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. Better interviewing = better sales teams. How not to interview for sales.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Sales compensation planning can be a tricky beast to tame — but know that you’re not alone. I asked 12 incredible sales leaders across the SaaS industry to share their biggest challenges with comp planning and how to overcome them. Related: New to sales compensation planning? Top 10 sales compensation challenges.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Here’s a quick reality check: the competition to hire women in sales is stiff and becoming stiffer. Even more sobering: the global recruitment agency, Norman Broadbent, found that it often takes at least eight phone calls before women can be persuaded to even apply for a position. Your Sales Leadership Team All Looks the Same.

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SaaStr

MARCH 24, 2020

Nothing matters but recruiting and using your personal network. Sam Blond, CSO at Brex explains why recruiting, networking and employee happiness is the key to this playbook on recruiting your sales team. Sam Blond | Chief Sales Officer @ Brex. I’m doing The Playbook To Recruiting Your Sales Team.

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Why do product managers need them? That’s what Dave Martin , a product leadership coach, has talked about in his talk at this year’s Product Drive Summit hosted by Userpilot. Leadership and investors often challenge them because they can’t see anything tangible that they’re paying for. Ready to dive in to learn more?

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OpenView Labs

APRIL 14, 2021

For every qualified candidate, there are myriad recruiters trying to snatch them up. But if you consider a regional lead, such as a SVP of North American Sales, says Steve, they may be owning 75% of the company’s revenue target. Recruiters are fighting for a coveted slice of your time. You have to put pride aside,” says Steve.

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SaaStr

JUNE 4, 2019

I actually worked in sales for five and a half years and that’s probably why I have tended to gravitate to B2B marketing. Worked as an AE and then a sales manager. Decided to go to business school, did that for a little bit and then came out in management consulting, a company. So, they’re a B2B piece.

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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

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Winning teams I’ve been part of How winning teams are constructed is timely, as in my role leading sales enablement at Automation Anywhere , shortly we’ll be growing the team, and I want to be thoughtful about the work we do, the candidates we hire and the culture we foster on what we hope and expect to be a winning team.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 21, 2017

What is Sales Operations? Sales operations refers to the unit, role, activities and processes within a sales organization that support, enable, and drive front line sales teams to sell better, faster, and more efficiently. But perhaps more than anything else, sales operations brings a system to selling.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

It’s hard enough to position your own company and product, let alone create a cognitive reference for an entire industry. A signal of success in time will be recognizing that you’re not the only one screaming your category name into a void, but rather others in the marketplace are starting to refer to it accurately as well.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 2, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Mary Rogul , a VP Sales Consultant, who’s currently an Enterprise Sales Advisor at Crayon. Fresh out of college, Mary started out in accounting, but it didn’t take long before she began a 20-year sales career that led her through Monster.com, HubSpot, and several others.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 25, 2020

References can be useful, but employers typically stay on the safe side and give a positive reference to avoid any potential legal trouble. Having a robust network or visibility through your personal brand or thought leadership is also a scenario where it would make sense to leverage that to build a great team.

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OpenView Labs

APRIL 13, 2021

She transitioned into a solution engineer, a role that sits at the crossroads of sales and product, which gave her the opportunity to do more of what she loved: discussing business challenges and crafting corresponding technology solutions. How do you get design to work with sales, or engineering to work with customer success?

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 31, 2022

This is especially effective with hiring top talent for executive and leadership hires. . We also suggest offering bonuses to current employees who refer talent that gets hired. We are hosting an ‘Ask Me Anything’ on all things hiring, recruiting, and talent market on Thursday, February 10 at 12 p.m. Community Slack channels.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Sales leaders have a bad habit of dumping people into a new job without properly preparing them to succeed. When I landed my first “big girl job” 20 years ago as an Inside Sales Manager , I was underqualified, overambitious, and soon underwater. What’s So Important About Sales Onboarding? So tune in….

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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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CustomerSuccessBox

JANUARY 10, 2022

You put forward your excellent interpersonal skills and your ability to solve problems to become their reference. A good relationship with the Sales department in order to be able to sell new services will also be highly valued by your managers. How to recruit the right Customer Success Manager?

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 21, 2020

When I first wrote this article, we were in a very different place, with unemployment at an all-time low and sales hiring a top priority. Part two of this scorecard series will help you create a sales interview scorecard to land that sales role you’ve been dreaming about. Sales chops. What sales system do we use?

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 11, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we talk to Sales Hacker founder and VP of Marketing at Outreach , Max Altschuler. If you missed episode 47, check it out here: PODCAST 47: Key Qualities of great Sales Leadership w/ Dan Fougere. Why Sales Engagement as a category is here to stay. What You’ll Learn.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 24, 2020

In a nutshell, they can give you expert opinions, analysis, and recommendations that can help ensure a more objective-based approach to grow your business and maximize sales – all at the same time. You can also carry out an internal survey or reference feedback. Talk to your past clients and ask them for references.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Collaborate with growth marketing and broader BetterUp leaders to unify all field-based account efforts and amplify outcomes. Lead hiring for BetterUp Care customer success partnering with recruiting and Care leadership. Develop customer advocacy and secure customer success stories and references.

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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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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

To provide high levels of customer satisfaction, recruit and train the best customer success managers. Provide Customer Success Teams with leadership and mentoring to keep them inspired, engaged, and motivated. serve as a point of contact for difficulties, and give the team direction and leadership.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

I’m referring to the full spectrum of business execution, from product management to design to engineering to marketing to sales to support and all the other functions needed to scale a business. We are the soldiers companies are trying to recruit to help them win the battle for talent. The talent.

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SmartKarrot

MARCH 9, 2023

By new goods and expansion prospects, increase income in accounts. Increase customer references and consumer advocacy. assemble, motivate, and manage a top-notch customer success team. Establish a weekly management system to monitor advancement against important benchmarks and KPIs.

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The Marketing & Growth Hacking Publication

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

That talent can be nurtured; that intelligence can be fostered; and that creativity and leadership can be developed. It’s for this reason that in every company I’ve managed, I’ve done my best to help my employees develop and sustain growth mindsets of their own. marketing, sales, production, design?—?came

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SmartKarrot

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Establish strong relationships with BIOVIA R&D and Product management leadership to ensure customer needs are well represented. Recruit, develop and manage team of product experts who deliver high-quality customer support service to customers- Ensure technical software expertise to support products to appropriate levels.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Matt Turck talks with three hyper-growth stage Co-Founders and CEOs on three roadblocks when scaling past $15M ARR: hiring, culture, and sales. So we decided to take you to know three specific topics which are hiring, culture and sales. And I have my sales team in France who’ve been through the great process.

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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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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 24, 2018

I joined intercom remotely two years ago as the first person in Sydney, and since then we have scaled the APAC team (lovingly referred to as the APAC Alliance) to almost 20 people across 4 countries. To enable that, we built out a distributed team around the world with a handful of teammates sprinkled across APAC working remotely.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

We’ve talked a lot over the years about how not to hire a wrong VP of Sales — 70%+ of the first VPs of Sales don’t make it even 10 months. And figure out if they really are great: For your prospective VP of Sales, did her top 2 hires at least crush it and blow out their quotas ? Recruiting.

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SmartKarrot

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Build the process of working with SheerID’s largest customers and partner with Sales in developing a roadmap for revenue growth and retention. Partner with EMEA Sales Leadership to develop the plan for Customer Success expansion into that region.

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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

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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Sales Hacker

MAY 5, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Devante Lewis-Jackson , one of the top rising sales leaders helping companies grow in New York City and most recently a sales manager at The Muse. The four phases of sales management. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. What You’ll Learn.

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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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