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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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Scott’s newsletter makes a great point: as buying teams get bigger and bigger, our sales teams need to grow with them. In other words, the partners balance out each other’s strengths and weaknesses. First, identify your team member’s strengths and weaknesses. Business case development and IT/tech strategy.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 27, 2020

Whether you run a one-person sales enablement program or are part of a team, the sheer scope of the job can be overwhelming. Which is why we’ve put together this guide on sales enablement, focusing on the three primary parts of the job: strategy, execution, and governance. Sales enablement strategy.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 14, 2022

But believe it or not, the “it factor” in sellers is a myth and one that’s been embraced for far too long by sales leaders. The reality for many organizations is—top performers thrive and the rest of the team is left behind. A recent survey from Mindtickle and Heinz Marketing of 280 sales and revenue leaders found that only 14.7%

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 5, 2019

If you’re approaching sales enablement passively (or ignoring it completely), you’re leaving revenue on the table. Worse, your competition — who probably has a strong sales enablement strategy — will easily outpace you and drown out any of your basic prospecting efforts. 6 Essential Tips for Sales Enablement.

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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

JULY 30, 2017

Leading sales enablement programmes for over 100 sales professionals is challenging, rewarding and lots of fun. The way I see it, my role primarily is to partner with the sales organisation, so sales reps are successful, which enables sales reps and by extension, HubSpot to grow.

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OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Alright—raise your hand if you think there’s value in developing a sales enablement strategy at your start-up? Okay, and raise your hand if you think it’s vital to have a customer service enablement strategy, too? The fact of the matter is, customer service enablement isn’t a field of its own. average of 15%.

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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. Your sales team. Or Mary from marketing?

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 10, 2023

Too often, I see sales teams thinking of their “ sales process ” as a set of stages in their pipeline and maybe a bunch of fields to complete at each stage. We were weak on some key functionality areas where the winning vendor was strong. Bad news from left field There was a change in company direction. It happens.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Modern sales teams need competent professionals with a variety of talents, skills and abilities. But in a hyper changing landscap e, which are the most crucial sales skills and traits that reps must possess (or develop) in order to exceed targets and deliver consistent sales success? Affinity with Technology.

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OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Companies use various methods such as surveys and assessments to uncover the critical selling and knowledge skill gaps impacting their sales executives. In many cases, these gaps are preventing sales executives from reaching their full potential and meeting and/or exceeding quota. Skills range from universal selling skills (e.g.

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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

MARCH 23, 2020

Companies which don’t use mental models risk unleashing mayhem with poor choices or becoming bloated and bureaucratic by reducing the volume and speed at which decisions are made - both scenarios are undesirable and will impact growth. OKRs are a useful mental model - they make it crystal clear what people and teams should be striving for.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 20, 2018

So don’t just aimlessly listen to sales podcasts and never implement the lessons. Take notes, highlight the best parts, and share important takeaways with your team. Then, most importantly, take what you’ve learned and go apply the insights to your sales process. Linking Into Sales (The Social Selling Podcast).

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Every day, sales managers work side by side with their reps in customer meetings, planning sessions, and team meetings. It’s easy to assume that sales coaching is accomplished somewhere in this mix. Poor sales coaching affects performance and is often a product of a cultural misunderstanding of what coaching is all about.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 21, 2021

There are sales buzzwords that we love and some that we really hate. But that doesn’t mean they’re all bad. When you use sales buzzwords correctly, you’ll sound like you’re an industry insider. A strategy is how a team plans to reach their overarching goals and all of the steps to get there. ” – you’re not alone.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 21, 2020

I’m going to show you how creating a culture of transparency and celebrating our failures transformed our sales team and brought huge success to our entire org. Here at Lucidchart, my team of enterprise sales reps has a weekly ritual called Fo’Real Fridays, and it’s all about celebrating and learning from our failures.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Our survey determined that 20% of monthly calls don’t materialize into closed sales. Why your sales team is losing deals in 2022. Traditional B2B sales tactics are often defined by the “spray-n’-pray” method – an endless deluge of relentless cold-calling and pushy follow-up tactics. . 33% had poor sales demos.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 24, 2023

In this episode, we dive into this renewed trend with Tito Bohrt, the CEO of AltiSales, the one-stop shop for world-class sales development. He also shares how company culture impacts productivity and morale, primarily within sales teams. Apart from offering a tool, the AltiSales team also provides consulting services.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 27, 2021

That means thinking of the sales team as remote-at-heart, not remote-by-default. Running a sales team without face-to-face communication. Remember the sales floor when it existed in physical reality? That means that communication in your team has been slashed to the bare minimum. Reimagined sales coaching.

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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. Here are some of our favorite takeaways from the conversation: A sales organization needs a good foundation to scale.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 19, 2022

The entire sales team is clear on the plan, and it’s working. And all stages of development can benefit from addressing the following scenarios: Scenario 1: It’s unclear what’s working and what’s not. Here’s 3 Strategies to Organize Your Sales Team’s Content. RELATED: Use Outreach?

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

The Pirate’s Guide to Sales. The Sales Acceleration Formula. Mastering the Complex Sale. Sales Development and Prospecting. The Sales Development Playbook. Outbound Sales, No Fluff. Sales Engagement. Sales Engagement. Sales Enablement. The Sales Enablement Playbook.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 12, 2018

”Tito, how do I go about building a sales team (especially the sales development function) from scratch?” ” It usually comes from founders, or the first sales hire at a company. Manager: “Ok team, so we need better results. The winning teams have bazookas. See mistake #3).

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Guided selling with Revenue Grid allows you to guide reps step-by-step through every deal, reducing guesswork and increasing consistency so your teams have the best odds with every opportunity in the pipeline. See how you can put your sales teams in the best position to win now at revenuegrid.com/saleshacker.

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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

AUGUST 22, 2017

In my sales enablement role at HubSpot I'm truly privileged to partner with over 100 sales professionals that are at the top of their game and only want to get better. Working with sales reps that want to succeed and push each other to do better is a joy. Let’s talk about how HubSpot equips it sales reps for success.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

” It remains distressing if teams continue with this knowledge and run the same marketing activities over and over again. The ICT products for marketing automation are much more mature and developed with the marketing process in mind. In this situation, there’s much better cooperation between sales and marketing.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

In sales, sellers who cite convoluted reasons to explain poor performance, rather than proactively doing something about it often remain — unsurprisingly — at the bottom of the success ladder. There certainly are a lot of things in sales that make life a tad more difficult. Our marketing team sucks. Losers make excuses.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 27, 2019

Wondering how other sales teams are working their magic? Sure, their processes and talent have something to do with their success, but so does their sales stack. Namely… What does the perfect sales stack look like? Sales Tech: a top priority for sales. Unveiling the sales stacks of 7 top sales teams.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 20, 2019

1) Sales Ops gets hired too late , from everyone’s point of view. They come after a VP Sales, but before Sales Enablement. 2) Sales Ops starts as a tech-savvy SFDC Admin (often an introvert BDR transfer). It then grows to Sales Ops, and ultimately matures to Biz or Rev Ops and has a full team built around them.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 12, 2021

Deal disasters you’ll want your team to avoid. Let’s have a look at what you can do to prepare and empower your team to avoid them so you can start beating that quota. Do your sales reps know who they’re supposed to be targeting? So how can your team identify those decision-makers? How to prep and empower your team.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 24, 2021

We get the best results when both the sales and the marketing teams’ content is based around the customers and their desired outcomes. We can’t do this without a shared effort from Sales and Marketing running customer development and jobs-to-be-done interviews. Alex is the boss. Use content to get them there.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 4, 2021

Developing a revenue operations (RevOps) strategy — and the team to implement it — is no easy task. As the VP of Revenue Operations at Sales BQ®, I saw my role develop from primarily sales enablement to sales operations as we worked to understand and get a hold of the wide variety of roles RevOps is in charge of.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 31, 2019

And as the organization grows, the work involved to get teams aligned on who you’re selling to and how you’re selling is not something to be taken for granted either. Ambient Strategy founder and CEO April Dunford on the symptoms of weak positioning. When you’re a small team, your time is everything. Speed is everything.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 5, 2018

When sales onboarding is ineffective, the costs are high – not only for the sales department but for the entire organization: Underprepared sales reps can damage your business reputation and may not sell to buyers the way they like to be sold to. Taking a Page from Agile Software Development. 4 Steps of Agile Onboarding.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 29, 2021

And so, Mark Rudden and his team had to figure it all out by themselves. Fortunately, Mark had quite a bit of experience working and scaling teams in demanding, hypergrowth environments. In fact, in some form or another, he’s been working in sales for most of his career. Onboarding, but make it remote. Kieron: Absolutely.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 4, 2022

But it won’t help you if you don’t leverage it to actually develop and grow relationships. Sales: It’s not just a numbers game. Sales is a numbers game,” is probably one of the most common phrases uttered by grizzled sales veterans. In other words, I worked to develop real human connections based on real interactions.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

What does it take to scale a sales team successfully? Should one hire sales reps 2×2? How does Andy think about hiring sales reps from adjacent companies and industries? I’ve heard so many good things from Kobie, now at Upfront, and then also the team at Openview. How does Andy think about discounting?

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