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10 Mistakes in Building Out Your Revenue Organization with Insider CEO Hande Cilingir

SaaStr

First, you hire your sales team. Finally, growth occurs when sales, product, and marketing can come together. Founders often hire sales teams with urgency, even in a volatile market, resulting in hires who may not be successful salespeople for your organization. Mistake 3: Hiring non-competitive sales representatives .

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Why Is It So Hard to Teach Sales Literacy?

Sales Hacker

Sales is not an easy topic for academics to teach. He has so much sales and management knowledge he could write a book on it — and, in fact, he’s written seven, including “Sales Management That Works: How to Sell in a World That Never Stops Changing.” Sales is cross-disciplinary.

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Six Reasons You Should NOT Create a Category

SaaStr

Customers of category creators benefit from a company in the marketplace seeking to help them solve complex problems, get promoted and self-actualize in their own lives and career journeys. But make no mistake — successfully creating a category is extremely hard. . Not Everyone Will Get It Right Away.

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10 Most Important Sales Trends That Will Define 2019 (And Predictions)

Sales Hacker

Time for Sales Hacker’s Annual Top 10 Sales Trends and Predictions for the Future of Sales in 2019. Due to the proliferation of modern sales technology and people’s love of it, I added a new element this time. You know, since it’s extremely apparent that the sales technology landscape keeps growing like wildfire.

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Sales Proof of Concept (POC): 5 Ways to Drive More Revenue

Sales Hacker

Technical selling of SaaS, on-premise software, and hardware solutions has relied on sales proofs of concept (POCs) that require pre-sales professionals to lead, manage, and drive to a ‘technical win” outcome so that account executives can close the deal. Sales Profile: SMB to Commercial. Sales Profile: SMB to Commercial.

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Gong’s Linda Lin on customer success strategies for moving upmarket

Intercom, Inc.

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. Since then, you’ve spent over 12 years in post-sales leadership. Dee: Fantastic.

Scale 177
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Mental Models to Help You Grow

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

I leveraged many of the 52 mental models while working at various software as a service (SaaS) companies, but in truth, they can be applied anywhere, regardless of industry. Customer > Team > Individual During my time at HubSpot, the leadership team shared this mental model to help with decision-making. Brand equity.