SaaStr

JANUARY 24, 2024

What should you look for in an Enterprise rep vs. a Mid-Market rep? How should you handle presenting challenges to your C-suite team when you’ve just joined the company? Solving High Volume, Low Conversion at Lattice Dini Mehta joined Lattice at $3M in revenue when it had just 10 people in seat for Go-To-Market and 7 salespeople.

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Point Nine Land

OCTOBER 23, 2023

P9 Panel on Hiring Sales Leaders — Founders Summit 2023 “You are going to fire your first sales manager!” — A lesson too many founders learn the hard way. The Founder isn’t willing to be the first salesperson Many of the best founders we work with don’t have a sales background and are either product or engineering focused.

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User Pilot

APRIL 19, 2024

Looking for the best way to do market research? From framing your initial question to extracting valuable customer insights, we’ll walk you through the lean market research process step-by-step. Get ready to empower your decisions with real-world market intelligence. Why should you do market research? The outcome?

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 25, 2020

If you are looking to scale up your marketing, you will need talented people that can take charge of and execute your strategy. But should you build your own in-house marketing team or hire an agency partner? The Benefits of Working With a Digital Marketing Agency. The Benefits of Working With a Digital Marketing Agency.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Experts believe as much as 80 percent of recruiting will remain virtual for the foreseeable future , and the early stages of the recruitment process are ideal for the online medium. With Paradox, you get a mobile-first recruitment experience that uses AI to put the candidate first. Develop a Marketing Plan.

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OpenView Labs

MARCH 8, 2021

B2B sales involves one business selling its product to another business. Those with experience in both B2B and B2C sales know that B2B is a lot tougher—the deals are bigger, there’s often more than one decision-maker, and the competition is intense. For all those reasons, hiring and management must be on point.

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SaaStr

APRIL 5, 2021

Because I suspected that small but interesting early traction was just bottom-feeding in the market. Not a true disruption in the market. Hmmmm … well, to me, that’s not a bad place to be once a space, a category, gets to $100m+. Harder to Recruit. You’ll have to develop a very lean sales culture.

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Incredo

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Passive income, flexible working hours, result-based remuneration, etc. Our today’s topic somehow evolves around this concept because we are going to write and talk about affiliate marketing. Software to track analytics, transfer payments, manage inventory, create videos and for many other things. 5) Everyone minds his own business.

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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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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Engineering Manager: In charge of planning, designing, and overseeing projects. They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams. Product Manager : In charge of creating product strategy and overseeing the design process, among other things. Average salary: $192,383/yr. Average salary: $151,254/yr.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 30, 2020

B2B sales is always changing, but nothing could’ve quite prepared us for the wild ride that 2020 ended up being. While most of us have settled into the new normal and the challenges that come with it, sales leaders are looking ahead with uncertainty. Best Sales Statistics to Know in 2021. Short on time? What this means for you.

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 14, 2019

These startups use machine learning to disrupt an industry traditionally dominated by agencies: law, accounting, recruiting, translation, debt collection, marketing…the list is long. Consequently, product market fit is weak. And they ought to develop that pricing power.

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User Pilot

AUGUST 21, 2023

Because of the fast-paced nature of tech companies, the ability to solve problems quickly and think on your feet is a crucial skill for product managers to have. Product managers often work in cross-functional teams and bridge the gap between multiple departments. What qualities do you look for in a strong product team?

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 17, 2022

As cross-functional leadership teams across the country clamor to prioritize and agree upon the top threats to address, many underestimate the importance of effective change management. Related: 6 Change Management Hacks for Sales and Marketing Alignment that Lasts. These require active change management.

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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”. What does this mean for product design and product management? Today’s episode continues our enterprise go-to-market podcast series.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

It’s an approach that’s served him well along the road to building the HubSpot sales team, where he was CRO for nine years. That experience led to his bestselling book, The Sales Acceleration Formula. This has created large amounts of data for running teams. . This has created large amounts of data for running teams. .

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InsightSquared

MAY 15, 2019

It’s one of my favorite questions to ask a fellow professional in sales operations. Insurance sales rep. Account Manager. Sales Operations is Still Developing. Sales operations as a profession is growing, yet it is a comparatively new function in businesses. Sales Ops is Many Disciplines in One.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 19, 2022

Celine, who transitioned from agency sales to SaaS, is the Vice President of Boardable. Join us for a great conversation about transitioning in sales and technology selling. Sometimes you have to take one step back to go two steps forward in sales. Sales is all about building internal relationships. powered by Sounder.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

It’s a strange hiring market out there especially at early-stage companies. This week, I’m breaking down what we’re seeing and hearing in the market and what candidates can do to differentiate in the hiring process. Learn more about their Sales Intelligence platform today here ! All three of these seem to be true: 1.

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SaaStr

APRIL 17, 2019

Prior to Harness, Stephen was VP of Marketing at Glassdoor, managing a team of 52 in product marketing, helping grow B2B revenue from $19m to $90m in just 2 years, leading to their $1.2Bn acquisition. Steve has previously said, “Sales and marketing must be one team.” billion acquisition.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Designing a successful post-sale strategy requires choices, says CXology’s Tim Conder. Maybe, just as our product teams create a roadmap of future product features, we should have a similar roadmap of improvements to our customer experience. Here’s the webinar in full. But we can’t do it all.

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

TL;DR Regular roadmaps kill outcomes by forcing teams to think in the categories of features and timelines. It’s difficult to implement outcome-based roadmaps because stakeholders don’t trust product teams to deliver on business goals. Many companies lack differentiation strategies and drive product development by copying competitors.

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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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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

In this episode of the Sales Hacker Podcast, we have Scott Barton , VP of Industry Solutions at Varicent. He’s an expert in the sales world, particularly in revenue operations and incentive compensation. Join us for a great conversation about driving the right behaviors within your sales team. powered by Sounder.

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SaaStr

JUNE 4, 2019

Here’s a little bit of my marketing experience, but I need to back up a little bit and go off slide to tell you about my pre-marketing experience. 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.

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OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The market need for SaaS products has exploded and investment in SaaS companies has accelerated, requiring more talent to grow and scale. Competitive pressures and changing customer needs can be captured by a great marketing or product marketing lead. Accelerate hiring of internal recruiters.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 28, 2022

And for Intercom’s VP of Sales EMEA, Sanj Bhayro , scaling is just what you need to invest in to ensure growth becomes as constant and linear as it can be. Sanj has plenty of experience scaling sales teams at growing businesses, and that’s precisely why, as of November of last year, he‘s overseeing EMEA sales at Intercom.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 1, 2021

Because we’re Sales Hacker (and it’s literally our job), we decided to take matters into our own hands: we talked to the experts. A made-up role so companies can hire more people to tell sales how best to do their job.” — Jason Henson , Manager, SMB Sales Development at Lytx, Inc. . Like a dope sneaker collection.

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Product launch checklists help align the efforts of all team members, enhance quality assurance, help mitigate risks, enable the evaluation of the launch, and help you deliver a better customer experience. Develop a product that meets customer needs and expectations. Assists in managing the launch timelines.

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Valuize Consulting

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Stephen is a Customer Success Executive in the SaaS industry, specializing in customer renewals and relationships, with 20+ years of organizational development experience. When it comes to budget, organizations often haven’t established where the investment is coming from to fund the CS team. leverage Training & Development.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 29, 2021

And so, Mark Rudden and his team had to figure it all out by themselves. Fortunately, Mark had quite a bit of experience working and scaling teams in demanding, hypergrowth environments. In fact, in some form or another, he’s been working in sales for most of his career. The journey to sales is a bit of a random one.

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SaaStr

JULY 12, 2022

One of the first what How to Hire a Great VP of Sales at the New York Enterprise Tech Meet-Up (thank you to John Lehr and Work-Bench for setting this up). The Number One Thing You Can Do to Accelerate Your Business Post-Initial Traction is Hiring a Great VP of Sales. I don’t know anything about sales. More power to you.

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User Pilot

MAY 21, 2023

In our guide, we discuss; The importance of features releases The stages of a successful release Best practices for each of these stages We also mention how Userpilot can help your product team orchestrate your feature releases. Before developing a new feature, make sure it’s in line with your product vision.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2020

403: Sam Taylor is the VP of Sales and Success @ Loom, the startup that helps you get your message across by making it easy to record instantly shareable videos. As for Sam, prior to Loom, Sam spent over 4 years at Salesforce following their acquisition of Quip, a startup Salesforce acquired for $750M where Sam was also the 1st sales leader.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 21, 2018

Whether you’re at an early-stage startup that’s just made its first sales hires, or part of a fast-moving sales team in a large organization, the key to success often comes down to efficiency. That means your focus should be on building the right customer profile and developing precise messaging to reach them.

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CustomerSuccessBox

DECEMBER 13, 2021

SuccessHACKER is a Customer Success advisory firm focused on providing education, recruiting, and consulting to high-growth companies. Pre-sales / Post Sales). Any tips on a handoff from sales to the onboarding team? Customer Success Team. Here, he talks about the steps to get a perfect customer onboarding.

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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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