Kellblog

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Happily, in the past several years startups are increasingly recognizing the value of strong sales enablement and sales productivity teams. So it’s no surprise that I hear a lot about high-growth companies building onboarding programs to enable successfully scaling their sales organizations and sustain their growth.

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 13, 2019

The goal in SaaS sales is not to convince your customer to buy your product there and then—it’s to win that customer over to your product for a lifetime. We’ll tell you how to use your understanding of a prospect to turn them into a delighted customer, what metrics to lean on, and how to build the perfect SaaS sales team. What is SaaS?

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we talk to Kevin Egan, VP of North American Sales at Slack. Kevin’s sales career has taken him from Oracle, to Dropbox, to Salesforce, and now, to Slack. How experience as a sales engineer can play into your role as a sales leader. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2021

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Neil Ringers , EVP of Revenue Grid. Neil’s experience includes a long history of sales leadership, primarily in the Salesforce ecosystem, and is now running revenue for Revenue Grid. If you missed episode 153, check it out here: Learning Drives Sales Effectiveness with Paul Fifield?.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

It’s a human capital management (HCM) system designed to help you save time and reduce errors. Contact their sales team for a custom quote to get started! #4 They also include time tracking, talent recruitment, HR consulting services, advanced employee benefits, and the option to outsource your entire payroll/HR department.

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SaaStr

JULY 1, 2021

PlanGrid builds beautiful, simple software for the construction industry. Then trying to maintain that as we scale is always the challenge. Josh : I made probably the first 50, 60 offers in the company personally, and that does not scale. I want to come be your VP of sales and, you’re going to meet me for the first time.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2020

343: Kyle Parrish is the Head of Sales @ Figma, the company that helps teams create, test and ship better designs from start to finish. Before Figma, Kyle spent close to 3 years as an Account Executive at ADP. Why is it so hard moving from 0-1 in sales? How does Kyle advise founders when it comes to making your first sales hire?

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 5, 2019

They might be sales operations challenges. Or just help me figure that out as we scale. Workday has scaled, what can we learn from that? But you also need help in growing your business and thinking about how you’re going to scale it. ” And not just open ended. We’ve done all sorts of things.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

Does Bob agree with the notion that channel sales have completely died in the world of SaaS? At what scale does that become impossible? Bob Moore: And I was t nerdy engineer in college, so getting the opportunity to have to pitch, it’s really a sales job at the end of the day. Why is this? Kind of solve the problem.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Women in sales often have a polarizing experience. Bring your feelings, gut instinct, experience, and constructive emotion into the boardroom and sit at the table. If you do something constructive with your doubt, and use it to advance yourself, it can be an asset. What is one a-ha moment you’ve had in your sales career?

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Upscope

JUNE 9, 2021

There are plenty of happy smiling recruitment videos for call centers on Youtube but the real data on how people feel can be found in the comments section. And at the call center I was at, the recruiters told me the job wasn't a sales job, just customer service. They also let you choose your own schedules after training.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 5, 2019

But before I talk about what land, expand, and explode means and why it’s sort of essential, at least in in our world, I want to give you a little bit of background about the company, what we do, what size and scale we’re at. And this is the moment of reckoning that you get to as a SaaS company is that a sale is not the end.

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SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

Thanks to them, merchants can make more successful sales and win happy customers. Toast ’s all-in-one point-of-sale (POS) and restaurant management platform helps power and grow restaurants. Leading commerce platform Shopify helps merchants set up and manage their business and stores across various sales channels.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 20, 2021

You need to attract potential buyers and funnel them into your sales funnel. This same information can be used to construct your persona. Offer a bonus referral gift to anyone who recruits other members. Give referral bonuses for recruiting more people into the network. Lead generation is one of the missed opportunities.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 26, 2021

Sofia Varga, Director of Recruiting. Alan Alda, Manager of Recruitment Marketing. Linda Hale, HR Manager (East). Eli Whitney, HR Manager (Central). Jennifer Cartwright, HR Manager (West). Here are a few examples keeping with our recruiting example: . Executive Sponsor: . Primary Contact(s): .

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 10, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Shireen Jaffer , CEO at Edvo. If you missed episode 60, check it out here: PODCAST 60: Effectively Giving and Receiving Constructive Feedback w/. If you missed episode 60, check it out here: PODCAST 60: Effectively Giving and Receiving Constructive Feedback w/.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 14, 2019

This is episode one of Scale, a brand new podcast series on moving from startup to scale up. “What I’ve always tried to do, for example when I’m recruiting for a customer advisory council, is to think very carefully about the company’s objectives. 6 ways to create a customer-centric culture.

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SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2019

What one question must all founders be asking in the sales process? * How does Tom think about constructing comp plans the right way today? 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?

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SaaStr

MAY 7, 2019

That’s actually been a huge asset not just for us, but also in recruiting talent. They really value that so it’s been great also just for recruiting. How are you trying to scale it? Sara Mauskopf : I’m the latest one in the office. Sara Mauskopf : The best. Justin Kan : The best people. Only the best.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 29, 2019

In sales, you only go as far as your team will take you. This makes sales hiring one of the most critical pieces of building a high-performing revenue machine. So, how do you think about what kind of sales team you want to build? Build Teams Like a Pro Sports Recruiter. Do’s and Don’ts for Building Strong Sales Teams.

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SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

Thanks to them, merchants can make more successful sales and win happy customers. Toast ’s all-in-one point-of-sale (POS) and restaurant management platform helps power and grow restaurants. Leading commerce platform Shopify helps merchants set up and manage their business and stores across various sales channels.

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SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2023

At SaaStr APAC 2023, Scott Pugh, VP of Sales at Figma, shared how to scale these two sales teams while building culture. Pugh’s strategy is simple, albeit not always easy: Recruitment — how to hire the best talent to scale your sales organization. Diversity is really important when scaling.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

We would literally just say: “Hey, we need to construct. It’s part of how companies scale. When I joined Intercom, we had no marketing team and no sales team. And yet, the marketing team and sales team would say that’s not very helpful because they needed these deadlines – or at least some estimate.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 3, 2020

What one question must all founders be asking in the sales process? * How does Tom think about constructing comp plans the right way today? 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?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

We focus on Series A, and we only make a small number of investments, probably four or five a year, precisely because like to work very closely with the companies that we invest into to really help you scale out of Europe. Series A money is to fund the growth energy and the Series B money and C the expansion and the scale up.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Before Assist, Liat spent 6 years at Twitter where she first hand saw their hyper-growth, managing a team of 40 across New York and SF and also Liat achieved 102% to quota on average every year. Finally before Twitter, Liat was VP of Sales @ Revolution Prep where she led and managed 7 offices. Loving our podcast content?

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Driving diversity at the sales executive level [1:00]. October is Women in Sales Month. To celebrate, we are highlighting some of the best moments and insights shared on this podcast by female sales leaders who are elevating the entire sales profession. We’re on iTunes.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Marketing and sales may employ different tactics, but their goal should be singular: help the company sell its product. They can be difficult to diagnose, and if sales and marketing don’t have a healthy relationship, things can devolve into pointing fingers instead of working together to find solutions.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Before that, Jeppe was the CFO @ Tradeshift where he first hand saw their scaling to 190 countries with offices in 6 different locations. How does Jeppe respond to 3 common concerns VCs have with SMBs: * The price points are so low that it takes huge volume to scale to meaningful revenue? * Loving our podcast content? What changes? *

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