Sales Hacker

MARCH 12, 2020

Is compensation too low? Compensate all sales positions in the same way. RELATED: 5 Ways to Keep Your Sales Machine Efficient While Scaling Headcount. Rework your compensation structure. All sales positions are not created equal — nor should they be compensated the same way. Is it unrealistic sales quotas?

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InsightSquared

MAY 7, 2019

When scaling the business, sales typically averages roughly 30% of revenue, so therefore sales spend is one of the biggest investments a company can make. At the highest level, SaaS companies look at sales expense, headcount, sales productivity and SaaS metrics like: The cost of new customer acquisition (CAC).

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

This should feed into your strategy for building out compensation plans across your organization. When the SEALs knock it out of the park, the plan has credibility across the whole team when you roll it out on a broader scale. Of course, headcount is always a sensitive topic, so start small to show your executives what is possible.

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ChurnZero

APRIL 5, 2019

Hiring and Scaling a Customer Success Team. Recommendations for Developing Compensation Plans for CSMs. Hiring and Scaling a Customer Success Team. When scaling a Customer Success team, you have to paint the picture in terms of ‘ what is the least they could do. Recommendations for Developing Compensation Plans for CSMs.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 29, 2018

Reps were hired, trained and compensated to perform as an individual to hit a quota. Traditional Sales Organizations – Growth of headcount in sales was structured around revenue per individual contributor (IC). Scaling Your Revenue Growth. Scaling of the revenue now occurs by scaling the PODs.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 26, 2021

Here, you can use your sales operations skills to get into your reps’ heads by creating compensation and incentive plans. You will also be more involved with scaling the sales and operations teams. Help drive annual planning and modeling projects with a focus on revenue and headcount. Sales Operations Career Path.

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ProfitWell

MARCH 3, 2020

We invest in business software companies as they’re scaling through the awkward teenage years of that expansion stage—but they’ve found product-market fit, they’ve found some customers, they’ve got a great product, and they’re really ready to 10x their customer base in their teens. “I Here’s some intel from our conversation.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 4, 2023

They grew headcount fairly aggressively from ‘21 to ‘22, and then Q4 of last year dipped and held flat before starting to regrow. Monday will probably add 25% headcount this year. We’ve gotten used to certain types of sales compensation, certain levels of Customer Success, and certain types of coverage and marketing spend.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 16, 2019

If you want to build a revenue engine that will fuel long-term growth, you need to build and scale your sales org with intention. The optimal sales team structure is one that is accretive, where, roughly speaking, each sales rep brings in at least 5x his or her total compensation. Align compensation to how your buyer buys.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Because with a bad VP Sales you can lose so much momentum, and create so much internal confusion, that this one bad hire can really cripple you as you try to get from Initial Traction to Initial Scale. Because sales is a lead-driven but headcount- closed business. VP of Sales Compensation Plan. It’s going to take a few steps.

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ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

As a Customer Success leader, do you get anxious at the thought of asking your CFO or CEO for additional headcount? Using these models, you too can learn how to go toe-to-toe with your Finance team by presenting trade-offs to get the headcount you need. How to Build a Customer Success Budget for Headcount. Discovery Call.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 2, 2022

All CS leaders eventually undertake this exercise to scale engagement and improve the customer experience. We also had to think about how we were doing their variable compensation to incent fairness across the team. Alli: Customer employee headcount aligned well for us with contract value and customer revenue.

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SaaSOptics

MAY 2, 2022

There are several different ways to successfully launch and scale a SaaS company. In a study that analyzed the growth trends of 495 product-led companies , Peersignal found the percentage of sales headcounts at product-led companies increased along with total employee growth. If you’re looking to scale, both are needed.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 29, 2021

With the advent of sales engagement platforms (SEPs) and other tools which make it easy to scale outbound sales communications, Rolodexes and spreadsheets are things of the past, with technology taking over many formerly manual steps. When they do this, you lose predictability, visibility, and the ability to scale what’s effective.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 8, 2020

Michael talks about how he does that at scale and how he thinks about scale. The origins of Compass, how it achieved scale, and its competitive advantage [7:13]. The origins of Compass, how it achieved scale, and its competitive advantage [7:13]. That it’s hard to get scale. How did Compass achieve scale?

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SaaStr

MARCH 22, 2022

And so at Handshake, we want to make sure that no matter what someone’s race, ethnicity, or socioeconomic status is, that they’re able to find meaningful employment and Handshake can help support that at scale. ” And it was such an impactful statement at that time.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 16, 2020

Look no further than tech growth stories like Looker, Slack, Snowflake, Calendly, and Zoom for story after story of partnership-driven expansion that only gets amplified with scale. Partnerships create very low marginal CAC, and they scale brilliantly — two properties that are rising in demand given current market conditions.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Aircall’s VP of Sales, Collin Cadmus, and Glofox’s Director of Sales, Patrick FitzGerald, on scaling efficiently as you pull new growth levers and introduce new sales motions. As you start to scale reps, whether it’s BDRs or SDRs or AEs, do people actually know how to best qualify things? I was blown away. Dave: Yeah.

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SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

I get asked by virtually every customer I talk to, “Hey, what are we doing around giving guidance on job roles and compensation?” inaudible 00:32:31] Some cuts, in this case, the company with 50 AEs, you drop 20 headcount, and then you’re 30. The other part that I think is top of mind probably is around stability.

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Kellblog

JANUARY 2, 2024

Per LinkedIn , headcount is up 240% over the past two years. See chart below for how it varies with scale [10]. Because of that, and because Bessemer believes that the relative impact should change as a function of scale, they have introduced a new metric, the rule of X , which is a variably weighted, growth-weighted rule of 40 [13].

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