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How To Hire Top Talent—What To Do Before The First Interview

OpenView Labs

This is especially effective with hiring top talent for executive and leadership hires. . Do they understand your GTM motion (enterprise vs mid-market/SMB)? We also suggest offering bonuses to current employees who refer talent that gets hired. Find your ‘target profile’ . Have they built teams? Community Slack channels.

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How to Find Product-Market-Sales Fit

Andreessen Horowitz

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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Use This Interview Scorecard Template to Win the Top Sales Talent

Sales Hacker

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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Q&A with Maria Pergolino, Anthony Kennada, Aaron Ross and Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

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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PODCAST 77: Navigating the Pace and Pressure of Startup w/ Vikas Bhambri

Sales Hacker

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we talk to Vikas Bhambri , SVP of Global Sales and Customer Experience at Kustomer. Vikas is a well-respected sales leader in NYC and comes from a sales engineering and product background, with more than 20 years experience. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

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170+ Women in Sales Share Their Career-Defining Aha Moment

Sales Hacker

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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170 Sales Terms From A – Z: The Updated Glossary of B2B Sales Definitions

Sales Hacker

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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