SaaStr

OCTOBER 12, 2020

You can also totally change your sales team. This isn’t easier, but 9 times out of 10, it sure is easier than finding brand new customers. In a way, this is the same point as #1, almost — except you can recruit even more of the team here. The sales team can call back every single prospect, not just the good ones.

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 11, 2020

A recruiter in the audience submitted a question often discussed in startup boardrooms. And when I say pillar, I mean like a product marketing problem, a growth problem, or brand marketing problem. Do the metrics suddenly change? If I’m not doing a lot to build the brand and I’m still getting inbound, then I’m like, wow, okay.

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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

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

379: From how many reps to hire, to compensation models, here are the top 10 mistakes founders make when hiring their first sales teams and how to avoid them. Announcer: In today’s SaaStr Insider, SaaStr CEO and founder, Jason Lemkin, shared the top 10 mistakes founders make when hiring their first sales team.

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OpenView Labs

APRIL 29, 2021

Recruiting top talent is the common denominator across all scaling startups. Nine out of 10 founders and CEOs I connect with are involved in recruiting on a weekly, if not daily, basis. Many of them are learning on the fly and trying to juggle being CEO and Chief People Officer/Lead Recruiter/Brand Evangelist all at once.

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SaaStr

JULY 1, 2021

We work with brands across the industry, like IBM, Disney, Intuit, Microsoft to help them build better products to understand what their users are doing. When we do all hands meetings, we go through every KPI, every metric, ARR, margin, with every Gustee. Spencer Skates : Hi all, I’m Spencer Skates. You hire a search firm.

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SaaStr

JULY 1, 2020

An open discussion with Sam Blond, CSO at Brex, and Kristen Habacht, VPS at Atlassian, about adjusting their sales process during Covid-19. Kristen Habacht runs EDR sales at Atlassian, which I got a check today, $40 billion-$50 billion company. She manages a huge global team. Four, people in the sale? Jason Lemkin: None.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 18, 2024

GTMnow is the media brand of GTMfund – sharing go-to-market advice from the top 1% of revenue operators including the 350 executives behind the fund, news, and our viewpoints from working with hundreds of portfolio companies. Sales reps staying on the account post-sale till first point of value – noted by Sydney Sloan (CMO of G2).

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SaaStr

APRIL 7, 2022

We took the series A, interesting enough, the first executive hired by, thanks to the sales coaching, actually was marketing. What we do is look at all those metrics and our hope, goal is that every one of them continues to show this. We do have a network of recruiters. The technology is perfected. We added 0.8

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 7, 2020

Fortunately, more organizers than ever before are consciously seeking out female sales experts for panels, presentations, and podcasts. At Sales Hacker, we’re serious about diversity, and for that reason, we’ve compiled a list of 530+ female sales experts to consider for your next event. Sales Development. Sales Growth.

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FastSpring

JULY 14, 2020

Control Recruitment. The most effective way to manage risk inside of an affiliate program is to stop it before it starts. It is also understandable if a proactive only recruitment plan may not be realistic. The percentage of returned sales from a partner is higher than your regular rate of returns. Monitor Activity.

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Chart Mogul

JANUARY 9, 2025

So read on, and hopefully, your SaaS sales journey will be less about trial and error and more about steady progress toward success. Whats important to note is that each model targets a distinct customer persona and, therefore, has a unique approach to the customer journeyfrom brand awareness to sales and, ultimately, conversion.

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SaaStr

APRIL 23, 2019

And can you talk a little bit about touching on the hiring point, because you did say that you focused a lot on talent, and recruiting. And coming from Brazil without a big network in Silicon Valley, un-launched, without a website, it was actually really hard to recruit the first ten people. And it’s very helpful. Anu: Got it.

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Buffer Resources

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

  Thankfully for folks like me, there are many brilliant tools to help you keep on top of your content marketing metrics (little to no math required). Then, to add a little nuance to the discussion, we’ll deep dive into the metrics that matter the most to several top content marketing teams (including Buffer’s).

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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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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 25, 2019

Given that the primary metric we measure growth in is revenue, it follows that sales feels growth more acutely than almost any other function. As the Senior Vice President of Sales for Pipedrive , she’s currently responsible for building nimble sales teams who drive sustainable revenue.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 27, 2019

How to Design a Sales Comp Plan to Get You to $100M with Work-Bench, Movable Ink, MongoDB and Concert Finance. This panel will speak tactically to various comp design options as a way for management to determine and promote ideal behavior in their front-line teams. Meghan Gill | VP of Sales Ops @ MongoDB. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 21, 2017

What is Sales Operations? Sales operations refers to the unit, role, activities and processes within a sales organization that support, enable, and drive front line sales teams to sell better, faster, and more efficiently. But perhaps more than anything else, sales operations brings a system to selling. Technology.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

If you’re looking to move up the ladder into a sales leadership role, your resume is key to getting your foot in the door. Related: 8 High-Paying Sales Jobs (And How to Get Them). In most cases, I prefer having these basic sections: Branding Title. Related: Secrets to Acing the Sales Interview: Tips From a Recruiting Leader.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The company’s best-selling book, Predictable Revenue , details the hugely successful outbound process and sales created specifically for Salesforce. Afterward, he delved into education management by creating his own business, Mestreduca, a platform targeted at educational institutions. Talk: SaaS.City Bootcamp: Sales Leadership.

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Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

I met a founder a few days ago who captured the idea of building brand equity really well. He said something along the lines of, “Every time we provide a magical experience to a customer, we invest in our brand equity. Brand equity is important because it can become a significant part of a company’s value.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Company raises money and is now ready to “scale the sales team.” Their current seller has done a great job, so the natural inclination is to assume that we want to replicate that person and sales will continue to grow, right? Fast forward 1 year later: “Oh no, my entire sales team looks the exact same…”. Sound familiar?

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Accordingly, the recruiting of beta customers and roadmap selling happen earlier, providing for customer quotes as part of the launch. Julien Sauvage (VP Brand, Content and Product Marketing at Clari ) explains that this is part of Clari’s playbook. Make sure your message lands. Keep it simple. “Do It’s showtime. Message amplification.

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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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SaaStr

AUGUST 5, 2019

He will also provide insights on the differences between commercial and enterprise customers and the key metrics to keep an eye on as you grow your business. I want to tell you what those metrics are for Egnyte because you could go, “Well, this guy is up here talking for 30 minutes. Want to see more content like this?

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 23, 2018

Before we get into our 2017 recap and 2018 road map, I wanted to provide some quick background on how Sales Hacker came to be. How It All Began: The Story of Sales Hacker. I can’t believe it’s been 4 years since we threw our first Sales Hacker Conference in September of 2013. 2014: Full Time on Sales Hacker.

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OpenView Labs

MARCH 15, 2019

Some of the most successful and influential SaaS companies include channel sales in their go-to-market strategy. For the uninitiated, channel sales refers to the process of partnering with third parties to get your product into the end user’s hands. Channel Sales versus Direct Sales – The Good and the Bad.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

What’s a sample job description that I can use to recruit talent? Do this right, and a few things will happen: (1) your brand becomes aligned with the category you’re creating in a thought leadership position and (2) you begin to build an opt-in database of conversions from an audience listening to what you have to say.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 30, 2018

To see what selling on steroids looks like, check out companies with the best sales enablement strategies. You’ll discover a lively place, with a lot of things — like revenue, productivity, and win rate s — going up, and a lot of things — like speed to revenue, sale cycle period, customer churn, and staff attrition rate — going down.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

And then from 2004 to 2014, she was at Google and managed lots of different things, including the self-driving cars project, global sales and operations, and the business teams for checkout in Google Apps. I wouldn’t say I have an exact metric, but-. She’s got an English degree and an MBA. So I’m a fan.

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Buffer Resources

JANUARY 18, 2024

" Here’s everything you need to know about using LinkedIn Premium to build your personal brand , increase engagement, and grow your following.  The more expensive plans are targeted at salespeople and recruiters.    This screenshot from my upgrade section in LinkedIn breaks it down really well.

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SaaStr

JULY 15, 2022

Jason Lemkin: I’ll answer it, but are you thinking more on sales or technology or broadly speaking in the question? Ash Bhoopathy (@ashbhoopathy): Probably more around go-to-market and sales. First of all, on go-to-market and sales and marketing, be very, very wary of folks that want to outsource your core.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2021

Social media has created new channels for sales reps to conduct research on prospective customers, connect with leads, and build relationships. This new sales strategy is known as social selling, and the numbers show that when it works, it works. What is LinkedIn Sales Navigator? How much does LinkedIn Sales Navigator cost?

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SaaStr

JULY 11, 2019

TaskRabbit I ran for almost a decade, and then we sold it to Ikea, the global furniture brand in 2017, and so now I spend my full-time job as an investor looking at early stage tech companies. I understand this more now as an investor, those growth metrics and those scale metrics that an investor looks for. That’s me.

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Stax

MARCH 18, 2025

SaaS Growth and Operational Metrics To Track One of the best ways to ensure that your SaaS operations are on the right track toward high growth is by tracking key metrics. Consider the following SaaS metrics important for performance monitoring to ensure your company is operationally strong. Churn rate.

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Neil Patel

APRIL 13, 2021

Every day, these creators promote brands across social media, talk up great products, and directly influence how people spend their hard-earned money. For sales-based companies, influencer marketing could be a promising alternative. You can work with multiple influencers across the platform, and you can recruit more talent as you go.

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Totango

JULY 19, 2021

It may be wise to look for applicants coming from diverse backgrounds, such as those with customer relations, sales or other service-orientated backgrounds. Be sure you look for the skills and qualities that will allow a customer success manager (CSM) to truly connect with customers. 1: Recruit the Right People.

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