Sales Hacker

APRIL 27, 2020

Whether you run a one-person sales enablement program or are part of a team, the sheer scope of the job can be overwhelming. Which is why we’ve put together this guide on sales enablement, focusing on the three primary parts of the job: strategy, execution, and governance. Sales enablement strategy.

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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.

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 3, 2020

Each bucket has a set of disciplines that the team scores. First, it enumerates the important priorities for a marketing team. And second, the scorecard provides a way for a team to understand their strengths and weaknesses. You might score each on a 1 to 10 scale. Business Development. who does it sell to?

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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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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! . Accelerate!

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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

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

In these challenging economic times, business as usual has been anything but – and like many sectors, B2B sales is in the midst of transition. A recent survey of B2B sales professionals commissioned by my company, Lusha, sheds light on the extent to which this critical industry is in a state of flux. 33% had poor sales demos.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 12, 2021

Deal disasters you’ll want your team to avoid. When the selling is good, it’s all about scaling, but when there’s less margin for error, it’s easier to pinpoint where your organization isn’t up to snuff and make improvements. Do your sales reps know who they’re supposed to be targeting? How to prep and empower your team.

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OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Companies use various methods such as surveys and assessments to uncover the critical selling and knowledge skill gaps impacting their sales executives. In many cases, these gaps are preventing sales executives from reaching their full potential and meeting and/or exceeding quota. prospecting, account planning, etc.)

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OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Alright—raise your hand if you think there’s value in developing a sales enablement strategy at your start-up? Okay, and raise your hand if you think it’s vital to have a customer service enablement strategy, too? The fact of the matter is, customer service enablement isn’t a field of its own. average of 15%.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

They sell that product to general councils, operations teams, and deal desks. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Keys to success when scaling a company [10:56]. They sell that product to general councils, operations teams, and deal desks. We’re on iTunes. We’re on iTunes.

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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

MARCH 23, 2020

One of the biggest challenges businesses face when they grow is scaling effective , autonomous and quick decision-making. Google, Apple and HubSpot are just three examples of industry-leading companies which use mental models to aid quick decision-making. Again, it was an easy to use model which scaled effective decision-making.

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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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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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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? How does Andy view the importance of offering trials?

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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 Hacker

AUGUST 4, 2022

But it won’t help you if you don’t leverage it to actually develop and grow relationships. Sales: It’s not just a numbers game. Sales is a numbers game,” is probably one of the most common phrases uttered by grizzled sales veterans. Case in point: I’ve worked in tech sales almost my entire career.

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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

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. How can you capture, qualify and convert the right leads for your business while working within your means? Short on time?

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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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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. What’s your sales organization’s biggest challenge right now?

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Systems Review 69

SaaStr

JUNE 3, 2020

Michael Katz is the Founder & CEO @ mParticle, the customer data platform for brands leading the customer data revolution with clients from Airbnb to Spotify to Postmates. How does this hire correlate to your hiring in sales enablement? How does Mike make sales data really actionable within the company?

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Sales Hiring Scale Technical Advisors Systems Review 174

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2017

The race to the 2017 finish line is in full throttle – While last minute closed deals are still trickling in, B2B organizations are researching how to shape next year’s sales strategy to align with the top sales trends that are expected to emerge in 2018. Top 2018 Sales Trends & Predictions – Strategic Headlines.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 4, 2021

Developing a revenue operations (RevOps) strategy — and the team to implement it — is no easy task. As the VP of Revenue Operations at Sales BQ®, I saw my role develop from primarily sales enablement to sales operations as we worked to understand and get a hold of the wide variety of roles RevOps is in charge of.

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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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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. Salesloft CMO Sydney Sloan on aligning sales, marketing and support.

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Benchmarks Sales 165

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The SaaStock team will be landing in São Paulo to run the region’s first Pan-Latin American SaaS conference, SaaStock LatAm. We’ve gathered LatAm’s leading SaaS founders, executives, and investors – as well as a few international faces – for an unbeatable few days of knowledge and networking.

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Technical Review Scale Entrepreneurship Sales Hiring 207

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 76

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

In August of 2016, Rachel Hepworth embarked on a unique challenge: start a growth marketing team at one of the most successful startups of this generation – one that had long relied heavily on word of mouth. Adam: Rachel, you’re leading growth marketing at one of the fastest growing software companies of this generation.

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Growth Marketing Scale Marketing Outsourcing Services 174

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. Scale is the name of the game at Saastr Annual. Unleash is the ultimate Sales Engagement conference.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 8, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we interview Rob Jeppsen , CEO of Xvoyant and host of the Sales Leadership Podcast. Rob is a longtime sales veteran and is incredibly passionate about both the profession of sales but, more importantly, the importance of investing in your team through sales coaching and training.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 22, 2020

388: Ryan Carlson is the CMO @ Okta, the leading independent provider of identity for the enterprise. As for Ryan, he has spent an incredible 9 years at Okta in numerous different roles starting with running the product marketing team before moving to run the marketing team, leading to his promotion to CMO close to 5 years ago now.

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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. What were Steve’s biggest takeaways from seeing the hyper-scaling at AppDynamics? Does it differ from traditional dev teams?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

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. You can’t, you have to invest in that sales infrastructure.”

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Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 203

Sales Hacker

JUNE 20, 2019

Well, in a previous life, I spent six years selling to, and thereby studying, Sales Operations. Want a quick debrief on what I learned about Sales Ops ? 1) Sales Ops gets hired too late , from everyone’s point of view. They come after a VP Sales, but before Sales Enablement. And guess what?

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

If you missed episode 130, check it out here: Turning Junior-level Talent into Top Sales Professionals with Eddie Baez. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Managing a technical team as a non-technical person [24:13]. Sales enablement is easy. More sales meetings, more money. We’re on iTunes. The result?

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Marketplace as a Service CTO Hire Sales Recruiting Scale 96

SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

My co founders and I were software developers, so we knew how to write the code, to build the website, to build the learning platform, to build the video distribution model. So, let me walk you through that. We were also teachers, we taught in the classroom, so we knew how to teach the first courses. That doesn’t sound too hard.”

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