Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Chuck is the co-founder of Blueprint Expansion , a GTM roles recruiting firm that has helped over 50 VC-backed companies make amazing Sales, Marketing, & Customer Success hires. By using the power of AI to identify and engage the accounts and buying groups most likely to purchase.

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SaaStr

JUNE 24, 2022

Your best sales reps can close so much more than your average rep. Move the bottom 10% out and give the best leads to your top performer, and watch sales go up 20%. The best VPs of Sales design comp plans so the team never wants to leave. You should be striving for zero voluntary attrition on your sales team.

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Totango

MARCH 15, 2022

Efforts to scale customer success team activity often fall short because of failure to avoid common mistakes. Your human resources practices, your project management procedures and your technology strategy all need to come together in order for you to scale up without overextending yourself.

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SaaStr

JULY 29, 2021

Someone great at something core you aren’t: Sales, Engineering, Marketing. Great at sales. Do at least 20–30 customer interviews before you start writing too much code. Otherwise, you often are building for an imaginary customer. A 10x feature that customers will pay for, that the key competition doesn’t have.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 22, 2020

If you think sales is a simple job, I have a few hundred professional connections who would like a word with you. There’s a range of key skills that separate the best from the rest, and success belongs to companies who can identify and hire reps who have those precious skills. By mastering your sales interview questions.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 24, 2024

Sales reps were hosting 4-6 calls daily but most of these calls were early demos or top-of-funnel discovery calls Sales was closing really small deals on one end while talking to really large companies with hundreds of thousands of people on the other. Define your ICP as early as you can and segment your sales team accordingly.

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Scale Sales Hiring Scaling Revenue 245

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 13, 2021

Few people have more experience with this move than Linda Lin , Director of Customer Success at the revenue intelligence platform Gong. Moving upmarket means larger customers and higher revenue, but it’s not without its challenges. For Linda, it all comes down to your approach to customer success.

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Scale Customer Success Strategy Sales Hiring 177

Sales Hacker

MAY 6, 2021

What’s the difference between a VP of Sales and a Chief Revenue Officer (CRO)? The VP of Sales. Great VPs of sales have gravitas and tact, command the room and hold their end of the table regardless of who is on the other side. Singular focus on sales. As the title would hint at, the VP of Sales should focus on sales.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

In short, the practice of user research consists of: Talking to customers – recruiting a representative sample, scripting questions, talking. Listening – letting the customer lead, practicing active listening, offering undivided attention. For that, we rely on user research.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 30, 2023

The first goal of sales at a startup isn’t to bring in revenue — it’s to get customer feedback. I’ve used our sales process to iterate our way to product market-fit and wanted to share what I’ve learned along the way. Use sales conversations as a tool to get product feedback. So how do you get there?

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Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Your customer success teams need to grow with your user base to maintain a high level of customer satisfaction. Your marketing and sales budgets, and the personnel assigned to those teams, will also rise. Interview stakeholders 2. A longer lead time for recruitment means higher quality recruits.

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User Pilot

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Start implementing a dogfooding program by recruiting users from across the organization, especially those not involved in the product development. Use surveys , interviews, session recordings, and product analytics to gather insights. In a nutshell, it follows the same process as any other type of testing or experimentation.

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Customer Success Manager: This person is responsible for customer relationships and experience as well as acting as the voice of the customer. In large companies, the CSM also oversees other customer success roles. They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams.

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CustomerSuccessBox

JANUARY 10, 2022

Customer Success Manager job description: As a CSM (Customer Success Manager), your role is to maintain a good relationship and the satisfaction of your existing customers while developing the customer portfolio. Additional Resource – What is a Customer Success Manager.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Getting the team right is one of the hardest parts of scaling sales. But no sales team can afford to grow without intention. While building a sales team, we’ve focused a lot on our sales culture. Here’s how we went about growing a sales team that is both world class and culture-additive. They’re resilient.

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Chart Mogul

JULY 1, 2020

Customer interviews are a powerful tool that can help you better position your B2B product to attract and retain more customers. That’s because B2B businesses address particular niches, where customers don’t spend as much time online. Believe it or not, it’s not rocket science: they perform customer interviews.

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Interviewing B2B Marketing Underperforming Technical Team 76

SaaStr

MARCH 24, 2020

Nothing matters but recruiting and using your personal network. Sam Blond, CSO at Brex explains why recruiting, networking and employee happiness is the key to this playbook on recruiting your sales team. Sam Blond | Chief Sales Officer @ Brex. I’m doing The Playbook To Recruiting Your Sales Team.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team 138

SmartKarrot

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Role: Vice President of Customer Success Location: Denver, CO, US Organization: SambaSafety As a Vice President of Customer Success, you will oversee four Customer Success (CS) teams that support different customer verticals and one CS Operations Analyst. Upsell and Cross Sell opportunities.

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Marketing teams that understand what customers value can target them more accurately with marketing campaigns that truly resonate. Sales reps can use the knowledge to shift sales negotiations from price to value. It helps them craft a targeted marketing strategy that resonates with the customers’ perception of value.

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SaaStr

MAY 8, 2020

Where does Jessica find managers and founders do pipe reviews wrong? What does Jessica believe is the right way for sales reps to engage with new customers during this time? How should sales teams and CS respond to requests for discounts? Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Jessica.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 7, 2021

We hear a lot about equipping salespeople with customer insights to help them move from simple questioning to exploring challenges and discussing solutions with customers. Sales customer insights. This is important for anyone who prospects or handles inbound calls – could be both inside sales and field sales.

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Chart Mogul

JULY 1, 2020

Customer interviews are a powerful tool that can help you better position your B2B product to attract and retain more customers. That’s because B2B businesses address particular niches, where customers don’t spend as much time online. Believe it or not, it’s not rocket science: they perform customer interviews.

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Interviewing B2B Marketing Underperforming Technical Team 52

OpenView Labs

APRIL 14, 2021

Over a thousand CEOs were interviewed about the #1 threat to their business and 80% said: a scarcity of skills in the job market. For every qualified candidate, there are myriad recruiters trying to snatch them up. Recruiters are fighting for a coveted slice of your time. Competition for top talent is fierce.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

As for Ryan, prior to G2 he was Senior Director of Global Marketing at Hubspot where among many other achievements, he scaled HubSpot’s marketing-generated sales revenue by 330% year-over-year. Due to his success, Ryan has been named to Forbes’ List of World’s Most Influential CMOs. Harry Stebbings. Ryan Bonnici. Romain Lapeyre.

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ChurnZero

MARCH 6, 2020

Customer Success Starts Within: 6 Ways to Put Employees First. The Customer Success industry is obsessed with cracking the code on customer experience and loyalty. So, it’s easy to see how a fixation on the customer can overshadow the very people who make that success possible: the employees.

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Customer Success Software Review Scale Sales Recruiting 69

CustomerSuccessBox

JUNE 6, 2022

With Subscription-based models everywhere, the need for customer success strategy in the organization is rising too! Companies know subscription isn’t going to sustain longer without a customer success strategy in place. Now, do you see why there is a steep rise in demand for customer success managers in the firm?

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 8, 2021

Elements of Successful Global Sales Expansion. “Be Successful global expansion is all about capitalizing on the right opportunity at the right time. So, let’s look at four keys to a successful global sales expansion. It takes a particular type of sales leader to be the first in a new country or region.

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Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

But sales is the one thing founders cannot oversee — without it your startup will die. Between hiring, training, and helping new employees excel, iterating on customer feedback, building brand awareness, et al., Between hiring, training, and helping new employees excel, iterating on customer feedback, building brand awareness, et al.,

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Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Startup 93

OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

That should include getting aligned on the role and its responsibilities, writing your job description, deciding who will be on your interview panel and the order of interviews, prepping each interviewer for what they’re looking for, and making sure everyone’s on the same page. The game has changed when it comes to recruiting.

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Payment Services Benchmarks SaaS Payments Merchant Services 80

Natalia Luneva

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

How he founded Sales playbook. I founded SalesPlaybook after getting frustrated by the lack or absence of sales support for startup founders. A lot of these companies have never done outbound sales and they don’t have a repeatable process in place and they haven’t really nailed down their ideal customer profile.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Sales 52

SaaStr

JULY 12, 2022

One of the first what How to Hire a Great VP of Sales at the New York Enterprise Tech Meet-Up (thank you to John Lehr and Work-Bench for setting this up). The Number One Thing You Can Do to Accelerate Your Business Post-Initial Traction is Hiring a Great VP of Sales. I don’t know anything about sales. More power to you.

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User Pilot

JULY 9, 2023

An example of good usability is a growth platform that enables product and customer success teams to quickly create quality microcopy thanks to an intuitive and easy-to-use AI-powered writing assistant. This may translate into increased sales and greater customer loyalty. Modal recruiting test participants.

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User Experience Sales Recruiting Scale Interviewing 85

SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Role: Customer Success Director Location: Remote, Minneapolis, MN, US Organization: Numerator As a Customer Success Director, you will manage a client relationship after onboarding is complete to drive ongoing realized value against measurable long-term strategic goals to ensure long-term success.

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User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

You need a range of disciplines working together in a cross-functional team to make sure various product development processes go to plan, including product managers , developers, marketers , sales, designers , senior leaders , and more. Senior management. The final step is to launch your product.

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Development Software Review Sales Recruiting Technical Review 88

SmartKarrot

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Customer Success leaders benefit from a personal framework since time is in short supply and we constantly need to prioritize our efforts. The P’s & T’s of Customer Success reflect my current framework—which is always in the process of refinement. What are my P’s & T’s of Customer Success?

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Customer Success Sales Recruiting Scale Underperforming Technical Team 19

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 5, 2019

When hiring sales reps, what qualities do you look for? Having spent time as a BDR himself, Scott correctly identified that grit and curiosity are key identifiers for success in business development: “Intellectual curiosity & ridiculous grit. Those two things alone can make you successful in today’s world. Future Leaders.

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Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Sales 56

ProfitWell

AUGUST 18, 2020

This outside involvement can include hiring consultants, agencies, or even recruiting members from other teams or departments. They give broad, general indications of CX but are simply insufficient to deeply understand how customers perceive their experiences. Product can develop new features or new products. Conclusion.

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