Natalia Luneva

AUGUST 11, 2025

Coaches focus on managing your team and marketing your business in new ways. Coaching in skilled trades is all about a personal touch. Through mentoring, workshops, and online tools, you get help that fits your needs. Coaching is about working together to grow personally and professionally.

Payment Services

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

As a channel YouTube is a content distribution platform, similar to LinkedIn or X, where companies can post videos, build an audience, and engage viewers. Audience interaction: They actively respond to comments and engage with viewers, fostering a sense of community and trust. Packaging: is highly clickable.

B2B

SaaStr

MAY 25, 2024

Cloudinary VP of Developer Experience Sanjay Sarathy shares his journey to more than $100M and the lessons he learned along the way for building a PLG motion and an Enterprise sales motion. As developers, they immediately started to think about a PLG, pay-as-you-go motion to get to market and engage with developers quickly.

Scale

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Jonathan joined Toast as the SVP of Sales in 2017. A Glance at Toast’s Hypergrowth Journey When Jonathan joined Toast as the SVP of Sales, the company was Series B with $20M in ARR. Toast is a vertical software embedded payments solution for restaurants in the U.S. The ones they met in person closed at a 3x rate.

Payment Methods

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Understanding your ICP is a foundational and organization-wide decision because it impacts your downstream sales and marketing efforts. . Build your sales, marketing, customer success, and product development efforts around the needs of your ideal client.”. Brex then scaled its payments business quickly.

Payments

Neil Patel

AUGUST 6, 2021

That’s why customer retention is crucial to growing your Ecommerce business. Research shows that repeat customers spend more than once-off customers, making retention a priority for any Ecommerce business that wants to grow. 5 Customer Retention Strategies and Corresponding Tools for Ecommerce Companies. How do you do that?

Payment Methods

Sales Hacker

MAY 15, 2023

It’s hard to know when you’re ready to hire a sales team — and the consequences can make or break your startup. And that may include owning and executing the sales process , from initial outreach and lead generation to closing deals — not hiring a sales team right away.

Sales Hiring

SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

Leveraging survey data from 66+ enterprise SaaS companies, Matt Garratt, Managing Partner of Salesforce Ventures shares the landscape of how businesses are shifting their sales & GTM strategies to react to today’s uncertain times. Adnan Chaudhry | SVP of Sales @ Salesforce.

Sales Hiring

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 29, 2019

In this week’s episode we’ve dug down into the podcast vaults to bring you some of the best insights shared by our guests about scaling sales. It’s no surprise that one of the key levers for growth as you go from startup to scale-up is your sales team. Hiring for sales with John Barrows.

Scale

SaaStr

APRIL 23, 2019

” The whole point of building a corporation, is not having personal liability attached to it. So, there’s all these people who are just using debit cards, and just walking around with debit cards with 120 000 in the bank, or just using their personal card for all these things. We know a lot about payments.

Sales Hiring

SaaStr

DECEMBER 26, 2019

So if we can pop up the Slido slide and I want to invite you all to take your phone and go on slido.com for this session so that you can start asking the panel questions. Pauline : Yeah, so I work at OpenClassrooms, which is a European leader in online education. I want to invite you all to go on Slido. Guillaume : Alice?

Sales Hiring

FastSpring

JANUARY 31, 2023

To help you choose between Stripe vs. Paddle vs. FastSpring, this guide compares: What areas of the payment lifecycle each one provides a solution for (e.g., payment processing, gathering and remitting taxes, and subscription management) and what additional software you’ll need to add to your tech stack. More on this later.)

Payment Services

SaaStr

MAY 16, 2019

Gorgias helps brands automatically respond to basic questions, and track the impact of customer service on sales so support becomes a profit center. We are a customer service platform for e-commerce websites, and one of the things we try to do is to automate customer support. In our case, with Gorgias, we sell to stores on Shopify.

Merchant Services

SaaStr

JUNE 13, 2019

In addition, we believe that this data is representative, because if you look at the different kinds of buyers from the respondents, you see it spans everything from operations and marketing to sales and engineering, even down to legal. Should you hire salespeople in order to call your leads? So, hire salespeople to close leads.

Scale

SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. Speaker video: Stripe is really a set of developer tools for building and operating an online business. I’m an execution person.

Scale

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

If you look back on February 5th, 2019, which was the SaaStr Annual, hopefully many of you were there in person, we gave the state of the cloud presentation and talked about the power of the industry, and the power that’s been building in terms of market capitalization of just the public cloud companies and what they show.

Sales Hiring

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.

Sales Hiring

SaaStr

APRIL 1, 2023

She had recently been hired at Box, and her first big project was to upgrade the internal user experience for vendor onboarding and management. So no payment until the solution goes live. You can’t just date, become engaged, then never speak again. Linda sees her relationship with suppliers like dating.

Payment Methods

Stax

AUGUST 20, 2024

Airline credit cards, payment plans for costly items, and car rental insurance are forms of embedded finance that have been around for a while. This infrastructure helps businesses provide financial solutions, such as digital payments, directly on their websites or mobile apps. Today, you don’t even have to exit the app.

Payments

Unbounce

MARCH 2, 2021

While some marketers might have their own personal muse, mantra, or go-to sources of inspiration (a lucky shampoo, maybe?), This self-vetting process ensures those who do reach your landing page are into what makes you (or your one-off campaign) a bit different—which means a higher likelihood of sales, clicks, and conversions.

Payment Methods

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 4, 2019

The fastest growing software companies in recent years all have something in common – they started with little to no sales team. But even for companies with this early viral growth, there comes a point in time when this organic growth needs to be supplemented with formal sales. Yes, Slack started off with no sales team.

Scale

Neil Patel

JANUARY 21, 2021

Bootstrapped companies must focus relentlessly on sales, cash flow, and profit because they don’t have the luxury of VC investments to fall back on. Bootstrapping Tools to Create a Website. You can’t have a digital business without a website. It’s possible to build a website from scratch using an intuitive website builder.

Payment Methods

SaaStr

MARCH 17, 2020

How to create boundaries and norms with the sales team, how to find customer advocates, how to build and scale your program, as well as the difference between incentivized vs. reward program. Customer reference program went from something that was nice to have and important to absolutely critical to our new business sales cycle.

Scale

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

With the rise of AI, new sales technology and automation at the forefront of the sales echo chamber these days, we thought we’d take a moment to bring it back to BASICS – that’s why we’ve rounded up this complete glossary of sales terms and definitions to help you remember where it all started.

Scale

Unbounce

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

PPC is a method of digital advertising in which you aim to get your ads to rank as the highest result displayed for user searches, and you, as the advertiser, pay a fee each time it’s clicked. It can also appear on websites that have similar content and keywords to your business. Sales will always be a top priority.

Payment Methods

SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

359: The Secrets to Vertical Growth, What it Really Takes to Build a $1B SaaS Company with Matt Garratt, SVP, Managing Partner @ Salesforce Ventures, Trisha Price, Chief Product Officer @ nCino and David Schmaier, CEO & Founder @ Vlocity. They need fewer sales as a percentage of overall employees. David Schmaier: Sure.

Payment Solutions

Unbounce

JULY 22, 2020

They’ve got 15 minutes to kill, so they pick up their phone and (because they’re 46 and don’t know about TikTok yet) scroll through Facebook. Instead, it takes them to the homepage of your store. Now the kids are in the car, the phone is back in the console, and the sale is lost.

Payment Methods

Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

Nothing scares away new business like hard-to-reach customer service or disorganized sales calls. Forget about the requirements of a physical office space, infrastructure, or even a business phone system. If you only need one or the other, you may be able to get a less expensive plan that’s easier to secure and manage.

Payment Solutions

Aaron Beashel

MARCH 9, 2018

Sure adding sales & marketing help fuel the growth, but these business were growing pretty rapidly before they injected the sales & marketing rocket fuel. We had great sales & marketing teams and growth definitely did happen, but it just seemed a lot more difficult. In others however, growth has seem like a slog.

Scale

Neil Patel

DECEMBER 13, 2020

I’ve put together a list of my top five document management solutions—let’s talk about why they are valuable and how they can help. The Top 5 Options for Document Management Software. In fact, going paperless is one of the key reasons people get document management software. Document Engagement Metrics. Not an accident.

Payment Solutions

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 16, 2018

A proper outbound sales strategy has real science behind it. The key to achieving explosive growth is to start by identifying your Ideal Customer Profiles (ICPs) via segmentation, reaching out to them with personalized targeted messaging while building a scalable and repeatable process. How To Build An Efficient Outbound Sales System.

Scale

Payrix

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

In the fast-evolving world of software, Embedded Payments have emerged as a crucial element for software companies aiming to grow their business, enhance customer experiences, and streamline transactions for consumers. Embedding payments into the platform experience makes this possible for software companies to deliver on those expectations.

Payments

Stax

APRIL 17, 2025

In the payments industry, choosing the right ISV partner is critical; look for robust APIs, hardware support, strong onboarding, and fair revenue-sharing models. Think: cloud platforms and operating systems like Microsoft, Amazon Web Services (AWS), the Salesforce ecosystem, or a payment platform. What is an ISV Partner?

Merchant Services

Sales Hacker

MAY 9, 2019

A great sales compensation plan needs to accomplish quite a lot. And of course, a strong sales comp plan needs to motivate reps to hit goals that grow the company while still maintaining a profit margin. The Process for Creating a Sales Compensation Plan. Know what to Include in a Sales Incentive Plan. Keep it Simple.

Compensation

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 30, 2022

Your first few hires are so influential in the success of your company. As Des Traynor, co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Intercom, says, your first few hires are so influential in the success of your company. Using Brex also saves time for your finance team (or, depending on headcount, your finance person ??)

Scale

Buffer Resources

JANUARY 18, 2024

As a job seeker, the benefits were great — the platform recommended jobs I would be a top applicant for and allowed me to reach out to hiring managers directly, even if I wasn’t connected to them. Choose Account preferences on the left pane. It just might. Prices will depend on your region. 

Technical Review

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 7, 2020

Fortunately, more organizers than ever before are consciously seeking out female sales experts for panels, presentations, and podcasts. At Sales Hacker, we’re serious about diversity, and for that reason, we’ve compiled a list of 530+ female sales experts to consider for your next event. Sales Development. Sales Growth.

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