SaaStr

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Hiring a VP of Sales isn’t new, but the conversations have evolved as the world has. Jason has written about the cheat codes for hiring VPs of Sales since 2012 and realized it was worth a deeper dive. Read the Ultimate Guide to Hiring a Great VP of Sales ebook or What Makes a Great VP of Sales and How to Hire One blog post.

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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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SaaStr

MARCH 24, 2020

Sam Blond, CSO at Brex explains why recruiting, networking and employee happiness is the key to this playbook on recruiting your sales team. Sam Blond | Chief Sales Officer @ Brex. I’m doing The Playbook To Recruiting Your Sales Team. Once again, amazing job to the SaaStr team. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Most growth-stage CEOs I work with know how to tell if they’re efficiently allocating capital in every part of their budget with one glaring exception: research and development (R&D). Focus on performance management of your product and engineering teams as early indicators for what R&D investments are working, and which aren’t.

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Audacix

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

While your development teams strive to protect sensitive information and your users' data, using automated vulnerability testing tools can help in fixing security loopholes in web applications. What is a secure software development framework? This naturally will help your sales team sell more, faster.

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Audacix

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

While your development teams strive to protect sensitive information and your users' data, using automated vulnerability testing tools can help in fixing security loopholes in web applications. What is a secure software development framework? This naturally will help your sales team sell more, faster.

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yoursales

JUNE 1, 2023

Capturing Client & Prospect Communication: Unveiling the Powerful Key to Sales Success In today’s hyper-competitive business landscape, where customer-centricity reigns supreme, the ability of capturing client & prospect communication has become a critical component for sales success. What’s in this Article?

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 1, 2021

As a sales manager, the most impactful thing you can do is coach your team. Study any sales coaching blog, podcast, or book and you’ll find plenty of advice on the best ways to coach your sales reps: join their calls, listen to recordings, apply a framework … the list goes on. Why are emails crucial to closing the deal?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

If your SaaS business has a sales team, there’s no way to grow 100% year-over-year without also growing your sales leadership. In this talk, CircleCI VP of Revenue Jane Kim will talk about the 5 mistakes all new sales leaders make. She said, “Your team really needs to get to know you. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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FastSpring

APRIL 4, 2024

As an experienced sales and GTM leader, John Eitel has more than witnessed how product-led growth (PLG) has affected the tech and SaaS space in the last few years — he and his teams have been up close and personal with how PLG increased in popularity as a sales strategy. “I What success looks like for using both together.

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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. What is Agile sales enablement? There is a pressure on teams to move quickly and scale early.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

When it comes to launching sales teams in hyper-growth startups, few people have walked the walk as much as Maggie Hott. She “stumbled” into it, as she told us, first as one of the earliest sales hires of Eventbrite, where she stayed for four years, and then into Slack in early 2015 as the first sales rep in the Bay Area.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

And for leveling up your sales skills, nothing beats a good sales book. So what are the best sales books for helping you reach peak performance? Have been recommended by sales professionals. Here’s how you can find the sales books that are most relevant to you. Here they are… The 97 Best Sales Books in 2020.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

” It remains distressing if teams continue with this knowledge and run the same marketing activities over and over again. The ICT products for marketing automation are much more mature and developed with the marketing process in mind. In this situation, there’s much better cooperation between sales and marketing.

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User Pilot

MARCH 23, 2023

And how can customer success teams address them to ensure product growth? TL;DR Customer churn refers to the rate at which a business loses customers within a specific period. Reasons why customers churn: #1: Customers churn when there is a bad product-customer fit and your product’s features don’t align with their needs.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 15, 2020

In this episode, Bob and I chat about his new book Demand-Side Sales 101: Stop Selling and Help Your Customers Make Progress. What is it about sales that makes academia hesitant to teach it? Bob wondered where all the sales professors were and discovered that perhaps as a profession it required more art than science.

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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

MAY 22, 2017

I lead sales enablement for HubSpot out of Dublin, Ireland and my role encompasses sales content, sales training, deal support and sales productivity. That’s where sales enablement comes in. But how can sales enablement be packaged?

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 23, 2018

As sales leaders, your job is to help members of your team get to their sales goals by prioritizing the path that will get them there. Part 3 of this sales coaching series focuses on getting the prioritization right with your sales team. You’re allowed to have one bad year, but not two.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Modern sales teams need competent professionals with a variety of talents, skills and abilities. But in a hyper changing landscap e, which are the most crucial sales skills and traits that reps must possess (or develop) in order to exceed targets and deliver consistent sales success?

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Kellblog

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Today, I call them “pipeline sources” but I’ve also heard them referred to as “pipegen sources” (as in pipeline generation) and even “revenue engines” which I think is an over-reach, if not a well intentioned one [2]. Sales/outbound: 10%. Attribution issues (i.e., SDR/outbound: 10%.

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Stax

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Software as a Service (SaaS) has made business software more accessible by offering cloud-based, on-demand access to a range of solutions, from project management and collaboration to sales and marketing. Horizontal SaaS refers to general-purpose software solutions that are applicable across industries and attract a diverse user base.

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

A market gap can be caused by missing functionality or poor user experience. Tracking user behavior in-app enables product teams to find ways to improve product experience. Competitor analysis enables PMs to find areas where rivals fail customers and develop sound positioning and differentiation strategies.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 20, 2019

What makes a good sales pitch? During my 15-year career in sales development, I’ve built and seen many sales pitches. I’ve also been pitched by numerous salespeople — some good and some bad. So what separates the good from the bad? Scripted vs. Freestyle Sales Pitches. The debate is ongoing.

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SaaStr

JUNE 29, 2021

Announcer: Up today, the secrets of market timing, how to develop the right idea at the right time with Allen Gannett, author of The Creative Curve. Those are bad answers, and while you do that, I’m going to have a sip of water. So I’ll give you an example that’s a late 2000s, reality TV show reference.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Lessons from inside sales mid-pandemic [18:50]. Kristin on the future of sales [23:04]. Sam Jacobs: This week, we’ve got another great episode for you with Kristin Twining , VP of business development and inside sales for FireMon. We’re on iTunes. And on Stitcher.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 26, 2021

That’s how my friend Stacey describes the way sales compensation plans have changed over the last 15 years of her SaaS career. Why do sales compensation plans have to be so complex? Sales compensation was set up to ensure that reps are suitably rewarded for their performance. What is their policy on draws?

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Getting executives out of the 1:1 interview process and into a whiteboard session can help you assess their core competencies and how they’ll work with your team. How can we help the team get calibrated on the role? Matt Oberhardt: So, we have metrics that kind of roll up as a team. Working sessions. Talent in 2024.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 17, 2024

TL;DR Scaling SaaS refers to the capacity of a business to grow without compromising performance and quality. The most common challenges that hinder SaaS growth are lack of product-market fit , ineffective sales and marketing strategies , customer churn, and long product development cycles.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 30, 2020

What’s your approach when hiring sales reps? Companies often hire sales reps who have knowledge of, or even a passion for, the brand’s product or industry — which is great because it gives you a team of “walking brochures” who can spout off all the benefits of your product. The best training for new sales hires.

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Incredo

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

If sounds like this topic can help you generate more SaaS sales with less risk, we are starting! And they refer your software not to their friends but usually to people they don’t know. 5) Besides finding answers to questions, you will have an opportunity to get inspired by 7 affiliate professionals. See the difference?

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Baremetrics

AUGUST 29, 2021

An effective sales outbound strategy needs to balance two opposing elements: efficiency vs. personal touch. We recommend starting with LinkedIn’s own Sales Navigator. Let’s say your ICP is a web developer running a startup on the East Coast. This will result in poor open and response rates.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Women in sales often have a polarizing experience. Never believe that doubting yourself is a bad thing. In the Sales Hacker video series Aha Moments , I asked 10 women: “What is one ‘aha moment’ you’ve had in your sales career?”. What is one a-ha moment you’ve had in your sales career? Anything less is failure.

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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

MARCH 23, 2020

Companies which don’t use mental models risk unleashing mayhem with poor choices or becoming bloated and bureaucratic by reducing the volume and speed at which decisions are made - both scenarios are undesirable and will impact growth. OKRs are a useful mental model - they make it crystal clear what people and teams should be striving for.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 27, 2020

Giving reps an email template is a surefire way to give them a bad case of templatitis. It can also be fun to forward some of the emails you receive to the SDR team to break down as well. The solution — like with many things in sales — is to AB test anything and everything. Messy is not actually bad. Follow the Data.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 12, 2021

Deal disasters you’ll want your team to avoid. Let’s have a look at what you can do to prepare and empower your team to avoid them so you can start beating that quota. Do your sales reps know who they’re supposed to be targeting? So how can your team identify those decision-makers? How to prep and empower your team.

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User Pilot

APRIL 15, 2024

TL;DR Customer communication pain points refer to the problems customers encounter when trying to get help through your support channels. This means customers will abandon brands with poor communication, opening up an opportunity for your business to stand out. We cover: Types of customer pain points. Six common customer pain points.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 25, 2020

But should you build your own in-house marketing team or hire an agency partner? Digital agencies are companies that help other businesses perform a specific function such as marketing, development, or design. They act as a substitute for an in-house team, serving the same labor function but outside of the organization.

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