User Pilot

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

You can collect feedback from your customer base via in-app surveys, feedback widgets, interviews, and by monitoring social media mentions and reviews. Interview existing customers Another good way to identify emerging market gaps is by interviewing your customers. How do you recruit your interviewees?

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 8, 2021

Elements of Successful Global Sales Expansion. “Be So, let’s look at four keys to a successful global sales expansion. The hard questions: No plan is without its faults, and no sales expansion is without its fair share of roadblocks. It takes a particular type of sales leader to be the first in a new country or region.

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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

JANUARY 11, 2018

While, I do partake in all these activities at some point during the week, where possible I optimise travel for learning, growing and improving. The calibre of speakers is first rate and a broad range of crucial startup topics, from product right the way through to recruitment and legal are covered. Let's get down to the detail.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

One of the toughest challenges for founders — and especially technical founders who are used to focusing so much on product features over sales — is striking “product-market fit”. So in that shift from product-market fit to product-market-SALES fit, how much should you optimize your go-to-market for product… and even the other way around?

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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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Kellblog

AUGUST 23, 2019

When we met, he was a pre-sales engineer and I was a technical support rep. We’ve each spent over 25 years in enterprise software, in mixed roles that involve both technology and sales & marketing (S&M). Jim went on to write a great book, Making the Technical Sale. I went on to create Kellblog.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The backup of 2020 was great, 2021 comes in and somehow we have 600 unicorns and everyone can burn 500 million a year or have huge sales teams. But the meta point is this, if you’re recruiting in 2024, beware of the “Lost Generation” candidate and persona you may come across. It’s part of the job now.

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SaaStr

MAY 24, 2019

Below, we’ve shared the full transcript of Harry’s interview with Andrew Filev. I was personally responsible for my action, to any concurrent projects on the delivery side, I was responsible for managing digital marketing, recruiting. Was it the simple CAC to LTV and then thinking about sales rep payback period?

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

So some of the things that we’re screening for in our interview process will be literally ask these questions around, what do you spend your time outside of work doing? I think the most challenging part for a sales leader in this type of environment is there has been this huge push for inside sales teams, right?

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SaaStr

JULY 1, 2021

It became a part of our interview questions. What questions do you ask in the interview? It’s a team that’s only focused on a values type interview process. Every single candidate coming through Gusto does what we call a watermelon interview. I got it wrong many times myself. How do you get them to join?

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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. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Kyle made his way into the world of SaaS and sales and came to be Head of Sales at one of the fastest-growing companies in Figma. What worked?

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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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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

At Sales Hacker, our Community Leaders help build relationships with our members. Our 2020 Community Leaders went through an extensive application and interview process, which means we are confident in their ability to provide members with the best advice possible. WHY SALES HACKER? WHY SALES HACKER? “ Mark Moshofsky.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 8, 2019

Companies need a specialized approach for SMB accounts, different than the tactics used for Enterprise. Andrei Brasoveanu will sit down for a conversation with Agnes Bazin Doctolib on how to create a targeted and effective sales process tailor-made for SMB. The topic of the day is secret to SMB sales. That’s fantastic.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 8, 2019

Companies need a specialized approach for SMB accounts, different than the tactics used for Enterprise. Andrei Brasoveanu will sit down for a conversation with Agnes Bazin Doctolib on how to create a targeted and effective sales process tailor-made for SMB. The topic of the day is secret to SMB sales. That’s fantastic.

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Sales Recruiting SMB Scale Sales Hiring 108

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we’ve got a fantastic episode for you. We’ve got an interview with Brandon Meyers , the chief revenue officer of ADARA. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Welcome to Sales Hacker Podcast. Sales enablement is easy. More sales meetings. We’re on iTunes.

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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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SaaStr

JUNE 25, 2019

The company was, their sales were quite a bit bigger than the other two companies. As I said before, 15 people in the company when we started, five engineers, now there’s 140 in this office, 110 engineers, product managers and designers, and they’re awesome. The advantages of what we have, they’re numerous.

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SaaStr

JULY 4, 2019

Matt Schatz is SVP of Sales at WPEngine, responsible for defining and executing the global sales strategy. Matt has nearly two decades of senior leadership experience in sales and customer growth, specifically for technology companies with customers around the world including Bazaarvoice, CityVoice and Rackspace. It is hard.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Happy post lunch interview. It allows us to think more about kind of where we end with the organization, how we interact with the organization, and allows us to spend a lot of time on account management and figuring out how best to kind of create champions out of those customers we have. Ari : You have a preference?

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Natalia Luneva

JANUARY 9, 2023

The game was a large commercial assassins creed revelations pc game, outperforming the sales of its predecessors. An Assassin recruit who has reached the highest possible rank can be assigned to serve as the “Den Master” for any of the Assassin-controlled towers in Constantinople.

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Natalia Luneva

JANUARY 9, 2023

The game was a large commercial assassins creed revelations pc game, outperforming the sales of its predecessors. An Assassin recruit who has reached the highest possible rank can be assigned to serve as the “Den Master” for any of the Assassin-controlled towers in Constantinople.

Software Review 40

Software Review Sales Recruiting Systems Review Transportation 40

SaaStr

JULY 26, 2019

Prior to founding Zylo, Eric was the VP of Sales @ Sprout Social leading the revenue operations for over 11,000 customers. Before Sprout Social he was VP of Sales at Shoutlet, responsible for global direct and channel sales teams and developing and managing strategic relationships. What was the founding moment with Zylo?

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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. I don’t think I’m going to be going to try and find a lot of travel startups right now. Like how you thinking about that?

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 25, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we’ve got Alyssa Merwin , Vice President of Sales Solutions for LinkedIn, North America. She runs Sales Navigator and is perhaps one of the most important people selling sales engagement and sales software in the world. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

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SaaStr

MARCH 13, 2020

Hear how to navigate fast growth and how to look ahead as you travel forward. Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Harry Hurst. And when I was young, I used to travel the country with him setting up his market store to sell clothes. Harry Stebbings of Stride.VC This episode is sponsored by TaxJar.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Below, we’ve shared the full transcript of Harry’s interview with Jeppe Rindom. You’re facing extremely long sales cycles, which doesn’t really align with the quick results you want to have as a business. How do you structure the sales team given the segment being targeted? Harry Stebbings. Jeppe Rindom.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Today on the show, we’ve got Brian Litvack, the first person that ever hired me as a sales consultant and my fast friend. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Sam Jacobs: Today on the show, we’ve got Brian Litvack, the first person that ever hired me as a sales consultant and my fast friend. We’re on iTunes.

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