Sales Hacker

MAY 24, 2023

In this episode, we dive into this renewed trend with Tito Bohrt, the CEO of AltiSales, the one-stop shop for world-class sales development. He also shares how company culture impacts productivity and morale, primarily within sales teams. Apart from offering a tool, the AltiSales team also provides consulting services.

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Underperforming Technical Team Consulting Company Culture Acquisition 84

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? Sales Tech: a top priority for sales. Unveiling the sales stacks of 7 top sales teams.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 24, 2021

A detailed buyer persona helps us find out what gets our customer base going; what makes them tick, what they might need, and what they presently face. We get the best results when both the sales and the marketing teams’ content is based around the customers and their desired outcomes. Alex is the boss. Speak to your customers.

Marketing 71

Marketing Sales Underperforming Technical Team Social Media 71

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Guided selling with Revenue Grid allows you to guide reps step-by-step through every deal, reducing guesswork and increasing consistency so your teams have the best odds with every opportunity in the pipeline. See how you can put your sales teams in the best position to win now at revenuegrid.com/saleshacker.

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Systems Review 68

Sales Hacker

MAY 8, 2020

These can be purpose-built to enable sales engineers to quickly spin-up customized, real-world environments necessary to close deals. Know your presentation platforms. Stumbling through your sales presentation with technical distractions is a sure way to sabotage your efforts. Follow up with your team.

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Technical Review Social Media Underperforming Technical Team Sales 75

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

What does it take to scale a sales team successfully? Should one hire sales reps 2×2? How does Andy think about hiring sales reps from adjacent companies and industries? If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin. Harry Stebbings.

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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Whereas, those with fixed mindsets believe their talents are an innate gift and cannot be developed further. Importantly, having a growth mindset or put another way an openness to continual development, as well as an understanding of where your strengths and weaknesses lie is no longer a nice to have.

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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. RELATED: Sales Tools that Actually Matter: Building your Playbook. No guarantees there.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 11, 2018

Budget-conscious, time-crazed and snoopier-than-normal, the stereotypical project manager seems, at most, a very distant cousin of the freewheeling, outgoing and glib sales practitioner. You see, core project management skills and sales skills aren’t all that different. Everything in sales is an opportunity cost.

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Management Underperforming Technical Team Social Media Benchmarks 97

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 28, 2018

Cold Calling is the top sales skill you should be developing to gain a competitive edge, not just for prospecting and landing meetings with C-Level decision makers, but at every stage of the funnel. This article presents some very convincing points to support that case. Notable Stats. Pageviews – 6912. Notable Stats.

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OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

But no matter how thick a skin you develop, it’s never fun to be told ‘no,’ especially after you’ve spent significant time with an investor exploring a potential deal. To make matters worse, the customers revealed that instead of paying for a seat for each team member, they bought one login and shared it amongst 10 people.

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Technical Review Scale Development Team Review Software Review 73

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

In this session, she’s going to share 2 of the skill sets you need to thrive as a modern seller and give you strategies to implement them in yourself and your team. The Modern Sales Mindset and How It Impacts Results. Carole Mahoney – Founder, Chief Sales Growth Unbound Growth. SECURE YOUR SEAT. RESERVE YOUR SPOT.

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Sales Underperforming Technical Team B2B Technical Review 103

OpenView Labs

JULY 8, 2019

The situation was this: our engineering team was constantly innovating and adding new functionality. My job, once the bad feedback started coming in, was to figure out what the less vocal customers were thinking and propose a plan to move forward. Getting buy-in from cross-functional teams is mandatory for success.

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Pricing Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team SaaS 61

Sales Hacker

JULY 3, 2018

We’ve been compiling this sales automation tools list for a while, trying to figure out the best way to get the information out there. There are a number of existing resources available on sales automation, but they don’t offer use cases and examples of how to put the tools to action. What Is Sales Automation?

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Scale Outsourcing Services Sales Recruiting Outsourced Development 65

SaaStr

APRIL 17, 2019

Prior to Harness, Stephen was VP of Marketing at Glassdoor, managing a team of 52 in product marketing, helping grow B2B revenue from $19m to $90m in just 2 years, leading to their $1.2Bn acquisition. Steve has previously said, “Sales and marketing must be one team.” What does this mean for the processes used by marketing teams?

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DevOps as a Service Sales Recruiting Scale Sales Hiring 100

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 23, 2019

You fail to distinguish the bad habits from the good ones and the whole experience blurs into one. I can’t recommend enough that you familiarize yourself with Sales Hacker’s Sales Tech Landscape. There’s a tool to optimize just about every part of the typical sales cycle, both at a personal and organizational level. .

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

One of the biggest decisions you can make when setting up your sales team is whether to focus primarily on inside or outside sales. They seem to be completely at odds, with one focused on clients with a high acquisition cost and high ACV (annual account value), the other focused on a high sales velocity. CRM platforms.

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Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Payment Methods 81

Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

The Pirate’s Guide to Sales. The Sales Acceleration Formula. Mastering the Complex Sale. Sales Development and Prospecting. The Sales Development Playbook. Outbound Sales, No Fluff. Sales Engagement. Sales Engagement. Sales Enablement. The Sales Enablement Playbook.

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Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Payment Methods 141

SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2020

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Sam made his way into the world of SaaS with Dropbox and how that led to his leading the sales and success team today @ Loom. What was Sam’s biggest lesson from scaling the sales team at Dropbox? I met my wife in sales boot camp. How should the success of marketing be measured?

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Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Sales 173

Sales Hacker

APRIL 10, 2023

Too often, I see sales teams thinking of their “ sales process ” as a set of stages in their pipeline and maybe a bunch of fields to complete at each stage. We were weak on some key functionality areas where the winning vendor was strong. Bad news from left field There was a change in company direction. It happens.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 20, 2018

So don’t just aimlessly listen to sales podcasts and never implement the lessons. Take notes, highlight the best parts, and share important takeaways with your team. Then, most importantly, take what you’ve learned and go apply the insights to your sales process. Linking Into Sales (The Social Selling Podcast).

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Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Social Media 111

SaaStr

OCTOBER 22, 2020

As for Ryan, he has spent an incredible 9 years at Okta in numerous different roles starting with running the product marketing team before moving to run the marketing team, leading to his promotion to CMO close to 5 years ago now. How does the structure of your marketing team need to change with the evolution? Harry Stebbings.

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Sales Hiring Scale Interviewing Technical Review 167

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Never believe that doubting yourself is a bad thing. That company only lasted another year before they were out of business, so it was a poor use of my energy, time, and being away from my family – a lesson I work to pass on to others new in roles today. What is your best piece of career advice for women in sales?

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Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 130

SmartKarrot

AUGUST 9, 2022

Instead of building, developing, and implementing enterprise applications, SaaS users can simply license and subscribe to them. Using remote cloud servers, users can access and utilize SaaS applications from any web-enabled device. Software As A Service (SaaS) is a cloud-based method of delivering on-demand software to users.

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Scale Sales Recruiting Business SaaS 10

SmartKarrot

AUGUST 9, 2022

Instead of building, developing, and implementing enterprise applications, SaaS users can simply license and subscribe to them. Using remote cloud servers, users can access and utilize SaaS applications from any web-enabled device. Software As A Service (SaaS) is a cloud-based method of delivering on-demand software to users.

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Scale Sales Recruiting Business SaaS 10

SaaStr

JUNE 3, 2020

How does this hire correlate to your hiring in sales enablement? What is the right way to structure your sales meeting? Who should be brought into the meeting other than the sales team? How does Michael advise sales reps to maintain customer relationships post-sale? Where do many go wrong here?

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Sales Hiring Scale Technical Advisors Systems Review 175

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The SaaStock team will be landing in São Paulo to run the region’s first Pan-Latin American SaaS conference, SaaStock LatAm. He has given his memorable presentations around the world. He started as Inside Sales Representative, and in five years, he became the Sales Enablement Director for the company.

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Technical Review Scale Entrepreneurship Sales Hiring 207

Sales Hacker

APRIL 22, 2022

While you may feel pressure to focus your team on immediately starting to close opportunities at the start of each new quarter, you’re doomed to repeat the mistakes of your past if you don’t take some time to review. Related: How to Prepare for a Sales Development QBR. A sales QBR: isn’t a status update meeting.

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Sales Hiring Sales Forecasting Underperforming Technical Team 90

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

But if sales is a dance, it’s jazz, not ballet. According to a survey by Salesforce last year , the top 20% of sales teams last year are almost 3x more likely to say they have been focusing on personalizing customer interactions. How big is their team? What role are they? What is their past experience?

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Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Sales Social Media 119

SaaSX

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Consider too, that, once you embark on a channel partnership, you’ll be required to train your partner in the best techniques for presenting your product to consumers. Plus, you’ll also be obliged to bring your entire team on board by encouraging your colleagues to roll out the welcome mat and adopt some partner-friendly best practices.

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Outsourcing Services Strategy Underperforming Technical Team Technical Advisors 93

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Managing a technical team as a non-technical person [24:13]. Sales enablement is easy. Okay, it’s not that easy, but Sapper Consulting has built REGIE to keep the promise of sales enablement alive and keep your team doing what they do best, which is winning. Ideas Ryan finds transformative [29:33].

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Marketplace as a Service CTO Hire Sales Recruiting Data 94

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 30, 2019

No way, Jose,” is the response I get from most sales teams when I tell them this stat. Most teams underestimate the buying teams size by around 50% because they haven’t identified everyone involved, not because these people don’t exist. The bad news is that this makes your job harder.

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Underperforming Technical Team Technical Advisors Forecasting Technical Review 85

Sales Hacker

APRIL 10, 2019

Think of the hundreds of hours you’d save chasing bad deals… the good deals you could stop from slipping into next quarter… and the trust you’d build by making your prospects feel they’re in safe hands. How to use a mutual action plan to improve your sales process. What Is a Mutual Action Plan?

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Sales Underperforming Technical Team Forecasting Outsourced Development 81

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 31, 2017

A sales process refers to the series of steps — each consisting of several activities and involving one or more sales methodologies — that are aimed at finding and connecting with customers; getting them to make a purchase; and creating a template for achieving sales objectives and replicating a desired level of performance.

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Sales Underperforming Technical Team Artificial Intelligence Social Media 81

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Despite all the AI fear mongering, we dug deep to find out what really matters next year – so aside from our own analysis, we asked sales leaders, experts, and top sales reps to predict the top sales trends of 2018. Outbound Gets Tougher With GDPR Regulations: SaaS Goes Channel Sales For The Win! How can that be?

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Scale Technical Review Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring 96

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Without goals, your team lacks the key elements it needs to win — a direction to follow and the encouragement to stay motivated in sales. They enable your team to track collective and individual performance. In fact, they often result to massive disappointment, and may even pull your team one or two steps backward.

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Technical Review Revenue Management Underperforming Technical Team 79

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 21, 2018

Without goals, your team lacks the key elements it needs to win — a direction to follow and the encouragement to stay motivated in sales. They enable your team to track collective and individual performance. In fact, they often result to massive disappointment, and may even pull your team one or two steps backward.

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Technical Review Revenue Management Underperforming Technical Team 62