SaaStr

JANUARY 5, 2024

In the latest episode of CRO Confidential, host Sam Blond, partner at Founders Fund and former CRO at Brex, sits down with Ashley Kelly, VP of Global Sales Development at Rippling. For context – Ashley had previously helped Sam scale Brex’s outbound sales from $2M to over $300M in ARR as Senior Director of SDR.

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Predictable Revenue

MAY 29, 2019

This blogpost focuses on how to build and prep an outbound team. These are critical pieces to outbound success. The post Build, Prep, Execute, and Measure: The Four Pillars of Building a Successful Outbound Sales Team appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

You should always have an outbound sales team, at least, at some stage. The reality is no matter how trained your team is here, some markets have higher “connect rates” than others. tough In any event, my learning is back your VP of Sales here. If the pitch rocks. Listen to the calls.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 9, 2020

These days, it can really feel like the Old Bag of Sales Tricks is starting to just not work anymore: With maybe 500x the SaaS vendors of 10 years ago, there’s so much noise. Are there categories where outbound sales just doesn’t work? The old sales playbooks of 2009 and even 2019 may not work as well in 2021.

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SaaStr

JULY 4, 2022

2017: How the Best Outbound Sales Teams Are Managed. Mark first joined us in a terrific panel session on how the top outbound teams are managed, 2018: Sales Mistakes that Can Kill Your SaaS Business How to Avoid Them. 2021:The Most Common SaaS Sales Potholes and How to Avoid Them.

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Predictable Revenue

JANUARY 4, 2019

The very foundation of the Predictable Revenue methodology is designing, and building, efficient outbound sales teams that generate consistent new pipeline. The post The unpredictable, complicated nature of ad sales appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 27, 2021

“Give the VP of Sales More Time” This is always terrible advice. If a VP of Sales can’t improve things in one sales cycle or less — she never will. In one sales cycle, or less. “The Leads are There, the Problem is the Sales Team.” And you are better off without her.

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Predictable Revenue

MARCH 21, 2022

These tips will help you build a diverse outbound sales team, ensuring your company finds the best possible talent while complying with local laws and regulations. The post Hiring Sales Talent Internationally: Soft vs. Hard Skills appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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SaaStr

JULY 8, 2022

Top 5 Ways to Scale a Sales Team with Zoom CRO Ryan Azus and SaaStr VP of Sales Bryan Elsesser. Another recent session that 32,000 of you watched on how Zoom has gone upmarket and evolved its sales strategy at scale. #7. How to Scale Outbound Sales with the CROs of Outreach, Malwarebytes, HubSpot, Seismic.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 5, 2021

Let me suggest some ideas: Add an Outbound Sales Team if You Don’t Have One. But let me tell you, if your ACV is high enough, outbound can work. I know in-bound is all the rage. We’ll do a post on this soon.

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SaaStr

MAY 3, 2021

And if your team knows how to spend it, correctly — find a way to get them the capital they need to grow even faster than plan. A new edition, new services, an outbound sales team, an account management / upsell team. You still need to spend 15-20% of your time in sales. Add a layer. the prospects).

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SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2023

How CAC targets drive GTM strategies: If Your CAC Target Is Low You’ll likely focus on small-to-medium businesses and use tools like inbound sales and low-touch or no-touch self-service. The sales cycle at this stage may be very short. The sales cycle will be slightly longer at this stage. But over time, things change.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 9, 2021

and we’ll have tons of leaders in sales, marketing, and product. Customer Success, Sales Ops, VP Product, European Founders). All-in, we have room for about 350+ speakers and 1,000 mentors spread across our 2021 events. But you can propose a panel instead with leaders later than that stage, which you can lead. 1:1 interviews (Ex.:

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Predictable Revenue

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Learn how to keep your outbound sales team motivated to reach quota with this step-by-step guide to building an effective SDR compensation plan. The post Quick Guide to SDR Compensation appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 8, 2015

This is why the very largest enterprise software companies pursue the biggest customers; because they leverage the sales economies of larger accounts. Let’s contrast an inbound sales team at an SMB company and with an outbound sales team at an enterprise company where both companies spend the same per year in sales, about $0.75M.

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CloseSaaS

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Email verification is vital to your outbound sales strategy. Without taking a few minutes to optimize your data, you may be wasting time, or worse, damaging your sales reputation.

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Chart Mogul

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

When and how to launch sales and marketing is a tough topic for most startup founders. But sales and marketing are the backbone of every successful go-to-market (GTM) strategy, and getting them right can be the difference between … When and how to launch sales and marketing is a tough topic for most startup founders.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

In this session, we’ll explain how it’s different from buyer intent data and how frontline sales managers are using it to coach outbound sales teams to new heights. The post Buyer Sentiment: How to Use the Newest Data Source Available to B2B Sales Teams appeared first on Sales Hacker.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 23, 2021

There’s more sales content than ever before – how do you sort through the noise? Since we deal with sales content on the daily, we thought we’d save you some time. Here are the seven best sales blogs (and five bonus sales newsletters!) Sales Hacker. But that is because this community lives and breathes B2B sales.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 25, 2019

My cost-conscious lens (plus our proven outbound sales program) has served my company, Leadium, well. I am passionate about helping small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) accelerate their growth with outbound sales. The SMB Decision: In-House vs. Outsourced Sales Development. Salary and benefits costs.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 14, 2013

It’s typical to see outbound sales teams create new leads by cold-calling - think Glengarry. A hypothetical example at Expensify might be if a user uploads 10 receipts and invites one friend, this user is a PQL and should be sent to the sales team. But the PQL concept is novel.

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OpenView Labs

MARCH 8, 2021

B2B sales involves one business selling its product to another business. Those with experience in both B2B and B2C sales know that B2B is a lot tougher—the deals are bigger, there’s often more than one decision-maker, and the competition is intense. What Interviewing 600+ Sales Reps Taught Me About Team Building.

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CloseSaaS

AUGUST 25, 2014

As the CEO or founder of a startup, you'll someday make a decision to either grow an internal outbound sales team, or outsource it. Outsourcing sales to people who really know how to do outbound sales is a good choice. but only if the time is right!

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CloseSaaS

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

In this inbound vs outbound sales showdown, see if should you build an inbound sales machine, set up an outbound sales team, or take a hybrid approach.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

What happens when a Global Head of Sales, an Inside Sales Director, and an Account Executive walk into a bar? They sit around a table and share actionable insights about their company’s transition from SMB to enterprise sales. . Why they restructured their B2B sales team into three key verticals. Mid-market.

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Some tools are better for sales and marketing, while others are better for training, management, monitoring, and quality assurance. These are great for inbound support teams, outbound sales teams, and call recording at scale. Consider this as your buying guide for call recording software. Call Center Solutions.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 26, 2018

Learn how InsureSign — an e-signing solution for the insurance industry — uses ChartMogul to better understand revenue and get a detailed picture of sales performance. For its first six years, the e-signature startup I founded, InsureSign, used only inbound sales efforts. But now, how could we keep tabs on their progress?

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 5, 2020

Phoneburner – Best for Remote Teams VanillaSoft – Best for Outbound Sales Voicent Cloud – Best Standalone Auto Dialer Software Mojo – Best for SMB Sales RingCentral – Best for Compliance Kixie – Best for Local Presence. These are: Sales Engagement Platforms Contact Center Software.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we talk to Kevin Egan, VP of North American Sales at Slack. Kevin’s sales career has taken him from Oracle, to Dropbox, to Salesforce, and now, to Slack. How experience as a sales engineer can play into your role as a sales leader. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

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OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

And the primary burden of your product and GTM execution can fall on an effective technical leader and proven sales executive. While the motion is slightly different, the genuine excitement that helped you make your first sale or close your first round should be leveraged in selling candidates as well.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

I’d love to dive into what those strategies were like, especially first at Atlassian, particularly because they had no sales team. Atlassian does not have an outbound sales team. So the pressure must’ve been greater to produce organic leads there. Kevin: Yeah, that’s true.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Two years ago, ZoomInfo CEO and Founder Henry Schuck and his then-VP of Sales Operations, Chris Hays, came up with the bold idea to challenge the sales team to convert 100 leads into product demos in one day. But, at the end of the day, the team did hit that first number. It sounded crazy at first.

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How To Buy Saas

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

A powerful CRM helps organize customer data, streamline sales pipelines, and automate marketing ultimately boosting revenue. Effective sales teams are also 81% more likely to be consistent CRM users , underscoring how vital these systems are for success. Great for inbound marketing teams and fast-growing businesses.

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 18, 2015

In the Innovator’s Dilemma for SaaS Startups , I outlined the path of many software companies, which disrupt incumbents by first serving the small-to-medium business and then move up-market by transitioning to serve larger enterprises with outbound sales teams. The enterprise sales team is exclusively inbound.

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