Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 19, 2022

As the president of Sales Xceleration, a firm specializing in assessing and implementing sales strategy , sales processes, and sales execution to drive growth, I’ve seen how job hopping can affect otherwise stable sales teams. Grant Thornton consulting firm ). Grant Thornton consulting firm ). Job hopping by the numbers.

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Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting Compensation 79

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 13, 2021

Although Linda started her career in sales, she has spent the past twelve years scaling post-sales teams and moving hyper-growth companies like Zendesk, Slack, and now Gong upmarket into the enterprise realm. So how do you create a strong, enterprise-ready team? For Linda, it all comes down to your approach to customer success.

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Scale Customer Success Strategy Sales Hiring 177

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

B2B and B2C content marketing require entirely different strategies. Instead, you need a targeted B2B content marketing strategy to reach your marketing goals. Let me show you why a strategy is so important and help you figure out how to reach those valuable business prospects. Why Do You Need a B2B Content Marketing Strategy?

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B2B Strategy B2C Content Marketing 144

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 10, 2020

I hope this post allows people and teams to safely talk about Product Judgment. If you ever had to face a Manager, Director or Exec as they make bad product decisions and you’re struggling to persuade them otherwise, this post will help you. It takes years to build, and therefore ranges from very weak to very strong.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 7, 2022

Have you ever had a sudden realization that you’re spending more on sales and marketing than research and development? When it comes to marketing, executives can grow frustrated or intimidated by the sheer volume of numbers and metrics, ill-defined terminology, unclear processes, and potential conflict between sales and marketing teams.

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Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Marketing Market Research 221

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Sales managers looking to stand out among their peers would do well to focus on four things: prioritizing work that will move the needle, making sure the right people are on their team, thinking about initiatives that will improve the business (not just themselves and their reps), and developing a solid decision-making framework.

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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

MARCH 23, 2020

Companies which don’t use mental models risk unleashing mayhem with poor choices or becoming bloated and bureaucratic by reducing the volume and speed at which decisions are made - both scenarios are undesirable and will impact growth. Strategy - annually changes. MSPOT stands for: Mission - rarely changes.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 22, 2020

In sales today, it’s out with the transactional, and in with the consultative. That’s why strong sales candidates will be fully on board with the consultative selling model. It’s also one of the hardest to teach and develop. Tell me about a time you collaborated within the sales team and with other teams.

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Sales Hiring Interviewing Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 76

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 12, 2019

A little over a year ago, I got the opportunity to start a new team within our sales organization – a team of Relationship Managers dedicated to growing our current customers at scale. To do the first, we had to hire, train, and write a playbook – the building blocks of any team. Relentlessly measure impact.

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team Scale 171

Audacix

OCTOBER 19, 2023

These weak points, if left unaddressed, can be exploited by hackers as an entry point for launching cyberattacks, infiltrating systems or data, or causing harm to an organization. Remediation Planning: Software teams need to develop a remediation plan that outlines the steps required to mitigate each vulnerability.

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Underperforming Technical Team Enterprise Software Management 40

Audacix

OCTOBER 19, 2023

These weak points, if left unaddressed, can be exploited by hackers as an entry point for launching cyberattacks, infiltrating systems or data, or causing harm to an organization. Remediation Planning: Software teams need to develop a remediation plan that outlines the steps required to mitigate each vulnerability.

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Underperforming Technical Team Enterprise Software Management 40

OPEXEngine

MAY 4, 2021

Coming up through the public accounting or consulting ranks, by contrast, practically sells itself, because it tells potential employers you’ve mastered the technical aspects of accounting from a best-practices standpoint. The people who are self-aware enough, as most CFOs are, would say what their weaknesses are in the interview process.”.

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Payment Services Finance Communication Strategy 52

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Each candidate you interview will have a unique set of strengths (and weaknesses). Last, the need for revenue operations help is usually brought on by high-stakes situations: The pressure of new revenue targets Selling a new product Growing your sales team Fires need to be put out, fast. Teams need to scale, fast.

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Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Scale Consulting 70

SaaStr

JANUARY 12, 2023

Management teams must determine how to thrive in a downturn to position their businesses for profitable growth. Reed and Courtney Dong, Partners at BCG Consulting, sat down to discuss their perspectives on the recent macro shifts in VC investor priorities. Strategy to win. Key takeaways.

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Scytale

DECEMBER 13, 2023

These CISOs are responsible for information security strategy and governance, risk management, compliance, threat intelligence, vulnerability management, and security awareness training across major companies. The CISO coordinates with technical teams to contain breaches and prevent future attacks.

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Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team compliance Automotive 52

Scytale

DECEMBER 13, 2023

These CISOs are responsible for information security strategy and governance, risk management, compliance, threat intelligence, vulnerability management, and security awareness training across major companies. The CISO coordinates with technical teams to contain breaches and prevent future attacks.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team compliance Automotive 52

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Not only does the sales team have strong performers, but the entire company’s mission is focused on changing the industry’s approach to sales by giving sellers the information they need to close more deals. . How do you improve a sales team’s performance when they’re already operating at world-class levels? . My plan? .

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Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Scaling 66

Neil Patel

JULY 6, 2021

They’re known for offering honest advice and consulting based on personal experience and research. This is the big difference between a coach and a consultant. As you grow on your own, you’ll develop better habits that you can translate into business growth and monetary gain. What Is Business Coaching? It’s all about habits.

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Underperforming Technical Team Business Technical Review Interviewing 115

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Many organizations create customer success teams but there’s no clear definition as to how these teams develop long-term value for both the customer and the business. Some sales teams consider a customer success manager as the post-sale counterpart of an account executive. The role of customer success teams.

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Sales Hiring Customer Success Scale Underperforming Technical Team 123

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Today, we’re looking under the hood of a Lead Development Manager at an IT consulting company, and for that, we talked to Joe Latchaw. Title: Lead Development Manager. A Day in the Life of a Lead Development Manager in IT. 2:00 – 3:00pm: Marketing meeting to discuss campaign progress, new leads, content, strategy, etc.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

” It remains distressing if teams continue with this knowledge and run the same marketing activities over and over again. The ICT products for marketing automation are much more mature and developed with the marketing process in mind. But marketing teaming up with finance and operations? The return on marketing is unknown.

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Underperforming Technical Team Marketing Sales Finance 93

SaaSHolic

DECEMBER 2, 2021

A bad onboarding experience won’t impact your bottom line as a SaaS company, but it will negatively affect your customer’s productivity. What makes an onboarding experience a bad one? A properly optimized onboarding strategy should have a high “aha moment” conversion. What Is Successful Onboarding?

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Onboarding Strategy SaaS Underperforming Technical Team 52

Incredo

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

To give a new [ace to our post, let’s see how our first contributor talks about SaaS affiliate partnerships: Vishal Srivastava Director at Trainedge Consulting “ Affiliate marketing is a great way to amplify your marketing. In our case, we needed to invest a lot in product development. See the difference?

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SaaS Payments Payment Methods Merchant Services Sales Recruiting 139

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

I also run a Consulting company, AltiSales , which has a Business Process Outsourcing component, think Accenture, but purely for SDRs. No wonder you never want to eat out again… The Sales Development outsourcing industry is broken for that exact reason. I have learned quite a bit about it. And you’re no SDR chef, are you?

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Outsourcing Services Outsourced Development Sales Outsourcing Underperforming Technical Team 75

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

However, this flexibility is what gives developers room to work without too many restrictions. The goal of every SEO, site builder, and creator is to develop a website that is engaging, simple, entertaining, and effective at a certain goal. Still, there are some SEOs who think dynamic URLs are bad for SEO.

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Underperforming Technical Team Payment Methods Payment Services Payments 124

Kellblog

JUNE 27, 2022

Segmentation strategies are critical. So is developing a geographic strategy. Dresner Advisory , Outsell ) to independent consultants promoting books and methodologies (e.g., The US poses numerous, often unique, challenges for a European technology startup. The market is vast. Lack of home field advantage. It’s worse.

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Startup Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Compensation 118

Kellblog

MARCH 11, 2020

Some SaaS startups develop a form of zero-sum delusion early in their evolution, characterized by following set of beliefs. If the StartFast doesn’t work, it’s not a big deal because the Customer Success team’s mission is to offer free clean-up after failed implementations.

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Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Consulting Forecasting 99

Sales Hacker

APRIL 1, 2021

A made-up role so companies can hire more people to tell sales how best to do their job.” — Jason Henson , Manager, SMB Sales Development at Lytx, Inc. . As long as you don’t hear about it, you know it’s working great.” — Jim Lee , VP Revenue Strategy at Outreach. “A .” — Dwamian McLeish , CEO & Founder at Junction. “A

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Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Scale 91

InsightSquared

MARCH 5, 2021

Throughout his three decades of experience running revenue organizations, he has seen the good — and plenty of the bad. I tried both carrot and stick strategies—with each approach failing to change sales rep behavior and motivate them to take accountability for their CRM data hygiene. We need a better approach.

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Forecasting Underperforming Technical Team Revenue Data 62

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

MAY 22, 2017

It will evolve over time, but for now it offers much needed clarity and perhaps more importantly, answers the basics of who we are as a sales enablement team, what we do and how we do it. I would also recommend persona development , so the sales organisation clearly understands who they’re selling to.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Nobody wants a bad review. But bad reviews help you improve and create a better experience for your customers. call center, email, online chat, and social) vary by market, and well-localized websites will dedicate resources to channels relative to local preference.” – Lily Varon, digital business strategy analyst.

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Payment Methods Underperforming Technical Team New CTO Payment Services 147

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

For me, that means doubling down on my efforts to lead my team to meet our sales goals for the year. Related: Strategies for building genuine rapport in sales. In that spirit, here are a few techniques for your sales teams to improve their relationship building: 1. This is part of the reason salespeople have developed a bad rap.

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Sales Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Consulting 111

FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Ryan Austin had VP-level experience in training when he decided to start a consulting business to help enterprise-level companies with their corporate learning and development initiatives. Ryan and his team noticed so many inefficiencies across the L&D workflows. “It That’s really when it got us thinking about that.

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Payment Solutions Payment Services SaaS Payments VP of Engineering 91

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

If so, you should definitely watch the talk that Jason Knight , a product consultant and advisor, gave at this year’s Product Drive hosted by Userpilot. TL;DR Product managers often don’t get the due recognition for their work and their role is often marginalized by frustrated leadership or other teams. Is giving up any easier?

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Technical Review Management Underperforming Technical Team Leadership 96

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

If you’ve already finished our 30 Best Sales Books, the 10 titles below will continue to build on what you’ve learned with innovative perspectives on the psychology, science, and strategy of sales from industry gurus (and a few unexpected names, too). The Sales Development Playbook by Trish Bertuzzi. The Art of War by Sun Tzu.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 10, 2021

In this episode of the Sales Hacker podcast, we have Keith Daw , VP of GSD and Trainer at McDonell Consulting Group , where he ‘Gets Stuff Done’ and teaches the Sandler Training methodology. If you missed episode 172, check it out here: How to Build Out Your Upmarket Strategy with Ryan Staley. powered by Sounder. powered by Sounder.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Even for the most competitive keywords, such as “ SEO Strategies ”, you’ll find 2 of his posts ranking TOP 5 on the first page. Plus the proven conversion optimization strategies that are going to convert your traffic into actual customers…. For that amount, you can look forward to a big team entirely focused on your results.

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Sales Hiring Outsourcing Services Social Media Underperforming Technical Team 144