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We Asked 9 Successful Sales Leaders About the Economy

Sales Hacker

It’s been a tough couple of years, Sales Hackers. From layoffs at Redfin and Tesla to the plummeting crypto markets , companies are starting to tighten their belts — and the economy has shifted from the so-called “Great Resignation,” with a job market heavily favoring employees, to the “ Forced Resignation.”. Ralph Barsi.

Scale 91
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The Funnel is Dead. Long Live the Flywheel. With Hubspot CEO Brian Halligan (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

The age-old sales funnel has worked fine for decades…until now. Why is the sales funnel alone, no longer an appropriate way of thinking about customers? Brian Halligan: Whether we all like it or not, trust in sales and marketing is at an all-time low. We’re going to hire tele-sales reps who are going to cold call.

Scale 105
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The Funnel is Dead. Long Live the Flywheel. With Hubspot CEO Brian Halligan (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

The age-old sales funnel has worked fine for decades…until now. Why is the sales funnel alone, no longer an appropriate way of thinking about customers? Brian Halligan: Whether we all like it or not, trust in sales and marketing is at an all-time low. We’re going to hire tele-sales reps who are going to cold call.

Scale 54
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SaaStr Podcast #211: The Ultimate Guide To SaaS Pricing From Investors @ Benchmark, Matrix, Upfront Ventures & Operators @ Figma, Snyk and Kustomer

SaaStr

How does Mark view the sale of professional services with this in mind? Why is innovation in pricing actually detrimental to sales in most cases? * You could only build a great company if you had customer success because the number one rule of scaling sales is referenceability.

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“7 Tips and Tricks to having happy customers at Scale” New Relic EVP, Roger Scott (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

He had a company called Wily back in 2000 that he started, that ultimately sold on to Computer Associates, and really was seen as the father of the APM market segment, and learned a number of things in that experience that we then applied in terms of building New Relic, which is his second go around on the whole monitoring space.

Scale 190