Sales Hacker

MARCH 25, 2021

First, how does the knowledge that Terry is married and loves eating Smarties help your reps make a sale? Our guess is that poor Polly from purchasing is gathering dust on a noticeboard in the canteen or buried somewhere deep in your internal network of folders. Perfectly position the product/service to their prospects.

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Scale Underperforming Technical Team Outsourcing Services Sales 131

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The SaaStock team will be landing in São Paulo to run the region’s first Pan-Latin American SaaS conference, SaaStock LatAm. We’ve gathered LatAm’s leading SaaS founders, executives, and investors – as well as a few international faces – for an unbeatable few days of knowledge and networking.

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Technical Review Scale Entrepreneurship Sales Hiring 207

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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Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Payment Methods 143

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

In this blueprint, we provide insight into where growth comes from and how to structure your sales approach to capture that growth. The Winning By Design Blueprint Series provides practical advice for every part of a SaaS sales organization. Traditional Sales Growth vs SaaS Sales Growth. SaaS Growth Rate.

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Scale Growth Hacking Scaling Sales Hiring 101

SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

It wasn’t the case 20 or even 10 years ago, where the business models of the internet were more focused on eCommerce, marketplaces, or even advertising. The second constituent there is the developer. Why do developers love SaaS products? The key here is knowing what your sales model is. This wasn’t the case.

SaaS Payments 246

SaaS Payments Metrics Payment Methods Scale 246

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

It’s time to start thinking about retention at scale and bring onboard a customer success team. She joined the company in 2007 back when it was just 30 people and has been instrumental in helping the company scale both its team and its market share over the years. Why you need a customer success team.

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VP of Engineering Customer Success Churn Scale 108

Casey Accidental

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

As someone who has spent a lot of time building marketplaces in my career, a curious thing has happened over the last couple years. Founders have started reaching out asking for help converting their SAAS or SAAS-like business into a marketplace. If not, they usually charge some sort of lead generation fee to the supplier.

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Marketplace as a Service Business Model Business Underperforming Technical Team 106

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. What “customer success” looks like evolves as your company and customers scale upmarket.

Scale 177

Scale Customer Success Sales Hiring Strategy 177

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

If you missed episode 130, check it out here: Turning Junior-level Talent into Top Sales Professionals with Eddie Baez. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Why it’s hard to build a two-sided marketplace [13:38]. Why it’s hard to build a two-sided marketplace [13:38]. Sales enablement is easy.

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Marketplace as a Service CTO Hire Sales Recruiting Scale 113

Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

We pulled from my prior marketplaces experience and dove into their business quickly to develop a point-of-view on the opportunity. There wasn’t a ton of game film on key issues including growth, new market performance, nor the ability to sign and scale grocer partnerships. Grocery is the largest retail category in the U.S.,

Marketplace as a Service 140

Marketplace as a Service Underperforming Technical Team Scale Construction 140

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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Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 244

Neil Patel

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Because if people buy, then they both like it and you can safely and predictably scale your business. So to help you out and guarantee your immediate success, we’ll be going over the best 12 landing page examples that you should use to scale your business. If it does, you raise your ad budget and try to scale.

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Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Consulting 142

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Women in sales often have a polarizing experience. Never believe that doubting yourself is a bad thing. In the Sales Hacker video series Aha Moments , I asked 10 women: “What is one ‘aha moment’ you’ve had in your sales career?”. What is one a-ha moment you’ve had in your sales career? Anything less is failure.

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Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 137

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

You are getting enormous levels of organic traffic … Full of enthusiasm, you rush to your sales manager to check the sales status. And your jaw drops seeing you’ve got little to none sales from all of that traffic. You have to make consistent sales if you want to scale your business fast. No, I’m serious.

Sales Hiring 144

Sales Hiring Outsourcing Services Social Media Underperforming Technical Team 144

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Facebook advertising has definitely increased in popularity, with an increasing number of businesses using the platform to gain new leads and stay connected to their existing customers. If you want to explore Facebook as a means to advertise your products and services for maximizing sales and generating leads, you need an expert.

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Advertising Consulting Scale Sales Hiring 123

OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Culture helps a company define itself, attract the right team members and customers, and differentiate in the marketplace. It’s the “why” behind the mission and the glue that holds everyone together in good times and bad. Culture is also tricky because there’s no one-size-fits-all way to define, cultivate or scale it.

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Scale Scaling Underperforming Technical Team Company Culture 98

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? One, it starts high up in the sales process, right? You need to discover in the sales process. I don’t know anyone right now. I mean, what do they do?

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Payment Methods Merchant Services Scale Payments 268

Neil Patel

MARCH 2, 2021

They’re a highly useful marketing tool for drawing traffic, generating leads, and making conversions. The more (positive) reviews and testimonials you have, the more likely prospective customers are to put their faith and money in your services. B2C” businesses sell goods and services directly to consumers. Angie’s List.

Software Review 127

Software Review Technical Review Scale Merchant Services 127

OpenView Labs

MAY 12, 2020

Those are some pretty great results for a small team—only about 50 people in the whole company—that needs to navigate the challenges of selling a horizontal product serving multiple audiences from single-player scenarios to enterprise deployments. Small businesses or teams who adopt it self-service.

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Underperforming Technical Team Marketing Scale B2C 98

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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Scale Payments Technical Advisors Sales Recruiting 113

Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 24, 2022

This isn’t a bad idea, and why companies like Facebook continued to grow despite adding more and more complexity over time. Eventbrite was historically a 50% sales and 50% self-service business. This made for a great vision, but was practically untenable from a data or scale perspective. Sounds expensive.

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Scale User Experience Underperforming Technical Team Marketplace as a Service 139

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. How to build a more diverse team [24:50]. Sam Jacobs: This week on the show, we’ve got Luke Rogers, the Vice President of Sales at Instabase. Through that, he went to university where he studied AI and cybernetics, ultimately leading big teams in EMEA for AppDynamics.

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Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Technical Review 117

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Sales is traditionally a people-to-people business, but technologies like artificial intelligence are making expert sellers rethink the balance between human and machine. In fact, automation is already impacting sales, and its influence will only continue to grow. The need for automation in sales. Those that don’t — won’t.

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Scale AI Search AI Artificial Intelligence 103

Neil Patel

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Everything from a site builder, perhaps using a website template to web design and using social media to develop your new business website. This is just as bad as not having a website in the first place. Hosting Factor #2: Customer Service. Let’s go… Why You Shouldn’t Rely on Third-Party Sites to Build a Website.

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Underperforming Technical Team Social Media Marketplace as a Service Software Review 145

SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

” So we wanted to create essentially … Well, you can probably describe it the easiest way as an anti-SAP of supply chains, something that was easy, simple, free to use, open, and easy to develop for. Third parties are developing apps for our platform. Tradeshift Buy, which is essentially what we call private marketplaces.

Payment Solutions 179

Payment Solutions Payments Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments 179

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Renaud Visage, Co-Founder of Eventbrite, and Romain Huet, Head of Developer Relations at Stripe, know what it takes to effectively evolve your offering into a platform without losing what made offering appealing in the first place. Romain Huet | Head of Developer Relations @ Stripe. Want to see more content like this?

Payments 171

Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services 171

User Pilot

MARCH 5, 2025

Best for: SaaS product teams who want a powerful but easy-to-use platform to improve onboarding, increase product adoption, and drive user engagement. Ease of use and implementation Userpilot is known for its intuitive, no-code builder, making it easy to create and customize in-app experiences without needing developers.

Software Review 52

Software Review Engagement Software Scale 52

yoursales

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Sales Stack 2023 Sales Tools for Professional B2B Sales SALES STACK 2023: Sales Tools for. Professional Sales SALES STACK. 2022: Sales Tools. Sales share this with your network S ales tools and figuring out what your sales stack 2023 should look like is as challenging as ever.

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Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Outsourced Development 88

FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Ryan Austin had VP-level experience in training when he decided to start a consulting business to help enterprise-level companies with their corporate learning and development initiatives. Ryan and his team noticed so many inefficiencies across the L&D workflows. “It There are now over 150 enterprise companies using the platform.

Payment Solutions 135

Payment Solutions Payment Services SaaS Payments VP of Engineering 135

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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Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Branding 199

Stax

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Software as a Service (SaaS) has made business software more accessible by offering cloud-based, on-demand access to a range of solutions, from project management and collaboration to sales and marketing. Some examples of niches targeted by vertical SaaS providers include healthcare, eCommerce, finance, and education.

SaaS Payments 88

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions 88

OpenView Labs

APRIL 13, 2020

In the last decade, a few major things have happened: Emergence of new platforms with incredible scale (from Facebook to TikTok). Proliferation of iterative, experiment-driven, nimble approaches to product development (also known as Agile). The convergence of these changes has led many to realize that “growth” is a team sport.

Systems Review 98

Systems Review Technical Advisors Scale Technical Review 98

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Congratulations you’ve built a product that’s proven itself in the marketplace! So how can you leverage that product’s success to obtain the valuation and funding you need to scale? Everyone’s always like, “how did you guys scale so quickly,” and like, everyone loves this product. But it worked.

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Investment Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Software Review 113

OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The market need for SaaS products has exploded and investment in SaaS companies has accelerated, requiring more talent to grow and scale. Competitive pressures and changing customer needs can be captured by a great marketing or product marketing lead. Software companies are hiring significantly more than ever before.

Sales Hiring 82

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Startup Scale 82

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we’ve got a fantastic episode for you. If you missed episode 122, check it out here: Tips for Building a Diverse Team of High-Quality Salespeople with Wesley Ulysse. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Welcome to Sales Hacker Podcast. Sales enablement is easy.

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Payment Features Subscription Scale Underperforming Technical Team 117

OPEXEngine

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

A widely held view on strategy in the 1980s defined two ways to compete: firms could pursue either a low-cost advantage (usually through scale) or a differentiation advantage (by building intimate customer relationships). But there was also a major drawback: an inverse relationship between scale and intimacy.

Scale 40

Scale Scaling Underperforming Technical Team Marketplace as a Service 40

SaaSX

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Today’s digital marketplace is a vast and wild place. These partners shoulder some of the burden of sales, creating separate selling “channels” that expand a product’s reach. Take a cold, hard your marketing and sales strategies. Are sales humming along without cause for alarm? It can get a little lonely out there.

Outsourcing Services 93

Outsourcing Services Strategy Underperforming Technical Team Technical Advisors 93