SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2020

343: Kyle Parrish is the Head of Sales @ Figma, the company that helps teams create, test and ship better designs from start to finish. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Kyle made his way into the world of SaaS and sales and came to be Head of Sales at one of the fastest-growing companies in Figma. What worked?

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Sales Hacker

JULY 25, 2022

Here’s the thing about driving a car — and about running a sales org: Bumps in the road are inevitable. One of the best ways to ensure every part of your engine is running smoothly is to build sales performance dashboards for everyone on your team. What is a sales performance dashboard? What is a sales performance dashboard?

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User Pilot

MARCH 21, 2024

Demographic data includes characteristics such as age, gender, education, and job. SaaS companies utilize a variety of customer profile templates, including: The Simple Customer Profile Template focuses on key customer details, aiding in tailoring communications and strategies for impactful, personalized interactions.

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Buffer Resources

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

I’ve never created LinkedIn content with the “goal” of lead generation or immediate-term sales. Another cool example I really like is Tito Bohrt — he stands out with the pseudo, “ Sales Mad Scientist ” — which demonstrates confidence and a unique identity online.

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SaaStock

JANUARY 9, 2019

Find your target companies, which challenge people in the same ways you do, and then recruit their former employees. Also stay alert for professional people who may not have sales experience but are eager for a career change. This is particularly valid for sales positions where personality is a huge factor in the role.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

If you’re looking to move up the ladder into a sales leadership role, your resume is key to getting your foot in the door. Related: 8 High-Paying Sales Jobs (And How to Get Them). While you might be tempted to pack your resume with as much information as possible, this is not an effective strategy. Manage pipeline.

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User Pilot

APRIL 19, 2024

TL;DR Market research is vital for making informed business decisions, enabling companies to understand the market, target audience, and competitors, reducing risks, and optimizing marketing communications and product strategies. Accumulating demographic information forms the basis for executing effective market segmentation strategies.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 13, 2021

Although Linda started her career in sales, she has spent the past twelve years scaling post-sales teams and moving hyper-growth companies like Zendesk, Slack, and now Gong upmarket into the enterprise realm. Moving upmarket means larger customers and higher revenue, but it’s not without its challenges.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Welcome to Sales Hacker’s first-ever Influential Women in Sales list! In this exclusive list, we wanted to honor not just female leaders that promote their own sales platform (no shame in that!) They say “You can’t be what you can’t see,” and the sales floor is no exception.

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OpenView Labs

MARCH 8, 2021

B2B sales involves one business selling its product to another business. Those with experience in both B2B and B2C sales know that B2B is a lot tougher—the deals are bigger, there’s often more than one decision-maker, and the competition is intense. For all those reasons, hiring and management must be on point.

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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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Buffer Resources

OCTOBER 9, 2023

It might be time to re-evaluate your advertising strategies on these platforms. Understanding evolving consumer behavior is key – adapt your marketing strategy to align with consumption trends. As you experiment, monitor AI campaign performance and have alternative strategies. LinkedIn 1. Alt Platforms 1.

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Chief Technical Officer : Responsible for outlining the company’s technological vision, implementing technology strategies, and ensuring that the technological resources are aligned with the company’s business needs. Engineering Manager: In charge of planning, designing, and overseeing projects. Average salary: $196,172/yr.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 25, 2024

Skillset 1: Sales acumen In 2024, driving revenue is a primary responsibility of CS. This means that sales acumen is no longer just a bonus for CS professionals—it’s a new baseline for many companies. Customer success manager roles The CSM role is becoming more strategic, with increased responsibility for driving revenue.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Experts believe as much as 80 percent of recruiting will remain virtual for the foreseeable future , and the early stages of the recruitment process are ideal for the online medium. With Paradox, you get a mobile-first recruitment experience that uses AI to put the candidate first. Send Educational Info Before the Event.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Getting the team right is one of the hardest parts of scaling sales. But no sales team can afford to grow without intention. While building a sales team, we’ve focused a lot on our sales culture. Here’s how we went about growing a sales team that is both world class and culture-additive.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 12, 2020

Like most things in life, hiring sales talent is a matter of timing. Especially since the best candidates with strong sales skills are usually snatched up within 10 days. That’s why it’s critical to overcome indecision and move quickly when recruiting sales talent. Is it unrealistic sales quotas?

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SaaStr

JULY 30, 2020

356: Pete Kazanjy is the Co-Founder @ Atrium, the startup providing proactive, always-on insights for sales operations, managers, and leaders. Alongside Atrium, Pete is also the Founder of Modern Sales Pros, a community of 15,000 focused on sales operations and sales management. Stop asking questions.

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Buffer Resources

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

I’ve never created LinkedIn content with the “goal” of lead generation or immediate-term sales. Another cool example I really like is Tito Bohrt — he stands out with the pseudo, “ Sales Mad Scientist ” — which demonstrates confidence and a unique identity online.

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InsightSquared

AUGUST 14, 2019

For sales professionals, AI is not only impacting your personal life, but it will soon influence your professional work too if it hasn’t already done so. Many of today’s forward-thinking companies have already begun using AI in their sales strategies. Strengthens Communication With Sales Leads.

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Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Do you want to grow your SaaS sales team and improve your processes? maintain healthy atmosphere in your Smarketing team, make smart choices regarding your SaaS sales model, strategy, pricing, . build smoother connections both with your prospects through optimized sales process. And from SaaS sales models to SaaS pricing.

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SaaStr

JULY 1, 2020

An open discussion with Sam Blond, CSO at Brex, and Kristen Habacht, VPS at Atlassian, about adjusting their sales process during Covid-19. Kristen Habacht runs EDR sales at Atlassian, which I got a check today, $40 billion-$50 billion company. She manages a huge global team. Four, people in the sale? Jason Lemkin: None.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

One of the biggest decisions you can make when setting up your sales team is whether to focus primarily on inside or outside sales. They seem to be completely at odds, with one focused on clients with a high acquisition cost and high ACV (annual account value), the other focused on a high sales velocity. Hiring guide.

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Incredo

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

If sounds like this topic can help you generate more SaaS sales with less risk, we are starting! In reality, creating collateral for affiliates, recruiting, training and motivating affiliates takes a lot of effort. What works best are regular newsletters and webinars to educate our affiliates on how to sell Transformify better.

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SaaStr

JULY 9, 2019

Giraffe is a mobile job matching platform that helps medium skilled workers get access to opportunities and helps businesses to recruit staff faster, and easier, and more affordably than any other way. However, back in 2013, in my previous career as a strategy consultant, I was doing a lot of work with telecoms companies in South Africa.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Dylan Serota , Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer @ Terminal, the startup that helps you create world-class technical teams through remote operations as a service. Does having an exec and sales team in one place and the rest of the team elsewhere work? How does this change according to sector and customer base?

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Unbounce

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Sounds like a big opportunity for talent-starved companies to recruit, right? Then we’re not even mentioning an increasingly competitive continuing education industry —an added challenge since allWomen only speaks to about half of potential students as their competitors do. But a great story doesn’t mean success is easy for the team.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 21, 2018

Whether you’re at an early-stage startup that’s just made its first sales hires, or part of a fast-moving sales team in a large organization, the key to success often comes down to efficiency. Then, the sales team went to work. When making a sales hire, Max pays attention to the way candidates approach getting the job.

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Valuize Consulting

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Is it going to come from the Sales and Marketing budget, or General Administrative budget? In order to scale a Customer Success organization in a way that’s meaningful for your engagement strategy, the budgeting aspect has to be clearly defined from the beginning. leverage Training & Development.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The company’s best-selling book, Predictable Revenue , details the hugely successful outbound process and sales created specifically for Salesforce. Afterward, he delved into education management by creating his own business, Mestreduca, a platform targeted at educational institutions.

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Kellblog

MAY 29, 2021

Someone who, when times are tense, can work as an intermediary between the differing parties, often but certainly not always, the investors on one side and founders/management on the other. Former sales leaders often perform well in this situation [6]. Someone who challenges the CEO on strategy and executive hiring.

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SaaStr

APRIL 3, 2020

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Anthony made his way into the world of SaaS starting in the sales team at Box and how that led to his entering the world of marketing and creating the customer success category. * How does this compare to the relationship of sales and marketing more traditionally?

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SaaStr

MAY 8, 2020

Prior to Work-Bench, Jessica was a Learning and Development Manager at Cisco Systems, where she worked with the Engineering organization on Agile transformation, innovation and culture. Where does Jessica find managers and founders do pipe reviews wrong? How should sales teams and CS respond to requests for discounts?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 27, 2019

How to Design a Sales Comp Plan to Get You to $100M with Work-Bench, Movable Ink, MongoDB and Concert Finance. This panel will speak tactically to various comp design options as a way for management to determine and promote ideal behavior in their front-line teams. Meghan Gill | VP of Sales Ops @ MongoDB. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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Neil Patel

MARCH 17, 2021

What’s more, despite the growing cost of college tuition, Gen Z are better educated than earlier generations. Strategies to Target Generation Z Through Paid Ads. These strategies are relevant to reaching young adults right now, but trends will change by the time the youngest Zoomers come of age. Good: Just Eat. Its answer?

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CustomerSuccessBox

DECEMBER 13, 2021

SuccessHACKER is a Customer Success advisory firm focused on providing education, recruiting, and consulting to high-growth companies. Pre-sales / Post Sales). Any tips on a handoff from sales to the onboarding team? Do you have different strategies for different segments of customers?

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SaaStr

APRIL 23, 2019

And can you talk a little bit about touching on the hiring point, because you did say that you focused a lot on talent, and recruiting. And coming from Brazil without a big network in Silicon Valley, un-launched, without a website, it was actually really hard to recruit the first ten people. And it’s very helpful. Anu: Got it.

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