Kellblog

AUGUST 19, 2022

This is commonly known as a backdoor search, I guess because you’re sneaking out the back door to interview candidates. As someone who’s recruited candiates, been recruited as a candidate, and even once hired via a backdoor search, let me say that I don’t like them. Hire an interim, but slow starting your search.

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SaaStr

JUNE 3, 2020

And G2 Gives, we partner with philanthropies, we partner with some of our customers like AWS and Google Cloud, who can then make donations for every review, to thank their customers. And the reality is most of them don’t, most of our customers and prospects don’t trust us, especially those of us in sales.

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OpenView Labs

JUNE 17, 2019

And unfortunately, on more than one occasion, I’ve seen this FOMO cause them to lose remarkable salespeople and sales leaders that were previously beyond excited to work with them. hire them immediately. One client of ours who hires like this has grown 5x in 2 years! There is a reason you need to hire, right?

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Sales enablement is easy: all you have to do is create perfectly targeted content, stay informed on email best practices, drive more engagement quarter over quarter, spend less money, and do all of this with less time. More sales meetings, start creating better sequences faster, go to go.regie.io

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Sales Hacker

MAY 19, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Tom Williams , Cofounder and CEO at DealPoint. DealPoint is the first sales platform for customer-centric sales teams. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Welcome to the Sales Hacker Podcast. But the ultimate milestone isn’t the contract. We’re on iTunes.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2019

Well, you guys have probably all read Sameer’s bio and his resume and heard about the SendGrid Twilio journey, but I think the reason why I wanted to do this interview with him is because there’s some things that people don’t know about Sameer, which I think are interesting to note. Anna Khan: Awesome. I had none of those.

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ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

For example, I think of AWS. If you put the CS Operations under the Chief Operating Officer, they can scale across with Sales. For example, Sales, CS, and Product can really have this aligned, streamlined way of rolling everything out under operations. The Sales team wants something done in Salesforce.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 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. You can’t, you have to invest in that sales infrastructure.”

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

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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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 18, 2022

Found by Manohar Chapalamadugu in 2013, Agile CRM is an Indian SaaS company known for its sales and marketing solutions designed for SMBs. The company aims at providing a single platform for automated marketing, sales, and other services. Agile CRM offers lead generation, contact management, and integrated telephony services.

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SaaStr

MAY 15, 2020

333: Bridget Gleason is the Head of Sales and Customer Success @ Tidelift, the company providing managed open source, backed by maintainers. Before Tidelift, Bridget was VP of Sales @ Logz.io and before that was VP of Corporate Sales @ Sumo Logic where she drove ARR up by a record 237%. What core elements does it change?

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 7, 2025

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Fred Viet serves as the Chief Sales Officer at Aircall, overseeing global sales and playing a key role in scaling the company’s reach over the last four years. The first one, I know my sales cycle. Fred Viet: Yeah, we hope so.

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SaaStr

JUNE 19, 2020

Jason Lemkin: And what was interesting is the ones that I interviewed, the top VCs that I talked to, said they all read almost all of their inbound emails. It’s a sales pitch. It is a specialized version of sales, but it is sales, no doubt. Jason Lemkin: In late stage, often the investors are in sales.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Sam Jacobs: We’ve got an interview with a friend and a great entrepreneur, AJ Bruno, the CEO and co-founder of a company called QuotaPath. If RFPs are slowing down your sales team, you need to check out Loopio. Welcome to the Sales Hacker podcast. We’re on iTunes.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 20, 2019

292: Manny Medina is the Founder & CEO @ Outreach, the market leading sales engagement platform that turns your team into a revenue driving machine. Befofe that Manny was a Senior Product Manager @ Amazon where he engineered the compensation system for Amazon Associates and Web-Services which accounts for 15% of Amazon’s traffic.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 4, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we interview Dan Fougere , CRO of Datadog. Dan is a 20+ year veteran of technology sales and has seen 4 of his last 5 companies become unicorns. Dan talks about the key qualities of great sales leadership and how to be an effective executive in addition to being a great sales leader.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Yousuf. Harry Stebbings: So given the centrality of that role there and the ever increasing prominence of it, I guess my next question is for operators listening, when is the right time to hire that first CIO? My advice is hire earlier rather than later. Yousuf Khan.

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Since Michael founded the firm in 2004, it has grown to over 30 offices worldwide, and they’ve worked with Intel, AWS, and Salesforce, among many other well-known brands. Needless to say, Michael knows a thing or two about helping software and big tech manage their global marketing presence.

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SaaStr

MAY 3, 2019

Episode 229: Manny Medina is the Founder & CEO @ Outreach, the market leading sales engagement platform that turns your team into a revenue-driving machine. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Manny made his way to found the leader in sales engagement from product management at Amazon and Business Development @ Microsoft? *

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2023

The Sales Hacker Newsletter has now merged with The GTM Newsletter to make one of the largest newsletters in the space. As always, you’ll hear real stories/strategies/tactics from real revenue operators spanning: sales, marketing, customer success, operations/enablement, product and hiring. Needs more pre sales support.

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SaaStr

APRIL 24, 2020

Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with John. How do you think about and how do you advise founders on when’s the right time to hire a chief strategy officer and how they know that it’s right for their company? The enterprise sales cycle will take a while, but we’re pretty happy with it.

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SaaStr

JULY 29, 2020

And so many of my classmates couldn’t get jobs, I had done my summer internship at Google and I remember getting the call from Google, my manager at Google saying, “Hey, we’ve decided not to extend any of our summer internships full-time offer, because again, it was 2008. And I remember like AWS was growing really quickly.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Before Assist, Liat spent 6 years at Twitter where she first hand saw their hyper-growth, managing a team of 40 across New York and SF and also Liat achieved 102% to quota on average every year. Finally before Twitter, Liat was VP of Sales @ Revolution Prep where she led and managed 7 offices. Loving our podcast content?

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 16, 2020

How does Paul think about driving really effective change management? When engaging with bottoms up sales models, where does Paul identify the tipping points of going from bottoms up to top down? * Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Paul. Is there hiring decisions? Harry Stebbings. Paul Rosania.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

I caught up with Ryan for a conversation that ranged from how to articulate your value to educated customers to why he tries to schedule one job interview per day. Ryan is constantly interviewing candidates , because if there’s someone out there who’s better than the current team he’s assembled, he wants them on that team.

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SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2024

” “I hated Katie at that company meeting, it was awful.” We hire remarkable people, and we give them a lot of freedom for how they’re going to get their work done. They need to inform behavior of your company, and they need to inform who you hire, fire, promote, grow, and celebrate your organization, daily.

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