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The 40% Problem: Do Your Sales Reps Really Cover All Their Accounts? And Is AI The Answer? With Yamini Rangan, CEO HubSpot

SaaStr

The 40% Problem: How AI Will Finally Fix Sales Coverage and Customer Face Time A wake-up call from HubSpot’s CEO Yamini Rangan on why your sales team is failing 60% of their accountsand how AI will change everything There’s a brutal truth about B2B sales that most founders refuse to acknowledge. Think about that for a moment.

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A playbook for the impatient SDR: 4 key tips to grow your sales career

Intercom, Inc.

There’s no shortage of advice for SDRs online , so it’s easy to find nuggets of wisdom to help in your sales career, but unfortunately there’s also a lot of bad advice. At the time I didn’t fully value the SDR experience or the skill set I was developing. The virtue of patience.

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Everything we’ve learned about scaling sales

Intercom, Inc.

It’s no surprise that one of the key levers for growth as you go from startup to scale-up is your sales team. How quickly you’re able to accelerate growth depends on your ability to build a nimble sales org and develop a strong sales strategy. These lay the foundation that enables your team to run as efficiently as possible.

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GTM 149: Inside Meta’s $10B Sales Playbook with Rick Kelley

Sales Hacker

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Rick Kelley is the former VP of Metas Global Business Group, where he led a $10B+ revenue organization and played a pivotal role in building out Metas go-to-market teams across North America and EMEA. So, in 2002, I went to go and work at Yahoo.

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The why, when, and how of customer (re-)segmentation with ChurnZero CCO Alli Tiscornia

ChurnZero

Does your Customer Success team have the right structure, workload, and engagement model to hit its goals? Re-segmenting your customer base is a natural evolution of your company, product, and team’s growth. We also had to think about how we were doing their variable compensation to incent fairness across the team.

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Don’t “Hack” Sales Unless You Know These 3 Things

Sales Hacker

And you and your team won’t waste your time working on bad opportunities. Want to increase your close rates and get better predictability in your forecasting? The first question sales leaders and their teams need to answer is: who is our customer? Because no one cares about your sales process except you and your team.

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Smart SaaS budgeting: Refine your spend strategy for 2025

BetterCloud

Shadow AI, aka the unsanctioned artificial intelligence based applications that are in your tech stack, is often adopted by individual teams or employees for perceived productivity gains. Its important to decide which employees in each department will take ownership and handle the line items for their team and manage everything.