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Ultimate Guide to B2B Sales Hiring and Management

OpenView Labs

B2B sales involves one business selling its product to another business. Those with experience in both B2B and B2C sales know that B2B is a lot tougher—the deals are bigger, there’s often more than one decision-maker, and the competition is intense. For all those reasons, hiring and management must be on point.

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Is Seed the new Series A? (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

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. Want to see more content like this?

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Scaling Faster, An AMA with SaaStr Founder & CEO Jason Lemkin (Pod 577)

SaaStr

As they scaled, they radically changed how they did sales. They moved to a more traditional SaaS inside sales model, and they started shipping out these hardware devices, and only 30% to 40% of the customers would end up paying for them. And we’re about to add basically a team collaboration tier on top of the product.

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Taking a $4B Company from Consumer to B2B with Pluralsight (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

We all know and could name several successful B2C and B2B companies. My co founders and I were software developers, so we knew how to write the code, to build the website, to build the learning platform, to build the video distribution model. We saw the momentum increase, and we were nailing that B2C customer.

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Emergence Capital’s Doug Landis on telling stories that sell

Intercom, Inc.

Doug Landis often sees an unsuccessful sales pitch stumble straight out of the gate. Previously, however, he ran sales productivity for teams at Google, Salesforce and Box. His time at the latter culminated in the title of Chief Storyteller, where he rewrote the script for how Box sales team talked to and about their customers.

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Emergence Capital’s Doug Landis on telling stories that sell

Intercom, Inc.

Doug Landis often sees an unsuccessful sales pitch stumble straight out of the gate. Previously, however, he ran sales productivity for teams at Google, Salesforce and Box. His time a the latter culminated in the title of Chief Storyteller, where he rewrote the script for how Box sales team talked to and about their customers.

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Spendesk’s Nicolas Marchais on evolving with your market

Intercom, Inc.

As Head of Sales for Spendesk, Nico was initially inspired by the vision of founder Rodolphe Ardant who had spotted a gap for ‘spend management’ in the B2B market based on personal banking trends. So they created a software that provides control, visibility, and payment methods for corporate finance teams.

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