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Be The Top Pick: Tips to Crush the Job Interview

Sales Hacker

Hiring was a common thread in conversations at both community dinners we hosted this week – one in San Francisco and the other in Austin (included a picture further along – great time as always!). It’s a strange hiring market out there especially at early-stage companies. Almost every company seems to be hiring.

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The One About the VP of Sales That Didn’t Want to Work with The VP of Marketing

SaaStr

So there’s a situation I see happening with many (not most, but many) SaaS companies as they build out the first management team: They hire a VP of Sales that doesn’t think much of the VP of Marketing. Does this always fail, when sales and marketing don’t really talk, and aren’t a team?

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7 Tips to Close 7,000 Customers From Gorgias’ VP of Sales

SaaStr

I asked Aasif Osmany to share his learnings as a top-performing SMB VP of Sales, below. Together we combed through AngelList and found companies that we saw potential in, however, most were not hiring. I sent cold emails and LinkedIn messages and ended up with nine interviews. From those nine interviews, I received four offers.

Scale 270
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Your VP Sales Has a Sales Quota. Your VP Marketing Has To Have a Quota, Too.

SaaStr

A ways back, we did an extremely popular post entitled, Hire the Right Type of VP Marketing or You’ll Just End Up With a Bunch of Blue Pens with Your Logo On Them. The basic idea was to help folks who haven’t hired a VP or Director of Marketing hire the right one for a pre-Scale sales-driven SaaS company.

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How to Market at Mass Scale with Whereby

SaaStr

A globally-renowned digital marketing and sales leader, he sits down with Harry to discuss how to hire marketers at scale and how to use marketing to set your brand above the rest. ? ? ? ? ?. com and in 2020 was shortlisted at #26 in Forbes’ ‘World’s Most Influential CMOs.’ So I think it really depends.

Scale 165
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Building A Sales Development Function for Early Stage Startups with Sally Duby

Mucker Capital

Sales development is a nuanced blend of art and science, requiring a delicate balance for its effective implementation within a company. Drawing from substantial experience, Sally Duby from The Bridge Group provides valuable insights into the intricate realm of sales development. Sally's wisdom sheds light on this dilemma.

Scale 52
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Building a sales team that can go from $0-$50M (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Building a sales team that can go from $0-$50M (Video + Transcript). Gaetan Gachet | SVP of Sales @Algolia. It’s an honor to be here with this mythical creature, this sales leader that goes from zero to 50 million in the same job. He has a whole French sales team and office that only speaks English in Paris.

Scale 144