SaaStr

JULY 1, 2021

For us, it’s about fixing this problem, serving the customer well, so a very service driven mindset, which I gave a talk on a few days ago here, has been a big part of Gusto and affected our hiring from the early days. The second is pulling more around values, and how we approached team building. Get tickets here. TRANSCRIPT.

VP of Engineering

SaaStr

JULY 25, 2021

They talked about product adoption, sales alignment, freemium models and lessons they have learned throughout their successful SaaS careers. As two CEO who love the art of sales and scaling, this one really was special. You can have the great product and a great team, but the market of small or very niche. Jyoti Bansal: Yeah.

Sales Recruiting

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

If your SaaS business has a sales team, there’s no way to grow 100% year-over-year without also growing your sales leadership. In this talk, CircleCI VP of Revenue Jane Kim will talk about the 5 mistakes all new sales leaders make. Let me start by telling you about my first role as a manager. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

Scale

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 15, 2020

In this episode, Bob and I chat about his new book Demand-Side Sales 101: Stop Selling and Help Your Customers Make Progress. What is it about sales that makes academia hesitant to teach it? Bob wondered where all the sales professors were and discovered that perhaps as a profession it required more art than science.

Sales Hiring

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.

Sales Hiring

SaaStr

AUGUST 8, 2019

Andrei Brasoveanu will sit down for a conversation with Agnes Bazin Doctolib on how to create a targeted and effective sales process tailor-made for SMB. Agnes Bazin | Chief Development Officer @ Doctolib. She’s part of the founding team Doctolib, and the current chief development officer for the company.

Sales Recruiting

Sales Hacker

MARCH 1, 2018

This is part one of a five-part series to help you develop the sales coaching approach that’s guaranteed to make you an unstoppable sales leader! 4 Steps to Approach Sales Coaching Carefully and Tactically: Use role perception to improve your sales coaching model. Commit to Being Relevant to the Entire Team.

VP of Engineering

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 19, 2023

I traveled with them in business class to see clients. Maybe it goes without saying, I never heard them mistake the mail room guy or the security guard for a leadership team member.) Because it is they who continuously top the lists of unseen team members across organizations in the U.S.

Sales Recruiting

SaaStr

AUGUST 8, 2019

Andrei Brasoveanu will sit down for a conversation with Agnes Bazin Doctolib on how to create a targeted and effective sales process tailor-made for SMB. Agnes Bazin | Chief Development Officer @ Doctolib. She’s part of the founding team Doctolib, and the current chief development officer for the company.

Sales Recruiting

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.

Compensation

SaaStr

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Companies that have access to more accurate financial data have the ability to develop seamless exchanges of information, providing consumers with improved ways to manage their finances. “Well, fintech might be bad in the margins for me, but I can actually profit from this so let’s embrace it.”

Payments

Incredo

OCTOBER 17, 2019

or “how long should I spend on developing my software ?”. To answer your questions correctly, we need to ask for clarification and more details about your software, its complexity and company goals. If you search on Google, Youtube or Quora, answers will tell you that 7%, 9%, 10% or more is the common approach. See below!

SaaS Payments

SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

359: The Secrets to Vertical Growth, What it Really Takes to Build a $1B SaaS Company with Matt Garratt, SVP, Managing Partner @ Salesforce Ventures, Trisha Price, Chief Product Officer @ nCino and David Schmaier, CEO & Founder @ Vlocity. They need fewer sales as a percentage of overall employees. David Schmaier: Sure.

Payment Solutions

Incredo

OCTOBER 17, 2019

or “how long should I spend on developing my software ?”. To answer your questions correctly, we need to ask for clarification and more details about your software, its complexity and company goals. If you search on Google, Youtube or Quora, answers will tell you that 7%, 9%, 10% or more is the common approach. We will write about: 1.

SaaS Payments

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Combine traditional features like colorful booths, meeting rooms, info packets, and guest speakers with the online elements of virtual tours, and analytics and it’s easy to see why many businesses are having success with this method of hiring. Put a team together that shows off the best aspects of your business.

Sales Recruiting

Sales Hacker

MAY 20, 2021

You need to measure and repeat so you and your sales team only put effort into promising prospects abroad. Let’s explore the mathematical process the sales outsourcing team at Sales Force Europe takes both on behalf of our clients and in our own lead generation and international sales strategy.

Scale

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 7, 2019

If an email even remotely resembles bad outreach emails, it gets deleted. What aspects of that email provide value beyond a generic sales pitch in hopes of landing a demo or even a sale? Their prospecting emails can’t just say “use Slack to communicate with your team.” No questions asked. You have to do something unique.

Scale

User Pilot

MARCH 7, 2024

Fortune 500 companies Laura Erdem – Senior Sales Manager at Dreamdata Else van der Berg – Interim Product Lead, Advisor and Coach Frida Ahrenby – CMO at Rillion , CMO to Watch 2024, Board Member and Tech & Start-up Advisor Oana Manolache – Founder & CEO at Sequel.io Sima Banijamali – Sr.

Technical Review

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

When shelter in place started, the conversation we’ve had internally on our team is we have to think of ourselves as Navy SEALs, where we’re at base camp right now, and we’re going to train and we’re going to work on our playbooks and do our research. Personally, our team has been holding back a little bit.

Investment

Kellblog

APRIL 4, 2021

We are team members in an organization, after all. Manager response: “Well, I know a CAC of 1.7 is high but we are ramping quickly and carrying a lot of unproductive sales capacity that hurts the CAC ratio.” We don’t have a sales model, so why are you calculating its efficiency? Founders own the team.

CTO Coach

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Alina Vandenberghe is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Chili Piper , an inbound conversion software that helps sales teams automatically schedule appointments and instantly turn leads into qualified meetings. It teaches you some bad habits as well. “I would spend a lot of time with the sales teams.

VP of Engineering

Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2021

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Neil Ringers , EVP of Revenue Grid. Neil’s experience includes a long history of sales leadership, primarily in the Salesforce ecosystem, and is now running revenue for Revenue Grid. If you missed episode 153, check it out here: Learning Drives Sales Effectiveness with Paul Fifield?.

Scale

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Our second sponsor is Outreach, the number-one sales engagement platform. Welcome to the Sales Hacker Podcast. And before jumping head first into technology, he had the privilege of building his marketing and sales expertise at the NBA, CBRE, and Icon to name a few. We’re on iTunes.

Scale

Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Scalability Other Factors That Affect the Sales Multiple How to Make Your SaaS Business More Attractive and Valuable 1. Develop a Full Marketing Strategy 2. Lower Churn Prepare for a Sale Where to Sell Going it Alone Through a Private Sale Working With a Broker for a Win-Win Situation. Why Would You Sell?

SaaS Payments

ChurnZero

APRIL 27, 2021

Grotech Ventures is a team committed to helping creative and driven entrepreneurs build technology companies that last. Other signs of explosive growth potential at this early stage are a highly efficient sales motion, though this is most often still a work in progress at this stage. Let’s hear what they each had to say. .

Scale

Unbounce

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

If you need any truly custom elements, those will need to be carefully developed if you can’t find any off-the-shelf solutions. Custom graphics and multimedia Custom graphics and multimedia are time-consuming to make, and getting them to work and play nice with your web development efforts takes additional effort. Image courtesy Zola.

Pricing

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

What about, as someone who’s gone from your own solo GP fund in 2012 to a team, how does a founder think about a new partner? They will fall asleep thinking about your company and wake up thinking about your company, and hopefully not in a bad way, in a good way. That’s true.

Sales Recruiting

OpenView Labs

JULY 8, 2019

It’s also a good idea to learn what you can from others who have already traveled the road you’re on. As the first marketing hire at Zendesk , I underwent something of a trial by fire that proved to be a very valuable experience. The situation was this: our engineering team was constantly innovating and adding new functionality.

Pricing

Stax

JANUARY 8, 2024

Common risk management strategies for PayFacs include proper merchant vetting and onboarding, transaction monitoring and fraud prevention, chargeback mitigation, KYC/AML compliance, and data breach prevention. Reputational risks Risks associated with things like data breaches, poor customer service, company controversies, etc.

Merchant Services

OpenView Labs

MAY 29, 2020

The natural inclination of many executives is to cut, cut, cut, with marketing in the “first fired/last hired” position. The current recession devastated a few industries, like hospitality and travel, virtually overnight. These aren’t disguised sales calls. Another low-cost way to increase sales is with a referral program.

Payment Methods

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

If you’re short on time, here are a few quick takeaways: Leadership is not just about having a clear vision for the team – it’s also about serving others. Having a diverse team is not just better because all the different thoughts, points of view, and experiences make it more profitable in the long run. How can you remove obstacles?

Leadership

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?

Product Marketing

Outseta

MARCH 18, 2019

Wes Bush is a SaaS marketer who has quickly developed a reputation as “the free trial vs. freemium guy.” I know that sounds really weird, but just taking someone else's opinion on what you should do is really a bad framework for deciding what you should do. Wes Bush: The biggest mistake I see people make is talking to other founders.

Payment Methods

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.

Scale

SmartKarrot

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

A poor decision in the planning stage can truly portray a disastrous effect later on. It has to trickle down from the C-suite and might be amplified by the CS Leadership team to start top-down and ensure everyone to be on the same page. Having a seamless alignment within the teams is the key here,” says Dasgupta.

Customer Success

SaaStr

JULY 20, 2021

The session that I’m talking about is basically about the board dynamic and about how to survive this valley of death and bring not just yourself and your team but your extended team, including your board, across that until you cross the $1 million mark, and then the $10 million mark and keep going beyond. There we go.

Underperforming Technical Team

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.

Sales Hiring