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.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2020

But if you are a VP of Sales being told to reduce costs, what is the best way to approach these cuts to minimize damage to the company and your team? Sales should be one of the last places to reduce costs — after all, salespeople are the engine of the revenue machine. Adjust Your Compensation Plan. Start Small.

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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.

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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?

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Sales Hacker

MAY 16, 2019

Nothing really stood out until I stumbled across a “Director of Sales and Client Relations” role with a company called Jammony. Director of Sales and love what I do. How can you get started in sales? Keep reading as I share my story and offer some tips that could help you get your 1st (or next) sales role. Today, I’m Sr.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Maybe you’d spend it creating new marketing campaigns to generate more revenue. If you offer benefits to your employees, you need a payroll service that helps you effectively manage things like time off, vacation requests, workers’ compensation, insurance, and more. What would you do with ten extra hours a month?

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OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The ‘haves’, defined by growing quickly out of the gate and then maintaining 50% or faster revenue growth at significant scale, have seen their valuations skyrocket over the years. The game has changed when it comes to recruiting. Experiment with a usage-based pricing model. This is most visible among publicly traded companies.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

One of the biggest decisions you can make when setting up your sales team is whether to focus primarily on inside or outside sales. They seem to be completely at odds, with one focused on clients with a high acquisition cost and high ACV (annual account value), the other focused on a high sales velocity. Compensation.

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Kellblog

JULY 30, 2023

For example: Marketing exists is to make sales easier. HR exists to help managers manage. This one depends on your sales/success model.) You can make sales easier in very strategic ways, like picking great target markets and working with product to uniquely meet customer requirements. Recruiting support.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

Billion story from its launch in 2008 to its 2018 acquisition by Recruit Holdings. Hear about the early days of Glassdoor; tactical lessons on scaling—from building a business model and recruiting an all-star management team to advice on building a compelling, innovative company culture; and learn whyGlassdoor’s $1.2

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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.

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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. Steve has previously said, “Sales and marketing must be one team.” Why does he believe this is so important? What works?

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FastSpring

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Loyal Customers Can Help Drive Revenue as Affiliates. When you have an established affiliate program that is driving sales and also recruiting additional affiliates in your niche, you have all the pieces in place when it’s time to launch a new product. This way, you are reaching their audience and paying for leads or sales.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The backup of 2020 was great, 2021 comes in and somehow we have 600 unicorns and everyone can burn 500 million a year or have huge sales teams. ” There were no IPOs from December 2021 until Klaviyo a couple of months ago, but even Klaviyo still barely IPO’d at 800 million in revenue. It’s part of the job now.

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ProfitWell

APRIL 15, 2019

Bullhorn Stacked with Recruiting Automation. Automated messaging system TextUs partners with Bullhorn and Herefish to make the recruiting process less laborious, while still providing a personal 1:1 experience. Is it a flash in the pan, or are all SaaS operations destined to cook up this pricing structure? We're doing it live.

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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.

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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.

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SmartKarrot

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Image Source After recruiting your sales team and coming up with a sales strategy, you should then ensure that everybody is ready to work toward your business goals and objectives. A business sales playbook provides your sales team with the information and tools they require to successfully execute your sales strategy.

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SaaStr

MAY 14, 2023

Algolia went from zero to seven figures in revenue in 12 months, and the launch of their search as a service product, and grew pricing from $19 a month to $100,000, which sounds amazing. 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.

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SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

Brendon introduces his playbook to hiring the first VP of Sales from his experiences as VP of Sales at LinkedIn, EchoSign, Talkdesk and more. Learn the dos and don’ts to make the correct hire the first time and not rush into hiring the wrong VP of Sales, which can cost the company months or even years. Roughly 90%.

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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.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 3, 2022

When approaching a GTM exercise, one thing needs to be very clear: the company’s revenue strategy. This revenue strategy consists of three core questions: What is the market opportunity—the problem that needs to be solved? What is the pricing? Sales Cycle. Post Sales. Execution is not just a sales process.

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SaaStr

JULY 1, 2021

Dropbox just hit one billion dollars in annual revenue. 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. If they’re saying, “Hey, this thing in recruiting is really messed up.

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Kellblog

JUNE 4, 2023

In that (quite popular) post, I shared Mark’s top ten list of mistakes that enterprise software startups make in sales and go-to-market. The simple fix is to spin up a portal that gives partners self-service access to basic sales tools and training. I enjoy talking with Mark because our skills and experience are complementary.

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Unbounce

JUNE 16, 2020

Over the long term, it can also deliver increased revenue, higher customer lifetime value (LTV), and reduced customer acquisition costs (CAC). Affiliates usually receive some kind of compensation (more on this below) for their work. This generates recurring revenue. Your partners act as an outsourced sales and marketing team.

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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? What time frame from SAL to closed lead suggests product market fit?

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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.

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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.

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SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

He provides an in-depth guide to driving revenue growth at your company and what to expect at each stage. Awesome revenue growth on the X axis, awesome revenue retention on the Y. Hundred percent revenue retention, 200% revenue growth. Thirty, 50% revenue growth. How fast you’re growing revenue.

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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.

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SaaStock

JANUARY 9, 2019

I may have made 20% less revenue than possible, but I’m glad I had that money safe” John admits. Find your target companies, which challenge people in the same ways you do, and then recruit their former employees. Also stay alert for professional people who may not have sales experience but are eager for a career change.

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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.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Prior to its July 2002 acquisition by Novell, SilverStream was a public company that had reached a revenue run rate in excess of $100M, with approximately 800 employees and offices in more than 20 countries around the world. How does one know when is the right time to hire your first sales reps? Why is 12 months so crucial?

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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. All basically the same thing.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 3, 2020

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? How does Tom think about constructing comp plans the right way today?

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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.

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OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

They will choke on it, and you will pay the price. The business challenge is figuring out how to successfully (and respectfully) convert your community into revenue that can sustain a growing company. Align with Sales and Product Behind the Scenes. Sales and marketing have a long, sordid history of internal warfare.

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