Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Our survey determined that 20% of monthly calls don’t materialize into closed sales. 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. . 33% had poor sales demos.

Scale 123

Scale Technical Review Development Team Review Underperforming Technical Team 123

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.

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service 215

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 98

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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Scale Technical Review Sales Underperforming Technical Team 128

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.

Underperforming Technical Team 126

Underperforming Technical Team Sales Technical Review Software Review 126

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. I help source and complete deals, and I perform due diligence on deals.

Sales Hiring 171

Sales Hiring Technical Review Development Team Review Scale 171

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. I help source and complete deals, and I perform due diligence on deals.

Sales Hiring 163

Sales Hiring Technical Review Development Team Review Scale 163

Sales Hacker

MAY 8, 2020

Luckily technology makes it much easier. Let’s look at how you can connect with your prospects to make the sale, even when you’re remote. Whether you’ll prefer one presentation platform or use several, whether you do a simple demo or a complex one, you need to master the technology you’re going to use in advance.

Technical Review 94

Technical Review Social Media Underperforming Technical Team Sales 94

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Without goals, your team lacks the key elements it needs to win — a direction to follow and the encouragement to stay motivated in sales. They enable your team to track collective and individual performance. In fact, they often result to massive disappointment, and may even pull your team one or two steps backward.

Technical Review 89

Technical Review Revenue Management Underperforming Technical Team 89

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 21, 2018

Without goals, your team lacks the key elements it needs to win — a direction to follow and the encouragement to stay motivated in sales. They enable your team to track collective and individual performance. In fact, they often result to massive disappointment, and may even pull your team one or two steps backward.

Technical Review 82

Technical Review Revenue Management Underperforming Technical Team 82

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). 3) Sales Ops has grown from tactical to strategic. Shored up our weaknesses by adding tech.

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Sales Hiring Sales Enablement Scale Technical Review 81

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 30, 2019

a few years ago to 11 today, and even more people are involved for technical project decisions. No way, Jose,” is the response I get from most sales teams when I tell them this stat. Involving a larger team in the decision-making process helps people feel heard and increases buy-in. B2B sales is like a jigsaw puzzle.

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Underperforming Technical Team Technical Advisors Forecasting Technical Review 110

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. Work on this.

Technical Review 102

Technical Review Sales Hiring Software Review Underperforming Technical Team 102

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. Sam’s Corner [33:50 ].

Marketplace as a Service 111

Marketplace as a Service CTO Hire Sales Recruiting Scale 111

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

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. See how you can put your sales teams in the best position to win now at revenuegrid.com/saleshacker.

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Systems Review 82

User Pilot

MAY 30, 2024

PMs prioritize product development and functionality, while PMMs focus on market adoption and product desirability. They develop go-to-market strategies, plan product launches, and equip revenue teams with narratives, insights, and collateral to help them close deals. Some common sources of friction are: 1.

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Product Marketing Interviewing Management Scale 103

Sales Hacker

MAY 24, 2023

In the highly competitive B2B tech space, it’s easy to market your offer with so many tools and channels available. In this episode, we dive into this renewed trend with Tito Bohrt, the CEO of AltiSales, the one-stop shop for world-class sales development. AltiSales takes company culture quite seriously.

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Underperforming Technical Team Consulting Company Culture Acquisition 102

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. Carole Mahoney – Founder, Chief Sales Growth Unbound Growth. SECURE YOUR SEAT. RESERVE YOUR SPOT.

Sales 127

Sales Underperforming Technical Team B2B Technical Review 127

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. Before we get there, we want to thank our sponsors.

Scale 117

Scale CTO Hire CTO Coach Scaling 117

Hull

AUGUST 5, 2019

Picture your sales and marketing tech stack ten or even five years ago. That growth isn’t a bad thing. Numerous technologies have popped up over the past several years that offer improvements in critical areas like sales pipeline acceleration, lead generation and productivity through automation.

Revenue 40

Revenue Technical Review Data Underperforming Technical Team 40

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Sales enablement’s easy. It’s not that easy, but Sapper Consulting has built REGIE to keep the promise of sales enablement and help carry the load. REGIE uses artificial intelligence to create entire outbound, inbound, and even follow-up sales campaigns faster. Sapper Consulting is the first one.

Sales Hiring 87

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Artificial Intelligence 87

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.

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VP of Engineering Branding Scale Marketing 77

OpenView Labs

AUGUST 9, 2019

At Glassdoor and Lever, we doubled in size each year; and Reflektive —where I am now Head of Marketing—was recently recognized by Deloitte as the 13th fastest-growing technology company in North America. Establishing a close and trusting relationship with your sales team is critical to your success as a product marketer.

Pricing 53

Pricing Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team SaaS 53

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

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

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

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? And is it possible to leverage technology for a better pipeline and bigger deals? Wikipedia).

Technical Review 143

Technical Review Scale AI Search Sales 143

SmartKarrot

AUGUST 9, 2022

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

Scale 10

Scale Sales Recruiting Business SaaS 10

SmartKarrot

AUGUST 9, 2022

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

Scale 10

Scale Sales Recruiting Business SaaS 10

Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

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. Sales Enablement. The Sales Enablement Playbook.

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Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Payment Methods 143

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.

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Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 223

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 Enablement Scale Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 81

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 21, 2019

As far as additional career goals, I would love to serve on the board of a technology company. Manager of Enterprise Account Development at Lucidchart. Co-Founder of Utah Women in Sales. How long have you been in sales? . I have been in sales for around 4 years. How long have you been in sales? .

Sales Recruiting 97

Sales Recruiting Scale Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 97

SaaStr

OCTOBER 22, 2020

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. How does the structure of your marketing team need to change with the evolution?

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Sales Hiring Scale Interviewing Technical Review 196

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?

Scale 219

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Sales 219

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. Steve has previously said, “Sales and marketing must be one team.” What does this mean for the processes used by marketing teams?

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DevOps as a Service Sales Recruiting Scale Sales Hiring 100

Sales Hacker

APRIL 28, 2020

To that end, Lori also founded Women Sales Pros, the first community online dedicated to helping smart, savvy women get into B2B sales positions and sales leadership and to help companies find and develop great women sellers. We talk about what makes a great sales person. A primer on social selling [19:53].

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Leadership Scale Sales Hiring Sales 81