Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

JULY 30, 2017

Leading sales enablement programmes for over 100 sales professionals is challenging, rewarding and lots of fun. The way I see it, my role primarily is to partner with the sales organisation, so sales reps are successful, which enables sales reps and by extension, HubSpot to grow.

Sales Enablement 100

Sales Enablement Scale Sales Underperforming Technical Team 100

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.

Underperforming Technical Team 215

Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service 215

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Latin America is undergoing a digital transformation, and the SaaS community is exploding as a result. The SaaStock team will be landing in São Paulo to run the region’s first Pan-Latin American SaaS conference, SaaStock LatAm. Its focus is on businesses in Big Data, mobile, and SaaS. Talk: The State of SaaS in LatAm.

Technical Review 207

Technical Review Scale Entrepreneurship Sales Hiring 207

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 31, 2019

And as the organization grows, the work involved to get teams aligned on who you’re selling to and how you’re selling is not something to be taken for granted either. Ambient Strategy founder and CEO April Dunford on the symptoms of weak positioning. When you’re a small team, your time is everything. Speed is everything.

Underperforming Technical Team 165

Underperforming Technical Team Scale Benchmarks Sales 165

Sales Hacker

JULY 21, 2021

There are sales buzzwords that we love and some that we really hate. But that doesn’t mean they’re all bad. When you use sales buzzwords correctly, you’ll sound like you’re an industry insider. A strategy is how a team plans to reach their overarching goals and all of the steps to get there. ” – you’re not alone.

Sales Hiring 132

Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Sales Sales Enablement 132

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 28, 2022

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. Here are some of our favorite takeaways from the conversation: A sales organization needs a good foundation to scale.

Scale 210

Scale Scaling Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting 210

Sales Hacker

MAY 27, 2021

That means thinking of the sales team as remote-at-heart, not remote-by-default. Running a sales team without face-to-face communication. Remember the sales floor when it existed in physical reality? That means that communication in your team has been slashed to the bare minimum. So, what’s the big deal?

Underperforming Technical Team 126

Underperforming Technical Team Sales Software Review Technical Review 126

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.

Technical Review 111

Technical Review Development Team Review Underperforming Technical Team Systems Review 111

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. That means your focus should be on building the right customer profile and developing precise messaging to reach them.

Sales Hiring 183

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Technical Advisors 183

SaaSX

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

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. Using this blueprint as your guide, make sure to evaluate each candidate and determine their overarching goals, market value, potential weaknesses, etc.

Outsourcing Services 93

Outsourcing Services Strategy Underperforming Technical Team Technical Advisors 93

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.

Underperforming Technical Team 140

Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Communication Advertising 140

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. Why Is Lead Scoring Important For SaaS Companies? What Information Do You Need To Score SaaS Leads?

Sales 124

Sales Underperforming Technical Team Systems Review Headcount 124

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 5, 2018

When sales onboarding is ineffective, the costs are high – not only for the sales department but for the entire organization: Underprepared sales reps can damage your business reputation and may not sell to buyers the way they like to be sold to. Taking a Page from Agile Software Development. 4 Steps of Agile Onboarding.

Onboarding 93

Onboarding Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Sales 93

Sales Hacker

MAY 24, 2021

We get the best results when both the sales and the marketing teams’ content is based around the customers and their desired outcomes. We can’t do this without a shared effort from Sales and Marketing running customer development and jobs-to-be-done interviews. Alex is the boss. Use content to get them there.

Sales 97

Sales Marketing Underperforming Technical Team Social Media 97

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.

Underperforming Technical Team 112

Underperforming Technical Team Technical Advisors Forecasting Technical Review 112

Sales Hacker

JUNE 20, 2019

1) Sales Ops gets hired too late , from everyone’s point of view. They come after a VP Sales, but before Sales Enablement. 2) Sales Ops starts as a tech-savvy SFDC Admin (often an introvert BDR transfer). It then grows to Sales Ops, and ultimately matures to Biz or Rev Ops and has a full team built around them.

Sales Hiring 83

Sales Hiring Sales Enablement Scale Technical Review 83

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 5, 2018

Previously, however, he ran sales productivity for teams at Google, Salesforce and Box. His time at the latter culminated in the title of Chief Storyteller, where he rewrote the script for how Box sales team talked to and about their customers. Today, Doug is a Growth Partner at Emergence Capital. It was so fun.

Sales Hiring 171

Sales Hiring Technical Review Development Team Review Scale 171

OpenView Labs

JULY 8, 2019

Pricing is a crucial, pivotal element in any SaaS success story. 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.

Pricing 75

Pricing Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team SaaS 75

SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

In this presentation, Pluralsight co-founder and CEO Aaron Skonnard will discuss how Pluralsight successfully transformed its business to serve both individual and enterprise customers independently and will share his lessons for SaaS companies looking to tap into individual customers to sell into enterprises and vice versa.

B2B 170

B2B B2C Scale New CTO 170

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 5, 2018

Previously, however, he ran sales productivity for teams at Google, Salesforce and Box. His time a the latter culminated in the title of Chief Storyteller, where he rewrote the script for how Box sales team talked to and about their customers. Today, Doug is a Growth Partner at Emergence Capital. It was so fun.

Sales Hiring 163

Sales Hiring Technical Review Development Team Review Scale 163

Sales Hacker

MAY 3, 2021

That said, it’s never a bad idea to exercise a bit of empathy, and put yourself in the shoes of your target customer. Understanding their processes and struggles can help you and your team tweak your approach, messaging, timelines, and even product to ease the stress on the part of the buyer. Sales leaders advise to not budge on price.

Technical Review 105

Technical Review Sales Hiring Software Review Underperforming Technical Team 105

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. Ryan, welcome to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

Marketplace as a Service 111

Marketplace as a Service CTO Hire Sales Recruiting Scale 111

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 28, 2018

The best sales conferences enrich your team, build knowledge, and offer plenty of networking opportunities (and fun)! Bad sales conferences just feel like a huge waste of time away from you prospects. SaaStr Annual is the SaaS event that you shouldn’t miss. TOPO Sales Summit. Calling aspiring unicorns!

Scale 89

Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Underperforming Technical Team 89

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.

Sales Hiring 98

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Payment Methods 98

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 3, 2020

How do you think sales leaders can help avoid and resolve conflict within their teams? Sales leaders at every stage of their careers need to read these responses. . Over the course of your sales career, you’re bound to work with managers, coworkers, and even clients you don’t see eye-to-eye with.

Sales 100

Sales Compensation Underperforming Technical Team Communication 100

Sales Hacker

APRIL 22, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Nick Worswick, Global Head of Growth for WeWork. He discusses how to scale a multi-billion dollar SaaS company, as well as the key elements to navigating a successful career. Showpad is the leading sales enablement platform for the modern seller. The first is Showpad.

Development Team Review 65

Development Team Review Scale Software Review Sales Hiring 65

OpenView Labs

AUGUST 9, 2019

At Glassdoor, where we went through several iterations on our pricing strategy, I had a front-row seat to witness how these changes directly influenced the way we went to market, our overall sales motion and the types of conversations we were having with prospects and customers in the marketplace. Getting your packaging right.

Pricing 53

Pricing Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team SaaS 53

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

They sell that product to general councils, operations teams, and deal desks. They sell that product to general councils, operations teams, and deal desks. Keep the promise of sales enablement and keep your team doing what they do best, which is winning. Welcome to the Sales Hacker podcast.

Scale 117

Scale CTO Hire CTO Coach Scaling 117

CustomerSuccessBox

DECEMBER 13, 2021

That said, one of the tenets of SaaS is prescriptive and scalable solutions. A best practice that our onboarding team has implemented is to map out the process step by step in an activity diagram. Finally, and most importantly, we spent time enabling our sales team to position each package relative to the customers’ needs.

Onboarding 52

Onboarding Scale Underperforming Technical Team Systems Review 52

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. Learn how modern sales teams win deals now at 6sense.com/saleshacker. The second sponsor is Outreach, the number one sales engagement platform. We’re on iTunes.

VP of Engineering 79

VP of Engineering Branding Scale Marketing 79

The Marketing & Growth Hacking Publication

APRIL 8, 2019

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. You build a team of four Outbound SDRs.

Outsourcing Services 40

Outsourcing Services Outsourced Development Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting 40

Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

And that comes down to users, which is where the concept of “product-market- sales fit” comes in, observes Jyoti Bansal, founding CEO of AppDynamics (which was acquired by Cisco for $3.7B You don’t have, like, sales is different, then marketing is different, then product is different, then all — it’s all together in many ways, right?

Product Marketing 78

Product Marketing Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting 78

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.

Sales Enablement 125

Sales Enablement Scale Strategy Underperforming Technical Team 125

SmartKarrot

AUGUST 9, 2022

Software As A Service (SaaS) is a cloud-based method of delivering on-demand software to users. 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.

Scale 10

Scale Sales Recruiting Business SaaS 10

SmartKarrot

AUGUST 9, 2022

Software As A Service (SaaS) is a cloud-based method of delivering on-demand software to users. 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.

Scale 10

Scale Sales Recruiting Business SaaS 10

SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

And then, we ripped it out and Aaron went and talked to some of the top SaaS companies from today and added the case studies. Maria is one of the top SaaS leaders in marketing, just finished up the CMO Vanna plan, which IPOed. This is the best of times in SaaS, right? We wrote a book together. Aaron : Yeah. Maria : Yeah.

Sales Hiring 242

Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 242

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?

Scale 136

Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 136