and talked to hundreds of sales candidates. Why hiring without bias is essential to your business’ success. Value-based recruitment.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 29, 2018

In this blueprint, we provide insights on how to structure your sales organization. The changes in SaaS require that we no longer look at salespeople as individual contributors, but rather a team that crosses disciplines, not just within sales but also across other parts of the organization such as marketing and product.

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Sales Recruiting Scale Sales Hiring Sales 75

ChurnZero

JANUARY 25, 2024

With technology advancing and customer expectations rising, customer success has become an essential force driving business growth and customer loyalty within the SaaS industry. Skillset 1: Sales acumen In 2024, driving revenue is a primary responsibility of CS.

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Customer Success Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale 52

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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Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Sales 95

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 6, 2020

Old school recruiting is out, social recruiting is in. The people in your network are familiar with your business and the ecosystem you work within. They also have multiple common connections and value similar things to what you and your business value. Hiring has changed, big time. I haven’t had a resume in years.

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting PayPal Headcount 66

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 29, 2021

Ever since he was hired as the Director of EMEA Sales at BrowserStack , a web and mobile testing platform that lets developers test their websites and mobile applications across browsers, operating systems, and mobile devices, he had to completely rethink how to successfully onboard hundreds of salespeople just as everyone was going remote.

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Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 223

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 21, 2018

Whether you’re at an early-stage startup that’s just made its first sales hires, or part of a fast-moving sales team in a large organization, the key to success often comes down to efficiency. How can you capture, qualify and convert the right leads for your business while working within your means? Short on time?

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Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Technical Advisors 183

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. In my role leading sales enablement at HubSpot in EMEA, we deliberately carve out time to think about ways to leverage tools, technology and software that will make sales reps more effective.

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Sales Enablement Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 100

The Angel VC

DECEMBER 12, 2018

While this is generally true for most companies, it’s particularly true for SaaS businesses, which invest heavily in product development, sales, and marketing upfront and get payments from customers over a delayed period of time, usually several years. The main reason is that your customer acquisition costs are highly front-loaded.

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Sales Recruiting SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Scale 106

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. To date, they have raised over $73M from some of the best in the business including Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, General Catalyst and Point Nine to name a few.

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Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Sales 175

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Sales leaders have a bad habit of dumping people into a new job without properly preparing them to succeed. When I landed my first “big girl job” 20 years ago as an Inside Sales Manager , I was underqualified, overambitious, and soon underwater. What’s So Important About Sales Onboarding? So tune in….

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Sales Hiring Onboarding Sales Recruiting Outsourcing Services 74

OpenView Labs

JUNE 3, 2021

Hiring managers take on HR responsibilities. Everyone answers the phone and supports the day-to-day business operations when needed. With the right people, it’s a great experience where everyone pitches in where they can to help the business grow. Specifically, I’m talking about product management and product marketing.

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Product Marketing Sales Hiring Startup Scale 93

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. Leveraging customer insights across your business. For Linda, it all comes down to your approach to customer success.

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Scale Customer Success Strategy Sales Hiring 177

Point Nine Land

DECEMBER 12, 2018

While this is generally true for most companies, it’s particularly true for SaaS businesses, which invest heavily in product development, sales, and marketing upfront and get payments from customers over a delayed period of time, usually several years. The main reason is that your customer acquisition costs are highly front-loaded.

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Sales Recruiting SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Scale 61

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 28, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Amyra Rand , VP of Sales & Strategic Partnerships at Criteria Corp. Amyra is also a member of the Revenue Collective & the Chapter VP at the American Association of Inside Sales Professionals; she is an MBA from Pepperdine. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

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VP of Engineering Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale 41

ChurnZero

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Like let’s take a more conservative approach in the earlier months of the year in terms of adding headcount. Can we recruit hiring new team members from January to April, or from January to June this year, just to make sure that as we enter in the next year, we’re able to start off with some wins and not get upside down.

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Customer Success Sales Recruiting Finance Sales Hiring 87

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

In SaaS, #1 most common misfire, with a bullet, is the VP/head of sales. It goes something like “You’ve Got to Get Past the Carcass of Your First VP of Sales” or “It’s The Second VP of Sales When You Really Start Selling” or variants thereof. Because in SaaS start-ups, it seems like the majority of first VP Sales fail.

Sales Hiring 363

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Sales 363

SmartKarrot

MARCH 30, 2023

Role: Senior Customer Success Manager Location: United States (Remote) Organization: Talentify.io As a Senior Customer Success Manager you’ll be focusing on a certain set of accounts and fostering and sustaining relationships with important stakeholders. Make sure that each and every customer promotes and mentions Okta.

Customer Success 19

Customer Success Sales Recruiting Advertising Headcount 19

SmartKarrot

MARCH 30, 2023

Role: Senior Customer Success Manager Location: United States (Remote) Organization: Talentify.io As a Senior Customer Success Manager you’ll be focusing on a certain set of accounts and fostering and sustaining relationships with important stakeholders. Make sure that each and every customer promotes and mentions Okta.

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Customer Success Sales Recruiting Advertising Headcount 15

OpenView Labs

JUNE 10, 2019

Product differentiation is a way to establish uniqueness and superiority in a crowded market and can be key to your business’ success. 5 Common Pitfalls in Data-Driven SaaS Product Management. Inner Workings of Product Management at Product Led Growth Companies. 3 Step Guide to Successful Product Management. Product KPIs.

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Management SaaS Scale Sales Recruiting 55

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 3, 2021

And so, now’s the time to start thinking about accelerating our business strategies and grabbing the opportunities it brings. When it comes to making your business case, however, try not to overthink it. Des: The goal of this conversation is really to expose ways to think about accelerating investment in your own businesses.

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Strategy Software Review Development Team Review Sales Recruiting 228

SaaStr

JUNE 10, 2020

Marketing leaders must focus their teams on the areas that will drive revenue while they cut costs – the biggest impact for the business. I’ve advised more than 25 companies, seven of which have been acquired in the last two years and three of which have gone out of business. Are you a revenue driver or a cost center?

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Travel Marketing Scale Outsourcing Services 175

SaaStr

MARCH 22, 2022

I really appreciate you coming to talk about how to attract, hire, and build a more diverse sales team in your organization. So I’ve been building top-producing sales teams for a really, really long time. So over the years, I’ve watched many sales leaders go out and say, “Brian’s my top producer.

Sales Hiring 236

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Sales 236

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Inspired by the release of our book Intercom on Sales , we wanted to take a fresh look at three big topics – speed, automation, and growth. We wanted to know: what are sales leaders doing to bring velocity to their sales cycle? How are they using automation to bring new efficiencies to their sales orgs?

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Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Trends 139

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 25, 2019

If you’re reading this, you might be familiar with Paul Graham’s famous article “ Startup=Growth ,” where he lays out the difference between traditional businesses and startups. Given that the primary metric we measure growth in is revenue, it follows that sales feels growth more acutely than almost any other function.

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Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scaling 136

Kellblog

JUNE 4, 2023

In that (quite popular) post, I shared Mark’s top ten list of mistakes that enterprise software startups make in sales and go-to-market. Moreover, since partners is generally considered even more of a dark art than marketing, it’s great to have a friend in the business. GSI is a type of company; it describes their business.

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Sales Recruiting Compensation SaaS Sales Hiring 108

SaaSX

JULY 26, 2020

Here are 5 roles you may not have thought of and how they can help drive immediate revenue & sales efficiency impact. Role: Also known as Sales Engineer, but I prefer to call it Product Specalist. This is a dedicated role that helps distribute product knowledge across a fast-scaling sales and customer success team.

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Sales Recruiting Technical Review Scale Startup 64

OpenView Labs

MAY 5, 2021

While discussing some of my philosophies on open source with a friend recently, they asked me a great question: “When does open source make sense for a business?”. Open source can provide a number of different advantages for a business, on both the consumption and production end of the spectrum. That’s tough to answer.

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Business SMB Scale DevOps as a Service 52

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 12, 2018

As VP of Corporate Strategy at Twitter, Elad Gil was a key player as company headcount skyrocketed from 90 to 1,500 employees. This wasn’t Elad’s first experience with hyper growth – Google grew headcount 10x during his time as a product manager there – nor the last. So don’t worry about it.”.

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Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Technical Advisors 120

Outseta

JANUARY 20, 2020

In this post I’m going to share the most important lessons about growing a SaaS business that I learned at Buildium—collectively, these things had an awful lot to do with the company being valued so highly. When I left Buildium five years later we’d grown from a start-up to a business with more than 12,000 customers and $16M in revenue.

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SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Payment Methods Payment Services 145

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

To date, Karl has raised $114M with Lucidchart from some of the best in the business including K9 Ventures, Meritech, Iconiq, GV and Kickstart in Utah. How does Karl think about working with recruiters? Karl has been in every interview for every new hire for the first 6 years of the business, why? Do we need a sales org?”

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Sales Hiring Scale CTO Hire CTO Coach 216

ChurnZero

JANUARY 13, 2023

First, digital CS will become a way of life due to flat or reduced headcount. AI can also simplify data unification by providing more streamlined, intelligent processing for the people, teams and systems that need accurate insights to build better businesses. A few common themes emerged. Anthony D’Auria , industry principal, Valuize.

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Trends Customer Success Sales Hiring Scale 98