GetUplift

MAY 3, 2025

They do not identify whether your message is resonating with your audience, whether or not your prospects feel seen or understood and if theres any key information thats critical to their decision-making process, thats missing in your customer journey. The top 3 daily pains, frustrations and challenges that drove them to hire your solution.

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Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Sales Hiring Mobile 52

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 7, 2025

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Fred Viet serves as the Chief Sales Officer at Aircall, overseeing global sales and playing a key role in scaling the company’s reach over the last four years. It helps me and the team be so much more productive.

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Outsourcing Services Scale Outsourced Development AWS 115

Buffer Resources

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

In this article, I will share the competitive analysis framework my team and I have developed (through weeks of research and dozens of iterations), and give you some tips on where to look for data that isn’t publicly available so you can have a competitive advantage. Are they looking for a developer with a specific skill set?

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Social Media Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Sales Hiring 124

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 6, 2024

This can be seen from hiring trends and also industry prominence. This is the second part of our State of GTM Jobs series (read Part 1 about Sales on GTMnow or Substack ). As shown by hiring trends, CS roles are steadily on the rise, with a clear shift towards prioritizing retention and expansion over new customer acquisition.

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Customer Success Technical Advisors Sales Hiring Scale 107

SaaStr

APRIL 1, 2025

Wiz discovered a direct correlation between territory size and productivity: the tighter the territories, the more effective their sales team became. Contrary to conventional wisdom, hiring based solely on restaurant experience wasn’t effective.

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Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Headcount 208

Sales Hacker

JULY 8, 2025

06:33 Why Sales Nav was a $250M business with a “crappy product” — and how Doug turned it around. 09:56 Doug’s “awesome test” for hiring top talent (and the 90-day rule he swears by). 13:26 The speed dating hack that landed Coffee’s first sales leader. 17:36 What Doug learned running Sales Cloud at Salesforce — and why he left.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 13, 2025

29:00 The shift from product-led to intelligence-led SaaS development. They work with startups and scaling businesses to help take HR off your plate, so you can stay focused on building product, growing revenue, and hiring great people – the go-to-market engine. 22:00 Why structured data is the foundation of AI-first marketing.

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GetUplift

MARCH 24, 2025

Gravitating toward competitors can also help make people on your team feel safe with the direction youre going. In fact, being specific and speaking only to Teamwork.com’s best fit customers (client-facing teams) is what generated great results during our A/B tests. Its natural, everyone does it. But they cost money.

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Strategy Technical Review Software Review Underperforming Technical Team 52

Sales Hacker

MAY 27, 2025

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Sean Whiteley is a three-time founder and the current CEO of Qualified, the AI pipeline automation platform purpose-built for inbound GTM teams. From the on-premise and internet era to cloud computing and now ai, he shares our expectations.

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AI Search Technical Review AI Scale 66

Teamgate

JUNE 5, 2025

Developer API Documentation, API, Examples, FAQ and more. Developer API Documentation, API, Examples, FAQ and more. Poor data leads to wasted time, lost revenue, and damaged customer relationships. Establish Data Rules : Assign team ownership , automate processes, and train staff regularly. trillion annually in the U.S.

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User Pilot

APRIL 24, 2025

Want to advance your career in product management or find top talent for your team? This article shares exciting product manager roles focused on retention and churn and showcases standout candidates in the field. Recommended product manager job openings in data-driven companies 1. Who would be a bad fit for this job?

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Payment Methods Payment Solutions Retention Churn 52

Sales Hacker

JUNE 10, 2025

With over two decades of experience leading marketing ops, sales ops, and go-to-market infrastructure, Andy is a true pioneer of modern RevOps. How venture networks and backchanneling drive most executive hiring decisions. Discussed in this Episode: Why 80–98% of VP and C-level roles are never posted—and how to access them.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring AI Search Scale 66

User Pilot

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Thats why Ive curated a list of three top product manager openings at data-driven companies, along with standout candidates who are ready to make an impact. Whether youre hiring or job hunting, this roundup is designed to save you time and connect you with the best options available. Who would be a BAD fit for this job?

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Think of it this way: Every video you publish is like hiring both a tireless marketer and sales rep who work 24/7, never ask for a raise, and keep getting better at generating demand over time. Hire a YouTube-specific thumbnail designer to design eye-catching thumbnails that stand out in search results.

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B2B Scale Sales Hiring AI Search 79

SaaStr

JUNE 21, 2023

They hired their first VP of Sales with a wonderful pedigree and experience at some of the hottest startups. After three months, this talented guy came to Harbaugh with the recognition that LaunchDarkly’s customers were developers. He didn’t like to sell to developers, so he quit. But as you can guess, it didn’t work out.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Pricing 293

SaaStr

OCTOBER 10, 2022

From a venture capital perspective, there’s now a premium on driving efficient growth rather than growth at any cost. . “Sales and marketing alignment is a terrific place to figure out and improve efficient growth.” . From the get-go, ensure alignment between sales and marketing teams on goals and anticipated outcomes.

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Scale Sales Hiring Venture Capital Marketing 325

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 considered the four companies and chose Gorgias based on my experience with their team during the interview process.

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Scale Sales Hiring Sales Underperforming Technical Team 284

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 12, 2019

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. The opportunity emerged out of a shift in how we practice sales. We had split into two distinct but complementary functions.

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team Scale 171

Sales Hacker

APRIL 30, 2020

What’s your approach when hiring sales reps? Companies often hire sales reps who have knowledge of, or even a passion for, the brand’s product or industry — which is great because it gives you a team of “walking brochures” who can spout off all the benefits of your product. The best training for new sales hires.

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Sales Underperforming Technical Team 118

SaaStr

MARCH 24, 2020

Sam Blond, CSO at Brex explains why recruiting, networking and employee happiness is the key to this playbook on recruiting your sales team. Sam Blond | Chief Sales Officer @ Brex. I’m doing The Playbook To Recruiting Your Sales Team. Once again, amazing job to the SaaStr team. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team 191

SaaStr

JULY 1, 2021

” That is interesting, but always less informative than what you really did right. For us, it’s about fixing this problem, serving the customer well, so a very service driven mindset, which I gave a talk on a few days ago here, has been a big part of Gusto and affected our hiring from the early days. Get tickets here.

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VP of Engineering Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 293

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 22, 2020

If you think sales is a simple job, I have a few hundred professional connections who would like a word with you. There’s a range of key skills that separate the best from the rest, and success belongs to companies who can identify and hire reps who have those precious skills. By mastering your sales interview questions.

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Sales Hiring Interviewing Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 101

SaaStr

JULY 25, 2021

They talked about product adoption, sales alignment, freemium models and lessons they have learned throughout their successful SaaS careers. As two CEO who love the art of sales and scaling, this one really was special. You can have the great product and a great team, but the market of small or very niche. Jyoti Bansal: Yeah.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale VP of Engineering 261

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

If your SaaS business has a sales team, there’s no way to grow 100% year-over-year without also growing your sales leadership. In this talk, CircleCI VP of Revenue Jane Kim will talk about the 5 mistakes all new sales leaders make. Let me start by telling you about my first role as a manager. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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Scale Sales Hiring Scaling Underperforming Technical Team 183

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 21, 2018

Whether you’re at an early-stage startup that’s just made its first sales hires, or part of a fast-moving sales team in a large organization, the key to success often comes down to efficiency. That means your focus should be on building the right customer profile and developing precise messaging to reach them.

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Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Technical Advisors 183

Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

This is the recipe for a mediocre sales team. Like a sports franchise, a top team should be both collaborative and competitive. On this week’s episode, I caught up with Steli to chat all things sales. When not writing his sales handbook, he’s been overseeing the change from Close.io to Close.com.

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Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales 184

SaaStr

JANUARY 7, 2022

Have you ever had a sudden realization that you’re spending more on sales and marketing than research and development? If so, you aren’t alone –– the median enterprise SaaS company spends twice as much on sales and marketing than R&D. So how can a CEO manage their marketing effectively?

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Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Marketing Market Research 261

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 29, 2019

In this week’s episode we’ve dug down into the podcast vaults to bring you some of the best insights shared by our guests about scaling sales. It’s no surprise that one of the key levers for growth as you go from startup to scale-up is your sales team. Hiring for sales with John Barrows.

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Scale Sales Hiring Scaling Payment Services 172

SaaStr

OCTOBER 4, 2024

“The reason that we got all this love in the early days was everybody said, look, I have all this information, I just want to put it to work, I want it to be connected to, you know, the other software I use. But in consumer that just doesn’t work. At the time, Shopify was still a new player. What product would you recommend?

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 15, 2020

In this episode, Bob and I chat about his new book Demand-Side Sales 101: Stop Selling and Help Your Customers Make Progress. What is it about sales that makes academia hesitant to teach it? Bob wondered where all the sales professors were and discovered that perhaps as a profession it required more art than science.

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Sales Hiring Sales VP of Engineering Underperforming Technical Team 265

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

MARCH 23, 2020

Companies which don’t use mental models risk unleashing mayhem with poor choices or becoming bloated and bureaucratic by reducing the volume and speed at which decisions are made - both scenarios are undesirable and will impact growth. The same is true of data - data informs decision-making, but doesn’t replace it.

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service 215

Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

What kind of information drives that decision: is it subjective and qualitative, or objective and quantifiable? It’s an approach that’s served him well along the road to building the HubSpot sales team, where he was CRO for nine years. That experience led to his bestselling book, The Sales Acceleration Formula.

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OnStartups

MAY 18, 2021

First off, just to be clear, I’ve never been a sales person. I’ve never even played a sales person on TV. All the points below have been pulled from startup sales teams that I think work pretty well (including the team at CRM software company, HubSpot). Building Startup Sales Teams.

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Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team Startup 110

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 22, 2019

If you are new to sales management, it can be hard to know what concrete steps you can take to improve your skills, be recognized, and eventually, rise to a senior leadership role. These lessons come from LB Harvey, our SVP of Sales and Support. 4 steps to stand out as a sales leader.

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Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Sales Management 123

OpenView Labs

JULY 20, 2020

Interviewing is hard , and interviewing candidates for sales roles can be doubly so. Sales requires a mix of left- and right-brained qualities, and accurately evaluating a candidate’s skills is a challenge for hiring managers. Hiring well or poorly will literally make or break your business.

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Interviewing Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 104

Totango

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Hiring team members with the right customer success manager skills is critical for the effectiveness of your CS team and strategy. Here we’ve identified the 13 most essential qualities to consider when hiring a CS manager. What Is a Customer Success Manager (CSM)?

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Sales Hiring Customer Success Sales Recruiting Technical Review 97

Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2023

If you’re new to sales (or don’t have an economics degree), decoding the sales compensation plan on offer can make your head spin. There are 3 key questions you must ask your hiring manager or recruiter when offered a sales role to maximize your earnings and career potential. They are: What is the pay mix?

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