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.

Sales Recruiting 125

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Revenue 125

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 20, 2022

Strong sales reps are the lifeblood of your business and how you choose to invest in them matters. For frontline sales managers, attributes like competency, quality of work, ease of execution, and length of contribution indicate reps’ overall job success, but you can’t rely on those inputs to tell you if they are personally satisfied.

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Sales Recruiting Scale Retention Sales 99

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 30, 2023

The first goal of sales at a startup isn’t to bring in revenue — it’s to get customer feedback. I’ve used our sales process to iterate our way to product market-fit and wanted to share what I’ve learned along the way. Use sales conversations as a tool to get product feedback. So how do you get there?

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Sales Recruiting Product Marketing Scale Sales Hiring 88

User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Customer Onboarding Specialist: Responsible for helping new customers get up and running with the company’s products. Account Managers: They serve as the lead point of contact for all customer account management matters. A higher revenue growth rate generally indicates positive business performance.

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Sales Hiring SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 98

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 12, 2019

A little over a year ago, I got the opportunity to start a new team within our sales organization – a team of Relationship Managers dedicated to growing our current customers at scale. The opportunity emerged out of a shift in how we practice sales. For example, relationship managers who made more phone and video calls saw 4.8%

Sales Hiring 171

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team Scale 171

Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Your marketing and sales budgets, and the personnel assigned to those teams, will also rise. A hiring plan allocates expected future expenses based on your revenue forecasts. A sound hiring plan allocates these expenses in advance so that your team knows when they need to attract new talent, as well as their budget for onboarding them.

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Finance Forecasting 97

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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Sales Hiring Onboarding Sales Recruiting Outsourcing Services 74

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 7, 2020

Fortunately, more organizers than ever before are consciously seeking out female sales experts for panels, presentations, and podcasts. At Sales Hacker, we’re serious about diversity, and for that reason, we’ve compiled a list of 530+ female sales experts to consider for your next event. Sales Development. Sales Growth.

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VP of Engineering Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Payment Services 121

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

379: From how many reps to hire, to compensation models, here are the top 10 mistakes founders make when hiring their first sales teams and how to avoid them. Announcer: In today’s SaaStr Insider, SaaStr CEO and founder, Jason Lemkin, shared the top 10 mistakes founders make when hiring their first sales team.

Sales Hiring 174

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Sales 174

Sales Hacker

MARCH 17, 2021

Getting past the first stage of revenue growth and building an initial customer base is the easy part, but what happens when you hit a revenue plateau and can’t seem to take that next step? Combatting missed revenue growth for second-stage startups. 5 revenue growth mistakes second-stage startups make. And why blame them?

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Scale Revenue Startup Sales Recruiting 93

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. I just don’t think sales have anything to do with product-market fit. A data-driven framework for scaling.

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Scale Scaling Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 226

ChurnZero

JANUARY 25, 2024

As companies find more ways to support their customers and build recurring revenue, “traditional” CS skillsets are no longer enough. Skillset 1: Sales acumen In 2024, driving revenue is a primary responsibility of CS. As the awareness of CS’s impact grows, so does its ownership of revenue.

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Customer Success Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale 52

OpenView Labs

JANUARY 25, 2022

Here are the top seven onboarding mistakes you could be making. Read on to learn how to improve and get inspired by some of the best SaaS onboarding experiences. The top 7 self-serve onboarding mistakes. 1 – Your product is too confusing without sales or success helping out. The same mistakes come up time and again.

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Onboarding Sales Recruiting Software Interviewing 76

SaaStr

MARCH 10, 2020

That was the most over the top entrance that the sales leader for a company that moves boxes around the world has ever gotten. I’m Chief Revenue Officer at Flexport. So we did about 442 million in sales last year. The top 25 freight forwarders combined to do 100 billion a year in sales. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scaling 210

SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2022

With over 70 million users worldwide, Zoho’s 50+ products aid your sales and marketing, support and collaboration, finance and recruitment needs—letting you focus only on your business. Zoho respects user privacy and does not have an ad-revenue model in any part of its business, including its free products.

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Payments Payment Solutions Sales Recruiting Onboarding 38

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Getting the team right is one of the hardest parts of scaling sales. But no sales team can afford to grow without intention. While building a sales team, we’ve focused a lot on our sales culture. Here’s how we went about growing a sales team that is both world class and culture-additive.

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Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Sales 160

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Overall, customer value management can make your product more competitive. Sales reps can use the knowledge to shift sales negotiations from price to value. That’s when the team develops the product and helps users to use it effectively, for example, through onboarding and in-app support. Book the demo to see how!

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Management Scale Customer Lifetime Value SaaS 105

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2020

But if you are a VP of Sales being told to reduce costs, what is the best way to approach these cuts to minimize damage to the company and your team? Sales should be one of the last places to reduce costs — after all, salespeople are the engine of the revenue machine. Start Small. Use a scalpel here, not an axe.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Compensation 104

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 29, 2018

In this blueprint, we provide insights on how to structure your sales organization. The changes in SaaS require that we no longer look at salespeople as individual contributors, but rather a team that crosses disciplines, not just within sales but also across other parts of the organization such as marketing and product.

Sales Recruiting 74

Sales Recruiting Scale Sales Hiring Sales 74

User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Segmentation can help you launch personalized onboarding experiences. Segmenting customers can help your organization better tailor its products and run effective in-app onboarding to meet the needs of each group. Segmentation has been proven to improve a vast range of product success metrics (not just sales efforts).

Strategy 105

Strategy Sales Recruiting Onboarding Churn 105

Incredo

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

In its turn, SaaS company is responsible for optimizing conversions and successful onboarding so the visitor becomes a paying customer. Process is simple but would we write about it if everything was that easy? If sounds like this topic can help you generate more SaaS sales with less risk, we are starting!

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SaaS Payments Payment Methods Merchant Services Sales Recruiting 139

Kellblog

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Happily, in the past several years startups are increasingly recognizing the value of strong sales enablement and sales productivity teams. So it’s no surprise that I hear a lot about high-growth companies building onboarding programs to enable successfully scaling their sales organizations and sustain their growth.

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Sales Hiring Onboarding Sales Recruiting Scale 45

Sales Hacker

MARCH 12, 2020

Like most things in life, hiring sales talent is a matter of timing. Especially since the best candidates with strong sales skills are usually snatched up within 10 days. That’s why it’s critical to overcome indecision and move quickly when recruiting sales talent. Is it unrealistic sales quotas?

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Compensation Underperforming Technical Team 76

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 29, 2021

Ever since he was hired as the Director of EMEA Sales at BrowserStack , a web and mobile testing platform that lets developers test their websites and mobile applications across browsers, operating systems, and mobile devices, he had to completely rethink how to successfully onboard hundreds of salespeople just as everyone was going remote.

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Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 223

OpenView Labs

AUGUST 19, 2021

Sales recruiting is broken. The sad truth is that VP of Sales are turning over within 19 months —and that timeline is shrinking. . Not only that, the market has heated way back up and the VP of Sales is one of the most sought after roles. This isn’t linear and there are many shades of grey when it comes to sales. .

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Startup 82

Sales Hacker

JUNE 7, 2021

Sales customer insights. This is important for anyone who prospects or handles inbound calls – could be both inside sales and field sales. Guidance shouldn’t just be around high-level attributes for the prospect like revenues or number of offices but should get into factors that are specific for your proposition.

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Sales Recruiting Payment Services Payment Methods Sales 108

Totango

OCTOBER 20, 2022

In some companies, customer success managers may play an active role in the sales process, helping sales representatives elicit customer goals and persuade buyers of product benefits. At other companies, CS managers may be assigned to follow up on sales during the customer onboarding phase.

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Sales Hiring Customer Success Sales Recruiting Technical Review 91

Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 23, 2024

Whether it’s creating better tools to write code and test code, better tools for customers to engage with reps, better tools for sales teams to engage with their prospects, all those things are happening inside of Bill. One of the criticisms of SMB software is that each customer can only provide so much revenue.

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Payments Forecasting Payment Services Payment Solutions 108

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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Interviewing Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 73

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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Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Sales 185

Sales Hacker

JULY 24, 2019

It’s a problem in sales too. According to the 2019 State of Sales Performance survey , 73% of teams polled said that less than half of their team were women. Companies and sales teams are missing out on the benefits that diversity brings. Companies and sales teams are missing out on the benefits that diversity brings.

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Revenue Sales 75

ChurnZero

APRIL 26, 2019

Your new Customer Success Manager only gets to experience their first day on the job once. The difference between an effective and ineffective employee onboarding experience determines the long-term success of a new Customer Success Manager (CSM). So how do you properly onboard a new CSM and minimize their time-to-value?

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Onboarding Sales Recruiting Scale Sales Hiring 58

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

As for Ryan, prior to G2 he was Senior Director of Global Marketing at Hubspot where among many other achievements, he scaled HubSpot’s marketing-generated sales revenue by 330% year-over-year. How you can tailor onboarding to customers. What type of CMO would Ryan bucket himself as; demand gen or brand?

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Software Review 141

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. By the time he left to join Google Cloud as EMEA VP of Operations and Customer Growth, Salesforce had around 17 billion dollars in revenue and almost 50,000 employees.

Scale 210

Scale Scaling Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting 210

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Users are recruiting your product to reach a specific outcome in their lives — whether that’s catching a flight to reunite with their families or using a productivity app to meet a deadline and impress their boss. We had them on the podcast way back in 2016, and they’ve even been a guest contributor to our book Intercom on Onboarding.

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Onboarding Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 254

SaaStr

MAY 8, 2020

Where does Jessica find managers and founders do pipe reviews wrong? What does Jessica believe is the right way for sales reps to engage with new customers during this time? How should sales teams and CS respond to requests for discounts? What is the right tone to adopt that achieves both empathy and a business objective?

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Sales Recruiting Technical Review Sales Hiring Outsourced Development 188

The Angel VC

DECEMBER 12, 2018

While this is generally true for most companies, it’s particularly true for SaaS businesses, which invest heavily in product development, sales, and marketing upfront and get payments from customers over a delayed period of time, usually several years. The main reason is that your customer acquisition costs are highly front-loaded.

Sales Recruiting 106

Sales Recruiting SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Scale 106