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Sam Blond, the former CRO at Brex with 15 years in tech sales, took the stage at SaaStr Europa 2024 to share nine easy sales concepts that so many get wrong. Sam got his first job in tech sales as an SDR for Jason Lemkin’s company, EchoSign, which later sold to Adobe and launched his career. They did this right at Brex.
Brendon Cassidy, my VP of Sales wrote a version of this piece a while back. I though an updated version of this would be good for founders thinking about hiring a VP of Sales … VPs of Sales themselves … and VPs-to-be to read — Jason, ed. … 10 Rules to Being a VP of Sales in a Startup.
So Pardot, SalesLoft and Calendly, you’re thinking, “How is this random guy from Atlanta 2000 miles away at the starting floor, at the ground floor of three pretty interesting SaaS companies?” SalesLoft, why was that Pardot, I tried to recruit this guy, Kyle Porter, to come run sales at Pardot.
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Then we went on to build another company called SteelBrick, another SaaS configure price quoting solution. And from G2 track, we’ve gotten some interesting data where we’re tracking SaaS usage and spend for about 2000 companies. And as an entrepreneur, I do consider myself in sales and I believe sales is a noble profession.
In this blueprint, we provide insights on how to structure your sales organization. The changes in SaaS require that we no longer look at salespeople as individual contributors, but rather a team that crosses disciplines, not just within sales but also across other parts of the organization such as marketing and product.
When a potential customer enters the consideration phase of the buyer journey, the marketing team transitions the lead to his salesaccount executive, who educates the customer from the consideration stage through purchase. In higher price point sales, sales picks up the customer after the customer indicates an intent to purchase.
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While the volume varies by price point - freemium companies may have thousands of early customers, while $100k+ ACV companies may only have a handful - positive usage patterns indicate strong customer pull. As a seed stage company grows, hires a sales team and deploys the product to more customers, the signs of customer pull evolve.
By 2000, that number had climbed to 413 million, before roughly doubling every five years up until 2015. You should absolutely use diverse models and messaging, but don’t latch onto Black History Month or International Women’s Day to promote your latest flash sale. Showcase Low Price Points in Your Paid Ads Targeted at Gen Z.
Over the course of that fund, I recruited in, who is effectively my co-founder, he runs Amplify with me, is Mike Dauber. Then, over the course of that fund, we had promoted up David Byer to partner and recruited Lenny Pruss away from Redpoint to join us. You don’t really care who that human is, you care about the price.
” And actually Chris today 17 years later he’s actually still running that business at Oracle, but a lot of our other families so he joined us at the BigMachines in 2000 to run our European business. Tim Handorf you can see there, joined me at BigMachines in 2000. He’s still with us today, now running ThreeKit.
As SaaStr Europa 2022 drew to a close, attendees took one more opportunity to ask Jason questions about topics like how to navigate the current market, the future of work, playing in a crowded space, and hiring your first VP of Sales. It was funny for Henry to say he segmented his sales team at 80 million in ARR. Transcript.
And so, she can, and Anthony just finished up basically going from the first sales hire at Gainsight at almost 100 million in revenue and has just retired. Maria : It’s like saying, “Hey, you want a sales rep to carry 10 times the quota they do today. You can’t, you have to invest in that sales infrastructure.”
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What is sales? What is sales? Isn’t sales really around customer value creation? Sales is not about revenue generation, it’s around customer value creation. Why are we so obsessed with sales being focused on revenue? Sales is first and foremost around customer value creation, revenue is an outcome.
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Do I have pipe coverage for my sales team? Like, how, how is my sales team executing against their quota? other things people are talking about of course, is pricing models. You know, pricing is going to be more aligned than ever to value. So everything from product and engineering, uh, hr, recruiting IT security.
And I think trying to get that first team to come join you and then scaling the team and who you need to be your first 20 teammates, who you need to be 20 to 100, who you need to go from 300 to 2000. And today, of course, we have a recruiting team. We have a great recruiting team and they partner with the hiring managers.
Also, don’t miss out on discounted prices for SaaStr Annual 2024 tickets. Along with our marketing software, along with our sales software. At 2000, it’s a fact of life, right? What do we do as managers and COs? Because not everyone has a background in these issues, right? And I sort of understand that.
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