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Ultimate Guide to B2B Sales Hiring and Management

OpenView Labs

What Interviewing 600+ Sales Reps Taught Me About Team Building. Loom’s Peter Prowitt shares the biggest mistakes to avoid if you’re interviewing for a sales position. What’s your biggest weakness? 20 of the Best Interview Questions for Sales Hires. 3 Ways to Get a Better Read on Your Sales Candidate.

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Losing Sleep? Hiring Has Officially Replaced Cash as a Key Reason Startup Founders Are Up at Night

OpenView Labs

Hiring a traditional outbound sales team to target CIOs used to be the norm for B2B sales. Today, going to market is often multifaceted and requires developing technical and commercial partnerships, selling through cloud marketplaces, and leveraging your product for growth.

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In-House vs. Outsourced Sales: A Case for NOT Hiring SDRs

Sales Hacker

Outsourced Sales Development. As a high-growth SMB, your number-one focus is consistent sales. Without enough high-quality leads, your sales pipeline dries up fast. Without a sales development team, you can find yourself struggling when it comes to pipeline generation. Salary and benefits costs.

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Kevin Indig on searching for meaning and the meaning of search

Intercom, Inc.

And I put together these horrible, bad websites – I’m lucky there’s no evidence of them anymore. I’d love to dive into what those strategies were like, especially first at Atlassian, particularly because they had no sales team. Atlassian does not have an outbound sales team.

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How ZoomInfo Converts Hundreds of Leads in a Single Day — With a ‘Demo Day’ Sprint

Sales Hacker

Two years ago, ZoomInfo CEO and Founder Henry Schuck and his then-VP of Sales Operations, Chris Hays, came up with the bold idea to challenge the sales team to convert 100 leads into product demos in one day. But, at the end of the day, the team did hit that first number. It sounded crazy at first. So, how do we do it?

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