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HubSpot’s ex-VP of Channel Sales: How to Build The World’s Best Channel Sales Program

SaaStr

So you wanna build a channel sales program: Don’t Copy HubSpot! All these companies are great companies with great channel sales programs. . Any channel sales program goes through an evolution. There are many reasons to start a channel sales program. Everything is harder with a channel sales program.

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Channel Sales for SaaS: What It Is, When it Works, and How to Build Your Own

OpenView Labs

Some of the most successful and influential SaaS companies include channel sales in their go-to-market strategy. For the uninitiated, channel sales refers to the process of partnering with third parties to get your product into the end user’s hands. Channel Sales versus Direct Sales – The Good and the Bad.

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Should Customer Success Report into the CRO or the CEO?

Kellblog

In days of yore, chief revenue officer (CRO) was just a gussied-up title for VP of Sales. If someone was particularly good, particularly senior, or particularly hard to recruit you might call them CRO. Chief revenue officer meant chief sales officer meant VP of Sales. Frank, the head of Sales, had a $1B number.

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“Land, Expand, Explode: How to Win the Long-Game in SaaS” Egnyte Chief Customer Officer and Co-Founder Rajesh Ram (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And this is the moment of reckoning that you get to as a SaaS company is that a sale is not the end. You can be very happy when you sell someone, you can exalt, you can have the high fives, but a sale is really the beginning. First off, the land, this is your typical initial sale. That’s really what they’re buying.

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Understanding the Joint Success Plan: A Tool for Outcome-Based Customer Success Management

ChurnZero

The range of responsibilities of Customer Success Managers (CSM) in the industry is dizzying. From technical support to renewals and upselling, this role might be one of the most confusing and misunderstood jobs in all of tech. . Sofia Varga, Director of Recruiting. Alan Alda, Manager of Recruitment Marketing.

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PODCAST 36: How To Model Sales Productivity And Identify Opportunity For Marketing To Developers

Sales Hacker

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast , we interview Meghan Gill , VP of Sales Operations at MongoDB. . Meghan has been at Mongo almost 9 years and was the first non-technical hire at the company, helping them scale past an IPO in 2017 and transitioning from an early career in Marketing into Sales Operations. .

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The fundamental lesson of the forces governing scaling startups

A Smart Bear

Marketing isn’t scheduling a launch and recruiting isn’t timing the start-dates of the next 50 hires in customer service and sales. We didn’t line up that press and have those sales materials and ensure code-quality high enough to scale on day one, without predictability. Recruiting. Predictability.

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