Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

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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Interviewing Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 88

SaaStr

OCTOBER 30, 2021

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.

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Scale Sales Hiring Sales SMB 251

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

In August of 2016, Rachel Hepworth embarked on a unique challenge: start a growth marketing team at one of the most successful startups of this generation – one that had long relied heavily on word of mouth. Below is a lightly edited transcript of our interview. We got sales leads. We were closing deals.

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Growth Marketing Scale Marketing Outsourcing Services 174

Chart Mogul

JULY 1, 2020

Customer interviews are a powerful tool that can help you better position your B2B product to attract and retain more customers. B2B marketing is much more complicated than consumer marketing. Believe it or not, it’s not rocket science: they perform customer interviews. Types of customer interviews. Let’s dig in!

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Interviewing B2B Marketing Underperforming Technical Team 76

Chart Mogul

JULY 1, 2020

Customer interviews are a powerful tool that can help you better position your B2B product to attract and retain more customers. B2B marketing is much more complicated than consumer marketing. Believe it or not, it’s not rocket science: they perform customer interviews. Types of customer interviews. Let’s dig in!

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Interviewing B2B Marketing Underperforming Technical Team 52

SaaStr

JULY 29, 2022

As they scaled, they radically changed how they did sales. They moved to a more traditional SaaS inside sales model, and they started shipping out these hardware devices, and only 30% to 40% of the customers would end up paying for them. We’ve been in the consumer market for a very long time. So that’s one question.

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Scale Scaling Sales Hiring Enterprise 206

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 24, 2018

When used correctly, data can powerfully enrich sales and marketing efforts and help any business fuel growth. Here are five quick takeaways: At Clearbit, all marketing falls under growth marketing. This allowed a passionate audience to develop – and built enthusiasm ahead of the books’ full release.

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