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 Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 211

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

.” Nearly a decade and 500 episodes of the podcast later, we invited back our original SaaStr podcast host, Harry Stebbings of 20VC for a catch-up chat with Jason to discuss the world of venture today and how to scale a successful SaaS sales team from the bottom up. You never get to spend less time in sales as a SaaS CEO.

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SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2019

How does this differ when comparing enterprise to SMB? How does this differ when comparing SMB to enterprise? Is it fair to always surmise that when serving SMB one will always have a higher rate of churn? How does this differ when comparing SMB to enterprise? Should sales commission be paid on renewals?

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Scale SMB Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 118

Unbounce

JUNE 16, 2020

especially for SMB SaaS startups. 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.

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Outsourcing Services Sales Recruiting Scale SaaS 131

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 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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Scale Payment Methods Sales Recruiting SaaS Payments 99

SaaStr

JULY 1, 2020

An open discussion with Sam Blond, CSO at Brex, and Kristen Habacht, VPS at Atlassian, about adjusting their sales process during Covid-19. Kristen Habacht runs EDR sales at Atlassian, which I got a check today, $40 billion-$50 billion company. She manages a huge global team. Four, people in the sale? Jason Lemkin: None.

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Merchant Services Scale Sales Recruiting Sales 186

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

So I went down the hall, met with the head of marketing, and I discovered a lot about in bound SaaS, about SMB, the importance of building this machine as I call it now that generates all these lovely leads. Then I went over to the sales department. They all looked at me really weird because remember, I’d never done SMB before.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 3, 2020

How does this differ when comparing enterprise to SMB? How does this differ when comparing SMB to enterprise? Is it fair to always surmise that when serving SMB one will always have a higher rate of churn? How does this differ when comparing SMB to enterprise? Should sales commission be paid on renewals?

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SMB Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale 26

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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Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Payment Services 147

SaaStr

AUGUST 13, 2019

You may actually have to pricing differentiate. You may actually need to build a sales team that can serve up market. Salesforce started at SMB and they moved up market and they have really done a fantastic job. How do you actually go from selling to consumers to then to SMB customers and then going up market.

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Scale Sales Hiring SaaS Sales Recruiting 158

SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

Get best price tickets here!!! Then we needed to hire a sales guy who had experience selling to enterprise. We got the guy who ran enterprise sales at Rackspace. Nikos : In your case, I understand your company also shifted slightly on the market, like from SMB to bigger customers. Dan : We’d start it with sales.

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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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Management Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Development Team Review 72

SaaStr

JULY 12, 2019

How to transition from SMB to enterprise. Joe Chernov: I think staying in one swim lane is probably the best for folks like you who pattern match, and recruit off of pattern matches. This podcast is an excerpt of Erica’s session at SaaStr Annual 2019. Missed the session?

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