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In-House vs. Outsourced Sales: A Case for NOT Hiring SDRs

Sales Hacker

The SMB Decision: In-House vs. Outsourced Sales Development. As a high-growth SMB, your number-one focus is consistent sales. Without a sales development team, you can find yourself struggling when it comes to pipeline generation. The Four Costs of In-House Sales Development. Salary and benefits costs.

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Scaling A SaaS Sales Team While Building Culture with Scott Pugh, VP of Sales at Figma (Pod 639 + Video)

SaaStr

Culture — developing sub-cultures within sales that enable the team to scale successfully. Instead, develop a scalable, streamlined enablement process to eliminate any bottlenecks in success. It was an upfront social contract saying, “Hey, we know you’ll leave eventually. Iterate on culture and values.

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The Playbook to Building a Thriving Sales Culture with PatientPop SVP of Sales Justin Welsh (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

It’s an SMB SaaS company in the healthcare technology vertical. My talk today is the playbook to building a thriving sales culture. So you might be wondering who am I and why am I up here talking about sales culture? My velocity lane, PatientPop’s SMB SaaS, eight units a month, $13,500 contract.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week: May 24, 2019

SaaStr

As for Andrew, he started his first software development company at the age of 18 and has been running Wrike for the last 13 years alongside advisory roles with both Ditto and Appulate. How does Andrew advise founders on the question of whether to start in enterprise or SMB? What are the benefits of starting in SMB?

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Zylo and TaskRabbit — July 26, 2019

SaaStr

Before Sprout Social he was VP of Sales at Shoutlet, responsible for global direct and channel sales teams and developing and managing strategic relationships. Finally, prior to Shoutlet, Eric spent over 7 years at ExactTarget as a Senior Business Development Manager which is where he met High Alpha’s Scott Dorsey.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Chargebee and Glassdoor — November 1, 2019

SaaStr

How does Krish think about purely serving the SMB market? How does he think about the mortality rate of SMBs? First, what is continuous customer development? Second, why does Krish believe it is one of the most important things any company must do? A classic example is a Shopify selling to, let’s say, contract.

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Jan 10 – Customer Success Jobs 

SmartKarrot

Role: Customer Success Lead Location: Remote, Canada Organization: Testimonial Hero As a Customer Success Lead, you will be developing and managing value-based relationships with the highest-value accounts with a focus on agreement completion and retention. Embody company culture and maintain high team engagement.