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Managing a Thin Balance Sheet: 4 Lessons Learned From Laika’s $2 Billion Acquisition with Laika Co-Founder & COO Eva Pittas and CFO Dicken Chaplin (Video)

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Looking back on its explosive growth, however, the company realized just how badly it needed the valuable services of a Chief Financial Officer (CFO). CFOs can build operating forecasts and multi-year plans, create financial models and scenario analyses, establish financial discipline, and create a culture of accountability.

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PODCAST 154: Guided Selling with Neil Ringers

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How to build a winning sales team. Developing A Winning Sales Team [16:24]. It provides the information that helps me succeed, translating down into my sales team as I’m coaching and mentoring them. I did a couple of startups from there, in the CRM ecosystem, then got into TOA, which was field service in the cloud.

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The Future of AI for Sales (And How to Prepare for It)

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According to Salesforce’s recent State of Service report, more than half of service providers will be adding chatbots to their lineup in the next year and a half. This is a start, but to stay ahead of the competition in today’s sales world, sales teams need to start utilizing AI much more than that. Salespeople are busy.

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Wartime SaaS Forecasting: Fighting Uncertainty by Accounting for Unknowns

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In an environment marked by a global pandemic and market volatility, advocating for SaaS forecasting seems like a lost cause. In this article, I zoom in on the art of forecasting the future in this new wartime. In this article, I zoom in on the art of forecasting the future in this new wartime. Arrested attention.

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Wartime SaaS Forecasting: Fighting Uncertainty by Accounting for Unknowns

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In an environment marked by a global pandemic and market volatility, advocating for SaaS forecasting seems like a lost cause. In this article, I zoom in on the art of forecasting the future in this new wartime. In this article, I zoom in on the art of forecasting the future in this new wartime. Arrested attention.

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Sales Hacker Recommends: 97 Best Sales Books for Peak Performance (2020 Update)

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Sales Development and Prospecting. The Sales Development Playbook. Management and Operations. Sales Manager Survival Guide. The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team. Sales Management. Here are the best books on selling (and related disciplines) that can help you hit your goals and develop your career. Simplified.

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The Best SaaS Blog Posts and Resources Library

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No Wait, of Course That Is the Single Most Important SaaS Metric by Jason Cohen, A Smart Bear The purpose of a metric is to be a tool in service of your goals, timeline, size, circumstance, even philosophy, not as a master you are thoughtlessly obligated to obey. Keep an eye out as we will be making regular updates. Source SaaS Metrics 2.0:

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