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CRO Confidential: What It Really Takes to Be Successful in Enterprise SaaS Sales with Christian Smith, CRO of Splunk

SaaStr

Over the years, Splunk has expanded its offerings through acquisitions and product development. 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. No one person or sales rep owns a piece of the pipeline.

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Thanks to Carta, Scratchpad, Storyblok, TripActions, and WorldPay from FIS for Sponsoring SaaStr Annual 2022!

SaaStr

Designed for sales. Storyblok is a Headless Content Management System that provides developers with all the flexibility they need to build reliable and fast websites whilst giving content creators with no coding skills the ability to edit content independently of the developer. Connected to Salesforce.

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The Top 10 Mistakes People Make When Hiring a VP of Sales with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin

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Hiring a VP of Sales isn’t new, but the conversations have evolved as the world has. Jason has written about the cheat codes for hiring VPs of Sales since 2012 and realized it was worth a deeper dive. Jason has written about the cheat codes for hiring VPs of Sales since 2012 and realized it was worth a deeper dive.

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Thanks to Skyflow, Expensify, Avoma, and Snyk for Sponsoring SaaStr Annual 2022!

SaaStr

More than 10 million people use Expensify’s free features, which include corporate cards, expense tracking, next-day reimbursement, invoicing, bill pay, and travel booking in one app. Avoma is an AI Meeting Assistant, Collaboration and Intelligence platform for Sales, Implementation, and Customer Success teams.

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How to Scale a SaaS business: 5 Growth Tips with Jason Lemkin + Algolia

SaaStr

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 hiring your first (and second, and third) sales person.

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How to Win Big by Serving High-Growth Startups with Zendesk’s Head of Startups

SaaStr

Some things to think about as you craft your offer are: Does it align with your sales motion? You don’t want conflict with the sales team. How do you leverage that offer to develop relationships with partners? Those travel so fast from venture teams straight to founders, boards, and other VC funds.

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A Friendly Reminder to Cost-Cutters: Keep the Company a Great Place to Work for Survivors

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As we struggle to hit top-down targets through rounds of cost-cutting, we cut here and squeeze there so much that we can develop a certain myopia. More subtly, have we teed up both failure and internal warfare by overcutting marketing relative to sales ? More simply, do we still have travel budget? Little or no travel budget.