Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

JANUARY 11, 2018

I subscribe to numerous podcasts that help me learn more about business and marketing, but also those further afield, in the hope that I can apply a learning or glean insight that can be leveraged in my sales enablement role. Recommended episode is: Sales Mistakes That Can Kill Your Startup & How To Avoid Them.

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Incredo

OCTOBER 17, 2019

common software sales comp plans, 2. what factors to consider before defining your SaaS sales commission percentage. We will share 8 ideas on how to increase your sales team’s productivity and help them close more deals. We will share 8 ideas on how to increase your sales team’s productivity and help them close more deals.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 17, 2021

Strict sales volume does go a long way in achieving long-term revenue growth, but processes and cross-department alignment are what allow sales volumes to scale in the first place. Because of this, many second-stage startups maintain the same strategies, people, tech stack, and processes that helped them achieve their initial success.

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Incredo

OCTOBER 17, 2019

common software sales comp plans, 2. what factors to consider before defining your SaaS sales commission percentage 4. and finally figure out how much that SaaS sales salary should be. In the end, a bonus section is waiting for you! What are 5 common SaaS sales compensation models? We will write about: 1.

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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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OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Does your product-led growth strategy deliver on its promise to customers and prospects? . The exciting thing about prototypes is that large-scale experiments can be built through open-source projects , which companies like Netflix and Linkedin will do as a strategic way of recruiting top talent. . Milestone: Selecting a price.

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OpenView Labs

MARCH 27, 2019

To dive into best practices, I spoke with Jenny Shedd , a Recruiting and Talent Strategy Consultant, who guides startups on ATS buy-in from senior leadership and implementation. An ATS is just as important to a company as Salesforce.com is to sales and JIRA is to engineering. Pricing starts at $100/month.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

How does Krish think your customer acquisition and GTM strategy has to change with the movement from SMB to enterprise? Billion story from its launch in 2008 to its 2018 acquisition by Recruit Holdings. So the previous one saying carefully constructed very different things, staying in the same segments, [inaudible 00:09:38].

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OpenView Labs

MARCH 17, 2021

He has worked on our investments in Highspot , optimize.health , Postscript , Project44 , and ZipWhip , focusing on application software companies modernizing real-world industries like logistics, construction, and insurance. Kyle Poyar joined OpenView in 2016 as the Director of Market Strategy.

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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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SmartKarrot

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Role: Customer Success Manager Location: Cincinnati, OH (On-site) Organization: Motion Recruitment As a Customer Success Manager, you will own and efficiently manage multiple accounts, brands, and programs. Apply knowledge of company products and programs to provide strategic input to sales.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

explains a common strategy for giving our customers a top-notch experience. Improve the handoff procedure that benefits our customers by working together with sales. Determine and reduce churn risk connection with Sales and Renewals & Growth. Promote responsibility across all functions using those success metrics.

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Hull

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Different post-payment feature adoption strategies you can use on Facebook. But you can’t do it with top of the funnel marketing or sales anymore. Better correspond with your marketing, sales and product departments. How to segment your customer base. How to unleash the “aha!” moment of your product through Facebook.

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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. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Kyle made his way into the world of SaaS and sales and came to be Head of Sales at one of the fastest-growing companies in Figma. What worked?

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SaaStr

JULY 1, 2021

PlanGrid builds beautiful, simple software for the construction industry. 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. Tracy Young : Hi, my name is Tracy Young. You hire a search firm.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 5, 2019

And we had been talking about that and I also run corporate strategy. I think at the highest level there’s a big difference between the CVCs that are focused more strategically about enhancing their product and their corporate strategy, versus financially. They might be sales operations challenges.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 20, 2021

You need to attract potential buyers and funnel them into your sales funnel. Then, we’ll dive into some strategies to increase your page’s organic reach. These will give you a good guideline for launching an effective content strategy. 20 Strategies to Boost Facebook Organic Reach. Rinse and repeat.

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OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Talk about ruining a meal: When Gerhardt showed the following slide, the CMO next to me dropped her bagel and said, “I just texted my VP of sales that the way we’re selling is obsolete.”. In The Greatest Sales Deck I’ve Ever Seen , I outlined the structure of a great pitch, starting with “naming the undeniable change in the world.”.

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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? 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. Or hey, we missed our sales numbers last quarter, it’s got to be a management issue.

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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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SaaStr

AUGUST 5, 2019

It was just a catch phrase we would use but became the cornerstone, if you would, of our customer retention strategy. And while every company is different, I do firmly believe that the ideas and constructs that I’m about to present might be applicable to some, if not all of you, trying to build a SaaS companies.

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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. Sales alignment and compensation. It’s hard work. There is no one right answer.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 26, 2021

Finally, because this is a customer-facing tool, we won’t be using it to document internal strategies for engaging and growing a customer account. That information is captured in an Account Plan which is a different exercise and tool altogether. . Sofia Varga, Director of Recruiting. Linda Hale, HR Manager (East).

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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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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 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. Let’s look at five tips to consider for successful recruiting.

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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

So the actions are define and design the funding strategy seed extremely well. To give an example, I was talking to one founder before his B2B SaaS company, and he’s like, “Well, I want to hire a VP of sales to prove what our cost of acquisition is and our payback, et cetera, et cetera.”

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 25, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we’ve got Alyssa Merwin , Vice President of Sales Solutions for LinkedIn, North America. She runs Sales Navigator and is perhaps one of the most important people selling sales engagement and sales software in the world. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Sales leaders like Florin Tatulea (Director of Sales at Barley) feel the impact from the past few years alone: “Pure cold outbound is 3x harder than it was in 2021.” Sales team members should capable of understanding at least a few key signals and knowing which subsequent actions based on those signals will have the greatest impact.

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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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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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