SaaStr

AUGUST 8, 2019

Andrei Brasoveanu will sit down for a conversation with Agnes Bazin Doctolib on how to create a targeted and effective sales process tailor-made for SMB. Agnes Bazin | Chief Development Officer @ Doctolib. She’s part of the founding team Doctolib, and the current chief development officer for the company.

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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?

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OpenView Labs

JULY 20, 2020

Interviewing is hard , and interviewing candidates for sales roles can be doubly so. Sales requires a mix of left- and right-brained qualities, and accurately evaluating a candidate’s skills is a challenge for hiring managers. Better interviewing = better sales teams. How not to interview for sales.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 19, 2023

Maybe it goes without saying, I never heard them mistake the mail room guy or the security guard for a leadership team member.) Because it is they who continuously top the lists of unseen team members across organizations in the U.S. It comes down to respect and credit that each team member deserves on a fundamental level.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 8, 2019

Andrei Brasoveanu will sit down for a conversation with Agnes Bazin Doctolib on how to create a targeted and effective sales process tailor-made for SMB. Agnes Bazin | Chief Development Officer @ Doctolib. She’s part of the founding team Doctolib, and the current chief development officer for the company.

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Sales Recruiting SMB Scale Sales Hiring 111

Incredo

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

If sounds like this topic can help you generate more SaaS sales with less risk, we are starting! And end up wasting their time and resources with affiliates that underperform. I see many SaaS companies jump headlong into creating an affiliate program thinking it will bring in a large number of customers without much effort.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 22, 2020

If you think sales is a simple job, I have a few hundred professional connections who would like a word with you. By mastering your sales interview questions. As a longtime recruiting leader, I’ve worked with countless hiring managers looking to fill sales roles , and I’ve had a firsthand look at their interview process.

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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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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 25, 2020

But should you build your own in-house marketing team or hire an agency partner? Digital agencies are companies that help other businesses perform a specific function such as marketing, development, or design. They act as a substitute for an in-house team, serving the same labor function but outside of the organization.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Sales leaders like Florin Tatulea (Director of Sales at Barley) feel the impact from the past few years alone: “Pure cold outbound is 3x harder than it was in 2021.” If you’ve used big-name prospecting tools before, you know that they all share one, massive problem: Bad data. So how can one cut through the noise?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 19, 2021

And for your support team, using the right conversational support tool and framework allows them to maximize their resources, so they can focus on solving complex queries and building long-term customer relationships. But conversational support doesn’t just benefit your support team. Teams that benefit: Sales, marketing.

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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. Develop a Marketing Plan.

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SaaStr

APRIL 23, 2019

Henrique: So, we applied to YC with this VR idea, which, looking back, it was pretty bad, but at the time we thought it was great. It was, kind of, like a developer friend who had a startup, so they saw their transactions on the terminal. Anu: And then the rest of the team? The first end team. And it’s very helpful.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The SaaStock team will be landing in São Paulo to run the region’s first Pan-Latin American SaaS conference, SaaStock LatAm. Some of his first professional positions were Engagement Manager at McKinsey, as well as a management consultant at Value Partners. Starting as VP of Sales, in less than two years he became CEO.

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OpenView Labs

MARCH 15, 2019

Some of the most successful and influential SaaS companies include channel sales in their go-to-market strategy. For the uninitiated, channel sales refers to the process of partnering with third parties to get your product into the end user’s hands. Channel Sales versus Direct Sales – The Good and the Bad.

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Neil Patel

AUGUST 31, 2021

Ramping up your social media marketing efforts can help you reach new users, develop brand awareness and increase website traffic. Would you immediately talk sales in their face? To make sure your efforts are well-received, you need to provide value first and develop positive relationships with your potential “followers.”.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 28, 2022

And for Intercom’s VP of Sales EMEA, Sanj Bhayro , scaling is just what you need to invest in to ensure growth becomes as constant and linear as it can be. 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.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 19, 2022

Celine, who transitioned from agency sales to SaaS, is the Vice President of Boardable. Celine brings more than twenty-five years of experience to Boardable, which is a platform that allows board members to engage easily. Join us for a great conversation about transitioning in sales and technology selling. powered by Sounder.

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SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

Scaling the company’s employee base, sales teams, marketing, and operations—all while preserving its culture—has required a laser focus on first principles, smart processes, and effective hiring. Know who is the foundation of your product and build your product for that user (in Stripe’s case, developers).

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 17, 2022

As cross-functional leadership teams across the country clamor to prioritize and agree upon the top threats to address, many underestimate the importance of effective change management. Related: 6 Change Management Hacks for Sales and Marketing Alignment that Lasts. These require active change management.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Companies that have access to more accurate financial data have the ability to develop seamless exchanges of information, providing consumers with improved ways to manage their finances. “Well, fintech might be bad in the margins for me, but I can actually profit from this so let’s embrace it.”

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Payments SaaS Payments Banking Underperforming Technical Team 212

Sales Hacker

APRIL 1, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we interview world famous sales expert, consultant, trainer, and thought leader Keenan. Why sales is contextual and how to leverage context in the right way. Why sales is contextual and how to leverage context in the right way. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. How to build a more diverse team [24:50]. Sam Jacobs: This week on the show, we’ve got Luke Rogers, the Vice President of Sales at Instabase. Through that, he went to university where he studied AI and cybernetics, ultimately leading big teams in EMEA for AppDynamics.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

When it comes to launching sales teams in hyper-growth startups, few people have walked the walk as much as Maggie Hott. She “stumbled” into it, as she told us, first as one of the earliest sales hires of Eventbrite, where she stayed for four years, and then into Slack in early 2015 as the first sales rep in the Bay Area.

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Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 118

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.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 3, 2018

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast , we interview Meghan Gill , VP of Sales Operations at MongoDB. . Meghan has been at Mongo almost 9 years and was the first non-technical hire at the company, helping them scale past an IPO in 2017 and transitioning from an early career in Marketing into Sales Operations. .

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User Pilot

MARCH 21, 2024

They help you understand your target audience better so you can connect and engage them more easily. The customer profile template contains different types of data, including: Product engagement data such as product usage patterns and interactions with different features of the product. Want to get started with customer profiling?

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Recruiters are still reporting it as a challenging time to fill roles, with both employers and candidates being more gun shy than previously. We will be hosting monthly digital events, kicking off the series with none other than Lars Nilsson who coined the phrase account-based sales development himself.

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

The different roles in SaaS companies: Chief Executive Officer : As the highest-ranking executive, this person ensures the company runs smoothly and employees are happy and engaged. Engineering Manager: In charge of planning, designing, and overseeing projects. They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 20, 2021

You need to measure and repeat so you and your sales team only put effort into promising prospects abroad. Let’s explore the mathematical process the sales outsourcing team at Sales Force Europe takes both on behalf of our clients and in our own lead generation and international sales strategy.

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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.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Unfortunately, your in-house team doesn’t have the required expertise to push through change. In a nutshell, they can give you expert opinions, analysis, and recommendations that can help ensure a more objective-based approach to grow your business and maximize sales – all at the same time. So what do you do?

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Sales leaders have a bad habit of dumping people into a new job without properly preparing them to succeed. When I landed my first “big girl job” 20 years ago as an Inside Sales Manager , I was underqualified, overambitious, and soon underwater. What’s So Important About Sales Onboarding? So tune in….

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Continuous discovery is the process of conducting small research activities through weekly touchpoints with customers, by the team who’s building the product. In other words, it’s a mindset of developing a cadence of having conversations with your customers and getting regular feedback from them. What is continuous discovery?

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 28, 2018

The best sales conferences enrich your team, build knowledge, and offer plenty of networking opportunities (and fun)! Bad sales conferences just feel like a huge waste of time away from you prospects. Unleash is the ultimate Sales Engagement conference. TOPO Sales Summit. March 10-12 | San Diego, CA.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

If you missed episode 130, check it out here: Turning Junior-level Talent into Top Sales Professionals with Eddie Baez. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Managing a technical team as a non-technical person [24:13]. Sales enablement is easy. More sales meetings, more money. We’re on iTunes. The result?

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

374: ZoomInfo founder and CEO Henry Schuck shares how he built a business from scratch and grew it into one of the most successful IPOs of the 21st century—and what it was really like…the good, the bad, and most of all, the ugly. If you think of this from a market size standpoint, there’s often this debate, is that good or bad?

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