SaaStr

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Maybe: – Go grab that office lease at half off – Hire Bay Area VPs now while they'll work anywhere. Most tradeshows and events in China are running at their maximum allowed capacity pre-Covid, with the delta being mainly from lack of travel. Go hire those VPs now that aren’t in your city. Make the hires.

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Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Travel Cloud 332

SaaStr

JULY 12, 2024

They believed talent was global, and the co-founders loved to travel. Communication is easier You can ramp people faster You can hire junior people The tradeoff is global talent. All they sold was the visualization layer with no sales team. It doesn’t get worse than that from a time zone coverage perspective. Step 2 – ??

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Scale Scaling Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting 291

SaaStr

JULY 23, 2024

So I caught up by email with a VP of Sales who told me he wasn’t coming to SaaStr Annual this year for the first time. I’m not going to travel much anymore.” What I do know is that VP of Sales I talked about, 90% of their core ICP and customer base is at SaaStr Annual. I asked why — what could we do better? This is a tough one.

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Sales Hiring SaaS Travel Startup 281

Tom Tunguz

MARCH 5, 2020

Longer sales cycles will be the leading indicator. With travel curtailed, closing new customers will require selling over the phone/video - and it’s a bit harder to build trust, particularly for big deals over the phone. So I figured today, I’ll summarize my outlook on the next few months. Startup Growth Rates. Fundraising.

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Sales Hiring Construction Travel Startup 340

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Too many early-stage VPs of Sales don’t have a strong “wing person” running customer success. and yet I see fewer and fewer sales execs flying to meet customers. Too many sales execs resist pilots, since they seemingly add risk to the deal, and often force you to resell the deal just a few months later as the pilot ends, in essence.

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Sales Hiring SaaS SMB Churn 293

SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2024

“Typically that was the marketing hat in my case, but sometimes it was the sales hat or thinking about finance or other areas of the business. During their recent hyper-growth phase, Rick Schultz CMO at Databricks hired a lot of marketers. Leading him to some of his biggest mistakes when hiring: Not investing enough time.

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Sales Hiring Scale Technical Review Leadership 306

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Hear from Duo Security’s VP of Inside Sales America on how to build a $2.3B sales team. Jennifer Lawrence | VP, Inside Sales @ Duo Security. Today I’m going to start by telling you a little bit about me, a little bit about Duo, and then the secrets to building a killer inside sales org. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Sales 294

Incredo

APRIL 8, 2020

2 Company: InternX , University Recruiting Platform InternX created a constantly updating list of hiring companies who are still looking for new employees during the coronavirus. They also decided to shift their focus to providing virtual fairs.

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Sales Recruiting Travel SaaS Sales Hiring 269

SaaStr

JULY 5, 2024

GTM Mistake #1: A VP of Sales That Can’t Sell or Demo the Product Mistake number one has always been an issue, and it’s the number one reason startups struggle in today’s world. They hire a VP of Sales who doesn’t want to sell or learn the product. You also don’t want to hire a VP of Sales who won’t carry a bag.

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CTO Hire Sales Hiring New CTO Venture Capital 209

SaaStr

JULY 1, 2021

For us, it’s about fixing this problem, serving the customer well, so a very service driven mindset, which I gave a talk on a few days ago here, has been a big part of Gusto and affected our hiring from the early days. Certainly, at YC where our version of hiring is basically choosing which founders to fund. Get tickets here.

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VP of Engineering Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 293

SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

Leveraging survey data from 66+ enterprise SaaS companies, Matt Garratt, Managing Partner of Salesforce Ventures shares the landscape of how businesses are shifting their sales & GTM strategies to react to today’s uncertain times. Adnan Chaudhry | SVP of Sales @ Salesforce.

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Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Payment Services 210

SaaStr

JULY 4, 2019

Matt Schatz is SVP of Sales at WPEngine, responsible for defining and executing the global sales strategy. Matt has nearly two decades of senior leadership experience in sales and customer growth, specifically for technology companies with customers around the world including Bazaarvoice, CityVoice and Rackspace.

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Sales Hiring Scale Engineering Sales Recruiting 217

SaaStr

JULY 25, 2021

They talked about product adoption, sales alignment, freemium models and lessons they have learned throughout their successful SaaS careers. As two CEO who love the art of sales and scaling, this one really was special. I should have hired someone in some role like six months ago, a year ago.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale VP of Engineering 261

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

If your SaaS business has a sales team, there’s no way to grow 100% year-over-year without also growing your sales leadership. In this talk, CircleCI VP of Revenue Jane Kim will talk about the 5 mistakes all new sales leaders make. Sorry, I’m a sales leader, I can’t help it. SaaS = Software that scales.

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Scale Sales Hiring Scaling Underperforming Technical Team 183

SaaStr

AUGUST 1, 2020

Some of you are in the “Covid Decimated” category (travel, IRL events, etc) and things in many ways are as tough and rough as March. We adjusted sales and marketing. Many folks began hiring again, and venture capital came back with a roar. How to be there more for each other, even if sales is harder now.

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Sales Hiring Venture Capital Cloud Travel 363

SaaStr

JANUARY 21, 2022

The admin, influential decision-makers, and consumer sales reps can be the same people in a Consumer or SMB setting. There’s a lot of fear when you’re moving from a digital-led Consumer business to a business with multiple digital channels, sales channels, customer success channels, etc. . Expand the culture and broaden diversity.

Scale 246

Scale SMB Enterprise Sales Hiring 246

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 15, 2020

In this episode, Bob and I chat about his new book Demand-Side Sales 101: Stop Selling and Help Your Customers Make Progress. What is it about sales that makes academia hesitant to teach it? Bob wondered where all the sales professors were and discovered that perhaps as a profession it required more art than science.

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Sales Hiring Sales VP of Engineering Underperforming Technical Team 265

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Immediately told them to hire 50 reps in a different city, in a different city, and they did. Jason Lemkin: 50 reps in a new city that you’ve never met, and hired in 60 days when you’re in the low millions ARR. So number six, thinking you’re getting away with under investing in management, up scaling in HR.

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Sales Hiring CTO Hire Scale Investment 246

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

One of the biggest decisions you can make when setting up your sales team is whether to focus primarily on inside or outside sales. They seem to be completely at odds, with one focused on clients with a high acquisition cost and high ACV (annual account value), the other focused on a high sales velocity. Hiring guide.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 2, 2021

Sales enablement is an exciting place to be. It’s the glue that holds together many lines of business as your company treks forward on the path to sales success. The Sales Enablement “Holy Trinity”. I call these the Sales Enablement Holy Trinity: Communication. George Bernard Shaw. Collaboration. Orchestration.

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Sales Enablement Communication Sales Hiring Sales 120

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 8, 2021

Elements of Successful Global Sales Expansion. “Be So, let’s look at four keys to a successful global sales expansion. The hard questions: No plan is without its faults, and no sales expansion is without its fair share of roadblocks. Hire the Right Leaders. But as you likely know, global expansion isn’t easy.

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Sales Technical Review 116

SaaStr

JUNE 25, 2019

But, there were a few things that were true about event bright and the environment and trying to hire in San Francisco in that moment. That meant that starting with 40 engineers in my team, I had to be able to hire six engineers every year just to stay flat. 18 hires a year I had to make in San Francisco.

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Engineering Part-Time VPE Sales Hiring Scale 184

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Thats why HG Insights created The Next Generation of Sales AI report to calm the FOMO and help you bring AI to your GTM teams. It includes a breakdown of the Sales AI landscape, adoption of GenAI and Sales software across buyer groups. Plus, an analysis of the top 75 trending sales AI tools. Youre not alone.

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Scale Engineering Acquisition Scaling 102

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 15, 2021

Whether it’s software engineering , sales , or support, agile principles can enhance team performance and outcomes by focusing on the customer’s needs. Hiring motivated people who are focused on solving problems is the first part of building a high-performing support team. At WeTravel, we have a thorough and transparent hiring process.

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Scale Payment Methods Payment Services Scaling 235

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Want to write sales emails like a pro? Manager, Outbound Growth Marketing at Greenhouse) and Will Allred (Co-Founder & COO at Lavender) to get TWO perspectives and TWO approaches on real sales emails, every week on Sales Hacker. It’s been a minute since you last caught up with your account manager Niki.

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Sales Hiring Travel Growth Marketing Sales 104

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 7, 2020

Fortunately, more organizers than ever before are consciously seeking out female sales experts for panels, presentations, and podcasts. At Sales Hacker, we’re serious about diversity, and for that reason, we’ve compiled a list of 530+ female sales experts to consider for your next event. Sales Development. Sales Growth.

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VP of Engineering Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Payment Services 131

Clouded Judgement

AUGUST 25, 2023

We built an application layer on top of our data layer, which provides a comprehensive set of tools and features that enable our customers to easily turn consumer learnings into insights and actions to drive revenue growth without the need to hire sophisticated and expensive in-house engineers.

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Benchmarks Artificial Intelligence Data Software Review 246

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

The relationship sale is on its way out. The decline in business travel for dinners and golf, caused by COVID-19, has only sped up this process. Talent: You want to hire the best talent in the industry and differentiate yourself from your competitors. All I mean is: the way people buy has changed drastically.

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Sales Hiring Sales Advertising Sales Enablement 125

SaaStr

JUNE 19, 2020

What about pipeline development, sales cycles, pricing, payment terms, other changes in customer behavior or user behavior? Has the work from home situation changed where you’re going to hire in the future and how you’re going to hire? Christoph Janz: So there are a lot of questions.

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Development Team Review Software Review Management Sales Hiring 185

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

At Sales Hacker, our Community Leaders help build relationships with our members. Add them to your network and give them a warm welcome, because you’ll be seeing them all over Sales Hacker in the coming months! WHY SALES HACKER? Sales Hacker provides a network of sales professionals dedicated to helping others in similar roles.

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Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Sales 128

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

In this episode of the Sales Hacker Podcast, we have Appy Choudhary , Head of Sales Development at Blend , where he has built and leads AE and SDR teams as a sales leader with nearly 15 years of experience. Hiring people early to tech sales is ultra rewarding. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

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Scale Sales Hiring Scaling Outsourced Development 107

Sales Hacker

MAY 9, 2019

A great sales compensation plan needs to accomplish quite a lot. And of course, a strong sales comp plan needs to motivate reps to hit goals that grow the company while still maintaining a profit margin. The Process for Creating a Sales Compensation Plan. Know what to Include in a Sales Incentive Plan. Keep it Simple.

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Compensation Sales Hiring Development Team Review Sales Recruiting 110

SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

359: The Secrets to Vertical Growth, What it Really Takes to Build a $1B SaaS Company with Matt Garratt, SVP, Managing Partner @ Salesforce Ventures, Trisha Price, Chief Product Officer @ nCino and David Schmaier, CEO & Founder @ Vlocity. They need fewer sales as a percentage of overall employees. David Schmaier: Sure.

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Payment Solutions Pricing Payments Payment Services 215

Sales Hacker

MARCH 1, 2018

This is part one of a five-part series to help you develop the sales coaching approach that’s guaranteed to make you an unstoppable sales leader! 4 Steps to Approach Sales Coaching Carefully and Tactically: Use role perception to improve your sales coaching model. Commit to the 4 non-negotiables in sales coaching.

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VP of Engineering Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Sales 111

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 7, 2020

I have been an early employee at a very successful start-up (and several not-so-successful ones), and I’ve also been in Sales and Management at large, enterprise corporations. And although Sales is Sales, there are several big differences. Sales Support. There are pros and cons to both. Procedures and Workflows.

Scale 109

Scale Enterprise Sales Hiring Technical Review 109

SaaStr

AUGUST 8, 2019

Companies need a specialized approach for SMB accounts, different than the tactics used for Enterprise. Andrei Brasoveanu will sit down for a conversation with Agnes Bazin Doctolib on how to create a targeted and effective sales process tailor-made for SMB. The topic of the day is secret to SMB sales. That’s fantastic.

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Sales Recruiting SMB Scale Sales Hiring 125

Kellblog

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Weak sales productivity , measured either relative to the company’s model or industry averages (median $675K) [2]. High sales turnover. Pivot the company , making a major change in strategy or sales model. Let’s do only enterprise accounts and account-based marketing (ABM). Let’s go product-led growth (PLG).

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Marketing Scale 142