Sales Hacker

APRIL 26, 2019

when interviewing for a sales position? You answered the sales interview questions in a way that made you look like a winner. In this article, we’re going to review the 27 most common sales interview questions, PLUS the types of answers your interviewer is looking for, so you can raise the bar on your interviewing skills.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

We’ve all seen AWS and what they’ve done with their platform. They started in the point of sale market, and then as the company scaled, they rolled out new value props and modules for payroll, or Toast capital, or ways to manage your employee base. This is really founder-led sales. It is staggering.

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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. ” So, depends on the strategy. One person, 50. Jason Lemkin: Yeah.

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User Pilot

JULY 14, 2024

UX/UI Design and Research Teams Can Use Userpilot to: Recruit Users for Usability Tests with Usage Analytics and Segmentation Collect User Feedback with In-App Surveys Understand Product Usage with Product Analytics Get a Demo 14 Day Trial No Credit Card Required What is a business intelligence analyst? Book a demo to see it in action!

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Outseta

JANUARY 20, 2020

In this post I’m going to share the most important lessons about growing a SaaS business that I learned at Buildium—collectively, these things had an awful lot to do with the company being valued so highly. In light of the sale of Buildium last month I figured now is as good of a time as any to reflect on the most important ones.

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SaaStr

JUNE 25, 2019

Now, I have some background with luck because in between some long stints with other companies, seven years at Eventbrite and 15 years at Ticketmaster before, I spent five years of my life playing poker for a living and learned an awful lot about luck and positive outcomes as well. We are super aligned on strategy.

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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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Point Nine Land

JANUARY 30, 2019

If building the infrastructure of a SaaS product seems easy nowadays (with AWS and the myriad of developer APIs available), it was not the case fifteen years ago. From web hosting (AWS) to email (Sendgrid) or search (Algolia), there’s no shortage of infrastructure tools available to build a SaaS. Infrastructure. Integration.

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Outseta

MAY 8, 2020

There’s an awful lot of nuance here and the devil is in the details. Software should be used as a tool that’s supportive of your strategy, not something that’s opportunistically driving your strategy. I’d need to learn to raise capital and recruit developers. How can we use this?” This is completely ass-backwards!

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SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2019

We were signing up hundreds of new paying customers every month with five sales reps. Sameer Dhokalia: It turns out if you do ask those two basic questions of 100 people in your business, you will learn an awful lot about what needs to be focused on. This is just a fundamental strategy question. This business is special.

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OpenView Labs

MAY 5, 2021

Other businesses, like LinkedIn and Netflix, have strong histories of being producers of open-source projects, which provides a strategic recruitment and retention tool for top-tier engineering talent. Related podcast episode: How MongoDB Scaled Their Open-Source Product with a Bottom-Up and Top-Down Sales Motion.

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Full Session

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Conversion and funnel optimization tools: Visualize and analyze user behavior at every stage of your sales and marketing funnels. Detect where users drop off, discover reasons for abandonment, and test different designs and content strategies to improve conversion rates and optimize the user experience.

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Full Session

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Conversion and funnel optimization tools: Visualize and analyze user behavior at every stage of your sales and marketing funnels. Detect where users drop off, discover reasons for abandonment, and test different designs and content strategies to improve conversion rates and optimize the user experience.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2021

Exit Strategy Slide. An Exit Strategy Slide almost by definition tells me you aren’t. If I wouldn’t work for you … then I can’t help you recruit folks that will. You’re in sales. Recruit the VPs? CEO Doesn’t like Sales — and The Hunt. So do something different.

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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

JULY 27, 2021

Role: Head of Customer Success Location: San Francisco, CA, US Organization: Turn/River Capital As a Head of Customer Success, you will work with the leadership teams at 2 to 3 of the Turn/River portfolio companies to develop and implement retention and growth strategies and build operational best practices.

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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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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

In this episode of the Sales Hacker Podcast, we have Amy Frampton , Head of Marketing at BambooHR and 15-year marketing veteran. Join us for a hilarious conversation about what’s changed in marketing lately, brushing shoulders with Marshawn Lynch, poaching SDRs and AEs from sales, and tips for employer branding. powered by Sounder.

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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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Unbounce

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Today, we’ll cover how Twitter landing pages work within a larger social media marketing strategy, talk best practices for creating your own high-converting landing page, and look at some real Twitter landing page examples created with Unbounce. It’s important to focus on one customer type at a specific stage in the sales funnel.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. If RFPs are slowing down your sales team, you need to check out Loopio. The platform allows sales reps to deliver consistent, relevant, and responsible communication for each prospect every time, enabling personalization at scale previously unthinkable, previously, absolutely unthinkable.

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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. For one, there was never enough real estate, given we were in San Francisco and Zynga on Pinterest weren’t the only companies with a real estate strategy of being under one roof.

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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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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Most leaders don’t spend enough time recruiting. Now, maybe you ran the wrong strategies as well, and you didn’t have the right team members or process – all of that is definitely a part of it. The only way you could learn about a new car was by going into the showroom, speaking to a sales rep and getting sold.

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SaaStr

JULY 10, 2020

The first will be sharing five perspectives and things that I found to be useful in adjusting sales in the midst of a crisis or a turnaround. We also challenged the sacred cow, the assumption at the time, that the website was cannibalizing store sales, in the bricks. If you’re selling to recruiting, they may be deeply hurting.

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How To Buy Saas

MARCH 3, 2025

Ready to future-proof your strategy and outpace the competition? Monday.coms AI project management suggests updates, writes summaries, and even predicts roadblocks. Salesforces Einstein AI can auto-generate sales pitches, emails, and customer insights in real-time. The Top SaaS Trends Shaping 2025 1.

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