Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 5, 2017

The problem is mostly centered around accountability, process and compensation. The main problem I hear is finger-pointing, this is especially apparent on teams where there is a pod system and SDRs are paired to AEs , but it can happen on any team regardless of the setup. Step 1: Addressing Compensation & Pipeline Structure.

Scale 81

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Outsourced Development Sales Hiring 81

Sales Hacker

MARCH 12, 2020

If you’re in a position to fill a sales role, you’re likely already feeling the pressure, because your revenue targets are built on the assumption that your team is fully staffed. Is compensation too low? Is it a lack of leadership? These factors can quickly derail a sales team. Business Moves at the Speed of Light.

Sales Hiring 76

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Compensation Underperforming Technical Team 76

Sixteen Ventures

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Most companies handle Account Expansion poorly and therefore experience very poor results. Do this… Have one team dedicated to bringing in net new Good-fit customers and a different, separate team dedicated to growing the relationship with those successful customers. Okay, so you want to grow fast?

Underperforming Technical Team 58

Underperforming Technical Team Leadership Compensation Customer Success 58

Sales Hacker

MARCH 28, 2019

To begin, perform an audit of your own sales team, and answer these questions: How are women compensated in comparison with men of their same role level? By the way, even if you don’t find there are gender differences on these three criteria (good job), this exercise can help you improve how you manage your team in myriad other ways.

Sales Hiring 79

Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Sales Management 79

Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Getting executives out of the 1:1 interview process and into a whiteboard session can help you assess their core competencies and how they’ll work with your team. We spend time looking at their org savvy, their leadership skills. How can we help the team get calibrated on the role? Working sessions. Talent in 2024.

Sales Recruiting 88

Sales Recruiting Technical Advisors Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 88

ChurnZero

JUNE 12, 2020

Today, you’d be hard-pressed to find a high-velocity Sales, Marketing, or Product team without a designated operations function. Beloved by their tactical peers, operations brings needed order and logic to busy, results-oriented teams. Poor strategy, organization, and execution hurt your productivity and therefore your scalability.

Customer Success 80

Customer Success Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring 80

ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

And yet, downplaying your team’s needs undermines CS’s current impact and future revenue-driving potential. According to our 2022 Customer Success Leadership Study, CS teams are already underfunded and under-resourced. It’s going to be the growth team, and we’re going to put three to four headcount on it.

Customer Success 98

Customer Success Sales Hiring Headcount Scale 98

Kellblog

MARCH 11, 2020

Some SaaS startups develop a form of zero-sum delusion early in their evolution, characterized by following set of beliefs. If the StartFast doesn’t work, it’s not a big deal because the Customer Success team’s mission is to offer free clean-up after failed implementations. They know how to do this.

Underperforming Technical Team 99

Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Consulting Forecasting 99

OPEXEngine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Some SaaS startups develop a form of zero-sum delusion early in their evolution, characterized by the following set of beliefs. First, some SaaS companies deliberately run with a low set-up product, little to no services, and a customer success team that takes care of implementation issues. They know how to do this.

Underperforming Technical Team 52

Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Consulting Forecasting 52

Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2021

Neil’s experience includes a long history of sales leadership, primarily in the Salesforce ecosystem, and is now running revenue for Revenue Grid. How to build a winning sales team. Developing A Winning Sales Team [16:24]. We can see how many appointments that my team has had, how many emails they’ve sent out.

Scale 102

Scale Payments Technical Advisors Sales Recruiting 102

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.

Software Review 96

Software Review Systems Review Scale Underperforming Technical Team 96

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. As a manager observing their team, what are signs that an individual is burning out? What actions and communications must they adopt to ensure that this feeling of culture over performance is accepted by the team?

Scale 141

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Interviewing 141

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.

Scale 43

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Compensation Sales 43

Neil Patel

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Unfortunately, your in-house team doesn’t have the required expertise to push through change. Our team at Neil Patel Digital has compiled the ultimate guide below to help you understand the nuances of working with a consultant for the best results. Spot knowledge gaps and weak points in strategy, and ask for alternatives.

Consulting 132

Consulting Sales Hiring Technical Review Sales Recruiting 132

InsightSquared

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Besides taking care of their own work, sales operations directors have to manage the entire sales ops team to ensure day-to-day tasks get accomplished. As the right-hand to sales leadership, they’re counted on to find answers to the hard questions. Click here to get a free director of sales operations job description template. ).

Sales Hiring 48

Sales Hiring Sales Underperforming Technical Team Outsourced Development 48

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.

Sales Hiring 52

Sales Hiring Enterprise Underperforming Technical Team Scale 52

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.

Scale 60

Scale Leadership Underperforming Technical Team Revenue 60

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]. How to develop your frontline managers. Sam Jacobs: Is there a process or tools or resources you invest in to develop great frontline managers?

AI Search 72

AI Search AI Sales Hiring Scale 72

Baremetrics

MARCH 7, 2018

This can hurt motivation and team morale. Also, dead weight can be a sign of an inexperienced founder or bad team dynamics. While this can take a little longer in some circumstances, it does promote a healthy team. I have always taken up a leadership role, but I have ADHD and tend to be attracted to shiny objects.

Startup 60

Startup Compensation Underperforming Technical Team Benchmarks 60

User Pilot

JANUARY 14, 2024

TL;DR A product manager leads the product management team and is responsible for overseeing all stages of the product development process. They earn more than developers, astronauts, and even attorneys, but less than surgeons. The Director of Product is accountable for multiple product lines and manages product management teams.

VP of Engineering 94

VP of Engineering Management Underperforming Technical Team Compensation 94

OpenView Labs

AUGUST 28, 2019

You can’t tell someone they are doing a good or bad job if they don’t understand their role in the first place. In addition to goals, managers and team leads that provide feedback need to have the proper training and tools to do so. Build the Proper Foundation. Use Different Types of Feedback.

Construction 41

Construction Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Compensation 41

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. Steve has previously said, “Sales and marketing must be one team.” What does this mean for the processes used by marketing teams?

DevOps as a Service 100

DevOps as a Service Sales Recruiting Scale Sales Hiring 100

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.

Sales Enablement 100

Sales Enablement Scale Sales Underperforming Technical Team 100

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? Loving our podcast content? Does one have to move to enterprise? Does it have to be in person?

Scale 128

Scale SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting Payment Services 128

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. When done right, your sales team won’t just accelerate your company’s growth; they’ll enrich your company’s culture and help build a better product too. 12 steps to build a world-class sales team.

Scale 156

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Scaling 156

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. To be honest, a bottoms-up developer option, great land.

Product Marketing 80

Product Marketing Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting 80

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.

Sales Recruiting 132

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team 132

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? Sam : This is not my insight, but someone else says… I really do believe it, that the team you build is the company you build.

VP of Engineering 266

VP of Engineering Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 266

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?

Scale 191

Scale Leadership Underperforming Technical Team Scaling 191

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.

Strategy 207

Strategy Marketing Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring 207

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

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

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.

Sales Hiring 43

Sales Hiring Scale Management Sales 43

SmartKarrot

JUNE 30, 2022

It is crucial to start by getting to know your new customer success team. Before taking action to prevent departures, you must meet with each team member and quickly assess the likelihood that they would leave and the potential harm that would result if they do. Have a consistent compensation model for customer success teams.

Acquisition 10

Acquisition Customer Success Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team 10

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. We only have an engineering team.” I had to onboard reps.

Part-Time VPE 202

Part-Time VPE Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 202

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?

Sales Recruiting 262

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Sales 262