SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

In this Ask Me Anything Part 1, Lemkin answers the questions: Many VCs talk about funding, yet you’re so focused on sales. Question #1: Why Are You So Focused On Sales When Other VCs Are Focused On Funding? That VP of Sales came out of Salesforce. Lemkin’s Hail Mary was hiring Brendon Cassidy when that first VP of Sales quit.

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SaaStr

JULY 1, 2020

An open discussion with Sam Blond, CSO at Brex, and Kristen Habacht, VPS at Atlassian, about adjusting their sales process during Covid-19. Kristen Habacht runs EDR sales at Atlassian, which I got a check today, $40 billion-$50 billion company. She manages a huge global team. Four, people in the sale? Jason Lemkin: None.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 20, 2024

As Upland’s Chief Revenue Officer, Matt Breslin oversees customer success, demand generation and communications, sales, revenue enablement, and revenue analysis, supporting our Shared Services Organization. The benefits of focusing sales teams on specific sales motions, such as new logo acquisition or account expansion.

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FastSpring

AUGUST 23, 2019

With the right planning and strategy in place, investing in an affiliate program is a great way to scale a software company and drive more online sales. In our latest webinar, FastSpring Affiliate Marketing Manager Mark Jacobs, guided attendees through the exciting world of affiliate marketing.

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ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

This is a guest article by Swati Garg , founder and CEO, Melo Associates , and Lindsay Lynch , senior recruitment consultant, Melo Associates , a recruitment firm focused on customer success hiring for SaaS and tech companies nationwide. For example, “Enterprise Customer Success Manager”.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

I started a software company in college to make it easy to update websites called Content Management Software Now, and I had this idea for Pardot, I wanted to make it easy for marketers to run campaigns online and measure their results. SalesLoft, why was that Pardot, I tried to recruit this guy, Kyle Porter, to come run sales at Pardot.

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SaaStr

JUNE 3, 2020

Messaging apps, certainly apps like Slack so that people can collaborate virtually across the world, remote desktop tools, screen-sharing, webinars, and time tracking, so companies can better track their employees work when they’re remote, as well as collaborative whiteboards. ” I think the same shift is happening in recruiting.

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Buffer Resources

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

I’ve never created LinkedIn content with the “goal” of lead generation or immediate-term sales. Another cool example I really like is Tito Bohrt — he stands out with the pseudo, “ Sales Mad Scientist ” — which demonstrates confidence and a unique identity online.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 23, 2018

Before we get into our 2017 recap and 2018 road map, I wanted to provide some quick background on how Sales Hacker came to be. How It All Began: The Story of Sales Hacker. I can’t believe it’s been 4 years since we threw our first Sales Hacker Conference in September of 2013. 2014: Full Time on Sales Hacker.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 21, 2018

Whether you’re at an early-stage startup that’s just made its first sales hires, or part of a fast-moving sales team in a large organization, the key to success often comes down to efficiency. Then, the sales team went to work. When making a sales hire, Max pays attention to the way candidates approach getting the job.

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Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 11, 2012

In AdSense operations, the average account manager supported more than 10,000 customers (!) We built these tools following Larry’s advice to his teams which was to find a problem or inefficiency, generalize it as much as possible, then build a tool to automate it and then tune it over time. It was the only way we could scale.

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FastSpring

AUGUST 2, 2019

For software and SaaS companies, in particular, having the right affiliate partners can help them scale their business to the next level by driving more online sales. Join FastSpring’s Affiliate Marketing Manager, Mark Jacobs on August 22nd, 2019 at 10 AM PT to learn how you can grow software sales with affiliate marketing.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Experts believe as much as 80 percent of recruiting will remain virtual for the foreseeable future , and the early stages of the recruitment process are ideal for the online medium. With Paradox, you get a mobile-first recruitment experience that uses AI to put the candidate first. Outline Resources Needed.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Volume and capacity are always top of mind for sales, support and marketing teams. For sales and support, the volume of prospects and customers they handle, and their capacity to scale up that volume, is the reason they are so focused on efficiency and output. Accelerated sales cycles. Performance-enhancing apps.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 16, 2018

First, most founders don’t have a background in either sales or marketing, and even though they’re told to “ start marketing the day you start coding ”, they just don’t know where to begin, or they’re incredibly overconfident. At that point, they hire someone to run marketing, but leave that person to their own devices.

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Incredo

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

If sounds like this topic can help you generate more SaaS sales with less risk, we are starting! In reality, creating collateral for affiliates, recruiting, training and motivating affiliates takes a lot of effort. What works best are regular newsletters and webinars to educate our affiliates on how to sell Transformify better.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Building a sales team that can go from $0-$50M (Video + Transcript). Gaetan Gachet | SVP of Sales @Algolia. It’s an honor to be here with this mythical creature, this sales leader that goes from zero to 50 million in the same job. He has a whole French sales team and office that only speaks English in Paris.

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Neil Patel

AUGUST 31, 2021

If you connect better through audio, you can try launching a podcast or host a webinar. Would you immediately talk sales in their face? Work with PRs: Recruit efficient PRs to help generate brand awareness and distribute your story to your desired audience. Content marketing isn’t limited to blog posts.

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SaaStr

JULY 15, 2022

That will scale, and then take those emails after four great pieces of content and do a weekly webinar and do a weekly get-together for them. And each of those webinars will probably produce at least one customer if you do it every single week in scale. Ash Bhoopathy (@ashbhoopathy): Probably more around go-to-market and sales.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 18, 2018

The post How to Recruit, Assess and Coach Jedi Sales Talent appeared first on Sales Hacker.

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OpenView Labs

MARCH 15, 2019

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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Buffer Resources

MARCH 7, 2024

For instance, Clearance Jobs, a recruitment platform used LinkedIn Live to discuss the findings from their State of the Security Clearance Process 1H 2024 report. A short 22-minute webinar lets them highlight the most exciting findings and explain what each data point means for their audience—job seekers and recruiters.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 18, 2023

Table of contents Joel’s background: 80% interview rate, 0 sales experience Burn your resume! Here’s why Statistics: Video pitches vs. resumes How to make a video pitch Video pitch + follow-up cadence Real success stories Hone your mindset My story: How I landed an 80% interview rate with 0 sales experience It was early 2020.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Recruiters are still reporting it as a challenging time to fill roles, with both employers and candidates being more gun shy than previously. Download the ebooks, listen to the old webinars, listen to podcasts employees have done, read any third party articles. Learn more about their Sales Intelligence platform today here !

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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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Unbounce

JULY 29, 2020

Or maybe you want them to sign up for a webinar about… I dunno, making fancy soap? On the other hand, if you’re registering people for a webinar, you’re gonna need their name and email address (at least). And maybe you think that soap-making webinar we suggested earlier sounds like a great idea. Your Benefits Section.

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User Pilot

JULY 14, 2024

UX/UI Design and Research Teams Can Use Userpilot to: Recruit Users for Usability Tests with Usage Analytics and Segmentation Collect User Feedback with In-App Surveys Understand Product Usage with Product Analytics Get a Demo 14 Day Trial No Credit Card Required What is a business intelligence analyst? Book a demo to see it in action!

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Practical Advice on SaaS marketing

SEPTEMBER 10, 2016

Instead, they're accountants working in Finance, recruiters working in HR, or sales managers trying to hit their quota. Or if you sell into a particular vertical market, they might be property managers dealing with tenants, consultants working with clients, or dentists treating patients.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

And so again we would just have added to more kind of friction in the sales cycle and there was a whole video long sales cycle. We opened a small sales office in Wework. Sales our marketing for Europe is mostly in London where we have about 35. So that’s how I’m rationalizing it now. Felix : Yes.

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Stax

MARCH 18, 2025

Often abbreviated to CLV or LTV, this is the amount of revenue generated by a customer as long as they have an account with your SaaS company. Your CAC is how much you spend on acquiring and onboarding a customer, and can include marketing, communications, sales, and other expenses. Customer acquisition cost.

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Unbounce

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

It’s important to focus on one customer type at a specific stage in the sales funnel. Our next example comes from Teaching Personnel, a UK-based recruitment agency for teachers and learning support staff. The fact that there’s only one path forward (registering for the webinar). Cater to a specific audience. Teaching Personnel.

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Unbounce

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Sounds like a big opportunity for talent-starved companies to recruit, right? That’s in roles across data science, product management, web development, UX/UI design, and UX writing. It’s also interesting to see how “community” shapes the allWomen sales funnel. “We But a great story doesn’t mean success is easy for the team.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

I imagine everyone at this point has used a Zoom Webinar, so we don’t need a full demo, but just so you know, please use the chat to connect with your fellow attendees. So that’s one I actually tell the recruiters at Stripe, their job is to flag when they think it’s a no hire. ” In the hiring committee meeting.

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SaaStr

JUNE 10, 2020

Meagen, sales. Launch it to our customers, launch it to the sales team, launch it to prospects.” What did we need for our sales team from an enablement standpoint and our CSMs? And then of course, sales pipeline and the livelihood of our business. They’re going to build a bunch of things that we need.

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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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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 28, 2019

The most sophisticated marketing plans today deploy at least nine disciplines which range from content marketing, to evangelist recruitment, to customer lifecycle marketing and beyond. Nowadays, marketing teams are taking on more and more stages in the purchase funnel, stages that were previously owned by sales.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 8, 2019

All sales organizations look for an edge. More refined sales strategies and tactics. Every sales organization would welcome an increase in all three of those metrics. Recruiting from a diverse pool of candidates means a more qualified workforce. It’s a constant battle. Improved incentives. Better training. Or maybe two.

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