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. But also the cost it has on their careers — and your sales team.

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Point Nine Land

OCTOBER 23, 2023

P9 Panel on Hiring Sales Leaders — Founders Summit 2023 “You are going to fire your first sales manager!” — A lesson too many founders learn the hard way. The Founder isn’t willing to be the first salesperson Many of the best founders we work with don’t have a sales background and are either product or engineering focused.

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OnStartups

MAY 18, 2021

First off, just to be clear, I’ve never been a sales person. I’ve never even played a sales person on TV. All the points below have been pulled from startup sales teams that I think work pretty well (including the team at CRM software company, HubSpot). Building Startup Sales Teams.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

A few months back, I was inspired by a section in Scott Barker’s “The Forecast” newsletter where he referenced some data from Chorus.ai analyzing how often Directors and Executives are involved in the sales process. At the time, COVID-19 was in full effect, so sales opportunities aplenty were turned upside down.

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InsightSquared

MARCH 26, 2020

The sales processes of yesterday may now be obsolete. As reps adjust to this evolving sales environment, managers must do the same and explore more dynamic and structured coaching methods. Sales managers often fail to balance between pipeline inspection and engagement feedback when coaching reps. Less telling, more listening.

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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. The opportunity emerged out of a shift in how we practice sales. We had split into two distinct but complementary functions.

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User Pilot

AUGUST 5, 2023

How can you leverage data tracking to get product growth insights ? Analyzing data is the key to achieving customer success and product growth. So let’s find out how to create a data tracking plan to collect and analyze all data relevant to your SaaS business. What is data tracking?

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InsightSquared

MARCH 19, 2020

Sales teams across the country are being forced into remote work situations in response to the COVID-19 crisis. However, for some extra guidance, here are some best practices for managing a fully remote sales team from our very own sales leaders. . From Peter Barris, Enterprise Sales Leader at InsightSquared.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 29, 2018

This is part 2 of a 5-part series to help you develop the right approach to sales coaching. While part 1 focused building the right coaching mentality , this article covers how you can take a data driven sales coaching approach. . Using Data to Inspire Commitment. 1) Why does data driven sales coaching matter?

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Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Unfortunately, things only get more difficult when it comes to running the whole business as a Shopify app developer. This article will cover 10 business tips for improving your Shopify app’s development, marketing, and sales. 10 business tips for Shopify app developers 1. Use data to test pricing 5. It shouldn’t!

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 23, 2020

In sales, we have three enemies. The solution is to change the way you approach a sale so that you are building emotional safety with your prospect. They could have a lack of trust from above due to a predecessor doing a bad job. In other words, once we think we know something, we stop seeing or listening to new data.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Want to write sales emails like a pro? Manager, Outbound Growth Marketing at Greenhouse) and Will Allred (Co-Founder & COO at Lavender) to get TWO perspectives and TWO approaches on real sales emails, every week on Sales Hacker. We bolted onto their outbound team. Has your team done any outbound for this yet?

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yoursales

JUNE 1, 2023

Capturing Client & Prospect Communication: Unveiling the Powerful Key to Sales Success In today’s hyper-competitive business landscape, where customer-centricity reigns supreme, the ability of capturing client & prospect communication has become a critical component for sales success. What’s in this Article?

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

Building a sales funnel that aligns with your business goals is essential. I’m the head of Product at Datanyze, specializing in sourcing up-to-date prospect contact info to keep your pipeline flowing and sales funnel fresh. What is a sales funnel? And then there’s the sales funnel. The 4 stages of a sales funnel.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 1, 2021

Most support teams have seen an influx of support queries since COVID-19 hit – and those issues are more complex than ever. According to recent research, however, many teams aren’t sufficiently equipped to meet these new challenges. Challenge #1: Limited team bandwidth, resources, and budget.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 25, 2021

First, how does the knowledge that Terry is married and loves eating Smarties help your reps make a sale? Our guess is that poor Polly from purchasing is gathering dust on a noticeboard in the canteen or buried somewhere deep in your internal network of folders. And second, where is Terry the tech exec now? Or Mary from marketing?

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

He also observed that after product-market fit had been achieved, companies would only ever have to worry about marketing and sales. As companies begin to succeed, they sometimes develop a tunnel vision towards the customers who have brought them their success. Listen to sales. We just have to actively listen.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 24, 2024

How should you handle presenting challenges to your C-suite team when you’ve just joined the company? Lattice had a product-led growth flow on the website while the sales team was still trying to sell the PLG companies The good news is Lattice had a lot of activity and initiatives at play. Can you start and stop a PLG motion?

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 3, 2020

Each bucket has a set of disciplines that the team scores. First, it enumerates the important priorities for a marketing team. And second, the scorecard provides a way for a team to understand their strengths and weaknesses. sales enablement: how strong are the materials sales teams use to pitch?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The success of an executive team often depends as much on their interpersonal harmony as their professional expertise. How does a team establish rapport with one another? Algolia’s Bernadette Nixon (Chief Executive Officer) and Michelle Adams (Chief Revenue Officer) have spent the past few years developing this relational toolbox.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 25, 2021

The thing about data is it helps you make better business decisions. Everyone has questions when it comes to choosing data analysis software. Why are there so many data analytics tools? You have to arrange your data, explain it, present it properly, and then derive a conclusion from it. Or is your team less technical?

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

How do you build out a Sales Development (SDR) function at your SaaS company? Establishing a baseline for successfully doing outbound with the existing sales team you have is critical before investing in a dedicated SDR function. The answer didn’t show up in the data.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Most growth-stage CEOs I work with know how to tell if they’re efficiently allocating capital in every part of their budget with one glaring exception: research and development (R&D). Focus on performance management of your product and engineering teams as early indicators for what R&D investments are working, and which aren’t.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 30, 2020

B2B sales is always changing, but nothing could’ve quite prepared us for the wild ride that 2020 ended up being. While most of us have settled into the new normal and the challenges that come with it, sales leaders are looking ahead with uncertainty. Best Sales Statistics to Know in 2021. Short on time? What this means for you.

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Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Shopify is a huge opportunity for developers looking to expand into the micro-SaaS space. The Shopify App Store brings together Shopify app developers and Shopify shop owners for their mutual benefit. Why you need to track business metrics for Shopify App Developers 10 business metrics for Shopify App Developers 1.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 8, 2019

A successful close is the end goal that every sales team guns for. Whether prospecting, making cold calls, negotiating, or even researching, every small step a sales rep takes is tied to this goal. But despite a focus on closing sales, it remains one of the biggest issues for teams. Image Source. We all know this.

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FastSpring

APRIL 4, 2024

As an experienced sales and GTM leader, John Eitel has more than witnessed how product-led growth (PLG) has affected the tech and SaaS space in the last few years — he and his teams have been up close and personal with how PLG increased in popularity as a sales strategy. “I What success looks like for using both together.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 29, 2022

With Merge’s Unified API, developers integrate just once and give their customers access to over 150 HR Information Systems (HRIS), Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS), Accounting, Ticketing, and CRM integrations. Empower your inside sales team by automating the hardest parts of outbound calling.

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OpenView Labs

JULY 20, 2020

Interviewing is hard , and interviewing candidates for sales roles can be doubly so. Sales requires a mix of left- and right-brained qualities, and accurately evaluating a candidate’s skills is a challenge for hiring managers. Better interviewing = better sales teams. How not to interview for sales.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 1, 2021

As a sales manager, the most impactful thing you can do is coach your team. Study any sales coaching blog, podcast, or book and you’ll find plenty of advice on the best ways to coach your sales reps: join their calls, listen to recordings, apply a framework … the list goes on. Why are emails crucial to closing the deal?

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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.

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InsightSquared

MARCH 5, 2021

Throughout his three decades of experience running revenue organizations, he has seen the good — and plenty of the bad. Fact: Your sales reps, regardless of how great they are, will never deliver the level of hygiene required to give you confidence in your CRM data. This piece will focus on the importance of activity capture.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 19, 2022

Content is one of the most critical components of your sales engagement strategy. To ensure long-term content strategy success , it’s best to periodically evaluate your team’s content requirements and workflow alignment. The entire sales team is clear on the plan, and it’s working. RELATED: Use Outreach?

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2022

The fact of the matter is that data science, as a field, is still relatively new. But as Benn points out, the future of data analysis isn’t an architecture diagram or business leaders looking at dashboards – it’s building an experience, and a very exciting one at that. I worked there for a couple years as an analyst or data scientist.

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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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OnStartups

MAY 18, 2021

First off, just to be clear, I’ve never been a sales person. I’ve never even played a sales person on TV. All the points below have been pulled from startup sales teams that I think work pretty well (including the team at CRM software company, HubSpot). Building Startup Sales Teams.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 19, 2021

Can your sales reps differentiate negative email replies from positive replies? If yes, does your data help them figure out what to do next? SDRs work on the front lines of all sales engagement and hone their craft in outbound sales strategies. Intent data and sentiment data: understanding your customer.

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