Sales Hacker

JULY 3, 2018

We’ve been compiling this sales automation tools list for a while, trying to figure out the best way to get the information out there. There are a number of existing resources available on sales automation, but they don’t offer use cases and examples of how to put the tools to action. What Is Sales Automation?

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SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

Scaling the company’s employee base, sales teams, marketing, and operations—all while preserving its culture—has required a laser focus on first principles, smart processes, and effective hiring. Know who is the foundation of your product and build your product for that user (in Stripe’s case, developers).

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SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

And so, she can, and Anthony just finished up basically going from the first sales hire at Gainsight at almost 100 million in revenue and has just retired. Maria : It’s like saying, “Hey, you want a sales rep to carry 10 times the quota they do today. You can’t, you have to invest in that sales infrastructure.”

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2021

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Neil Ringers , EVP of Revenue Grid. Neil’s experience includes a long history of sales leadership, primarily in the Salesforce ecosystem, and is now running revenue for Revenue Grid. If you missed episode 153, check it out here: Learning Drives Sales Effectiveness with Paul Fifield?.

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Upscope

MAY 24, 2019

There are many articles on developing a customer experience (CX) strategy so seeing a range of practical examples will help put them into perspective. Avast fixed the broken things first This is a good study of technology driven companies learning customer experience thinking. Easy-to-do innovations. The weird thing?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

As for Krish, under Krish’s leadership the team has grown to over 300 people and over 5,000 clients making it one of the next generation in truly global SaaS businesses started in India. First, what is continuous customer development? Billion story from its launch in 2008 to its 2018 acquisition by Recruit Holdings.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 13, 2021

Although Linda started her career in sales, she has spent the past twelve years scaling post-sales teams and moving hyper-growth companies like Zendesk, Slack, and now Gong upmarket into the enterprise realm. So how do you create a strong, enterprise-ready team? Leveraging customer insights across your business.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 5, 2019

We’d been doing some investment, the product and technology leaders, but we talked about creating a proper investment fund to spur innovation around Workday ecosystem to get earlier stage companies, part of the Workday story for our customers. They might be sales operations challenges. ” And not just open ended.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

And for leveling up your sales skills, nothing beats a good sales book. So what are the best sales books for helping you reach peak performance? Have been recommended by sales professionals. Here’s how you can find the sales books that are most relevant to you. Here they are… The 97 Best Sales Books in 2020.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Women in sales often have a polarizing experience. Never believe that doubting yourself is a bad thing. In the Sales Hacker video series Aha Moments , I asked 10 women: “What is one ‘aha moment’ you’ve had in your sales career?”. What is one a-ha moment you’ve had in your sales career? Anything less is failure.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

359: The Secrets to Vertical Growth, What it Really Takes to Build a $1B SaaS Company with Matt Garratt, SVP, Managing Partner @ Salesforce Ventures, Trisha Price, Chief Product Officer @ nCino and David Schmaier, CEO & Founder @ Vlocity. They need fewer sales as a percentage of overall employees. David Schmaier: Sure.

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SmartKarrot

AUGUST 9, 2022

Instead of building, developing, and implementing enterprise applications, SaaS users can simply license and subscribe to them. With exponential changes in current technology and business processes, all SaaS businesses must adapt and welcome scalability changes with open arms. Lack of Strategic Partnerships. Operational Efficiency.

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SmartKarrot

AUGUST 9, 2022

Instead of building, developing, and implementing enterprise applications, SaaS users can simply license and subscribe to them. With exponential changes in current technology and business processes, all SaaS businesses must adapt and welcome scalability changes with open arms. Lack of Strategic Partnerships. Operational Efficiency.

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SaaStr

JULY 15, 2022

Jason Lemkin: You certainly can hire a whole content team and build 10,000 pieces of content, but I will tell you what I have always seen work is one incredible piece a week. One, at every large company, there is an innovation budget. There’s an innovation budget in the CIO’s budget. But potentially even technology.

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SaaStr

MAY 15, 2020

333: Bridget Gleason is the Head of Sales and Customer Success @ Tidelift, the company providing managed open source, backed by maintainers. Before Tidelift, Bridget was VP of Sales @ Logz.io and before that was VP of Corporate Sales @ Sumo Logic where she drove ARR up by a record 237%. What works? What does not work?

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

If talent acquisition, development, and retention are top-of-mind for you as a sales leader, here are 40+ of the best sales training programs to check out! No wonder recruiters go ballistic trying to outdo each other in attracting the best professionals to create value for their companies. DoubleDigit Sales.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The SaaStock team will be landing in São Paulo to run the region’s first Pan-Latin American SaaS conference, SaaStock LatAm. Meet Our Speakers… Patrick Arippol, Managing Director of Early Stage Investments, DGF Investimentos. His first career steps were at Seer Technologies and Monitor Company in the 1990s.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Companies that have access to more accurate financial data have the ability to develop seamless exchanges of information, providing consumers with improved ways to manage their finances. Technology Reporter @ CNBC. Please welcome Zach Perret, Plaid Co-Founder and CEO and Ari Levy, CNBC Senior Technology Reporter.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 12, 2020

As for Kate, prior to making the move to Notion just last month, she spent an incredible 8 years at Dropbox including holding roles such as Head of Sales Development, North America and Director of Global SMB Revenue and Operations. Before Notion, Kate spent 2 years at Salesforce in the corporate sales and enterprise business units.

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SaaStr

MARCH 6, 2020

To meet buyers’ high expectations and manage the challenging sales landscape, companies must involve their entire organization in maturing the sales process- including after prospects sign on the dotted line. And it was all about relationship building with our sales reps, which is a super useful tactic.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

311: Karl Sun is the Founder & CEO @ Lucidchart, a visual workspace that combines diagramming, data visualization, and collaboration to accelerate understanding and drive innovation. How does Karl think about working with recruiters? How does one know when we need to hire generalists vs specialists? What works?

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

374: ZoomInfo founder and CEO Henry Schuck shares how he built a business from scratch and grew it into one of the most successful IPOs of the 21st century—and what it was really like…the good, the bad, and most of all, the ugly. It’s also been a powerful moment for technology to be a force for good.

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Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Do you want to grow your SaaS sales team and improve your processes? maintain healthy atmosphere in your Smarketing team, make smart choices regarding your SaaS sales model, strategy, pricing, . build smoother connections both with your prospects through optimized sales process. SaaS Sales Models.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 30, 2019

As for Whitney, she directly leads the organization’s go-to-market efforts, including sales, marketing, business development and customer operations. When is the right time for founders to think about building out their first exec team? How can you develop a winning culture? Missed the session? I don’t know.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 21, 2019

There are tons of roundup articles about top women sales leaders. Most of the time, somebody does a LinkedIn search for “sales leader,” chooses the top 15 profiles with the most followers, and calls it a day. What about the amazing sales leaders who aren’t well-known already? Most Dynamic Women Sales Leaders.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

And it’s not without good reason: nearly all software products with dominant market share started as apps but grew to the point where third-party developers began building valuable integrations on top of what these companies had already created. New Relic’s General Manager, Mark Weitzel, weighs in on how you can support your developers.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2017

The race to the 2017 finish line is in full throttle – While last minute closed deals are still trickling in, B2B organizations are researching how to shape next year’s sales strategy to align with the top sales trends that are expected to emerge in 2018. Top 2018 Sales Trends & Predictions – Strategic Headlines.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

Centralized HQs with all the perks and amenities “under one roof” have traditionally been used as recruiting tools to attract and retain top talent. We’re a full-stack technology-powered brokerage helping usher in the hybrid workplace and the office of the future. This episode is sponsored by Linode. Justin Bedecarre: Totally.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 28, 2018

The best sales conferences enrich your team, build knowledge, and offer plenty of networking opportunities (and fun)! Bad sales conferences just feel like a huge waste of time away from you prospects. Unleash is the ultimate Sales Engagement conference. TOPO Sales Summit. March 10-12 | San Diego, CA.

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Outseta

MAY 8, 2020

The world of technology start-ups has been good to me—it’s provided for my family, it’s given me a wonderful amount of freedom to live my best life outside of work, and it’s been intellectually engaging and challenging throughout. Today I can look back across a full decade that’s been spent building SaaS start-ups.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

* How does David think about scaling sales teams? How does one know when is the right time to hire your first sales reps? What have been his lessons on optimizing payback period for sales reps? How should founders think about sales rep compensation? How does David think about payback period on a per rep basis?

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

An existing SaaS customer spends more, on average, than a new customer, and are more than seven times more likely to churn (leave your business) to go to a competitor because of poor customer service than they are for a better product. Shopify has been amply rewarded for its innovations in ecommerce. Consistent updates. Growth stage.

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A Smart Bear

OCTOBER 4, 2017

A “team of one” is the fastest, most efficient team, as measured by “output per person.” Communication and decision-making occupy the minimum possible time. A team of one is brittle, but fast. Why is this impossible when you have 500 employees? What are the fundamental forces that transform organizations at scale?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Pietro Bezza | Managing Partner @ Connect Ventures. Emilie Maret | Fellowship Team @ The Family. We’re a team of former investors and operators from the likes of Facebook, Deliveroo, and the Swedish payments company Klarna. Emilie Maret | Fellowship Team @ The Family. Want to see more content like this?

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

There’s actually another one, now that I think about it: Quill , which is a really fast version of Slack, really excellent messaging for teams. Then on the other side, you have this ridiculous upfront configuration cost which is: ”Welcome to ‘thing’ management. And it could auto-populate as you start typing it out.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

And we were about a $50 million sales run rate, but I’d never done a media interview. And the team deck doesn’t say who the CEO is? We called ourselves a team of four, actually, who operate and make decisions, and it’s just how we rolled. .” Jason Lemkin: Oh, I see. Ryan Smith: No. That’s it.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Talkpush is a conversational recruiting CRM that allows employers and job seekers to connect in new ways across the globe. It also gives recruiters a faster process through its chatbot and application management tool. It is a platform for inventory and order management that helps owners and distributors. Founded : 2014.

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