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Buyer Personas: Tips to Make Them Work Better for Your Sales Team

Sales Hacker

First, how does the knowledge that Terry is married and loves eating Smarties help your reps make a sale? Our guess is that poor Polly from purchasing is gathering dust on a noticeboard in the canteen or buried somewhere deep in your internal network of folders. Your sales team. Or Mary from marketing?

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Ideation, Creation, Iteration: How to Align Sales and Marketing Content Output

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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.

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Speed Up Your Sales Cycle With Lead Scoring: 4 Simple Steps

Sales Hacker

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. Even if you did, it would spike lead acquisition costs and strangle the productivity of your sales team.

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SaaStr Podcast #403 with Loom VP of Sales Sam Taylor

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In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Sam made his way into the world of SaaS with Dropbox and how that led to his leading the sales and success team today @ Loom. What was Sam’s biggest lesson from scaling the sales team at Dropbox? How does Sam think about the relationship between sales and marketing?

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46 Bad Ass Sales Podcasts Every Sales Professional Should Follow in 2019

Sales Hacker

So don’t just aimlessly listen to sales podcasts and never implement the lessons. Take notes, highlight the best parts, and share important takeaways with your team. Then, most importantly, take what you’ve learned and go apply the insights to your sales process. Linking Into Sales (The Social Selling Podcast).

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The Ultimate Sales QBR Playbook for Sales Leaders

Sales Hacker

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. Related: How to Prepare for a Sales Development QBR. A sales QBR: isn’t a status update meeting.

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5 Ways to Build your SaaS Channel Partner Strategy in 2020

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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. That’s okay.