SaaStr

MARCH 24, 2020

Sam Blond, CSO at Brex explains why recruiting, networking and employee happiness is the key to this playbook on recruiting your sales team. Sam Blond | Chief Sales Officer @ Brex. I’m doing The Playbook To Recruiting Your Sales Team. Once again, amazing job to the SaaStr team. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 25, 2019

Early in my career, I saw firsthand how a $20M funded company went from startup to NASDAQ IPO to being delisted in the span of three years due to frivolous spending (but that’s a story for another day). My cost-conscious lens (plus our proven outbound sales program) has served my company, Leadium, well. Salary and benefits costs.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Revenue Operations is at the forefront of a paradigm shift — to view the buyer’s journey as a seamless thread across multiple people, systems, and value propositions. And it’s not just for CROs; if you’re a marketer, SDR, sales rep, manager, VP, or CRO, this one’s for you. Adoption and usage expand over time.

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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

MARCH 23, 2020

The right mental models have a knack of becoming an integral part of a company’s operating system, and more importantly help employees make good decisions, more often. MSPOT An MSPOT is a simplified one page strategic plan used by HubSpot, and they have become an integral part of the company’s operating system.

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Buffer Resources

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

In this article, I will share the competitive analysis framework my team and I have developed (through weeks of research and dozens of iterations), and give you some tips on where to look for data that isn’t publicly available so you can have a competitive advantage. Are they looking for a developer with a specific skill set?

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 21, 2020

Can you ever be sure you’re hiring the right salesperson? When I first wrote this article, we were in a very different place, with unemployment at an all-time low and sales hiring a top priority. That secret weapon is a hiring scorecard. Fortunately, my client used their hiring scorecard to sidestep a costly mis-hire.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 6, 2025

AI is transforming how go-to-market teams operate. Leaders need to rethink how to balance technology adoption with the need to cultivate the human skills that drive high performance in sales. Here are several ways we heard from leaders that they’re actively doing to reinforce certain skill development: Manual before automation.

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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. The company’s best-selling book, Predictable Revenue , details the hugely successful outbound process and sales created specifically for Salesforce. Starting as VP of Sales, in less than two years he became CEO.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Kathy Lord, SVP of Sage People explains how asking hard questions, embracing feedback and making personal connections with your customers can move the sales journey from prospect to champion. And then we transition them to support and then we give them to the account manager and then we do their renewal. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 9, 2019

A great sales compensation plan needs to accomplish quite a lot. And of course, a strong sales comp plan needs to motivate reps to hit goals that grow the company while still maintaining a profit margin. The Process for Creating a Sales Compensation Plan. Know what to Include in a Sales Incentive Plan. Keep it Simple.

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SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

Scaling the company’s employee base, sales teams, marketing, and operations—all while preserving its culture—has required a laser focus on first principles, smart processes, and effective hiring. Know who is the foundation of your product and build your product for that user (in Stripe’s case, developers).

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 11, 2019

But as the business becomes more successful – and there are resources to build a support team – additional layers begin to separate executives from their customers. Since 2010, he’s helped the company grow to more than 40,000 customers and helped scale the support team to more than 500 employees to assist those users. Short on time?

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Unfortunately, your in-house team doesn’t have the required expertise to push through change. Hire a consultant, hands down. In a nutshell, they can give you expert opinions, analysis, and recommendations that can help ensure a more objective-based approach to grow your business and maximize sales – all at the same time.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 3, 2022

Content is the cornerstone of sales enablement, but creating it is a massive headache. Those are resources that most sales teams do not have, and resources that most marketing teams need to protect. What is Agile sales enablement? There is a pressure on teams to move quickly and scale early.

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OpenView Labs

APRIL 13, 2020

Proliferation of iterative, experiment-driven, nimble approaches to product development (also known as Agile). The convergence of these changes has led many to realize that “growth” is a team sport. It is no longer the job of Marketing or Sales to solely own revenue, nor Product the core user experience. Monetization.

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How To Buy Saas

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

A powerful CRM helps organize customer data, streamline sales pipelines, and automate marketing ultimately boosting revenue. Effective sales teams are also 81% more likely to be consistent CRM users , underscoring how vital these systems are for success. Lets dive in!

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

And as Travis mentioned, we’ve had lots of great recent guests, Hollie Wegman, CMO at Segment, Adam, the head of developer relations at HashiCorp, G.C. But even back then, I heard whispers in the halls of how great a manager Claire was. Her team loved working for her. If not, you can send me bad pictures of dachshunds.

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SaaStr

APRIL 9, 2019

Not only for the product side, but for the sales and marketing side. Eric Yuan : However, transitioning from engineer to engineer manager probably, is straightforward. You’ve got to learn about sales, about marketing and, otherwise, you need to hire a lot of other people around you to help. Speed is everything.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 1, 2021

Because we’re Sales Hacker (and it’s literally our job), we decided to take matters into our own hands: we talked to the experts. A made-up role so companies can hire more people to tell sales how best to do their job.” — Jason Henson , Manager, SMB Sales Development at Lytx, Inc. .

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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.

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Point Nine Land

DECEMBER 1, 2020

A methodology in five simple steps I learned how to run forecast and pipeline reviews, first, by distilling what my sales managers did when I was a sales rep and, then, building my own systems as a sales leader at Revinate, at Framer, and advising a number of B2B SaaS companies. Why forecasting?

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 13, 2020

That could be through freelancing, or by hiring another firm (like a call center) to handle segments of your business. Use outsourcing as a tool to drive sales and revenue. According to Wasp Barcode Technologies, the five biggest challenges facing small businesses center around employee management and profit.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. How to build a more diverse team [24:50]. Sam Jacobs: This week on the show, we’ve got Luke Rogers, the Vice President of Sales at Instabase. Through that, he went to university where he studied AI and cybernetics, ultimately leading big teams in EMEA for AppDynamics.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 23, 2020

In this guide, our team at Neil Patel Digital has outlined some vital tips to identify and hire specialized marketing agencies, as well as help you understand how these agencies fare when compared to an end-to-end agency. How to Identify and Hire the Best Specialized Marketing Agency for Your Company? Email Marketing.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Everything from a site builder, perhaps using a website template to web design and using social media to develop your new business website. This is just as bad as not having a website in the first place. Most good support teams will even have full backups of your site that they can restore if worse comes to worst.

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Neil Patel

APRIL 20, 2021

A contribution margin ratio is the difference between sales and variable costs within a company. To learn how to get the contribution margin ratio, you subtract the variable costs of producing a product or service from the overall sale price of the product or service. Variable costs help companies identify issues in their system.

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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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Baremetrics

AUGUST 29, 2021

An effective sales outbound strategy needs to balance two opposing elements: efficiency vs. personal touch. We recommend starting with LinkedIn’s own Sales Navigator. Let’s say your ICP is a web developer running a startup on the East Coast. This will result in poor open and response rates.

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Stax

JANUARY 8, 2024

Not only must PayFacs safeguard themselves and their clients against potential threats like fraud or cybersecurity breaches but also ensure PCI compliance , customer due diligence, and adherence to card regulations. The potential impact of failed or inadequate internal systems, processes, procedures, etc. Velocity checks.

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 13, 2020

I’ve put together a list of my top five document management solutions—let’s talk about why they are valuable and how they can help. The Top 5 Options for Document Management Software. For sales, this is an information gold mine. This avoids needless time lost due to redundant actions and confusion.

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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. I hear you.

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Kellblog

MARCH 11, 2020

Some SaaS startups develop a form of zero-sum delusion early in their evolution, characterized by following set of beliefs. If the StartFast doesn’t work, it’s not a big deal because the Customer Success team’s mission is to offer free clean-up after failed implementations.

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OpenView Labs

JUNE 16, 2020

The best companies are tweaking sales systems, adjusting their go-to-market strategy and rediscovering customers’ needs as they evolve. Pivoting sales to meet buyers. Doubling down on the candidate hiring experience. Regardless of how busy you are or slumping sales, now is the time to have a laser focus on your customers.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Who is Callie Moriarty and what is 6 River Systems? [3:00]. 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. Remote work?

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

They told us they would do tons of all this pricing stuff and help us with hiring and introduce us to customers, and all of these things. Your sales team becomes more efficient, your customer success team becomes efficient, your customers like you more. I have a team of people who work on numbers. But it worked.

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ChurnZero

JULY 22, 2022

Does your Customer Success team have a shallow view of onboarding? They’re trying to get customers off their legacy system so they can switch over to the new platform. I’m going to interview their customers to find out what they did to get off that legacy system so we can bake that into the customer journey.

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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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