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Okta’s Playbook to PLG, Developer Experience, and Enterprise ARR

SaaStr

Okta’s VP of Engineering, Monica Bajaj, and Senior Director of Platform Product Marketing, Priya Ramamurthi, share Okta’s playbook to PLG, developer experience, and Enterprise ARR. How do you build a stellar developer experience and continue to scale when the user base skyrockets overnight? Let’s start with product-led growth (PLG).

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7 Key Elements of a High-Converting Sales Funnel

Sales Hacker

Building a sales funnel that aligns with your business goals is essential. Each funnel stage defines your steps to turn prospective buyers into customers, even if they’ve never heard of your business before. What is a sales funnel? And then there’s the sales funnel.

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Set your sales team’s written communication apart with GEMS, our email coaching framework

Intercom, Inc.

As a sales manager, the most impactful thing you can do is coach your team. Study any sales coaching blog, podcast, or book and you’ll find plenty of advice on the best ways to coach your sales reps: join their calls, listen to recordings, apply a framework … the list goes on. Why are emails crucial to closing the deal?

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Two Bad Habits That Are Costing You Sales (And How to Overcome Them)

Sales Hacker

They could have a lack of trust from above due to a predecessor doing a bad job. It starts with overcoming those 2 bad habits we mentioned earlier by developing a learner’s mindset and finding the right solution by staying curious. What if your prospect is communicating an unusual need? Your prospect is a human being.

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Buyer Personas: Tips to Make Them Work Better for Your Sales Team

Sales Hacker

First, how does the knowledge that Terry is married and loves eating Smarties help your reps make a sale? Our guess is that poor Polly from purchasing is gathering dust on a noticeboard in the canteen or buried somewhere deep in your internal network of folders. Your sales team. Or Mary from marketing?

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How The Best SaaS Sales Teams Are Improving Close Rates Today

Sales Hacker

A successful close is the end goal that every sales team guns for. Whether prospecting, making cold calls, negotiating, or even researching, every small step a sales rep takes is tied to this goal. But despite a focus on closing sales, it remains one of the biggest issues for teams.

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Six Traits of a Successful Sales Leader

Sales Hacker

As someone who’s grown from an Inside Sales Consultant with absolutely no technical experience in sales to my most recent role as VP of Sales for Zillow Group Rentals, I have spent nearly a decade hiring hundreds of sales professionals and developing a handful of those hired into leadership positions and beyond.