Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 29, 2019

In this week’s episode we’ve dug down into the podcast vaults to bring you some of the best insights shared by our guests about scaling sales. It’s no surprise that one of the key levers for growth as you go from startup to scale-up is your sales team. Hiring for sales with John Barrows.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

It’s an approach that’s served him well along the road to building the HubSpot sales team, where he was CRO for nine years. That experience led to his bestselling book, The Sales Acceleration Formula. This has created large amounts of data for running teams. . This has created large amounts of data for running teams. .

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 21, 2020

Can you ever be sure you’re hiring the right salesperson? When I first wrote this article, we were in a very different place, with unemployment at an all-time low and sales hiring a top priority. That secret weapon is a hiring scorecard. Fortunately, my client used their hiring scorecard to sidestep a costly mis-hire.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

374: ZoomInfo founder and CEO Henry Schuck shares how he built a business from scratch and grew it into one of the most successful IPOs of the 21st century—and what it was really like…the good, the bad, and most of all, the ugly. That was February 5th, 2019. This episode is sponsored by Outgrow.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Good sales leaders are always on the hunt to bring in new talent that can help a business grow. Still, they don’t always nail down the details when it comes to the things that might entice a prospective salesperson — like a well-rounded sales compensation plan , for example. Creating a Winning Sales Incentives Program.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Kathy Lord, SVP of Sage People explains how asking hard questions, embracing feedback and making personal connections with your customers can move the sales journey from prospect to champion. And then we transition them to support and then we give them to the account manager and then we do their renewal. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Companies that have access to more accurate financial data have the ability to develop seamless exchanges of information, providing consumers with improved ways to manage their finances. “Well, fintech might be bad in the margins for me, but I can actually profit from this so let’s embrace it.”

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

In April 2019, I stepped into a new job as Vice President of Enterprise and Commercial Sales. . I was excited to join a company with a strong reputation for sales excellence. How do you improve a sales team’s performance when they’re already operating at world-class levels? . The challenge was how. My plan? .

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. How to build a more diverse team [24:50]. Sam Jacobs: This week on the show, we’ve got Luke Rogers, the Vice President of Sales at Instabase. Through that, he went to university where he studied AI and cybernetics, ultimately leading big teams in EMEA for AppDynamics.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 9, 2019

A great sales compensation plan needs to accomplish quite a lot. And of course, a strong sales comp plan needs to motivate reps to hit goals that grow the company while still maintaining a profit margin. The Process for Creating a Sales Compensation Plan. Know what to Include in a Sales Incentive Plan. Keep it Simple.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Pietro Bezza | Managing Partner @ Connect Ventures. Emilie Maret | Fellowship Team @ The Family. We’re a team of former investors and operators from the likes of Facebook, Deliveroo, and the Swedish payments company Klarna. Emilie Maret | Fellowship Team @ The Family. Want to see more content like this?

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Sales is the most important function with any company, and the sales manager plays a critical role within it. That said… The importance of your sales manager cannot be understated. The sales force drives the company’s revenue and it’s the sales manager’s job to drive the sales force.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Lots of us fantasize about moving upmarket, but are unsure of how to get started, is it just a matter of hiring a team of SDRs and getting them to hit the phones? Oops… Today we’ll be covering the five tips and here they are right here, from handling buyer expectations to navigating the complex sale.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 15, 2022

In the 200th episode of the Sales Hacker Podcast, we have Asad Zaman , CEO of Sales Talent Agency (STA), where he rose through the ranks from AE to CEO, earning recognition as Toronto’s Young Professional of the Year (2019). There are over 40K more sales jobs openings than salespeople. powered by Sounder.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

Let’s talk 2019 predictions. But what if you could have a better idea of the changes 2019 has in store for Customer Success professionals? the stuff that Customer Success teams are really meant to do). As the chatbot craze subsides, I anticipate behind-the-scenes AI to become a major trend in 2019.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Bessemer Venture Partners’ Alex Ferrara takes a look at trends and predictions for the cloud industry in 2019. Before I joined the venture capital industry many years ago, I was a software developer, and I worked for a startup around the 2000 time period. Usually, it requires an outbound sales motion.

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The Angel VC

DECEMBER 12, 2018

It’s an important question, as your target growth rate determines your hiring plan, budget, and fundraising strategy. What makes things tricky is, first, the uncertainty of how your CACs will develop at increasing scale and of how your churn rate will develop over time. for each $1 of net new ARR, which is quite healthy).

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Lessons learned from nine months in enterprise sales [10:18]. Sam Jacobs: This week on the show, we want to put a spotlight on account executives, people like you that are in the trenches making sales. What’s your sales organization’s biggest challenge right now?

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 4, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Matt Rizzetta , founder of North 6th Agency, which is a communications and PR firm based in New York City. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. How to get better at sales [21:37]. Welcome to the Sales Hacker podcast. Welcome to the Sales Hacker podcast.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast , we talk to Brian Birkett , the SVP of sales at LeanData. Brian is a long time sales executive and sales leader. He brings a diverse background in sales management experience spanning from startups to large public companies in both field and inside sales.

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Chart Mogul

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Every team has their own slightly different way of calculating the cost of customer acquisition. Generally, if any part of your team is working on an activity that’s touching on acquiring customers all their expenses should be included in the calculation — salaries, rent, and so on. Let’s play a little thought experiment. Marketing? .

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SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2019

We collectively as a company were fortunate in doing all those things and, boy, was it a heck of a team effort, and it was a lot of fun. ” Sameer Dhokalia: It was really helpful to not have any of the usual dynamics, and it is fairly common, to have dynamics between founders and a hired CEO. I won’t lie.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast , we talk to Travis Bryant , Entrepreneur in Residence at Redpoint Ventures and former global head of Sales at Optimizely. Travis began his career designing web portals for car dealerships before joining Salesforce as a Sales Engineer. How do you know you are going to be a great manager?

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Sales Hacker

MAY 7, 2020

If you’re looking for a new Account Executive job today, then you know how difficult it can be. Where do you start with so many companies struggling and cutting down their sales teams? What percent of most companies are made up of quota-carrying sales reps vs engineers and other roles? Their total team size is 3,111. .

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SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

My co founders and I were software developers, so we knew how to write the code, to build the website, to build the learning platform, to build the video distribution model. This won’t be that bad. We were also teachers, we taught in the classroom, so we knew how to teach the first courses. That doesn’t sound too hard.”

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ProfitWell

AUGUST 18, 2020

Growth is so fast in SaaS, that enterprise SaaS revenue hit a $100 billion run rate in Q2 in 2019. The risk to switch is so low that one survey found that 63% of DTC customers leave after one poor customer experience. Most companies opt to evaluate the outcomes from change by the same team that implemented the change.

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ChurnZero

APRIL 27, 2021

Grotech Ventures is a team committed to helping creative and driven entrepreneurs build technology companies that last. Other signs of explosive growth potential at this early stage are a highly efficient sales motion, though this is most often still a work in progress at this stage. Let’s hear what they each had to say. .

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

Let’s talk 2019 predictions. But what if you could have a better idea of the changes 2019 has in store for Customer Success professionals? the stuff that Customer Success teams are really meant to do). As the chatbot craze subsides, I anticipate behind-the-scenes AI to become a major trend in 2019.

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The Marketing & Growth Hacking Publication

MARCH 3, 2019

Bad web design is a trend among B2B brands. But you might be wondering, Why are these sites SO bad? The following are some of the most common factors we see behind bad B2B websites. Get your priorities straight by creating a customer-centric team. From CRM to ERP to inventory management software to shipping logistics?—?the

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User Pilot

MARCH 7, 2024

Fortune 500 companies Laura Erdem – Senior Sales Manager at Dreamdata Else van der Berg – Interim Product Lead, Advisor and Coach Frida Ahrenby – CMO at Rillion , CMO to Watch 2024, Board Member and Tech & Start-up Advisor Oana Manolache – Founder & CEO at Sequel.io Sima Banijamali – Sr.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

After working on NASA’s Space Shuttle Main Engine, he went on to develop Portfolium, a social networking platform that allows students and graduates to showcase skills beyond the traditional resume to potential employers. Portfolium was eventually acquired, but the team behind it never stopped thinking about a better way to do it.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

When I first started in 2006, everything was really bad. You have to spend a reasonable amount of time, sometimes years, developing. I’m a big fan of keeping teams fairly lean at the start. The first hire shouldn’t be a head of sales. So it was kind of in the back of my mind for a long time.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 31, 2019

She founded Box’s growth team as well as the product operations team. And before box she ran product and engineering teams building large scale financial platforms for Accenture clients. Ciara : Craig’s designed and led teams at enterprise and consumer companies including Salesforce, eBay, and Google.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Renaud Visage, Co-Founder of Eventbrite, and Romain Huet, Head of Developer Relations at Stripe, know what it takes to effectively evolve your offering into a platform without losing what made offering appealing in the first place. Romain Huet | Head of Developer Relations @ Stripe. Want to see more content like this?

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Casey Accidental

MAY 18, 2020

This makes their approach to development much more like other software in that it can be more agile and less like producing a film or a piece of hardware. Like any change in the video game community, gamers notice, and a whole lexicon has been created based on these new abilities of game developers.

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Casey Accidental

MAY 18, 2020

This makes their approach to development much more like other software in that it can be more agile and less like producing a film or a piece of hardware. Like any change in the video game community, gamers notice, and a whole lexicon has been created based on these new abilities of game developers.

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Navint

MAY 21, 2019

Recurring Revenue Conference presented by Sutton Capital Partners marked its fifth year on May 1, 2019, in beautiful Marina del Rey, California. If the business model and customer profile were going to change, then the stakes they were playing for had to change, too, as did the team running the organization. Localize your pricing.

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