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How to Train Your Sales Leaders: Key Learnings from HubSpot and BILL with Michelle Benfer

SaaStr

Having led sales teams of 500+ at BILL and 800+ at HubSpot, Michelle has unique insights into what makes great frontline managers and why investing in them is crucial for sustainable growth. “Some teams consistently sold more enterprise SKUs, others had high volume but low ACV. Shaping and maintaining company culture.

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CRO Confidential: The Hangover’s Over: 5 Ways to Get Your SaaS Revenue Back On Track with Gong’s SVP Sales and Founders Fund

SaaStr

Set and reinforce them early — as early as interviews. The underperformers who aren’t putting in the effort get a conversation, and if things don’t change, it’s not a good fit. Sales teams weren’t meeting prospects or customers in person anymore to develop relationships, close deals or talk about renewals. Guess what?

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7 Tips to Close 7,000 Customers From Gorgias’ VP of Sales

SaaStr

I sent cold emails and LinkedIn messages and ended up with nine interviews. From those nine interviews, I received four offers. Going into the interviews, I knew what I wanted out of a job– that part was simple. Together, we developed sales pitches, built out a robust sales process in just a couple of weeks.

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The Secrets to Building a World-Class, $2.3 Billion Inside Sales Team (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

sales team. I did all sorts of things there from sales, to project management, to running the engineering team, hiring. This is where I got my chops in growing and scaling enterprise sales teams. You can interview the company for it, but at some point it’s a little bit of a leap of faith. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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10 Sales Interview Questions to Hire the Perfect Sales Team

Sales Hacker

But as straightforward as their metrics may be, their jobs are anything but simple. By mastering your sales interview questions. As a longtime recruiting leader, I’ve worked with countless hiring managers looking to fill sales roles , and I’ve had a firsthand look at their interview process. But all is not lost.

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Scaling Success: Digital Entrepreneurship and SaaS Exits

FastSpring

In this episode of Growth Stage, we interview Flippa CEO Blake Hutchison about how Flippa works, as well as insights on what you should know if you’re a digital business owner looking to sell your business. Podcast Full Interview: Audio Listen online or find it on more podcast services. Jump to video. | Jump to transcript.

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The Best of SaaS at YCombinator: A Deep Dive with the CEOs of Gusto, Amplitude and Plangrid (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

It became a part of our interview questions. The second is pulling more around values, and how we approached team building. Even as a three person team, we went through an exercise to figure out what do we stand for, as a team? How have the other two of you thought about building out your team?