SaaStr

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

sales team. I did all sorts of things there from sales, to project management, to running the engineering team, hiring. This is where I got my chops in growing and scaling enterprise sales teams. You can interview the company for it, but at some point it’s a little bit of a leap of faith. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 27, 2020

Good or bad, planned or not, it does. Let’s look at how you can begin crafting your sales culture to transform your results and make your sales team that much sharper. catered lunches, happy hours, team events, you name it. I’m not referring to anything illegal. Your organization has a unique culture.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

What does it take to scale a sales team successfully? How can one determine a closer in the interview process? Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Andy. I’ve heard so many good things from Kobie, now at Upfront, and then also the team at Openview. How does Andy think about discounting?

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Outreach allows you to commit to accurate sales forecasting, replace manual processes with real-time guidance and unlock actionable consumer intelligence that guides you and your team to win more often. For every member that’s referred by another member, we’ll plant 250 trees. That was the only company I interviewed with.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Unfortunately, your in-house team doesn’t have the required expertise to push through change. Our team at Neil Patel Digital has compiled the ultimate guide below to help you understand the nuances of working with a consultant for the best results. How to Find a Good Consultant – Getting the Interviewing Process Right.

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CustomerSuccessBox

JULY 11, 2022

In order to ensure the product is moving in the right direction, you should take advantage of the opportunity presented by active users leaving (referred to as “churn”). Such as the conclusion of a project, a poor match, or a firm changing course are considered non-regrettable churn. Step 2: Learn from the Churn.

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GetUplift

DECEMBER 12, 2021

It’s a process that my team and I at GetUplift have used to 10x our clients’ conversion rates. I spent years researching the psychology behind purchase decisions and used that knowledge to develop a four step conversion optimization process deeply rooted in emotional marketing. Here’s an example of this thinking system in action.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 11, 2019

And if you feel there is a lack of support or poor management, you might see the writing on the wall. If everyone on the sales team is missing quota, organizationally, you might be set up to fail. When it leaves both you and your sales team in a good place moving forward. Of course, it might not be you at all.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

I remember about three years ago, Marc Benioff gave some interview and he said his biggest regret was not continuing to hire sales professionals through 2009, his number one regret. If something bad happens, you’re going to have to cut your burn, probably. What do you do with that lightly toxic person on your team?

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Eghbal offers a new taxonomy of communities — including newer phenomena such as “stadiums” of open source developers, other creators, and really, influencers — who are performing their work in massive spaces where the work is public (and not necessarily participatory). But it really does just refer to the distribution side of code.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 27, 2020

Whether you run a one-person sales enablement program or are part of a team, the sheer scope of the job can be overwhelming. Now here’s where it can get challenging: you serve the revenue-producing employees, sure, but you do it to help your executive team achieve their goals. I hear you. Sales enablement strategy. How do you do this?

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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

JULY 30, 2017

This is a goal I share with HubSpot’s sales leadership - indeed, I’m a firm believer that shared goals are the one true way to drive alignment between teams. Here’s something that is uncommon within the world of sales enablement and learning and development (L&D). In addition to hitting quota, I also carry a revenue goal.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Vikas’ Journey from Sales Engineer to Managing a BD Team (22:20). Now, without further ado, my interview with Vikas Bhambri. Vikas’ background is sales engineering as a path into sales and revenue leadership. Vikas builds teams that follow this ethos. Show Introduction (0:09). Sam’s Corner (43:33).

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 2, 2019

She’s now a consultant helping VPs of Sales scale and build their sales teams. She’s also been a high-performing individual contributor — she was part of the team that drove a lot of growth at HubSpot as it went from small to large, and she worked under Mark Roberge. What You’ll Learn. Who is Mary Rogul. Outreach has your back.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 18, 2023

Lesson 1: Everything is about your team. Every startup needs strong team dynamics to pull through tough times. It’s all about the team 99% of the time and 1% product and process. It’s about enabling the people on your team to be more productive and efficient. Lesson 6: Pivoting isn’t a bad thing.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Bansal shares this and other key milestones and frameworks for company building in conversation with a16z general partner Peter Levine; enterprise deal team partner Satish Talluri (who was a director of product and growth operations there); and Sonal Chokshi. the night before it was to IPO). Like, if you don’t know <Yeah.>

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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. I’m doing The Playbook To Recruiting Your Sales Team. Once again, amazing job to the SaaStr team. I’m really honored to share this stage with some really bad ass speakers.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

Sales Development and Prospecting. The Sales Development Playbook. The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team. Wooden on Leadership. Here are the best books on selling (and related disciplines) that can help you hit your goals and develop your career. This one happens to be the one I’ve referred to the most. Top of Mind.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 5, 2020

If you missed episode 107, check it out here: 107: Origin Stories and the Core Principles of Sales Leadership with Lori Richardson. Today’s show is an interview. As companies adapt to this new normal, keeping your sales team moving together is more essential than ever. What You’ll Learn. Sam’s Corner [37:27].

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User Pilot

JULY 23, 2023

With a jobs-to-be-done template, you can easily transform your customer interviews into actionable insights and develop an engaging product with high chances of success. Conduct customer interviews with regular users and decision-makers. The jobs-to-be-done framework is a method for developing products.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

When it comes to launching sales teams in hyper-growth startups, few people have walked the walk as much as Maggie Hott. We recently sat down with Maggie to chat about all things sales – from laying down a solid foundation to hiring the right people and, finally, scaling the team into hyper-growth. Look for the team players.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Never believe that doubting yourself is a bad thing. That company only lasted another year before they were out of business, so it was a poor use of my energy, time, and being away from my family – a lesson I work to pass on to others new in roles today. Invest in your development internally and externally. Joyce Johnson.

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SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2019

Before that, he worked for 12 years at Trilogy, where he held key leadership roles helping the company grow from a start-up to a $300 million business. What does Jeff mean when he says, “the developer first approach is a maturation of the supply chain of software?” How can leaders both be authoritative and vulnerable simultaneously?

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The other thing we know is that customers generally don’t buy without getting a reference whether it’s a backdoor, it’s a front door reference. Being able to utilize these champions as references as well. Well then that person who was the key reference because it was a person, not the company leaves.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 20, 2022

We surveyed and interviewed key people in our teams to understand how they worked and how they saw Intercom’s internal operations. Honest feedback can be hard to take, but it’s essential to develop the type of culture that encourages people to constructively criticize processes, leadership styles, or approaches.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

And as Travis mentioned, we’ve had lots of great recent guests, Hollie Wegman, CMO at Segment, Adam, the head of developer relations at HashiCorp, G.C. Her team loved working for her. Leadership, she’s been on the leadership team for two massive businesses, and so who better to hear from on that topic than Claire.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2020

343: Kyle Parrish is the Head of Sales @ Figma, the company that helps teams create, test and ship better designs from start to finish. Kyle was in charge of creating the Austin, Texas sales team @ Dropbox, what were some of his biggest lessons when it comes to moving sales outside of HQ? What worked? What did not work?

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

We’ve got an interview with Brandon Meyers , the chief revenue officer of ADARA. If you missed episode 122, check it out here: Tips for Building a Diverse Team of High-Quality Salespeople with Wesley Ulysse. We’ve got an interview with Brandon Meyers, the chief revenue officer of ADARA. We’re on iTunes.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 8, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we interview Rob Jeppsen , CEO of Xvoyant and host of the Sales Leadership Podcast. Rob is a longtime sales veteran and is incredibly passionate about both the profession of sales but, more importantly, the importance of investing in your team through sales coaching and training.

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SaaStr

MARCH 6, 2020

I came back to North America, we built out the inside sales team in North America over the next five years, building hubs in multiple countries, including in Bangalore, India, and assembling a global community of practice. Write it down, share the rough draft with your team, debate it, prioritize it. So it was a fabulous experience.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

263: Building a company made up of distributed teams presents a plethora of complex challenges that can derail productivity and impact employee retention. But with it comes immense benefits and competitive advantages such as the diversification of ideas, speedier product development, and representation in important regions and time zones.

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SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

I will tell you how many COs I’ve talked to that say, “I’ll come to SaaStr, but I don’t want my series B or series C VC interviewing me,” which is sort of interesting. Personally, our team has been holding back a little bit. Jason Lemkin: Together as a team, right? Aileen Lee: And hi, everyone.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

Nick Mehta: Power of the developer, or the API economy, both of you play very much in both those trends. How do you help your team make that link to value? We’ve got a lot of training to do with our sales teams to get them to start to speak in these types of terms versus feature function. Nick Mehta: Yeah.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

How can founders use case studies and references to build social credibility early on? How has Ryan structured his content and marketing team as a result? Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Ryan. Harry Stebbings: I’m too intrigued on that leadership element. Harry Stebbings. Ryan Sandler.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 21, 2019

There I transitioned into sales leadership. Manager of Enterprise Account Development at Lucidchart. Building out a new enterprise development team, and scaling it from 3 to 14 reps over a one-year period. . I want to lead and inspire larger teams while being a successful mother. . Andrea Johnson. Ang McManamon.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 24, 2018

Headline: Demonstrate your thought leadership. Uncover topics with customer development. Start by interviewing your current clients. When writing your description, tag the person you interviewed to introduce them and tell your audience what they’ll learn. Your marketing team has already profiled your ideal clients.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

As for Allison, in her 5 years at Gainsight her list of achievements in endless from running all functions that drive value for Gainsight customers, now a 150 person team, to building out the corporate development function to being the right hand to the CEO. How can one approach setting up a services team for scale?

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