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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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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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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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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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

One of the toughest challenges for founders — and especially technical founders who are used to focusing so much on product features over sales — is striking “product-market fit”. So in that shift from product-market fit to product-market-SALES fit, how much should you optimize your go-to-market for product… and even the other way around?

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Product Marketing Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting 84

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. By the time he left to join Google Cloud as EMEA VP of Operations and Customer Growth, Salesforce had around 17 billion dollars in revenue and almost 50,000 employees.

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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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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. No guarantees there.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 28, 2018

Here’s a recap of the best sales articles from 2018 from Sales Hacker! With 2019 is right on the horizon, I’m taking this as an opportunity to look back at the kickass year we had at Sales Hacker. for making Sales Hacker what it is. The 18 best sales articles of 2018 from Sales Hacker. More on that later…).

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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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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service 213

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

SaaS companies, who often have complex sales cycles coupled with small but agile sales teams, can especially benefit from lead scoring, since it allows small teams to punch well above their weight class. Unfortunately, the number of leads that are actually sales-ready is fewer than we’d like to think. Probably not.

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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. Taking a Page from Agile Software Development. This need for speed gave way to agile development methods.

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Hull

AUGUST 5, 2019

Picture your sales and marketing tech stack ten or even five years ago. That growth isn’t a bad thing. Numerous technologies have popped up over the past several years that offer improvements in critical areas like sales pipeline acceleration, lead generation and productivity through automation. Now picture it today.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

The Sales Hacker Success Summit will be here before you know it! WHAT : Five exciting days of advanced sales training and tips from some of the biggest names in Sales. Sales Hacker Success Summit: Level Up for 2020. So, start clearing your schedule, and get ready for the best week of your sales career! COST : Nada.

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Sales Underperforming Technical Team B2B Technical Review 103

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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Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Sales 189

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Lessons learned from nine months in enterprise sales [10:18]. Sam Jacobs: This week on the show, we want to put a spotlight on account executives, people like you that are in the trenches making sales. Our first is Revenue Grid. Welcome to the Sales Hacker podcast.

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Systems Review 68

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.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Sales is a relatively high stress profession, with a fair amount (read: lots) of positive and negative swings. Knowing how to deal with conflict in the workplace is a necessary skill every sales professional should master. Knowing how to deal with conflict in the workplace is a necessary skill every sales professional should master.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 29, 2021

And so, Mark Rudden and his team had to figure it all out by themselves. Fortunately, Mark had quite a bit of experience working and scaling teams in demanding, hypergrowth environments. In fact, in some form or another, he’s been working in sales for most of his career. The journey to sales is a bit of a random one.

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Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 223

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? How does Andy think about minimizing and optimising sales ramp times? Andy MacMillan: I started my career in tech actually as a developer.

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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. Hiring guide.

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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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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.” Does it differ from traditional dev teams?

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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

MARCH 27, 2018

Every business runs like a B2B sales prospecting operation. You head out to a territory (market) where you can mine (generate) something valuable, then sift (qualify) good finds from the bad. For B2B organizations, customers now represent the new gold to be desired and the sales team’s pipeline the new gold mine to be developed.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

Aaron Ross | CEO @ Predictable Revenue. And so, she can, and Anthony just finished up basically going from the first sales hire at Gainsight at almost 100 million in revenue and has just retired. Maria : It’s like saying, “Hey, you want a sales rep to carry 10 times the quota they do today. Jason : Yep.

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Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 213

CustomerSuccessBox

DECEMBER 13, 2021

A best practice that our onboarding team has implemented is to map out the process step by step in an activity diagram. number of employees, customer’s annual top-line revenue, etc.) Finally, and most importantly, we spent time enabling our sales team to position each package relative to the customers’ needs.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 11, 2018

At first glance, project managers and sales professionals don’t seem to have much in common. 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. What You Get When Sales Is Managed Like A Project.

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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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Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Payment Methods 141

Sales Hacker

MAY 8, 2018

On this episode of the Sales Hacker podcast, we talk with Marc Jacobs , SVP of Sales and Customer Success at CB Insights about the secret to incredible sales management and building a sales coaching culture. Building a professional development program resulting in high quota attainment for SDRs turned Account Executives.

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The Marketing & Growth Hacking Publication

APRIL 8, 2019

How much revenue can you generate? Internal Team: Hire your own Sales Development Rep (SDR) team that is 100% dedicated to outbound prospecting. Pros: No one will know your “stuff” better than internal people, it’s the best long-term solution for most companies, and begins your sales Farm Team.

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Outsourcing Services Outsourced Development Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting 40

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

DECEMBER 1, 2020

If you missed episode 137, check it out here: Team Selling: A Comeback Story for 2021 with Trish Bertuzzi. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. A career marketer’s advantage in growing holistic revenue [17:54]. He talks about the journey of a marketer leading the entire revenue function on the path to CEO.

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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 Hacker

DECEMBER 20, 2018

The path to sales enlightenment requires continuous self-learning, but there’s a real problem. That’s why we’ve rounded up the complete list of best sales podcasts to turbocharge your journey to achieving sales mastery. Listen To Sales Podcasts, Then Go Listen To Your Prospects! . Salespeople are BUSY.

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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. This is where a Sales QBR or ‘Quarterly Business Review’ comes into play. What is a Sales QBR? isn’t criticism.

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Sales Hiring Sales Forecasting Underperforming Technical Team 90

Sales Hacker

JUNE 5, 2019

If you’re approaching sales enablement passively (or ignoring it completely), you’re leaving revenue on the table. Worse, your competition — who probably has a strong sales enablement strategy — will easily outpace you and drown out any of your basic prospecting efforts. 6 Essential Tips for Sales Enablement.

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