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SaaStr CRO Confidential: Omni Founder Colin Zima on the Power of Leveraging Your Network for Sales and Recruiting (Pod 658 + Video)

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In this week’s episode of CRO Confidential, host Sam Blond, Partner at Founders Fund, continues a mini-series on founder-led sales with Colin Zima, founder and CEO of Omni. For example, a company out of Finland did a demo and wanted a BI product that was $100/month. There’s no better version of an inbound lead than that.

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Scaling A SaaS Sales Team While Building Culture with Scott Pugh, VP of Sales at Figma (Pod 639 + Video)

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At SaaStr APAC 2023, Scott Pugh, VP of Sales at Figma, shared how to scale these two sales teams while building culture. Pugh’s strategy is simple, albeit not always easy: Recruitment — how to hire the best talent to scale your sales organization. Let’s look at five tips to consider for successful recruiting.

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From Zero to Hero: How to Dominate Outbound SaaS Sales with Rippling and Founders Fund on CRO Confidential

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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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Does Your VP of Sales Need to be An Expert In Your Product?

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So one recent survey we did really brought out a healthy debate: does your VP of Sales really need to be a product expert? Many of the comments said it was more important a VP of Sales understand process and leadership more than the product itself. You gotta be able to demo it. They often melt. At least a little bit.

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The Playbook to Building a Thriving Sales Culture with PatientPop SVP of Sales Justin Welsh (Video + Transcript)

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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. I was a local sales manager or regional manager.

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How to Scale Outbound Sales with the CROs of Each (Podcast 513 and Video)

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Scaling your sales team can be one of the hardest things to do in SaaS. What’s the best way to help your sales team navigate today’s changing markets and changing priorities? And what’s the right time to fill crucial sales leadership roles? 1 Buyers Expect Personalization in Outbound Sales.

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How to Truly Stand Out in Any Job Interview, from SDR to COO

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It’s so, so easy to stand out in recruiting if you’ve actually done your homework. Sometimes the bar is shockingly low, even for leadership roles” — David Fallarme, VPM, Spotdraft “One time, a candidate had created a free trial account on our SaaS tool, plus trials on competitors. Now I see who they sell to!”