Sales Hacker

JUNE 10, 2025

With over two decades of experience leading marketing ops, sales ops, and go-to-market infrastructure, Andy is a true pioneer of modern RevOps. How venture networks and backchanneling drive most executive hiring decisions. Discussed in this Episode: Why 80–98% of VP and C-level roles are never posted—and how to access them.

Sales Recruiting

SaaStr

DECEMBER 28, 2019

Pick a few that work for you: Get That Key VP Hire Done in Q1. Enough with the excuses for not having hired your real VP of Sales, or that VP of Engineering, or whatever. Hire a real recruiter. Drop other stuff to get this hire done. Hire more sales reps in the areas where they are profitable.

Part-Time VPE

SaaStr

JULY 15, 2022

Jason Lemkin: You certainly can hire a whole content team and build 10,000 pieces of content, but I will tell you what I have always seen work is one incredible piece a week. Jason Lemkin: I’ll answer it, but are you thinking more on sales or technology or broadly speaking in the question? This always works.

Scale

SaaStr

AUGUST 25, 2019

The Playbook to Building a Thriving Sales Culture with Fmr. PatientPop SVP of Sales Justin Welsh. The Playbook to Hiring Your First VP of Sales and Not Screwing it Up… with Cassidy Ventures Founder Brendon Cassidy, the first VP of Sales at LinkedIn, Talkdesk and EchoSign. VIEW THE FULL AGENDA.

Scale

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

I was the new Vice President of International Sales & Managing Director for a work management software company called Wrike. Starting Your International Sales Team. The key to starting an international sales team is having the right people in your landing team. We took all of these hires very seriously.

Sales Hiring

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

I started a software company in college to make it easy to update websites called Content Management Software Now, and I had this idea for Pardot, I wanted to make it easy for marketers to run campaigns online and measure their results. SalesLoft, why was that Pardot, I tried to recruit this guy, Kyle Porter, to come run sales at Pardot.

Sales Recruiting

Sales Hacker

MARCH 8, 2018

Sales interviews are nerve-wracking. Not just for candidates, but also for hiring managers. You may have to pass on hundreds of excellent sales hires—it’s definitely frustrating. Prepare For Your Next Sales Interview with These 5 Pro Tips. Sales interview must-dos .

Sales Hiring

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

They started in the point of sale market, and then as the company scaled, they rolled out new value props and modules for payroll, or Toast capital, or ways to manage your employee base. This is really founder-led sales. Byron gave a great example with Toast, one of my favorite portfolio companies. That’s your CAC.

Sales Hiring

Neil Patel

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Some startups can get away with managing HR initiatives on their own in the beginning, but this quickly becomes unrealistic and cumbersome if or when you scale your business. What if I told you that you could completely eliminate HR tasks from your plate without hiring a full-time human resources team?

Outsourcing Services

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

At Sales Hacker, our Community Leaders help build relationships with our members. Add them to your network and give them a warm welcome, because you’ll be seeing them all over Sales Hacker in the coming months! WHY SALES HACKER? Sales Hacker provides a network of sales professionals dedicated to helping others in similar roles.

Scale

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Its focus is on businesses in Big Data, mobile, and SaaS. The company’s best-selling book, Predictable Revenue , details the hugely successful outbound process and sales created specifically for Salesforce. Starting as VP of Sales, in less than two years he became CEO. Talk: SaaS.City Bootcamp: Sales Leadership.

Technical Review

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

If you’re looking to move up the ladder into a sales leadership role, your resume is key to getting your foot in the door. Related: 8 High-Paying Sales Jobs (And How to Get Them). Instead, respect recruiters’ time by showing them only enough information to secure the interview. Manage large teams, both in-office and remote.

Leadership

SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

Scaling the company’s employee base, sales teams, marketing, and operations—all while preserving its culture—has required a laser focus on first principles, smart processes, and effective hiring. And at the risk of giving you a full Stripe sales pitch, don’t worry, that’s in my other talk. The exchange of value.

Scale

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

A big part of why we are seeing this growth is that our customers have found that when they use Intercom to engage their website visitors, conversion rates and sales increase by more than 80%! That means we’ll be hiring 350 people over the next 18 months across our offices in San Francisco, Dublin, London, Chicago and Sydney.

Sales Hiring

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Combine traditional features like colorful booths, meeting rooms, info packets, and guest speakers with the online elements of virtual tours, and analytics and it’s easy to see why many businesses are having success with this method of hiring. Finally, the virtual format provides access to far more data. Outline Resources Needed.

Sales Recruiting

SaaStr

JUNE 25, 2019

But, there were a few things that were true about event bright and the environment and trying to hire in San Francisco in that moment. That meant that starting with 40 engineers in my team, I had to be able to hire six engineers every year just to stay flat. 18 hires a year I had to make in San Francisco.

Engineering

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

” But the people we hire don’t come in to work to fix bugs, they come in to work to build things and make new things. Third swing: hiring vs. onboarding. The third pendulum swing is whether you should hire fast or hire more slowly. So we killed hiring. This was our fault. That was a mistake.

Sales Hiring

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 second army are your main competitors.

Outsourcing Services

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

So, every payroll service you consider should have a set of critical features, including: Automatic payroll options Self-service portal for full-time and part-time employees Mobile capability to manage payroll on the go Direct deposit so your employees get paid quickly Automatic tax calculations and withholdings W-2 and 1099 employee management.

Payment Services

Sales Hacker

APRIL 30, 2018

To see what selling on steroids looks like, check out companies with the best sales enablement strategies. You’ll discover a lively place, with a lot of things — like revenue, productivity, and win rate s — going up, and a lot of things — like speed to revenue, sale cycle period, customer churn, and staff attrition rate — going down.

Sales Enablement

Sales Hacker

MARCH 8, 2018

Sales interviews are nerve-wracking. Not just for candidates, but also for hiring managers. You may have to pass on hundreds of excellent sales hires—it’s definitely frustrating. Prepare For Your Next Sales Interview with These 5 Pro Tips. Sales interview must-dos .

Sales Hiring

Teamgate

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software is used to increase business productivity by enhancing marketing, sales and customer service functions. More Sales. Companies have experienced 65% more sales by replacing traditional processes with a CRM system. Therefore, the sales team receives highly qualified SQLs.

Artificial Intelligence

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. David Schmaier: Sure.

Payment Solutions

Neil Patel

OCTOBER 9, 2020

You have developed a killer website and drafted an effective marketing strategy to generate leads and drive sales. You can hire a PPC consultant who can enhance your paid advertising campaigns by offering a unique set of skills coupled with experience and expertise. What is the primary reason that people hire PPC consultants?

Consulting

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 12, 2018

Here are four quick takeaways: Before hiring a COO, founders first need to ask themselves whether the function is best served with a single hire or distributed through multiple roles. How do I hire a new type of executive whose function I don’t know about? What to consider when hiring a COO. Short on time?

Sales Hiring

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Over the course of that fund, I recruited in, who is effectively my co-founder, he runs Amplify with me, is Mike Dauber. Then, over the course of that fund, we had promoted up David Byer to partner and recruited Lenny Pruss away from Redpoint to join us. Just like a whole bunch of people said, “I’ll never hire remote.”

Sales Recruiting

Neil Patel

OCTOBER 7, 2020

I also recommend looking for an employee scheduling solution that comes standard with a free mobile app. You can also improve your labor forecasts by integrating your sales data from POS systems like Square, Clover, Shopify, Upserve, Revel, Lightspeed, and more. This isn’t possible with desktop software. Best of all?

Software Review

OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 11, 2019

At Hired, we started out with a transactional model that was—at the time—a super disruptive approach and one of our key differentiators. I’ve had roles in almost every function from sales to product to customer success. At Hired , we help top R&D, engineering, and tech talent find jobs they love. Customers called us.

Sales Hiring

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. Workflow Management Software. There’s really no limit to the applications.

Payments

SaaStr

JULY 11, 2019

The challenge with that is you found a company, you start building a company, you raise money for a company, you hire a team to build the product for a certain type of company, and then the whole consumer changes and you have to adjust. We built a mobile product only. These are sales goals. In 2008, I founded TaskRabbit.

Scale

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

Now, the one thing we don’t have that’s new is … Some of the waves have been because there have been new platform shifts, because of mobile or because of cloud or because of security or because of a bunch of other stuff. ” From a sales perspective, how is that going to change sales? You really do.

Investment

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

I started seeing Black faces speaking on panels, featuring on “top Black salespeople to follow” lists and trending with #sales content. I tripped and fell into tech sales and, if I was going to excel, I had to get creative about finding people to learn from. Around that time, Sales Hacker published their big list of women in sales.

Sales Recruiting

ProfitWell

JANUARY 27, 2020

But here are some learnings, from the sales community, that Mixmax put together so we can start acting like pipeline pros. Hire leaders who are aligned with your goals and take a step back to view the big picture. Far too often, focus is limited to the short term because of the nature of daily deliverables in sales.

Sales Recruiting

ProfitWell

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

But here are some learnings from the sales community that Mixmax put together so we can start acting like pipeline pros. Hire leaders who are aligned with your goals and take a step back to view the big picture. Far too often, focus is limited to the short term because of the nature of daily deliverables in sales.

Sales Recruiting

User Pilot

JUNE 19, 2024

In this guide, we’ll explore the ins and outs of product launch manager roles through detailed job descriptions and handy templates. Whether you’re hiring, job hunting, or simply curious, we’ve got you covered with practical insights and ready-to-use resources. Looking into tools for product launch managers?

Management

ChurnZero

MARCH 11, 2020

I wasn’t satisfied that we lost a customer, but I was now armed with valuable new information that would lead to a breakthrough in our sales model. From these discussions, we were able to gain incredible insights into the root causes of customer churn that informed our strategy from marketing and sales through product and service delivery.

Churn

User Pilot

JUNE 19, 2024

Whether you’re hiring, job hunting, or simply curious, we’ve got you covered with practical insights and ready-to-use resources. They analyze customer feedback , sales calls, user journeys, and other sources to understand customer needs better and increase product value. You’re in the right place! Let’s dive in!

Software Review