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The Playbook to Building a Thriving Sales Culture with PatientPop SVP of Sales Justin Welsh (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

We’re going to move into things like learning and development, L&D, building on great career pathing and getting that compensation right and I’ll give you a preview. To be candid, it’s a great compensation plan for top performers and it’s a great compensation plan for managers who have bottom performers.

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Bad leads cost you money

Practical Advice on SaaS marketing

At some companies, in fact, the marketing team’s compensation scheme may be tilted to encourage this. But does downloading a white paper or signing up for a webinar really count as an inquiry from a qualified prospect? White papers, newsletters, webinars can all be effective cultivation tools. More leads.

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How Smart Is Your Sales Playbook?

Sales Hacker

Compensation plan. These folks are your go-to’s for collecting relevant customer stories, case studies, white papers and testimonials. Use this section to define each stage, which fields are required, how to customize dashboards, etc. Make close allies with marketing and customer success.

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10 Ways To Optimize Your Sales Process Through Sales Data

Sales Hacker

As leads start poking around your website and read blog posts or download white papers, you’ll have an idea at how “ready” they are to buy or not. The Bridge Group 2018 SDR Metrics & Compensation Report shows that the average ramp time (from hire to full productivity) sits at 3.2 Conversation. Lost reason.

Scale 94
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Building a sales team that can go from $0-$50M (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

They will do outbound, they will qualify inbound, they can close small deals, they can close large deals, they can write white papers, they will do everything and they like to do that. Laura Bilazarian : And how did you structure sales compensation initially? Talk to him. It’s people who will do everything.

Scale 150
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The Evolution of Software Marketing: Hey Marketing, Go Get [This]!

Kellblog

They’d even have decay functions where downloading a white paper got you 10 points, but you’d lose a point every week since if there you had no further activity. At one company I ran, our single largest customer was initially scored a D lead because the contact downloaded a white paper using his Yahoo email address.

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Sales Hacker’s Top Sales Trends & Predictions You MUST Be Aware Of In 2018

Sales Hacker

With the rise of quota expectations, decline of quota attainment rates, and the proposed notion to compensate SDRs based on how much pipeline they generate – it’s fair to say that the role of the SDR is changing rapidly, and only becoming more difficult. . – Tamara Schenk , Research Director, CSO Insights.

Scale 108