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. On this podcast, we share stories from global SaaS leaders like Ryan, that you can use to inspire new growth strategies in your own business.

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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. Due to his success, Ryan has been named to Forbes’ List of World’s Most Influential CMOs. Pssst Loving our podcast content? I love it.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 13, 2021

Few people have more experience with this move than Linda Lin , Director of Customer Success at the revenue intelligence platform Gong. 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.

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SaaStr

JUNE 3, 2020

The SaaS Trust Crisis is making it harder to market and sell software and services than ever before. And today, I’m very excited to be the co-founder and CEO of G2 where we’re building the world’s leading marketplace for SaaS software. The situation is getting worse. Godard Abel | Co-Founder and CEO @ G2.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2021

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Neil Ringers , EVP of Revenue Grid. Neil’s experience includes a long history of sales leadership, primarily in the Salesforce ecosystem, and is now running revenue for Revenue Grid. How Revenue Grid enables smarter selling. powered by Sounder.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Seeing a real demand for business courses in their consumer marketplace, the team identified an opening in the market to disrupt corporate training and hypothesized that employers would be more than willing to pay. Today Udemy for Business boasts 80% of the Fortune 100 – the top 100 largest US companies by revenue – as customers.

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OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The ‘haves’, defined by growing quickly out of the gate and then maintaining 50% or faster revenue growth at significant scale, have seen their valuations skyrocket over the years. ARR business to be top quartile in 2021 they now need to be growing at 300% or faster. The game has changed when it comes to recruiting.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

In simple terms, in order for a company to succeed they must have a good business idea and be able to consistently execute and evolve that idea better than anyone else. The Apple and Google Play app stores give developers an instant marketplace, a gateway to billions of customers. The second army are your main competitors. The talent.

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 27, 2020

And finally, we spotlight Quibi yet again—a company spending more than $1 billion as it crusades into the streaming service battles. But here are some learnings, from the sales community, that Mixmax put together so we can start acting like pipeline pros. Because sales professionals are often likened to "hunters."

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 18, 2019

They didn’t know it at the time, but they had also created an entire business category: an on demand, short-term rental marketplace, which has shot the value of their business north of $38 billion. As the likes of Airbnb, Uber and Apple have found, creating an entirely new category can be a lucrative business.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 16, 2018

On this episode of the Sales Hacker podcast, we talk with Jess Hun t , Head of Global Marketing, Sales & Strategy for Axiom about creating a revenue model. Why your CFO shouldn’t own the revenue model. Real world advice on how to successfully grow your company’s revenue. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

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ProfitWell

APRIL 15, 2019

Now, the streaming service is available via Roku , as they begin offering additional premium add-on subscriptions. Bullhorn Stacked with Recruiting Automation. Automated messaging system TextUs partners with Bullhorn and Herefish to make the recruiting process less laborious, while still providing a personal 1:1 experience.

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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.

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ProfitWell

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

But here are some learnings from the sales community that Mixmax put together so we can start acting like pipeline pros. Far too often, focus is limited to the short term because of the nature of daily deliverables in sales. Because sales professionals are often likened to "hunters." Firstly, firm up your foundation.

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OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 11, 2019

In a market that requires companies to earn their customers’ business each and every day, it can literally make or break your entire business model. It would help us establish a more predictable and consistent income based on recurring revenue instead of one-time purchases. Customers called us. No unexpected costs.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

Aaron Ross | CEO @ Predictable Revenue. 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 : It’s like saying, “Hey, you want a sales rep to carry 10 times the quota they do today. Jason : Yep.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

Average Revenue per Customer. It wasn’t the case 20 or even 10 years ago, where the business models of the internet were more focused on eCommerce, marketplaces, or even advertising. The last kind of constituent here is investors and business owners. How good is my business doing? MRR, obviously. Why is that?

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Stax

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Software as a Service (SaaS) has made business software more accessible by offering cloud-based, on-demand access to a range of solutions, from project management and collaboration to sales and marketing. Some solutions, like Slack or Microsoft, are useful for any kind of business. What is Vertical SaaS?

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SaaStr

JUNE 10, 2020

Are you a revenue driver or a cost center? Marketing leaders must focus their teams on the areas that will drive revenue while they cut costs – the biggest impact for the business. We are a business travel management and a new model for corporate T&E. The true test of marketers. Our workforce is remote.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 20, 2021

Can businesses keep succeeding with this decline in organic reach? That’s fine – but it leaves so much opportunity on the table to drive real results for your business. You need to attract potential buyers and funnel them into your sales funnel. Don’t Just Promote Products and Services. Absolutely.

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Unbounce

JUNE 16, 2020

Today, small and medium SaaS businesses are discovering the power of using partners to help sell their products. This guide is all about answering the burning questions you might have about launching a partner program (or optimizing an existing one) for your SaaS business. Why should I build a partner program for my SaaS business?

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

If you missed episode 130, check it out here: Turning Junior-level Talent into Top Sales Professionals with Eddie Baez. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Why it’s hard to build a two-sided marketplace [13:38]. Sales enablement is easy. More sales meetings, more money. More sales meetings, more money.

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SaaStr

MAY 14, 2023

Algolia went from zero to seven figures in revenue in 12 months, and the launch of their search as a service product, and grew pricing from $19 a month to $100,000, which sounds amazing. web services. Daniel, you grew to 3 million in ARR before you hired a VP of Sales. How’d you manage all that? Pro Harbaugh?

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

And for leveling up your sales skills, nothing beats a good sales book. So what are the best sales books for helping you reach peak performance? Have been recommended by sales professionals. Here’s how you can find the sales books that are most relevant to you. Here they are… The 97 Best Sales Books in 2020.

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yoursales

JANUARY 28, 2022

Sales Stack 2022 Sales Tools for Professional B2B Sales SALES STACK 2022: Sales Tools for. Professional Sales SALES STACK. 2021: Sales Tools. Sales W hich challenges would you like sales technology to solve for your sales team? What is sales technology here to do?

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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

MAY 15, 2020

333: Bridget Gleason is the Head of Sales and Customer Success @ Tidelift, the company providing managed open source, backed by maintainers. Tidelift has raised over $40M from some of the best in the business including Foundry Group and General Catalyst. Before Tidelift, Bridget was VP of Sales @ Logz.io

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Afterward, Patrick founded several businesses in diverse sectors, including tech, healthcare, and finance. Its focus is on businesses in Big Data, mobile, and SaaS. Aaron Ross, Co-CEO, Predictable Revenue. Today he is the man behind Predictable Revenue, the “Outbound Success Company.” Patrick Campbell, CEO, ProfitWell.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 21, 2021

Do you love chasing down the sale? What about using data analysis to create sales strategies? If the answer is “yes” to all three, now is the best time to get started in a revenue operations job. On Linkedin alone, a search for “revenue operations” in the US brings up almost 20,000 results. Unified data problems.

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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. Maria : I mean, I’ve talked to over 60 recruiters. So I think that’s contributing to this importance of kind of investing in marketing and sales. Maria Pergolino | frmr.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Sam Jacobs: This week on the show, we’ve got Luke Rogers, the Vice President of Sales at Instabase. At 15, he began going to school part-time in Northern England in Manchester, so that he could run a technology consulting business that he had started. We’re on iTunes. And on Stitcher.

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yoursales

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Sales Stack 2023 Sales Tools for Professional B2B Sales SALES STACK 2023: Sales Tools for. Professional Sales SALES STACK. 2022: Sales Tools. Sales share this with your network S ales tools and figuring out what your sales stack 2023 should look like is as challenging as ever.

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yoursales

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Sales Stack 2023 Sales Tools for Professional B2B Sales SALES STACK 2023: Sales Tools for Professional Sales SALES STACK 2023: Sales Tools for Professional Sales share this with your network S ales tools and figuring out what your sales stack 2023 should look like is as challenging as ever.

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Neil Patel

MARCH 2, 2021

It’s a good option for businesses who don’t want to deal with selling directly to customers. Before you sign up, consider the pros and cons to see if joining will positively or negatively affect your business. You get the benefit of Amazon brand name recognition, which instills trust and makes it easier to close the sale.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we’ve got a fantastic episode for you. We’ve got an interview with Brandon Meyers , the chief revenue officer of ADARA. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Building a business in Europe [14:37]. Critical skills for success as a Chief Revenue Officer [19:58].

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SaaStr

JULY 11, 2019

It may seem like a simple decision, but there is a lot of complexity in a two-sided marketplace where people are expecting to get paid. The marketplace was doing well. Back in those days, I was really inspired by the eBay model of a marketplace where it was a bidding auction approach. We looked at the numbers. It was healthy.

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SaaStr

JULY 26, 2019

To date, Eric has raised over $12m for Zylo from some of the best in the business, including Byron @ Bessemer, Salesforce, GGV, Semil @ Haystack, and the team at High Alpha. Prior to founding Zylo, Eric was the VP of Sales @ Sprout Social leading the revenue operations for over 11,000 customers.

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