Intercom, Inc.

JULY 14, 2022

?. Regardless of the industry or the product you’re selling, the old sales playbook is falling short of customers’ expectations. For James Dyett , a customer-centric mindset shouldn’t just be the purview of post-sales departments. Sales, he thought, would do just the trick. Hire customer-centric salespeople.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 9, 2021

I spent the past two years interviewing best-in-class sales team to uncover unique approaches that work. They hired GTMP to reach out to prospects offering them a stipend to participate in a best practices study on development and utilization of Amazon-like marketplaces and related in-marketplace advertising.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. A more scientific interview process [20:35]. Sam Jacobs: This week on the show, we’ve got Luke Rogers, the Vice President of Sales at Instabase. He now leads the sales function at a really promising and high-growing unicorn called Instabase. Welcome to the Sales Hacker podcast.

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SaaStr

JUNE 3, 2020

The SaaS Trust Crisis is making it harder to market and sell software and services than ever before. And today, I’m very excited to be the co-founder and CEO of G2 where we’re building the world’s leading marketplace for SaaS software. The situation is getting worse. Godard Abel | Co-Founder and CEO @ G2.

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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. How to Find a Good Consultant – Getting the Interviewing Process Right. So what do you do?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

What started as a series of interviews by co-founder Des Traynor soon bloomed into hundreds of episodes where we explore how businesses are driving growth through customer relationships and how to build successful products at scale. I’m recording the first in what I expect to be a series of interesting interviews.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Hiring a social media marketing consultant could be a game-changer for your business. Your social media expert will help you with tactics tailored to your business and establish a high-performing social media sales funnel, which is key because on average it takes seven and a half visits to your website before somebody makes a purchase.

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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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Sales Hacker

APRIL 1, 2025

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Hayden Stafford is the President and Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) at Seismic, where he oversees the global go-to-market (GTM) organization, including pre-sales, sales, customer success, services, partners, and more.

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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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OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 16, 2019

So if scaling your sales organization is a priority in 2020, here are the things you need to be aware of to make sure you do so successfully. An increase in competitiveness in the marketplace means candidates have more choices than ever. They want a product/service that’s doing something powerful.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 18, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we interview Roger Scott , Chief Customer Officer at New Relic. If you missed episode 48, check it out here: PODCAST 48: The Secret to Amazing Sales Engagement w/ Max Altschuler. Steps for managing your career within the context of global enterprise orgs like Oracle.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 8, 2019

Amazon Marketplace. Selling on the Amazon Marketplace can significantly boost volume through your store. Amazon charges fees on every sale through the Marketplace. The AOV can be calculated by dividing the total number of orders received by the total sales revenue. Customer relationship management (CRM).

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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. Doubling down on the candidate hiring experience. Regardless of how busy you are or slumping sales, now is the time to have a laser focus on your customers.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Sales development representative roles have grown 5.7X since 2012, according to LinkedIn’s State of Sales report. That’s a lot of new people entering sales! 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. Collin Cadmus.

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Unbounce

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Across social platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Youtube, standard placements for display ads are: Stories Timelines Video feeds Right column (Facebook) Marketplace (Instagram) Explore section Messenger inbox and sponsored messages. Sales will always be a top priority. Is it increasing sales?

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 27, 2020

And finally, we spotlight Quibi yet again—a company spending more than $1 billion as it crusades into the streaming service battles. But here are some learnings, from the sales community, that Mixmax put together so we can start acting like pipeline pros. Because sales professionals are often likened to "hunters."

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

In this episode of the Sales Hacker Podcast, we have Brandon Barton , CEO of Bite and a hospitality tech entrepreneur and expert. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Fundraising as a PR activity instead of a sales activity. Welcome to the Sales Hacker podcast. That’s differentiated us in the marketplace.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 23, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Leah Chaney , the Chief Experience Officer for BetterGrowth, a customer support agency she founded. Leah has been a pioneer for customer experience practices for the last two decades, focusing her work on putting customers at the heart of SaaS and service-based technology organizations.

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Point Nine Land

APRIL 21, 2021

There are many posts out there explaining how startup co-founders should “land the first sales, then hire the first 2 sales and when to hire a VP sales”. But, in my experience, there’s very little written about what is the equivalent for Product Management. In SaaS vs. marketplaces?

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ProfitWell

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

But here are some learnings from the sales community that Mixmax put together so we can start acting like pipeline pros. Hire leaders who are aligned with your goals and take a step back to view the big picture. Far too often, focus is limited to the short term because of the nature of daily deliverables in sales. No big deal.).

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Point Nine Land

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Both Jack and Rian had tech backgrounds and at the time were providing consulting services to the legal industry. Law practice management software existed, but it required on-premise service and tens of thousands of dollars in annual upkeep, which meant only the big law firms had access to it. Again, this was 2007.

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Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

You can think of Horizontal SaaS as broad-based tech that is industry agnostic; a sales person at a Cybersecurity company can use HubSpot the same way a sales person at a Health Supplements company might use it. Here is a comprehensive list of SaaS blogs that goes through the most common metrics and terms. So let’s dig into it.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

And so, she can, and Anthony just finished up basically going from the first sales hire at Gainsight at almost 100 million in revenue and has just retired. Maria : It’s like saying, “Hey, you want a sales rep to carry 10 times the quota they do today. You can’t, you have to invest in that sales infrastructure.”

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SaaStr

MAY 14, 2023

Algolia went from zero to seven figures in revenue in 12 months, and the launch of their search as a service product, and grew pricing from $19 a month to $100,000, which sounds amazing. web services. Daniel, you grew to 3 million in ARR before you hired a VP of Sales. How’d you manage all that? Pro Harbaugh?

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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

JULY 9, 2019

The challenge, however, is that because of the limited disposable income that both consumers and businesses have, you can’t charge a lot of money for services there. On the one hand, you can’t really afford to hire salespeople because your CLTVs don’t justify it. Well, you have to build a direct sales force.

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FastSpring

MARCH 15, 2024

In this episode of Growth Stage, host and CMO of FastSpring David Vogelpohl interviews Todd about his thoughts on: Why marketplaces can be a difficult way to attract new players. Podcast Full Interview : Audio Listen online or find it on more podcast services. They were actually aggregate helpful, right?

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

And for leveling up your sales skills, nothing beats a good sales book. So what are the best sales books for helping you reach peak performance? Have been recommended by sales professionals. Here’s how you can find the sales books that are most relevant to you. Here they are… The 97 Best Sales Books in 2020.

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SaaStr

MAY 15, 2020

333: Bridget Gleason is the Head of Sales and Customer Success @ Tidelift, the company providing managed open source, backed by maintainers. Before Tidelift, Bridget was VP of Sales @ Logz.io and before that was VP of Corporate Sales @ Sumo Logic where she drove ARR up by a record 237%. What core elements does it change?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

How should sales and marketing work together on pricing? Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Rob. And there’s a lot of benefit to running a software as a service, in general. You might sell it through Facebook marketplace. They were just an additional sales channel. Harry Stebbings.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we’ve got a fantastic episode for you. We’ve got an interview with Brandon Meyers , the chief revenue officer of ADARA. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Welcome to Sales Hacker Podcast. Sales enablement is easy. More sales meetings. We’re on iTunes.

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Unbounce

JUNE 16, 2020

These are often built with agencies, consultants, and managed-service-providers (MSPs) in mind. These partners resell your product and benefit from offering ongoing services, usually on a retainer basis. Your partners act as an outsourced sales and marketing team. Is your sales process simple and streamlined?

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

268: Ryan Bonnici is the CMO @ G2, the company that allows you to get the right software and services for your business with over 897,000 user reviews to help you make smarter buying decisions. Before Hubspot, Ryan was Head of Marketing @ Salesforce (APAC) where he led his team to achieve 227% YoY net-new sales sourced through marketing.

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Stream the full interview below or find it wherever you listen to podcasts. And I just started a consulting business, it was a service business. Were interviewing larger customers, figuring things out, and they were in Houston. We’d like to see your software. EJ Brown 05:13 So you were in Toronto at the time, right?

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Prior to founding Outgrow, Randy co-founded VenturePact, an invite-only marketplace that connects companies with trusted software development firms. How does Randy think about using interactive content to maximize sales rep efficiency? What can be done to make the sales and customer success teamwork so well together?

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OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

To state the obvious: hiring has never been harder. In order to stand out, companies need to design their hiring process step-by-step well before launching a search, according to OpenView Talent Partner Steve Melia. The first call with a candidate is no longer an interview; it instead needs to be 100% focused on setting the hook.

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