Sales Hacker

AUGUST 11, 2023

This week I sat down and interview the VP of Sales at Crunchbase , Ang McManamon. Ang shares her 5 P’s of Sales Leadership: Professionalism Preparation Process Performance Play More on these below. She is currently the VP of Sales at Crunchbase, where she leads a high growth team out of New York City. Grit is a must-have.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

At Reddit, he led a team of 35 – none of whom knew how to manage other engineers. He had to quickly determine which team members displayed a potential for leadership and teach them the fundamentals of management so they could make new hires and scale – without ruining the culture. Short on time?

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 21, 2020

Whether your company has paused hiring, topgrading, still hiring, or will be in the future, having the right people for your business and stage will ALWAYS be a priority. You’ll be able to download the interview scorecard template that I use with my clients. The cherry on top? If you’re a job seeker, never fear! And that’s not all.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 19, 2022

By now, most business leaders have had some kind of run-in with the effects of the Great Resignation. As the president of Sales Xceleration, a firm specializing in assessing and implementing sales strategy , sales processes, and sales execution to drive growth, I’ve seen how job hopping can affect otherwise stable sales teams.

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Valuize Consulting

DECEMBER 7, 2021

In the subscription economy, there’s no debate about whether or not to invest in Customer Success (CS); 70% of rapidly growing businesses say that Customer Success is extremely important ( Hubspot , 2017). When it comes to budget, organizations often haven’t established where the investment is coming from to fund the CS team.

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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

MARCH 23, 2020

One of the biggest challenges businesses face when they grow is scaling effective , autonomous and quick decision-making. It has a compounding effect - the more good decisions a business makes, the better the results will be. OKRs are a useful mental model - they make it crystal clear what people and teams should be striving for.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 22, 2019

If you are new to sales management, it can be hard to know what concrete steps you can take to improve your skills, be recognized, and eventually, rise to a senior leadership role. As a manager, the tasks competing for your attention only multiplies – coaching , training, interviewing, forecasting , planning, and more.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Getting executives out of the 1:1 interview process and into a whiteboard session can help you assess their core competencies and how they’ll work with your team. We’re not necessarily interviewing them for a specific role in the portfolio. We spend time looking at their org savvy, their leadership skills.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Lexi Reese, Gusto COO uses her 20+ years of experience to provide advice on building high performing teams using authenticity, empathy and logic. Lexi explains the importance of team trust, driver and passenger mindsets, and much more. Gusto now serves 100,000 small businesses. Who was the highest engaged teams?

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How To Buy Saas

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Elevating your career to new heights could be just a business certificate away. Contrary to popular belief, these courses aren’t exclusively for business tycoons-in-the-making. In truth, professionals across all sectors can find immense value in the knowledge imparted by a business course.

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

That’s what Dave Martin , a product leadership coach, has talked about in his talk at this year’s Product Drive Summit hosted by Userpilot. TL;DR Regular roadmaps kill outcomes by forcing teams to think in the categories of features and timelines. The thing is, users don’t need the majority of features that product teams build.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 24, 2024

How should you handle presenting challenges to your C-suite team when you’ve just joined the company? She was hired because they saw a bit of softening in new business growth, and she came to help diagnose what was going on and help scale the business. The bad news is it wasn’t driving the results they wanted.

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

TL;DR Product managers often don’t get the due recognition for their work and their role is often marginalized by frustrated leadership or other teams. Instead of staying in the zone of most competence, divide your attention across all aspects of the product, like the business, tech, and UX. Let’s dive in! The iceberg effect.

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OpenView Labs

MARCH 8, 2021

B2B sales involves one business selling its product to another business. Conducting interviews. What Interviewing 600+ Sales Reps Taught Me About Team Building. Loom’s Peter Prowitt shares the biggest mistakes to avoid if you’re interviewing for a sales position. What’s your biggest weakness?

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User Pilot

DECEMBER 13, 2023

How do you develop a robust UX strategy? TL;DR UX strategy provides guidance to the UX design team on how to create and improve experiences that satisfy user needs. TL;DR UX strategy provides guidance to the UX design team on how to create and improve experiences that satisfy user needs. This is the main focus of the article.

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ChurnZero

JULY 22, 2022

Does your Customer Success team have a shallow view of onboarding? It’s about transforming your customer’s business and delivering value, so you make their life better,” says Donna. It’s about transforming your customer’s business and delivering value, so you make their life better,” says Donna. That’s my soft answer.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

sales team. Well, let’s go to the business school at Michigan.” I did all sorts of things there from sales, to project management, to running the engineering team, hiring. This is where I got my chops in growing and scaling enterprise sales teams. We have team selling here that extends beyond the sales team.

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ChurnZero

APRIL 1, 2022

Like many people with leadership aspirations, Sharon saw the vice president title as her dream designation: “I knew that a VP role would be harder to attain because there are fewer of them within a company structure.”. How to help teams with imposter syndrome as a leader. How to help teams with imposter syndrome as a leader.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 8, 2018

Sales interviews are nerve-wracking. Yet as a hiring manager, seeking to build the best sales team in the industry, there are a few things I’ve observed that separate the good from the great—the things that distinguish good interviewees from those who actually end up landing an offer.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

It’s been 10 years since co-founders Eoghan McCabe , Des Traynor , David Barrett , and Ciaran Lee sat in a small Dublin coffee shop and dreamed of making internet business personal, and we’re still every bit as excited. Zanade Mann , founder of Black Women’s Business Collective. Hubert Palan , founder and CEO of Productboard.

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OpenView Labs

MARCH 24, 2021

For either one, the bottom line is that the cost of a bad hire is significant. I’ve talked a lot about the hidden costs of a bad sales hire. Develop a bulletproof hiring process that celebrates candidate experience. Spend time with your team and buyers to understand their needs and potential blindspots.

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Natalia Luneva

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Today I interview Cynthia Del’Aria and we talk about leadership in the SaaS world. Cynthia helps business owners turn their idea for an app, custom software, subscription product, or website into higher profit with higher margins. The importance of leadership for SaaS companies.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 8, 2024

Promote your case studies with paid ads on social media Case studies make a good customer acquisition strategy because they showcase how your best customers reached business success with your tool. While you can host webinars yourself, also explore collaborating with industry influencers or complementary businesses to co-host some sessions.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

What does it take to scale a sales team successfully? How can one determine a closer in the interview process? Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Andy. I’ve heard so many good things from Kobie, now at Upfront, and then also the team at Openview. How does Andy think about discounting?

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Guided selling with Revenue Grid allows you to guide reps step-by-step through every deal, reducing guesswork and increasing consistency so your teams have the best odds with every opportunity in the pipeline. See how you can put your sales teams in the best position to win now at revenuegrid.com/saleshacker. Head to outreach.io/saleshacker.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 8, 2018

Sales interviews are nerve-wracking. Yet as a hiring manager, seeking to build the best sales team in the industry, there are a few things I’ve observed that separate the good from the great. Prepare For Your Next Sales Interview with These 5 Pro Tips. Understand that the sales interview process is grueling for a reason.

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Kellblog

JULY 18, 2019

Great core/founding team. Thus, there is a good chance one or all of the founding team will be around, and in influential positions, for a long time. Bad startups are feature addicts who pile feature upon feature atop a deteriorating architecture, creating an Augean Stables of technical debt. Startups are about people.

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Ryan Austin had VP-level experience in training when he decided to start a consulting business to help enterprise-level companies with their corporate learning and development initiatives. Ryan and his team noticed so many inefficiencies across the L&D workflows. “It And that was particularly even more true for Cognota.

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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. So how do you create a strong, enterprise-ready team? Leveraging customer insights across your business.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 16, 2019

During his 5 years at PatientPop, Justin grew sales from $0 to $56m alongside the full build-out of the sales team. As a manager observing their team, what are signs that an individual is burning out? What actions and communications must they adopt to ensure that this feeling of culture over performance is accepted by the team?

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Outreach allows you to commit to accurate sales forecasting, replace manual processes with real-time guidance and unlock actionable consumer intelligence that guides you and your team to win more often. That was the only company I interviewed with. Find out why Outreach is the right solution at click.outreach.io/30mpc.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 24, 2020

While looking through your business objectives, you suddenly feel your organization needs to shake things up a bit. Unfortunately, your in-house team doesn’t have the required expertise to push through change. How to Find a Good Consultant – Getting the Interviewing Process Right. So what do you do? Experience and Expertise.

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The results of the 2022 Customer Success Leadership Study, based on the perspectives and insights of more than 1,000 Customer Success leaders, are in. The good news is Customer Success teams are growing both in size and budget. The bad news is they’re not growing enough. Many teams remain woefully underfunded.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 4, 2020

Matt launched his business from his proverbial garage while his wife was pregnant with their first child. Years later, he’s got a thriving business that is not venture capital backed. He’s one of the small and medium-sized business owners of the world trying to build a huge business. It’s Sam Jacobs.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

What can teams do to bring their themes to life? Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Latané. As I’ve said before, I’ve heard so many good things from Brian and the team at Venrock. And so I started to build some of classic demand gen functions, like BDR team. Who is involved?

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OPEXEngine

MAY 4, 2021

” Many leadership paths. From there he took leadership roles at a number of high-profile Internet companies, including ZipRealty and Yelp. Hopefully it will be communicated during the interview process. The people who are self-aware enough, as most CFOs are, would say what their weaknesses are in the interview process.”.

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CustomerSuccessBox

JULY 11, 2022

However, if you work hard, you can design an offboarding procedure that makes a good first impression and leaves room for future business. The majority of businesses rarely give their departing consumers much consideration. They could, however, have left due to a business-related issue just as probable. Here is how you do it.

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