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5 Ways to Keep Your Sales Machine Efficient While Scaling Headcount

Sales Hacker

Decreased revenue per rep, High turnover as you scale headcount. In the last six months at Weave, our sales team managed this balancing act. In the last six months at Weave, our sales team managed this balancing act. We made our machine more efficient even as we scaled, grew headcount, and skyrocketed our revenue.

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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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Surfboard founder Natasha Ratanshi-Stein on riding the wave of planning software for support

Intercom, Inc.

Scaling a support team is challenging enough as it is. You’re investing resources in hiring and training the right people, tracking different metrics at different stages, adding more and more complexity with each increase in headcount, use cases, and customers. For Natasha, the answer is a resounding yes.

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Keep your Team Aligned on Revenue Goals

Chart Mogul

In fact, out of a sample of 40 growth stage companies, 50% said revenue growth was their #1 north star metric, according to research led by Lenny Rachitsky for Future. In fact, out of a sample of 40 growth stage companies, 50% said revenue growth was their #1 north star metric, according to research led by Lenny Rachitsky for Future.

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Keep your team aligned on revenue goals

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In fact, out of a sample of 40 growth stage companies, 50% said revenue growth was their #1 north star metric, according to research led by Lenny Rachitsky for Future. In fact, out of a sample of 40 growth stage companies, 50% said revenue growth was their #1 north star metric, according to research led by Lenny Rachitsky for Future.

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Shining the Light on R&D

OPEXEngine

Most companies track R&D as a % of revenue, and maybe a few metrics about activity, but few CFOs can answer the question of what’s the ROI on their R&D investment. How can Finance and Engineering management work together to diagnose weak areas, and shift R&D resources to produce better outcomes for the company?

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Intercom’s Sanj Bhayro on creating the right foundation to help businesses scale

Intercom, Inc.

And for Intercom’s VP of Sales EMEA, Sanj Bhayro , scaling is just what you need to invest in to ensure growth becomes as constant and linear as it can be. Sanj has plenty of experience scaling sales teams at growing businesses, and that’s precisely why, as of November of last year, he‘s overseeing EMEA sales at Intercom.

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