Sales Hacker

APRIL 23, 2024

Strategies for recruiting exceptional talent and building a customer-centric culture. 21:12 – Linda’s strategy for recruiting and retaining exceptional talent at Common Room. How Common Room unifies siloed data to enable a 360-degree view of the customer. It’s flexible, scalable ABM built for you.

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Sales Recruiting Scale AWS Management 83

SaaStr

MAY 6, 2021

A CRO owns and directs the strategy over a company’s revenue cycle, but there’s not a set standard for operational or management decisions: in addition to sales and sales development, they might be responsible for customer success, lead generation and pipelines, and even marketing and brand development. Is a CRO right for you?

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Interviewing Revenue 244

Sales Hacker

MAY 6, 2021

We’re in the middle of a transformational time in the world of technology across all sectors. What’s the difference between a VP of Sales and a Chief Revenue Officer (CRO)? The VP of Sales. Great VPs of sales have gravitas and tact, command the room and hold their end of the table regardless of who is on the other side.

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VP of Engineering Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Sales 93

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 20, 2022

Strong sales reps are the lifeblood of your business and how you choose to invest in them matters. For frontline sales managers, attributes like competency, quality of work, ease of execution, and length of contribution indicate reps’ overall job success, but you can’t rely on those inputs to tell you if they are personally satisfied.

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Sales Recruiting Scale Retention Sales 98

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Welcome to Sales Hacker’s first-ever Influential Women in Sales list! In this exclusive list, we wanted to honor not just female leaders that promote their own sales platform (no shame in that!) They say “You can’t be what you can’t see,” and the sales floor is no exception.

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Sales Recruiting VP of Engineering Scale Sales Hiring 111

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Bigly Sales. Keyway Executive Recruiting. Us in Technology. 305 ventures. 500 Global. Accelevents. Acronym Venture Capital. Apokalypse Software Corp. Arrowroot Capital. BIGcontrols. Blue Ocean Advisory Services. boldstart ventures. Catalogs.com. Clutch Prep. Companyon Ventures. Influeto.com. Insight Partners. Intuition Machines.

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Sales Recruiting Venture Capital Technology Software 235

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. How defendable is the technology of the product or the business model? That fundraising is easier.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale VP of Engineering 251

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 7, 2020

Fortunately, more organizers than ever before are consciously seeking out female sales experts for panels, presentations, and podcasts. At Sales Hacker, we’re serious about diversity, and for that reason, we’ve compiled a list of 530+ female sales experts to consider for your next event. Sales Development. Sales Growth.

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VP of Engineering Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Payment Services 121

SaaStr

OCTOBER 3, 2023

It’s so, so easy to stand out in recruiting if you’ve actually done your homework. ” — Jason Prater, Co-Founder, Cella Technologies “I always ask a question as an interviewer, like, “Based on everything you know about our company and product, if I gave you five devs and $100,000, what would you build?

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Interviewing Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Consulting 232

SaaStr

APRIL 1, 2020

By that, I mean the best SaaS professionals and managers I know have a variety of approaches and temperaments. Some have a very intellectual approach to sales. As a recruiter. Maybe even outside of technology. Some shoot a lot from the hip. Some are aggressive, others are determined (similar, but different).

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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Recently, Redpoint Office Hours welcomed Allison Pickens to clarify the COO role and when startups should consider recruiting one. Product and technology-centric founders should remain at the helm of these businesses longer because the product drives the GTM. The CoS doesn’t manage anyone. A few hypotheses underpin this trend.

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Sales Recruiting Startup Scale Sales Hiring 192

InsightSquared

MAY 15, 2019

It’s one of my favorite questions to ask a fellow professional in sales operations. Insurance sales rep. Account Manager. Sales Operations is Still Developing. Sales operations as a profession is growing, yet it is a comparatively new function in businesses. Sales Ops is Many Disciplines in One.

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Sales Recruiting Scale Technical Review Sales 110

Sales Hacker

JULY 19, 2022

Celine, who transitioned from agency sales to SaaS, is the Vice President of Boardable. Join us for a great conversation about transitioning in sales and technology selling. Sometimes you have to take one step back to go two steps forward in sales. Sales is all about building internal relationships.

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Sales Recruiting VP of Engineering Sales Hiring Sales 82

Mucker Capital

APRIL 2, 2024

In this Mucker Growth session, Mike Genstil with ValueCore delves into the concept of value selling and its application in enterprise sales. As a founder, ideally you want your sellers, marketers, and product leaders aligned in transforming product features into value-based messages to accelerate sales cycles and secure corporate deals.

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Sales Recruiting Technical Review Enterprise Cybersecurity 52

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

I was the new Vice President of International Sales & Managing Director for a work management software company called Wrike. Starting Your International Sales Team. The key to starting an international sales team is having the right people in your landing team. A mercenary is driven by the sale.

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Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Sales 99

ChurnZero

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Designing a successful post-sale strategy requires choices, says CXology’s Tim Conder. In addition to your five customer needs, you also have key questions that help you develop a deep understanding of what your customer is trying to do, in a deeper way than your sales team has already discovered. A: First, it matters how you recruit.

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Sales Recruiting Scale Customer Success Sales 52

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 30, 2020

B2B sales is always changing, but nothing could’ve quite prepared us for the wild ride that 2020 ended up being. While most of us have settled into the new normal and the challenges that come with it, sales leaders are looking ahead with uncertainty. Best Sales Statistics to Know in 2021. Short on time? What this means for you.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Revenue 125

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The greatest technology does not always win. Accordingly, the recruiting of beta customers and roadmap selling happen earlier, providing for customer quotes as part of the launch. Double-clicking on this with a Zendesk example: Find opportunities to give people the ability to directly engage with the technology as part of the launch.

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Sales Recruiting Generative AI AI AWS 99

InsightSquared

AUGUST 14, 2019

For sales professionals, AI is not only impacting your personal life, but it will soon influence your professional work too if it hasn’t already done so. Many of today’s forward-thinking companies have already begun using AI in their sales strategies. Strengthens Communication With Sales Leads.

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AI Artificial Intelligence Sales Recruiting Forecasting 91

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 81

OpenView Labs

AUGUST 19, 2021

Sales recruiting is broken. The sad truth is that VP of Sales are turning over within 19 months —and that timeline is shrinking. . Not only that, the market has heated way back up and the VP of Sales is one of the most sought after roles. This isn’t linear and there are many shades of grey when it comes to sales. .

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Startup 82

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

JUNE 26, 2018

Today, everyone working in and around sales and marketing knows that bots are hot, in vogue and quite simply, of the moment. In my role leading sales enablement at HubSpot in EMEA, we deliberately carve out time to think about ways to leverage tools, technology and software that will make sales reps more effective.

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Sales Enablement Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 100

Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Blockchain technologies become mainstream driven by the adoption of national reserve banks. More companies adopt the idea of qualifying buyers through a product embracing the benefits of product-led growth including faster sales cycles, greater ARR per employee, and quicker account expansion make PLG the dominant GTM strategy.

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Sales Recruiting Blockchain Banking Machine Learning 279

SaaStr

JANUARY 15, 2021

You might also include developers on sales calls from time to time — it makes everyone feel heard. The CEO of Dominoes recruited his Head of Technology personally, telling him that his realm was the most critical thing Dominoes was going to do in the next decade. 3 Assign problems, not tasks. 4 Provide executive enthusiasm.

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Sales Recruiting Development Software Review Management 164

OpenView Labs

JULY 20, 2020

Interviewing is hard , and interviewing candidates for sales roles can be doubly so. Sales requires a mix of left- and right-brained qualities, and accurately evaluating a candidate’s skills is a challenge for hiring managers. Better interviewing = better sales teams. How not to interview for sales.

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Interviewing Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 73

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

I’m 100% OK taking a lot of risk here because I know I can help them recruit a local team as much as necessary or desired. Network effects in your product, a marketplace element, or at least some tech/product/non-sales driven reason your app automatically gets more and more dominant as it scales. It just varies.

Scale 339

Scale Sales Recruiting Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence 339

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Before you rush in for the sale, you need to assess everything. Tailor your solution and sales material to meet their specific need in the same language they use when they talk about their problems and desired solutions. Remember, not every conversation is a sale. Recruit advocates (actual insiders) early.

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Enterprise Technical Review Sales Recruiting Scale 139

SaaStr

JULY 5, 2019

But I started to learn what it took to recruit, inspire, and yes fail a team. Luckily, she worked in the same company and had co-invented the technology. And I learned to recruit. And to close $6m in customer contracts through founder-led sales. Fourth, I found a great co-founder. Bootstrapping is far better.

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Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE CTO Hire Sales Recruiting 158

User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Chief Technical Officer : Responsible for outlining the company’s technological vision, implementing technology strategies, and ensuring that the technological resources are aligned with the company’s business needs. Average salary: $196,172/yr. Average salary: $191,286/yr. Average salary: $46,035/yr.

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Sales Hiring SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 97

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. Then, the sales team went to work. When making a sales hire, Max pays attention to the way candidates approach getting the job.

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Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Technical Advisors 183

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Companies were growing their sales organizations and bringing in more revenue. Companies everywhere have frozen their hiring and laid off workers — with sales reps often among the first to go. I’ll be honest: as the leader of a sales-focused recruiting company, this has been tough for me and my team.

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Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Sales 94

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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Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Payment Methods 81

SaaStr

MARCH 10, 2020

That was the most over the top entrance that the sales leader for a company that moves boxes around the world has ever gotten. So we did about 442 million in sales last year. The top 25 freight forwarders combined to do 100 billion a year in sales. Rely on your success, know you are doing something right and scale faster.

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Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scaling 199

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 8, 2021

Elements of Successful Global Sales Expansion. “Be So, let’s look at four keys to a successful global sales expansion. The hard questions: No plan is without its faults, and no sales expansion is without its fair share of roadblocks. It takes a particular type of sales leader to be the first in a new country or region.

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Sales Technical Review 82

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 21, 2017

What is Sales Operations? Sales operations refers to the unit, role, activities and processes within a sales organization that support, enable, and drive front line sales teams to sell better, faster, and more efficiently. But perhaps more than anything else, sales operations brings a system to selling. Technology.

Scale 87

Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Technical Review 87

InsightSquared

OCTOBER 10, 2019

With communication taking on digital forms, tech-based tools and solutions are lucrative to the success of a modern sales and marketing strategy. With your communication strategy in place, design your company branding to construct your sales and marketing digital presence. Implement Tech-based Tools. Ensure Longevity.

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Communication Sales Recruiting Marketing Sales 70

Chart Mogul

MARCH 21, 2019

Defining the 'how' and 'why' of your early sales culture helps make the right thing easy to do. In this post, I discuss sales culture at ChartMogul and share two examples of how our team strives to articulate value in conversations with customers. Sales culture at ChartMogul. Back to buyer-seller basics. I was hooked.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Technical Review Software Review 68