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The Biggest Sales Excuses You Need to Stop Making in 2018

Sales Hacker

In sales, sellers who cite convoluted reasons to explain poor performance, rather than proactively doing something about it often remain — unsurprisingly — at the bottom of the success ladder. Our marketing team sucks. Variants : We have a weak pipeline. Our Marketing Team Sucks. Winners make things happen.

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Drata’s CEO Adam Markowitz on creating a culture of cyber security

Intercom, Inc.

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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PODCAST 129: The Keys to Building and Scaling a Company from Scratch with Vishal Sunak

Sales Hacker

They sell that product to general councils, operations teams, and deal desks. If you missed episode 128, check it out here: How to Unshackle Your Career Growth With a Mentor with Tom Martin. How to find advisors when you’re a CEO [22:32]. They sell that product to general councils, operations teams, and deal desks.

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2021 in conversation: Learnings from the podcast

Intercom, Inc.

Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. Later’s Farhan Virji on adapting B2C support strategies for B2B teams. On the surface, B2B customer support issues might look quite different from those of B2C. Webflow’s Maggie Hott on building a scalable sales team from the ground up.

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Busting the Myths About Startup Success with BlackLine’s Founder CEO (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

I’ve spent my whole career in B2B software. My marketing team wanted me to do the world’s most boring video. I retired from SunGard Treasury Systems as their CTO. He’s not necessarily interested in putting in the work that’s necessary or getting the coaching or the feedback that he needs.

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Kevin Indig on searching for meaning and the meaning of search

Intercom, Inc.

Kevin Indig leads SEO & Content Marketing as VP at G2 and mentors startups in Marketing at GermanAccelerator. I’m also mentoring startups in terms of marketing SEO go-to market at the German Accelerator, which is the official startup program in the Silicon Valley of Germany. Atlassian does not have an outbound sales team.

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Incubating a Company Inside GTMfund: Operator.ai and a New Era in Sales Tech

Sales Hacker

If your sales team has 20 plus reps, we’re confident Apollo could be a game changer for you. But the internet made it easy to find prospects, and automation allowed sales teams to reach thousands at once. The platform leverages advanced AI in a way that fundamentally changes how sales teams operate. The result?