Baremetrics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The benefits of a well-thought-out process includes increased visibility to your revenues, expenses, and cash flows, and a faster feedback loop to make your forecasting more operationally focused. If you get the setup wrong, you end up with bad data, incorrect reports and forecasts, which has a material impact on the business.

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InsightSquared

MAY 15, 2019

It’s one of my favorite questions to ask a fellow professional in sales operations. Insurance sales rep. Sales Operations is Still Developing. Sales operations as a profession is growing, yet it is a comparatively new function in businesses. I didn’t hear of sales ops until years after entering the workforce.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2020

403: Sam Taylor is the VP of Sales and Success @ Loom, the startup that helps you get your message across by making it easy to record instantly shareable videos. As for Sam, prior to Loom, Sam spent over 4 years at Salesforce following their acquisition of Quip, a startup Salesforce acquired for $750M where Sam was also the 1st sales leader.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

In this episode of the Sales Hacker Podcast, we have Scott Barton , VP of Industry Solutions at Varicent. He’s an expert in the sales world, particularly in revenue operations and incentive compensation. Join us for a great conversation about driving the right behaviors within your sales team. powered by Sounder.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2021

If you missed episode 149 check it out here: What Makes a Great Sales Leader with Hunter Madeley. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. From hubcaps to Hubspot: Michelle’s sales career [1:27]. What has changed in sales leadership since 2005 [8:43]. How did you get started in sales in the first place?

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ChurnZero

JUNE 12, 2020

Today, you’d be hard-pressed to find a high-velocity Sales, Marketing, or Product team without a designated operations function. Beloved by their tactical peers, operations brings needed order and logic to busy, results-oriented teams. But more often (and worrisome), we find that teams don’t follow consistent renewal processes.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2021

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Neil Ringers , EVP of Revenue Grid. Neil’s experience includes a long history of sales leadership, primarily in the Salesforce ecosystem, and is now running revenue for Revenue Grid. Scaling sales during the pandemic. How to build a winning sales team.

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Kellblog

MARCH 11, 2020

Some SaaS startups develop a form of zero-sum delusion early in their evolution, characterized by following set of beliefs. If the StartFast doesn’t work, it’s not a big deal because the Customer Success team’s mission is to offer free clean-up after failed implementations.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 27, 2020

Whether you run a one-person sales enablement program or are part of a team, the sheer scope of the job can be overwhelming. Which is why we’ve put together this guide on sales enablement, focusing on the three primary parts of the job: strategy, execution, and governance. Sales enablement strategy. I hear you.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

What does it take to scale a sales team successfully? Should one hire sales reps 2×2? How does Andy think about hiring sales reps from adjacent companies and industries? How does Andy think about minimizing and optimising sales ramp times? Andy MacMillan: I started my career in tech actually as a developer.

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InsightSquared

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

The director of sales operations position is one of the most critical hires a company can make. It’s their job to help sales executives make sense of results and pinpoint the reasons why they fell short of or hit their goals. Click here to get a free director of sales operations job description template. ).

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

As for Latané, before 6sense she was CMO and sales leader at Appirio where she drove 5X more effective field marketing programs and an increase in inbound leads by 300%. What does the preparation process look like pre-sales kick off week? What can teams do to bring their themes to life? What is involved? Who is involved?

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OPEXEngine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Some SaaS startups develop a form of zero-sum delusion early in their evolution, characterized by the following set of beliefs. First, some SaaS companies deliberately run with a low set-up product, little to no services, and a customer success team that takes care of implementation issues. While partners are awesome, they are not you.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 11, 2021

Customer health scores give Customer Success teams a deep understanding of a customer’s health and are a leading indicator that there may be an issue with an account or customer. If you do not currently use health scores, you can use this resource as a framework to set up scoring for your team. What’s a Customer Health Score?

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 7, 2021

In this episode of the Sales Hacker Podcast, we have David “Hersh” Hershenson , Chief of Staff at Tray.io , a 20-year veteran of the high-growth world and one of the first 200 employees at Salesforce. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Join us for a candid conversation about leveraging feedback to understand your internal brand.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 5, 2023

CFOs can build operating forecasts and multi-year plans, create financial models and scenario analyses, establish financial discipline, and create a culture of accountability. These metrics will vary by company, but can include elements such as the following: Sales Funnel. Productivity Per Sales Rep. Marketing Lead Gen.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 10, 2020

I was good at Sales, I was the top of my team, and I knew it. At this point in my career, it was rare for me to get pushed on my sales ability. After all, I was successful and working in a senior-level sales role at a Fortune 250 company. Like often happens in companies, there was a leadership change.

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The Angel VC

DECEMBER 12, 2018

While this is generally true for most companies, it’s particularly true for SaaS businesses, which invest heavily in product development, sales, and marketing upfront and get payments from customers over a delayed period of time, usually several years. The main reason is that your customer acquisition costs are highly front-loaded.

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Sales Recruiting SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Scale 106

SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

Ep 255: Vikas Bhambri is SVP Sales and Customer Experience @ Kustomer, the startup providing Real-time, actionable views of customers with continuous omnichannel conversations and intelligence that automates repetitive, manual tasks. What is the right way for startup founders to address sales rep onboarding? Missed the session?

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

And for leveling up your sales skills, nothing beats a good sales book. So what are the best sales books for helping you reach peak performance? Have been recommended by sales professionals. Here’s how you can find the sales books that are most relevant to you. Here they are… The 97 Best Sales Books in 2020.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 21, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Jim Sharpe , CEO of Aventri. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. And their city by city Unleash summit series road shows, along with top notch thought leadership content. We assured the team of the strength of our company. We’re on iTunes. And on Stitcher.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Women in sales often have a polarizing experience. Never believe that doubting yourself is a bad thing. In the Sales Hacker video series Aha Moments , I asked 10 women: “What is one ‘aha moment’ you’ve had in your sales career?”. What is one a-ha moment you’ve had in your sales career? Anything less is failure.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 8, 2018

On this episode of the Sales Hacker podcast, we talk with Marc Jacobs , SVP of Sales and Customer Success at CB Insights about the secret to incredible sales management and building a sales coaching culture. Building a professional development program resulting in high quota attainment for SDRs turned Account Executives.

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Point Nine Land

DECEMBER 12, 2018

While this is generally true for most companies, it’s particularly true for SaaS businesses, which invest heavily in product development, sales, and marketing upfront and get payments from customers over a delayed period of time, usually several years. The main reason is that your customer acquisition costs are highly front-loaded.

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Sales Recruiting SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Scale 61

Sales Hacker

APRIL 22, 2022

While you may feel pressure to focus your team on immediately starting to close opportunities at the start of each new quarter, you’re doomed to repeat the mistakes of your past if you don’t take some time to review. This is where a Sales QBR or ‘Quarterly Business Review’ comes into play. What is a Sales QBR? isn’t criticism.

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SaaStr

JUNE 21, 2023

They hired their first VP of Sales with a wonderful pedigree and experience at some of the hottest startups. After three months, this talented guy came to Harbaugh with the recognition that LaunchDarkly’s customers were developers. He didn’t like to sell to developers, so he quit. because they needed to rebuild the sales team.

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SaaStr

JULY 1, 2021

The second is pulling more around values, and how we approached team building. Even as a three person team, we went through an exercise to figure out what do we stand for, as a team? Sam : This is not my insight, but someone else says… I really do believe it, that the team you build is the company you build.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 20, 2018

The path to sales enlightenment requires continuous self-learning, but there’s a real problem. That’s why we’ve rounded up the complete list of best sales podcasts to turbocharge your journey to achieving sales mastery. Listen To Sales Podcasts, Then Go Listen To Your Prospects! . Salespeople are BUSY.

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TriTuns

MARCH 22, 2019

What is staggering is that executives have accepted these dismal results for so long and not taken action to address such poor performance. When I speak with executives about the original business case and forecasted returns they used to justify their software purchase, I always ask them what the assumed level of user adoption was.

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Software Underperforming Technical Team Forecasting Scale 40

TriTuns

MARCH 22, 2019

What is staggering is that executives have accepted these dismal results for so long and not taken action to address such poor performance. When I speak with executives about the original business case and forecasted returns they used to justify their software purchase, I always ask them what was the assumed level of user adoption.

Software 40

Software Underperforming Technical Team Forecasting Scale 40

TriTuns

MARCH 22, 2019

What is staggering is that executives have accepted these dismal results for so long and not taken action to address such poor performance. When I speak with executives about the original business case and forecasted returns they used to justify their software purchase, I always ask them what was the assumed level of user adoption.

Software 40

Software Underperforming Technical Team Forecasting Scale 40

Sales Hacker

APRIL 23, 2018

As sales leaders, your job is to help members of your team get to their sales goals by prioritizing the path that will get them there. Part 3 of this sales coaching series focuses on getting the prioritization right with your sales team. He’s also a well-known leadership expert.

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yoursales

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Sales Stack 2023 Sales Tools for Professional B2B Sales SALES STACK 2023: Sales Tools for. Professional Sales SALES STACK. 2022: Sales Tools. Sales share this with your network S ales tools and figuring out what your sales stack 2023 should look like is as challenging as ever.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

If your SaaS business has a sales team, there’s no way to grow 100% year-over-year without also growing your sales leadership. In this talk, CircleCI VP of Revenue Jane Kim will talk about the 5 mistakes all new sales leaders make. She said, “Your team really needs to get to know you. Overwhelmed.

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yoursales

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Sales Stack 2023 Sales Tools for Professional B2B Sales SALES STACK 2023: Sales Tools for Professional Sales SALES STACK 2023: Sales Tools for Professional Sales share this with your network S ales tools and figuring out what your sales stack 2023 should look like is as challenging as ever.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Outreach’s annual sales industry summit, Unleash, has a speaker lineup for 2019 that is absolutely packed with genius-level sales insights. It just so happens that many of the speakers (26 of them, actually) are also some of our favorite Sales Hacker contributors! Think of this as a sneak-peek of what’s coming up at Unleash ‘19!

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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.

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