Sales Hacker

AUGUST 19, 2022

Content is one of the most critical components of your sales engagement strategy. To ensure long-term content strategy success , it’s best to periodically evaluate your team’s content requirements and workflow alignment. Your content strategy evaluation should start with understanding your team’s current challenges.

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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. Yeah, that’s not a strategy, it’s a tactic – and not a great one at that. When they’re used poorly, you’ll sound like a cliché.

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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. Strategy - annually changes. MSPOT stands for: Mission - rarely changes.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Why your sales team is losing deals in 2022. Traditional B2B sales tactics are often defined by the “spray-n’-pray” method – an endless deluge of relentless cold-calling and pushy follow-up tactics. . It’s a strategy that privileges volume over quality. 43% cited poor timing or insufficient data on when to reach out.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Every day, sales managers work side by side with their reps in customer meetings, planning sessions, and team meetings. It’s easy to assume that sales coaching is accomplished somewhere in this mix. Poor sales coaching affects performance and is often a product of a cultural misunderstanding of what coaching is all about.

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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. Better cooperation with sales is inevitable and already put on the agenda.

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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. Reimagined sales coaching.

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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.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Lessons learned from nine months in enterprise sales [10:18]. Cold outreach strategies that generate engagement [18:02]. Guided selling with Revenue Grid allows you to guide reps step-by-step through every deal, reducing guesswork and increasing consistency so your teams have the best odds with every opportunity in the pipeline.

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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

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

In sales, sellers who cite convoluted reasons to explain poor performance, rather than proactively doing something about it often remain — unsurprisingly — at the bottom of the success ladder. There certainly are a lot of things in sales that make life a tad more difficult. Our marketing team sucks. Losers make excuses.

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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? Affinity with Technology.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 27, 2018

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. What is B2B Sales Prospecting?

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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

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

JULY 15, 2022

When working with customers to build the foundation of their prospecting strategy , I often recommend starting at a high level to see how each workflow is interconnected. In this context, the “journey map” is a visualization for the Outreach workflows your team will use to move prospects through the funnel. Next steps.

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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.

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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. Getting Started.

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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. Finally, and most importantly, we spent time enabling our sales team to position each package relative to the customers’ needs. In my experience, poor onboarding is a top driver of churn.

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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.

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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? I’ve heard so many good things from Kobie, now at Upfront, and then also the team at Openview. How does Andy think about discounting?

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 28, 2018

The SaaS Executive’s Guide To Building A Winning Go-To Market Strategy by Jacco Van Der Kooij. The Winning By Design Blueprint Series provided practical advice for every part of a SaaS sales organization. This particular piece of the series outlines a tactical approach to building a go-to-market strategy. Backlinks – 176.

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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. Onboarding, but make it remote. Kieron: Absolutely.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 11, 2018

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. You see, core project management skills and sales skills aren’t all that different. A similar scenario plays out in the world of sales.

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OpenView Labs

JULY 8, 2019

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. Big-picture Pricing Strategies – Good Ideas that Work for Everyone.

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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.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

In this session, she’s going to share 2 of the skill sets you need to thrive as a modern seller and give you strategies to implement them in yourself and your team. The Modern Sales Mindset and How It Impacts Results. Founding member of the Sales Enablement Society. Sales reps face a terrifying predicament.

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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.

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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

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.

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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 Jyoti: There’s a right market, and you have the right product, and we have the right sales or go-to-market strategy that works for it.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 23, 2019

You fail to distinguish the bad habits from the good ones and the whole experience blurs into one. I can’t recommend enough that you familiarize yourself with Sales Hacker’s Sales Tech Landscape. There’s a tool to optimize just about every part of the typical sales cycle, both at a personal and organizational level. .

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2020

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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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

Strategy and Process. Hacking Sales. The Pirate’s Guide to Sales. The Sales Acceleration Formula. Mastering the Complex Sale. Sales Development and Prospecting. The Sales Development Playbook. Outbound Sales, No Fluff. Sales Engagement. Sales Engagement. Todd Caponi.

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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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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.

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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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