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5 lessons learned starting a new team within our sales organization

Intercom, Inc.

A little over a year ago, I got the opportunity to start a new team within our sales organization – a team of Relationship Managers dedicated to growing our current customers at scale. To do the first, we had to hire, train, and write a playbook – the building blocks of any team. Relentlessly measure impact.

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3 Industry Experts Share 6 Best Practices To Build An Industry-Renowned Customer Success Operations Organization

Valuize Consulting

Emily and Mary-Beth recently spoke to us and shared their expertise on the 3 pillars of CS Operations and how to build and scale a high-performance CS Operations team. Look at all of the numbers, metrics, and user data that you can get out of any system for all customers, churn and still in existence, and start comparing.

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The 30+ Most Desirable Sales Skills & Traits You MUST Develop To Become An Unstoppable Rep

Sales Hacker

Modern sales teams need competent professionals with a variety of talents, skills and abilities. But in a hyper changing landscap e, which are the most crucial sales skills and traits that reps must possess (or develop) in order to exceed targets and deliver consistent sales success? Sales teams rarely operate as a one-person army.

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ABM is Not B2B and Other Rants on Account-Based Marketing

Kellblog

Counting leads for leads’ sake (a so-called vanity metric) is stupid. The book sometimes preaches what I might call fundamentalist ABM [7] – e.g., MQLs are bad, you should get rid of them as a concept and never think about them again. When ignorant marketers celebrate MQL volume without caring about conversion, that’s bad.

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Strategic Sales Enablement: Advanced Tips to Uplevel Your Program & Drive Real Results

Sales Hacker

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 governance. I hear you.

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Kellblog Predictions for 2022

Kellblog

My point was that this is normal and healthy: you can long Miami and Austin without shorting Palo Alto which, by the way, would have been a bad idea in 2020. Net dollar retention becomes the top SaaS metric. Management changes , as leadership teams drift from a spirit of value creation for customers to value extraction from them.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with PagerDuty and Gusto — April 17, 2020

SaaStr

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Carolyn made her way across the pond from Head of US Communications at Orange to GM of Method in SF to then playing a key role in the marketing team at PagerDuty? * In terms of tone, what is the right tone to approach the broader team with? How does PagerDuty gain a sense of company morale at scale?

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