Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Historically, growth of a sales team was based on the revenue starting with $0M on day 1 of the year. However, in a SaaS model , the customer acquisition team can grow revenue to $1M in year 1. If the same team keeps performing at the same growth it will achieve $2M in year 2 – whilst the renewals come in at 100%.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 24, 2023

In this episode, we dive into this renewed trend with Tito Bohrt, the CEO of AltiSales, the one-stop shop for world-class sales development. Tito explains when it makes sense to prioritize customer acquisition vs. retention and vice versa. He also shares how company culture impacts productivity and morale, primarily within sales teams.

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Unbounce

OCTOBER 1, 2019

What you probably haven’t heard is how the brand’s marketers helped drive customer acquisition like mad by persuasively communicating Zola’s benefits to the diverse segments of its target audience. Meet Ari Gayer and Shivanie Barapatre, core members of the customer acquisition crew at Zola.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

We had them on the podcast way back in 2016, and they’ve even been a guest contributor to our book Intercom on Onboarding. Samuel Hulick: I actually started as a full stack developer. Back in those days, and this was like over 10 years ago, the developer would get a Photoshop file that had all of the different interface elements.

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Outseta

JANUARY 20, 2020

I was managing a team of 15 and the company had grown to about 140 employees. They were clearly property management and software development, and as someone that was hired to accelerate Buildium’s growth I immediately saw countless opportunities to grow the company by moving into new markets. We mostly succeeded. I’m proud of all that.

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InsightSquared

MARCH 8, 2021

Focus on the things that you can control and work to win, understanding as you engage with your team, or anyone really. I started my professional career in finance and found my favorite days were the ones helping develop and train new team members. Liz Brown – Services Architect. I’ve been at InsightSquared for 9 years.

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Casey Accidental

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The Summit gathered ~40 CPOs and product leaders to chat through topics centered around product development and product-led growth. Most companies have a primary acquisition loop that drives this scalable growth, and unfortunately, there aren’t that many acquisition loops that really scale. What they stop doing is leaving.

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Valuize Consulting

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

A recent Towers Watson study revealed that businesses with a strong employee experience sustained a 4% bump in revenue while those with a poor experience saw revenue fall by 1%. By identifying these critical stages, you can then employ best practices to improve and optimize employee acquisition, engagement and performance.

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Chart Mogul

APRIL 29, 2021

It also extends to our customer acquisition and sales strategy. In a recent Act-On and Demand Metric study completed in Q2 of 2016, less than 20 percent of mid-size B2B companies relied on solely inbound or outbound strategies; 84 percent of respondents used some mix of both. More than 90% of our leads come through our 14-day trial.

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 29, 2020

I actually wrote about the phenomenon , which I called ‘The Slow Death of Freemium’, back in 2016. Freemium Model for SaaS – The Good, The Bad, and The In-between. Freemium: It’s About Acquisition, Not Revenue. However, freemium is a really potent acquisition model. How to optimize your freemium model.

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Navint

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Earlier this year, we welcomed Sean Joyce to the Navint team. Sean has over 15 years of expertise in recurring revenue technologies, most recently hailing from Salesforce where he was a senior member of the product marketing team responsible for Salesforce CPQ & Billing.

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Chart Mogul

APRIL 29, 2021

It also extends to our customer acquisition and sales strategy. In a recent Act-On and Demand Metric study completed in Q2 of 2016, less than 20 percent of mid-size B2B companies relied on solely inbound or outbound strategies; 84 percent of respondents used some mix of both. More than 90% of our leads come through our 14-day trial.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 12, 2024

It helps product managers motivate teams to action, impress stakeholders, and quickly derive actionable insights. A practical example of a dual-axis chart usage In this example, the dual-axis chart compares sales values and profit margins for each year – from 2016 to 2021. Analyzing team performances.

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yoursales

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Which problems are the most pressing for your and your B2B sales team? Which processes can and need to be powered by technology for you and your team to sell more? Trends which MAY impact your Sales Stack in 2023 Sales is in constant development. What customers want is help solving problems. Being a B2B buyer isn't easy.

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Upscope

JANUARY 10, 2019

Companies developing their idea and in the early stages of generating revenue will see these metrics bounce around like an oompa loompa. Buffer's metrics Captured on 5th April 2016 via former co-founder of Buffer , Leo Widrich. Seen on an annual basis, a 10% customer churn is bad. 50 of them cancelled in that month.

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OpenView Labs

MAY 13, 2021

That’s why, in a customer segmentation process like the one described in this guide, it’s critical to develop customer segment hypotheses and variables, and then validate them with a well-developed, scientific research process. Stakeholders: The senior staff from the various departments and teams (e.g.,

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Chargify

AUGUST 17, 2017

Floyd points out that by 1969 Sears was the largest retailer in the world, but 2016 marked “the sixth year of a $10.4 For instance, if you normally track Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) as a KPI, you may not notice when Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) drastically increases. Actually, the description isn’t talking about Amazon.

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yoursales

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Which problems are the most pressing for your and your B2B sales team? Which processes can and need to be powered by technology for you and your team to sell more? Trends which MAY impact your Sales Stack in 2023 Sales is in constant development. What customers want is help solving problems. Being a B2B buyer isn't easy.

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SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

He’s experienced in leading multiple B2B software companies from startup through acquisition. It’s not a well known moniker, but generally speaking, these are companies that have achieved initial revenue traction and are really in a position to accelerate their customer acquisition, go to market. Excellent, great.

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SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

He’s experienced in leading multiple B2B software companies from startup through acquisition. It’s not a well known moniker, but generally speaking, these are companies that have achieved initial revenue traction and are really in a position to accelerate their customer acquisition, go to market. Excellent, great.

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SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

He’s experienced in leading multiple B2B software companies from startup through acquisition. It’s not a well known moniker, but generally speaking, these are companies that have achieved initial revenue traction and are really in a position to accelerate their customer acquisition, go to market. Tim McCormick: 00:06:56.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Never believe that doubting yourself is a bad thing. That company only lasted another year before they were out of business, so it was a poor use of my energy, time, and being away from my family – a lesson I work to pass on to others new in roles today. Invest in your development internally and externally. Joyce Johnson.

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SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2019

Prior to their IPO in 2016, Twilio had raised over $250m in VC funding from some of the best in venture including USV, Bessemer, Salesforce and Techstars just to name a few. What does Jeff mean when he says, “the developer first approach is a maturation of the supply chain of software?” Just to name a few. Harry Stebbings: As for Jeff.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2020

As for Sam, prior to Loom, Sam spent over 4 years at Salesforce following their acquisition of Quip, a startup Salesforce acquired for $750M where Sam was also the 1st sales leader. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Sam made his way into the world of SaaS with Dropbox and how that led to his leading the sales and success team today @ Loom.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

Prior to Crossbeam, Bob founded Stitched, a powerful ETL service built for developers that was acquired by Talend in 2018. Before that Bob co-founded RJ Metrics, where he built a global base of online retailers leading to their acquisition by Magento Commerce in 2016. How have you altered and developed as a CEO do you think?

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 15, 2022

Join us for an entrepreneurial conversation about how to modernize your talent acquisition approach for both high growth and long-term growth. 4 ways to modernize talent acquisition. 4 ways to modernize talent acquisition [22:26]. Sales development school, marketing school, and more for your entire team.

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OpenView Labs

AUGUST 27, 2020

Product led growth (PLG) is an end user focused model that relies on the product itself as the primary driver of customer acquisition, conversion and expansion. This phenomenon is commonly seen in a few markets: productivity tools (think Calendly , Notion , Zapier or Airtable ) and developer tools (think Datadog , Twilio or Atlassian).

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Sixteen Ventures

DECEMBER 31, 2019

In fact, it was in 2016 I started referring to it not as Customer Success, but as Customer Success-driven Growth, to bring to the forefront the fact that Customer Success is a growth driver; a growth engine. How to Develop a Customer Success Strategy. The Role of Customer Success in… Customer Development.

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