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What are some of the biggest mistakes you made with enterprise SaaS sales?

SaaStr

I remember my CTO once arguing with a Fortune 500 company on a “security” concern they had which really made no sense. More here: I Never Lost a Customer I Actually Visited | SaaStr Not hiring a full-time RFP person. They are too much work to just dump on a product person, success person, sales leader, etc. Didn’t matter.

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30+ Tough Learnings from Losing a Top Customer

SaaStr

You have to be careful to pair that with someone strong to manage the relationship, that has more time and that also can be trusted. As a founder, you’ll just run out of time to properly manage key customers and partners yourself. Hire that person, and make sure they are someone the top customers can really trust and count on.

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SaaStr Podcast for the Week with Automation Anywhere and Algolia — January 17, 2020

SaaStr

What other elements of the contract should startups really spend a lot of time focusing on? What do CIOs really want to see in the form of security and compliance? How can startups clearly and articulately present their plans for security, compliance and change management? This episode is sponsored by Brex.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Crossbeam and Podium – January 10, 2020

SaaStr

Does Bob agree with the notion that channel sales have completely died in the world of SaaS? How does Bob think about when is the right time to hire a Head of Partnerships? Where do most startups go wrong both in hiring for partnerships and in the engagements themselves? Why is this? What are the drivers of its death?

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Top Global SaaS Trends You Should Know with Google Cloud and Zenoss (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And the same customer challenges that we were being presented, which was: How do you scale? And what challenge that presented to us was how do we do that quickly. But they are actually accompanying us in the sales cycle and it’s certainly something that’s accelerated our time-to-market but also our success as well.

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2021 in conversation: Learnings from the podcast

Intercom, Inc.

Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Maggie Hott , Director of Sales at Webflow. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. Webflow’s Maggie Hott on building a scalable sales team from the ground up. Scaling a sales team is not for the faint of heart – for one, it’s not even that much about selling.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Bernadette Nixon, Jay Snyder, Nick Mehta, Loren Padelford, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin. I actually just got off the boat, Nick, and scurried up to make sure that I was ready to go for the presentation. One, it starts high up in the sales process, right? Bernadette Nixon. Jay Snyder.