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Dear SaaStr: What Are Some Successful SaaS Leaders Without Sales Teams?

SaaStr

Many that are self-serve and SMB-focused can start off without a sales team … for a while. But almost none stay without a sales team … forever. Yes, Atlassian since well past its IPO had almost no direct sales team. And it staffed up a very big sales team.

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Eventually. Everyone Has a Sales Team

SaaStr

But to Go Big, almost everyone in SaaS at least eventually adds a sales team. But to scale it quickly added a very effective sales team : Yes, Atlassian for a long time had almost no “directsales team, well after the IPO. You don’t need 100% sales-driven revenue to Go Big.

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Yes, You Do Have To Pay Sales Commissions When a Partner Mostly Closes The Deal

SaaStr

Later, you may develop a team that manages your channel. Once you do, if the revenue from a channel is large enough, you can often pay lower commissions that you do for your direct sales team. They want 25-50% of the first year’s revenue. Especially, if the customer stays for years and years.

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HubSpot’s ex-VP of Channel Sales: How to Build The World’s Best Channel Sales Program

SaaStr

Everything is harder with a channel sales program. Training a direct sales team on a new product launch is like teaching someone the macarena. In many cases, each partner is both new revenue when they purchase your product and potential new revenue when they sell your product. Straightforward. .

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Growing enterprise revenue boosts Zoom’s first-quarter growth

IT World

Despite falling revenue from online sign-ups, videoconferencing company Zoom remains positive about its future outlook, posting a 5% year-on-year increase in total revenue for the three months to April 30. The number of enterprise customers grew 9% year on year to approximately 215,900.

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Six Lessons on How to Build a Platform that Fuels an Ecosystem with Plaid (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

” This was before we had any real revenue. For banks, we do have a more direct sales team and we do some enterprise-wide adoption, but generally trying to sell to Chase as an enterprise is nearly impossible. ” And we said, “Well, we don’t know how to license anything. We just built a product.”

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4 Impactful Sales Motivation Strategies Sans-President’s Club for 2021

Sales Hacker

We recently sponsored a webinar with Sales Hacker to provide an answer to these questions and more with expert insight and sales motivation strategies from: Scott Barker, Head of Partnerships at Sales Hacker [Moderator]. Jenna Donohue, Sales Manager for Emerging Segment at Outreach. Director of Sales Development at Brex.