Intercom, Inc.

JULY 28, 2022

And for Intercom’s VP of Sales EMEA, Sanj Bhayro , scaling is just what you need to invest in to ensure growth becomes as constant and linear as it can be. Sanj has plenty of experience scaling sales teams at growing businesses, and that’s precisely why, as of November of last year, he‘s overseeing EMEA sales at Intercom.

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InsightSquared

MARCH 6, 2018

Sales operations has been around for quite some time, but lately the function has been gaining momentum. Instead of behind-the-scenes sales support, sales ops now acts as a strategic partner for sales VPs and leadership. Start building out your sales operations department by hiring someone to own your CRM.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 18, 2020

With each passing year the Customer Success industry matures and meets new challenges along the way, and this year has been nothing short of challenging in many ways. . Q&A Recap: Speakers: Megan Macaluso , VP Customer Success & Operations, ESG. Jay Nathan , Chief Customer Officer, Higher Logic.

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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. Make Investments Across the Board, and Make a Plan for the Resources You Have.

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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? Harry Stebbings: Totally, in terms of that sales cycle.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Companies were growing their sales organizations and bringing in more revenue. Companies everywhere have frozen their hiring and laid off workers — with sales reps often among the first to go. I’ll be honest: as the leader of a sales-focused recruiting company, this has been tough for me and my team.

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 8, 2022

Role: VP Customer Success – BetterUp Care. As a VP of Customer Success, you will build and lead a world-class customer success organization for BetterUp Care. Collaborate with growth marketing and broader BetterUp leaders to unify all field-based account efforts and amplify outcomes.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 21, 2022

Role: Director of Customer Success Location: Remote, United States Organization: Twingate As a Director of Customer Success, you will hire a team of talented customer success managers and leaders. Create and execute a talent strategy that recruits, onboards, and develops diverse talent.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Over the years at Gainsight , we’ve spent a lot of time (and money) to help the world understand what Customer Success actually is. Many of our programs required two parallel work streams—positioning Customer Success (the category) and then also positioning Gainsight (the company and product).

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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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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 2, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Mary Rogul , a VP Sales Consultant, who’s currently an Enterprise Sales Advisor at Crayon. Fresh out of college, Mary started out in accounting, but it didn’t take long before she began a 20-year sales career that led her through Monster.com, HubSpot, and several others.

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OpenView Labs

APRIL 14, 2021

For every qualified candidate, there are myriad recruiters trying to snatch them up. But if you consider a regional lead, such as a SVP of North American Sales, says Steve, they may be owning 75% of the company’s revenue target. Founders often assume that “time in the seat” is the most important indicator for future success.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

As for Krish, under Krish’s leadership the team has grown to over 300 people and over 5,000 clients making it one of the next generation in truly global SaaS businesses started in India. How does your customer success and customer support functions change with the move to enterprise? Loving our podcast content?

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OpenView Labs

APRIL 13, 2021

She transitioned into a solution engineer, a role that sits at the crossroads of sales and product, which gave her the opportunity to do more of what she loved: discussing business challenges and crafting corresponding technology solutions. How do you get design to work with sales, or engineering to work with customer success?

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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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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

One of the toughest challenges for founders — and especially technical founders who are used to focusing so much on product features over sales — is striking “product-market fit”. So in that shift from product-market fit to product-market-SALES fit, how much should you optimize your go-to-market for product… and even the other way around?

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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. Which is a super useful tactic.

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ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Q&A: How to Get 20/20 Foresight for Your 2020 Customer Success Planning. . Customer Success operations planning. Moderator: Abby Hammer, Chief Customer Officer, ChurnZero. Panelists: Geeta Arora, VP of Customer Success, LeagueApps. Antoinette Abboud, Director of Customer Success, Levelset.

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SaaStr

JUNE 3, 2020

And then I spent a year at Salesforce working on Marc Benioff’s extended leadership team, and really had a chance to learn how important trust can be, and also really learn from Salesforce, from Mark, how do you really build a global SaaS leader at scale? And that company grew very quickly.

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SmartKarrot

JUNE 25, 2021

Operationalize the business processes to scale the Customer Success organization for significant growth. Drive continuous improvement programs and processes to meet customer satisfaction, develop new services opportunities. Passion for developing teams and providing leadership to both formal and indirect reports.

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SmartKarrot

MAY 25, 2021

Role: Customer Success Director Location: Short Hills, NJ, US Organization: Dun & Bradstreet As a Customer Success Director, your primary focus will be to manage ongoing contractual relationships and the operational delivery of services to clients. Deal with intensified customer issues quickly and efficiently.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

And so, she can, and Anthony just finished up basically going from the first sales hire at Gainsight at almost 100 million in revenue and has just retired. Maria : Yeah, I think, coming from a marketing side and thinking about that as a marketer, marketing is all about investments. And notice that I said investments, not cost or spend.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Matt Turck talks with three hyper-growth stage Co-Founders and CEOs on three roadblocks when scaling past $15M ARR: hiring, culture, and sales. We invest all over the country and very much in Europe as well including Paris. So we decided to take you to know three specific topics which are hiring, culture and sales.

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SmartKarrot

JULY 27, 2021

Role: Head of Customer Success Location: San Francisco, CA, US Organization: Turn/River Capital As a Head of Customer Success, you will work with the leadership teams at 2 to 3 of the Turn/River portfolio companies to develop and implement retention and growth strategies and build operational best practices.

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ChurnZero

APRIL 26, 2019

Your new Customer Success Manager only gets to experience their first day on the job once. The difference between an effective and ineffective employee onboarding experience determines the long-term success of a new Customer Success Manager (CSM). Tip 1: Think Like a Human Resources Manager.

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OpenView Labs

JUNE 20, 2019

The toughest EU country to hire senior sales/commercial talent. As we can see from the above, hiring great sales executives is a major challenge here in Europe. In fact, 72% of the respondents claim that is has become harder than ever to recruit great SaaS sales executives. How wrong can they be! Salary levels in Europe.

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SaaStr

MAY 24, 2019

How does the product and what you invest in proactively need to change as you move into enterprise? It was growing pretty fast, we were successful and became, to some degree, victims of that success. And so, it’s all incremental investments, incremental risk, so it can get your product very far.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 26, 2021

Catherine Brodigan , Business Development Partnerships Manager, sees this value at work across the sales team. “As We invest in building for the long term and we learn from experimenting in the short term. We obsess about our customers’ success. Our ambition drives us to go beyond what’s thought possible.

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SaaStr

MARCH 18, 2019

Scaling the company’s employee base, sales teams, marketing, and operations—all while preserving its culture—has required a laser focus on first principles, smart processes, and effective hiring. And at the risk of giving you a full Stripe sales pitch, don’t worry, that’s in my other talk. The exchange of value.

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SmartKarrot

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Role: VP, Customer Success Location: San Francisco Bay Area, US Organization: NexHealth As a VP of Customer Success, you will inspire, recruit, and develop top talent Customer Success team leaders and members who bring a customer-centric view to their everyday roles.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The backup of 2020 was great, 2021 comes in and somehow we have 600 unicorns and everyone can burn 500 million a year or have huge sales teams. But the meta point is this, if you’re recruiting in 2024, beware of the “Lost Generation” candidate and persona you may come across. This starts to get tough.

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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

JANUARY 21, 2020

Justin Welsh, former SVP of Sales at PatientPop explains how he started in SaaS in 2009 as the second sales hire at Zocdoc. Justin used Sales Culture to grow a successful PatientPop team to 140 employees and 55 million in revenue. Justin Welsh | SVP Sales @ PatientPop. Want to see more content like this?

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 26, 2021

A J oint Success Plan is a simple but powerful tool for outcome-based customer success management. It’s designed to help solution providers align with their customers’ business goals and objectives. Customer success continues to evolve as a practice within companies that enjoy recurring revenue models.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Women in sales often have a polarizing experience. In the Sales Hacker video series Aha Moments , I asked 10 women: “What is one ‘aha moment’ you’ve had in your sales career?”. The conversations that followed were so authentic and encouraging that we decided to expand this conversation to other badass women in the sales world.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

359: The Secrets to Vertical Growth, What it Really Takes to Build a $1B SaaS Company with Matt Garratt, SVP, Managing Partner @ Salesforce Ventures, Trisha Price, Chief Product Officer @ nCino and David Schmaier, CEO & Founder @ Vlocity. They need fewer sales as a percentage of overall employees. Trisha Price: Yes.

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SmartKarrot

AUGUST 9, 2022

Recruiting a new employee is typically significantly more expensive than retaining an existing employee. Furthermore, high employee turnover rates can also lead to a wide variety of potential issues, such as high costs associated with recruiting, onboarding, training new employees as well as advertising vacancies. Thought Leadership.

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