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We Asked 9 Successful Sales Leaders About the Economy

Sales Hacker

First, ask yourself: Are your customer success, and rev ops, sales and marketing teams all aligned and working toward the same goals? Typically when the markets are down, you will see your marketing-sourced lead to qualified opportunity conversion rates start to decrease. Are they measuring the same things?

Scale 92
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SaaStr Podcast #211: The Ultimate Guide To SaaS Pricing From Investors @ Benchmark, Matrix, Upfront Ventures & Operators @ Figma, Snyk and Kustomer

SaaStr

In the earliest days, Salesforce had a philosophy and that philosophy was customer success. You could only build a great company if you had customer success because the number one rule of scaling sales is referenceability. Mark Suster: Most VCs will tell you not to. Most VCs are wrong. Let me stop.

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“7 Tips and Tricks to having happy customers at Scale” New Relic EVP, Roger Scott (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

He had a company called Wily back in 2000 that he started, that ultimately sold on to Computer Associates, and really was seen as the father of the APM market segment, and learned a number of things in that experience that we then applied in terms of building New Relic, which is his second go around on the whole monitoring space.

Scale 170