SaaStr

OCTOBER 3, 2023

It’s so, so easy to stand out in recruiting if you’ve actually done your homework. We took 1 day to deliberate, cancelled all our other interviews and hired him on the spot.” I hired him on the spot.” I ended the interview (politely) after 10 minutes and told him to watch the video. Now I see who they sell to!”

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 25, 2020

But should you build your own in-house marketing team or hire an agency partner? When you hire an agency, you are not just hiring one person. You are hiring a whole team and their network, which can sometimes be ten or more people. You won’t have to build out a management structure for that department either.

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SaaStr

JULY 15, 2022

Jason Lemkin: You certainly can hire a whole content team and build 10,000 pieces of content, but I will tell you what I have always seen work is one incredible piece a week. One, at every large company, there is an innovation budget. There’s an innovation budget in the CIO’s budget. That’s a great example.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

GTM 120: Avoid the AI Sales Skills Atrophy Trap with Peter Kazanjy Pete Kazanjy is a serial founder, and seasoned early stage Saas executive, advisor, and investor. He currently leads Atrium, makers of sales performance management software to help organizations measure and improve sales 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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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 21, 2018

Whether you’re at an early-stage startup that’s just made its first sales hires, or part of a fast-moving sales team in a large organization, the key to success often comes down to efficiency. Then, the sales team went to work. In his opinion, the hiring process is a preview of their sales technique.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

He brought up a very interesting topic that many GTM leaders / founders face as a challenge when scaling a startup; highlighting the 3 stages of executive hires as you scale and what to look out for qualitatively. Because Innovation inevitably (but not exclusively) goes down as you scale. First bullet is definitely creative grinders.

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 14, 2019

These startups use machine learning to disrupt an industry traditionally dominated by agencies: law, accounting, recruiting, translation, debt collection, marketing…the list is long. In meeting many of these innovative businesses, I’ve observed they face three strategic questions.

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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. This requires buy-in for the role and job description.

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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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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

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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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. The topic of the day is secret to SMB sales. That’s fantastic.

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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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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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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. The topic of the day is secret to SMB sales. That’s fantastic.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 17, 2024

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. Plus, an analysis of the top 75 trending sales AI tools. Youre not alone.

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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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FastSpring

MARCH 8, 2021

With high numbers of men in leadership positions and a lack of emphasis on hiring women for those leadership roles, you can see the issue here. Many studies have shown that superior innovation is achieved by having diverse teams where people can challenge each other and bring new perspectives. “Support hiring women.

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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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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The company’s best-selling book, Predictable Revenue , details the hugely successful outbound process and sales created specifically for Salesforce. Afterward, he delved into education management by creating his own business, Mestreduca, a platform targeted at educational institutions. Talk: SaaS.City Bootcamp: Sales Leadership.

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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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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Winning teams I’ve been part of How winning teams are constructed is timely, as in my role leading sales enablement at Automation Anywhere , shortly we’ll be growing the team, and I want to be thoughtful about the work we do, the candidates we hire and the culture we foster on what we hope and expect to be a winning team.

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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. The exchange of value.

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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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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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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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OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

getting hired)—and for “taxis,” finding adequate passengers (i.e. hiring enough staff)—depended on numerous factors: how many taxicabs serviced the area, how many other people were in line, and whether the passengers were able to match up with a taxi that suited their needs. . The difficulty of catching a “taxi” (i.e.

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SaaStr

JUNE 3, 2020

There is, you know, tons of innovation, tons of new categories being created every year. And the reality is most of them don’t, most of our customers and prospects don’t trust us, especially those of us in sales. And as an entrepreneur, I do consider myself in sales and I believe sales is a noble profession.

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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 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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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Before hiring, assess your current needs and hire as your company grows. Account Managers: They serve as the lead point of contact for all customer account management matters. Before the hiring process, take some time to decide on your current needs and hire as your company grows.

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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. Your first SaaS customer success hire. Since then, you’ve spent over 12 years in post-sales leadership.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Have you ever wondered how to become a VP of Sales? By the time I was 30 years old, I was working at Oracle (via startup acquisition) helping them build the #1 performing SaaS sales team in my region. At the time, I had two years as a VP of Sales under my belt. How can you become a VP of Sales? So how did I do it?

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Globalization opens up a world of opportunities for sales growth. Even what we could consider “good problems” need preparation, and it starts by understanding your team and your goals, including knowing when and how to recruit members of your team, and building in a way that compliments your growth. Want to see more content like this?

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Sales Hacker

JULY 24, 2019

It’s a problem in sales too. According to the 2019 State of Sales Performance survey , 73% of teams polled said that less than half of their team were women. Companies and sales teams are missing out on the benefits that diversity brings. Companies and sales teams are missing out on the benefits that diversity brings.

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