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. I love the guy.

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SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

I was an account executive covering financial services vertical and covering in New York. Adnan Chaudhry: We’re doing sales leadership, all hands calls with customer service and support and sales every single week. It’s the SMB space. And so, I remember being in New York and the whole market was melting down.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 11, 2019

In a company’s early days as a lean, mean, business machine, it’s fairly easy for leadership to stay in sync with their users. As the General Manager for HubSpot’s Service Hub , Michael knows a thing or two about keeping customers close. Kaitlin: You’re the General Manager HubSpot’s Service Hub.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

With the advent of product-led growth – where people can experience a SaaS product with a free self-service account or want hands-on support over several months – evaluations can take different forms, have varying costs to the seller, and require different levels of commitment from buyers and sellers. Sales Profile: SMB to Commercial.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Previously they may have only spent $1,000 when buying a SaaS service online. Now the services have matured where buyers are spending 20x in online services is relatively comfortable. This means there is no real growth which results in a lower valuation of the company and the firing of the sales leadership.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Enterprise CRM vs. SMB CRM. An established marketplace is a sign that you’ll have the integrations you need in the future. What makes HubSpot Sales Enterprise stand out is that it was built from the ground up with natively integrated features to support the sales, marketing, and service operations of a large company. Mobile app.

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Payment Solutions Enterprise Scale Payments 118

Sales Hacker

MARCH 18, 2019

How to build both SMB and Enterprise-grade CS teams and what tools to use to empower them. He’s responsible for leading all aspects of the company’s customer facing technical resources across sales, engineering, technical account management, professional services, and support engineering. Growing the Customer Base.

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VP of Engineering Sales Hiring Scale Technical Review 81

yoursales

JANUARY 28, 2022

With the launch of the Pipedrive Marketplace a very wide range of third party apps & integrations. Mimiran – More Leads and More Deals for SMB Services Business. ZeroBounce - Award-Winning Email Validation Service. Originating from customer service, Intercom increasingly are finding their way into the funnel.

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Point Nine Land

APRIL 21, 2021

In SaaS vs. marketplaces? This is an exercise that should be done with input/feedback of the leadership team. How are you coming up with the best solutions? How do you organize your work? An experience that is well aligned with your product: has the candidate been working in B2B vs B2C?

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SaaStr

JULY 11, 2019

What we try to do is this integration between two or three companies to be so flawless that for the customer seems like it’s only one application, but you are taking advantage of the best E-mail service, the best chat service, the best voice service. Doing a product for SMB is fairly simple. Tiago Paiva: Oh yeah.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

The litmus test is if you’ve created a marketplace: are people actually building on your product because there’s value that you’ve created, or is it just a nifty integration? The upside of having this big two-sided marketplace and extending your product into tons of different products with an API is quite large. But are they platforms?

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Underperforming Technical Team Marketplace as a Service Outsourced Development Development 170

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The best products, services, and ideas are nothing without a way to turn them into currency, and sellers are a big part of making commerce happen. Bringing Sales & Leadership with Heart and Ladies Happy Hour to the sales community. Anita Nielsen. Anita Nielsen is a best-selling author and sales performance coach.

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Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 137

Unbounce

JUNE 16, 2020

especially for SMB SaaS startups. 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. Will your leadership team prioritize and scope the program across the organization?

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Outsourcing Services Sales Recruiting Scale SaaS 131

SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

We’ve got everything from self-service all the way up to the enterprise. So how we accomplish something at the enterprise level in a one to few or a one-to-one or a one to few is very different to how you would accomplish it in a self service model. We are still heavily oriented to SMB and to entrepreneurs.

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Payment Methods Merchant Services Scale Payments 268

SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

Jason : And two things, I founded EchoSign because we had SMBs and enterprise customers. The SMBs during the recession churned at a massive rate, right? Our monthly self-service churn went from like 3% to like 9%, right? SMB numbers are harder to get with, but it’s like 60 or 70 for SMBs. We were wrong.

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Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 244

SaaStr

JUNE 10, 2020

We saw McDonald’s, they started separating their arches and really trying to do public service announcements around social distancing. We certainly can’t do thought leadership round tables in person, and we can’t do the sporting events. It’s a competitive marketplace. We have a service and support.

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Travel Scale Marketing Outsourcing Services 236

SaaStr

JULY 26, 2019

In 2008 Leah founded TaskRabbit, the leading on-demand service marketplace in the world. ” Is it SMB or is it Enterprise? You make that decision based on the fact that your profile fits either an SMB or Enterprise. Then, you can decide, is it a high volume play in the SMB? Is it go out for bigger customers?

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Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting 164

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

How are they thinking about growing the company and the leadership team? Karen Page: How does this leadership team gel? Or how the customer service team is going to deal with companies that aren’t renewing as planned? .” And we had a ton of inbound SMB and enterprise action as a result.

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SaaStr

APRIL 3, 2019

The biggest companies on earth spend billions of dollars on this service no one’s ever heard of called freight forwarding and they all hate their vendors. So we never should have even been a, we’re in multi sided marketplace. And the reality is we’re in a service business. So we have this enormous market.

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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. Marketing is the customer service function, etc. How does Ryan think about the relationship between the two?

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

I’ve been in software since the ’90s and for over 20 years, nearly that entire time, we’ve been talking about digital transformation, developing strategies, architecting new technologies, and moving beyond digitization to rethinking our businesses, our products, and our services in a way that’s optimized for a digital world.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 16, 2019

And I think that’s the opposite of what some people think of when they think of sales or sales leadership. There was the product and the service, which I just completely believed in. They use it to maximize their own revenue and they’ve created this really incredible thought leadership community.

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Point Nine Land

JANUARY 17, 2019

Hi there, we’re Point Nine Capital a VC firm focused on SaaS and marketplaces. Almost every step requires paperwork and postal service, many entail physical presence. As consumers, we’re used to enjoying the highly customized experience offered by most consumer services. but it’s a tradition now).

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