FastSpring

JUNE 11, 2024

How to go about recruiting the RIGHT affiliates to help drive meaningful growth in your business. FastSpring provides an all-in-one payment platform for SaaS, software, video game, and other digital goods businesses, including software management, VAT and sales tax management, global payments, and consumer support.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Chuck is the co-founder of Blueprint Expansion , a GTM roles recruiting firm that has helped over 50 VC-backed companies make amazing Sales, Marketing, & Customer Success hires. Our Sponsor Today’s episode is sponsored by DemandBase , Demandbase helps B2B companies hit their revenue goals using fewer resources.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

But building a sales compensation plan that both aligns your sales team’s compensation with your customers’ objectives and recruits top salespeople can be incredibly difficult in usage-based pricing. Determine where your sales team makes your customers more successful In usage-based pricing, value = usage.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 13, 2024

The importance of post-sale marketing and customer lifecycle management. Applying B2C marketing strategies to enhance B2B customer engagement and retention. Emerging B2B marketing trends, including SMS as a core communication channel. Most recruiting firms fill an order, but IPS is a different breed of search firm.

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SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2024

They discuss Sam’s learnings at Founders Fund, what the 2024 playbook looks like, hiring and motivating sales teams, and a handful of audience questions. There was so much budget flowing into B2B that it seemed like there could be 1,000 unicorns, even if 800 of those turned out to be junk. On the sales side, people hired way too much.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 9, 2020

A VP of Sales and Success A VP of Sales and Marketing A VP of Sales and Anything Else. Is usually not really a VP of Sales. I don’t know about you, but I’ve had to recruit a lot of types of folks over the years where my domain knowledge was limited. I’ve had to recruit Ph.Ds. Not really.

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Buffer Resources

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

I've built real friendships with the best B2B marketers in the world and I’m on a text-message basis with countless founders, CEOs, VPs, and executives. I’ve never created LinkedIn content with the “goal” of lead generation or immediate-term sales. These types of endorsements are priceless.

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SaaStr

JULY 29, 2021

Someone great at something core you aren’t: Sales, Engineering, Marketing. Great at sales. It just takes that long in SaaS and B2B, nine times out of ten. If you hire someone to do the first sales, you’ll never understand it yourself. When you go to hire your first sales rep, hire 2. A bit more here. More here.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 23, 2024

Strategies for recruiting exceptional talent and building a customer-centric culture. 21:12 – Linda’s strategy for recruiting and retaining exceptional talent at Common Room. How Common Room unifies siloed data to enable a 360-degree view of the customer.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 6, 2021

From B2C consumer-focused tech to the next B2B enterprise cloud giants, B2B, and B2C technology companies are springing up left and right and sprinting toward multi-billion dollar valuations (whether on the private or public markets) faster than ever. What’s the difference between a VP of Sales and a Chief Revenue Officer (CRO)?

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Storyblok started with a leadership-first hiring plan and a recruitment strategy that involved the following: A test to know how candidates handle different tasks and their expertise level. Their first step to achieving this was hiring a sales leader to build a sales team.

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SaaStr

JULY 25, 2021

They talked about product adoption, sales alignment, freemium models and lessons they have learned throughout their successful SaaS careers. As two CEO who love the art of sales and scaling, this one really was special. Recruiting is easier, but the things that don’t change are customers don’t care.

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SaaStr

MAY 31, 2024

1: How Sales and Marketing Have Shifted Since 2020 Expectations and the types of people working in SaaS have shifted over the past few years, and much more in sales, marketing, and customer success. . #1: I can leave my horrible sales job making $240k OTE and be a solopreneur. You can listen to the full podcast here. #1:

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The rate of acceleration is impressive, yet the B2B element is still missing but is on its way. . The 2024 Pulse For B2B In San Francisco . Honestly, it’ll be challenging to completely replace San Francisco as the B2B hub. . They have no kids or partners, and they’re in B2B. The Future Is Not A One-Size-Fits-All Approach.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Inspired by the release of our book Intercom on Sales , we wanted to take a fresh look at three big topics – speed, automation, and growth. We wanted to know: what are sales leaders doing to bring velocity to their sales cycle? How are they using automation to bring new efficiencies to their sales orgs?

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

For B2B SaaS companies, building a base of advocates – customers who champion your brand can be a pivotal go-to-market advantage. GTM 120: Avoid the AI Sales Skills Atrophy Trap with Peter Kazanjy Pete Kazanjy is a serial founder, and seasoned early stage Saas executive, advisor, and investor.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 30, 2023

The first goal of sales at a startup isn’t to bring in revenue — it’s to get customer feedback. I’ve used our sales process to iterate our way to product market-fit and wanted to share what I’ve learned along the way. Use sales conversations as a tool to get product feedback. So how do you get there?

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Welcome to Sales Hacker’s first-ever Influential Women in Sales list! In this exclusive list, we wanted to honor not just female leaders that promote their own sales platform (no shame in that!) They say “You can’t be what you can’t see,” and the sales floor is no exception.

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

You might have a few account executives and a sales leader in place; maybe some revenue and a handful of customers. The sales team costs real money, and the question before the company is: how do you know what quota plan to assign to the account executives? Stage 1: Management by Objectives.

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SaaStr

JULY 14, 2022

Founders were able to recruit on-site. Fast forward to today, and there is an amazing amount of B2B-centric content out there, and many others have put together amazing events around the hard-learned lessons of scaling revenue and scaling SaaS companies. VPs were able to recruit and make new hires. 2020 SaaStr Annual At Home.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

With the rise of AI, new sales technology and automation at the forefront of the sales echo chamber these days, we thought we’d take a moment to bring it back to BASICS – that’s why we’ve rounded up this complete glossary of sales terms and definitions to help you remember where it all started.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 21, 2021

College-educated women hold fewer than one-third of all B2B sales jobs despite being the better-educated gender. Additionally, race also plays a significant factor, with white people making up over 88% of the entire workforce in sales. Better-scoring sales. What does it mean to diversify your sales team?

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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

JANUARY 7, 2020

Wait, are we at just an average B2B software company? We’re basically going to talk about the seven “people” things that nobody tells you when you scale a B2B company. The first thing is, and this is a little crazy, but recruitment is incredibly overrated. Tough Management Lesson #1. How you all doing?

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yoursales

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Sales Stack 2023 Sales Tools for Professional B2B Sales SALES STACK 2023: Sales Tools for. Professional Sales SALES STACK. 2022: Sales Tools. Sales share this with your network S ales tools and figuring out what your sales stack 2023 should look like is as challenging as ever.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

One of the oldest truisms in sales is that recruiting new clients costs more than retaining them ( five to 25 times more costly, depending on the industry). Companies targeting B2B buyers must work twice as hard to retain clients who may be looking to cut costs. Related: 12 Tips To Align Sales and Customer Success.

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Buffer Resources

MARCH 7, 2024

These days, B2B companies are taking a social-first approach to distributing their reports, irrespective of their audience. In this guide, we’ll explain why social media channels are perfect for B2B report distribution and break down examples of distribution done well. Analyzed millions of sales calls?

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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. Sales organizations experienced 58% higher voluntary turnover in 2021 than in 2020.

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Point Nine Land

OCTOBER 23, 2023

P9 Panel on Hiring Sales Leaders — Founders Summit 2023 “You are going to fire your first sales manager!” — A lesson too many founders learn the hard way. The Founder isn’t willing to be the first salesperson Many of the best founders we work with don’t have a sales background and are either product or engineering focused.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

At Sales Hacker, our Community Leaders help build relationships with our members. Add them to your network and give them a warm welcome, because you’ll be seeing them all over Sales Hacker in the coming months! WHY SALES HACKER? Sales Hacker provides a network of sales professionals dedicated to helping others in similar roles.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

What if sales reps can really harness the full potential of the pricy software tools we thought would turn us into sales superstars? Goodbye missed quotas; hello sales engagement!). When science and sales meet, sparks fly. RELATED: What is Sales Engagement? Sales Engagement: A Billion Dollar Market.

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SaaStr

JUNE 4, 2019

I actually worked in sales for five and a half years and that’s probably why I have tended to gravitate to B2B marketing. Worked as an AE and then a sales manager. Decided to go to business school, did that for a little bit and then came out in management consulting, a company. So, they’re a B2B piece.

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Point Nine Land

APRIL 9, 2021

What does it take to raise capital, in B2B marketplaces, in 2021? This year, we’re shaking things up with our first ever B2B marketplace napkin! Having invested in 9 B2B marketplaces and gathered data from 20+ different investors, here are our findings on what it takes to raise money in 2021 for B2B marketplaces.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 17, 2018

Big announcement out of the Sales Hacker camp today. I’d dropped a note about a very exciting launch from Sales Hacker on our yearly recap and roadmap post last quarter. I’m thrilled to announce that the Sales Hacker Podcast is now live! Everything You Need To Know About the Sales Hacker Podcast.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Wiza is the only B2B contact database that sources and verifies contact data in real-time, the moment it’s requested, using LinkedIn as its source of truth. That’s sales. Levelling Up: Cohort Course: Growth Marketing Strategy for B2B SaaS by Holly Chen. He’s been a B2B leader in businesses from pre-revenue to $600MM.

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Buffer Resources

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

I've built real friendships with the best B2B marketers in the world and I’m on a text-message basis with countless founders, CEOs, VPs, and executives. I’ve never created LinkedIn content with the “goal” of lead generation or immediate-term sales. These types of endorsements are priceless.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 29, 2018

In this blueprint, we provide insights on how to structure your sales organization. The changes in SaaS require that we no longer look at salespeople as individual contributors, but rather a team that crosses disciplines, not just within sales but also across other parts of the organization such as marketing and product.

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