SaaStr

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Co-founder and CEO at Greenhouse, Daniel Chait, sits down with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin to share what’s new at Greenhouse, a successful recruiting software company at $200M in ARR today. The great part about having a couple of thousand startups using your product every day is there is so much innovation.

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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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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 7, 2020

Fortunately, more organizers than ever before are consciously seeking out female sales experts for panels, presentations, and podcasts. At Sales Hacker, we’re serious about diversity, and for that reason, we’ve compiled a list of 530+ female sales experts to consider for your next event. Sales Development. Sales Growth.

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ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

This is a guest article by Swati Garg , founder and CEO, Melo Associates , and Lindsay Lynch , senior recruitment consultant, Melo Associates , a recruitment firm focused on customer success hiring for SaaS and tech companies nationwide. Having a clear understanding of the team structure and who the direct manager will be.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 23, 2024

Lessons learned from scaling innovative products and go-to-market motions at AWS. Strategies for recruiting exceptional talent and building a customer-centric culture. 21:12 – Linda’s strategy for recruiting and retaining exceptional talent at Common Room. It’s flexible, scalable ABM built for you.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 21, 2021

College-educated women hold fewer than one-third of all B2B sales jobs despite being the better-educated gender. Additionally, race also plays a significant factor, with white people making up over 88% of the entire workforce in sales. Better-scoring sales. What does it mean to diversify your sales team? Performance.

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Chart Mogul

JANUARY 9, 2025

So read on, and hopefully, your SaaS sales journey will be less about trial and error and more about steady progress toward success. Whats important to note is that each model targets a distinct customer persona and, therefore, has a unique approach to the customer journeyfrom brand awareness to sales and, ultimately, conversion.

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SaaStr

JULY 15, 2022

One, at every large company, there is an innovation budget. There’s an innovation budget in the CIO’s budget. Literally, they call it an innovation budget. But there is an innovation budget and you need to be tenacious to achieve it. Ash Bhoopathy (@ashbhoopathy): Probably more around go-to-market and sales.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Welcome to Sales Hacker’s first-ever Influential Women in Sales list! In this exclusive list, we wanted to honor not just female leaders that promote their own sales platform (no shame in that!) They say “You can’t be what you can’t see,” and the sales floor is no exception.

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Chaotic Flow

MARCH 4, 2013

Having recently joined Meltwater as head of marketing and product (BTW Meltwater is hiring marketing and product managers!), More than a year ago, McKinsey and Company predicted that big data would be “The Next Frontier of Innovation, Competition and Productivity.” Reengineering Across the Firewall.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 2, 2021

Some problems need a straightforward solution, while others require more innovation. Our team aligns on three points: Innovation . Innovation. Is this solution something we want to innovate on and own as an industry leader and differentiator, or is it table stakes where we want to be on par with the market? Investment .

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SaaStr

AUGUST 8, 2019

Companies need a specialized approach for SMB accounts, different than the tactics used for Enterprise. Andrei Brasoveanu will sit down for a conversation with Agnes Bazin Doctolib on how to create a targeted and effective sales process tailor-made for SMB. They’re the leading booking management platform for doctors.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 15, 2021

Whether it’s software engineering , sales , or support, agile principles can enhance team performance and outcomes by focusing on the customer’s needs. Tagging conversations is a convenient way of providing direct feedback from customers to your product team to highlight common feature requests and opportunities for innovation ”.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 5, 2021

In 2020 I was building my sales team at Livestorm , and at the time we were going through a big hiring boom. Over the course of time, I’ve interviewed and talked to hundreds of sales candidates. This was the case for me years ago when I started applying for sales positions in France, Ireland, and Luxembourg.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 30, 2023

The first goal of sales at a startup isn’t to bring in revenue — it’s to get customer feedback. I’ve used our sales process to iterate our way to product market-fit and wanted to share what I’ve learned along the way. Use sales conversations as a tool to get product feedback. So how do you get there?

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Meet Our Speakers… Patrick Arippol, Managing Director of Early Stage Investments, DGF Investimentos. With an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, Rodrigo Baer launched a successful career in consultancy and entrepreneurship, and today is among the top figures in venture capital for early-stage tech companies in Brazil.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 8, 2019

Companies need a specialized approach for SMB accounts, different than the tactics used for Enterprise. Andrei Brasoveanu will sit down for a conversation with Agnes Bazin Doctolib on how to create a targeted and effective sales process tailor-made for SMB. They’re the leading booking management platform for doctors.

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Sales Recruiting SMB Scale Sales Hiring 111

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Innovative startups. The first army are innovative startups. I’m referring to the full spectrum of business execution, from product management to design to engineering to marketing to sales to support and all the other functions needed to scale a business. The second army are your main competitors. The talent.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 16, 2018

First, most founders don’t have a background in either sales or marketing, and even though they’re told to “ start marketing the day you start coding ”, they just don’t know where to begin, or they’re incredibly overconfident. At that point, they hire someone to run marketing, but leave that person to their own devices. Understand it.

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FastSpring

MARCH 8, 2021

There’s a lot of knowledge to gain from peers or managers, which can help set you up for your next role or career. – Sarah McCarty, Senior Customer Success Manager. – Chelsea Cianciolo, Customer Success Manager . You were hired because that manager and team believe you are the right person for the job.

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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Those doing the work are obviously talented, but it’s often the management which are responsible for creating the environment for people to thrive. Chill Insurance is a challenger brand that innovated, disrupted and ultimately, took market share off slower moving incumbents. But that’s only the start.

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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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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

A big part of why we are seeing this growth is that our customers have found that when they use Intercom to engage their website visitors, conversion rates and sales increase by more than 80%! We are laser focused on driving breakthrough innovations which help our customers grow their businesses efficiently. Be you at Intercom.

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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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SaaStr

JUNE 3, 2020

There is, you know, tons of innovation, tons of new categories being created every year. And you can see here, 66% of the companies, so almost two-thirds of the companies we surveyed are actually going to buy at least one new product to help them manage in this new environment. And we’re seeing this as a global trend.

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Neil Patel

AUGUST 31, 2021

This attracts users interested in time management, productivity, and wellbeing in the workplace. Plus, with new advertising and social media platforms appearing and innovating regularly, getting your ads in front of the right people is becoming easier than ever. Would you immediately talk sales in their face?

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 17, 2024

15:41) Scaling Twitter’s ad business and managing hyper-growth. (26:54) Thats why HG Insights created The Next Generation of Sales AI report to calm the FOMO and help you bring AI to your GTM teams. It includes a breakdown of the Sales AI landscape, adoption of GenAI and Sales software across buyer groups.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

But it is really incredible and inspiring to see how these companies and these cloud leaders have ushered in this new phase of innovation and growth, even in the hardest moments of society. It’s the software within hardware that’s powering innovation, and powering efficiency, and powering growth.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 8, 2021

In this episode, Kyle Racki , co-founder and CEO of Proposify, talks about how his upbringing helped his sales career, the journey from being a freelancer to a founder, and how to create and maintain a competitive advantage. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Solving the innovator’s dilemma [18:31]. powered by Sounder.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 23, 2018

Before we get into our 2017 recap and 2018 road map, I wanted to provide some quick background on how Sales Hacker came to be. How It All Began: The Story of Sales Hacker. I can’t believe it’s been 4 years since we threw our first Sales Hacker Conference in September of 2013. 2014: Full Time on Sales Hacker.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 25, 2020

You won’t have to build out a management structure for that department either. This means that it is unlikely they will be thinking on a strategic level unless they are part of senior management. Although it is generally not a good idea to micro-manage (why are you hiring in the first place?), Better Control.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 21, 2021

Do you love chasing down the sale? What about using data analysis to create sales strategies? Revenue operations (RevOps) is a centralized org within a company that supports all revenue-generating business operations including Sales Ops, Marketing Ops, Customer Success Ops, and systems management. Unified data problems.

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SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

Scaling the company’s employee base, sales teams, marketing, and operations—all while preserving its culture—has required a laser focus on first principles, smart processes, and effective hiring. And at the risk of giving you a full Stripe sales pitch, don’t worry, that’s in my other talk. Dare I say SaaS.

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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

JUNE 26, 2018

Today, everyone working in and around sales and marketing knows that bots are hot, in vogue and quite simply, of the moment. In my role leading sales enablement at HubSpot in EMEA, we deliberately carve out time to think about ways to leverage tools, technology and software that will make sales reps more effective.

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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

OCTOBER 16, 2017

The sales enablement industry has taken tremendous strides in recent years, but by most measures, it's still a relatively immature function. To fill this "best practices void" and play my part in elevating the role of sales enablement I often take ideas from other fields and apply them to my work at HubSpot.

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Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 13, 2014

Nor the management class on having difficult conversations with colleagues, among countless others. So serious is Apple about their University that Jobs hired the dean from Yale’s School of Management to oversee the initiative. Nor the crash-course on negotiation I took when we were negotiating with Facebook and MySpace.

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yoursales

JANUARY 28, 2022

Sales Stack 2022 Sales Tools for Professional B2B Sales SALES STACK 2022: Sales Tools for. Professional Sales SALES STACK. 2021: Sales Tools. Sales W hich challenges would you like sales technology to solve for your sales team? What is sales technology here to do?

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