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4 Things Most Founders Get Wrong About Marketing with Dave Kellogg

SaaStr

A smaller number of high-quality leads that convert at higher rates is vastly superior to a flood of poor-fit prospects. You assembled a talented team, built an amazing product, and established a growing SaaS business. Mix in the classic conflict between sales and marketing teams, and you’ve got a recipe for disaster.

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The Secrets to Building a World-Class, $2.3 Billion Inside Sales Team (Video + Transcript)

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sales team. I did all sorts of things there from sales, to project management, to running the engineering team, hiring. This is where I got my chops in growing and scaling enterprise sales teams. We have team selling here that extends beyond the sales team. Want to see more content like this? Good afternoon.

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Become a Revenue Architect (and Level Up) With a Revenue Engine Framework

Sales Hacker

This involves driving more new logo and renewal revenue, lowering customer acquisition cost, and increasing forecasting predictability. Their goal is to build a cohesive revenue engine with ever-growing disjointed parts. That’s why I’ve built out the Revenue Engine Framework to help drive you to success. Simple right?

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The Best of SaaS at YCombinator: A Deep Dive with the CEOs of Gusto, Amplitude and Plangrid (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

The second is pulling more around values, and how we approached team building. Even as a three person team, we went through an exercise to figure out what do we stand for, as a team? Sam : This is not my insight, but someone else says… I really do believe it, that the team you build is the company you build.

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A CEO’s Guide to Marketing With Dave Kellogg: Five Things Every Founder Should Know (Podcast 515 and Video)

SaaStr

Have you ever had a sudden realization that you’re spending more on sales and marketing than research and development? When it comes to marketing, executives can grow frustrated or intimidated by the sheer volume of numbers and metrics, ill-defined terminology, unclear processes, and potential conflict between sales and marketing teams.

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Ham and Egg: How Team-Based Selling Boosts Win Rates

Sales Hacker

A few months back, I was inspired by a section in Scott Barker’s “The Forecast” newsletter where he referenced some data from Chorus.ai Scott’s newsletter makes a great point: as buying teams get bigger and bigger, our sales teams need to grow with them. First, identify your team member’s strengths and weaknesses.

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7 Tips to Close 7,000 Customers From Gorgias’ VP of Sales

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I considered the four companies and chose Gorgias based on my experience with their team during the interview process. When I first joined the Gorgias team, there were two founders, two engineers, and myself as the first non-technical hire. That was the birth of what we now call the Growth Machine! Are the leads not qualified?

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