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The Playbook to Recruiting Your Sales Team with Brex Chief Sales Officer Sam Blond (Video + Transcript)

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Nothing matters but recruiting and using your personal network. Sam Blond, CSO at Brex explains why recruiting, networking and employee happiness is the key to this playbook on recruiting your sales team. Sam Blond | Chief Sales Officer @ Brex. I’m doing The Playbook To Recruiting Your Sales Team.

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

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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. I was a local sales manager or regional manager.

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11 Things That Set The Best Salesteams Apart From The Rest

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A few factors that contribute to high-performing sales teams: High quota attainment. The best startups invest in their sales teams and work hard so most of the reps hit and exceed quota. Turning over a sales team is very hard on the organization. A great VP of Sales is worth her weight in gold. They have low attrition.

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Bet On Up-and-Comers. But Add One Veteran For Each $10m ARR.

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And that means your initial leadership team often takes you faster, and further, than you might ever think. There are roughly 2 types of start-up management teams. The first type is the kind of management team hired by second+ time founders. Often folks they convince to once again be a VP of Eng or VP of Sales.

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Lessons Learned Rapidly Scaling a Team from 2 to 1100 People with Remote CEO and Co-Founder Job van der Voort

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Remote started in 2019 with nothing: no money and not a very good idea. At the same time, you want to give trust and power to people who recruit, and you do that by ensuring they understand what the culture is. So that support person, Mafalda, started doing sales, too. Your culture can’t be ephemeral, where only the CEO knows.

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What Order Should You Hire Your Management Team In?

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— Jason BeKind Lemkin (@jasonlk) July 21, 2019. More on that here and a great video discussion below: You’ll probably be ready for your first VP of Sales by $1m in ARR. Ideally, have your VP of Sales on board in time to hire reps 3-300. You’ll need a VP of Engineering by $8m-$10m ARR. ARR VPS: $1-$1.5m

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SaaStr Podcast 259 with Pipedrive SVP of Global Sales Tara Bryant — August 23, 2019

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Even what we could consider “good problems” need preparation, and it starts by understanding your team and your goals, including knowing when and how to recruit members of your team, and building in a way that compliments your growth. This podcast is an excerpt of Tara’s session at SaaStr Annual 2019. Missed the session?