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. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Justin made his way into the world of Sales and came to be one of the industry’s leading scale up Sales leaders with PatientPop and ZocDoc. * How did Justin experience burnout?

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Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Interviewing 149

ChurnZero

JUNE 11, 2021

Customer health scores give Customer Success teams a deep understanding of a customer’s health and are a leading indicator that there may be an issue with an account or customer. If you do not currently use health scores, you can use this resource as a framework to set up scoring for your team.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

As for Krish, under Krish’s leadership the team has grown to over 300 people and over 5,000 clients making it one of the next generation in truly global SaaS businesses started in India. First, what is continuous customer development? Yes, it does not scale, but the beauty is the product. Loving our podcast content?

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Scale SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting Payment Services 131

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 7, 2018

The importance of goal-setting for professional development. Cash Compensation vs. Equity [34:10]. They are a phone system designed for the modern sales team, they integrate seamlessly into your CRM. Outreach triples the productivity of sales teams and empowers them to drive predictable and measurable revenue growth.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

If you missed episode 146, check it out here: Why Following Your Passion Is Bad Advice (& what the good advice is) w/ Callie Moriarty. Fred on Leadership [21:08]. Fred on Leadership [21:08]. That’s a really supportive way for that commercial leadership, marketing leadership to benefit from.

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OpenView Labs

MARCH 27, 2020

Building an effective (and committed) enterprise sales team for the long haul starts with the people you hire. Regardless of the economic conditions, you won’t be able to hire the cream of the sales crop if you don’t develop a bulletproof hiring process to guide them in. So, yes, building the right team is absolutely key.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 16, 2019

Growing a sales team isn’t as simple as putting a bunch of A players in a room and getting them to start selling your product. 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. and many more to talk about how they’ve built sales teams from the ground up.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 19, 2022

Jason recently opened up an AMA on Twitter Spaces to answer questions about how to scale faster. Michiel Rauws (@michielrauws2): So, my question is, we’ve been scaling our SaaS business. We can scale accounts, when we get them, very well. And 75% of the team continuing business as usual. So much talk about downturn.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

From there, he helped scale a team of 150 at AdRoll, before becoming CEO and President at TalkIQ, which was acquired by Dialpad. How to develop your frontline managers [15:54]. This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Dan O’Connell, Chief Strategy Officer at Dialpad. About Dan O’Connell & Dialpad [2:00].

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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

JULY 30, 2017

This is a goal I share with HubSpot’s sales leadership - indeed, I’m a firm believer that shared goals are the one true way to drive alignment between teams. At the beginning of 2017 we made a bunch of significant changes - these impacted everything from our sales motion to compensation structure to product line.

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SaaStr

APRIL 17, 2019

Prior to Harness, Stephen was VP of Marketing at Glassdoor, managing a team of 52 in product marketing, helping grow B2B revenue from $19m to $90m in just 2 years, leading to their $1.2Bn acquisition. What were Steve’s biggest takeaways from seeing the hyper-scaling at AppDynamics? Does it differ from traditional dev teams?

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Bansal shares this and other key milestones and frameworks for company building in conversation with a16z general partner Peter Levine; enterprise deal team partner Satish Talluri (who was a director of product and growth operations there); and Sonal Chokshi. They become all about sales and learning sales and scaling sales.

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SaaStr

JULY 1, 2021

The second is pulling more around values, and how we approached team building. Even as a three person team, we went through an exercise to figure out what do we stand for, as a team? Then trying to maintain that as we scale is always the challenge. How have the other two of you thought about building out your team?

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

As you can tell from that list, it was really a team effort, so huge thanks for that. And after a bunch of moving around, I ended up working in product development, actually, for a middleware company, and I did that for four years. ” But really, it was the team side of it. How do you think about that?

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SaaStr

MARCH 24, 2020

Sam Blond, CSO at Brex explains why recruiting, networking and employee happiness is the key to this playbook on recruiting your sales team. I’m doing The Playbook To Recruiting Your Sales Team. Once again, amazing job to the SaaStr team. I’m really honored to share this stage with some really bad ass speakers.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team 140

TriTuns

MARCH 22, 2019

What is staggering is that executives have accepted these dismal results for so long and not taken action to address such poor performance. When developing your business case, you should explicitly state the level of adoption that is expected in any given period, and then weight your expected benefits accordingly.

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Software Underperforming Technical Team Forecasting Scale 40

TriTuns

MARCH 22, 2019

What is staggering is that executives have accepted these dismal results for so long and not taken action to address such poor performance. When developing your business case, you should explicitly state the level of adoption that is expected in any given period, and then weight your expected benefits accordingly.

Software 40

Software Underperforming Technical Team Forecasting Scale 40

TriTuns

MARCH 22, 2019

What is staggering is that executives have accepted these dismal results for so long and not taken action to address such poor performance. When developing your business case, you should explicitly state the level of adoption that is expected in any given period, and then weight your expected benefits accordingly.

Software 40

Software Underperforming Technical Team Forecasting Scale 40

SmartKarrot

JUNE 30, 2022

Losing employees while following a merger and acquisition is normal, whether because of cost-cutting, economies of scale, or the chance to forge a new direction elsewhere. It is crucial to start by getting to know your new customer success team. Have a consistent compensation model for customer success teams.

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SaaStr

JULY 30, 2020

What are the core metrics founders should measure to determine the effectiveness of their reps and sales teams? Peter Kazanjy: Most of the literature is really for existing sales leadership or sales professionals, but not for people who have never sold before. How does Pete think about optimizing payback period on a per rep basis?

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SaaStr

JULY 5, 2023

The Team Matters More Than The Operating Model Snow’s greatest piece of advice is to choose your team wisely. He believes the team is more important than the operating model because you can have the best models in the world. But if you don’t have the underlying team and structure, it won’t work. They didn’t.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

When it comes to launching sales teams in hyper-growth startups, few people have walked the walk as much as Maggie Hott. We recently sat down with Maggie to chat about all things sales – from laying down a solid foundation to hiring the right people and, finally, scaling the team into hyper-growth. Look for the team players.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 8, 2018

Building a professional development program resulting in high quota attainment for SDRs turned Account Executives. Building the right revenue targets in coordination with the CFO and the Executive Team. Getting to your targets using both top-down and bottoms-up plan development. What You’ll Learn. We’re on iTunes.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 21, 2020

Justin used Sales Culture to grow a successful PatientPop team to 140 employees and 55 million in revenue. When I was hired, I came in with one salesperson and zero dollars in recurring revenue and over the next four years grew the sales team to over 140 employees and 55 million in recurring revenue. Want to see more content like this?

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Sales Hacker

MAY 5, 2020

If you missed episode 107, check it out here: 107: Origin Stories and the Core Principles of Sales Leadership with Lori Richardson. As companies adapt to this new normal, keeping your sales team moving together is more essential than ever. Record, share, review, and coach your team based on the voice of your customer.

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Leadership 63

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Take notes, highlight the best parts, and share important takeaways with your team. Get technical help and a dose of motivation from two of the leading B2B sales trainers, leadership coaches and business strategists on the market. Learn new tactics and get information about the latest sales tools for small to medium-scale companies.

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SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

Regardless of what stage you are in, he provides a framework to systematically approach this stage and what you should focus on to get to scale faster. We are screwing up the scale. For Slack, it was one that a team sends 2000 messages. The three stages are product-market fit, then go-to-market fit and lastly growth and moat.

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Scale Sales Hiring Revenue VP of Engineering 223

ChurnZero

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Does your Customer Success team have the right structure, workload, and engagement model to hit its goals? Re-segmenting your customer base is a natural evolution of your company, product, and team’s growth. All CS leaders eventually undertake this exercise to scale engagement and improve the customer experience.

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SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2019

Learn how Pendo built a product, team, and culture in its Raleigh hometown that could scale coast-to-coast and continent-to-continent. Our entire company is in Raleigh, our entire development team is in Raleigh, entire product management team is there, I’m there. Want to see more content like this session?

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SaaStr

JUNE 3, 2020

Who should be brought into the meeting other than the sales team? Harry Stebbings: We are back for another week in the world of SaaStr, and diving straight in today, I recently tweeted about the importance of a sales playbook, pre-release, scaling out your sales team. What is the right way to structure your sales meeting?

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 20, 2020

If RFPs are slowing down your sales team, you need to check out Loopio. Leveraging the next generation of artificial intelligence, the platform allows sales reps to deliver consistent, relevant, responsible communication for each prospect every time, enabling personalization at scale previously unthinkable. The first is Loopio.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2019

So the scale is sort of mind blowing in certain ways. We grew our team by 50% this year, continuing to grow. I’ve learned a lot about just the financial system at scale. I’ve learned a lot about just the financial system at scale. So I think like anything it’s been good and bad.

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Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 138

OpenView Labs

APRIL 9, 2019

Too many people operate under the false assumption that the manager is the de facto linchpin to growing and developing the people within an organization. We charge managers with making sure their people get the right feedback, have detailed development plans, and progress in their career. Discover the Culture of Feedback.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

What’s broken with compensation plans? [26:28]. If RFPs are slowing down your sales team, you need to check out Loopio. Prior to that, he led sales teams all over the country, and we’re incredibly excited to have on the show. And every week we’re onboarding three to four to five teams.

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VP of Engineering Scale Development Team Review Technical Review 74

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 21, 2019

There I transitioned into sales leadership. Manager of Enterprise Account Development at Lucidchart. Building out a new enterprise development team, and scaling it from 3 to 14 reps over a one-year period. . I want to lead and inspire larger teams while being a successful mother. . Andrea Johnson.

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Sales Recruiting Scale Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 90

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Top Sales Trends & Predictions of 2018: Buyer Side Technology Continues to Disrupt Sales Development & Demand Generation. Increased Importance of Personal Branding & Career Development to Create Your Own Sales Opportunities. By 2020, 70% of sales teams will be using analytics to understand their customers.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

As for Allison, in her 5 years at Gainsight her list of achievements in endless from running all functions that drive value for Gainsight customers, now a 150 person team, to building out the corporate development function to being the right hand to the CEO. How can one approach setting up a services team for scale?

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