OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Want to take your sales team to higher peaks. Then, it’s time for a sales onboarding revolution. The first few months on the job are critical for sales reps. While this is an essential time for a sales rep, many organizations struggle to create and build an effective sales training program. Pricing Basics.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Scaling a sales organization isn’t easy. Knowing which metrics matter and how to analyze them to increase your revenue and hit organizational sales goals is essential. . What makes a sales organization grow? What’s the best way to grow a sales organization? Enter your email below for the latest SaaStr updates.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 14, 2022

One day you might have to explain to your children that companies once had sales meetings in person, in a room with the lights dimmed and something called a PowerPoint presentation. (If The truth is that most sales meetings, online or in person, always were and often still are boring lectures. . The basics: What is sales enablement?

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 10, 2022

It’s not the first time you’ll hear this, and it’s not the last: training new sales reps is crucial. But the most vital thing to remember is that training isn’t just for onboarding. Training isn’t just for onboarding. Learning beyond onboarding. Related: How to Run Sales Trainings Your Reps Will Actually Enjoy.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Sales onboarding – every company does it, but few do it as well as they’d like. According to a report from The Sales Management Association, 62% of companies consider themselves to be ineffective at onboarding. RELATED: The Beginner’s Guide to Agile Sales Management. 4 Steps of Agile Onboarding.

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Increased customer satisfaction and retention rate , along with greater customer loyalty and company growth, are just some of the benefits of an effective customer enablement strategy. Customer enablement and sales enablement aren’t the same. Here are some tried-and-tested best practices for customer enablement: 1.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 25, 2022

Here’s the thing about driving a car — and about running a sales org: Bumps in the road are inevitable. One of the best ways to ensure every part of your engine is running smoothly is to build sales performance dashboards for everyone on your team. What is a sales performance dashboard? What is a sales performance dashboard?

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CustomerSuccessBox

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Here, he talks about the best practices in Customer Onboarding. Can you define successful onboarding? They are trained and enabled to take their usage and adoption to the next level. They are trained and enabled to take their usage and adoption to the next level. What are the ingredients of a perfect customer onboarding?

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Sales leaders and trainers (and their marketing counterparts) spent 2020 trying to figure out how to translate in-person conferences into compelling, engaging virtual events. And because COVID-19 still hasn’t gone away, sales conferences are still taking on a virtual format. 9 sales conferences and events to attend in 2021.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 27, 2021

That means thinking of the sales team as remote-at-heart, not remote-by-default. Running a sales team without face-to-face communication. Remember the sales floor when it existed in physical reality? In this new era, walking the sales floor means: Keeping the team in sync digitally. Remote onboarding and training.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 10, 2022

Says Khusid, “It’s not only about bringing in the right people, it’s also about onboarding them into the company and building processes that support the scale of the organization.” It’s late majority where you need to have all different enablement to make those people successful.”. Key Takeaways. Customers and investors will follow.

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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

2019 is shaping up to be another fine year for those working in and around sales enablement. We’re seeing larger numbers of people work in the industry, more companies investing in sales enablement teams and numerous tools being developed to solve sales enablement challenges. But here’s the thing.

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 8, 2020

To make a partnership successful, your startup will need to teach another sales team to sell your product. That means understanding your ideal customer profile, developing enablement materials to close those customers, and training new account executives to succeed in that effort consistently. The sales team asks for more leads.

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Kellblog

MAY 10, 2021

In this post, I’ll present what I view as the minimum sales management framework for an enterprise SaaS startup — i.e., the basics you should have covered as you seek to build and scale your sales organization [1]. Onboarding program. A call focused solely on reviewing all the opportunities in the sales pipeline.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 27, 2019

Wondering how other sales teams are working their magic? Sure, their processes and talent have something to do with their success, but so does their sales stack. Namely… What does the perfect sales stack look like? To find the answer, we reached out to top sales companies to learn more about the tools they’re using.

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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 Hacker

OCTOBER 22, 2018

In fact, with so many variables involved in a deal—from unique buyer objectives, to your timing in a deal relative to your competitors— building playbooks for your sales teams is more like writing a “ Choose Your Own Adventure ” novel. In sales, it’s not much different. RELATED: Sales Tools that Actually Matter: Building your Playbook.

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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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Totango

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Here we’ll walk you through the essentials you need to know to harness customer enablement to increase B2B and SaaS sales. First, we’ll define what customer enablement is. Then we’ll look at the benefits of customer enablement and how it mutually supports sales enablement strategies.

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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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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. Persona and market insights come in here – even though we’re at an early point in the sales process. But what are these insights that will transform the conversations salespeople have?

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 19, 2022

Content is one of the most critical components of your sales engagement strategy. As a sales content manager, it’s strongly recommended to review your content strategy if you’ve been using the same sequences, templates, and snippets that you initially launched with. The final stage is the “expert” level. RELATED: Use Outreach?

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Sales Hacker

MAY 6, 2021

What’s the difference between a VP of Sales and a Chief Revenue Officer (CRO)? The VP of Sales. Great VPs of sales have gravitas and tact, command the room and hold their end of the table regardless of who is on the other side. Singular focus on sales. As the title would hint at, the VP of Sales should focus on sales.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 24, 2021

Whether you’re sales or marketing, putting out content is a never-ending task, a mountain with no peak. It teaches you exactly how to thread a story through your brand and how both sales and marketing can be part of that process. That is, to fill in the pipeline and get leads through the sales funnel. Content ideation.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 14, 2022

Sales leaders often label high-performing sales reps as having the “it factor.” But believe it or not, the “it factor” in sellers is a myth and one that’s been embraced for far too long by sales leaders. A recent survey from Mindtickle and Heinz Marketing of 280 sales and revenue leaders found that only 14.7%

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 6, 2023

On the other hand, a B2B sales funnel concentrates on converting these qualified leads into paid customers through demos, pricing discussions, and other client-facing activities to close the deal. As a marketer, your job is to deliver value through in-app communication and sales-enablement content to address specific objections.

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InsightSquared

APRIL 1, 2019

Most sales reps are genuinely driven not by money, but by success. My goal is to provide you with a few ideas and best practices about how to make your onboarding program more focused on results. Before we go into tactics, you have to start by understanding your own unique sales environment. “How am I doing?”. Get Nerdy With It.

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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

JANUARY 8, 2019

The chart below shows the sales technology landscape - there are over 800 vendors listed and 38 different categories. Source: Sales Hacker It’s fair to say that the sales enablement category has mirrored the impressive growth of the sales technology landscape as a whole (up and to the right).

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Sales Hacker

MAY 26, 2021

There are many moving parts in a successful sales organization. If you know that you love strategizing to increase sales but don’t want to be an account executive, sales operations may be the right place for you. What is Sales Operations? Why do we need Sales Operations? Average sales cycle duration.

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OpenView Labs

JUNE 19, 2019

When bringing new sales reps into an organization, one of the most valuable investments of time you can make as a sales leader is to ensure those new hires are set up for success. That will ensure they have the length of a full sales cycle to close that pipeline and attain their full quota. Iterate through Sales Maturity.

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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 Hacker

DECEMBER 21, 2017

What is Sales Operations? Sales operations refers to the unit, role, activities and processes within a sales organization that support, enable, and drive front line sales teams to sell better, faster, and more efficiently. But perhaps more than anything else, sales operations brings a system to selling.

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yoursales

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Sales Tools: Made in Belgium. Tools for sales are flooding the market and the flood seems to increase in strength every year. That said, few know there’s a vibrant community of sales tools and sales tech stack vendors packed together in Belgium. Pre Sales. Sale Occurs. Post Sales (Customer Success).

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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

AUGUST 28, 2018

One of the questions I get asked most frequently is around building a sales enablement strategy and what that might look like. While each company, context and industry is different, I believe that there are some fundamentals that should form the blueprint of any sales enablement strategy.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 3, 2022

Content is the cornerstone of sales enablement, but creating it is a massive headache. Those are resources that most sales teams do not have, and resources that most marketing teams need to protect. Read on for a cursory overview of how Agile can be applied to creating sales content along with a few tips for getting started.

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OpenView Labs

JUNE 3, 2019

It’s not hard to connect the dots and figure out that onboarding plays a central role in influencing short- and long-term retention rate. The critical misstep many SaaS companies make is failing to be intentional about their onboarding experience. Done right, the onboarding experience is a gold mine of opportunity.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 16, 2021

If you could spend a day with sales teams from some of the most successful companies in the world, what would you see? They’re all on board – marketing, sales, product, customer success, and executive leaders. Their sales tools are integrated effectively, coaching is readily available, and sales reps are happily using their CRM.

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