Neil Patel

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Hire a consultant, hands down. In a nutshell, they can give you expert opinions, analysis, and recommendations that can help ensure a more objective-based approach to grow your business and maximize sales – all at the same time. Unfortunately, your in-house team doesn’t have the required expertise to push through change.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Hiring someone to do it for you. If you can afford it, hiring someone (either in-house or as a contractor) to run payroll for you is an excellent option. With that said, many small businesses don’t necessarily need to hire someone. It’s a human capital management (HCM) system designed to help you save time and reduce errors.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 7, 2020

You can also improve your labor forecasts by integrating your sales data from POS systems like Square, Clover, Shopify, Upserve, Revel, Lightspeed, and more. In addition to these robust scheduling features, Homebase is an all-in-one solution for time clocks, hiring, onboarding, team communication, HR, and compliance. Best of all?

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 17, 2020

A sales rep completes their proposal and it’s automatically routed to the right manager for review and approval. Not only is that rep moving on to their next task, the pending approval is queued up exactly where it needs to be for the manager. Workflow Management Software. There’s really no limit to the applications.

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Point Nine Land

JANUARY 30, 2019

Providing a “cloud based” service was really challenging in terms of infrastructure, and the first SaaS startups had to hire large engineering teams dedicated to this aspect only. If building the infrastructure of a SaaS product seems easy nowadays (with AWS and the myriad of developer APIs available), it was not the case fifteen years ago.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Women in sales often have a polarizing experience. In the Sales Hacker video series Aha Moments , I asked 10 women: “What is one ‘aha moment’ you’ve had in your sales career?”. The conversations that followed were so authentic and encouraging that we decided to expand this conversation to other badass women in the sales world.

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SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

What is sales? What is sales? Isn’t sales really around customer value creation? Sales is not about revenue generation, it’s around customer value creation. Why are we so obsessed with sales being focused on revenue? Sales is first and foremost around customer value creation, revenue is an outcome.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

In this episode of the Sales Hacker Podcast, we have Kevin Yip , COO & Co-Founder at Blueboard , an employee recognition company he founded after working 100-hour weeks without appreciation. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. How burnout led to Kevin’s entrepreneurship [5:00]. How to scale sales & marketing [15:15].

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

And prior to that, I was an entrepreneur, and always wanted to go back to entrepreneurship but had a good thing going where I built a new revenue stream in this company, WTG, around corporate training, and that’s how I really fell into that industry and market. Yeah, crazy, because in entrepreneurship. We were kind of prepared.

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SaaStr

MARCH 13, 2020

Harry Hurst: So throughout my teens and early 20s, I built companies ranging from fashion distribution, all the way to headhunting and recruitment. I am really interested though, because you said about your experience there with Skurt, and often we hear about kind of the benefits of serial entrepreneurship.

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SaaStr

MARCH 27, 2020

May Habib: If you are a company of a reasonable size now, you’ve got people in marketing, customer success, of course sales, all talking to your market, all talking to your prospect, and making sure they all say the same things is a really tough job. So, Qordoba provides an editorial style guide. They’re very supportive.

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Kellblog

AUGUST 23, 2019

When we met, he was a pre-sales engineer and I was a technical support rep. We’ve each spent over 25 years in enterprise software, in mixed roles that involve both technology and sales & marketing (S&M). Jim went on to write a great book, Making the Technical Sale. I went on to create Kellblog.

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Upscope

JUNE 9, 2021

There are plenty of happy smiling recruitment videos for call centers on Youtube but the real data on how people feel can be found in the comments section. And at the call center I was at, the recruiters told me the job wasn't a sales job, just customer service. They also let you choose your own schedules after training.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Does David agree, “entrepreneurship does not get easier with time, it just gets different”? What is the most common mistake B2B companies make in the hunt for PMF? * How does David think about scaling sales teams? How does one know when is the right time to hire your first sales reps? Why is 12 months so crucial?

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SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2024

We could talk about CAK and LTV, and economics, and fundraising, and entrepreneurship, and SaaS and engineering, and product management, but instead I chose to talk about culture and people, which is a little bit of an odd topic for a CTO to pick up. Brian and Dharmesh started the company out of MIT Sloan, so who did they hire?

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