Sales Hacker

JUNE 3, 2025

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Rick Kelley is the former VP of Metas Global Business Group, where he led a $10B+ revenue organization and played a pivotal role in building out Metas go-to-market teams across North America and EMEA. So, in 2002, I went to go and work at Yahoo.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 10, 2025

How to Work with VC Talent Teams ” → A tactical guide on how to engage with venture capital talent teams effectively (e.g., How to Work with VC Talent Teams ” → A tactical guide on how to engage with venture capital talent teams effectively (e.g., what to ask, how to prepare, what not to do). In 2021, right?

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User Pilot

APRIL 16, 2025

It compounds quietly across every team, workflow, and decision. When data collection is messy, product managers lose visibility, teams waste hours chasing answers, and user experience suffers. Based on your current dashboard, it looks like most users churn before completing onboarding. But that view only reflects web users.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 23, 2019

That’s why we built Product Tours to assist with the job of user onboarding within your product, alongside our best-in-class in-app messaging and knowledge base products. Let’s dig into the best ways to build a comprehensive onboarding flow, plus a few common issues to look out for. First, a quick definition.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 12, 2021

As a support leader, you already know how important it is to take care of your customers – but it’s just as important to take care of your support team. Here’s why human support is so crucial for any customer-centric organization, and how it can have a significant impact on your team, your business, and your customers. Here’s why.

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SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

So let’s take a look back to a deep dive with the CEOs on what they learned building their first senior teams: ———-. As a founder/CEO, building your first management team is something that you often lose sleep over. What makes you feel that you need to level up your management, set up your first management team?

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 7, 2018

Today he’s the founder and CEO at GrowthHackers , whose software, community and annual conference help teams work together to drive breakout growth results for “must have” products and services. a lot of Sean’s early focus and success there came from experimentation with onboarding. What growth hacking is and isn’t.

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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. To do the first, we had to hire, train, and write a playbook – the building blocks of any team. Relentlessly measure impact.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 1, 2018

They help their users be successful, and that means providing great onboarding. At Traction Conference, an event all about how to keep and grow customers and revenue at scale, I explained how to build onboarding based on your customers’ goals, and why when your product improves, your onboarding must improve with it.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 21, 2020

Justin used Sales Culture to grow a successful PatientPop team to 140 employees and 55 million in revenue. When I was hired, I came in with one salesperson and zero dollars in recurring revenue and over the next four years grew the sales team to over 140 employees and 55 million in recurring revenue. Want to see more content like this?

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User Pilot

APRIL 30, 2024

From this article, you will find out how to develop a strong growth marketing strategy and learn growth marketing tactics for different customer journey stages. Market development targets new markets with existing products, while product development – existing markets with new products. If so, we’ve got you covered.

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SaaStr

JUNE 13, 2024

Will they be able to follow up on a deal or handle onboarding and deployment issues? Every week, there are significant new developments in tech. If you go to a team and say, “I can do 70% of what your team is doing now automatically and at a fraction of the cost.” Not like 2021 post-pandemic growth, but definitely growth.

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ChurnZero

JULY 22, 2022

Does your Customer Success team have a shallow view of onboarding? If you consider onboarding to be a success when a customer reaches their go-live date, then you need to dig deeper. How to increase customer value during onboarding with Donna Weber. Let me go back to my six-stage onboarding framework.

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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. This has created large amounts of data for running teams. . Mark Roberge knows which he prefers. As an engineer by training, in pressure situations he tends to “lean to the quant.”

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

To capture our thoughts and give clear definition to our team, we write a document called a problem statement. While a problem statement comes before design in the process of product development, as people we tend to think in solutions. “It takes thought, writing, re-writing, and research. Start with the solution.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 13, 2019

In a recent talk at UX London , I discussed some lessons learned while growing the design team at Intercom, reflecting on the technology industry’s obsession with tools, and pointed out how our sense of tools as objects or apps blinds us to the reality that the processes we adopt and develop are also, in effect, tools.

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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

We’re seeing larger numbers of people work in the industry, more companies investing in sales enablement teams and numerous tools being developed to solve sales enablement challenges. Financial services (75%), high tech (70%) and telecommunications (67%) have the highest saturation of dedicated sales enablement teams ( Quark ).

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 15, 2018

Will Larson has managed infrastructure teams for some of the biggest names in software. Partnering with the Infrastructure, Data and Developer Productivity teams, his group builds the tools that support every Stripe engineer and keep Stripe reliable and performant. Today he’s leading Foundation Engineering at Stripe.

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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. The role of customer success teams.

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User Pilot

AUGUST 1, 2024

Product marketing focuses on getting products into the hands of the right users, whereas product management focuses on developing the product. It is a merger between product development and sales to ensure a product satisfies specific customer needs and business goals. Product management focuses on product development.

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User Pilot

MARCH 31, 2022

There’s a simple way to boost product-led growth: giving users a fantastic first impression of your product by using onboarding tooltips. Then, it’s relatively simple to create an onboarding process that meets their needs and drives adoption. What are onboarding tooltips? Ready to get started? Let’s dive in!

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

ML teams tend to invest a fair share of resources in research that never ships. If you want to invest in ML, hire someone with experience on both the tech and the operational side so they can start working with the product team from day one. Des Traynor: So, maybe just a couple of dictionary definitions. Fergal Reid: Exactly.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 5, 2018

Our chat covers how gaming principles influenced her growth experiments, her team’s most successful retention tactics, and much more. Adam: How was the transition from classic marketing to working more with designers and engineers on the growth team? What follows is a lightly edited transcript of the interview.

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Casey Accidental

JANUARY 2, 2018

I receive a lot of questions about growth teams. Who does this team report to? When do I start a growth team for my business? The traditional definition above is qualitative, and if you’re like me, you like to have data to answer questions. Startups by definition should be making things people already want.

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Incredo

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

In its turn, SaaS company is responsible for optimizing conversions and successful onboarding so the visitor becomes a paying customer. Process is simple but would we write about it if everything was that easy? In our case, we needed to invest a lot in product development. But most SaaS startups don’t realize that.

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User Pilot

APRIL 22, 2024

The benefits of having a customer insights dashboard include improved understanding of customer behavior, significant time savings, and enhanced cross-team collaboration. Rather than manually reading continuously accumulating data, your team can immediately focus on trends and areas needing attention.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

This is about making that connection with the customer and the limbic part of the brain, the emotional part of their brain to get that connection and to get them onboard, to get your employees connected to your purpose, to get them onboard with what you’re doing. Because that’s the definition of a true champion.

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Teamgate

JULY 1, 2020

Irrespective of what you must have learned about content marketing, you definitely need a content marketing funnel to increase your engagement and boost sales. Definitely you have an idea of what a marketing funnel is, if not you wouldn’t be here. Definitely, Teamgate isn’t the only Sales CRM tool in the industry.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

With so many moving parts in the creation process, from visual design to content or front-end development, what’s the one universal model all of these can apply to ensure the interaction in the end is more human and humane than machine-like? Because I think it’s a wider definition. What falls under that umbrella to you?

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Scaling a support team is challenging enough as it is. Maybe you’ve just extended support hours and it’s becoming harder to plan shifts for different time zones; maybe you’re spending hours figuring out schedules for the week ahead; maybe the inflow prediction was a bit off and now your team is under or overstaffed.

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Chart Mogul

MAY 30, 2019

Ingmar, our VP of Customer Success, and our support team cracked the code on first response time and measuring NPS. As we grow, we’re able to spend more time developing the proactive tiers of the pyramid without de-prioritizing a strong foundation of fast, helpful ticket replies and features that delight.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 19, 2018

It means reducing choices amongst engineering teams and standardizing technology, so our team can spend as much time as possible delivering value to customers. Our chat covers the origins of Run Less Software, how it has evolved at scale, and how it differs from the equally valid approaches of other engineering teams.

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Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Getting a new customer on board is a happy time for every sales team, but it’s not quite the end of the road. Poor handoff practices also have a much broader impact than just making a few customers unhappy — they dramatically affect retention and your company’s bottom line.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 28, 2022

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. In today’s episode, we sat down with Sanj to talk about scaling sales teams, what makes a great salesperson, and strategies to deliver the best outcomes for your customers.

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SaaStr

JULY 1, 2020

She manages a huge global team. It has a portion of its revenue that’s very sensitive to the economy and a lot of startups in the customer base, good and bad, right? Sam will have a lot of interesting perspectives on how he manages his team through these times. Four, people in the sale? Jason Lemkin: None.

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User Pilot

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In the competitive world of SaaS products, product positioning is definitely something your product marketing team can’t afford to ignore. This enables the marketing team to set clear expectations from the very beginning of the marketing campaign. Strong positioning makes the work of the marketing and sales teams easier.

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Aaron Beashel

OCTOBER 31, 2016

During his time at Salesforce, Alex was fortunate enough to work directly with Salesforce co-founder and CEO Marc Benioff, and together they utilised a framework Benioff himself devised called the V2MOM to align and manage the Service Cloud team. It was game-changing for the company, and for each team that implemented it.

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