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Things May Snap Back Fast. So Take Advantage Of This Crazy World Now.

SaaStr

Maybe: – Go grab that office lease at half off – Hire Bay Area VPs now while they'll work anywhere. My top suggestions: Hire those “Bay Area VPs” now while they’ll (still) work with startups HQ’d anywhere. Go hire those VPs now that aren’t in your city. Finish this exercise.

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9 Easy Sales Concepts So Many Get Wrong with Sam Blond, Former CRO Brex

SaaStr

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.

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The Playbook to Building a Thriving Sales Culture with PatientPop SVP of Sales Justin Welsh (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Justin Welsh, former SVP of Sales at PatientPop explains how he started in SaaS in 2009 as the second sales hire at Zocdoc. Justin used Sales Culture to grow a successful PatientPop team to 140 employees and 55 million in revenue. Justin Welsh | SVP Sales @ PatientPop. Want to see more content like this?

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Close.com’s Steli Efti on balancing competition and collaboration in sales

Intercom, Inc.

This is the recipe for a mediocre sales team. Like a sports franchise, a top team should be both collaborative and competitive. On this week’s episode, I caught up with Steli to chat all things sales. When not writing his sales handbook, he’s been overseeing the change from Close.io to Close.com.

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Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR): Definitions, Formulas And How To Improve It

Stax

There are some important variations to MRR that would be good for your sales team to be aware of, including new MRR, expansion MRR, and churn MRR. Talk to sales What is Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR)? Let’s get started. TL;DR MRR is the average revenue that a company expects to receive each month.

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Scaling Faster, An AMA with SaaStr Founder & CEO Jason Lemkin (Pod 577)

SaaStr

As they scaled, they radically changed how they did sales. They moved to a more traditional SaaS inside sales model, and they started shipping out these hardware devices, and only 30% to 40% of the customers would end up paying for them. And we’re about to add basically a team collaboration tier on top of the product.

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“7 Tips and Tricks to having happy customers at Scale” New Relic EVP, Roger Scott (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

That’s not a bad start. And so we’ve built … We started out in fairly small fashion, initially, when we started the company 11, 12 years ago, and focused very heavily on the application performance management marketplace. We work with mostly modern teams. Do you hire Mr. Right or MR. Right Now?

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