SaaStr

JULY 25, 2021

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. Recruiting is easier, but the things that don’t change are customers don’t care.

Sales Recruiting 241

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale VP of Engineering 241

InsightSquared

MARCH 6, 2018

Sales operations has been around for quite some time, but lately the function has been gaining momentum. Instead of behind-the-scenes sales support, sales ops now acts as a strategic partner for sales VPs and leadership. Start building out your sales operations department by hiring someone to own your CRM.

Sales Recruiting 119

Sales Recruiting Scale Sales Hiring Sales 119

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 21, 2017

What is Sales Operations? Sales operations refers to the unit, role, activities and processes within a sales organization that support, enable, and drive front line sales teams to sell better, faster, and more efficiently. But perhaps more than anything else, sales operations brings a system to selling. Technology.

Scale 88

Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Technical Review 88

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 29, 2018

In this blueprint, we provide insights on how to structure your sales organization. The changes in SaaS require that we no longer look at salespeople as individual contributors, but rather a team that crosses disciplines, not just within sales but also across other parts of the organization such as marketing and product.

Sales Recruiting 74

Sales Recruiting Scale Sales Hiring Sales 74

Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

One of the toughest challenges for founders — and especially technical founders who are used to focusing so much on product features over sales — is striking “product-market fit”. So in that shift from product-market fit to product-market-SALES fit, how much should you optimize your go-to-market for product… and even the other way around?

Product Marketing 75

Product Marketing Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting 75

SaaStr

APRIL 17, 2019

Steve has previously said, “Sales and marketing must be one team.” Where does Steve find common points of tension between sales and marketing? I mean, my career started as a software engineer, and out of frustration, I went into sales. The role of marketing is to help sales sell, and it’s not about creating a logo.

DevOps as a Service 100

DevOps as a Service Sales Recruiting Scale Sales Hiring 100

User Pilot

JULY 9, 2023

Relevant usability metrics include success rate, task duration, error rate, and customer satisfaction. This may translate into increased sales and greater customer loyalty. To encourage users to participate, you may need to compensate them for their time with vouchers, discounts, or free access to the product.

User Experience 98

User Experience Sales Recruiting Scale Interviewing 98

OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 17, 2019

OpenView’s experts weighed in with their predictions across product, sales, marketing, pricing, corporate development and talent. Product Managers Will Own a KPI. How many of your highest paid team members are in sales? The fact is that a great (albeit expensive) sales rep is worth every penny and has an obvious ROI.

Trends 67

Trends Sales Recruiting Technical Review SaaS 67

Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Baremetrics is a business metrics tool that provides 26 metrics about your business, such as MRR, ARR, LTV, total customers, and more. Debt financing is preferable for sales and marketing acceleration since it has a lower long-term cost and enables the company to expand quicker. Want to try it for yourself? start free trial.

Finance 98

Finance Venture Capital SaaS Payments Payments 98

OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The game has changed when it comes to recruiting. Hiring managers should prepare by putting together pitch materials (usually a 2-3 page deck) to give candidates a deeper look at your company and culture – beyond what’s on your website. Then it’s critical to sell, sell, sell. Get more from your existing customers.

Payment Services 80

Payment Services Benchmarks SaaS Payments Merchant Services 80

Chart Mogul

OCTOBER 15, 2021

To grow your business, revenue metrics should be top of mind. At SaaStr, we realized that not everyone has a reliable way to track subscription metrics. And if they do, their metrics are cosmetic and don’t provide enough insight to base decisions on. At the core of growth is understanding your subscription metrics.

Sales Recruiting 52

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Travel Compensation 52

Neil Patel

OCTOBER 24, 2020

In a nutshell, they can give you expert opinions, analysis, and recommendations that can help ensure a more objective-based approach to grow your business and maximize sales – all at the same time. Questions about KPIs and metrics for performance measurements. Sales and Marketing Consultants. Human Resources Consultants.

Consulting 132

Consulting Sales Hiring Technical Review Sales Recruiting 132

SaaStr

JANUARY 21, 2020

Justin Welsh, former SVP of Sales at PatientPop explains how he started in SaaS in 2009 as the second sales hire at Zocdoc. Justin used Sales Culture to grow a successful PatientPop team to 140 employees and 55 million in revenue. Justin Welsh | SVP Sales @ PatientPop. I was a local sales manager or regional manager.

Sales Recruiting 254

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Sales 254

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

And so again we would just have added to more kind of friction in the sales cycle and there was a whole video long sales cycle. And then I think the other one was a bit harder because we made a transition from perpetual to subscription, which kind of screws up all your metrics. We opened a small sales office in Wework.

Sales Hiring 180

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Government 180

Sales Hacker

MAY 9, 2019

A great sales compensation plan needs to accomplish quite a lot. It needs to provide fair compensation to employees in customer-facing roles. And of course, a strong sales comp plan needs to motivate reps to hit goals that grow the company while still maintaining a profit margin. Example Compensation Plans.

Compensation 102

Compensation Sales Hiring Development Team Review Sales Recruiting 102

SaaStr

JULY 30, 2020

356: Pete Kazanjy is the Co-Founder @ Atrium, the startup providing proactive, always-on insights for sales operations, managers, and leaders. Alongside Atrium, Pete is also the Founder of Modern Sales Pros, a community of 15,000 focused on sales operations and sales management. Stop asking questions.

Part-Time VPE 196

Part-Time VPE Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 196

SmartKarrot

JUNE 9, 2022

Ensure Customer Success and Asset Management teams are coordinated with respect to the communication of project and utility timelines with end-user customers; develop processes between teams to ensure seamless communication for the benefit of all the customers. Work closely with sales to ensure a smooth onboarding process.

VP of Engineering 19

VP of Engineering Customer Success Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 19

SaaStr

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Imagine a coverage model, from end to end, for the full customer life cycle: from demand generation to sales to post-sales. Sales Cycle. This includes everything from inside sales to account executives to strategic asset allocation. Post Sales. Execution is not just a sales process. Land the account.

Scale 207

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scaling 207

SaaStr

AUGUST 27, 2019

How to Design a Sales Comp Plan to Get You to $100M with Work-Bench, Movable Ink, MongoDB and Concert Finance. This panel will speak tactically to various comp design options as a way for management to determine and promote ideal behavior in their front-line teams. Meghan Gill | VP of Sales Ops @ MongoDB.

Sales Recruiting 134

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Sales 134

SaaStr

MARCH 22, 2022

I really appreciate you coming to talk about how to attract, hire, and build a more diverse sales team in your organization. So I’ve been building top-producing sales teams for a really, really long time. So over the years, I’ve watched many sales leaders go out and say, “Brian’s my top producer.

Sales Hiring 210

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Sales 210

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

With the rise of AI, new sales technology and automation at the forefront of the sales echo chamber these days, we thought we’d take a moment to bring it back to BASICS – that’s why we’ve rounded up this complete glossary of sales terms and definitions to help you remember where it all started.

Scale 99

Scale Payment Methods Sales Recruiting SaaS Payments 99

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Inspired by the release of our book Intercom on Sales , we wanted to take a fresh look at three big topics – speed, automation, and growth. We wanted to know: what are sales leaders doing to bring velocity to their sales cycle? How are they using automation to bring new efficiencies to their sales orgs?

Scale 139

Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Trends 139

SaaStr

JULY 1, 2021

When we do all hands meetings, we go through every KPI, every metric, ARR, margin, with every Gustee. I want to come be your VP of sales and, you’re going to meet me for the first time. Spencer : For me, the key things for a VP of sales is, “OK, tell me about your best reps. We’ve done that since day one.

VP of Engineering 254

VP of Engineering Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 254

SaaStr

MAY 14, 2023

Daniel, you grew to 3 million in ARR before you hired a VP of Sales. You had all the reps and SDRs reporting to you, managed it all yourself. How’d you manage all that? Daniel : We followed a lean start up approach to building our sales process. An engineering team and the sales team was me with a laptop.

Sales Hiring 226

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Payment Methods 226

SaaStr

JULY 1, 2020

An open discussion with Sam Blond, CSO at Brex, and Kristen Habacht, VPS at Atlassian, about adjusting their sales process during Covid-19. Kristen Habacht runs EDR sales at Atlassian, which I got a check today, $40 billion-$50 billion company. She manages a huge global team. Four, people in the sale? Jason Lemkin: None.

Merchant Services 175

Merchant Services Scale Sales Recruiting Sales 175

Unbounce

JUNE 16, 2020

Affiliates usually receive some kind of compensation (more on this below) for their work. Your partners act as an outsourced sales and marketing team. Working with established partners in existing markets, you don’t need new offices, hires, or associated marketing and sales spends. Is your sales process simple and streamlined?

Outsourcing Services 131

Outsourcing Services Sales Recruiting Scale SaaS 131

Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Do you want to grow your SaaS sales team and improve your processes? maintain healthy atmosphere in your Smarketing team, make smart choices regarding your SaaS sales model, strategy, pricing, . build smoother connections both with your prospects through optimized sales process. And from SaaS sales models to SaaS pricing.

SaaS Payments 157

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 157

SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2019

What one question must all founders be asking in the sales process? * Where should the responsibility for upsell lie, customer success or sales? Should sales commission be paid on renewals? Does it lie with customer success or does it lie with sales? Or you could do it based on an account expansion NDR multiplier.

Scale 114

Scale SMB Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 114

OpenView Labs

MARCH 15, 2019

Some of the most successful and influential SaaS companies include channel sales in their go-to-market strategy. For the uninitiated, channel sales refers to the process of partnering with third parties to get your product into the end user’s hands. Channel Sales versus Direct Sales – The Good and the Bad.

Sales Recruiting 85

Sales Recruiting Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 85

Totango

JULY 19, 2021

It may be wise to look for applicants coming from diverse backgrounds, such as those with customer relations, sales or other service-orientated backgrounds. Be sure you look for the skills and qualities that will allow a customer success manager (CSM) to truly connect with customers. 1: Recruit the Right People.

Customer Success 124

Customer Success Sales Recruiting Compensation Scale 124

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 21, 2019

There are tons of roundup articles about top women sales leaders. Most of the time, somebody does a LinkedIn search for “sales leader,” chooses the top 15 profiles with the most followers, and calls it a day. What about the amazing sales leaders who aren’t well-known already? Most Dynamic Women Sales Leaders.

Sales Recruiting 90

Sales Recruiting Scale Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 90

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

David is also the author of foreentrepreneurs.com the must read blog in the world of SaaS metrics. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How David made his way into the world of SaaS at the age of 22. * How does David think about scaling sales teams? How does one know when is the right time to hire your first sales reps?

Scale 192

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 192

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2017

The race to the 2017 finish line is in full throttle – While last minute closed deals are still trickling in, B2B organizations are researching how to shape next year’s sales strategy to align with the top sales trends that are expected to emerge in 2018. Top 2018 Sales Trends & Predictions – Strategic Headlines.

Scale 96

Scale Technical Review Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring 96

Natalia Luneva

JUNE 28, 2021

I use my podcast, Beyond the Uniform to: (1) create relationships with a sales prospect. It is easier to schedule a podcast interview with my target customer than it is to schedule a sales meeting. Recruit CRM started its own podcast named Recruitment Entrepreneurs back in 2020. . Nassiri, Founder and CEO, Captivate.ai

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Sales Recruiting Marketing Construction Interviewing 52

Kellblog

MARCH 13, 2020

In days of yore, chief revenue officer (CRO) was just a gussied-up title for VP of Sales. If someone was particularly good, particularly senior, or particularly hard to recruit you might call them CRO. Chief revenue officer meant chief sales officer meant VP of Sales. Frank, the head of Sales, had a $1B number.

VP of Engineering 98

VP of Engineering Customer Success Sales Recruiting Acquisition 98

Sales Hacker

APRIL 30, 2018

To see what selling on steroids looks like, check out companies with the best sales enablement strategies. You’ll discover a lively place, with a lot of things — like revenue, productivity, and win rate s — going up, and a lot of things — like speed to revenue, sale cycle period, customer churn, and staff attrition rate — going down.

Sales Enablement 78

Sales Enablement Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 78

SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

What is sales? What is sales? Isn’t sales really around customer value creation? Sales is not about revenue generation, it’s around customer value creation. Why are we so obsessed with sales being focused on revenue? Sales is first and foremost around customer value creation, revenue is an outcome.

Scale 206

Scale Sales Hiring Revenue VP of Engineering 206