User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

It’s important to define and execute a clear user segmentation strategy for a number of reasons: customer segmentation helps you personalize in-app experiences, improve retention , and drive product success. Segmentation has been proven to improve a vast range of product success metrics (not just sales efforts).

Strategy 95

Strategy Sales Recruiting Onboarding Churn 95

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.

VP of Engineering 93

VP of Engineering Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Sales 93

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?

Sales Recruiting 99

Sales Recruiting Engineering Revenue Sales Enablement 99

ChurnZero

JULY 9, 2020

Sure, you won customers over to get the initial purchase, but what about your post-sale courting? Upskill to Up Your Retention Game . Both customer functions are responsible for driving retention, growth, and advocacy in related but distinct capacities. Being a good partner and delivering outcomes is expected.

Retention 64

Retention Strategy Scale Sales Recruiting 64

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. Starting a new sales team is not unlike doing improv.

Sales Hiring 171

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team Scale 171

User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Chief Technical Officer : Responsible for outlining the company’s technological vision, implementing technology strategies, and ensuring that the technological resources are aligned with the company’s business needs. Engineering Manager: In charge of planning, designing, and overseeing projects. Average salary: $196,172/yr.

Sales Hiring 97

Sales Hiring SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 97

Totango

MARCH 15, 2022

Your human resources practices, your project management procedures and your technology strategy all need to come together in order for you to scale up without overextending yourself. To avoid this, make sure you follow sound human resource strategies when making staffing decisions.

Sales Recruiting 95

Sales Recruiting Customer Success Sales Hiring Scaling 95

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 19, 2022

As the president of Sales Xceleration, a firm specializing in assessing and implementing sales strategy , sales processes, and sales execution to drive growth, I’ve seen how job hopping can affect otherwise stable sales teams. But also the cost it has on their careers — and your sales team.

Sales Hiring 79

Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting Compensation 79

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 13, 2021

Although Linda started her career in sales, she has spent the past twelve years scaling post-sales teams and moving hyper-growth companies like Zendesk, Slack, and now Gong upmarket into the enterprise realm. Moving upmarket means larger customers and higher revenue, but it’s not without its challenges.

Scale 177

Scale Customer Success Strategy Sales Hiring 177

Valuize Consulting

JANUARY 25, 2024

While they touched on data strategy, tooling and metrics, all 3 experts emphasized that successful Digital Customer Success programs demand a holistic approach, embracing cross-functional collaboration and strategic adaptation. Successful digital programming demands investment in specialized digital CS roles.

Customer Success 52

Customer Success Sales Recruiting Scale Strategy 52

SaaSX

JULY 12, 2020

Determining if sales or customer success should own customer expansion and renewals is the age-old SaaS question. If you are a SaaS founder, sales, or CX leader you have probably spent a lot of time thinking about this topic. Who you recruit will impact the success of the model. Sales owns expansion and renewal.

Sales Recruiting 90

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Sales SaaS 90

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Welcome to Sales Hacker’s first-ever Influential Women in Sales list! In this exclusive list, we wanted to honor not just female leaders that promote their own sales platform (no shame in that!) They say “You can’t be what you can’t see,” and the sales floor is no exception.

Sales Recruiting 111

Sales Recruiting VP of Engineering Scale Sales Hiring 111

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Sales compensation planning can be a tricky beast to tame — but know that you’re not alone. I asked 12 incredible sales leaders across the SaaS industry to share their biggest challenges with comp planning and how to overcome them. Related: New to sales compensation planning? Top 10 sales compensation challenges.

Compensation 94

Compensation Sales Recruiting Sales Finance 94

Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

Every startup’s sales commission plan is different. But it’s key to understand the theory and the benchmark data that governs the creation of sales commission plans to create a good one for your business. Sales compensation is communicated in OTE, On Target Earnings. The flat strategy is the most basic.

Sales Recruiting 120

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Data Sales 120

ChurnZero

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Designing a successful post-sale strategy requires choices, says CXology’s Tim Conder. In this way, you can create some objective data that shows this pattern and trends across all accounts. Q: Is there a proven strategy for engagement and continual alignment? A: First, it matters how you recruit.

Sales Recruiting 52

Sales Recruiting Scale Customer Success Sales 52

ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

At the time, I was a sales engineer, and my job was to close deals and move on to the next prospect. However, I found there were two flaws in our customer management process. After getting slapped on the wrist a few times for my after-sales support, I knew things had to change. We had presales, and we had post-sales.

Customer Success 98

Customer Success Sales Recruiting Technical Review Compensation 98

InsightSquared

AUGUST 14, 2019

For sales professionals, AI is not only impacting your personal life, but it will soon influence your professional work too if it hasn’t already done so. Many of today’s forward-thinking companies have already begun using AI in their sales strategies. Strengthens Communication With Sales Leads.

AI 91

AI Artificial Intelligence Sales Recruiting Forecasting 91

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. .

Sales Hiring 82

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Startup 82

Totango

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Hiring team members with the right customer success manager skills is critical for the effectiveness of your CS team and strategy. Here we’ve identified the 13 most essential qualities to consider when hiring a CS manager. What Skills Are Required for a Customer Success Manager? Persuasion Skills.

Sales Hiring 90

Sales Hiring Customer Success Sales Recruiting Technical Review 90

SmartKarrot

JUNE 28, 2023

In fact, a survey by Bain & Company shows that a 5% rise in customer retention results in over 25% surge in profits. The key account manager is then supposed to act as the first contact point between these clients and the business, dedicate resources, and hold meetings with them. This now becomes a challenge.

Sales Recruiting 10

Sales Recruiting Management Scale Underperforming Technical Team 10

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Many companies lack differentiation strategies and drive product development by copying competitors. To be actionable, a product strategy should focus on specific user behaviors that create customer value. One of the consequences of this is that the sales cycles slow down. This is where a product-led growth strategy comes in.

Scale 94

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting Software Review 94

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. Optimizes customer lifetime value and retention Customer value management allows companies to stay tuned to the changing needs of customers.

Management 96

Management Scale Customer Lifetime Value SaaS 96

SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

These highest-paid employees of a company are responsible for setting strategies for the company and making high-stake decisions. The availability of myriads of channels with differing marketing strategies can leave customers confused at the end of the day. Being a B2B SaaS company, do you require an Omnichannel Officer?

Sales Recruiting 10

Sales Recruiting B2B Sales Hiring Technology 10

Valuize Consulting

DECEMBER 7, 2021

During their conversation, Stephen imparts his wisdom about how to approach budgeting for customer lifecycle investments, including Customer Success, and shares best practices for staffing and scaling a high-performance Customer Success organization to drive best-in-class Net Dollar Retention. leverage Training & Development.

VP of Engineering 98

VP of Engineering Customer Success Sales Hiring Interviewing 98

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. Sanj has plenty of experience scaling sales teams at growing businesses, and that’s precisely why, as of November of last year, he‘s overseeing EMEA sales at Intercom.

Scale 210

Scale Scaling Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting 210

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 other strategies has Jessica seen work really well for retention?

Sales Recruiting 176

Sales Recruiting Technical Review Sales Hiring Outsourced Development 176

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. What are your strategies for recruiting and retaining talent within your respective organizations?

Payments 107

Payments Forecasting Payment Services Payment Solutions 107

Valuize Consulting

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The Employee Experience (EX) is the journey an employee takes with your organization and is the sum of all employee-employer interactions throughout that employee lifecycle, from pre-recruitment to post-exit. Investing in Employee Experience results in higher employee retention and increased performance. 6 Elements Of A Strong EX.

Underperforming Technical Team 52

Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting Data Sales Hiring 52

Neil Patel

OCTOBER 25, 2020

If you are looking to scale up your marketing, you will need talented people that can take charge of and execute your strategy. Flexibility – It may be the case that you need to expand into a different marketing channel or adapt your strategy based on a changing environment. Retention – A bad hire can really set you back.

Sales Hiring 145

Sales Hiring Outsourcing Services Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 145

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. It was about, these people that have already pulled in, how do I now convert them into marketing qualified leads for our local sales teams?

Sales Hiring 131

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Software Review 131

OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Companies will make retention a priority: customer retention, training retention and institutional knowledge (or history) retention.”. The prevailing go-to-market structure for SaaS companies in the last decade is through an inside sales team. Lawrence Schwartz, CEO at Trivie. Martin Roth, CRO at Levelset.

SaaS Payments 96

SaaS Payments Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions 96

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Competitor analysis enables PMs to find areas where rivals fail customers and develop sound positioning and differentiation strategies. They could also result from inadequate user onboarding leading to low feature discovery and adoption, ineffective marketing strategy , and poor user experience. How do you recruit your interviewees?

Underperforming Technical Team 96

Underperforming Technical Team Marketing Market Research Outsourced Development 96

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 21, 2018

Whether you’re at an early-stage startup that’s just made its first sales hires, or part of a fast-moving sales team in a large organization, the key to success often comes down to efficiency. Then, the sales team went to work. When making a sales hire, Max pays attention to the way candidates approach getting the job.

Sales Hiring 183

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Technical Advisors 183

Incredo

OCTOBER 17, 2019

common software sales comp plans, 2. what factors to consider before defining your SaaS sales commission percentage. We will share 8 ideas on how to increase your sales team’s productivity and help them close more deals. We will share 8 ideas on how to increase your sales team’s productivity and help them close more deals.

SaaS Payments 150

SaaS Payments Compensation Payment Services Sales Recruiting 150

Incredo

OCTOBER 17, 2019

common software sales comp plans, 2. what factors to consider before defining your SaaS sales commission percentage 4. and finally figure out how much that SaaS sales salary should be. In the end, a bonus section is waiting for you! What are 5 common SaaS sales compensation models? We will write about: 1.

SaaS Payments 144

SaaS Payments Compensation Payment Services Sales Recruiting 144

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Craft a comprehensive go-to-market strategy covering your product positioning , pricing , marketing campaign details, and launch timelines. Your feature launch marketing strategy should use a range of channels, like in-app announcements , emails , and social media posts. Assists in managing the launch timelines.

Underperforming Technical Team 91

Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting Social Media Market Research 91

SmartKarrot

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Recruit, hire, mentor and coach Customer Success team members. Assist with client marketing correspondence (newsletters, campaigns, sales print materials, welcome packets, surveys, etc.). Work with Account Director on potential target client list and sales strategies. Grow usage of BrightEdge within each account.

Sales Recruiting 19

Sales Recruiting Customer Success Sales Hiring Outsourced Development 19