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. Why is effective interviewing so important? Better interviewing = better sales teams.

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Interviewing Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 73

User Pilot

JANUARY 29, 2023

Why do product managers need a new feature validation framework? TL;DR Product managers need a new feature validation framework to ensure that they meet user needs or drive organizational goals and avert product failure. Product teams should invest in validation when developing the MVP. How can you build one?

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Management Underperforming Technical Team Interviewing Scale 96

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 10, 2020

I hope this post allows people and teams to safely talk about Product Judgment. If you ever had to face a Manager, Director or Exec as they make bad product decisions and you’re struggling to persuade them otherwise, this post will help you. It takes years to build, and therefore ranges from very weak to very strong.

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Underperforming Technical Team Interviewing Communication B2B 291

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Set and reinforce them early — as early as interviews. The underperformers who aren’t putting in the effort get a conversation, and if things don’t change, it’s not a good fit. Sales teams weren’t meeting prospects or customers in person anymore to develop relationships, close deals or talk about renewals. Guess what?

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Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Revenue Sales 194

Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2023

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. So you’re a sales professional interviewing for your next role. Takeaway: When you’re reviewing any sales job offer, ask the recruiter or hiring manager what the pay mix is.

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Compensation Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 74

Totango

JULY 28, 2021

Following best practices for hiring a customer success manager can make a critical difference in the quality of your customer relationships. Customer success managers serve as the face of your company in dealing with clients, playing a key role in ensuring satisfying experiences of your brand. What Is a Customer Success Manager?

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Customer Success Management Underperforming Technical Team Scale 118

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

How do product managers identify market gaps? A market gap can be caused by missing functionality or poor user experience. Canva identified a market need for a user-friendly graphic design tool for non-designers and DocuSign for a secure solution to sign and manage digital documents and contracts. Let’s get into it!

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

In his talk, Jason talked about how product managers can upskill to meet the challenges in their daily work and how to make sure that their organizations value their work. How to upskill as a product manager. Measuring the value of product management is difficult too. Let’s dive in! Book the demo! It gets even worse.

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Technical Review Management Underperforming Technical Team Leadership 89

OpenView Labs

MARCH 8, 2021

For all those reasons, hiring and management must be on point. Conducting interviews. What Interviewing 600+ Sales Reps Taught Me About Team Building. Loom’s Peter Prowitt shares the biggest mistakes to avoid if you’re interviewing for a sales position. 14 SaaS Leaders Share Their Favorite Interview Questions.

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Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting B2B 80

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. As a manager, the tasks competing for your attention only multiplies – coaching , training, interviewing, forecasting , planning, and more.

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Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Sales Management 123

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)? What Makes a Good Customer Success Manager?

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Sales Hiring Customer Success Sales Recruiting Technical Review 90

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

You know how everyone says you'll never look and wish you'd kept a bad VP as long as you did? How to interview them and qualify them. Because to scale, you are going to need to add a true management team, and then a second one, and then layers of management. The fewer weak hires they continue to make.

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Sales Hiring Part-Time VPE Scale Underperforming Technical Team 211

Sales Hacker

APRIL 21, 2020

You’ll be able to download the interview scorecard template that I use with my clients. Part two of this scorecard series will help you create a sales interview scorecard to land that sales role you’ve been dreaming about. Also: What are the top performers in my current team doing? This is a team effort. If so, how?

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Sales Hiring Interviewing Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 93

User Pilot

APRIL 7, 2024

You can also try to arrange interviews with the churned users. Develop multiple Aha moments The odds are that the insights from analytics and feedback data will point to multiple user actions as potential Aha moments. Slack Slack is a popular messaging platform that has changed how teams communicate and share resources.

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User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

What customer discovery questions should product managers ask to accurately identify the unsatisfied needs of potential customers and validate ideas? TL;DR Customer discovery questions enable product teams to better understand customer needs and problems so that they can build products that the potential customer truly needs.

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Interviewing Social Media 86

Valuize Consulting

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Stephen is a Customer Success Executive in the SaaS industry, specializing in customer renewals and relationships, with 20+ years of organizational development experience. When it comes to budget, organizations often haven’t established where the investment is coming from to fund the CS team. leverage Training & Development.

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VP of Engineering Customer Success Sales Hiring Interviewing 98

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 19, 2022

As the president of Sales Xceleration, a firm specializing in assessing and implementing sales strategy , sales processes, and sales execution to drive growth, I’ve seen how job hopping can affect otherwise stable sales teams. But also the cost it has on their careers — and your sales team. This trend especially impacts sales teams.

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Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting Compensation 79

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

You have to convince a management team of those things as well. Just as sales is its own animal in the professional ecosystem, the sales interview is its own unique beast. Your skills will be fire-tested and aggressively interrogated , and the mock demo portion makes it more like an audition than an interview.

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Sales Recruiting Interviewing Sales Hiring Sales 76

ChurnZero

JULY 22, 2022

Does your Customer Success team have a shallow view of onboarding? I recommend you interview customers. I’m going to interview their customers to find out what they did to get off that legacy system so we can bake that into the customer journey. I have the internal handoff from pre-sales to post-sales customer teams.

Scale 98

Scale Onboarding Scaling Underperforming Technical Team 98

User Pilot

JUNE 20, 2023

As a product manager, how can you effectively validate ideas and build a successful product that delights users? TL;DR Product idea validation is a process during which product teams test and tweak the product concept to ensure it satisfies a real market need. Why is product idea validation important? Let’s get straight into it!

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Underperforming Technical Team Social Media Scale Interviewing 90

SaaStr

JANUARY 24, 2024

Mark Roberge , SaaStr fan-favorite and Co-Founder and Managing Director of Stage 2 Capital brought together some of the top CROs in SaaS during the SaaStr Annual to share some of their greatest learnings and pivotal moments leading some of the Cloud 100 SaaS companies. The bad news is it wasn’t driving the results they wanted.

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Scale Sales Hiring Scaling Revenue 218

User Pilot

MARCH 23, 2023

And how can customer success teams address them to ensure product growth? Reasons why customers churn: #1: Customers churn when there is a bad product-customer fit and your product’s features don’t align with their needs. 3: Poor customer service or experience with the sales teams can make customers churn.

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SaaS Payments Churn Underperforming Technical Team Payment Methods 96

SaaStr

OCTOBER 30, 2021

I sent cold emails and LinkedIn messages and ended up with nine interviews. From those nine interviews, I received four offers. Going into the interviews, I knew what I wanted out of a job– that part was simple. Together, we developed sales pitches, built out a robust sales process in just a couple of weeks.

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Scale Sales Hiring Sales SMB 254

User Pilot

DECEMBER 13, 2023

How do you develop a robust UX strategy? TL;DR UX strategy provides guidance to the UX design team on how to create and improve experiences that satisfy user needs. TL;DR UX strategy provides guidance to the UX design team on how to create and improve experiences that satisfy user needs. This is the main focus of the article.

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Strategy Underperforming Technical Team User Experience SaaS 91

User Pilot

APRIL 19, 2024

Applying insights from market research to product development and marketing strategies can significantly enhance business growth. Sharper marketing messages, savvy product development strategies, and an intimate grasp of both prospective buyers and existing customers’ preferences and needs. Interviews. The outcome? Focus groups.

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Market Research Sales Recruiting Marketing Underperforming Technical Team 52

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. OKRs are a useful mental model - they make it crystal clear what people and teams should be striving for.

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service 213

User Pilot

APRIL 7, 2023

When your product is catering to other businesses, it can be difficult for sales reps and other teams to understand the needs and experiences of the clients, especially if the client company sells multiple products. However, customer insights can help your teams understand all aspects of your B2B partners.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

sales team. We had custom CRM apps for the Weight Watchers group, scheduling systems for optical chains, inventory management for car dealers. We ended up creating a healthcare app that connected all the substance abuse manage care agencies with their providers, and their payers, and the state system. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Sales 217

Neil Patel

JULY 6, 2021

Business coaches help business owners, managers, professionals, and individuals grow as businesses and people. As you grow on your own, you’ll develop better habits that you can translate into business growth and monetary gain. The best business coaches also tell us when they think we’re making a poor choice.

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Underperforming Technical Team Business Technical Review Interviewing 115

Sales Hacker

MARCH 8, 2018

Sales interviews are nerve-wracking. Not just for candidates, but also for hiring managers. Hopefully, these 5 tips will help you avoid many of the pitfalls I see candidates falling into, and drastically improve how you prepare for a sales interview. Prepare For Your Next Sales Interview with These 5 Pro Tips.

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Sales Hiring Interviewing Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 68

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 29, 2021

And so, Mark Rudden and his team had to figure it all out by themselves. Fortunately, Mark had quite a bit of experience working and scaling teams in demanding, hypergrowth environments. And I think you need to think about people management the same way. Well, at the beginning of 2020, no one had the playbook for that.

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Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 223

Scytale

MARCH 19, 2024

In this blog, we’ll walk through best practices for getting audit-ready, from getting your documentation together to prepping your team. Process improvements: The audit process often identifies areas for improvement in your internal controls, security procedures, risk management, and governance.

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Payment Services Payment Solutions compliance Payments 52

Point Nine Land

OCTOBER 23, 2023

P9 Panel on Hiring Sales Leaders — Founders Summit 2023 “You are going to fire your first sales manager!” — A lesson too many founders learn the hard way. It helps keep the product team focused on customer feedback and providing value in exchange for revenue. In the early days, you will be managing full sales cycles.

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Sales Hiring Scale Technical Advisors Technical Cofounder 125

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

We also share some best practices for product managers on how to pull off a successful product launch. Product launch checklists help align the efforts of all team members, enhance quality assurance, help mitigate risks, enable the evaluation of the launch, and help you deliver a better customer experience.

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Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting Social Media Market Research 92

Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Getting executives out of the 1:1 interview process and into a whiteboard session can help you assess their core competencies and how they’ll work with your team. We’re not necessarily interviewing them for a specific role in the portfolio. How can we help the team get calibrated on the role? Talent in 2024.

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Sales Recruiting Technical Advisors Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 86

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Why do product managers need them? TL;DR Regular roadmaps kill outcomes by forcing teams to think in the categories of features and timelines. It’s difficult to implement outcome-based roadmaps because stakeholders don’t trust product teams to deliver on business goals. Ready to dive in to learn more?

Scale 95

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting Software Review 95

User Pilot

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Actually, there are multiple types of personas for different teams, levels of research, and use cases—which you need to understand if you want to connect with customers. So let’s cover each of them and see what you can do to improve your team’s effectiveness. What is a persona?

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Underperforming Technical Team Software Review SaaS Interviewing 95