Predictable Revenue

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Nadja Brow, founder of The Doyenne Agency, joined us to explain why hiring a sales trainer instead of a sales manager will help you scale your sales organization faster. The post Why Hiring a Sales Trainer Will Help You Scale Faster appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2024

Dear SaaStr: What’s The Number One Challenge for Scale-Up Stage Founders? You can hack managing and finding 1–3 reps yourself, but after that, you really need a VP of Sales. You will need a VP of Product to scale your roadmap. But you won’t scale past $4m-$5m without a true, seasoned VP of Engineering. As are you.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

General Partner Doug Pepper and General Partner and Head of Analytics at ICONIQ Growth, Christine Edmonds, share the art and science of scaling GTM at this year’s SaaStr Annual. Because founder-led sales worked really well for most of the early stages, but you eventually start running out of juice around $15M ARR.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Confluent’s President of Field Operations, Erica Schultz, explores different tactics businesses can employ to scale revenue and increase efficiency in the current macro environment. As you look to scale your business and make your processes more efficient, it’s essential to foster a shared understanding of who your target customer is.

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Predictable Revenue

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Collin Stewart sat down with John Eitel, Chief Sales Officer at Demandbase to navigate the complex terrain of entering a new market. The post Scaling the Unscalable with John Eitel appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 30, 2022

DigitalOcean has done that and grown beyond $150M in revenue in Q3 2022. Cliff Bockard, Senior Vice President of Revenue at DigitalOcean, joined us at SaaStr Scale to discuss how businesses can serve SMBs and still bring in large numbers of revenue. . Self-serve vs. sales-driven product experience.

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SaaStr

APRIL 7, 2024

So just a little while back, Lenny Rachintsky had me on his hyper-popular podcast to talk about scaling sales, from the perspective of a founder who hasn’t really done sales. They really are a great checklist when you are starting to scale sales in SaaS: #1. And sales go down, not up. #2. More here. #4.

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Predictable Revenue

AUGUST 12, 2021

Nick Casale, Director of Commercial Sales at Sendoso, talks about the distinct chapters in Sendoso’s growth, the different strategies, focus, and mindsed, marked by revenue intervals of $0-1m, $1-10m interval, and $10-20m+. The post Lessons from scaling 0-1M, 1-10M, and 10-20M+ appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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SaaStr

MAY 17, 2021

Q: What are the most common mistakes founders make hiring their first real sales teams? Later, once you have a real sales leader on board, she may hire folks you personally wouldn’t buy from. But it won’t work out while you are Interim VP of Sales. A little more here: The 48 Types of VP Sales. Giving Reps Too Much Time.

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SaaStr

JUNE 22, 2021

The other day I saw a VP of Sales flame out and resign with no notice from a SaaS company doing $10m ARR growing quickly. So I thought it might be helpful to brush off the topic of alignment between Sales and Marketing by updating a classic post on the topic. The original version here on Lattice Engines’ Sales and Marketing Hub.

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SaaStr

MAY 5, 2022

What are some of the foundational ways sales leaders can think about building their sales teams as their company continues to expand and grow? There’s no shortage of ways to tackle this challenge, but one thing is clear: build sales teams thoughtfully and intentionally. With scale, though, these priorities can change.

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Predictable Revenue

JANUARY 11, 2024

In the latest episode of the Predictable Revenue Podcast, Colin Stewart dives into a conversation with Saravana Kumar, from Kovai.co. The post Scaling from Startup to Success with Saravana Kumar appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 21, 2022

You might feel confused about where to begin, how to scale up, which mistakes you should avoid, and things you should consider before expanding. Now, let’s look at ten learnings that Dorian gathered while scaling Grammarly from a Consumer to an Enterprise brand with B2B offerings. Enter your email below for the latest SaaStr updates.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

How do you build a sales organization from scratch? What about moving from founder-led sales to building a sales team and scaling your revenue growth? Build a predictable sales process. Before you hire your first sales reps, you need to have a justifiable reason to do so. Cold calling.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 5, 2024

In the latest episode of CRO Confidential, host Sam Blond, partner at Founders Fund and former CRO at Brex, sits down with Ashley Kelly, VP of Global Sales Development at Rippling. For context – Ashley had previously helped Sam scale Brex’s outbound sales from $2M to over $300M in ARR as Senior Director of SDR.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

and Lenny asked us to join his podcast to talk about building a sales team — from the perspective of a product-first founder or exec. It was a pretty strong conversation and we took a lot of our learnings over the years and focused on how to learn to do sales right if you come from a product-first background: It’s good.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 11, 2020

And with nearly 70% of global revenue for ISVs currently derived from third-party channel sales , no other approach to distribution ensures the exposure and revenue of the channel. By doing so effectively, you can unlock a path to scaling profits. A delicate balance for the Modern ISV. Diminishing profit margins.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Everything from hiring on the GTM side to layering in a sales-led motion into PLG. Let’s dive into what’s making that hybrid model successful: PLG and Sales Led? Given this, you must understand the role that each facet of the business plays in promoting that product, from marketing and sales to customer service.

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Totango

JUNE 8, 2022

Recurring revenue models have taken over the world. Organizations who are proficient in scaling their recurring revenue models are what we at Totango like to call “customer success pacesetters.” In this article, we’ll discuss four key takeaways from their discussion and be sure to check out the full webinar below. .

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SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2021

Collin Cadmus, ex-VP of Sales of Aircall, has put together a new podcast on SaaS revenue. We did a super deep dive on so many SaaStr classic points, from super-stretch VPs of Sales, to demand gen hiring, to much more. It’s pretty good.

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Predictable Revenue

MARCH 16, 2021

Scaling your business internationally is no easy feat. The post How B2B Companies Can Leverage Channel Partners To Scale Up Their Sales Internationally appeared first on Predictable Revenue. It requires a dedicated team that is in sync with each other and your customers. Here are some tips on how to do it!

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SaaStr

MAY 13, 2022

There are many ways to track your marketing performance, but if you want to understand how effective it is, one metric reigns supreme: revenue. The most successful marketing strategies achieve short-term and long-term growth by driving revenue year after year. What is revenue marketing? Know where to build vs. where to scale.

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SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2023

Dear SaaStr: How Many Sales Reps Do I Need? You can back into how many sales reps you’ll need in SaaS. First, figure out how much revenue you need to close in the next twelve months. And they will take at least some time to scale. Assume 1 sales manager for each 8 sales professionals. 60% is OK, too.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Monday has gone from $7m in 2017 to over $700m in revenue today, showcasing the sheer power of compounding revenue. Eran Zimman, monday.com’s co-founder and co-CEO, shares his secrets to scaling and growth in an unpredictable market. Big Brain was an internal tool to track revenue, marketing expenses, and usage of the product.

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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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SaaStr

JULY 13, 2022

First, you hire your sales team. Finally, growth occurs when sales, product, and marketing can come together. Co-founder and CEO of Insider , Hande Cilingir, talks about what it takes to write a successful revenue growth story. You could even try a mock role-play over a call to test their sales skills. “If

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FastSpring

APRIL 18, 2024

For many SaaS and software companies, international sales are a key part of their growth trajectories. FastSpring is an all-in-one payments platform for SaaS, software, and digital products businesses, including VAT and sales tax management, payment localization, and consumer support. After we raised our prices, sales increased.”

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 16, 2019

As your sales organization scales up, there’s one function that becomes crucial to your ability to drive revenue efficiently – sales operations. Until Xerox created the first team in the 1970s, sales operations didn’t exist. Sales operations is a team sport. Short on time?

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 20, 2020

Today, we’re answering the question: how do teams grow as a startup scales? The median startup with between 1-5M in ARR will have 12 engineers, 6 in sales and 3 in marketing. Meanwhile, the size of the marketing team increases only by 4X, compared to a 10X increase in sales and a 5X+ in engineering.

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SaaStr

JULY 5, 2022

Usage was there, but revenue wasn’t tracking the usage growth. By moving from Freemium to “Contact Me” only (albeit with transparent pricing), sales went way, way up. And they probably needed to do this, to get the revenue engine going. The Long Tail : Distracts sales , with leads that never closes.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 15, 2021

SaaStr Scale 2021 is starting soon. 7:00 AM (40 MINS) – Product-led Growth: How to Execute Across the Full Funnel (and Mistakes We Made) with Reprise’s VP of Marketing and VP of Sales. 8:00 AM (50 MIN) – The Secrets to Building Your Marketing Engine To Drive Scale with Airtable CMO Archana Agrawal. LIVE TODAY!

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Chart Mogul

JULY 28, 2023

Four experts from the SaaS world sit down to discuss sales tech stacks, evolving your sales team, and some common mistakes organizations make building sales teams and purchasing software. ChartMogul’s very own VP of Sales, Sara Archer heads the panel discussion.

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SaaStr

JUNE 26, 2023

Some examples: HubSpot gets 54% of its revenue from outside the U.S. Asana gets 39% of its revenue from outside the U.S. Monday gets 47% of its revenue from outside the U.S. Zendesk gets 49% of its revenue from outside the U.S., The top quartile have 28% of their revenue from EMEA/Europa, and the median is 19%.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 3, 2021

Today on the show, we have Ryan Staley , the founder and CEO of Whale Boss, where he helps Founders, CEOs, and Revenue Leaders implement revenue by 7 and 8 Figure Sales Systems in less than 3 months. We go deep into how to sell to the enterprise and scale revenue through revenue sprints. powered by Sounder.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

It’s an approach that’s served him well along the road to building the HubSpot sales team, where he was CRO for nine years. That experience led to his bestselling book, The Sales Acceleration Formula. A data-driven framework for scaling. Mark’s latest ebook, The Science of Scaling , outlines a precise framework for success.

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