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Recruiting Saleswomen of Color: What Are You Waiting For?

Sales Hacker

A study by the University of Chicago found that “companies in the top quartile for gender diversity are 15% more likely to have higher financial returns.” ” Prioritizing women is sales and other business sectors continues to be a challenge for businesses, but recruiting women of color—that’s a greater challenge yet.

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What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Scaling from 2 to 200 Employees and 0 to 75,000 Customers with Storyblok CEO Dominik Angerer and VP of Operations Lydia Kothmeier (Video)

SaaStr

In 2019, the founding team at Storyblok set out to create a content marketing solution that worked for everyone—developers and marketers alike. The company has since grown to more than 200 employees and over 75,000 customers. Their first step to achieving this was hiring a sales leader to build a sales team.

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20+ LinkedIn Profile Tips (Guaranteed Ways to Stand Out)

Buffer Resources

I’ve never created LinkedIn content with the “goal” of lead generation or immediate-term sales. Another cool example I really like is Tito Bohrt — he stands out with the pseudo, “ Sales Mad Scientist ” — which demonstrates confidence and a unique identity online.

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SaaStr Classic: Jyoti Bansal of Harness.io and AppDynamics; Dev Ittycheria of MongoDB (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

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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How Job Hopping Is Hurting Your Sales Team

Sales Hacker

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. Sales organizations experienced 58% higher voluntary turnover in 2021 than in 2020.

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How I Try to Hire Without Bias

Sales Hacker

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. This was the case for me years ago when I started applying for sales positions in France, Ireland, and Luxembourg. Culture fit.

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Building a great sales team: How Intercom fosters and maintains its sales culture

Intercom, Inc.

Your sales team is integral to your business’s success: not only do your salespeople bring in the big deals, but they also represent your company and culture to every new and potential prospect. So why is sales team culture still an afterthought for so many organizations? Be collaborative, not cutthroat.