Sales Hacker

JANUARY 22, 2020

If you think sales is a simple job, I have a few hundred professional connections who would like a word with you. By mastering your sales interview questions. As a longtime recruiting leader, I’ve worked with countless hiring managers looking to fill sales roles , and I’ve had a firsthand look at their interview process.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

They provide the strong foundation and leadership necessary for the success of any company. Any company adopting such an approach need not any competitor to gradually bring down their sales and growth perspective. Why should B2B SaaS companies contemplate recruiting a chief Omnichannel officer?

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Valuize Consulting

DECEMBER 7, 2021

In the subscription economy, there’s no debate about whether or not to invest in Customer Success (CS); 70% of rapidly growing businesses say that Customer Success is extremely important ( Hubspot , 2017). Is it going to come from the Sales and Marketing budget, or General Administrative budget? leverage Training & Development.

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SaaStr

JULY 9, 2019

Giraffe is a mobile job matching platform that helps medium skilled workers get access to opportunities and helps businesses to recruit staff faster, and easier, and more affordably than any other way. Well, you have to build a direct sales force. We said, “How important is Giraffe to you in your recruitment process?”

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

As for Ryan, prior to G2 he was Senior Director of Global Marketing at Hubspot where among many other achievements, he scaled HubSpot’s marketing-generated sales revenue by 330% year-over-year. It was about, these people that have already pulled in, how do I now convert them into marketing qualified leads for our local sales teams?

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ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

The SaaS investor award selection process was driven by feedback from entrepreneurs and portfolio companies based on the value an investor adds, whether in terms of strategic advice, recruiting, fundraising, M&A, and network introductions. Promod Haque – Senior Managing Partner – Norwest Venture Partners.

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Your top subscription news. Userpilot’s Aazar Ali Shad begins his latest Twitter storm with a question for the product peeps out there: how do you run sales in the era of product-led growth? And if we look at the product-led vs. sales-led approach, there’s a solid juxtaposition here. A product-led tweet storm.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 4, 2023

Engage Sales, Solutions, and Product/Engineering to validate new business scope as it pertains to customer contract documents, technical specifications, and data analytics to ensure correct technologies are selected to support customer requirements. Responsible for the onboarding process for new accounts to ensure successful implementations.

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OpenView Labs

MARCH 27, 2019

To dive into best practices, I spoke with Jenny Shedd , a Recruiting and Talent Strategy Consultant, who guides startups on ATS buy-in from senior leadership and implementation. An ATS is just as important to a company as Salesforce.com is to sales and JIRA is to engineering. When to implement an ATS. Basic model: Recruitee.

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ProfitWell

AUGUST 26, 2019

Today's Top Subscription News. Zenefits, a cloud-based software for managing human resources, scored a # 10 spot. Zenefits, a cloud-based software for managing human resources, scored a # 10 spot. Stripe, the online payment processing software, was placed in eighth. Subscription is the future of retail.

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SmartKarrot

MARCH 31, 2022

Management of renewals for subscription memberships. Develop and accomplish sales and operational revenue and profit goals and objectives to achieve Technisys’ strategic plan. Contribute to the recruiting, hiring, and development of top industry talent. Be an executive stakeholder for some of the most critical Partners.

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ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Your top subscription news. I enjoyed listening to Jack McCullough , Founder and President of the CFO Leadership Council. Here’s how it works to scale acquisition: Launch with a network of nano-influencers with a social media following of less than 10K in order to maximize engagement and ultimately, sales of items.

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OpenView Labs

MARCH 29, 2019

strategic narrative) has permeated its ranks because they’re usually staffed by a mix of sales, marketing and product people. Or haven’t permeated those ranks: One sales rep told me if I wanted to hear a really good version of the pitch, it was too bad because his CEO, who would be back shortly, was really good at that.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

Felix : And then kind of as we raised our series B round where we said, okay, let’s try to build a really good and successful company, that’s when we shifted to a hundred percent subscription. It can order subscription. But again, at the time SaaS wasn’t, subscription wasn’t the norm at all. Felix : Yes.

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SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. Payments has been around for thousands of years. And at the risk of giving you a full Stripe sales pitch, don’t worry, that’s in my other talk.

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Your top subscription news. Userpilot’s Aazar Ali Shad begins his latest Twitter storm with a question for the product peeps out there: how do you run sales in the era of product-led growth? And if we look at the product-led vs. sales-led approach, there’s a solid juxtaposition here. A product-led tweet storm.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Stay tuned: The full Customer Success Leadership Study report with more key findings and recommendations for Customer Success leaders will be available in the beginning of January 2021. For me, it’s adoption, which hopefully could be a joint leadership between product and Customer Success. Finish the feature. How was it marketed?

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SaaStr

MARCH 18, 2019

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. Payments has been around for thousands of years. And at the risk of giving you a full Stripe sales pitch, don’t worry, that’s in my other talk.

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 13, 2020

SaaS businesses are organizations that provide subscription-based software applications that are centrally hosted on their servers over the internet. Instead of buying and installing the infrastructure, customers can simply bear the subscription costs of the functionalities they use. Source: Byteant , December 2019. Customer Support.

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

So essentially building the first operating system for corporate learning and development teams in bringing thought leadership community best practices around the LearnOps category. They recruit sports athletes, and offer a bunch of things for the sports athletes pretty cool. Are you focused more on that value for your sales cycle?

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SmartKarrot

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Collaborate with Sales on large-scale enterprise renewals in your portfolio. Apply here: [link] Role: Head of Customer Success Location: London, England, United Kingdom Organization: Zetter Recruitment As a Customer Success Director, you will be the key decision-maker in the mission of the customer success team.

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SmartKarrot

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Apply here: [link] Role: Director – Customer Success Location: Nashville, TN, US (On-site) Organization: Rain Instant Pay As a Director of Customer Success, you will support the growth of the organization by recruiting, hiring, training, and coaching top talent Customer Success Managers. Cross-sell and up-sell opportunities.

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OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Talk about ruining a meal: When Gerhardt showed the following slide, the CMO next to me dropped her bagel and said, “I just texted my VP of sales that the way we’re selling is obsolete.”. In The Greatest Sales Deck I’ve Ever Seen , I outlined the structure of a great pitch, starting with “naming the undeniable change in the world.”.

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 6, 2021

Role: Director of Customer Success Location: Boca Raton, FL, US Organization: GRUBBRR As a Director of Customer Success, you will collaborate with sales and operational leadership to ensure business objectives are aligned, effectively create a bridge between the departments to ensure accuracy and ensure metrics are being met.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2019

With the advent of the subscription economy, support is increasingly responsible for fostering that relationship over time (which can lead to more long-term revenue). For us, that first fit was with growing sales teams. We were very, very focused on that fit – to be even more specific, on growing sales teams for high-tech products.

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 17, 2020

A sales rep completes their proposal and it’s automatically routed to the right manager for review and approval. Not only is that rep moving on to their next task, the pending approval is queued up exactly where it needs to be for the manager. There’s no code to write, just select the option that pushes the workflow along.

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Unbounce

JUNE 16, 2020

For example, ActiveCampaign’s reseller program offers beefier discounts to partners as they grow, letting them set their own pricing and pocket the difference: ActiveCampaign’s reseller program offers deeper discounts on pricing as more sales are made, creating an incentive to go big. This generates recurring revenue.

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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

MAY 27, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Scott Armour. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. The Flip Between Sales and Marketing [29:09]. Welcome to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Scott has had a multi-decade career specializing in building and scaling sales organizations. We’re on iTunes. And on Stitcher.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 28, 2019

SaaStock is a gathering of SaaS Sales Leaders, Founders, VCs, and anybody passionate about building a SaaS business. And make sure you’re following Sales Hacker on Instagram , Twitter , and LinkedIn. Scaling Sales: How to Industrialize a Tribe (June 5th, 1:50 PM). How Can I Get Live Updates? Interviews with Speakers!

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we’ve got a fantastic episode for you. He even managed to help pivot the company from a programmatic transactional revenue model to a subscription model over the course of, not just the last three months during COVID, but over the course of the last few years. More sales meetings.

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SaaStr

JUNE 10, 2020

Meagen, sales. Launch it to our customers, launch it to the sales team, launch it to prospects.” What did we need for our sales team from an enablement standpoint and our CSMs? And then of course, sales pipeline and the livelihood of our business. They’re going to build a bunch of things that we need.

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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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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.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 3, 2021

If you’ve got a good setup, then more teams equal more product, and more product equals more marketing and more sales and all sorts of stuff like that. The only challenge there is your recruiting capacity, right? If X is big enough, are there ancillary asks that follow headcount, such as HR or recruiting or whatever?

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 8, 2018

“We’re having yet another existential crisis about who we are and what we do” Meanwhile, in company leadership meetings everywhere, this is what’s going on. Then, lots of other functions like product management and engineering, which can sit close to those disciplines. We spent all our energy talking to ourselves.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

With the rise of AI, new sales technology and automation at the forefront of the sales echo chamber these days, we thought we’d take a moment to bring it back to BASICS – that’s why we’ve rounded up this complete glossary of sales terms and definitions to help you remember where it all started.

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