SaaStr

JULY 1, 2021

I want to come be your VP of sales and, you’re going to meet me for the first time. Spencer : For me, the key things for a VP of sales is, “OK, tell me about your best reps. We’re trying to recruit someone that’s way above our weight class, so that we can actually scale. You hire a search firm.

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VP of Engineering Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 293

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 21, 2017

What is Sales Operations? Sales operations refers to the unit, role, activities and processes within a sales organization that support, enable, and drive front line sales teams to sell better, faster, and more efficiently. But perhaps more than anything else, sales operations brings a system to selling. Technology.

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Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Technical Review 106

Sales Hacker

JULY 25, 2022

Here’s the thing about driving a car — and about running a sales org: Bumps in the road are inevitable. One of the best ways to ensure every part of your engine is running smoothly is to build sales performance dashboards for everyone on your team. What is a sales performance dashboard? What is a sales performance dashboard?

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InsightSquared

AUGUST 14, 2019

For sales professionals, AI is not only impacting your personal life, but it will soon influence your professional work too if it hasn’t already done so. Many of today’s forward-thinking companies have already begun using AI in their sales strategies. Strengthens Communication With Sales Leads.

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Artificial Intelligence Sales Recruiting AI Forecasting 91

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

I was the new Vice President of International Sales & Managing Director for a work management software company called Wrike. Starting Your International Sales Team. The key to starting an international sales team is having the right people in your landing team. A mercenary is driven by the sale.

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Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Sales 126

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 30, 2020

B2B sales is always changing, but nothing could’ve quite prepared us for the wild ride that 2020 ended up being. While most of us have settled into the new normal and the challenges that come with it, sales leaders are looking ahead with uncertainty. Best Sales Statistics to Know in 2021. Short on time? What this means for you.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Sales compensation planning can be a tricky beast to tame — but know that you’re not alone. I asked 12 incredible sales leaders across the SaaS industry to share their biggest challenges with comp planning and how to overcome them. Related: New to sales compensation planning? Top 10 sales compensation challenges.

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Compensation Sales Recruiting Sales Finance 125

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

With the rise of AI, new sales technology and automation at the forefront of the sales echo chamber these days, we thought we’d take a moment to bring it back to BASICS – that’s why we’ve rounded up this complete glossary of sales terms and definitions to help you remember where it all started.

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Scale Payment Methods Sales Recruiting SaaS Payments 105

FastSpring

JUNE 11, 2024

How to go about recruiting the RIGHT affiliates to help drive meaningful growth in your business. FastSpring provides an all-in-one payment platform for SaaS, software, video game, and other digital goods businesses, including software management, VAT and sales tax management, global payments, and consumer support.

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Sales Recruiting Software Review Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 113

OpenView Labs

MARCH 8, 2021

B2B sales involves one business selling its product to another business. Those with experience in both B2B and B2C sales know that B2B is a lot tougher—the deals are bigger, there’s often more than one decision-maker, and the competition is intense. For all those reasons, hiring and management must be on point.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 19, 2022

In this article, I’ll outline the principles of compensation design , how to build sales compensation plans , and include resources to set OTEs and quotas that keep your reps happy and hungry for more. Why Sales Comp Planning is Key to Rep Retention. Who should be responsible for sales compensation planning?

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2021

Social media has created new channels for sales reps to conduct research on prospective customers, connect with leads, and build relationships. This new sales strategy is known as social selling, and the numbers show that when it works, it works. LEARN MORE: Is social selling killing your LinkedIn strategy ? DID YOU KNOW?

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Sales Hacker

JULY 19, 2022

Celine, who transitioned from agency sales to SaaS, is the Vice President of Boardable. Join us for a great conversation about transitioning in sales and technology selling. Sometimes you have to take one step back to go two steps forward in sales. Sales is all about building internal relationships. powered by Sounder.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 23, 2024

Whether it’s creating better tools to write code and test code, better tools for customers to engage with reps, better tools for sales teams to engage with their prospects, all those things are happening inside of Bill. Alex: Let’s forecast out. GenAI comes in to make employees efficient. That data is not public.

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Payments Forecasting Payment Services Sales Hiring 110

OpenView Labs

MARCH 15, 2019

Some of the most successful and influential SaaS companies include channel sales in their go-to-market strategy. For the uninitiated, channel sales refers to the process of partnering with third parties to get your product into the end user’s hands. Channel Sales versus Direct Sales – The Good and the Bad.

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Sales Recruiting Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 85

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

What’s a sample job description that I can use to recruit talent? Eventually all businesses—whether category creators or disruptors—will have to become more capital efficient and manage sales and marketing expenses against industry benchmarks. How can I convince my CEO that CATEGORY X is important?

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Scale Sales Recruiting Marketplace as a Service Forecasting 136

Sales Hacker

JUNE 11, 2018

Once again, Salesforce presents a strategic look into the rapidly shifting world of sales. The third edition of the widely anticipated State of Sales report surveyed more than 2,900 sales professionals and leaders from around the world. Here’s a quick sneak peak of their sales research report. Top Sales Metrics.

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The Angel VC

DECEMBER 12, 2018

It’s an important question, as your target growth rate determines your hiring plan, budget, and fundraising strategy. As I wrote here , trying to forecast what happens to your CACs if you 10x your sales and marketing spend is very difficult. The main reason is that your customer acquisition costs are highly front-loaded.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring SaaS Payments Scale 106

OpenView Labs

AUGUST 19, 2021

Sales recruiting is broken. The sad truth is that VP of Sales are turning over within 19 months —and that timeline is shrinking. . Not only that, the market has heated way back up and the VP of Sales is one of the most sought after roles. This isn’t linear and there are many shades of grey when it comes to sales. .

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2021

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Neil Ringers , EVP of Revenue Grid. Neil’s experience includes a long history of sales leadership, primarily in the Salesforce ecosystem, and is now running revenue for Revenue Grid. If you missed episode 153, check it out here: Learning Drives Sales Effectiveness with Paul Fifield?.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

And then from 2004 to 2014, she was at Google and managed lots of different things, including the self-driving cars project, global sales and operations, and the business teams for checkout in Google Apps. Which are what we view as the most important metrics to make sure we end the year in the place that we’re forecasting.

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Stax

MARCH 18, 2025

While traditional business models have a harder time estimating their future revenue, SaaS companies have access to more accurate revenue forecasts, such as their MRR and ARR. Often abbreviated to CLV or LTV, this is the amount of revenue generated by a customer as long as they have an account with your SaaS company.

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FastSpring

MARCH 16, 2023

And you’re listening to the growth stage podcast where we share stories from global SaaS leaders that you can use to inspire new growth strategies in your own business. So we were working on a recruitment piece recently for a fortune 500 Equipment Company. That’s what customers recruits. What was it?

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Sales Recruiting Scale Social Media Interviewing 137

OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The value of your contracted subscriptions taking into account revenue added/lost from components such as new sales, renewals, upsells, churn, etc. Ultimately, this metric gives SaaS executives a much clearer picture of their company’s financial health, and it can be helpful in forecasting future revenue.

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Benchmarks Scale Metrics Sales Recruiting 71

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Competitor analysis enables PMs to find areas where rivals fail customers and develop sound positioning and differentiation strategies. They could also result from inadequate user onboarding leading to low feature discovery and adoption, ineffective marketing strategy , and poor user experience. How do you recruit your interviewees?

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 2, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Matthew Gowen , the SVP of Sales at Pangea. Today, he is running the sales organization at a company called Pangea, which scales up tech companies to expand into the EMEA market. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Welcome to the Sales Hacker podcast.

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Scale Sales Hiring Technical Review Sales Recruiting 79

Point Nine Land

DECEMBER 12, 2018

It’s an important question, as your target growth rate determines your hiring plan, budget, and fundraising strategy. As I wrote here , trying to forecast what happens to your CACs if you 10x your sales and marketing spend is very difficult. The main reason is that your customer acquisition costs are highly front-loaded.

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Sales Recruiting SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Scale 61

ProfitWell

APRIL 10, 2020

As uncertainties prevail, SaaS finance teams are reeling back their spend, recalculating budgets, and re-forecasting revenue projections to just keep the lights on. It’s not just for the sales crew, but also for recruiters, leadership, sales op, and beyond. With Mixmax, simplicity rules.

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Subscription Payment Features Sales Recruiting Finance 59

OPEXEngine

MARCH 17, 2021

Manual, spreadsheet-based planning, budgeting, and forecasting may have worked well enough in a more predictable age. A forecast? That’s why you’ll need to recruit a savvy senior-level advocate to help champion active planning as a worthy and necessary cause. Initiate planning projects that engage HR, sales, or marketing.

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OpenView Labs

JUNE 16, 2020

The best companies are tweaking sales systems, adjusting their go-to-market strategy and rediscovering customers’ needs as they evolve. Pivoting sales to meet buyers. Regardless of how busy you are or slumping sales, now is the time to have a laser focus on your customers. Everyone needs to find their own way.

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 54

Sales Hacker

MAY 29, 2018

On this episode of the Sales Hacker podcast, we talk with Todd Caponi , former CRO of PowerReviews about how to sell enterprise software solutions with increased transparency in the sales process. How to evolve your sales posture given the changes in sales conversations over the last 20 years. What You’ll Learn.

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CustomerSuccessBox

MAY 2, 2022

Any aspiring SaaS startup must develop a solid marketing strategy. Those that already have a solid marketing and sales strategy in place and just want to broaden their reach? Start-up Setup and Strategy. What strategy will your partners use to reach you? Partner Program is one of the ways.

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CustomerSuccessBox

JANUARY 10, 2022

A good relationship with the Sales department in order to be able to sell new services will also be highly valued by your managers. Finally, you must always be a force for proposals on the tools, client-side as well as product side, and manage ad-hoc projects if there are seasonality and slack periods. Salary range.

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Compensation Customer Success Trends Management 52

SaaSX

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Some founders are able to launch a product and get a bit of early traction without sales or marketing. The second case where initial sales & marketing aren’t needed to launch a product is when a founder has a built-in network of ready buyers and lands initial customers through their own efforts. The skill of the sales reps.

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Scale Marketing Sales Recruiting Benchmarks 52

Valuize Consulting

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The Imperative of a Customer Lifecycle Strategy Over my many decades of working with customers, in my opinion, many more of them today operate in far more complex technical, business, and regulatory environments, and their product portfolio and go-to-market strategies reflect it. We at Valuize break things down this way.

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Technical Review Customer Lifetime Value 52

SmartKarrot

JULY 26, 2022

Develop and accomplish sales and operational revenue and profit goals and objectives to achieve Technisys’ strategic plan. Contribute to the recruiting, hiring and development of top industry talent. Apply here: [link] Role: Customer Success Manager Location: New York, NY, US (Hybrid) Organization: GroupSolver, Inc.

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Sales Recruiting Customer Success Sales Hiring Scale 3

OpenView Labs

MAY 12, 2020

With experience in both B2B and B2C at companies such as HubSpot and Wayfair, Dan has built teams across marketing, growth, sales, customer success, business development, and founded and sold a video tech startup of his own. CEOs aren’t great managers. . His new book, Understanding Startup CEOs , is out today. Be open to change.

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