Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 30, 2020

B2B sales is always changing, but nothing could’ve quite prepared us for the wild ride that 2020 ended up being. While most of us have settled into the new normal and the challenges that come with it, sales leaders are looking ahead with uncertainty. Best Sales Statistics to Know in 2021. Short on time?

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Maria and Anthony present the CEO and CMO playbook of how the CEO and CMO can partner with other members of the team to grow sales and marketing. Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. Maria : Not too bad. Maria : I mean, I’ve talked to over 60 recruiters. It’s the entire executive team. CMO @ Anaplan.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 8, 2019

Andrei Brasoveanu will sit down for a conversation with Agnes Bazin Doctolib on how to create a targeted and effective sales process tailor-made for SMB. Join us at SaaStr Europa 2020. Agnes Bazin | Chief Development Officer @ Doctolib. They’re the leading booking management platform for doctors. Andrei B.:

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SaaStr

JULY 15, 2022

It’s pretty good, someone did a Tweet storm the other day on Zeb from ClickUp’s presentation at SaaStr Annual 2020. Jason Lemkin: You certainly can hire a whole content team and build 10,000 pieces of content, but I will tell you what I have always seen work is one incredible piece a week. That’s a great example.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 29, 2021

Well, at the beginning of 2020, no one had the playbook for that. And so, Mark Rudden and his team had to figure it all out by themselves. Fortunately, Mark had quite a bit of experience working and scaling teams in demanding, hypergrowth environments. I’ve been about 15 years in sales and about 10 years in SaaS sales.

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SaaStr

APRIL 23, 2019

Join us for SaaStr Annual 2020. Also, Brex is a Super Platinum sponsor for Annual 2020. Henrique: So, we applied to YC with this VR idea, which, looking back, it was pretty bad, but at the time we thought it was great. It was, kind of, like a developer friend who had a startup, so they saw their transactions on the terminal.

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SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

Join us for SaaStr Annual 2020. What is sales? What is sales? Isn’t sales really around customer value creation? Sales is not about revenue generation, it’s around customer value creation. Why are we so obsessed with sales being focused on revenue? We have to codify our sales process.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 19, 2022

As the president of Sales Xceleration, a firm specializing in assessing and implementing sales strategy , sales processes, and sales execution to drive growth, I’ve seen how job hopping can affect otherwise stable sales teams. But also the cost it has on their careers — and your sales team.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. And so, she can, and Anthony just finished up basically going from the first sales hire at Gainsight at almost 100 million in revenue and has just retired. Maria : It’s like saying, “Hey, you want a sales rep to carry 10 times the quota they do today. Want to see more content like this?

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SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

Scaling the company’s employee base, sales teams, marketing, and operations—all while preserving its culture—has required a laser focus on first principles, smart processes, and effective hiring. Know who is the foundation of your product and build your product for that user (in Stripe’s case, developers).

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The Angel VC

DECEMBER 12, 2018

While this is generally true for most companies, it’s particularly true for SaaS businesses, which invest heavily in product development, sales, and marketing upfront and get payments from customers over a delayed period of time, usually several years. The main reason is that your customer acquisition costs are highly front-loaded.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

Centralized HQs with all the perks and amenities “under one roof” have traditionally been used as recruiting tools to attract and retain top talent. And honestly, we’re limiting ourselves by proximity on recruiting a diverse best-in-class team. This will be a really strong indicator of retention and recruiting.

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OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

And the primary burden of your product and GTM execution can fall on an effective technical leader and proven sales executive. While the motion is slightly different, the genuine excitement that helped you make your first sale or close your first round should be leveraged in selling candidates as well. Cash is no longer a top concern.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 21, 2019

There are tons of roundup articles about top women sales leaders. Most of the time, somebody does a LinkedIn search for “sales leader,” chooses the top 15 profiles with the most followers, and calls it a day. What about the amazing sales leaders who aren’t well-known already? Most Dynamic Women Sales Leaders.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Over the course of that fund, I recruited in, who is effectively my co-founder, he runs Amplify with me, is Mike Dauber. Then, over the course of that fund, we had promoted up David Byer to partner and recruited Lenny Pruss away from Redpoint to join us. One person, 50. That’s true.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. 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.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. InVision is a software platform that’s built for design teams that are building remarkable digital applications and digital experiences, and it’s used to collaborate with product and engineering organizations as well. Want to see more content like this? Joyce Kim | CMO @ Arm Holdings.

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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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SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

When shelter in place started, the conversation we’ve had internally on our team is we have to think of ourselves as Navy SEALs, where we’re at base camp right now, and we’re going to train and we’re going to work on our playbooks and do our research. Personally, our team has been holding back a little bit.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

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. David Schmaier: Sure.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Also, don’t miss out on the lowest prices EVER on SaaStr Annual 2020 tickets. And we were about a $50 million sales run rate, but I’d never done a media interview. And the team deck doesn’t say who the CEO is? For the first 10 years when we didn’t do one media interview and we got to 50 million in sales.

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SaaStr

MAY 7, 2019

Join us for SaaStr Annual 2020. . That’s actually been a huge asset not just for us, but also in recruiting talent. They really value that so it’s been great also just for recruiting. I definitely have weaknesses and so I want people to help me be the best version of myself just the same way I can help them.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 5, 2019

In this session, Managing Director & Co-Head of Workday Ventures, Leighanne Levensaler will dispel the myths of partnering with large companies and reveal the 10 things that aren’t obvious with this kind of partnership. Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. Leighanne Levensaler | Managing Director & Co-Head @ Workday Ventures.

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Valuize Consulting

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The Employee Experience (EX) is the journey an employee takes with your organization and is the sum of all employee-employer interactions throughout that employee lifecycle, from pre-recruitment to post-exit. times faster revenue growth ( Sale s force , 2020). Development Programs. Ready to drive better business outcomes?

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we’ve got a fantastic episode for you. He even managed to help pivot the company from a programmatic transactional revenue model to a subscription model over the course of, not just the last three months during COVID, but over the course of the last few years. Sales enablement is easy.

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Point Nine Land

DECEMBER 12, 2018

While this is generally true for most companies, it’s particularly true for SaaS businesses, which invest heavily in product development, sales, and marketing upfront and get payments from customers over a delayed period of time, usually several years. The main reason is that your customer acquisition costs are highly front-loaded.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Women in sales often have a polarizing experience. Never believe that doubting yourself is a bad thing. In the Sales Hacker video series Aha Moments , I asked 10 women: “What is one ‘aha moment’ you’ve had in your sales career?”. What is one a-ha moment you’ve had in your sales career? Anything less is failure.

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Upscope

JANUARY 23, 2021

Soon I'll also be using software for SOC2 certification management, product management, recruitment and any process which can be handled better by a system rather than an Google Sheet. I'd expect development tools to rise up this list over time as it's a huge growing market and the competitors are flooding in.

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Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Do you want to grow your SaaS sales team and improve your processes? maintain healthy atmosphere in your Smarketing team, make smart choices regarding your SaaS sales model, strategy, pricing, . build smoother connections both with your prospects through optimized sales process. SaaS Sales Models.

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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. To say that 2020 has been unusual, and unprecedented, and momentous would all be understatements.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2020

343: Kyle Parrish is the Head of Sales @ Figma, the company that helps teams create, test and ship better designs from start to finish. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Kyle made his way into the world of SaaS and sales and came to be Head of Sales at one of the fastest-growing companies in Figma. What worked?

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

* How does David think about scaling sales teams? How does one know when is the right time to hire your first sales reps? What have been his lessons on optimizing payback period for sales reps? How should founders think about sales rep compensation? How does David think about payback period on a per rep basis?

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SaaStr

MARCH 6, 2020

To meet buyers’ high expectations and manage the challenging sales landscape, companies must involve their entire organization in maturing the sales process- including after prospects sign on the dotted line. And it was all about relationship building with our sales reps, which is a super useful tactic.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

As for Karl, prior to founding the company he spent 6 years at Google in some fascinating roles including Head of Patents, Head of Business Development in China and running Google’s energy investments. How does Karl think about working with recruiters? Loving our podcast content? How does this requirement change as the company scales?

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2020

403: Sam Taylor is the VP of Sales and Success @ Loom, the startup that helps you get your message across by making it easy to record instantly shareable videos. 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.

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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. Does Bob agree with the notion that channel sales have completely died in the world of SaaS? Harry Stebbings: Welcome to the very first SaaStr podcast of 2020. Why is this? What are the drivers of its death?

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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. Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. We have a very strong kind of developer focus. Enter the platform company. Ari Levy | Sr.

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