Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

Sales Development and Prospecting. The Sales Development Playbook. The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team. Innovating for People. Here are the best books on selling (and related disciplines) that can help you hit your goals and develop your career. Selling to Big Companies. The Pirate’s Guide to Sales. B2B Is Really P2P.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

Our monthly self-service churn went from like 3% to like 9%, right? If something bad happens, you’re going to have to cut your burn, probably. There is one thing, I love this quote and it’s a little bit of a crude quote, not that it’s bad language-. What do you do with that lightly toxic person on your team?

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User Pilot

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In the competitive world of SaaS products, product positioning is definitely something your product marketing team can’t afford to ignore. Product positioning is a process that aims at determining how the service or product is situated on the market and why it is superior to those of your competitors. What is product positioning?

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Chart Mogul

APRIL 24, 2020

With a pandemic underway, software-as-a-service businesses, in normal times the beneficiaries of relatively stable compounding growth, are now facing an existential threat: recurring revenue streams are drying up, at least in part. Was that the last wave of bad news?’ ‘I’m How bad will it get? Arrested attention. Click To Tweet.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

Nick Mehta: Power of the developer, or the API economy, both of you play very much in both those trends. How do you help your team make that link to value? We’ve got a lot of training to do with our sales teams to get them to start to speak in these types of terms versus feature function.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Join PagerDuty’s CEO, Jennifer Tejada, as she discusses the need for agility and innovation and how automation is aiding adaptability and allowing enterprises to surge ahead. Jennifer Tejada: So it’s not all terrible bad news because Winston Churchill told us, “Never waste a good crisis.” This came from necessity.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 13, 2021

Although Linda started her career in sales, she has spent the past twelve years scaling post-sales teams and moving hyper-growth companies like Zendesk, Slack, and now Gong upmarket into the enterprise realm. So how do you create a strong, enterprise-ready team? Not just support on steroids: How to build a customer success team.

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Neil Patel

AUGUST 4, 2021

So many companies are trying so hard to be innovative that they don’t pay attention to the tried-and-tested content types that already work. As time goes on, you’ll develop a stronger understanding of what type of video content works and what doesn’t. Effectively teaming up with influencers comes down to two things.

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Neil Patel

APRIL 5, 2023

Spying on your competitors can strengthen your position in the marketplace, but not without having three crucial factors in play: First, what are you looking for? Google Alerts Google Alerts is a free service offered by Google to keep you up-to-date on the latest news, conversations, and web content.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2021

How to build a winning sales team. Developing A Winning Sales Team [16:24]. It provides the information that helps me succeed, translating down into my sales team as I’m coaching and mentoring them. I did a couple of startups from there, in the CRM ecosystem, then got into TOA, which was field service in the cloud.

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Totango

JANUARY 17, 2019

You can consider your customer to be in the onboarding phase right up until they start to gain value from your products and services. After all, you want them extract value out of the products and services you sold them. #2. Every interaction your customer has with your team is an opportunity for conversation.

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OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

It was an important realization because the great weakness of typical enterprise software is that it’s overcomplicated. Using APIs, smaller software companies or indie developers around the world were able to extend Atlassian products with pluggable components to solve different use cases. Finding and Solving Real End User Pain.

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Chart Mogul

APRIL 24, 2020

With a pandemic underway, software-as-a-service businesses, in normal times the beneficiaries of relatively stable compounding growth, are now facing an existential threat: recurring revenue streams are drying up, at least in part. Was that the last wave of bad news?’ ‘I’m How bad will it get? Arrested attention.

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User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The focus is on developing new demand and reconstructing market landscapes to make rivals obsolete. The Significance of the Blue Ocean Strategy In an increasingly crowded marketplace, the blue ocean strategy offers companies the opportunity to break out of hypercompetitive red oceans. What Are the 4 Strategies of Blue Ocean Strategy?

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

According to Salesforce’s recent State of Service report, more than half of service providers will be adding chatbots to their lineup in the next year and a half. This is a start, but to stay ahead of the competition in today’s sales world, sales teams need to start utilizing AI much more than that. Salespeople are busy.

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FastSpring

APRIL 13, 2023

When Justin and his initial team started looking for a way to capitalize on VR/AR technology, they focused their attention on the “made-to-order” industrial market. But Dopple’s team took the opposite approach. We wanted partners that were on the cutting edge of innovation,” Justin explained. “If It starts with self service.

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User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The focus is on developing new demand and reconstructing market landscapes to make rivals obsolete. The Significance of the Blue Ocean Strategy In an increasingly crowded marketplace, the blue ocean strategy offers companies the opportunity to break out of hypercompetitive red oceans. What Are the 4 Strategies of Blue Ocean Strategy?

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Sales development representative roles have grown 5.7X If you’re one of them, that’s both good news and bad: It means sales is growing, but you’re going to have a lot of competition getting started. Ideally the solution is your product or service, but even if it isn’t, your goal should be to solve the customers problem.

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OPEXEngine

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

They are innovators, to be sure, but what sets them apart is the ability to develop go-to-market models that create economic advantage at the level of gross margin and—eventually— operating margin. Discovery Group, a South Africa-based financial services firm, is another great example. Scale insurgents are business builders.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 3, 2020

Despite huge growth and development over the last ten years, there’s also been some disappointments. Emmet: As you were saying that, I was thinking about a time about 10 years ago now, I got to visit a city design studio, an innovation lab type place for a fairly well known car company. Des: What do you think that represents?

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SmartKarrot

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

A product centric company places all of its focus on product and develops newer and advanced products irrespective of its demand in the market. These companies invest heavily on R&D to develop advanced products and the company expands by adding new product lines to their portfolio. Growth strategy.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Never believe that doubting yourself is a bad thing. That company only lasted another year before they were out of business, so it was a poor use of my energy, time, and being away from my family – a lesson I work to pass on to others new in roles today. Invest in your development internally and externally. Anita Nielsen.

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SmartKarrot

OCTOBER 12, 2021

As a core leadership group working for a SaaS-based product company, running an effective customer experience team meeting is imperative. Hence, you need to stay at the top of your game while creating a team of leaders. How to run better CX team meetings for the success of your organization? Image Source. Prepare a CX charter.

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SaaStr

MAY 15, 2020

Where do most teams go wrong in implementing the role out of their CS strategy? Does Bridget believe CS teams should be involved in the upsell process? Harry Stebbings: Can I ask, if we take that to a practical level, because I totally agree in terms of that career development, and the thriving. What works? What does not work?

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Prior to joining the world of venture, Karen was a Senior Director at Apple and before Apple, Karen spent an incredible 9 years at Box as a founding member of the executive team, where she was responsible for defining and leading Box’s Industry GTM strategy. What is the ability of the company to continue to build an incredible team?

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 23, 2020

The situations that portend failure are varied and unfortunately common – no product-market fit, no cash, bad product, burnout, to name just a few of the most obvious. Poor marketing. A better strategy is to prioritize building your audience alongside developing the product. In this world, growth trumps all other priorities.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 19, 2020

Many of these have, for a long time, operated remotely in innovative ways. As digital first companies (and teams) we are in a really good position to get creative about fostering community online whether with clients, colleagues or family. Ultimately, community-building is about developing leaders. Give up control.

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