OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 16, 2019

And according to Gartner , by the time 2021 hits, the software industry will have grown another $113 billion. So if scaling your sales organization is a priority in 2020, here are the things you need to be aware of to make sure you do so successfully. They want a product/service that’s doing something powerful.

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Product-led growth uses the product as the primary driver of customer acquisition and retention, with minimal reliance on traditional sales and marketing. Market development Market development, also known as market expansion, involves selling existing products or services to new markets. The Ansoff Matrix of Growth Strategies.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

268: Ryan Bonnici is the CMO @ G2, the company that allows you to get the right software and services for your business with over 897,000 user reviews to help you make smarter buying decisions. Below, we’ve shared the full transcript of Harry’s interview with Ryan Bonnici. Pssst Loving our podcast content? Harry Stebbings.

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FastSpring

APRIL 13, 2023

From leading sales at Zillow to brand strategy at Tumblr to revenue at FiscalNote (a global policy platform), Justin Scott started noticing a trend. Jera Brown interviewed Dopple founder and CEO Justin on how he launched Dopple and found success by pivoting to a new market. It starts with self service.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

In this episode of the Sales Hacker Podcast, we have Brandon Barton , CEO of Bite and a hospitality tech entrepreneur and expert. If you missed episode 217, check it out here: What it Takes to Lead 1,200-Person Company like ZoomInfo with Tim Strickland. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Welcome to the Sales Hacker podcast.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 16, 2019

Ep 257: Justin Welsh is the former SVP Sales @ PatientPop, the startup that offers the first all-in-one practice growth platform that’s HIPAA-compliant and is proven to grow your practice. During his 5 years at PatientPop, Justin grew sales from $0 to $56m alongside the full build-out of the sales team. Justin Welsh.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 18, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we interview Roger Scott , Chief Customer Officer at New Relic. If you missed episode 48, check it out here: PODCAST 48: The Secret to Amazing Sales Engagement w/ Max Altschuler. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Sales Hacker Podcast—Sponsored by Chorus and Outreach.

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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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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 16, 2020

?. Andrey Khusid, founder and CEO of Miro , hasn’t done many interviews. Andrey explains why embracing the professional services sector in a unique way has paid dividends. We also think about community and consultants and professional services as an ecosystem around our product. So our platform is also built for them to use.

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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. In the Sales Hacker video series Aha Moments , I asked 10 women: “What is one ‘aha moment’ you’ve had in your sales career?”. The conversations that followed were so authentic and encouraging that we decided to expand this conversation to other badass women in the sales world.

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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%. Harry Stebbings. Bridget Gleason.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 14, 2022

?. Regardless of the industry or the product you’re selling, the old sales playbook is falling short of customers’ expectations. For James Dyett , a customer-centric mindset shouldn’t just be the purview of post-sales departments. Sales, he thought, would do just the trick. Hire customer-centric salespeople.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

If you missed episode 130, check it out here: Turning Junior-level Talent into Top Sales Professionals with Eddie Baez. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Why it’s hard to build a two-sided marketplace [13:38]. Sales enablement is easy. More sales meetings, more money. More sales meetings, more money.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 30, 2018

I hosted Kate and Vanessa on the podcast, where we talked about everything from scaling design teams to how to earn a seat at the decision-making table. As a team lead, you need to be prepared to steer. It was an incredible place for me to learn: about ecommerce, about scale, and just in general about management practices.

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SmartKarrot

AUGUST 22, 2022

VOC is often used in marketing, product development, sales, customer service, and management. Voice of the customer (VoC) is a process that helps companies understand what their customers want to improve their products or services. It is also known as the voice of the marketplace or the consumer. Why is VOC Important?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

How should sales and marketing work together on pricing? Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Rob. It just made it a lot easier for us to scale up Salsify as we found success. And there’s a lot of benefit to running a software as a service, in general. Harry Stebbings. Rob Gonzalez.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 21, 2021

“It looked like being the pain in the butt BDR who asked way too many questions, broke anything that could possibly be broken, and paid for my own subscriptions to software just because I wanted to tinker with things before I had to bother asking for approval and budget.”. Do you love chasing down the sale? Unified data problems.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. A more scientific interview process [20:35]. Sam Jacobs: This week on the show, we’ve got Luke Rogers, the Vice President of Sales at Instabase. Through that, he went to university where he studied AI and cybernetics, ultimately leading big teams in EMEA for AppDynamics.

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How To Buy Saas

DECEMBER 1, 2020

SaaS is a global software solution created by different businesses in order to improve human activities in a matter of clicks. SAAS is also abbreviated as software as a service. SaaS as we already understood is a software as a service. Start Listing your saas on Software and saas Marketplaces.

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Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

You can think of Horizontal SaaS as broad-based tech that is industry agnostic; a sales person at a Cybersecurity company can use HubSpot the same way a sales person at a Health Supplements company might use it. AKA, it’s misleading for the majority of new software businesses being founded today.) Source SaaS Metrics 2.0:

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Unbounce

JUNE 16, 2020

With a $60 billion market in which to grow, these companies recognize that smart use of partnership channels can help them scale up while creating a win-win-win ecosystem for the company, the partner, and the customer. These are often built with agencies, consultants, and managed-service-providers (MSPs) in mind. Effective Scaling.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

Has been CEO before, was CEO of Alfresco Software and long career in software and comes in, I think, with a lot of passion for customers and customer success, which I’m excited to hear about and also comes in live streaming, my understanding is from a boat right now, right Bernadette? You need to discover in the sales process.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Today we are interviewing an executive and life coach, somebody who has personally helped change my mindset. If you missed episode 131, check it out here: Data, Set, Match: How to Build a Two-Sided Marketplace to Drive Revenue with Ryan Walsh. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. I’m talking about John Mark Shaw.

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SaaStr

APRIL 3, 2019

As for Ben, he spearheads global sales and go to market teams. What must founders try and figure out before hiring their sales leader? What are the leading indicators that suggest a sales rep has the ability to be a sales manager? What does Ben mean when he says, “there are 3 distinct buckets of sales management”?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

What started as a series of interviews by co-founder Des Traynor soon bloomed into hundreds of episodes where we explore how businesses are driving growth through customer relationships and how to build successful products at scale. I’m recording the first in what I expect to be a series of interesting interviews.

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SaaStr

JULY 26, 2019

252: Eric Christopher is the Founder and CEO @ Zylo, the software management system built for the cloud pioneering a new standard in software management. Prior to founding Zylo, Eric was the VP of Sales @ Sprout Social leading the revenue operations for over 11,000 customers. What was the founding moment with Zylo?

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Prior to joining the world of venture, Karen was a Senior Director at Apple and before Apple, Karen spent an incredible 9 years at Box as a founding member of the executive team, where she was responsible for defining and leading Box’s Industry GTM strategy. What were Karen’s biggest takeaways from seeing the hyper-scaling at Box?

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SaaSX

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Today’s digital marketplace is a vast and wild place. These partners shoulder some of the burden of sales, creating separate selling “channels” that expand a product’s reach. Take a cold, hard your marketing and sales strategies. Are sales humming along without cause for alarm? It can get a little lonely out there.

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SaaStr

JULY 30, 2019

Scott Beechuk, Partner at Norwest Venture Partners, brings together world-class SaaS engineering leaders Claire Hough, Vijay Gill and Weiping Peng for a dynamic conversation on where SaaS technology is headed, how to build top performing engineering teams and what it takes to lead in today’s high-velocity engineering environment.

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Point Nine Land

OCTOBER 22, 2019

How Clio grew from a lifestyle business into a legal tech juggernaut From bootstrapping growth to securing a $250 million funding round, Clio is a lesson in how to scale a company without abandoning its roots. Both Jack and Rian had tech backgrounds and at the time were providing consulting services to the legal industry.

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Point Nine Land

APRIL 21, 2021

Since then, I have been leading Uberall product team, which we’ve scaled from 3 people to 12 people over the past 5 years. There are many posts out there explaining how startup co-founders should “land the first sales, then hire the first 2 sales and when to hire a VP sales”. In SaaS vs. marketplaces?

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Prior to founding Outgrow, Randy co-founded VenturePact, an invite-only marketplace that connects companies with trusted software development firms. How does it convert more leads? How does Randy think about using interactive content to maximize sales rep efficiency? Where should it be placed? Harry Stebbings.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Find the people who are 10-out-of-10 passionate about your product or service , because they will evangelize your brand more powerfully than you can do alone. This allows your community to help each other – and often to grow your product or service beyond what you might have imagined on your own. Get to know your biggest fans.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 19, 2020

Can you elaborate a little bit for our audience about how exactly you guys work and what exactly are the services that you offer? So that clarity piece and then that capacity piece is how we really focus our services. Like I said, fairly enterprise-oriented software companies like Notion have super fans. Give up control.

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