Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Data labeling turns raw data into useful information that can then be utilized for optimized marketing. However, turning raw data into labeled data takes time. The good news is data labeling is scalable when you work with the right data labeling software. What Is Data Labeling?

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 20, 2020

Today, we’re answering the question: how do teams grow as a startup scales? The median startup with between 1-5M in ARR will have 12 engineers, 6 in sales and 3 in marketing. Meanwhile, the size of the marketing team increases only by 4X, compared to a 10X increase in sales and a 5X+ in engineering.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

It’s an approach that’s served him well along the road to building the HubSpot sales team, where he was CRO for nine years. That experience led to his bestselling book, The Sales Acceleration Formula. This has created large amounts of data for running teams. . A data-driven framework for scaling.

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SaaStr

MAY 23, 2023

So leading growth stage VC Iconiq has published its latest and very detailed Definitive Guide to Sales Compensation here. It’s very detailed and oriented more toward growth-stage scale-ups — but it’s excellent. Corners were cut in the boom times of 2021, but we are back to sane sales models.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

If you can handle multiple things with one solution, you’re going to get a deeper data connection to products tied together. You also get product advantages through data integrations becoming much stronger, and you get shared UX patterns, so usage gets easier. This question exists whether you have 2, 12, or 50 sales reps.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 15, 2021

SaaStr Scale 2021 is starting soon. 7:00 AM (50 MINS) – Acquiring SMB 10,000 Customers Solely from Data with Gorgias’ CEO Romain Lapeyre. 7:00 AM (40 MINS) – Product-led Growth: How to Execute Across the Full Funnel (and Mistakes We Made) with Reprise’s VP of Marketing and VP of Sales. LIVE TODAY!

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SaaStr

APRIL 25, 2023

In last week’s Workshop Wednesday , President Sales & Field Engineering Chris Donato and SVP Business Development & Ecosystem Shelli Vivona shared how to scale out a go-to-market org. Workshop Wednesdays are live interactive workshops held each week. Just as important as hiring the right people is continuous enablement.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 24, 2021

“My CEO Told Me To Stop Selling So Much” Recently, I met with a sales leader I’ve known for years, and he told me The Most Curious Story. The sales-driven customers are very profitable on a CAC basis, since their lead cost is $0, and so the ‘Magic Number’ or CAC/CLTV ratio is very favorable.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 31, 2024

Splunk’s core product is a platform for collecting and analyzing high volumes of machine-generated data. As Christian’s been the CRO of Splunk for over seven years now, he’s a wealth of knowledge on what it really takes to be successful in Enterprise SaaS Sales. You’ll need those data slices at different times.

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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

The most consistent sales leader I’ve worked with hit plan 27 consecutive quarters. How can a sales leader develop similar repeatability? Each business’s PQR funnel will differ depending on their sales cycle, ACVs, and overall motion. Will the sales leader attain plan? Demo/meeting: sales meeting.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 5, 2024

In the latest episode of CRO Confidential, host Sam Blond, partner at Founders Fund and former CRO at Brex, sits down with Ashley Kelly, VP of Global Sales Development at Rippling. For context – Ashley had previously helped Sam scale Brex’s outbound sales from $2M to over $300M in ARR as Senior Director of SDR.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 14, 2021

With one day left to go until SaaStr Scale 2021 on December 15th, we’re looking at an incredible speaker line-up this year. Tickets to Scale are free, so be sure to sign up to join us live. SaaStr Scale is dedicated to bringing you the playbooks for scaling to $100M and beyond.

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Chart Mogul

JULY 28, 2023

Four experts from the SaaS world sit down to discuss sales tech stacks, evolving your sales team, and some common mistakes organizations make building sales teams and purchasing software. ChartMogul’s very own VP of Sales, Sara Archer heads the panel discussion.

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SaaStr

JUNE 7, 2023

Scaling a tech startup doesn’t come easy, and when you’ve tried all the conventional SaaS advice, it might be tempting to give up. But before the years of rapid scaling, it took the company a little while to hit its stride. What Did WorkRamp Do Differently to Scale? But sometimes, the road less traveled is the path to success.

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SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2022

Rather than operating on our own in silos, marketers must extend our focus beyond top-of-funnel metrics and partner with sales to create a pipeline velocity. . Scale your alliance and solution partner marketing portfolio to amplify net new acquisition. . Affecting change in the sales ecosystem. Pillars of Revenue Marketing .

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Predictable Revenue

AUGUST 2, 2022

Jordan Crawford joins the Predictable Revenue podcast to discuss how to use data and research to improve your sales development prospecting process. The post How To Find Companies At Scale The Exact Moment They Need You appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

On December 8, join @Talend #CMO @LaurenV for a roundtable session at @saastr Scale 2020 "The Five Hardest #Marketing Decisions to Make and How to Get Them Right with Talend." Our next big digital mega-event SaaStr Scale is coming up soon, Dec 8-9!! Carl Gold, Chief Data Scientist, Zuora. " Save your seat today!

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Or do you actually have something worth scaling?”. This doesn’t simply mean that you’ve had a lot of sales, but instead that you’ve won over lots of repeat customers and have demonstrated a strategy that works. Data and trackable metrics are critical to understanding your success. Build sustainable scale models.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 20, 2023

OpenAI’s Head of Sales, Aliisa Rosenthal, joined OpenAI a year and a half ago — before ChatGPT launched. A friend joined Jasper as president and asked her to run the sales team. Sam said he had no idea what sales would look like at OpenAI or how to go to market with their products, but they went for it. They’re on a rocket ship.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Confluent’s President of Field Operations, Erica Schultz, explores different tactics businesses can employ to scale revenue and increase efficiency in the current macro environment. As you look to scale your business and make your processes more efficient, it’s essential to foster a shared understanding of who your target customer is.

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OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Once dominated by relationships, sales today (especially SaaS sales) are equally propelled by technology. With the broad adoption of CRM, the rise of the sales tech stack, and the advent of social selling and other digital sales channels, the sales landscape has shifted dramatically. Scaling SaaS Sales.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Yamini Rangan, CEO at HubSpot, has many insights on how to serve SMB customers at scale. But because SMBs are rarely digital-first, their recent challenges allowed HubSpot to leverage their years of experience in marketing automation, as it became a core feature of how these companies worked to scale. The Power of Multiproduct Hubs.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Gusto is a high-velocity, high-scale acquisition and expansion engine, and one we can all learn from. To be even more specific, Gusto realized the word “territory” was holding their sales team back. Today, many SaaS companies still divide up sales accounts in territories by city, country, or region, or round-robin them by rep.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 15, 2022

So we’ve got all the amazing sessions from 2022 SaaStr Scale up on YouTube here ! “3 Lessons from Building a Marketing Engine to Grow Pipeline from Millions to Billions with Samsara’s CMO” A great session on marketing at scale, across multiple products — with ton of great Q&A at the end. #2.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 10, 2022

From a venture capital perspective, there’s now a premium on driving efficient growth rather than growth at any cost. . “Sales and marketing alignment is a terrific place to figure out and improve efficient growth.” . From the get-go, ensure alignment between sales and marketing teams on goals and anticipated outcomes.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Check out the session here: Algolia also summarized their Top 5 take-aways here , and below: Most SaaS founders start out the same way— armed with ample expertise of the technical details that go into a product and with limited experience of other aspects of scaling, such as sales. On finding product-market fit in the early stages.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

We’re getting excited for the third annual SaaStr Scale on December 15. It’s all digital, and all free. appeared first on SaaStr.

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SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2023

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: The Challenge with SMB SaaS: High Growth Can Only Mask High Churn For Just So Long (Updated) The 8 Signs of a Failing Sales Rep. SaaStr 639: Scaling a SaaS Sales Team While Building Culture with Figma VP of Sales Scott Pugh    4.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 6, 2021

Finding the perfect VP of Sales position can be daunting, especially in the middle of a global pandemic. Candidates need to find opportunities that not only fit their sales experience and stretch goals, but also companies that are coming out of the pandemic with momentum. Who is looking to hire a VP of Sales in January / Q1?

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Their first step to achieving this was hiring a sales leader to build a sales team. They also hired a VP of Partners who knew how to scale B2B software. Something will inevitably go wrong when trying to scale your company the Storyblok way, but these tips can help you make them right: Trust your instincts.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 26, 2019

Today we’re releasing a brand new book, Intercom on Sales. You could swap in any numbers you’d like, and the sentiment would still hold true: scaling sales is incredibly hard. I joined Intercom three years ago to do just that, to take our nascent sales team to the next level. And much, much more. Good luck, and enjoy!

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SaaStr

MARCH 5, 2023

SaaStr 638: Lessons Learned in Scaling Your Team & Revenue from $1M ARR to $1B+ with Cloudflare CRO Chris Merritt  2. SaaStr 639: Scaling a SaaS Sales Team While Building Culture with Figma VP of Sales Scott Pugh   3. LIVE Workshop Wednesday with ICONIQ: Building Resilience through Efficient Scaling in 2023 4.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 24, 2021

2021 will be the year SaaS sales evolves the most since the Appexchange ecosystem started to take off ~15 years ago, which spawned the entire notion of a true sales app stack. The permanent move to distributed sales teams. Almost every SaaS VP of Sales and CRO I’ve talked to in the past few months isn’t going back.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 6, 2021

Join this panel discussion with three sales experts to hear their very best advice on data-driven strategies and get answers to your most burning questions. The post Data Strategies For Excellence at Scale (For Sales Leaders & Operations Pros) appeared first on Sales Hacker.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Their CEO will join us at SaaSr Scale 2021 on December 15 to talk about using data to get to 10,000 SMB customers! I asked Aasif Osmany to share his learnings as a top-performing SMB VP of Sales, below. I quickly learned that the people in this company were incredibly motivated, smart, focused, and data driven.

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SaaStr

APRIL 24, 2024

A core CRM, data and Cloud platform for the life sciences industry, it started off as a “Salesforce for Pharma” and expanded from there. It’s rolling out new marketing and sales and data products for life sciences, but arguably a smidge late. Still, going multi-product has again been the key to scaling beyond $1B ARR. #4.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Scaling a sales organization isn’t easy. Knowing which metrics matter and how to analyze them to increase your revenue and hit organizational sales goals is essential. . What makes a sales organization grow? What’s the best way to grow a sales organization? Enter your email below for the latest SaaStr updates.

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