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PODCAST 36: How To Model Sales Productivity And Identify Opportunity For Marketing To Developers

Sales Hacker

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast , we interview Meghan Gill , VP of Sales Operations at MongoDB. . Meghan has been at Mongo almost 9 years and was the first non-technical hire at the company, helping them scale past an IPO in 2017 and transitioning from an early career in Marketing into Sales Operations. .

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The Things Nobody Tells You About An $8B Acquisition with Ryan Smith from Qualtrics (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And we were about a $50 million sales run rate, but I’d never done a media interview. And then I convinced him to come back in 2009, and the rest is history. For the first 10 years when we didn’t do one media interview and we got to 50 million in sales. Jason Lemkin: Oh, I see. We’re working together now.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Matt Garratt, Trisha Price, David Schmaier, Rob Bernshteyn, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

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. But what is this?

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8 Tough Lessons from Closing 12,000 Customers at WebPT (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Then I went over to the sales department. The demo is the sale and we close everybody in month. Heidi Jannenga : When we’ve again, first started going out and looking for funding, everybody wants to amplify your sales strategy. The first thing you bring in your playbook on sales. We were profitable by 2009.

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A Better Approach To Start-up Hiring

Outseta

A mis-hire is not only an expensive mistake , but can also represent a major setback in terms of building your product, hitting your sales number, or properly supporting your customers. The first dates back to May 2009, shortly after I graduated with a freshly minted MBA degree. I wondered to myself. It was my first VP position.

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The top SaaS companies ruling the East Coast

SaaStock

Thanks to them, merchants can make more successful sales and win happy customers. Founded: 2009. Toast ’s all-in-one point-of-sale (POS) and restaurant management platform helps power and grow restaurants. Founded: 2009. During 2018 Black Friday/Cyber Monday, sales through Shopify reached a record-breaking $1.5+

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170+ Women in Sales Share Their Career-Defining Aha Moment

Sales Hacker

Women in sales often have a polarizing experience. In the Sales Hacker video series Aha Moments , I asked 10 women: “What is one ‘aha moment’ you’ve had in your sales career?”. The conversations that followed were so authentic and encouraging that we decided to expand this conversation to other badass women in the sales world.

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